Do We Like Movies?

V/H/S (2012)

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.

Blindspotting (2018)

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. 

Sorry To Bother You (2018)

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. 

Fruitvale Station (2013)

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.

Scream VI (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.

Scream (1996) Re-Upload

Do We Like Scary Movies?

In 1996, the slasher craze of the 80s was long gone and movies series like Halloween, Hellraiser, and Child's Play were considering the move to home video.

Oddly enough it took the director of Nightmare on Elm Street, and the guy who created Dawson's Creek to bring us the great 90s comeback of horror movies. This film is the hybrid of slasher, mystery, true crime, and melodrama with a 90s Tarantino splash.

Join your hosts as we travel back to 2019 on the podcast and discuss our thoughts on Wes Craven's 1996 classic, Scream.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

“My ancestors would often say only the most broken people can be great leaders” - Namor

The death of star Chadwick Boseman left a huge hole in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that may never be filled. Ryan Coogler decided that instead of recasting his hero, that his follow up to the 2018 Best Picture nominated film would be a film that dealt directly with the loss of the Black Panther. Focusing instead on the great surrounding characters from the original film, this sequel takes us to a Wakanda where Queen Ramonda and Shuri are the only remaining members of its royal family, the world wants to mine it's land for Vibranium, and they are about to go to war with the underwater kingdom of Talokan led by Namor the Submariner. 

Black Panther (2018)

For Wakanda? Without question.

We return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first of two Black Panther films starting with Ryan Coogler's 2018 superhero epic. The late Chadwick Boseman stars as the titular hero and king of the fictional African nation who must ascend to the throne after the death of his father in Captain America: Civil War (2016). Among those looking to challenge his reign is the dynamic villain Erik Killmonger played by Michael B. Jordan. Join us as we fangirl over the work of Ryan Coogler and revisit this cultural touchstone that also has the great distinction of being the first and only Marvel film to score a Best Picture Oscar nomination.

Sick (2022)

Ready for some 2020 nostalgia? Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson along with Katelyn Crabb bring us this pandemic era slasher movie.  It's April 2020, the world is locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Best friends Parker and Miri decide to quarantine together at Parker's family vacation home where they will be terrorized by an intruder who is looking to kill them.

Twilight (2008)

We're finally at Episode 150! This highly requested movie based on the popular book series from Stephanie Meyer follows rural Washington high schooler Bella Swan and her romance with the mysterious teenaged(?) vampire, Edward Cullen.