Eye of the Storm Movie Podcast

This week we review and discuss Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a superhero movie directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Sadie Sink and the newest entry in the MCU, about Peter Parker dealing with the ramifications of being forgotten by the world following the events of No Way Home, while dealing with the emerging threat of a villain with mind control powers.We discuss how the movie moves the story of Peter Parker and the wider MCU forward, how it handles themes of loneliness and balance, whether Jean Grey is a good Spider-Man villain and the thematic space explored by Jean Grey and Punisher and how this reflects Spider-Man's story, how this movie improves on a lot of worldbuilding and story mistakes that have plagued the MCU in recent years, the movie's awkward fit with the upcoming Doomsday, how the movie sets up Peter Parker as a villainous figure in future MCU movies and why that is the most interesting storybeat the MCU has done in years, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:16 Movie Recommendations (The Wire, The Cleaning Lady, Rick And Morty season 9)05:25 Synopsis & Overall Impressions13:57  Spoiler Discussion53:31 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss 72 Hours, a comedy movie directed by Tim Story and starring Kevin Hart, Marcello Hernandez and Mason Gooding, about a 40-year-old man joins a bachelor party weekend with strangers after being added to their group-chat by accident.We discuss how this movie compares to similar movies such as The Hangover, Date Night and Superbad and what lessons it should have learned from its inspirations but didn't, how the movie handles the generational dialogue between Millenials and Gen Z and whether it has something to say on the subject, why the middle part of the movie left us cold when that should have been the main attraction and how the themes of the movie feel tacked on as a result, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:17 Movie Recommendations (I Will Find You A Better Home (安家), The Wire Season 1)08:34 Synopsis & Overall Impressions15:16  Spoiler Discussion52:29 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The Odyssey, a fantasy action movie directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Anne Hathaway, about Odysseus who undergoes a perilous journey home after the Trojan War in his attempt to reunite with his wife Penelope.We discuss what The Odyssey gets right and what it doesn't, why the character payoffs are the movie's strong suit and are among the best we've seen all year, why Antinous is the best villain we've seen in a long time, how the movie ignores much of the source material and instead uses the story of the Odyssey to tell a new story about a world falling from grace and slipping into a dark age and whether that choice worked for us and if the movie did enough work to earn that, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:29 Movie Recommendations (Due Date, Animal Control Season 1-4)05:06 Synopsis & Overall Impressions12:14  Spoiler Discussion49:30 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Evil Dead Burn, a supernatural horror movie directed by Sebastien Vanicek and starring Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright and Hunter Doohan, about a woman who following the death of her husband is stuck with her toxic in-laws when Deadites attack their home in search of a magical dagger.We discuss whether the movie delivers on the franchise's signature body horror effectively, how it compares to previous entries in the franchise, how the movie handles the idea that family is hell and how that connects to the body horror of the Deadites and the arc of the main character who is stuck with these very different kinds of evil thoughout the story, whether the movie's story and expansion of the Evil Dead mythology works or whether it just gets in the way and takes up too much space without adding enough, how viewers should judge a movie that tries to be about more than just good fun, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:20 Movie Recommendations (Polygamous, Spawn Director's Cut, X-Men 97)07:16 Synopsis & Overall Impressions15:35  Spoiler Discussion51:24 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Minority Report, a 2002 science fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell and Max von Sydow, about the future world of 2054 in which murder has been eradicated through the use of precogs, psychics who receive visions of future violent crimes that allow the police to prevent these murders from happening. When John Anderton, a Precrime officer, is predicted to murder someone he has never met, he goes on the run to clear his name and discover the truth. We discuss the movie's handling of topics such as free will and justice and how that informs how the movie's story plays out, how the scenario of the movie is set up to create an intriguing dilemma that sparks genuine debate about what to do with the ability to perfectly predict future murders, whether the system is just or even can achieve legal and moral justice, how the future imagined by the movie holds up and how much it resembles the world we live in today 25 years later, we debate alternate interpretations of the ending and which one we prefer and makes for a better story, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss The Invite, a comedy drama movie directed by Olivia Wilde and starring Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogan, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton, about a couple in a failing marriage who invite their upstairs neighbours for a dinner party. As the night goes on, various secrets about the couple come to light and their buried grievances come to the surface.We discuss the movie's message about the nature of happiness and success in life and how unlike most movies like it the message is actually insightful, we discuss how the movie constructs the relationships between the four characters to make its point, whether its payoff towards the end is worth it and what the ending means and is as ambiguous as it has been made out to be in the discourse, we debate what drives the different characters and how that ties into the movie's core