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TRASH IN THE CAN: THE PAUL LYNDE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL What do you get when you mix disco, Kiss, the Wicked Witch of the West, and a mountain of cocaine? The Paul Lynde Halloween Special! A variety show so baffling, it makes the Star Wars Holiday Special look restrained. Baylor Johnson joins us for a spooky […]

MR. SCORSESE SERIES REVIEW Martin Scorsese has been one of our most acclaimed filmmakers for so long, that it’s easy to forget his reputation and career weren’t always as secure as they are now. Scorsese has been the subject of many articles, books, and documentaries before, so it’s hard to imagine anything that hasn’t been […]

MARVEL ZOMBIES SERIES REVIEW The dead have risen… and they’ve got superpowers. Marvel Zombies shambles onto Disney Plus, expanding the fan-favorite What If…? episode that first teased this gruesome alternate Marvel universe. Inspired by the 2005 comic series by Robert Kirkman, the animated show imagines a world where a zombie virus infects Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, […]

HAUNTED HOTEL SERIES REVIEW Whenever I check into a hotel I know I’m in good hands when I see that delicious mint on my pillow. Chocolate and fresh breath? I am loved. Worst case scenario? Cold water showers, paper thin walls, no mints, and a diabolical room 1408 situation. For those of you that haven’t […]

PEACEMAKER SEASON 2 REVIEW Who would have guessed that a D list superhero like Chris Smith AKA Peacemaker would be the cornerstone of DC Comics latest cinematic universe, or that the role would offer former wrestler turned actor John Cena the meatiest role of his career, thus far? Nobody, that’s who. And yet here we […]

ALIEN: EARTH SERIES REVIEW The common online geek response to a hyped up writer/director being giving the reins to a beloved classic sci-fi franchise is “get away from her you bitch!”. With a track record that includes the Legion and Fargo TV Series, at least some geeks were excited to give Noah Hawley a crack […]

WEDNESDAY SEASON 2 REVIEW It’s back! Wednesday! No, I’m not talking about hump day, I’m talking about the eldest daughter of that creepy, kookie, mysteriously ookie, all together spooky Addams Family. Snap Snap. Wednesday, the hero of Nevermore, returns to find her new found popularity a dreadful nuisance. New Principal Dort (Steve Buscemi) is bursting […]

DEXTER: RESURRECTION SERIES REVIEW Previously on Dexter: New Blood: Harrison decides to shoot his father in the chest outside of Ironlake lodge in Massachusetts and flee the scene. Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) the Bay Harbor Butcher is no more. RIP Michael C Hall’s second-best long running TV series character (after Six Feet Under, of […]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 3 REVIEW As One Of Us bids farewell to Jordan in her final review, the Screener Squad sets course for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3—where Pike, crew, and canon collide, and destinies get teased with every warp jump. This season delivers ten wildly different adventures: a tense […]

STICK SERIES REVIEW Mark Twain once said “Golf is a good walk spoiled”. Which is a rude way to open up a show about golf. But perhaps the show in question isn’t so much about golf. Perhaps it’s about a walk through life, spoiled by the many harsh realities we all endure on our day-to-day […]

KING OF THE HILL – SEASON 14 REVIEW From 1997 to 2010, The Hill family has comforted audiences with heart warming and thought provoking episodic adventures about a propane salesman who also sells propane accessories, navigating work life, marriage, and raising a boy that ain’t right. No matter what was thrown at Hank Hill (Mike […]

HELL MOTEL SERIES REVIEW It’s a dark and stormy night and you’ll never make it to your final destination on these roads. Better check into a motel for the night. It would be quite unfortunate if that was your final destination after all! What you never know about these seedy looking places just off the […]

RICK AND MORTY – SEASON 8 REVIEW Since Rick and Morty debuted in 2013 (yes, it’s really been that long), it has grown from an absurd sci-fi comedy into a layered, multiverse-spanning saga full of emotional depth, dark humor, and some surprisingly tight continuity. Rick has evolved from a detached god-complex genius to a man […]

POKER FACE SEASON 2 REVIEW Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne are back with another season of Poker Face, their acclaimed murder-of-the-week mystery series. Charlie Cale (Lyonne) has an unusual talent, she’s a human bullshit detector who instantly knows whenever someone is lying. When her gift gets her into trouble with a Las Vegas crime family, […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN – EP 10 – SPECIAL GUEST STARS “You don’t trust women very much, do you?” Welcome to another episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, our ongoing journey through late-era Bette Davis & Joan Crawford. As we near the end of our exploration, I thought we’d […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EP.9 – NIGHT GALLERY & SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY “It occurs to me I’ve never seen your face.” In this episode, I’m joined by the hosts of Televised: The TV Movie Story as Bette & Joan make their TV horror debuts. In 1969’s Night Gallery, Joan plays what screenwriter […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 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 […]

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. […]

STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW SERIES REVIEW The One Of Us Jedi Counsel of Melina, Marco, and T.C. gather to discuss the newest entry into the Star Wars franchise and are gleefully pleased to see that building an entire series around the Amblin Entertainment model that gave us The Goonies, E.T., and the entire kids on […]

