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THE PITT SEASON 2 REVIEW The Pitt returns for Season 2, continuing its unflinching, real-time look at life inside one of America’s busiest emergency rooms. Set ten months after the explosive first season, which was marked by a mass shooting, the new season unfolds over a single 15-hour real-time shift on the Fourth of July, […]

NE ZHA 2 MOVIE REVIEW Ne Zha, the story of a rebellious and powerful child deity in Chinese mythology with origins in Buddhist lore, has been interpreted and adapted throughout the centuries through word of mouth, written folk lore, and like all the best myths, adapted to the silver screen. Therefore it is no surprise […]

IT: WELCOME TO DERRY SERIES REVIEW Sister duo “Patience and Prudence” sang the cheerful tune A Smile and a Ribbon which said “A smile is something special, a ribbon is something rare. So I’ll be special and I’ll be rare with a smile and a ribbon in my hair.” Decades have passed since the ironically […]

THE CHAIR COMPANY TV REVIEW It seems like cringe comedy has evolved quite the bit over the past decade. Some would say that both the UK & US The Office really kicked off the trend. But now with comedians like Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson, they’ve taken the comedic style to a whole new level […]

TASK SERIES REVIEW Remember Mare of Easttown on HBO? A self contained mini series with three acts about an FBI agent with no extended universe, no hanging threads or unresolved plots, and also it was for grown ups? We were watching week to week the dominoes being set up by the hand of cruelty and […]

THE LAST OF US SEASON 2 REVIEW In December of 2022, The Last of us Part 2 was the undisputed game of the year, and fans and haters alike took to the internet to express their joy and disdain. On March 5, 2023 in the TV adaptation first season finale, Joel concluded the first game’s […]

THE REHEARSAL SEASON 2 TV REVIEW Once in a great while, a hero emerges from the shadows and shows the world that nothing is impossible. All it takes is…a little rehearsing. Nathan Fielder is back with season 2 of The Rehearsal and sheds light on an issue that could affect us all. Airplane crashes. More […]

DUNE PROPHECY SERIES REVIEW In 2021 a charismatic film maker named Denis Villeneuve began his quest in the box office, left dry and deserted by the ravages of the pandemic. By 2024, WB studios beared witness, as he rode the mighty sandworm of financial success. The studio that brought about the recently successful film spin-off […]

THE FRANCHISE SERIES REVIEW Making a movie involves hundreds of jobs, from key grips to craft services, actors to directors, producers to a marketing team, and don’t even get me started on the writer’s room. Movie magic is a lot less whimsy and wonder and a lot more delegating unforeseen problems to the assistant to […]

THE PENGUIN SERIES REVIEW Set just one week after the events of 2022’s The Batman, The Penguin follows Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) trying to collect what little is left in his nightclub, The Iceberg Lounge. He’s caught by Carmine Falcone’s son Alberto Falcone (Michael Zegen), but through a fit of rage Oz kills Alberto. Now […]

THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL MOVIE REVIEW Broadway actress Lillian Hall is ready to go full showtime with Ivan Chekhov’s stage play “The Cherry Orchard” but a bad diagnosis from her doctor sets her up to have the standard biopic ‘long life lived’ reflections before the final curtain call. The Great Lillian Hall stars Jessica Lange […]

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM SEASON 12 After 24 years and 12 seasons, the other show about nothing has come to an end. This creation of Larry David gave us the cringiest of comedy as Larry navigated his life and relationships in Los Angeles, often revolving around his incessant need to speak his mind without filter. The […]

BARRY SEASON 4 REVIEW Well everyone, as they say in the world of theater, the final curtain has fallen on the beloved HBO series…pause for dramatic effect…Barry. That’s right, the show has officially concluded with it its fourth season and HOLY FREAKING DAVE AND BUSTER’S if we nerds at Oneofus.net haven’t been busting at the […]

SUCCESSION SEASON 4 REVIEW Last season on Succession, big bad CO of Waystar RoyCo Logan Roy (Brian Cox) reins supreme and has laid the smack down on his children. If you come after the king, you better be prepared to ravage the land, salt the earth, and drag the bodies of your enemies behind a […]

WESTWORLD SEASON 4 REVIEW The newest latest season of Westworld gets back to the gestating ideas of season one without skimping on the action of season three. Every human cell is replaced after seven years. The fourth season picks up the story exactly seven years later, a telling sign for the future of humanity. It’s the year […]

IRMA VEP SERIES REVIEW In 1996, writer director Olivier Assayas made Irma Vep, a film about the (fictional) feature film remake of the (real) seven hour, 1915 silent serial, Les Vampires. Over 25 years later, Assayas has turned his previous film into a ten part HBO miniseries. In the original, actress Maggie Cheung played herself, […]

WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY SERIES REVIEW Have you ever wondered how the Los Angeles Lakers became the basketball institution they are today? Adam McKay, HBO, and their creative team are here to teach you all about it in Winning Time. Adapted from the book by Jeff Pearlman, this first season follows […]

