One of Us

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 […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: THEY CALL ME MACHO WOMAN This week the boys head to the woods for a tale of grief, empowerment, and John Fetterman wearing a unicorn strap-on. Fiber artist Tessa Morrison joins for Deliverance meets Death Wish, if both movies were shot over a long weekend and scored with a MIDI player. […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EPISODE 6 – I Saw What You Did and Burnt Offerings Welcome to another episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, an ongoing journey through late-era Bette Davis & Joan Crawford. This week, our travels through grand dame guignol cinema comes to a close as we […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 356: OMG WRIGHT IS A ROBOT! Mighty belchy here in the Digital Noise studios this week as Wright and Chris made the poor decision to gorge on Indian food before the show. But the show is a gas as we look at one of the greatest films ever made that neither one […]

HUNT THE WICKED MOVIE REVIEW Lewayne, Mike, and T.C. enter the One Of Us lair to square off against one another while discussing this new Chinese martial arts crime drama about a brilliant narcotics detective and a mysterious criminal mastermind, as they clash in a crime-ridden city. The cops are doing everything they can, while […]

FIGHT OR FLIGHT MOVIE REVIEW Following a raid on a hideout in Bangkok, an elusive hacker simply called “The Ghost” manages to escape. A government sect, led by Agent Brunt (Katee Sackhoff) manages to acquire enough information to locate the Ghost's escape route, via a flight to San Francisco. Due to a lack of field […]

BRING HER BACK MOVIE REVIEW The Philippou brothers, who brought us one of the biggest horror surprises of 2023 with their debut film Talk to Me, return with a considerably more sinister and mature second film. Bring Her Back follows step-siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and his mostly blind sister Piper (Sora Wong). Their father suddenly […]

ANDOR SEASON 2 – Episodes 10-12 Huddled together in the dim light of the One Of Us Rebel Alliance Headquarters, proudly declaring the words Marva taught us: “Fight the Empire!”, Nathan, Neil and T.C. unpack the final three episodes of Andor Season 2, a stunning and sobering conclusion that leads us directly into the events […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EPISODE 5 – BERSERK! & THE NANNY Welcome to another episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, our ongoing journey on late-era Bette Davis & Joan Crawford. This week, we head across the pond to England for a pair of British chillers starring our two legendary […]

CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD MOVIE REVIEW A clown? In MY cornfield? It could happen to you. Is your small town kept barely functional by the existence of a corn syrup manufacturing plant with a clown as the logo? Did that plant recently burn down and it at least appears that some local troublesome kids were […]

FRIENDSHIP MOVIE REVIEW So, this is why men shouldn't have friends. Friendship is the new film by Andrew DeYoung starring the ever chaotic Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in an absurdist comedy that delves into the nightmare territory of a metaphorical (and occasionally literal) sandbox and just let them weird each other out for 90 […]

FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES REVIEW 2025 is surprisingly turning out to be a big year for horror, and while returns to franchises that haven't had a new entry in well over a decade certainly hasn't consistently had gold results, we always hold out hope that a formerly great series can regain its glory once more. We […]

NOT JUST A GOOF REVIEW Alright, alright, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy? If you stand by me and my fellow critics we may not be able to answer that question, but with Disney Plus on the 30th anniversary of A Goofy Movie presenting Not Just a Goof, you will […]

BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 REVIEW Season Seven of Charlie Brooker's ongoing dystopian sci-fi anthology series returns with six new episodes and not only a slew of callbacks to some of the best episodes of the past 11 years of the series but also a full-length sequel film to the acclaimed USS Callister. These six episodes […]

STAR WARS: TALES OF THE UNDERWORLD REVIEW Continuing their annual May 4th tradition, LucasFilms has released another 6-episode Star Wars miniseries, adding a new set of animated adventures to their “Tales Of” series. We've seen the Jedi and the Empire. This time we follow the galaxy's criminal underworld – or rather two such characters who […]