DUNE PROPHECY SERIES REVIEW In 2021 a charismatic film maker named Denis Villeneuve began his quest in the box office, left dry and deserted by the ravages of the pandemic. By 2024, WB studios beared witness, as he rode the mighty sandworm of financial success. The studio that brought about the recently successful film spin-off […]

DANDADAN SERIES REVIEW Ken ‘Okarun’ Takakura (Natsuki Hanae) is a socially awkward misfit with an Agent Mulder brain. If the truth is out there, he wants to find and befriend a couple of aliens while learning and adapting their ways. Momo Ayase (Shion Wakayama) is the granddaughter of a powerful medium with passed down psychic […]

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS – THE FINAL SEASON REVIEW Every journey begins with a first step and every voyage of a starship ends with a final frontier.  Paramount presents the final season of the Starfleet crew on the California Class USS Cerritos on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks.  A lot has happened across […]

THE FRANCHISE SERIES REVIEW Making a movie involves hundreds of jobs, from key grips to craft services, actors to directors, producers to a marketing team, and don’t even get me started on the writer’s room. Movie magic is a lot less whimsy and wonder and a lot more delegating unforeseen problems to the assistant to […]

ARCANE SEASON 2 REVIEW Frederick Douglass once said, “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” These words carry weight and wisdom in our […]

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA SEASON 3 REVIEW Last time on Vox Machina, our band of fearless warriors rolled the dice against the dragons that would rule the world and it was all kinds of super effective. However, all is not well in the world of Exandria. The most wicked and powerful of all dragons, […]

THE PENGUIN SERIES REVIEW Set just one week after the events of 2022’s The Batman, The Penguin follows Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) trying to collect what little is left in his nightclub, The Iceberg Lounge. He’s caught by Carmine Falcone’s son Alberto Falcone (Michael Zegen), but through a fit of rage Oz kills Alberto. Now […]

AGATHA ALL ALONG SERIES REVIEW Disney Plus would like to M See U this fall for the WandaVision follow-up, Agatha Coven of Chaos! Wait, was that it? Hold on, let me get Feige on the phone: Mr. Feige, was that Agatha the Darkhold Diaries or Agatha the Lying Witch and the Wardrobe? He has just […]

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING SEASON 4 REVIEW They say the first rule of real estate is “location, location, location”. While that’s mostly true for Season 4 of Only Murders in the Building, the showrunners seem to have embraced the second rule of sitcom television: “guest stars, guest stars, guest stars”. Considering the number of […]

TOMB RAIDER: THE LEGEND OF LARA CROFT SERIES REVIEW Back in 1996, Core Design released a Playstation game that since has spawned 18 sequels across dozens of consoles and PC, mobile games, and even themed Pachinko machines! In the early 2000’s, Paramount produced two Tomb Raider films starring the Oscar winning box office sensation Angelina […]

THE CREEP TAPES SERIES REVIEW After two successful and highly thought of found footage movies, Mark Duplass as Josef with Patrick Brice back in the director’s chair return to tell more stories of the strangest serial killer in The Creep Tapes. Going from films to a six-episode Shudder tv series may seem like an ‘uh-oh’ […]

KAOS SERIES REVIEW The thing about prophecies is that they tend to come true in spite of a person’s best efforts to stop them, and when it involves the gods, it is often mortals who suffer the consequences. With Prometheus acting as guide, the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, Caeneus, and Ariadne are woven together […]

TRASH ON THE TUBE: THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR This week on Trash on the Tube, Master of Horror Wes Craven brings his most terrifying monster to the small screen – Jeffrey Jones! That’s right, noted character actor and pedophile stars as a cartoonist and “family man” whose imagination comes to life in this oddball sitcom […]

TIME BANDITS SERIES REVIEW Remember as a kid when it was super cool to have a favorite dinosaur? When day-dreaming of sailing the world with vikings like Leif Erikson was a perfectly normal and healthy thing to do? When you could tell the difference between Greek and Roman history without extra scrutiny? Kevin (Kal-El Tuck) […]

THE DECAMERON SERIES REVIEW In 1384 the deadliest pandemic in human history known as the black death did not discriminate. All classes, creeds and sexes fell prey as the plague ravaged Europe, caring not for borders or alliances. What could one do to survive such a horror? If you were wealthy enough, you would take […]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 2 REVIEW Tensions are quite high in Westeros. House of the Dragon is back with its second season and picks up right where we left off when Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) killed Prince Luke and left the relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) in utter […]

With all the spectacle and extravagance of a Sunday Superbowl showdown, Boss Monsters from beyond the stars have attacked the earth. Thanks to a team of heros called The Dragon Keepers, the evil beings from beyond...

Now that we've had our run through the animated Superman that would conquer the world and the cartoonishly evil Superman trumping up the place, we're back with the classic boy scout in blue, now animated on Adult Swim with My Adventures with SuperMan season 2.

