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ReviewAnew Podcast — 156 episodes
BOONDOCKS POD: Return of the King (plus, the REAL story of Rosa Parks)
Fear of a Black Hat: how Chris Rock's CB4 compares to the OTHER early 90's Hip-Hop satire of the time
Dev Patel’s Monkey Man (2024): Positive Masculinity Protects the Dolls n Hijras!
Anthony Fantano Doesn't Pay Attention to Lyrics??? (Goin off Pod Reviews: Da Brat's Unrestricted)
Chris Rock's CB4: a Hip-Hop Mockumentary, complete with confusing homoerotic-phobia
Our First K-Pop Album Review! Dreamcatcher's Dystopia: The Tree of Language
Groundhog Day (spiritual awakening, how to be a REAL man, and magical realism done WELL!)
BOONDOCKS POD: The Real
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter: a super freaky indie movie that you HAVE to see!
Megalopolis (2024): SPECTACULARLY bad
Devo - Freedom of Choice (G.O. Pod)
Jack Harlow's Monica/Oscar Winners Talk!
The Beatles' REVOLVER: Their best album?
The Predator (Shane Black's take is wacky and uneven, but subverts action tropes in unexpectedly clever ways!)
Bad Bunny's Superbowl, Kendrick's Grammy Takeover, and the Pokemon Soundtrack!
Mickey 17 Movie Review!
Family(2018): an Insane Clown Posse-tinted Family Comedy that's, legitimately a Masterpiece
One Battle After Another, and the Frustrating way the Black Revolutionary Character is written
Weapons (2025): Totally not about School Shootings, but definitely feels like it...
Neo Ned Movie Review: I CAN'T BELIEVE they got Gabrielle Union and Jeremy Renner for this…
I Saw the TV Glow: Not explicitly horror, but it'll definitely freak you right the f*ck out
Blacula: a TRAGIC figure, lost in the Swingin Seventies!
Brother Ali Us (ALBUM REVIEW)
Rocketman [What's real, what's fabricated, and a discussion of the most interesting song lyrics!]
BOONDOCKS POD: The Story of Gangstalicious
The XXL Freestyles/Cyphers: the Good, the Bad, and the Mid!!!
Dungeons and Dragons 3: The Book of Vile Darkness
The Boondocks Pod: Date with the Health Inspector
Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Straight-to-Video Movie Quality!
Sinners REview/Discourse Breakdown (SPOILER TALK)
Boondocks Pod: Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner
BOONDOCKS POD: The Garden Party
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS SWITCHEROO PART 2!!
Dungeons & Dragons(2000 AND 2023 versions, part 1!)
THE FINAL GOIN OFF?!(Digimon SDTK/Pretty Lights LP Reviews!)[G.O. #370]
Atmosphere's God Loves Ugly
Radiohead's OK Computer/Estradasphere's It's Understood(G.O. #369)
Airplane! (and How it Lands for Someone Who's Never Seen It Before!)
Birdemic: an AWFUL film, but with an Environmental Message, that ALSO sucks...
Kendrick's Halftime Show/The commercials!!!(G.O.#368)
GRAMMYS CHAT: The Winners, the Performances, and MORE (G.O. #367)
Westside Gunn's Pray for Paris/Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works: STRAIGHT SNORESVILLE (G.O. #366)
Pacific Rim: Appreciating what it's doing even MORE now, buuut, still having issues with it...
Kendrick Lamar - GNX Album Review!
Bjork/my bloody valentine ALBUM REVIEWS(G.O. #365)
Tyler, the Creator's CHROMAKOPIA Album Review
Janet Jackson/Drunk Tank Pink ALBUM REVIEWS (G.O. #364)
Luca, 2021 (and the inevitable conversation about how awkwardly Disney handles queer narratives)
SOPHIE's Oil of Every Pearl's Un-insides/Harry Nilsson's THE POINT Album reviews! (G.O. #363)
Stove God Cooks/Ornette Coleman ALBUM REVIEWS(G.O. #362)
Childish Gambino’s Bando Stone and the New World ALBUM REVIEW (...and the movie that, STILL, hasn’t come out yet...)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972 (Siri, translate "Let's eat the rich" in French!)
