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This week we review and discuss Street Fighter, a martial arts action movie directed by Kitao Sakurai and starring Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji and Callina Liang, about martial artist Chun-Li, who recruits the fighters Ryu and Ken Masters to join a tournament and confront the dictator M. Bison. We discuss how the movie had an interesting core with the story of Ken and Ryu that was dragged down by flawed and muddled execution especially in the ending that prevents Ken from earning his victory because of basic storytelling mistakes, why the fights were especially disappointing and why Hollywood in general struggles with martial arts and whether video game adaptations have to be this way, how the movie could have brought to life the world of Street Fighter and didn't because of the choices it made, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:15 Movie Recommendations (Carrie Season 1, True Detective Season 1, Barry Munday) 09:14 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 17:34 Spoiler Discussion 48:49 Conclusion & Ratings (6/10, 5/10, 5/11)

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. This episode is also part of our annual Halloween season in which we revisit classic horror movies to see how they hold up for audiences who see them for the first time. This week we revisit Rosemary's Baby, a 1968 psychological horror movie directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes and Ruth Gordon, about a woman who becomes pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbors have sinister intentions for her and her baby. We discuss what it is like to watch Rosemary's Baby in 2025 for the first time, whether it holds up and what expectations we had considering the movie's reputation as one of the best horror movies ever made, how the movie is driven by the slow burn of Rosemary's journey and character arc that starts Rosemary off as a passive victim and becomes more assertive as the movie goes on, how the movie's depiction of satanic cults is unusual and not what we expected and whether that works for the movie, how the movie's feminism plays today and how we think a movie like this would be received if it came out today, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss The Social Reckoning, a biographical thriller movie directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong, about the events surrounding an investigative reporter from the New York Times investigating Facebook in 2019 and 2020. We discuss the movie's handling of the Facebook files and whether it achieves what it sets out to do by recreating the surrounding events, we discuss what a movie like this needs to do and why this movie is more successful at being timely and relevant than most movies, why few movies deal with topics that are actually relevant to the real world and whether and when they should, how the movie deals with the topic of radicalisation on social media, what aspects it missed and how this hurts the movie's message, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:19 Movie Recommendations (The Black Tapes, Mobland Season 2) 08:52 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 17:57 Spoiler Discussion 54:35 Conclusion & Ratings (7/10, 5/7)

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. This episode is also part of our annual Halloween season in which we revisit classic horror movies to see how they hold up for audiences who see them for the first time. This week we revisit The Blair Witch Project, a 1999 found footage horror movie directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, and starring Heather Donohue, Michael Williams and Joshua Leonard, about a group of film students who hike into the Appalachian mountains to shoot a documentary about the local myth of the Blair witch. We discuss the circumstances around the making of this movie and how the found footage conceit shaped every aspect of the movie's production, how the movie introduced general audiences to the found footage genre and how it compares to other entries in the genre that came after it and what Blair Witch does differently than most found footage movies, how the movie creates a divisive reaction in audiences who are either bored by nothing happening or engrossed by the tension the movie builds and why the movie still works so well despite breaking all the normal rules of storytelling, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Verity, a psychological drama movie directed by Michael Showalter and starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett, about a struggling author who is hired as a ghostwriter to complete the book series of a famous author who following an accident is no longer able to write, only to uncover sinister secrets surrounding that author's life. We discuss the movie's central mystery surrounding Verity and whether we thought it made sense and can carry the movie, the numerous story problems dragging the movie down including lack of foreshadowing of important reveals and a tendency to tell rather than show when it comes to important aspects of the story as well as key character motivations, the movie's theme of needing to be liked and accepted, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:19 Movie Recommendations (Reasonable Doubts, Silo, The Terminator) 09:36 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 14:49 Spoiler Discussion 56:05 Conclusion & Ratings (6/10, 4/10, 5/9)