ANDOR SEASON 2 PART 3 REVIEW The One Of Us Rebels are getting closer and closer to the Battle of Yavin and the end of the Empire. T.C., Lewayne, Marco, Melina, and Drew gather to discuss the third block of episodes in this acclaimed series as it races toward its inevitable and harrowing crescendo. Cassian […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: CYBERNATOR What do you get when you take Bladerunner, add some Robocop, slash all but $7 from the budget, and throw in some remedial stripping? Find out as OneofUs.Net founder Chris Cox joins the boys for a raucous dicing of the inaudible sci-fi mess known as Cybernator!   YOUR HOSTS   […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EPISODE 4 – STRAIT-JACKET AND DEAD RINGER On this episode, we jump in head first (no pun intended) into grande dame guignol cinema and Bette & Joan's part in helping to establish it. After What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? proved that horror and older actresses were a […]

HAVOC MOVIE REVIEW A good house is built on a solid foundation with primo materials and a foreman that knows that hard work and honest labor with no cut corners will create not just a home for one generation but a domicile for future generations. What if that foreman was a crooked, backstabbing politician whose […]

ANDOR SEASON 2 – PART TWO The One Of Us Rebellion gathers once more under the cover of darkness to dive into the second triptych of episodes for the final season of the prestige Star Wars series. The Empire has begun to upset the Ghorman population, Cassian evaluates the growing totally not French/German mashup resistance, […]

THUNDERBOLTS* MOVIE REVIEW The final film of Marvel's Phase 5 (is anyone keeping track anymore) follows a group of d-listers gathered together reluctantly because of forces arrayed against all of them. No, this isn't The Suicide Squad, it's Thunderbolts*. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) is our central character and first point of contact, as we watch […]

THE SHROUDS MOVIE REVIEW David Cronenberg does not make normal movies. This is a given. But the question always is going into one, what KIND of abnormal is this gonna be? With The Shrouds, Cronenberg directs one of his most personal films, perhaps a conduit for his grief after the death of his wife. Vincent […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 355: THE GREATEST STACK OF ALL TIME It's vanishingly rare that we have a week that both reviewers ‘more or less' enjoyed every movie in our stack (I don't think it's EVER happened that we LOVED every title) so for John and Chris, this was a landmark of ‘yeah, this was okay'. […]

ANDOR SEASON 2 – PART ONE After the events of Season 1 and the first true sparks of the rebellion, Andor Season 2 begins one year later. Cassian is on an undercover mission that goes south fast. Bix, Brasso, and Wilmon's sanctuary is threatened, Mon Mothma prepares a Chandrilan wedding as Luthen keeps his grand […]

THE LEGEND OF OCHI MOVIE REVIEW While A24's latest release The Legend of Ochi may be a film directed at children, the review Chris, Wright, and Marco did for it is decidedly not (despite Marco's best efforts to keep it on track). While discussing this little injured cryptid creature the film centers around, it was […]

SINNERS MOVIE REVIEW Up until now, Ryan Coogler has written and directed several successful films based on either a true story, or pre-existing IP, but Sinners marks his first time crafting a completely original work on his own terms. Michael B. Jordan, in a dual role, plays Smoke and Stack, identical twin brothers from the […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EPISODE 3: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE & HUSH…HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE “Oh, really, did she like it?” In this sisters and cousins episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, podcaster Jerry Downey and I look at the film that took Bette Davis and Joan Crawford […]

THE PITT SERIES REVIEW Noah Wyle is back in the scrubs with latex gloves covered in blood in this new Max medical drama about a day in the lives of an emergency room crew in a Pittsburgh hospital. The Pitt is a 15 episode series shot dramatically in real time. Each episode is approximately one […]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN SERIES REVIEW Daredevil: Born Again has kicked, punched, headbutted, and billy clubbed its way into placing Matt Murdock where he's always rightfully belonged in the MCU: in more than just a cameo. In his own series and returning with the subtlety of a flaming confession booth and the fury of a thousand […]

INVINCIBLE SEASON 3 REVIEW Over encumbered with the weight of a possible dead villain on his soldiers, a death caused by his own hands, Mark, who set out to be a shining beacon of hope and light to a violent and dark world, promises to never kill again. Can a young man with the powers […]