The MTV VMA's!/David Bowie and Aesop Rock LP's! (G.O. #361)
The Prestige, 2006 (Christopher Nolan's brilliance shines through all these year later... BUT, so do his storytelling flaws)
Dinosaurs(the 90's tv show): THE ALBUM/Heavy D's Nuttin But Love (G.O. #360)
Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady (Hollow shock rap where Em learns the same lesson I could have swore he learned like 4 albums ago)
Mr. Lif/IDLES Album Reviews!(G.O #359)
BOONDOCKS POD: The Trial of R Kelly (ft. TheStoryTellerAJ!)
Disney's Mickey UN-RAPPED/David Bowie's "Heroes"(G.O #358)
Kendrick Lamar's GKMC/Jeff Rosenstock's Worry. LP REVIEWS!(G.O Pod #357)
G.O Pod #356: IDLES and 3D Na'Tee Album Reviews!
G.O Pod #355: Drake vs Kendrick: The REST of the Story; PLUS Limp Bizkit/Alice in Chains REVIEWS
Jodorowsky's Dune (and the, actually pretty justifiable reason it didn't get made)
Salt n Pepa/Television LP reviews, PLUS: PART ONE of the Drake/Kendrick Beef Saga(Goin Off #354)
Song of the Sea REVIEW(anew!): beautiful animation with complex but flawed villain character writing
BOONDOCKS POD: The Garden Party (episode breakdown)
IDLES/Billy woods and Moor Mother ALBUM REVIEWS (Goin off Pod)
Benny the Butcher/Tom Maroon LP Reviews!(GOIN OFF POD)
Dune, Part 2 (Brilliant plotting, visuals, and social commentary helps ya overlook the lackluster romance subplot)
ScHoolboy Q's Blue Lips: ambitious beatwork, but the lyrics don't quite keep up
Chappell Roan/O.D.B. ALBUM REVIEWS (G.O. Pod #351)
(Part 1 of) The Matrix: REvolutions (ALMOST makes for a good ending to the trilogy)
The Matrix REloaded (REmember those awkward dream Fake-outs and Stitched plotpoints?)
Puss in Boots: the Last Wish (does EVERYTHING modern blockbusters do but better)
Good Burger(1997): EVEN BETTER than we remembered!
Good Burger 2(does it hold up to the original? Is the original worth holding up to? Let’s see)
Interview with the Producer of DJ Kool's "Let Me Clear My Throat", Stephen Janis!
Drake - For All The Dogs LP REVIEW
LP Reviews: Doja cat - Scarlet (...in the ballroom, with a half-way decent album)
Phantom of the Paradise[1974] (GOIN OFF/REVIEWANEW CROSSOVER!!...((ReviewinOff?))
LP Review: Chester Watson’s Fish Don’t Climb Trees
Hair, 1979 (The flaws and ideals of the Hippie movement)
Mel Brooks' Twelve Chairs (well, if "Parody of old Russian literature" is what you're after...)
Borat 2 Subsequent Moviefilm (HOW IN THE WORLD IS THIS MOVIE JUST AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL?)
The Last Duel (Ridley Scott's subversion of the old knight's tale narrative is BRILLIANT)
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (a little overstuffed with sadsauce, but well enough worth the payoff)
The Bob's Burger Movie (and how the show subverts the "disaffected modern cartoon" tropes of the day)
TOMMY THE MUSICAL 1975 (the... *weirdly* prescient story of a gamer who becomes a millionaire from video games, but uses his parasocial relationship to start a cult)
GLASS ONION: A Knives Out Mystery
WEIRD: the Al Yankovic Story (just doesn’t do his weirdness enough justice)
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 [first half's here, second is on patreon, cause, yea, we had quite a bit to say]
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 2 REVIEW
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 1 (2014) [still holds up, but... wait, what IS the bad guy's motivation again?]