themes, whether the movie is an example of a shift in whose stories are told in movies and whether this has something to do with the overall long term decline of movies and why this movie is still one of the best we've seen this year in spite of that, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:20 Movie Recommendations (Power Book 3: Raising Kanan, Vice Principals Season 1)05:27 Synopsis & Overall Impressions09:28  Spoiler Discussion56:05 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Supergirl, a superhero movie directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock, Matthias Schoenaerts and Jason Momoa, about Kara Zor-El who is one of two surviving Kryptonians and who following the destruction of her home planet Krypton is drowning her grief in alcohol on backwater planets when she is dragged into a young girl's quest for revenge against a raider warlord who killed her family.We discuss the movie's objective of portraying a protagonist who has a lot in common with Superman but draws opposite conclusions of how to respond to her heritage and loss of her family, and why the movie fails at its primary goal of delving into Kara Zor-El's psychology and state of mind and justify her transformation from someone who rejects kindness into a hero and the movie's concept of being consumed by revenge, we discuss its numerous plot holes, logic problems and lacking worldbuilding and what this means for the mentality that went into making this movie, what this means for the DCEU going forward, and much more.Check out our review of Superman here:https://open.spotify.com/episode/6emK8FqUUZQCpuHfICYqHCCheck out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:16 Movie Recommendations (A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), House of the Dragon Season 3)08:28 Synopsis & Overall Impressions15:09  Spoiler Discussion58:26 Conclusion & Ratings

In our annual mid year review, we discuss the best movies of 2026 we reviewed in the first half of the year, name our honorable mentions that didn't make the cut but are still worth recommending. We also discuss our hopes for movies in the second half of the year, including the movies we look forward to the most, what the recent success of indie movies means for movies as a whole and whether legacy franchises can turn the tide, and what movies we want to do better going forward.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:29 Honorable Mentions04:41 Third Best Movie (Marty Supreme, How To Make A Killing, They Will Kill You)11:05 Second Best Movie (Obsession, The Drama)22:18 Best Movie (The Drama, Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Marty Supreme)31:28 Biggest Hopes For Movies In 2026

This week we review and discuss Toy Story 5, a adventure comedy movie directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack, about Jessie, Woody and Buzz Lightyear as they deal with their human Bonnie receiving her first tablet and the threat of being discarded in favour of electronic toys.We discuss the movie's handling of the impact on electronic devices on children, whether it leans on the scales too much in showing the dangers of screens or whether there are upsides to online communities the movie downplays, whether Toy Story is a movie for children in the first place or whether it is more for their parents and how the movie's impact and relatability depends on whether someone has children themselves, how the movie's conflict is more nuanced than we expected, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:20 Movie Recommendations (Mr and Mrs Smith Season 1, Evil Season 1-2)08:44 Synopsis & Overall Impressions14:19  Spoiler Discussion49:52 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Disclosure Day, a science fiction thriller movie directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor and Colin Firth, about Daniel and Margaret who are caught up in a conspiracy to hide the existence of UFOs and alien visitation from the public, and their efforts to leak the evidence to the world why evading a shadowy corporate conspiracy that seeks to keep the existence of aliens secret.We discuss the numerous flaws in the storytelling, wonder why a filmmaker as renowned and experienced as Steven Spielberg would make such elementary story mistakes that drag down the movie, the movie's handling of the idea of empathy and whether the message of the movie works or is even a good message to have, the movie's bizarre handling of religion and spirituality, why the movie fails at raising awareness or interest in the UFO phenomenon and how it relates to real world UFO lore and theories and whether it should, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:17 Movie Recommendations (From Season 4, World Cup, Bob's Burgers Season 16)12:02 Synopsis & Overall Impressions18:30 Spoiler Discussion58:34 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Hollow Man, a 2000 science fiction horror movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon and Josh Brolin, about a scientist who volunteers to test an experimental serum that renders him invisible. When the process cannot be reversed, he becomes increasingly unstable and violent.We discuss the movie's special effects that were spectacular in 2000 and still hold up extremely well today and their role in selling the reality of the invisible man in ways that a lot of other movies struggle with, what the movie has to say about morality and society and how it uses the conceit of invisibility to explore these topics, how the movie despite receiving negative reviews when it came out actually has strong writing that communicates what the audience needs to know very effectively, why invisibility is a surprisingly underused superpower, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Masters of the Universe, a science fantasy action movie directed by Travis Knight and starring Nicholas Galitzine, Camila Mendes and Jared Leto, about Prince Adam as he returns to his home planet, Eternia, to take his destiny as He-Man, and save his home from the evil forces of Skeletor.We discuss our reaction to the newest incarnation of He-Man from the perspective of someone who didn't grow up with the 80's cartoon and has no nostalgia for the franchise, whether the movie lives up to the