Episode 559: "The Penguin Lessons" and "Bob Trevino Likes It"
Release Date: 03/28/2025
Episode #636: "Resident Evil" (2026)
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There's a new film, and it's made by the guy who made (and ), 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.) , we talk about .
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Episode #635: "It Ends"
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This week Evan and Dave take a look at , 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 shitty GROUNDHOG DAY! Say no more. We're in. , we watched the 1984 classic (question mark?) .
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Episode #634: "Onslaught" and "Mayday"
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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 , about a trio of home invaders running into someone in the home who was raised in a survivalist camp. But 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 (27:40), an action-comedy with Ryan Reynolds as an American pilot downed in Russia who meets Kenneth...
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Episode #633: "Buddy"
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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! 's (1:55) co-writer and director is Casper Kelly, mostly known for his work on Adult Swim. (Check out 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...
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Episode #632: "Insidious: Out of the Further"
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This week Evan and Dave take in (2:29), the sixth (sixth!) entry in the venerable-adjacent franchise. (Not to be confused with .) This is Dave's sixth trip through the red door, and Evan's third, having seen and the first movie in the series, the unsurprisingly but aptly titled . How did it work for them? Listen and find out, but know Dave says this at one point: "It's better than ." High praise, indeed? , we talk about the 2015 horror-comedy . And just because we want to write the word "insidious" one more time: INSIDIOUS.
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Episode #631: "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma"
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This week Evan and Dave get down with (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...
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Episode #630: "Tony"
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Director and co-writer Matt Johnson's Anthony Bourdain biopic (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...
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Episode #629: "Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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We're slinging into this week's episode...webslinging that is, because we're reviewing (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...
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Episode #628: "The Dink"
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Yep, we're reviewing a movie called (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? , we talk about the 1986 film , in honor of its fortieth anniversary.
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Episode #627: Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" and Spoilerpiece is 12!
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This week Evan and Dave sat side by side in the movie house (notably not an IMAX movie house) to watch (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...
info_outlineSometimes we accidentally stumble into a theme at Spoilerpiece, and this week's theme is movies that make us dissolve into choking sobs. First, Megan and Dave weigh in on THE PENGUIN LESSONS, a movie that should be slight; a high school English teacher in politically fraught 1972 Argentina (Steve Coogan) rescues a pengiun and then everyone learns something. Megan and Dave agree: This movie should not work. It should be treacly and stupid...but it made us weep. Legit tears, not tears cheaply jerked from us. Kudos to Coogan for navigating the screenplay's potential pitfalls - he is excellent - and director Peter Cattaneo for laying off the sentiment. Next, Evan joins Megan and Dave to dicuss BOB TREVINO LIKES IT, featuring superb turns by Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizmo as two lonely people who strike up an unlikely and deep friendship that helps shepherd them through emotional trauma. This movie made us sob real tears. (Again, not jerked, but earned.) And then over on Patreon our Women's History Month poll winner is the disaster that is ANGIE, directed by Martha Coolidge and starring Geena Davis; this movie is head-scratchingly bad.