Danny Brown x JPEGMAFIA - Scarin The H*es LP REVIEW
(Part TWO of) THE MATRIX REVIEW (...cause, we had, like, a loooootta stuff to say, ok?)
Wizards (1977) [oh there's certainly some f@scist story elements in this, but, maybe not in the *exact* way that it’s reputation has preceded it…]
SOUL MAN (1986) [...is *definitely* pretty cringy, but not AS bad as you may have expected]
SWISS ARMY MAN (2016) [a grizzled madman and a dead body that *miiight* be a metaphor for having autism]
House Party 2023 [and the, kinda dark ending for the Kid n Play characters]
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Does NOT Do Justice to Whitney Houston's Life, let us count the ways...)
PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (a post-9/11 film about scent, mass hysteria, and government sanctioned t@rture)
Clerks 3 milks the self-referential nostalgia HEAVY(and, a mea culpa to Rosario Dawson)
SMINO - Luv4Rent LP REVIEW
The Matrix (1999) [part 1, because there's just... waaay too much to talk about]
BLACK ORPHEUS (1959) {...makes me wanna book a trip to Brazil}
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022) [THE RECENT MARVEL MOVIES CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO HOW THIS MOVIE DOES THE MULTIVERSE CONCEPT/MODERN MOVIE ACTION]
BODIES BODIES BODIES [2022] (the clever {and cringy} ways it does it’s social commentary)
Get Out (2017) ["Everybody wanna be a N---, until it's time to be *treated* like a N----"]
The Hateful Eight (2015) [A Post-Civil War Whodunnit with surprising answers and a haunting resolution]
NOPE (2022)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD (2019)
KILL BILL vol. 2 (2004)
KILL BILL vol. 1 (2003)
JACKIE BROWN (1997) [ft. Willthegreatest!]
PULP FICTION (1994) [a convo about WILL SOMEONE GET SAMUEL L JACKSON HIS AWARD FOR THIS PART?!?!]
RESERVOIR DOGS [a convo about tipping, Madonna, and the skeevy world of criminal organizations]
DUNE (2021)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Vaporwave REEEEEMIIIIIIIIX!!!!)
Django Unchained PREVIEW
NORTH {and Rob Reiner's scattershot filmography}
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS [could've been better, but still ABSOLUTELY delivers on the sweet catharsis of mowin down n@z!s]
Four Rooms (1995) [another movie where Tarantino directed part of it]
Grindhouse (2007) [is really bad] {Tarantino’s Death Proof/Rodriguez’ Planet Terror}
The Farewell (2019) [a convo about… *sigh* Awkwafina… identity, and family dynamics]
clerks. the LIVE TV PILOT [is mind-meltingly awful]
clerks. (our very first podcast episode!)
UNCUT GEMS (2019)
Annette (2021) [and what happens when people who don't respect musicals make a musical]
KNIVES OUT [a spoileriffic convo about Rian Johnson's Star Wars movie, and... DAT SOCIAL COMMENTARY]
MALLRATS (BOTH Versions) [a convo about Awful, AWFUL editing choices]
THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021) [a convo about honor, duty, the improbability of talking animals, and comparing/contrasting the original poem]
Tales From the Hood 3 [a convo about attempted social commentary in black horror, and a spoileriffic chat at the end about Peele's Us]
Grimsby (2016) [a convo about Low-brow entertainment, and the rich vs the poor during a Pizzandemic]
KRUSH GROOVE (1985)
Who is America? (2018)
GOOD FENCES (2003)
RIZE (2005)
THE PRODUCERS (1967)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
BORAT: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Coonskin (1974)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Life Stinks (1991)
HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART ONE!
HIGH ANXIETY (Preview)
DA ALI G SHOW
Silent Movie (1976)
BLAZING SADDLES
White Chicks
Scary Movie
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!
Jay and Silent Bob REBOOT!
Scary Movie 2 (ft. Princess Weekes!)
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Goin Off/Reviewanew CROSSOVER)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (REVIEWANEW PODCAST)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (REVIEWANEW PODCAST)