Episodes
Friday Dec 22, 2023
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
The fourth film in the Twilight Saga brings us the Edward/Bella wedding and how that affects the Vampires, Werewolves Something we were expecting was love triangle melodrama from our two leads and Jacob, the wolf man-boy. Something we were not expecting: Abortion discussions, and a movie that at least makes us think of old horror movies like Rosemary's Baby and The Brood. Yes we are just as surprised as you are.
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
We are reviewing the third chapter of the Twilight Saga with Eclipse. There is a group of vicious vampires called "Newborns" killing people in Seattle who may also be heading to Forks looking for revenge on Edward and the Cullens. We also get to continue the Love triangle (?) between Edward, Bella, and Jacob. But everyone else move out of the way because the real stars of this movie are f*cking Civil War and early 20th Century era vampires Jasper and Rosalie.
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Hey we're back in Forks! We have decided to wrap 2023 up by coming back to one of the most popular reviews of the year which was Twilight. In this second part to this saga we rejoin Bella and Edward as they try to navigate the challenges of a human/vampire relationship? Oh and we also get to know the Quileute werewolves too. Let's cliff dive into Twilight: New Moon.
Saturday Oct 28, 2023
The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
Saturday Oct 28, 2023
Saturday Oct 28, 2023
The power of Christ (And David Gordon Green) has brought us back to the franchise based on the William Peter Blatty's groundbreaking novel and William Freidkin's horror masterpiece. 50 years after the original Exorcist, we follow the families of Angel and Kartherine, who experience both the disappearance and reappearance of their daughters after going missing for 3 days. When they have return it is clear that they have been brushed by something evil, and Angela's father turns to Chris McNeil to help return his daughter and her friend from what becomes a full on demonic possession.
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
No One Will Save You (2023)
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Our second movie in our Spooky SZN festival goes into the Alien Abduction horror subgenre. We follow Brynn, a young shut-in living in her childhood home where she has been shunned by everyone in the small town she lives in. In addition to dealing with the grief of losing her childhood friend and mother, she is forced into survival mode when an Alien intruder breaks into her home.
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
V/H/S (2012)
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
We're finally back! After a lengthy hiatus we've returned just in time for spooky season to cover this 2012 found footage horror anthology movie. We follow a Droog-like group of scumbags who are paid to break into to a stranger's home to collect a VHS tape. What they find is a collection of bizarre and horrifying experiences.
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Blindspotting (2018)
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
The third movie in our Oakland Film Festival is this 2018 film directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada. We follow Colin who witnesses a black man being killed by a police officer on the last week of his probation. This incident leaves him shaken up and causes him to evaluate his life post incarceration and his relationship with his white childhood best friend Miles in an ever changing (due to gentrification) West Oakland.
Thursday May 04, 2023
Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Thursday May 04, 2023
Thursday May 04, 2023
The second movie in our Oakland on Film festival is this 2018 surrealist comedy from activist/musician turned Director Boots Riley. It revolves around Cassius Green, an Oakland telemarketer who discovers a major key to success in his job, and later has to choose between his own financial gain or joining his friends who are try to form a union.
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
We spent two weeks praising Ryan Coogler for his Black Panther films and it has led us to finally go back to where it all began. This 2013 debut film from Coogler chronicles the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22 year old man who was shot and killed on New Years Eve by a BART Police officer in Oakland. Our proximity to the the real life event and the location make this one of the most unique episodes of this podcast ever.
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Scream VI (2023)
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Ghostface takes Manhattan?
After rebooting the popular 1990s meta slasher last year, the good folks of Radio Silence bring us another chapter in this long running horror franchise. We pick up one year after the evens of 2022's Scream where our new "Core Four" has now moved New York City, but unfortunately, a familiar white masked killer has now followed them to the Big Apple.