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Our group-conversational review style of theatrical release films and new television series creates a fun and often quite funny podcast.

Chris Cox

Austin, TX


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    Screener Squad: Monster Island

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 23:24


    MONSTER ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Secluded island paradise? Yes please? Oh wait a sec, it's in the middle of WWII and instead of a getaway you're a marooned castaway, chained to an enemy soldier. Maybe not such a great vacation. What could be worse than that? How about a creature from the black lagoon? Monster Island […]

    Screener Squad: Lazarus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 24:30


    LAZARUS SERIES REVIEW Sometimes when the world has got you down you just wanna take the edge off. Doctor Skinner has created a drug called Hapna which has all the benefits of a pain killer without any of the detrimental benefits. Physical or mental pain? Hapna can take it all away, and it's over the […]

    Screener Squad: Saint Clare

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 23:12


    SAINT CLARE MOVIE REVIEW You know what they say about walking home alone at night, especially if you are a promising young woman. Always have a buddy. What if a buddy would just get in the way of your calling; a calling by God to take down all the sexual deviants and pathetic men that […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: The Fantastic Four: First Steps

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2025 39:11


    THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS MOVIE REVIEW In what seems to be fantasy wish fulfillment for fans who've been saying what they ACTUALLY want from a Fantastic Four movie, the MCU finally gets into the game with The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Set on a parallel retro-futuristic Earth (don't expect any ties to the current […]

    Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2025 – Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 12:35


    OLIVIA AND THE INVISIBLE EARTHQUAKE MOVIE REVIEW The sad puppet movie of the year from Spain, takes us into lives of 12 year old Oliva and her younger brother Tim. After their mom, an actress past her prime, can't get a new role, the family is evicted from their building and has to get used […]

    Screener Squad: The Bear – Season 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 31:28


    THE BEAR – SEASON 4 REVIEW The kitchen is open, the countdown is ticking, and the heat has never been higher. After last season's rocky launch of The Bear, the dream is still alive—but barely. Uncle Jimmy's slapped a ticking clock on the whole operation, Sydney's eyeing the exit, and Ritchie's trying to plate leadership […]

    Screener Squad: MobLand

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 18:35


    MOBLAND SERIES REVIEW Oi, pull up a chair, mind the blood on the floor, and keep your voice down—we're talkin' business. Serious business. The kind with blokes in leather coats, dodgy accents, and enough bullets flying to make Tarantino blush. Lewayne and T.C. gather in the smoky One Of Us backroom, conspirin' in hushed tones, […]

    Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2025 – A Magnificent Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 16:07


    A MAGNIFICENT LIFE MOVIE REVIEW Maciej Kur is back and he is once again covering the Annecy Animation Festival in France! Spidermike joins him to take a look at some of the wild new animated films from around the world coming out soon. From Sylvain Chomet, the brilliant mind behind The Triplets of Belleville, The […]

    Infestation: Annecy 2025 – ChaO

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 15:29


    CHAO MOVIE REVIEW Maciej Kur is back and he is once again covering the Annecy Animation Festival in France! Spidermike joins him to take a look at some of the wild new animated films from around the world coming out soon. From the innocent and unsuspecting country of Japan comes Yasuhiro AOKI's first full-length feature […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: I Know What You Did Last Summer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 33:27


    I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER MOVIE REVIEW With the Scream franchise on temporary (but probably not VERY temporary) hiatus, Hollywood in their quest for continuing the trend of 90s nostalgia is forced to turn to some of the not-even-as-close-to-as-good horror franchises of the time. Naturally, you'd first go to the one by the […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Eddington

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 41:25


    EDDINGTON MOVIE REVIEW No matter how much some of us may want it, Ari Aster seems to be done with horror for now. He certainly isn't done with horrifying though. His latest film Eddington reteams him with Joaquin Phoenix, this time playing Joe Cross, the sheriff of the titular small town in New Mexico. When […]

    Screener Squad: Murderbot

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 25:07


    MURDERBOT MOVIE REVIEW They Might be Giants once rocked out to the lyrics “Robot parade, robot parade, wave the flags that the robots made”. As any Sci-Fi fanatic knows, the overthrow of man by the cold steel hands of a robot all begins with that first step into the land of free will. Adapted from […]

    Screener Squad: Escape From the 21st Century

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2025 23:32


    ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY MOVIE REVIEW Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road, but what if time didn't grab you by the wrist and direct you where to go? What if time violently chucked you 20 years into the future every time you sneezed? Written and directed by Yang Li, Escape from […]

    Screener Squad: The Old Guard 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 24:27


    THE OLD GUARD 2 MOVIE REVIEW “And here we are, we're the princes of the universe. Here we belong, fighting for survival. We've come to be the rulers of you all”-Freddie Mercury. Who knew that this one lyric would best describe the long awaited sequel to the smash hit The Old Guard on Netflix? Andy […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Superman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 69:01


