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HEART/FELT – IT’S WHEN WE LAUGHED: LABYRINTH Fiber artist Tessa Morrison joins me for a deep dive into the glittery, goblin-packed world of Labyrinth. We explore its mix of fairytale whimsy, coming-of-age themes, and yes, David Bowie’s codpiece, while highlighting Jim Henson’s bold blend of puppetry and cutting-edge effects that make the film’s imaginative maze […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: THEY CALL ME MACHO WOMAN This week the boys head to the woods for a tale of grief, empowerment, and John Fetterman wearing a unicorn strap-on. Fiber artist Tessa Morrison joins for Deliverance meets Death Wish, if both movies were shot over a long weekend and scored with a MIDI player. […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: STEEL & LACE This week, guest Tessa Morrison returns for revenge served with a side of robotic boobs. Toxic bro culture gets what’s coming to it when the robot recreation of a sexual assault victim picks of her assailants one by one. It’s like Inspector Gadget, but with more penis mutilation! […]

LISA FRANKENSTEIN MOVIE REVIEW Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) has a problem. It’s not that she’s had trouble fitting in with others at school. She prefers the company of the dead, at least as far as hanging out in an old abandoned cemetery in the woods and talking to one grave in particular as her confidant. […]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2 REVIEW Fun fact, this high seas adventure action comedy romance is in fact loosely based on the life of Stede Bonnet, the honest to goodness “Gentleman Pirate”. Set in 1717, the first season depicts the early days of Bonnet’s career (portrayed by the hilarious Rhys Darby) as a pirate […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: SHRUNKEN HEADS Child murder, gender non-conforming villains, and mysterious voodoo rituals. No, it’s not the latest GOP talking points! It’s this week’s movie! Tessa Morrison returns to discuss a fantasy movie with the heart of a child and the mouth of a sailor. Join us for 1994’s Shrunken Heads!   YOUR […]

THE WITCHER SEASON 3 REVIEW We’ve come to expect a lot from the world of The Witcher, like secrets, swords, spells, songs, and sexy times. What could go wrong with such a time honored formula in season 3 of Netflix’s adaptation? Is the mythical monster hunter still slicing, stabbing, sneaking and spelling or did the […]

BARBIE MOVIE REVIEW In what has been the most unexpected theatrical domination of the year (hell, the decade), the Barbie movie has blown past every other summer blockbuster to become one of the biggest hits of the year. The story follows ‘stereotypical Barbie’ (Margot Robbie) who lives in Barbieland with all the other variations of […]

GREMLINS: SECRETS OF THE MOGWAI SERIES REVIEW As is tradition in new media, old media is (trying to) make a comeback. Here at One Of Us, we try to go into a movie/show/ip with an open mind, even if it’s a reboot/late sequel. And even though most times it just feels like a cash grab, […]

BLACK MIRROR SEASON 6 REVIEW After taking a break from the series while we all dealt with a pandemic, because, as creator Charlie Brooker said, “The world is too depressing right now, I don’t want to add to the misery,” Black Mirror returns with it’s sixth installment and five new entries into the anthology series. […]

STAR WARS: VISIONS VOLUME 2 REVIEW Star Wars is back with a second season of Visions, the Disney Plus 2021 animated short series that featured the visions of several animators across the globe. The nine animation studios put to task this time are El Guiri, Cartoon Saloon, Punkrobot, Aardman, Studio Mir, Studio La Cachette, 88 […]

EVIL DEAD RISE MOVIE REVIEW The deadites are back! This new installment of what is, perhaps, the only horror franchise (with more than 2 films) that every chapter of it works, Evil Dead Rise also changes a few things up. While there is (briefly) a cabin in the woods, the setting for the bulk of […]

THE OWL HOUSE COMPLETE SERIES REVIEW Children of the Boiling Isles, it is time for us to come together in unity and binge the the entirety the Disney channel magical hit sensation The Owl House. The show features a plethora of humans, witches, demons, and palisman co-existing on the remains of a dead festering corpse […]

RENFIELD MOVIE REVIEW It’s been a long few centuries for poor Renfield (Nicholas Hoult). Sure, being Count Dracula’s (Nicolas Cage) assistant comes with perks: eternal youth and super-powers (dependant on bug consumption). But Drac ain’t exactly a good boss. And finding the innocent to bring to Dracula as food is starting to wear on him. […]

VIOLENT NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW What’s a holiday season without a little violent Christmas mayhem? In a bit of inspired casting, David Harbour takes on the role of (actual) Santa Claus in this brutal action comedy from the director of the Dead Snow films. It’s Christmas Eve and Santa is drunk, tired, and kinda about to […]

QUEER FOR FEAR SERIES REVIEW There’s no divergence of opinions here between Rose, Jordan, Tessa, and Chad. Queer For Fear is a must see for any horror fan. Whatever you identify as, knowing that a lot of our modern horror shares roots with queer history is important. A lot of writers/directors/artists, all queer in their […]

THE MIDNIGHT CLUB SERIES REVIEW Just in time for the Halloween Season, Netflix proudly presents…21 Jump Scares! Ok, no it’s actually called The Midnight Club BUT this show does now officially hold the Guinness World Record for Most Jump Scares Used in a Single Episode of Television. But don’t be so quick to recoil my […]

