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Feature Underground
by Hunter Lanier
The Feature Underground is a place for good-faith discussions about movies. All persons and viewpoints are welcome in the Underground. Adopt a little FU energy and join the community today!Hunter Lanier, the host of Feature Underground, has written for the Houston Chronicle and Film Threat, and is a member of the Houston Film Critics Society. He used to be a baby, so think of him as a recovering idiot.
Episodes
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The Naked Gun Review • Calm Yourselves Up
And here's my review of The Naked Gun, starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, and Danny Huston. It's directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, and Akiva Schaffer. Hunter addresses the simple question of "is it funny," what makes its…
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Fantastic Four: First Steps Review • All Sharp Turns, No Straightaways
And here's my review of Fanastic Four: First Steps. The film is directed by Matt Shakman and written by way too many people. Who held the pencil, who held the paper, and whose back did they use? It stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Julia Garner, Natasha Lyonne,...
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Eddington Review • A Comedy of Posturing
And here's my review of Eddington, written and directed by Ari Aster, produced and distributed by A24. It stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone.Hunter discusses how the film satirizes our posturing and signaling in the...
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F1 Review • Stale Popcorn Movie
And here's my review of F1 The Movie, written by Ehren Kruger and Joseph Kosinski, directed by Joseph Kosinkski. It stars Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, and Javier Bardem.Hunter discusses how film's lack of guts, how it compares to Steve McQueen's Le Mans, and the…
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Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning Review • A Nothing Impossible Burger
And here's my non-spoiler review of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, directed by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Angela Bassett. The film follows secret spy guy, Ethan Hunt, as he jumps, swings, falls, and dives. There are plot...
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High and Low Review • Kurosawa's Best Movie
And here's my review of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 character-thriller, High and Low, starring Toshirō Mifune. This is the first entry in the Feature Pantheon series, which will have me revisiting the greatest movies ever made. The film follows a wealthy executive suddenly face with a dilemma: his...
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Henry Johnson Review • New David Mamet Film
And here's my review of Henry Johnson, written and directed by legendary playwright, David Mamet. It stars Evan Jonigkeit, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Bauer, and Dominic Hoffman.Link to the movie: https://henryjohnsonmovie.com/Based on the play of the same name, the film follows the impressionable Henry...
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Warfare Review • First Great Film of 2025
And here's my non-spoiler review of Warfare, directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza. It stars D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Joseph Quinn, and Charles Melton.The film follows a platoon of Navy SEALs trying to escape a home...
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Black Bag Review • Present Everywhere and Visible Nowhere
And here's my non-spoiler review of Black Bag, the newest movie from Steven Soderbergh. It stars Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchette, Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, and Pierce Brosnan.A little bit Mr. and Mrs. Smith and a little bit Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Black...
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Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 Review • Falling from Grace
And here's my non-spoiler review of Daredevil: Born Again's first season. The show stars Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Wilson Bethel, Michael Gandolfini, and Jon Bernthal. Daredevil is back, and now with an all-new supporting cast. Does the…
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The Monkey Review • Unpleasant Valley Sunday
And here's my non-spoiler review of The Monkey, written and directed by Osgood Perkins, but based on a short story by Stephen King. When we first meet the titular toy, it’s a generational albatross tight around the necks of the Shelburn family (Adam Scott, Tatiana Maslany, and Theo James), though...
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Russ Meyer's Vixen Trilogy Review • Restoration Au Naturel
Three Russ Meyer classics have been restored in 4K and an impending Blu-Ray release is upon us. January 28th, to be precise. These films include Vixen! (1968), Supervixens (1975), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (1979, co-written by Roger Ebert). Severin Films, responsible for the...