THE SURVIVOR MOVIE REVIEW Today the screener squad is reviewing yet another great Ben Foster performance. This time around, Ben plays Harry Haft in the biopic The Survivor. Harry Haft is a holocaust survivor who made it through Auschwitz by boxing his fellow prisoners, to the entertainment of Nazi SS officers. Juxtapose that imagery with […]

MOONSHOT MOVIE REVIEW It would appear that someone pitched a rom-com involving a college road trip where a dopey, yet lovable and of course attractive young guy sneaks onto a prestigious academic excursion that he is not qualified to be on in order to chase the love of his life, who he only just met, […]

THE GILDED AGE SERIES REVIEW You are cordially invited to listen to this review of HBO’s new series from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, The Gilded Age. Set in 1882, the period drama is a conflict of old money versus new money, represented prominently by the van Rhijn-Brook and Russell family respectively as Marian Brook […]

RAISED BY WOLVES SEASON 2 REVIEW Season 2 of Raised By Wolves proves that it’s still one of the strangest shows on television. The story follows Mother and Father (Amanda Collin and Abubakar Salim), a pair of androids programmed to raise human children on a remote planet after a religious war leaves 22nd century Earth […]

EUPHORIA SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Euphoria is back with season 2 and the further examination of the life of an American teen. But not, like, the life of an American teen you see on network shows where hard lessons are learned and the melodrama is scored by whatever pop song is currently topping the Gen-Z […]

THE GIRL BEFORE SERIES REVIEW Based on the sexy thriller written by J. P. Delaney, The Girl Before is a character examination of the inner houses we call our souls and what sort of portraits we hang on the walls of our hearts. But it features plenty of long legs and chiseled abs as well. […]

KIMI MOVIE REVIEW While the Squad recorded this review, there’s a good chance that they were also being recorded by at least two other devices in their places of residence. Between Siri, Google, Alexa, and several other pieces of technology in all our lives (and probably at least one government agency) someone is ALWAYS listening, […]

SEARCH PARTY SEASON 5 SERIES REVIEW Welcome to Search Party Season 5! This week’s specials are Avocado Toast with Hot Baby hot sauce and a side of near-death experience induced Armageddon. Turns out Dory, Drew, Porsche, and Elliot are poised to pull the rug out on the whole of humanity with “enlightenment in a pill”, […]

LANDSCAPERS MINISERIES REVIEW In 2014 Susan & Christopher Edwards were convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison. To this day, they maintain their innocence. Landscapers is the dramatized retelling of their story. The couple killed Susan’s parents and buried them in the rear garden of the elderly couple’s home. […]

SUCCESSION SEASON 3 TV SERIES REVIEW “Succession” has concluded its latest season and we finally got a chance to sink our teeth into it. Following the bombshell Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) dropped concerning Waystar’s cruise line controversy, he has found a renewed desire to dethrone his tyrannical father Logan (Brian Cox) to become the company’s […]

SANTA INC SERIES REVIEW Merry Christmas you f****** animals! Are you ready to deck the halls with your balls(ack)? Sorry to be so vulgar… There’s this new show streaming on HBO Max called “Santa Inc.”, and oh boy… are there a lot of words that parents will have to explain to the little ones. If […]

DUNE MOVIE REVIEW “Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.” This was our critics mantra before sitting down to watch this latest adaptation of (the first half) of Frank Herbert’s seminal and essential sci-fi […]

WELLINGTON PARANORMAL SERIES REVIEW “What We Do in the Shadows”, the American spin-off of the movie of the same name, is huge right now, to be sure. But did you know there was ANOTHER spin-off series of the original film? “Wellington Paranormal” is a New Zealand series (now on HBO) following those two bumbling cops […]

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK – A SOPRANOS STORY MOVIE REVIEW The first new piece of “Sopranos” media in over a decade is here with “The Many Saints of Newark.” Serving as a prequel to the series, we follow Christopher Moltisanti’s father Dickie (Alessandro Nivola) in 1960’s Newark as part of the DiMeo crime family. […]

CRY MACHO MOVIE REVIEW Yes, this new film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood made me cry. Not because it made me feel sad, or touched me, it’s just that poor Clint is SO OLD now, I was afraid for him the way you’re afraid when your grandfather walks down the stairs slowly and painfully. […]

MALIGNANT MOVIE REVIEW In director/co-writer James Wan’s latest foray into schlocky fun spoopyness, Annabelle Wallis plays Madison, who after finding her abusive husband has been murderized to an extreme degree by some sort of…shape, starts having experiences where she seems to be able to see other murders as they happen from this black-clad, superhumanly agile […]

REMINISCENCE MOVIE REVIEW Hey kids! Do you like “Westworld”? Do you like its novel storytelling approach, it’s tight structure and it’s ability to be both realistic and futuristic at the same time? Then you probably won’t like “Reminiscence”. Then again, maybe you will. If that sounds conflicting, it’s because this noir-ish romantic thriller from “Westworld” […]

