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This week we have an Aaron Sorkin movie, THE SOCIAL RECKONING (3:07). So you know what that means: Angry Dave is back! Listen to him use the phrase "I f*cking hate it!" more than once as he takes down Sorkin's latest all-characters-speak-with-the-same-voice trash heap. Then Evan joins Dave to talk about the new Ben Affleck-directed thriller ANIMALS (14:18), which kinda works and kinda doesn't. But it's the rare Netflix movie that feels like a real movie and not a Netflix movie, so it has that going for it. Over on Patreon, we talk about the 2022 Australian horror film TALK TO ME.

What's that phrase? "Verity, verity, I say unto you," right? Or something like that. This week Evan and Dave hop on the VERITY (2:20) train. Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel gets big-budge big-star treatment, with Anne Hathaway as Verity, a s****y (personality-wise) writer, who's catatonic; Dakota Johnson as a young writer hired to ghostwrite Verity's last three novels in a series; and Josh Hartnett as Verity's husband. Also: Mr. Hartnett, nice to see back in the bigs! VERITY's title and title character are clumsy clues as to what's going on in this movie: Did Verity kill her daughter? Did she confess in an autobiography? Is she really catatonic? Will the Yankees take the pennant? We answer all those questions (except the Yankees one), and have a good time taking apart this movie's many flaws, however watchable the final product may be. (And did we mention Michael Showalter directed this f****r?!!) Over on Patreon, we talk about the 2016 thriller HUSH.

This week Dave strolled into a screening of PRIMETIME (3:00), the new feature in which Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hanson as he rides To Catch a Predator to success while navigating (dumb) personal and (avoidable) professional crises. Then Evan and Dave break down UNABOMBER, a new Netflix film with Shailene Woodley and Russell Crowe about hunting down - wait for it! - Ted Kaczynski. UNABOMBER jumps back and forth in time over two narratives, and Evan and Dave found one infinitely more compelling than the other. Guess which! Over on Patreon, we watched 9 TO 5 in tribute to Dolly Parton.

There's a new RESIDENT EVIL film, and it's made by the guy who made WEAPONS (and BARBARIAN), which Evan and Dave are both fans of, so yay! But, as sometimes happens on Spoilerpiece Theatre, one of them really dug it, and the other thought it was fine. But the movie has some cool set pieces up its sleeve, and it takes a novel approach in adapting a video game for the big screen. (We agreed on that.) Over on Patreon, we talk about Paul W.S. Anderson's 2002 adaption.

This week Evan and Dave take a look at IT ENDS, a movie that has been out a couple weeks, in which four friends are stuck on a road that seemingly goes on forever. Why watch IT ENDS, you ask? In addition to the studios releasing f*ck-all this week, we've also been hearing things about IT ENDS: It's creepy! It's eerie! It's a nailbiter! It's a s****y GROUNDHOG DAY! Say no more. We're in. Over on Patreon, we watched the 1984 classic (question mark?) THE KARATE KID.

Evan's and Dave's schedules diverged this week, so Dave tackled ONSLAUGHT (3:37), director Adam Wingard's latest. Dave was and is a big fan of Wingard's 2011 slasher YOU'RE NEXT, about a trio of home invaders running into someone in the home who was raised in a survivalist camp. But ONSLAUGHT ain't that; it's an action-thriller-horror hybrid about a fascist doctor making super soldiers, who - natch - get loose. This movie has killin' aplenty. But is it good killin'? Meanwhile, Evan took in MAYDAY (27:40), an action-comedy with Ryan Reynolds as an American pilot downed in Russia who meets Kenneth Branagh, a former KGB agent who wants to defect to the United States because he loves TOP GUN. Yeah, this movie takes place in 1987. Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1971 revenge flick GET CARTER, starring Michael Caine.

Well, gang. It was just about time for someone to make a movie about a kids' show featuring an angry, murderous talking unicorn. What's that, you say? Sounds crazy? It is! BUDDY's (1:55) co-writer and director is Casper Kelly, mostly known for his work on Adult Swim. (Check out "Too Many Cooks" if you need an introduction.) Anyway, Buddy wants to teach his four human child friends to dance, but one refuses. And when that kid disappears and leaves behind a bloody book, some of the other kids decide to figure out what's going on. You can imagine that the consequences are horrific (because they are), with a generous helping of absurdist humor. In the end, Evan and Dave were both on board, with some caveats. Over on Patreon, we talk about the 2008 movie SPEED RACER by the Wachowskis.

This week Evan and Dave take in INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER (2:29), the sixth (sixth!) entry in the venerable-adjacent INSIDIOUS franchise. (Not to be confused with INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURNACE.) This is Dave's sixth trip through the red door, and Evan's third, having seen INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY and the first movie in the series, the unsurprisingly but aptly titled INSIDIOUS. How did it work for them? Listen and find out, but know Dave says this at one point: "It's better than INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR." High praise, indeed? Over on Patreon, we talk about the 2015 horror-comedy THE FINAL GIRLS. And just because we want to write the word "insidious" one more time: INSIDIOUS.

