Episode #611: “She Dances"
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This week Evan and Dave take in , written by star Steve Zahn along with its director, Rick Gomez. Zahn is fine form in this drama (with lots of welcome comedy) about a father chaperoning his daughter (played by Zahn's daughter Audrey) to a dance competition while they both deal with an incalcuable loss. Zahn and Gomez call in favors from friends Ethan Hawke and Michael Cudlitz, both welcome in small but poignant roles. , we talk about the 1986 film by Oliver Stone.
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Episode #610: “War Machine"
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This week Evan and Dave take a look at (1:50), a sort of mean-spirited PREDATOR clone/rip off without the solid acting, story, direction or humor. But at least we had fun talking about it! , we talk about the 1986 buddy-cop film with Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal.
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Episode #609: “Sacred to Death"
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(3:10) is a horror comedy that isn't particularly funny or horrific, but it does feature horror icons Lin Shaye and Bill Moseley, so that's great! (Oh, and Rae Dawn Chong shows up, too. Yay!) The story, however, is one of those nifty ideas - filming a seance in a haunted orphanage that was run by a Satan worshipper (neat!) - that falls flat. The lore doesn't add up, the characters are dopes, and the pacing is off. We don't like to give lower budgeted features a hard time, but we couldn't find much to like here. , we watch Paul Feig's 2025 thriller
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Episode #608: “The Bride!” and “Scream 7"
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This week Dave checked out Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest film as writer-director, (1:42), a reimagining of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" novel and its various film iterations. Starring Jessie Buckley as The Bride (exclamation point) and Christian Bale as The Monster, it's a roller coaster ride that doesn't have either the thrills or chills one may expect, and its stale plotting can't prop up its more ambitious social commentary. And because there was no critics' screening for (14:07), Evan and Dave hit the local multiplexes to see it. Is it the shitshow everyone seems to think, or is it better...
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Episode #607: “Send Help” and “This is Not a Test"
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February is a notoriously slow month for film releases, so we took in a couple movies that were released in the past month, Sam Raimi's (2:53), starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien as an employee and her boss playing mind games as they attempt to survive on an island following a plane crash; and (15:20), about a group of high schoolers hunkered down in their school, trying to survive a fast-zombie apocalypse. , we had you vote on Robert Duvall movies, and you chose .
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Episode #606: “How to Make a Killing"
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This week Evan and Dave buckled in for the new Glen Powell thriller-comedy (1:50). While Evan largely enjoyed it, he agreed with Dave that it had a boatload of problems. , we watched the 1986 slasher flick .
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Episode #605: "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die"
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Dave and Evan were looking forward to Gore Verbinski's (3:22). And then they saw the bloody thing. We'll let you listen and hear our thoughts rather than spill them here. But if you'd like a preview, here's . , we talk about the 2024 thriller , by the director of .
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Episode #604: "Whistle"
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Evan and Dave settle in to talk about the horror film (1:30), whose marketing tagline is "Don't Blow It." Well, one of us thinks this derivative, bloody as hell, tonally confused schlockfest, which has countless references to other horror movies, blew it, and the other doesn't. Which co-host is which, you wonder? (Take a wild guess.) Over on Patreon, we talk about the wacko 1989 action comedy
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Episode #603: “Islands” and “A Private Life”
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It's Megan's final episode on Spoilerpiece, and we're very happy to send her off with lively conversations. First up is (5:41), a slow burn thriller about a tennis instructor (Sam Riley) at an island resort who falls in with an unhappy English couple (Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing) and their young son. We all really dug this picture, and think Riley is great in the lead role. Then it's on to (30:11), a sort-of comedy, sort-of thriller set in Paris, with Jodie Foster as a psychotherapist who's convinced that one of her patients was murdered. But how is she going to prove it? By making lots...
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Episode #602: "H is for Hawk," "Dooba Dooba," and "The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo"
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This week, Megan tells Dave and Evan about (2:48), based on Helen MacDonald's memoir about losing their beloved father and, while grieving, adopting a stubborn hawk. Then all three of them talk about (11:31). This found footage horror film rubbed them all the wrong way. Some of them really wrong. Finally, Megan and Evan discuss (36:46). Both Evan and Megan were moved by this movie's embrace of queer joy while it's simultaneously an AIDS allegory. , we watch the Safdie Brothers' 2017 film
info_outlineThis week Dave checked out Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest film as writer-director, THE BRIDE! (1:42), a reimagining of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" novel and its various film iterations. Starring Jessie Buckley as The Bride (exclamation point) and Christian Bale as The Monster, it's a roller coaster ride that doesn't have either the thrills or chills one may expect, and its stale plotting can't prop up its more ambitious social commentary. And because there was no critics' screening for SCREAM 7 (14:07), Evan and Dave hit the local multiplexes to see it. Is it the shitshow everyone seems to think, or is it better than that? Take a listen to find out! Over on Patreon, we talk about the 2007 action film SHOOT 'EM UP.