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Top 10 Movies of 2024 • A Feature Underground Exclusive
To celebrate making it out of 2024 alive, I wanted to do something truly unprecedented: create a list of my favorite movies from the past year. Bear with me, as something like this has never been attempted. 0:00 Intro 1:40 Anora 2:52 The Beast 4:02 The Brutalist 5:10 Coup De Chance 6:06 A…
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Nosferatu Review • Carnal Carnage
And here's my non-spoiler review of Nosferatu, the latest movie from Robert Eggers, which stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe. After a mysterious Count purchases some land in 19th-century Germany, a deeply evil presence casts…
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A Complete Unknown Review • Talkin' Bob Dylan Biopic Blues
And here's my review of A Complete Unknown, the upcoming Bob Dylan movie starring Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, and Scoot McNairy. The film chronicles Bob Dylan's early days as an artist, from the moment he arrived in New York City to his…
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Juror #2 Review • Eastwood and Casual Dread
And here's my review of Juror #2, the latest and quite possibly last movie from the legendary Clint Eastwood. It stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Zoey Deutch, and Kiefer Sutherland. After a small theatrical release, it will come out on MAX on December 29th. Juror #2 is a...
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Gladiator II Review • Better Than the Original
And here's my spoiler free review of Gladiator II, directed by Ridley Scott. It stars Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pescal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, and Connie Nielsen. The film finds slave-turned-gladiator, Lucius (Mescal), on a Death Wish campaign to avenge the killing of his wife…
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Heretic Review • The Hugh Grant Show
And here's my review of Heretic, the latest A24 production. It stars Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East. It's directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. We meet two Mormon girls (Thatcher and East) on their uphill assignment of converting complete strangers to an entirely new religion....
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Anora Review • Sean Baker Evolved
And here's my review of Anora, the festival sweetheart directed by Sean Baker and starring Mikey Madison. The ending of Anora is discussed at the end of the video in a spoiler section. If you're not already aware, Anora is about a stripper whose ability to speak Russian gets her an admirer in the...
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Memoir of a Snail Review • One of the Best Movies of 2024
And here's my review of Memoir of a Snail, one of my favorite movies of the year so far. It features the voice talents of Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jacki Weaver, and Nick Cave. It's directed by Adam Elliott, who hasn't directed a movie since 2009's critically acclaimed, Mary and...
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Conclave Review • The Divine Dramedy
Full spoiler-free review of Conclave starring Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow, directed by Edward Berger. Opening in theaters October 25th. After the sudden death of the pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Fiennes) is chosen to MC the coming conclave, which proves more...
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The Apprentice Review • Cookies Full of Arsenic
And here's my review of The Apprentice, the mildly controversial film about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, directed by Ali Abbasi and starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. Ben Braddocking it up in the wolves den of '70s New York--and the wolves den within the wolves den, which is the upper crust...
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Joker: Folie à Deux Review • Deconstructing the Joker
And here's my review of Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to Todd Philips' acclaimed film from 2019 that won two Academy Awards. This Joker 2 review is brought to you by the French pronunications of Jean Renoir. The film reconvenes with Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) as he McMurphys it up at Arkham...
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Megalopolis Review • Coppola's Fairy Tale
And here's my review of Megalopolis, the first film in over a decade from legendary director, Francis Ford Coppola. The film is a bedtime story of heroes, villains, and fantastical worlds from Grandpa Coppola. Its hero is Cesar (Adam Driver), the imperfect artist who gives people cars when all…
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Deadpool & Wolverine | Movie Review
Deadpool & Wolverine, the latest from the MCU, is the subject of this Feature Underground review. The film follows the titular Super-Bums, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), as they get into all sorts of shenanigans after angering the temporal bureaucrats at TVA (a metaphor…
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Why I Don't Watch the Oscars: A Tale of Apathy
In this special episode of Feature Underground, Hunter discusses why he doesn't give any credence to Oscar nominations or wins. How did he go from anticipating the Oscars every year to no longer watching? If he were charge, how would the Oscars look? Why is March such a dead month for interesting...
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Dune: Part Two | Movie Review | No Spoilers
Dune: Part Two is latest film from acclaimed director, Denis Villeneuve, and the second film in a planned trilogy. It also happens to be the latest subject of Feature Underground. The film follows Paul, intergalactic royalty and all-around chosen one, as he stirs the pot in an ever-deepening...