This week Evan and Dave get down with TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA (2:46), and let us tell you: Lots of death! Lots of sex! Lots of blood and guts and blurring of fantasy and reality and some of it really works and some of it really doesn't. You know, when we rate movies on Spoilerpiece, we have a "Your Mileage May Vary" subcategory, and believe it: TSADACM is the definition of YMMV. Like, if copious blood (fake looking on purpose, but still) ain't your bag, or the psychosexual thing isn't for you, then the confluence of those things isn't going to be for you.  HOWEVER, if you're remotely given to slasher movies (as we are), and the psychosexual (while not our favorite thing, also not an auto turn-off)? Well, maybe fuggin' go for it! Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun pulls out all the stops, and Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson sink into their roles with aplomb. One thing is guaranteed: Ya ain't gonna see nothin' else like TSADACM this year. Over on Patreon, Evan and Dave talk about Abel Ferrara's 1990 crime drama KING OF NEW YORK.

Director and co-writer Matt Johnson's Anthony Bourdain biopic TONY (2:04) wisely focuses on one short period of Bourdain's life: The summer Tony (Dominic Sessa) went to Provincetown, Mass., and worked in a kitchen while trying to woo his high school classmate Nancy (Emilia Jones). This movie isn't afraid to show you what a jerk Bourdain could be, how aimless he was, and how he made wrong decision after wrong decision. With an excellent central performance from Sessa and superior supporting work from Antonio Banderas as the chef/owner of the restaurant where Tony works, and Leo Woodall as a crude colleague, TONY is terrific, and we had a good conversation about it. Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1986 film CROSSROADS, starring Ralph Macchio and Joe Seneca.

We're slinging into this week's episode...webslinging that is, because we're reviewing SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2:22). Tom Holland and Zendaya are back as Peter Parker and MJ, but this time they have to find their way back to each other in the wake of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME's events. (By the way, how is the last live-action Spider-Man movie already from five years ago?!)  With the world having forgotten Peter Parker ever existed, our favorite wall-crawler has to face a powerful new villain while battling his own worst instinct: that he has to handle everything alone. Is it the best Spider-Man movie? Probably not. BRAND NEW DAY has plenty of great ideas, but too many of them feel underdeveloped. It runs longer than it needs to, and at times feels less like a complete story and more like a setup for whatever Marvel has planned next. In other news, in this week's Patreon exclusive audio, we're reviewing the winner of our Sam Neill poll, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER!

Yep, we're reviewing a movie called THE DINK (1:38), named after a type of shot in Pickleball - a real sport - called a "dink." No, we're not making that up, and yes, Evan and Dave really watched this movie, which stars Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Harris. Johnson is a long-washed up tennis player, Steenburgen is his pickleball partner, and Harris is his father.  Anyway, one member of Spoilerpiece really liked THE DINK, and one just hated it. Hated it. Can you guess which is the liker and which one isn't? Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1986 film STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME, in honor of its fortieth anniversary.

This week Evan and Dave sat side by side in the movie house (notably not an IMAX movie house) to watch THE ODYSSEY (2:44), Christopher Nolan's film of Homer's epic poem. Because after OPPENHEIMER, what do you do? Swords and sandals, obviously. Look, folks. This film is long. But it's engaging, has an incredible score, and Matt Damon gives the performance of this career, along with excellent work from Anne Hathaway, John Leguizamo, Robert Pattinson, Himesh Patel, and Samantha Morton. Evan is on board with the movie, and Dave is, too, though they're both ambivalent about Nolan, and they go down that rabbit hole, too. And Spoilerpiece is 12 years old! Wow! We'd make a joke about time flying, but nah. We just go through some of the ups and downs and then get the hell off the mic. Over on Patreon, we talk about NOBODY 2.

This week Dave was happy to see GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS (1:34) - Evan less so - a comedy by director David Wain with a screenplay by Wain and Ken Marino, members of the 1990s sketch comedy group "The State." Eight members of "The State" appear, including Marino, and there are a billion celebrity cameos as Kansas hairdresser Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) and her friend Otto run around L.A. trying to find Jon Hamm so she can f**k him (because her fiancé used his celebrity sex pass to bone Jennifer Aniston after a book reading in their town). Yes, it's as absolutely bonkers as it sounds. And if you're not into anti-humor, senseless violence, and intentionally unfunny jokes played completely straight, this may not be the movie for you. But it was for Dave! Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1981 slasher THE BURNING.

It's one of those weeks over at Spoilerpiece when one of us is pretty neutral about a movie, and the other is pretty irritated (by the movie; not, like, by life). Such is the quandary of ENOLA HOLMES 3. The Millie Bobby Brown-starring series about Sherlock Holmes younger sister is the kind of thing that makes Evan bristle, and makes Dave pretty - what's the word...noncommital? One thing both Evan and Dave agree on: This movie has a lot of plot for a picture that's pretty short but feels pretty long ("More endings than RETURN OF THE KING," says Evan). eek! Not high praise. Over on Patreon, we watch FIRST BLOOD and RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II.