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AH-HOOOOO WEREWOLVES OF (and tangentially around) LONDON. As Halloween approaches, it’s time for Leigh, Brendan, and Chris to dust off a poorly-received horror movie for our annual Halloween Spooktacular, and continue our “90s updates of classic Universal monster movies” series … Continue reading →

It’s almost the spooky season, but because we’re not QUITE there yet, we’re gaming instead. One of our constant challenges is summarizing the plots of movies effectively when left to our own devices, so we though we’d see how accurately … Continue reading →

Must Romeo die? Must he??? Well, ironically, no, according to 2000’s Romeo Must Die, which neatly sidesteps the whole tragedy issue by pointing fingers at actual villains, and then using an x-ray effect to see Jet Li breaking those fingers. … Continue reading →

Oops! We had an actual mini episode, but then due to technical issues, it was lost. So, uh, sorry. Try to imagine adaptations of games that we’d pitch, you’ll probably really enjoy it. So, instead, here’s the basic information you … Continue reading →

Our Summer of Games draws to its inevitable conclusion with Peter Berg’s 2012 megaflop Battleship, a movie that somehow manages to be less engaging than just spending two hours watching someone set fire to $220 million. Hoist anchors with Leigh, … Continue reading →

We wrap up our Summer of Games: The Good Ones series with 2006’s Silent Hill, an adaptation of parts of the classic video game franchise directed by that guy who did Brotherhood of the Wolf, Christophe Gans. Despite a fairly … Continue reading →

Ah, the bad one! Our Summer of Games sinks to a new low with 2000’s Dungeons & Dragons, a cheap, misbegotten adaptation of the classic role-playing game- an intellectual property with nearly endless possibilities to draw from, and somehow we … Continue reading →

Ah, the good one! Continuing our Summer of Games where we devote a mini episode to a movie based on a game that actually worked out, we’re watching and discussing 2023’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the rare game … Continue reading →

As summer finally technically begins, our summer miniseries follow suit, and what better way to kick off our Summer of Games than with a video game adaptation? Enter 2010’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, a very very long … Continue reading →

Summer has started, and with it one of customary themed mini-series! As the sun mercilessly beats down on humanity, Leigh, Brendan, and Chris retreat indoors to kick off our Summer of Games. That’s right, we’re going to be talking about … Continue reading →

In the year of our Lord 2026, it feels like not only are we getting fewer romcoms, we’re getting far fewer insanely unhinged romcoms. Enter 1999’s Simply Irresistible, a real fever dream of a romantic comedy about a magic crab … Continue reading →

Hey look, this game we played twice before is back! That’s right, it’s Haven’t Seen It, where one (or more) of us tries to describe the plot of a movie we’ve never seen before based off just what we’ve gathered … Continue reading →

The only thing that can make an unseasonably chilly April even more unsettling is throwing Helen Mirren and a CGI mansion full of grumpy ghosts into it. Commence your midnight seance to listen in as Leigh, Brendan, and Chris watch … Continue reading →

What better time to completely disassociate and imagine you’re in a whole other world than right now? Leigh, Brendan, and Chris return to a variation on a theme of an older mini episode about fictional worlds they’d like to visit … Continue reading →

Hey darling. Are you worried? Well don’t! Unless you’re Leigh, Brendan, and Chris, because we’re rightfully worried about sitting through Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling (drop the comma, it’s cleaner), an attempt to stretch a 22 minute Twilight Zone premise … Continue reading →