potential of its source material, why the movie's tone ruined much of the movie for us, why Marvel humor has at this point overstayed its welcome by almost a decade in our opinion and why movies still go to that well, we discuss who the target audience for this movie is and wonder what a nine year old would even get out of this movie and whether He-Man can be relevant in 2026, whether the movie has anything to say about masculinity, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:20 Movie Recommendations (Scary Movie 6, Spider-Man Noir, Koala Man)07:31 Synopsis & Overall Impressions16:17 Spoiler Discussion53:50 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Backrooms, a science fiction horror movie directed by Kane Parsons and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass, about Clark, a furniture store owner, and Mary, his therapist, discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces accessed through the basement of the store.We discuss the impact the backrooms had on us as a concept, what it means for movies that a movie studio gave a 20 year old first time director full creative control over an original concept, whether the backrooms are scary in the first place and whether the movie succeeds in realising the horror of liminal spaces and building on the original idea effectively and whether explaining the backrooms aided or diminished the horror, how liminal horror compares to its cousin cosmic horror and to real world horrors such as global warming and pandemics, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast00:00 Intro00:18 Movie Recommendations (Fuze, Don't Trust The B--- in Apartment 23)06:58 Synopsis & Overall Impressions11:58 Spoiler Discussion54:38 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Dark City, a 1998 neo-noir science fiction movie directed by Alex Proyas and starring Rufus Swell, Kiefer Sutherland and Jennifer Connelly, about a man who finds himself suspected of murder and proceeds to clear his name while on the run from the police and a mysterious group known as the "Strangers".We discuss how this movie is one of the gems of the late 90's/early 2000s era of philosophical science fiction and how it holds up today compared to more well known entries such as The Matrix, what the movie has to say about identity and human nature, how we are is shaped by what we remember, how the movie has one of the strongest endings that makes full use of the story's themes and established facts up to that point, how the twist of what is happening to the protagonist was received by a first time viewer, why we can never disprove that the universe is 10 minutes old, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, a science fiction action movie movie directed by Jon Favreau and starring Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White and Sigourney Weaver, about Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu who are enlisted by the New Republic to rescue Rotta the Hutt in exchange for information on a target.We discuss our reactions to the first Star Wars movie in 7 years, why every aspect of the movie while competent left us cold and struggling to care about the story of its characters and what lessons should have been learned from previous Star Wars movies, what Disney's failure to do so means for the future of Star Wars and whether Star Wars will ever be exciting again and whether that matters, why the movie feels like a video game in the worst ways and how this impairs the story, and much more.Check out our other Star Wars reviews here:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6U5nBLtmb5sr3DzWAJG1g6Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:19 Movie Recommendations (The Simpsons Season 37, The Boys Season 5)06:18 Synopsis & Overall Impressions10:32 Spoiler Discussion54:03 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Obsession, a supernatural horror movie movie directed by Curry Barker and starring Michel Johnston, Inde Navarrette and Megan Lawless, about a man who who buys a supernatural toy that grants him his wish for his childhood friend Nikki to fall in love with him, resulting in horrifying consequences.We discuss the surprising box office success of this movie when similar movies are usually ignored by audiences, whether this might be the first true Gen Z horror movie, debate who the real villain in the story is and how this compares to our expectations going into the movie, whether the depiction of Nikki's possession makes sense or if too much of it is just there for shock value and how this impacted audience reactions when we saw the movie in theatres, how this movie compares to other stories about love potions and "monkey's paw" type wish fulfillment, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:19 Movie Recommendations (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, From Season 4)06:26 Synopsis & Overall Impressions11:50 Spoiler Discussion53:27 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Misery, a 1990 psychological horror movie based on a Stephen King novel and directed by Rob Reiner, starring James Caan and Kathy Bates, about a novelist who is held captive by Annie Wilkes, an obsessive fan who forces him to rewrite his last novel to her expectations.We talk about how the movie creates a sense of suspense and tension with only two characters while avoiding all the cliches of typical horror movies, why Annie Wilkes is one of the great villains of the psychological horror genre, how the movie anticipated modern fandom culture and when fans lose their humanity in their treatment of artists and how our reactions to movies we disliked in the past compare to that, we discuss what if anything artists owe to the fans that made them successful, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Mortal Kombat 2, a fantasy martial arts movie directed by Simon  McQuoid and starring Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph and Tadanobu Asano, about Johnny Cage who is recruited to join his fellow Earthrealm fighters in an interdimensional tournament against the Outworld warriors and stop the tyrannical emperor Shao Kahn, with the help of Edenian princess Kitana.We discuss our experiences watching this movie as someone vaguely interested in the lore of Mortal