GIGANTICAST EPISODE 31: SHIN ULTRAMAN Matt and Tessa managed to finagle their way into Fantastic Fest to catch Shin Ultraman! Were they dazzled by the giant silver alien and his monstrous adversaries? NOTE: Apologies for the weird audio early on, all kinds of tech problems these days that should be sorted before the next episode! […]

CYBERPUNK EDGERUNNERS SERIES REVIEW What’s up you f**king Chooms!? You’re here with Chad, Tessa, and Marcos and we’re dripping with 80’s/future aesthetic today with Cyberpunk Edgerunners, a new anime series streaming on Netflix. The show is based on the video game Cyberpunk which comes with a lot of baggage, depending on if you played the […]

MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON MOVIE REVIEW Surrealist extraordinaire Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) is back at her writing desk and comfy in her director’s chair bringing us her third feature film Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon.  Mona Lisa Lee (Jeon Jong-seo) has busted out the the asylum […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: ALIEN PRIVATE EYE Overacting, bad impressions, and extremely horny – all words that can be used to describe an average episode of our show AND this week’s movie. Tessa Thompson impersonator, Tessa Morrison, returns for elf pimps, surprise Hitlers, and some of the dumbest character names ever conceived. Join us for 1989’s […]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS SEASON 4 REVIEW Season 3 of What We Do In The Shadows ended with each of our favorite vampire roommates leaving home to embark on their own voyages of self discovery. Except for Colin Robinson. Who died. Again. Sort of? Season 4 wastes no time getting Staten Island’s wackiest […]

ALIENOID MOVIE REVIEW Do you want a movie about a cyborg alien guard and his robot sidekick assigned to monitoring and capturing extraterrestrial prisoners hiding here on Earth inside human brains? How about one that takes place in the 14th and 21st centuries with characters able to cross time and space in a souped up, […]

FUNNY PAGES MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Owen Kline brings the awkward dark and funny with his full length feature debut Funny Pages.  Daniel Zolghadri plays Robert, a high school cartoonist with the inspired style of Robert Crumb and the independent dreams of Bill Watterson.  After the tragic demise of a close inspirational friend.  Robert puts his […]

LIGHT & MAGIC SERIES REVIEW If you’ve seen a movie in the past 45 years, there’s a very, very good chance that you’ve seen the work of Industrial Light and Magic, the most important visual effects company that has ever existed. What started with a ragtag group of film loving nerds working on a weird sci-fantasy […]

MS.MARVEL SERIES REVIEW This seventh Disney Plus MCU series is based on one of Marvel’s newer comic hero success stories, the teenager Kamala Khan. A huge fan of the Avengers and more specifically, Captain Marvel, Kamala dreams of what seems to be the impossible, becoming a hero herself. But, as it turns out she’s got […]

STRANGER THINGS 4 SERIES REVIEW Eleven and her friends are back facing up against a new threat from the Upside Down but this time they are at a severe disadvantage. Eleven and her new family have moved to California (who wouldn’t leave Hawkins after everything) and she has lost her powers. Hopper is trapped in […]

BAYMAX! SERIES REVIEW Based off of 2014’s Big Hero 6, Baymax! is a new series streaming on Disney+. It stars, you guessed it, Baymax, a loveable robot with a penchant for helping others in need. The series is only 6 episodes long and strung together, will take about an hour to watch. It’s not a […]

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON MOVIE REVIEW From the studio that brought you Uncut Gems, Midsommar, and The Northman comes… a kid’s movie? Well, sort of. Based on the 2010 short by Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a live action/stop-motion mockumentary about Marcel (voiced by Slate) a […]

THE JANES MOVIE REVIEW It was a time when women of the United States were treated like second class citizens and legislature was being discussed to criminalize their very own bodies. I’m sorry, let me be a bit more specific. Prior to the Supreme Court decriminalization of abortion in 1973, a group of women called […]

JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION MOVIE REVIEW Our fascination with dinosaurs will never go away. We accept the questionable science in the original Jurassic Park to recreate the dinos, because as much as we are repeatedly told and know deep inside what a horrible idea it would be to bring them back….we kinda totally want to anyway. […]

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer David Cronenberg returns to the Body Horror genre he pretty much created with Crimes of the Future, the first such film in the genre by him since 1999’s Existenz. And you better strap in because it’s gonna be a wild and disturbing ride. Viggo Mortensen plays Saul Tenser, […]

LOVE, DEATH, & ROBOTS SEASON 3 REVIEW LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS. Not just a catch phrase I want to cross-stitch and frame in my kitchen. No, I am talking about the third season of the Sci-Fi, animated anthology series created by Tim Miller now streaming on Netflix. Join Jena, Tessa, Marco and Wright as they […]

CHOOSE OR DIE MOVIE REVIEW Directed by Toby Meakins and starring Iola Evans, Asa Butterfield, Eddie Marsan, and Robert Englund, this new horror film Choose Or Die is named after a phrase given to unwitting gamers, who try to play the 80’s game, CURS>R. The game (implied by its own title) basically curses the player […]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SERIES REVIEW The Screener Squad is setting out on the open seas with the new comedy/drama Our Flag Means Death. Stede Bonnet has left his family behind to become a pirate, but not just any kind of pirate. He wants to become the first “gentleman pirate.” From paying his crew a […]