    SUPERMAN MOVIE REVIEW Most audiences no longer have a problem ‘believing a man can fly' in movies. Now the challenge is, ‘believing anyone can make a Superman movie that brings us even half of the quality of the original Christopher Reeve film'. There certainly seems to be a lot of confidence, both at DC/Warner Brothers […]

    Screener Squad: Ironheart Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 23:20


    IRONHEART PART 2 REVIEW After the events of the heirloom heist going south, Riri finds herself no longer allied with her criminal crew, sees her new friend Joe AKA Ezekiel Stain hauled off to prison, and her AI N.A.T.A.L.I.E. dejected after Riri considers deleting her. Marvel TV's Ironheart has come to a conclusion with many […]

    Screener Squad: Heads of State

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 23:10


    HEADS OF STATE MOVIE REVIEW There have been some great entries into the action-comedy road trip genre, with films like Tango & Cash, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Nice Guys, Midnight Run, and recently Deadpool & Wolverine. Now, Idris Elba and John Cena are using their combined charisma and endless charm in the genre. This […]

    Screener Squad: Echo Valley

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 22:47


    ECHO VALLEY MOVIE REVIEW Kate Garretson (Julianne Moore) tends to all the pretty horses on a ranch for training riders, but her roof is at risk of collapsing. Her life is already in a state of disrepair after the tragic death of her wife. $9000 could fix the roof, but the turmoil in the home […]

    Jurassic World Rebirth

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025 50:46


    JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH MOVIE REVIEW Seven of these Jurassic movies now. SEVEN. The hope was that after the terrible (but, of course, financially lucrative) last three entries, this new creative team led by director Gareth Edwards (who knows a thing or two about giant monsters) would rediscover what made that first Jurassic Park movie so […]

    Screener Squad: Ironheart Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025 27:23


    IRONHEART PART 1 REVIEW Disney Marvel has dropped a new MCU series starring Dominique Thorne following her role as the tech-genius Riri Williams, first introduced to us in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The show picks up after the events of that film and takes Riri back to her hometown of Chicago where she reconnects with […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Sorry, Baby

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 45:02


    SORRY, BABY MOVIE REVIEW Most films that deal with overcoming trauma do it either as it being represented as a growing black gulf of evil (see at least half the horror films made in the last 5-10 years), or with a good deal of saccharine. The debut film from writer/director/star Eva Victor is something new. […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: F1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 49:41


    F1 MOVIE REVIEW In this day and age of trademarked products being made into gigantic Hollywood films, it's at least a little surprising that Formula 1 Racing took this long to get into the act. At least since 2013's Rush anyway, but never quite so proudly branded as F1 (and to a great deal, paid […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: M3gan 2.0

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 43:21


    M3GAN 2.0 MOVIE REVIEW Although the 2022 horror film M3gan was certainly a hit, it left a lot to be desired. Straddling the gap between wanting to be a horror film and wanting to be a campy comedy with neither foot firmly planted made for a very uneven film. But one thing that did work […]

    Screener Squad: The Unholy Trinity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 22:19


    THE UNHOLY TRINITY MOVIE REVIEW Death looms over a town with a sketchy past drowned in whiskey from high noon to midnight saloon time with ladies of the evening. A stranger appears by the name of Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard) who has local family ties…and he's out for vengeance against the man who wronged his […]

    Screener Squad: Best Wishes To All

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 19:48


    BEST WISHES TO ALL MOVIE REVIEW When you're a kid you don't really notice the routines of your parents until you leave the house and take a peek through the kitchen window. On the outside looking in you might notice some things overlooked by the wide eyes of your innocent childhood. Father stressed about work. […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: 28 Years Later

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 36:37


    28 YEARS LATER MOVIE REVIEW With 28 Days Later‘s explosive success, Danny Boyle's Oscar win with Slumdog Millionaire, and Alex Garland's own film career, it's not entirely surprising to see these filmmakers go back to the zombie well. 28 Years Later is the third film in the horror franchise and you guessed it, takes 28 […]

    Screener Squad: Deep Cover

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 20:32


    DEEP COVER MOVIE REVIEW The Screener Squad gathers in the One Of Us backroom to chat in secret about this comedic crime caper, Deep Cover. Kat Boyles (Bryce Dallas Howard) is a struggling improv teacher turned undercover asset for the London police. Recruited by Detective Sergeant Graham Billings (Sean Bean), Kat brings along two unlikely […]

    Screener Squad: Dogma 25th Anniversary

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 28:42


    DOGMA 25TH ANNIVERSARY MOVIE REVIEW Jesus was beaten, bled, died for your sins and if ye so believe in him thou will be saved. Guilt, shame, and discipline are the blessings on the path to righteousness. These doctrines served the purpose of frightening kids and adults into attempting a life of virtue for years to […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Materialists

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 41:23


    MATERIALISTS MOVIE REVIEW Take one professional matchmaker for the rich and superficial (Dakota Johnson), one ex-boyfriend with all the looks and personality but no money (Chris Evans), and one absurdly rich dude who is that rare one that doesn't seem to be a total schmuck (Pedro Pascal), and you get the love triangle that makes […]

    Screener Squad: Predator: Killer of Killers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 21:10


    PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS REVIEW After proving he understands the Predator franchise better than anyone else with 2022's incredible Prey, Dan Trachtenberg returns with an animated anthology film of action, gore, thrills and kills. Told in three chapters, we get to see Predators battle a Viking warrior out for revenge against the warlord who slayed […]

    Screener Squad: The Last Of Us Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 30:34


    THE LAST OF US SEASON 2 REVIEW In December of 2022, The Last of us Part 2 was the undisputed game of the year, and fans and haters alike took to the internet to express their joy and disdain. On March 5, 2023 in the TV adaptation first season finale, Joel concluded the first game's […]

    Screener Squad: Fear Street: Prom Queen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 23:57


    FEAR STREET: PROM QUEEN MOVIE REVIEW You know what they say about successful trilogies with satisfying conclusions? They gotta make another one now. After the huge success of R. L. Stine's Fear Street trilogy adaptation on Netflix in 2021, it was only a matter of time before Netflix tried again to adapt the greatest YA […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: The Life of Chuck

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 45:03


    THE LIFE OF CHUCK MOVIE REVIEW The latest Stephen King adaptation isn't a horror movie, although there is an apocalypse underway and a LOT of existential dread in the first (or third, as marked) act. No, it's a feel-good, tear-jerker, ‘enjoy your life because it doesn't last forever' inspirational film. It's also told in reverse […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: The Phoenician Scheme

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 43:35


    THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME MOVIE REVIEW The thing about Wes Anderson films is, you're either here for all of them, no matter what, or maybe just a few (probably early ones). His 2025 entry, The Phoenician Scheme, features (as usual) a metric ton of actors, many of them legendary. But the story tightly focuses on only […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Dangerous Animals

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 35:16


    DANGEROUS ANIMALS MOVIE REVIEW What's scarier than being trapped on a boat with a serial killer? How about a serial killer whose fetish is watching you die by shark? Jai Courtney is the killer in question, Tucker. He has a nice little fishing boat in Australia but he is fishing for young girls to abduct, […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Ballerina

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 39:58


    BALLERINA MOVIE REVIEW Who knew with the kick-ass but (compared to what was to come) low-key John Wick releasing in 2014 that 11 years later it would be a 4-movie, 1-spinoff, 1 tv series franchise with more obviously yet to come? The first spin-off is Ballerina, taking place between the films John Wick 3 and […]

    Screener Squad: The Rehearsal Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 41:34


    THE REHEARSAL SEASON 2 TV REVIEW Once in a great while, a hero emerges from the shadows and shows the world that nothing is impossible. All it takes is…a little rehearsing. Nathan Fielder is back with season 2 of The Rehearsal and sheds light on an issue that could affect us all. Airplane crashes. More […]

    Screener Squad: The Studio

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 29:33


    THE STUDIO SERIES REVIEW What goes into making a cinematic classic? According to the Fablemens. It's facing your fears, dealing with your parents divorce with courage and empathy, and understanding the importance of a horizon line. The credits at the end of a film suggest that not one visionary with a dream but rather 1,500 […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Karate Kid: Legends

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 45:05


    KARATE KID: LEGENDS MOVIE REVIEW In the latest chapter of ‘no once-successful IP will ever die' Karate Kid: Legends marks the sixth film in the franchise. Moving the action at first to Beijing, the film centers on Li Fong (Ben Wang) a teenager training with his great-uncle and shifu of a successful school, Mr. Han […]

    Screener Squad: Another Simple Favor

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 22:34


    ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR MOVIE REVIEW An all expense paid trip to the island of Capri, Italy? Yes please! What's the catch? Be the Maid of Honour at your best friend's forever wedding? That may not sound like much of a catch but what if I told you that BFF was a sexy murderer? Yes, I […]

    Screener Squad: The Surrender

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 21:17


    THE SURRENDER MOVIE REVIEW If the Conjuring series has taught major studios anything, it's that the best time to release a scary film is summer time. In The Surrender,  Megan (Colby Minifie) has returned home but not under the best circumstances. Her father Robert (Vaughn Armstrong) has one foot in the grave and the other […]

    Screener Squad: Fountain of Youth

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 22:12


    FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH MOVIE REVIEW Here's what happens when you take a little bit of the 1999 perfection of The Mummy, a dash of Indiana Jones, a large helping of National Treasure, and the desire to just be better than Uncharted, put it in the hands of Guy Ritchie, but restrain him to his family […]

    Highly Suspect Reviews: Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2025 43:52


    MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING MOVIE REVIEW It is truly a triumph that the Mission Impossible film franchise has lasted for nearly 30 years with almost no weak entries. It's a testament to Tom Cruise's sheer dedication that he has steadily brought audiences some of the best entertainment that movies can offer. Cruise is […]

    Screener Squad: The Old Woman With The Knife

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 22:55


    THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE MOVIE REVIEW “I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. This is my dream, this is my nightmare. Crawling, slighter, along the edge of a straight razor, and surviving.”- Marlon Brando as Col. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. What if that straight razor […]

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