Kombat but never having played the games, whether the story holds up and what storytelling mistakes we thought undermined the journeys of the main characters Johnny Cage and Kitana, what we should expect from video game adaptations and which recent movies have gotten the adaptation right and which got it wrong, why Mortal Kombat 2 disappoints as a martial arts movie, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:26 Movie Recommendations (Sleepers (1996), The Comeback (2005))07:22 Synopsis & Overall Impressions15:00 Spoiler Discussion51:23 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Hokum, a supernatural horror movie directed by Damian McCarthy and starring Adam Scott, Perter Coonan and Florence Ordesh, about a man who travels to a hotel in Ireland, unaware that it may be haunted.We discuss the movie's metaphor dealing with grief and guilt and the associated symbolism, why this movie worked so well for us when it came to creating dread and suspense and how this movie succeeds at the difficult task of making an unlikeable character likeable, how the movie lives from meticulous detail when constructing its plot and whether plot and allegory are always in alignment or whether they at times clash, why horror monsters in recent years seem to be so generic, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:19 Movie Recommendations (Man On Fire,  Little Mosque On The Prairie)03:28 Synopsis & Overall Impressions08:03 Spoiler Discussion52:36 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Cooties, a zombie comedy from 2014 directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion and starring Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson and Alison Pill, about a group of elementary school teachers who fight to survive an outbreak among students that turns them into aggressive zombies when someone eats tainted chicken nuggets.We talk about how this movie is built around the taboo of showing harm to children in movies and whether that is justified or is holding movies back, how the joke references the realities of being a teacher, whether this movie has been given a fair shake or if there is more to it and its characters than critics have been giving it credit for, we discuss the infamously reshot ending and how it changes the movie, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Michael, a biopic movie directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long and Colman Domingo, about the life of Michael Jackson from his beginnings in the Jackson Five to the Bad tour in 1988.We discuss to what extent it matters how much of a Michael Jackson fan someone is when watching the movie and what we got out of the movie, how that explains the massive split in audience versus reviewer scores the movie has received, whether the movie's storytelling holds up outside the concert scenes, what a Michael Jackson biopic should be and do and how this movie compares to that, the challenges and quirks of biopics in general, whether we think there will be a second movie covering the less glamorous parts of Jackson's life and whether there should be, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:17 Movie Recommendations (The Negotiator (1998), The Adjustment Bureau (2011))09:16 Synopsis & Overall Impressions16:19 Spoiler Discussion01:02:35 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The Mummy, a supernatural horror movie directed by Lee Cronin and starring Jack Reynor, Laia Costa and May Calamawy, about a family who is reunited with their long-missing, mummified daughter and realize something is wrong with her.We discuss why the body horror in this movie worked so well for us, why the story for the most part didn't and whether this matters for a movie like this, whether the ending lives up to its potential or if it had the opportunity for something much better and distinctive, whether the movie makes good use of its cultural background and context and how it breaks the "why now" rule of screenwriting, whether this is a mummy movie in the first place, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:19 Movie Recommendations (Beef season 2, Scrubs season 10)04:32 Synopsis & Overall Impressions08:51 Spoiler Discussion01:01:03 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Rear Window, a mystery thriller from 1954 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr, about a wheelchair-bound photographer who spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village apartment window and becomes convinced he has witnessed a murder.We talk about what it is like to watch one of the most celebrated movies of all time as a new viewer in 2026, whether the mystery holds up to its reputation and how classic movies can seem a bit basic if they created the formula that later movies developed and subverted and how moviemaking techniques and standards have evolved since then, what makes the relationship between Jeff and Lisa work and how its is the real core of the movie, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Thrash, a Netflix survival thriller movie directed by Tommy Wirkola and starring Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak and Djimon Hounsou, about a group of survivors stranded in a flooded town during a hurricane when a pack of sharks attacks.We discuss why the movie failed to get us excited about the characters and their struggles, what we expected from the movie based on the promises made by its trailer and marketing, what could have been done with the premise of sharks attacking a flooded town, we go over some of the stranger sequences and scenes in the movie and try to make sense of why they are there, why the story structure of this movie seems to be too influences by video games, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:18 Movie Recommendations (Paradise Season 2, Super Mario World Galaxyt, Based On A True Story season 1)07:17 Synopsis & Overall Impressions14:03 Spoiler Discussion46:06 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The Drama, a dark romantic comedy directed by Kristoffer Borgli and starring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson and Alana Haim, about a couple whose relationship is tested days before their wedding when the bride reveals a dark secret in her past that causes