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Drive-Away Dolls | Review Discussion
Drive-Away Dolls is the first movie to be solely directed by Ethan Coen and the subject of this Feature Underground review from Hunter Lanier. The film follows two young women (Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan) on their long, strange trip to Tallahassee. Sex, violence, and a guy named...
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The Zone of Interest | Movie Review
The Zone of Interest, the latest from director, Jonathan Glazer, is the subject of this Feature Underground review from Hunter Lanier. The film is set in idyllic neighborhood of white picket fences and trimmed hedges, which is situated directly next door to Auschwitz. Living here are the...
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American Fiction | Movie Review
American Fiction, the first film from Cord Jefferson, is the subject of this FU review from Hunter Lanier. Jeffrey Wright plays Monk, a novelist who's unsuccessful because his books aren't marketable enough. Frustrated with the culture trying to pigeonhole him as a "black author," Monk decides to...
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May December | Movie Review | No Spoilers
May December, the latest movie from Todd Haynes, is the subject of this Feature Underground review from Hunter Lanier. The film follows Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), an actress who is going to play Gracie (Julianne Moore) in a film within the film. Gracie spent years in prison due to her...
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Napoleon | Movie Review
Napoleon, the latest from director, Ridley Scott, is the subject of this Feature Underground review. The film follows the titular Frenchman (Joaquin Phoenix) as he climbs the ranks from regular fella to nearly conquering the world. His famous better half, Josephine (Vanessa Kirby), is there too....
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The Holdovers Review | No Spoilers
The Holdovers, the latest movie from Alexander Payne, is the subject of this Feature Underground non- spoiler review. A New England Scrooge of a schoolteacher is punished by being assigned to supervise boys with no home to go home to on Christmas break. One of the boys, to paraphrase Paul Simon,...
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The Killer | Movie Review | No Spoilers
The Killer, the latest film from David Fincher, is the subject of this episode of Feature Underground. Michael Fassbender stars as an assassin of many names and outfits, none of them his own. His hitman abilities leave as much to be desired as his inner soliloquies. Hunter discusses his many...
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Killers of the Flower Moon Review (No Spoilers)
Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese's latest, is the subject of this episode of the Feature Underground. Hunter discusses the film's sophisticated characterizations, DiCaprio's acting secret weapon, and takes a moment to appreciate the fact that a master is alive and at the top of his…
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Anatomy of a Murder Review | Criterion Channel
Anatomy of a Murder is the subject of this week's episode of the Feature Underground. Directed by Otto Preminger, the film centers around a small-town lawyer (Jimmy Stewart) in a battle of wits with his big-city counterpart (George C. Scott). The pawns in this judicial chess match are played by…
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Loki Season 2 Review (Episodes 1-4) | No Spoilers
Loki Season 2 is the subject of this latest review from the Feature Underground. Deftly avoiding spoilers like the plague—not the most recent one, which he's had multiple times—Hunter delivers a good-faith monologue on the show's aesthetic, lack of interesting characters, and its overall conveyor...
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Thief | Criterion Channel Review
Our Criterion Channel review of the week belongs to Thief, Michael Mann's 1981 crime drama classic. The film stars James Caan as Frank, a lucrative thief who succeeds by keeping his circle small and his reach aligned with his grasp. As soon as he gets greedy--in his personal life as well as his...
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It Always Rains on Sunday | Criterion Channel Review
Our Criterion Channel review of the week belongs to It Always Rains on Sunday. The film is a 1947 British film-noir classic in which a housewife's domestic misery is interrupted by the sudden reappearance of her ex-boyfriend, who just happens to have recently escaped from prison. We discuss the...
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The Feature Underground is a place for good-faith discussions about movies. All persons and viewpoints are welcome in the Underground. Adopt a little FU energy and join the community today!Hunter Lanier, the host of Feature Underground, has written for the Houston Chronicle and Film Threat, and is a member of the Houston Film Critics Society. He used to be a baby, so think of him as a recovering idiot.
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