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. This episode is also part of our annual Halloween season in which we revisit classic horror movies to see how they hold up for audiences who see them for the first time. This week we revisit The Evil Dead, a 1981 horror movie directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss and Betsy Baker, about a group of friends who unleash an ancient demonic evil while vacationing in a cabin in the woods. We discuss the movie's history, how it was made as a young filmmaker's first movie on a low budget, how those constraints forced the filmmakers to be creative with their resources and how this is reflected in the final version of the movie and why some of these compromises led to some of the most iconic imagery in the horror genre, how the movie has aged in the context of fourty years of filmmaking since then, how the movie compares to the reboot trilogy that takes the same basic pieces and goes into a very different thematic direction, how sometimes a movie's simplicity works in its favour and what modern horror movies can learn from that approach, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Hope (호프), a science fiction movie directed by Na Hong-Jin and starring Hwang Jung-min, Jung Ho-yeon and Michael Fassbender, about an alien attack on a small fishing village in South Korea. We discuss the movie's numerous storytelling mistakes, from lack of subtext to excessive repetition and some of the most boring action we've seen in a long time, why the first act caught our attention with a suspenseful mystery but then let us down in the later parts of the movie that failed to pay off what was set up earlier, the significant role potatoes play in the movie and how this movie taught us the term goguma, whether this movie might secretly be a prank, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:16 Movie Recommendations (President Curtis season 1, Special Ops: Lioness seasons 2/3) 13:09 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 20:11 Spoiler Discussion 55:03 Conclusion & Ratings (goguma/5)

This week we review and discuss Resident Evil, a horror zombie movie directed by Zach Cregger and starring Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry and Kali Reis, about a medical courier who is hired to make an urgent delivery to Raccoon City during a zombie outbreak. We discuss the movie's theme of being scared of change and doing the right thing, how the movie weaves this theme into a competent survival horror story and where the story falls short, what we thought of the nontraditional ending that has divided audiences, how the movie compares to previous Resident Evil movies and whether the backlash that led the director to publicly apologise before the movie even came out is justified, we discuss how much you can change a franchise before you lose your audience and how to define what is essential for a given franchise in the first place, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:15 Movie Recommendations (Bad Apples, Lanterns, Chad Powers Season 2) 05:44 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 12:41  Spoiler Discussion 51:46 Conclusion & Ratings (7/10, 6.5/10, 5/7)

This week we review and discuss Pressure, a historical drama movie directed by Anthony Maras and starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon, about a meteorologist in World War 2 responsible for forecasting the weather on D-Day. We discuss the movie's theme of the consequences of wrong choices and how this is reflected throughout the movie, how the movie's portrayal of events compares to real history and the changes it makes improve the story, how the movie is driven by a conflict that is poorly motivated and fleshed out which drags down an otherwise competent movie and how this is a sympton of the general sloppiness in the movie's writing that highlights the difference between genuine conflict and cheap drama, how the movie compares to other movies dealing with scientific expertise making a difference in World War 2, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:20 Movie Recommendations (Deep Water (2026), Invincible, Troy) 04:36 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 11:14  Spoiler Discussion 51:08 Conclusion & Ratings (strong 7/10, 5/10, 5/9)

This week we review and discuss Mayday, an action comedy movie starring Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh and Maria Bakalova, about a US Navy pilot who is shot down over the USSR in the last years of the Cold War while on a spy mission and has to make his way back home with the help of a retired KGB agent. We discuss how we were pleasantly surprised by this movie which initially didn't look like much but on closer look is actually much better than most streaming movies like it, how the symbolism that underpins the story  is some of the best we've seen in a while in a movie, how the movie ends up being less than the sum of its parts because it doesn't quite put in the effort to realise its ambitions, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:18 Movie Recommendations (The Gentlemen Season 2, Lanterns, New Zealand Spy) 05:37 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 12:08  Spoiler Discussion 46:56 Conclusion & Ratings (6.5/10, 8/10, 5/8)