her husband to question everything.We discuss how we expected very little from the movie based on its promotional material but were pleasantly surprised by how well the movie handled the complexities of its characters and its story, whether the movie justifies its conflict adequately and whether it's a comedy in the first place, and how it's not about judging Emma's past but watching the various characters struggle and fail at basic moral reasoning, how this destroys their relationships and causes them to question all their life choices, how the movie treats the idea of arbitrary mob justice, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:15 Movie Recommendations (Paradise Season 2, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2)07:37 Synopsis & Overall Impressions12:23 Spoiler Discussion49:55 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit My Cousin Vinny, a comedy from 1992 directed by Jonathan Lynn and starring Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei and Fred Gwynne, about two New Yorkers are accused in Alabama of a murder they didn't commit and have to rely on their inexperienced cousin Vinny to defend them in court.We talk about why My Cousin Vinny is widely regarded as one of the best comedies ever made and how it has held up in the years since, how its attention to detail and authenticity when it comes to court procedure makes the movie and shows that attention to detail makes stories and movies better, how it defied stereotypes of the time and is a more distinctive and compelling story for it, how the movie has a tight script that pays off everything it sets up and makes small details matter in its story, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss They Will Kill You, an action movie directed by Kirill Sokolov and starring Zazie Beetz, Myha'la and Heather Graham, about a woman who takes a job in an exclusive New York apartment building in order to save her sister, which quickly turns into a desperate fight for survival.We discuss how They Will Kill You is not like the other Eat The Rich movies that have come out recently, the importance of nonverbal storytelling and whether the movie succeeds at that in particular in its action scenes, how a few setpieces can make a movie if a little care and creativity went into them and why more movies need mattress fights, we analyse the social commentary and associated metaphors of the movie and discuss the racial politics of demon cults, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:19 Movie Recommendations (The Love Of My Life, Paradise Season 2, Mooom)07:39 Synopsis & Overall Impressions14:28 Spoiler Discussion52:47 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Project Hail Mary, a science fiction movie directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and starring Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller and James Ortiz, about a scientist who embarks on a mission to the star Tau Ceti on a mission to save Earth, where he encounters an alien who is on the same mission.We discuss what works about this movie and what doesn't, how it compares to Andy Weir's other movie The Martian in its humor and its use of real science to enable its story, how the movie struggles with its lack of real conflict and consequences to character actions, what the movie has to say about bravery and sacrifice, the difference between real and fake stakes and why this movie is in multiple places on the wrong side of that distinction, how the movie seems to have dropped important details in the adaptation from the novel that undermines parts of its story in ways that weren't necessary, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:18 Movie Recommendations (Ready Or Not 2, Rosemary's Baby 1968)05:28 Synopsis & Overall Impressions13:13 Spoiler Discussion51:29 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss How To Make A Killing, a dark comedy thriller movie directed by John Patton Ford and starring Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley and Jessica Henwick, about a man who stands to inherit his family's 20 billion dollar fortune once he has killed the seven family members who stand in his way, which puts him on a path of ambition and conscience.We discuss the movie's handling of themes of ambition, entitlement and greed, how the movie uses symbolism and characters to put the protagonist on a path that forces him to choose between two radically different lives, how this movie's trailer and marketing set the wrong expectations which will probably hurt the movie at the box office and why we predict it will become a hidden gem in the future, how the movie's portrayal of wealth and the wealthy is more interesting and nuanced than most movies in the "eat the rich" genre that has been popular lately, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:19 Movie Recommendations (Netflix War Machine, Paradise Season 2, Troll Hunter)06:50 Synopsis & Overall Impressions14:10 Spoiler Discussion52:39 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a fantasy drama series created by Ira Parker and starring Peter Claffey, Dexter Sol Ansell and Daniel Ings, in which a Dunk, a hedge knight, and Egg, his young squire, try to find success and justice in Westeros a hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones.We talk about how this series is a return to form for the franchise, what it gets right and what later seasons of Game of Thrones got wrong, how the series deals with completely different topics and themes than the original show while still feeling like it belongs in Westeros, how having a small and self contained story is a refreshing change of pace from the sprawling decade spanning narratives that never work out anyway, why it makes us optimistic again for the franchise, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro00:20 Synopsis & Overall Impressions07:56 Spoiler Discussion44:29 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The Bride!, a Gothic romance movie directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale and Penelope Cruz, in which a woman who was killed by the mob in 1930's Chicago is reanimated as the bride of Frankenstein, and the two then go on a crime spree in search of freedom.We talk about the movie's handling of