Posts Tagged ‘Nicholas Hoult’
Episode 124 – The Menu
Ashlee joins the podcast this week to review the new dark comedy, The Menu, starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy. We also reminisce about our days as video store clerks, just before the DVD market bottomed out. Finally, as our streaming homework, we review the…
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Film Review – The Menu
The Menu (2022) operates as a black comedy involving the rituals of fine dining. In broader terms, it can be seen as an allegory for consumerism, art, and the commodification of basic human necessities. Whether a person has a fancy luxury vehicle or a cheap used…
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Episode 70 – Those Who Wish Me Dead
For this week’s podcast, we review the new thriller by Taylor Sheridan, Those Who Wish Me Dead, c. We also discuss this week’s movie news and deliberate on what animals aren’t cute enough to feature on Reddit’s “aww” subreddit. For our streaming homework, we talk…
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Film Review – Dark Phoenix
It’s crazy to think that the X-Men movie franchise, which helped kick start the superhero boom as we now know it, first appeared on screen nineteen years ago. Things have changed a lot since then. Seeing people that can shoot lasers out of their eyes…
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Film Review – Tolkien
From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, the lasting influence of fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien is evident. Most of the tropes we’ve come to associate with high fantasy were explored first in his Lord of the Rings and Hobbit novels that were originally published from…
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Film Review – The Favourite
I have never watched a trailer for one of Yorgos Lanthimos’ movies and been like, “I wanna watch that!” I just now read the synopsis for Dogtooth on Wikipedia and just thought “Ew.” I feel pretty adventurous with my movie tastes, but I will admit…
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Film Review – Equals
Thanks to The Hunger Games and the genre of young adult novels with dystopia themes, we have a plethora of films that have run the gambit of what a future world may look like if some destruction happens to the Earth or some fantastical, mythical…
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Film Review – X-Men: Apocalypse
Spencer and Greg Upton (formerly of the Backroom Comics Podcast) take a look at the latest chapter in the X-Men saga, X-Men: Apocalypse, from director Bryan Singer and starring James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender.
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