Film and TV Reviews and Podcasts
Stretch, from director Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smokin’ Aces, The A-Team), is a fun action/thriller comedy starring Patrick Wilson. Stretch (Wilson) is a down on his luck aspiring actor/limo driver who suddenly finds himself having to pay his bookie $6000 by midnight. In the hope that he’ll be tipped enough to cover the debt in time, Stretch takes a job chauffeuring an […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV102 – Baseball Movies, Into the Storm, It Follows, and Generation Iron This week, in honor of spring, we discuss some of our favorite movies about baseballs. Also in the episode, Mike shares his take on It Follows, Tiny shares his feelings about Generation Iron and the sport of bodybuilding […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV101 – College Movies, It Follows, Going Clear, Enemy (Guest: Robert Fekkes) This week, our friend Robert Fekkes joins us for a discussion highlighting our favorite College Movies. Also in the episode, we talk about the latest indie horror hit It Follows, Scientology documentary Going Clear, Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy and […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV100 – 100th Episode! – Fake Movie Game, Insurgent, Run All Night, Bosch, Mad Dogs, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby For our 100th episode, we each made up fake movie titles and spent the episode building fake movie plots around them. Listen to us pitch plots for Perforated Justice, Agent […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV99 – Chappie, Community on Yahoo Screen, Parks & Rec, DIY Network, Mike & Molly, and Harmontown This week on the podcast, Matt and Tiny talk out their feelings about Chappie. After the review, Matt shares his thoughts on Apple’s exclusive deal with HBO Now, Community’s season premiere, Happy Endings’ […]
When Yahoo picked up Community, it seemed fitting that this weird little show would land in the most unlikely and random place. I hadn’t heard of Yahoo’s free video service, but I thought it was a smart marketing decision to pick up Community and boost Yahoo Screen’s numbers with one of sitcom television’s most outspoken and loyal fan bases. Now […]
Before watching the pilot episode of American Crime, I had a passing familiarity with it. I’d seen a preview and thought it looked interesting enough. However, something about the preview’s abundance of tense emotional clips and vague plot details screamed melodrama to me. Unfortunately melodrama wasn’t the worst thing about the pilot episode of American Crime. John Ridley, who won […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV98 – Extended Potpourri – Power Rangers, The Lazarus Effect, Coherence, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and American Crime This week, Tiny misses out on an extended potpourri episode due to food poisoning. So Matt and Mike have a chat about a bevy of topics. Mike talks about his rekindled appreciation for […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV97 – Avengers Trailer, Jupiter Ascending, Blomkamp’s Alien, The Last Man on Earth, and The Walking Dead Friend of the show Robert Fekkes (from our Interstellar episode) fills in for Mike to talk about Jupiter Ascending, the latest Avengers trailer, the peril of video game movies, The Walking Dead, The […]
January 15th marked the beginning of Amazon Studios’ 4th “pilot season” (the first being in April 2013). Each season, Amazon puts prospective series pilots on their Prime Instant streaming service for members to watch and vote on. Of the 13 pilots this season, Amazon has greenlit 5 for a full season order.
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV96 – Post Oscars Potpourri, Kingsman, Citizenfour, Whiplash, and Power Rangers The guys breakdown their thoughts on this year’s Academy Awards in this week’s episode before going into a few rounds of Potpourri. In Potpourri, Matt gets excited about The Man in the High Castle, Star Trek: The Original Series […]
In The Theory of Everything, director James Marsh paints a gripping and beautiful portrait of world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his relationship with wife Jane (Felicity Jones). The movie chronicles the pair’s relationship from its beginning and into the present day, charting the toll that Hawking’s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) takes on their marriage.
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV95 – 87th Academy Awards Nominee Showcase The Oscars are this weekend and in what’s become one of my favorite Obsessive Viewer traditions, we’ve invited fellow podcasting friends to submit clips discussing this year’s Oscar nominees. This year’s showcase includes Intermission Podcast from MovieGuys.org, Poor Man’s Process from supraliminalfilms.com, Nerd’s […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV94 – Bonus Ep – Spider-Man, Jon Stewart, and Fantastic Four with Dustin Mattingly In this impromptu bonus episode, the guys welcome their friend Dustin Mattingly to discuss the breaking news involving Spider-Man being included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They also share their thoughts on the Fantastic Four trailer […]
Last year I reviewed Lone Survivor and found it to be an offensively jingoistic piece of American military propaganda that disrespected most of the people who lost their lives in the real life incident the movie depicted. As such, my expectations going into American Sniper really weren’t that high. I also made a conscious effort not to research Chris Kyle […]
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