its numerous themes and whether it does any of them well, whether it makes enough sense, whether it needs to and when you should just accept that a movie is simply not for you, we dissect the meaning of various ideas throughout the movie including the monster's quest for companionship, the bride's anger and rage at the injustices of the world, the theme of names defining characters, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:15 Movie Recommendations (The Industry, Hoppers, The New Adventures of Old Christine)04:49 Synopsis & Overall Impressions12:55 Spoiler Discussion45:19 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Scream 7, a horror slasher movie directed by Kevin Williamson and starring Neve Campbell, Isabel May and Courteney Cox, in which Sidney Prescott and her daughter are targeted by another Ghostface killer who appears to be an old enemy.We talk about the movie's handling of themes such as nostalgia and making reality conform to fiction and how that intersects with the idea of generative AI, whether Scream 7 is a worthwhile addition to the franchise that continues Sidney Prescott's story after the iconic original trilogy or if this is just cashing in on franchise inertia, whether the Scream formula is played out and if this movie does enough with the familiar formula to be interesting, our favourite kills and what to expect from slasher movies, and much more.Check out our reviews of the original trilogy here:Screamhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/5pOBqHAHLcHTLgmRETMRFRScream 2https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NUNzsIJl9YSjk30Fs0iAJScream 3https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jt5T3luJ8TWKJR20IpwlNCheck out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:18 Movie Recommendations (Animal Kingdom season 5, Scrubs)06:08 Synopsis & Overall Impressions10:24 Spoiler Discussion50:52 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Cold Storage, a horror comedy movie directed by Jonny Campbell and starring Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery and Liam Neeson, about attempts at containing a parasitic fungus that leaks out of an abandoned military base.We talk about how the movie stacks up against its inspirations which include classics such as The Thing, Tremors and The Blob, discuss the movie's solid premise that sets up an interesting scenario with likeable characters who all explore the theme of living with the consequences of past mistakes in various ways, how the movie's ending disappointed us by turning into generic action without making good use of what was set up in the beginning, whether the movie succeeds in critiquing government incompetence through its sci fi scenario of the mutant fungus, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:19 Movie Recommendations (Waste Man, Men in Black)02:55 Synopsis & Overall Impressions07:41 Spoiler Discussion47:13 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Office Space, a satirical comedy from 1999 directed by Mike Judge and starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston and Gary Cole, about employees of a struggling tech company who are weary of their jobs and are looking for a way out of the monotony of the corporate rat race.We talk about how Office Space became such an iconic classic that still gets quoted 27 years later, how relatable it is to anyone who has worked a corporate job and why hell really is other people, what the movie does right that so many satires get wrong and why Mike Judge's satire hits different than most, what an Office Space sequel would look like in 2026 if it was made today, the meaning of life and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Crime 101, a crime thriller directed by Bart Layton and starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo, about three people whose lives are caught up in the world of jewel heists.We talk about how the movie is not quite what it presents itself as and rather than a heist movie delivers a character drama focused on themes of risk, the cost of making it, and selling out your principles, we discuss whether those ideas were well realised in the character arcs of the three main characters and the choices they make throughout the story, whether the ending is a pyrrhic victory that fits the movie's themes or is a miss overall, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:18 Movie Recommendations (Animal Kingdom, Dick (1999))05:51 Synopsis & Overall Impressions11:31 Spoiler Discussion48:28 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The Strangers - Chapter 3, a horror film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath, which features the conclusion to the story of Maya who tries to escape the masked Strangers who continue to try to kill her. We talk about whether the final chapter of the Strangers trilogy delivers a payoff that was worth sitting through the first two chapters, whether expanding on the Strangers' backstory and motivation made sense and added value to the story, we go through some of the more baffling scenes and try to find intention in them, wonder what a Strangers reboot could have been like had it been handled with more care, and much more.Check out our other reviews of the Strangers franchise:The Strangers (2008)https://open.spotify.com/episode/6euIp0uzbixlgdGLtfUZKWThe Strangers - Chapter 1https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QhEvLQDJTRvqJSRoaqnxPThe Strangers - Chapter 2https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XUbZLB8oGeUdrjcpQh9dYCheck out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:16 Movie Recommendations (Love of my Life, Hamnet, English Teacher)06:30 Synopsis & Overall Impressions14:18 Spoiler Discussion57:54 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Catch Me If You Can, a crime comedy drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken, about a con artist who evades the FBI for years while being one of the most accomplished forgers of his time and posing as various professions including airline pilots, doctors and lawyers.We talk about how the movie has held up and why it is the product of a different era in Hollywood, how the movie makes a scammer and con artist a sympathetic character we can root for, whether the