Are You Screening? Podcast

Super Mario Bros, Renfield & Cocaine Bear Reviews

This week we're trying to catch up with three titles - Super Mario Bros, Renfield & Cocaine Bear. It's a wild mix to cover all at once and spans a lot of potential tastes, and unfortunately none of them really wowed us.
We'll let you know if you need to seek any of these out and give you some quick takes on a few other things, like Picard, and the strange way a lot of these titles seem to connect.

Tetris & Murder Mystery 2

As the theatrical window slows a bit, we're looking at some streaming release titles before getting into the late April/May black hole.
A couple of surprises here, odd as they turned out to be, as Tetris and Murder Mystery 2 didn't really turn out the way we thought they would, for good or ill.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review

This week finds us borderline astonished with Dungeons & Dragons, though I liked it even more than Shane. This may well survive the entire year as the most surprising film of the year. Screwy fun, not too serious, and solid characters turned what could have been a "fan only" snooze into a popcorn hit.

John Wick 4 Review

This week we're reviewing John Wick 4 and looking at how it connects (or doesn't) with the entire franchise.  Can Keanu's neverending endurance and ability to take punishment spawn a movie on its own? Is a stunning stung/FX highlight reel a story? Is there something wrong with the financial situation worldwide in John Wick's universe?
We'll look at all these questions and more, plus we've got mail!

65 Review

There's finally a fair number of decent possibilities in (or approaching) theaters, but something about 65 drew us in. Tune in and we'll let you know if this somewhat screwy idea can be made into something exciting, and if Driver can carry things when he's mostly on his own.
Here's a hint, this worked a lot better for one of us than the other.

Our ”Can’t Win” Awards 2023!

It's our awards show time again as we give you our picks for the "Can't Win" awards. Our picks to help highlight performances and films that just have no chance of winning "real" awards.
A very interesting selection of movies this year, although I couldn't quite follow my own guidelines and ended up giving a few nods to the same movie, which doesn't spread as much love as I want from this whole idea.
Tune in and find out where we think the underappreciation was felt most strongly last year.

The Worst Movies of 2022 Plus Ant-Man Quick Look

Some technical difficulties pushed us back with this episode, but the wait is over for the Worst Movies of 2022, which I know everyone was looking forward to.
It was an easy year for picking bad movies, but we also give some insights on other worst lists, which confuse us greatly.
We also give our quick take on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which didn't win us over.

The Best Movies of 2022 Lists

It's finally time and despite our best efforts there are still a couple of films that made our lists that we didn't have time to cover throughout the year.
Find out what blew us away and let me tell you, there are some surprises.
As usual, we will also call out those movies that are on everyone else's lists that just aren't actually worthy.

A Man Called Otto, Living, The Whale & Empire of Light

It's our last show to squeeze in everything we can before we hit you with our Best of the Year lists and things get a little dodgy in the rush.
This week we look at Tom Hanks remaking A Man Called Ove in a film that truly Americanizes most of the best notes out of things, and Bill Nighy remaking Kurosawa's Ikiru in a film that is nearly perfect (spoiler warning for next week's list).
We also go back to The Whale and Empire of Light as we try to make sure we mention everything getting awards season attention before revealing our picks for the year.

Triangle of Sadness and Tar Reviews

We continue this week trying to knock out everything we can before the Oscars. We're notoriously bad at that, but we manage a good look at Triangle of Sadness and Tar. Two films that couldn't be less for everybody, but are worth checking out.
Next week we are going to have perhaps our strangest episode ever as we tackle A Man Called Otto, Living, and at least five other films in one show.