EXPLODING KITTENS SERIES REVIEW This new Netflix series comes from humble kickstarter origins and the twisted mind of The Oatmeal‘s webcomic creator Matthew Inman. It’s inspired a card game, an NSFW version, Plushie merch, and even a pinball table. Now with co-creator Shane Kosakowski, Netflix presents a nine episode animated series based on Exploding Kittens. […]

THE BOYS SEASON 4 REVIEW The Boys are back in town! The Amazon series is back with it’s fourth and penultimate season. Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Starlight (Erin Moriarty), and the gang are in somewhat disarray from the previous season as they struggled with their newest adversary in Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit). Mother’s […]

STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE SERIES REVIEW The Knights of One Of Us, Melina, Neil, and TC, gather in the Jedi Council Chambers to discuss the newest entry in the Star Wars canon, The Acolyte. This mystery-thriller tells the dark tale of of Mae (Amandla Stenberg), an assassin of Jedi who has been trained in the […]

THE BEAR SEASON 3 REVIEW Dial up the Emmy voters and get the best ensemble SAG award ready. The Bear on FX and Hulu is back with season 3. We last left Chef Carmey (Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White) locked in the freezer. The beef wasn’t the only thing needing a thaw within that icey […]

JOKO ANWAR’S NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS SERIES REVIEW Hey to all you Christmas in July folks! You can get out of here with your awful snow and frozen heart. We are getting into the spooky scarys in the 2024 summer brought to you by Netflix. Joko Anwar Presents Nightmares and Daydreams is an anthology of seven […]

TRASH ON THE TUBE: TEQUILA AND BONETTI Is the only thing keeping you from watching Law and Order: SVU the lack of Mariska Hargitay interacting with a talking dog at a grisly crime scene? You’re in luck! This week, join us for a take on Turner and Hooch that adds a dash of racial stereotypes […]

SWEET TOOTH SEASON 3 REVIEW It has been a long, long journey to get here but we have reached the end of our story. That story being the third and final season of Netflix’s adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s comic, Sweet Tooth. The final eight episodes sees Gus and his merry crew still on the search […]

STAR TREK DISCOVERY – SEASON 5 REVIEW These are the voyages of the starship Discovery. Its five-season mission: to set-up spin-off shows; to seek out new fans and new demographics, to boldly go where no Trek series has gone before: the streaming era! While some may prefer the episodic format of Strange New Worlds, the […]

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES SERIES REVIEW This new Netflix series is based on the Neil Gaiman/Matt Wagner comic books, which are themselves spin-offs of The Sandman (and some cameo casting establishes that the same is true of the show). Dead Boy Detectives is the story of Edwin and Charles, two youths cut dead in their prime, […]

TALES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES REVIEW Following in the steps of Tales of the Jedi, which told the tales of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano in the prequel era, Tales of the Empire offers us another point of view. After losing everything, young Morgan Elsbeth (who we were introduced to in the Ahsoka series as […]

X-MEN ’97 SERIES REVIEW In the late fall of 1992 after a previous failed pilot, the X-Men animated series hit the airwaves, ushering in a new phase of animated Marvel cartoons. Despite being plagued with production, budget, and time constraints it remained popular enough to last until 1997. A few years later, X-Men the movie […]

KNUCKLES SERIES REVIEW It’s been thirty years since Knuckles made his Sega Genesis debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Now the chaotic mascot races onto Paramount Plus in a 6 episode mini series before Sonic The Hedgehog 3 lands in theaters this December. The master emerald has been protected and the evil Doctor Robotnik has […]

INVINCIBLE SEASON 2 REVIEW Invincible is back! I mean it was back, and then 4 episodes in, Amazon was like “just kidding, still working on it.” but our favorite teenage Viltrumite Mark is back for another soul crushing season. After Omni-Man (Nolan) leaves Earth, Mark deems it crucial to take up the mantle, hopefully without […]

SHOGUN SERIES REVIEW FX on Hulu presents James Clavell’s classic novel adapted into a mini series created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, Shōgun. Marooned on the Islands of Japan during the Edo era in the 1600’s, English navigator John Blackthorn (Cosmo Jarvis) plans to persuade the powerful bushō and lord of the Kantō, Yoshi […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 339: YACHT ROCK THEME SONG John and Chris take on some home releases with a look at the final Leone Western and an analysis of a director through the window of his inspiration from a beloved children’s film. We look at some folks trying to make a NEW Marx Brothers movie and […]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SEASON 3 REVIEW In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows Hunter, Cross Hair, Wrecker, Tech, and Echo, a unique squad of clone troopers with genetic mutations who resisted Order 66 and go on the run in the early days of the Galactic Empire. They are joined […]

RIPLEY SERIES REVIEW He had always understood the power of lies – how they could shape reality, how they could make people see what you wanted them to see. The Talented Mr. Ripley, written by Patricia Highsmith back in 1955, has seen many adaptations over the decades. This time around, Steven Zaillian is running the […]

TRASH ON THE TUBE: COP ROCK This week, we watch a show that takes the gravity of Hill Street Blues and combines it with the pizazz of Glee. Does it work? Absolutely not! Is it a fun watch? Debatable! Join us for Steven Bochco’s musical misfire Cop Rock!   YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek (Screener […]