scams hold up on rewatch or whether it's all in the presentation and production values, whether being accurate to the life of the real Frank Abagnale is important for a movie like this, whether the movie was improved by embellishing Frank's life and adding a family subplot and increasing the role of his father that did not happen like it was shown in the movie, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Primate, a horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Jonny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander and Troy Kotsur, about an adopted chimpanzee who gets bitten by a rapid animal and becomes violent towards his human family.We talk about how this is the okayest movie we have seen in a while that delivers exactly on what it promises and nothing else, how review scores are surprisingly high for a movie this basic, whether the movie delivers on suspense and violence enough to carry the movie, how the movie actually does a lot of things right that many (especially horror) movies tend to get wrong, the numerous instances of ideas that are introduced throughout the movie and then never paid off and how each of these could easily have elevated the movie, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:18 Movie Recommendations (Steal, Wonder Man)08:34 Synopsis & Overall Impressions14:02 Spoiler Discussion50:38 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Return to Silent Hill, a psychological horror film directed by Christophe Gans and starring Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson. The movie follows the story of James who ventures into the abandoned town of Silent Hill and encounters various nightmares in search of the woman he loves.We talk about the metaphor that drives the third act and try to make sense of it as someone who is not familiar with the games, why this movie has been treated unfairly by reviews and why reviewers on balance have let the audiences down when it comes to the discourse surrounding this movie, why Return of Silent Hill is held back by sometimes trying to be an adaptation of a beloved video game, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:20 Movie Recommendations (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, His & Hers, Rush Hour)09:24 Synopsis & Overall Impressions16:03 Spoiler Discussion53:32 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit the first three episodes of Frasier, a sitcom that ran from 1993 to 2004 starring Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce and Jane Leeves.We talk about why Frasier is our favourite sitcom of all time, how it manages to make characters who are not usually the protagonists of sitcoms relatable while drawing comedy from their unrelatability, why Frasier was the smartest show on television and why comedy benefits from smart writing, we discuss the lost art of farce and why Frasier was a masterclass in that genre of comedy, how its legacy sequel series is one of the few that actually worked, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a postapocalyptic drama film directed by Nia DaCosta and starring Ralph Phiennes, Jack O'Connell and Alfie Williams. Following the events of 28 Years Later, Spike is being inducted into a gang led by Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal while Dr Kelson discovers a treatment for the Rage virus.We talk about how the movie compares to the first part, how it is driven by the conflict between Dr Kelson and Jimmy who represent two opposed sides of humanity between whose example Spike will have to choose in the future, the very different tragedies of both Dr Kelson who has never given up trying to help and Sir Jimmy whose trauma makes him a force of destruction, what the final scene says about the spirit of the franchise and why this is the most optimistic zombie franchise ever made, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcastCheck out our reviews of the rest of the franchise here:28 Days Later: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gWKKzW2yHeS1FZ7hK6ZYM28 Weeks Later: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4w5fZ33QScoqldwL1u6u3P28 Years Later: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7BgzRscm9UIhaz6aZ7zFFx0:00 Intro0:18 Movie Recommendations (Everwood season 1, His & Hers)05:10 Synopsis & Overall Impressions12:13 Spoiler Discussion54:18 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Frankenstein, a gothic science fiction film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Oscaar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth, about a scientist who creates a living being through scientific experimentation and then loses control of his creation.We talk about our reaction to the newest take on the classic Frankenstein story, what worked about it and what didn't, how we were missing a clear thesis in the movie and how the movie ends up being unfocused and cluttered as a result, we discuss whether various storytelling choices worked for us and whether we agree with the consensus that the first half of the movie is the stronger one, whether the nearly unanimous positive reviews this movie has received on Rotten Tomatoes is justified, and much more. Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:17 Movie Recommendations (Marked Season 1, Fallout Season 2, The Great Gatsby)06:30 Synopsis & Overall Impressions13:54 Spoiler Discussion01:00:14 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Edge of Tomorrow, a 2014 science fiction action movie directed by Doug Liman and starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt and Bill Paxton, about two soldiers stuck in a time loop during an alien invasion.We talk about how this movie did not make many waves when it came out in part due to its confusing name changes but has turned into a celebrated classic since then, the movie's take on the time loop formula and how it compares to other movies like it, how the movie uses the time loops to create stakes and shows just enough repetition to convey the state of mind of its characters without ever becoming tedious, the similarities with video game movies and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Marty Supreme, a drama movie directed by Josh Safdie and starring Thimothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Odessa