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The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 401 – The Marvels (2023) & Quiz Lady (2023) – When Evil Lurks, The Haunting of Hill House, Foundation, and SAG-AFTRA Strike Ends

In this week’s episode, I fly solo on the show to review The Marvels in a non-spoiler and spoiler review and then share my thoughts on the new comedy Quiz Lady currently on Hulu. For potpourri, I announce a couple of upcoming Patreon projects and share my thoughts on When Evil Lurks, currently on Shudder.

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Movie Review: Oppenheimer (2023)

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is an intense meditation on the impact of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s work on the Manhattan Project and the immense weight he carried following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film naturally incorporates several tried and true trademarks of Nolan’s filmmaking toolkit such as a nonlinear structure, practical effects, IMAX film, and an absorbing sound design. With Oppenheimer, these staples of Nolan’s filmography yield some of the most visceral images he has ever put to film in a movie that is jaw dropping in its profound look at the burden cast upon the man who created the atomic bomb.

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Movie Review: The Miracle Club (2023)

In Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Miracle Club, four women from a small community in Ireland make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, each in search of their own miraculous spiritual and physical cure. While on their trip, they gain much needed perspective while also hashing out their differences and confronting longstanding grudges among themselves.

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Movie Review: Scream VI (2023)

Despite a couple choices that don’t particularly gel with the overall franchise, the majority of Scream VI works well to deliver the fun slasher frights for which the franchise is known. Though it’s not the franchise love letter that Scream ’22 was, Radio Silence is still breaking new ground in one of the genre’s most beloved and entertaining franchises.