DEVIL MAY CRY SERIES REVIEW From arcade cabinets to your prefered console system in the living room, Capcom has brought hundreds upon thousands of hours of entertainment with video game classics like Mega Man, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter and the 2000s combo-juggling, demon-themed, first-person, sword-swinging, pistol-pulling, action-adventure, Devil May Cry. 25 years later Netflix is […]

MAKE ME FAMOUS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Brian Vincent presents the story of an artist community in the East Village of New York in the 1980s. Make Me Famous is about an artist community coming together and supporting each other in the pursuit of notoriety, fame, and the capability to keep buying paint and sharing their […]

DROP MOVIE REVIEW Remember when everything was “Die Hard on a _____”? No? Ok, you may have been too young for that but trust me, it was incessant. With the streaming success of Carry-On when seeing what the plot of Drop was, I couldn't help but think “Carry-On but in a restaurant”. Violet (Meghann Fahy) […]

THE AMATEUR MOVIE REVIEW Imagine yourself as CIA cryptographer Charlie Heller. You look like Rami Malek, you're decidedly a huge dork, and somehow you land Sarah (the stunning Rachel Brosnahan) as a wife. If she was on a trip to London and terrorists killed her, and then your bosses at the #1 spy agency in […]

THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA MOVIE REVIEW In 1984, an unemployed ice cream truck driver named Michael Larson went on the game show Press Your Luck and broke the record for most money won on an American game show. That true story is the basis for The Luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser […]

WARFARE MOVIE REVIEW While working on his previous film Civil War, Alex Garland got to be friends with the military advisor on it, Ray Mendoza. They decided to write a script together based on an experience Ray had gone through in his experiences in the Iraq War. Initially Garland was going to be sole director […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: ANGELS WITH ANGLES How did movies resurrect and exploit dead celebrities before Rogue One? Easy! Impressionists in Party City makeup and a budget so low the estate doesn't bother to sue. Host of podcast Whatever Happened to Bette & Joan, Frank Calvillo, joins us for a bizarre vanity project about a […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN: EP 2 – THE BEST OF EVERYTHING & POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES “They Live in Dreams” In the second and final pre-Baby Jane episode, critic Elizabeth Stoddard joins me for the pair of movies our former studio queens would appear in just before signing on to star in the […]

THE BALLAD OF WALLACE ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Imagine you had more money than you knew what to do with that came upon you like unexpected manna from heaven. After you had traveled the world, bought your perfect house on your perfect island, what then? If you're Charles (Tim Key) you make an offer to your […]

SEVERANCE SEASON 2 REVIEW The mysterious corporation called Lumon doing mysterious work involving a floor of “Severed” employees is back for season 2 of Severance on Apple TV Plus. Under the severed program, a mental division is created so that while at the office,  an employee has no memory of their outside life and vice-versa. […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 354: THAT ORCA DESERVES HIS REVENGE, AND THOSE PEOPLE DESERVE TO DIE Chris and Wright have a ton of goofy fun with this week's stack of home releases. To what is probably the best of the Jaws rip-offs of the 70s (a low bar), to a horror movie where the joke is […]

ASH MOVIE REVIEW Steven Wright once said “Right now I am having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before”. Now imagine this hilariously terrifying scenario in space, where no one can hear you reminisce! From musician and director Flying Lotus with a script written by Joni Remmler comes […]

A WORKING MAN REVIEW Say what you will about this new found collaboration between David Ayer and Jason Statham, but they really know how to turn b-movie action plots into ridiculous and eccentric flicks. Jason Statham stars as Levon Cade who works as a foreman on a construction site run by mild mannered Michael Pena. […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN: EP 1 – HUMORESQUE & THE LETTER “Don't You Like Martinis?” In the debut episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan, we go back a couple of decades before the making of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? to look at classic Bette & Joan with […]

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE REVIEW Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were a series of animated cartoons created by Warner Bros in 1935. The very first of these characters was Porky Pig created by Friz Freleng. On April 17, 1937 animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett created an insane little […]