A'zion, about a table tennis player in 1952 and his struggles to compete in an upcoming championship against all odds.We talk about the movie's unconventional storytelling and Chalamet's persuasive performance as an unlikeable jerk the audience can sympathise with, how the movie depicts its flawed characters and their choices without telling the audience how to feel about them, the movie's handling of themes such as fairness, ego and achievement, debate whether the movie's ending elevates or deflates Marty's story, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:17 Movie Recommendations (Rick and Morty Season 8, Stranger Things Season 5 eulogy)12:45 Synopsis & Overall Impressions18:11 Spoiler Discussion59:52 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss The Housemaid, an erotic thriller movie directed by Paul Feig and starring Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar, which follows a young woman with a troubled past who becomes the live-in housekeeper for a wealthy family. Their seemingly perfect life unravels when she discovers their household hides dark secrets.We talk about whether the movie delivers on its promise of being a throwback to 90's thrillers and whether the near universally positive audience reaction is justified, whether the resolution to the central mystery makes sense and worked for us, whether the movie accurately depicts abuse and abusive relationships and what the ethics of that are for movies, how we would have changed the movie's ending, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:17 Movie Recommendations (Star Wars rewatch, Knives Out 3: Wake Up Dead Man)05:37 Synopsis & Overall Impressions10:11 Spoiler Discussion54:51 Conclusion & Ratings

For our second annual end of year review episode, we take a look back at the movies we reviewed this year and see what movies were successful and which bombed, try to understand what that says about the moviegoing audience this year and speculate what that might mean for what movies might look like in the years to come. After that we rank our top 3 best and worst movies of the year.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:22 2025 Box Office Analysis32:52 Worst Movies Of The Year50:42 Best Movies Of The Year

This week we review and discuss Avatar 3: Fire and Ash, an epic science fiction movie directed by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, which follows the story of Jake Sully and his family as they try to live among the Na'vi while being pursued by Colonel Quaritch and the volcano-dwelling Mangkwan clan.We talk about our very different experiences with the Avatar franchise and how part 3 stacks up against the previous movies, what we thought of the emerging politics of various Na'vi groups, the various character journeys in particular the villains and whether their stories worked for us, the movie's treatment of war, peace and faith, we disagree about various story choices and their impact on pivotal moments in the story, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:28 Movie Recommendations (Angela (Netflix), IT: Welcome to Derry, Stranger Things Season 1)04:46 Synopsis & Overall Impressions12:20 Spoiler Discussion01:03:50 Conclusion & Ratings

In "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time.This week we revisit Monty Python's Life of Brian, a 1979 biblical comedy movie directed by Terry Jones and starring John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin, about a young Judaean man who is born on the same day as Jesus, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.We talk about our reactions to seeing the movie widely seen as the best comedy ever made for the first time in 2025, look back at why this movie was so controversial and widely banned when it came out and speculate how it might be received if it came out today, what parts of the humor worked for us and which didn't, how the movie's criticism of activism has been overshadowed by the criticism of religion when it actually takes up more time and is more biting and why that might be, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast

This week we review and discuss Fackham Hall, a spoof comedy movie directed by Jim O'Hanlon and starring Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Radcliffe and Damian Lewis, which follows heiress Rose Davenport who is torn between marrying her cousin to save the family estate, and eloping with the man she loves despite class barriers.We talk about whether Fackham Hall's comedy worked for us, compare favourite jokes, ask whether Fackham Hall deserves to be in one category with timeless classics like Naked Gun and Airplane!, why the movie benefits from meticulous planning and a tight plot and how it compares to this year's Naked Gun, why a movie like this existing is a good sign for movies in general and comedies in particular, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:18 Movie Recommendations (Silent Night Deadly Night, She Rides Shotgun, Stranger Things Season 5, Midway (2019))06:16 Synopsis & Overall Impressions12:04 Spoiler Discussion52:42 Conclusion & Ratings

This week we review and discuss Five Nights at Freddy's 2, a horror movie directed by Emma Tammi and starring Josh Hutcherson, Matthew Lillard and Elizabeth Lail, in which Abby Schmidt reconnects with her animatronic friends, leading to events that reveal the origins of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.We talk about whether the movie worked for us as somebody not part of the target audience that had never played the games and went into this without a shred of nostalgia, whether there is enough to the movie once you move part the creepy aesthetics of the Freddy Fazbear animatronics, whether the ending worked for us or if it needed to be developed more and expand more on the lore introduced in the first movie more, how FNAF2 stacks up against recent video game adaptations and why this movie signals a positive future for movies, and much more.Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast0:00 Intro0:18 Movie Recommendations (Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Companion, Power Book 4: Force, Joy Ride (2001))05:23 Synopsis & Overall Impressions11:52 Spoiler Discussion53:36 Conclusion & Ratings