This week we review and discuss Coyote vs. ACME, a courtroom comedy movie directed by Dave Green and starring Will Forte, Lana Condor and John Cena, about Wile E. Coyote as he enlists a billboard attorney to sue the Acme Corporation for repeatedly selling him faulty products. We discuss the movie's history that led to it being released after years of controversy and whether it was worth it in the end or it is as bad as the official story said it was, how the movie handles themes of persistence, dedication and never giving up and how it strikes the balance between nostalgic toon antics and real character drama and whether it ends up having anything worthwhile to say, what we thought of the heated discourse surrounding the movie, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:18 Movie Recommendations (Spa Weekend, Stuart Fails To Save The Universe) 07:15 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 13:36  Spoiler Discussion 56:14 Conclusion & Ratings (5/10, "meep meep"/5)

This week we review and discuss Insidious: Out of the Further, a supernatural horror movie directed by Jacob Chase and starring Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea and Maisie Richardson-Sellers, about Gemma who discovers she can interact with and bring spirits to the mortal world while reckoning with a dark family legacy. We discuss the movie's handling of generational trauma and the movie's refreshing spin on that topic, how the story was surprisingly engaging once you look past the excessive filler that makes up the first half of the movie, whether the new villain Cyrus was compelling and if the movie undersold the sinister nature of the Further, how the success of the Insidious franchise fits into what has been going on at the box office this year and whether this movie made us want to go back to the earlier movies in the franchise, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:17 Movie Recommendations (Lioness Season 3, The Postman (1997)) 04:39 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 07:43  Spoiler Discussion 52:06 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The End of Oak Street, a science fiction movie directed by David Robert Mitchell and starring Ewan McGregor, Anne Hathaway and Maisy Stella, about a family whose suburban neighborhood has been transported from 1982 into the age of dinosaurs. We discuss how we were on board with the movie's unique premise and the callbacks to 80's adventure movies but were unconvinced by the movie's story, how the movie sets up several details that could be the basis for a compelling story but fails every time to make them matter when doing so would have been easy and how most of the movie is competently made but hollow filler as a result, how the ending is the most interesting part of the story but falls flat in the end because it wasn't thought through, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:18 Movie Recommendations (The Cleaning Lady, The Captain/Der Hauptmann (2017)) 05:58 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 13:11  Spoiler Discussion 54:15 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a superhero movie directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Sadie Sink and the newest entry in the MCU, about Peter Parker dealing with the ramifications of being forgotten by the world following the events of No Way Home, while dealing with the emerging threat of a villain with mind control powers. We discuss how the movie moves the story of Peter Parker and the wider MCU forward, how it handles themes of loneliness and balance, whether Jean Grey is a good Spider-Man villain and the thematic space explored by Jean Grey and Punisher and how this reflects Spider-Man's story, how this movie improves on a lot of worldbuilding and story mistakes that have plagued the MCU in recent years, the movie's awkward fit with the upcoming Doomsday, how the movie sets up Peter Parker as a villainous figure in future MCU movies and why that is the most interesting storybeat the MCU has done in years, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:16 Movie Recommendations (The Wire, The Cleaning Lady, Rick And Morty season 9) 05:25 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 13:57  Spoiler Discussion 53:31 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss 72 Hours, a comedy movie directed by Tim Story and starring Kevin Hart, Marcello Hernandez and Mason Gooding, about a 40-year-old man joins a bachelor party weekend with strangers after being added to their group-chat by accident. We discuss how this movie compares to similar movies such as The Hangover, Date Night and Superbad and what lessons it should have learned from its inspirations but didn't, how the movie handles the generational dialogue between Millenials and Gen Z and whether it has something to say on the subject, why the middle part of the movie left us cold when that should have been the main attraction and how the themes of the movie feel tacked on as a result, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here: https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast 00:00 Intro 00:17 Movie Recommendations (I Will Find You A Better Home (安家), The Wire Season 1) 08:34 Synopsis & Overall Impressions 15:16  Spoiler Discussion 52:29 Conclusion & Ratings