THE WHITE LOTUS SERIES REVIEW Sunny Skies greet the guests and workers at The White Lotus resort in Hawaii but storms soon set in over this cast of quirky and demented characters. Steve Zahn and Connie Britton are a father and highly successful mother taking their son (Fred Hechinger), daughter (Sydney Sweeney), and her friend […]

SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY MOVIE REVIEW After twenty long years, Warner Bros has released their theatrical length HBO Max commercial that just so happens to use “Space Jam” as the focus point. More accurately, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” follows LeBron James as himself having issues with his son Dom, who wants to become […]

NO SUDDEN MOVE MOVIE REVIEW Some filmmakers spend their retirement relaxing and enjoying their hobbies. Then you have Steven Soderbergh who retired from making movies so… he could make more movies? Regardless of whether he qualifies for senior discounts or not, Soderbergh has only grown more prolific during his supposed “retirement”. His latest feature, “No […]

THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT MOVIE REVIEW In this third film in the Conjuring series (but EIGHTH in the…conjurverse…dammit, you made me say it), Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. This time, it’s not a haunted house. The film begins with a little boy, who […]

MARE OF EASTTOWN SERIES REVIEW The power of the miniseries remains as potent as ever judging by the wave of popularity that has erupted this past spring over HBO’s “Mare of Easttown”. A top-of-her-game Kate Winslet leads this 7-episode drama, along with solid support from actors such as Jean Smart, Evan Peters, Julianne Nicholson and […]

THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD MOVIE REVIEW In this latest film by Taylor Sheridan (which means tough but real-ish folks dealing with crime, of course) Angelina Jolie plays Hannah, an experienced smoke-jumper at a Montana state park who is dealing with some PTSD from a huge fire and some kids she couldn’t save. But now, […]

MORTAL KOMBAT MOVIE REVIEW So, what’s the best movie that is an adaptation of a video game? Many would say the corny but fun 1995 “Mortal Kombat” film by Paul W. S. Anderson. Now, that’s not a wildly high bar, and perhaps it’s that the legions of fans from this ever-continuing and evolving fighting game […]

GODZILLA VS KONG MOVIE REVIEW The battle of the major-domo monsters is finally here, as Legendary Entertainment’s Monsterverse comes to a head with Godzilla, previously in their “Godzilla” and “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”, battling it out with a now-bigger and older King Kong, previously seen in their “Kong: Skull Island”. Who will win? Will […]

TOM & JERRY MOVIE REVIEW Tom and Jerry bring their brand of slapstick to the Big Apple in this latest adaptation of the classic cartoon. Chloe Grace Moretz plays Kayla, a woman looking for easy work and when a job at a high end hotel falls into her lap (with the help of a stolen […]

30 COINS – SEASON 1 REVIEW Created by and directed/written by cult favorite Spanish filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia, this new HBO horror series dives deep into Catholic esoterica and comes up with some of the best horror television in years. When a new and pretty rough priest comes to a small town bearing one […]

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH MOVIE REVIEW Fred Hampton was a charismatic and important leader of the Black Panthers in Chicago during the late 60s, who managed to bring together multiple different organized ethnic groups (even the ‘south shall rise again’ rednecks) into the same conversation: that it was time to stop letting the wildly […]

EARWIG AND THE WITCH MOVIE REVIEW For animation fans, it’s always a big moment when Japan’s Studio Ghibli drops a new film, even more exciting when the name Miyazaki is attached to it. Their latest project dropped in America on HBO Max, and it’s not from studio founder Hayao but his son, Gorō, who previously […]

THE LITTLE THINGS MOVIE REVIEW Denzel Washington is a Deke, a cop who upon returning from his small town to his old stomping grounds of LA, discovers that a current hunt for a serial killer seems similar to that one that got away from him years before. An uncomfortable team-up between him and ‘holy roller’ […]

LOCKED DOWN MOVIE REVIEW Director Doug Liman fought his home-bound Covid blues by bottling our current collective discomfort into the HBO Max original film, “Locked Down”. Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor possess undeniable chemistry as Linda and Paxton, a recently separated couple forced to cohabitate by quarantine. Each at a crossroads in their own careers, […]

HIS DARK MATERIALS – SEASON 2 REVIEW HBO’s adaptation of the second book in the series “The Subtle Knife”,  follows Lyra (Dafne Keen) as she bids adieu to the world she knew and her corpse-sicle murdered friend and follows her estranged father Asriel (James McAvoy) into the void leading to worlds beyond worlds. Will (Amir […]

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT SERIES REVIEW Some drink to remember, Some drink to forget, And Cassie Bowden will drink to that. Kaley Cuoco earns her wings as the titular flight attendant in this boozy paranoid thriller. After a forgotten night to remember, flight attendant and “high-functioning” alcoholic, Cassie Bowden wakes to find her new flame (Michiel […]