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What do you get when combine Joaquin Phoenix, Ridley Scott and Napoleon? Less than you'd expect.
DisneyPlus' Andor is a fugitive movie, a heist flick and a prison breakout story all wrapped in one gritty, suspenseful package.
Just know that Spirited, the AppleTV+ holiday flick starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, is a musical. But that doesn't make it all bad.
The return of Down to Earth with Zac Efron on Netflix goes to Australia and feels a little less baked and more nutritious than the first season.
Lindsay Lohan's return in Netflix's Falling for Christmas will have you asking Santa for amnesia too.
Netflix's docuseries FIFA Uncovered did a very good job of telling us stuff we kind of suspected all along.
We really wanted to like Netflix's Inside Man, starring David Tennant and Stanley Tucci. But we didn't and here's why.
What do a serial killer, a bad wig and a salamander have in common? They're all in Netflix's The Good Nurse, starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain.
We dropped in on the B-52's farewell tour to see if they still have it while pushing 70. What we saw might shock you!
We dropped in on the B-52's farewell tour to see if they still have it while pushing 70. What we saw might shock you!
Netflix's Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story can be plodding but features stellar performances, gruesome deaths and a surprising love story.
Netflix's Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story can be plodding but features stellar performances, gruesome deaths and a surprising love story.
Does a hippie cult and a biker gang embroiled in a land dispute in scenic Iceland make you want to watch Netflix's stolen series Entrapped? It should.
Does a hippie cult and a biker gang embroiled in a land dispute in scenic Iceland make you want to watch Netflix's stolen series Entrapped? It should.
DisneyPlus' Obi-Wan Kenobi shows even The Force isn't enough to save you from the everyday drudgery of commuting.
Kids in the Hall are back on Amazon Prime Video. But do the famous Canadian comedians still have it?
Netflix's Bad Vegan documentary effectively tells the story of how a New York restaurateur loses fame and fortune, all because of a guy she met on Twitter.
Ryan Reynolds battles Catherine Keener, Dark Trooper knockoffs and his past in Netflix's newest not-terrible sci-fi adventure. Surprise! We kind of liked it.
The Tinder Swindler and The Puppet Master, two new Netflix documentaries on conmen, present heartbreaking stories in different but effective ways.
DisneyPlus' The Book of Boba Fett is large on action but small on telling us the story of its title character, and at times feels like the showrunners ran out of ideas.
Was Denis Villeneuve able to make a decent adaptation of the infamously unadaptable Frank Herbert book Dune? And how does it compare to David Lynch's crapsterpiece? We've got opinions.
Prime Video's All or Nothing docuseries follows around the Toronto Maple Leafs during a tumultuous 2020-21 season, but provides little insight into the pressures of being one of the biggest franchises in sports.
The 12-episode second season of Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis, focused on characters' internal struggles instead of external challenges. Was it successful ... and, more importantly, was it still funny?
The intriguing and gruesome storyline of Netflix's well-acted crime drama The Chestnut Man proves there actually is something rotten in Denmark.
The Netflix documentary Britney Vs. Spears doesn't reveal much new info, despite previously unreleased court documents related to her conservatorship as well as interviews with major players in her life.
Billy Bob Thornton's brilliant, flaky lawyer overcomes a shotgun blast and a bad rug to take on J.K. Simmons, big pharma, and a host of personal demons in the Goliath series finale on Amazon Prime.
Will the second season of Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ top its spectacular debut? We checked out the first episode of the new season to find out.
Believe it or not, Chris Pratt is funny, the action is believable and the story is semi-original, making The Tomorrow War on Amazon Prime a surprisingly entertaining summer blockbuster.
Netflix docuseries Sophie: A Murder in West Cork studies what happens when an accused killer who loves the spotlight collides with a smalltown constabulary ill-equipped to handle a high-profile murder.
Liam Neeson is a tough truck driver on a mission to save trapped diamond miners in Netflix's formulaic thriller The Ice Road.
Friends: The Reunion on HBO Max is a mish-mash of funny bits, flashback hairdos and ... way too much plastic surgery.
The Netflix doc Nail Bomber: Manhunt is short and succinct, but Coco feels like it was incomplete in one very important area.
Although it has Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore and an intriguing premise, Netflix's The Woman in the Window is panefully awful.
Mixing the sex, drugs and disco of '70s and '80s New York with the rise and fall of fashion legend Halston somehow results in a Netflix series that stumbles on the runway.
If you thought you knew the whole story around infamous serial killer David Berkowitz, Netflix's informative docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness reveals otherwise.
Savagely reviewed, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse on Amazon Prime Video and starring Michael B. Jordan actually features a stellar cast and thrilling action sequences.
Smart people make stupid decisions and doom more than the story in Netflix's Stowaway, starring Toni Collette and Anna Kendrick.
Hard characters collide at the wrong place and at the wrong time with tragic results in Netflix's tight doc Why Did You Kill Me?
Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer drag us through predictable, unfunny and dated Netflix comedy Thunder Force that's painful to sit through.
This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist on Netflix, features a cast of crazy characters, incompetent cops, and, unfortunately for Dalts, no resolution.
Coco wanted more Idris Elba, but Concrete Cowboy on Netflix pulls at the heartstrings and doesn't fall completely into the trap of being just another sappy father-son movie.
The Serpent on Netflix is eight hours of uneven acting, laughable dialogue, and bad choices by characters. But it actually does have redeemable qualities.
On HBO Max and in select theaters, Godzilla vs. Kong is exactly the kind of mindless monster movie madness we need. Just don't take it seriously.
Zack Snyder's Justice League, on HBO Max, gives the director a super-rare second chance at making the movie he wanted to make. But is it really worth four hours of your life?
Operation Varsity Blues on Netflix, sort of starring Matthew Modine, is an eye-opening look at the college admissions scandal. And gives Dalts a chance to be snooty about U.S. education.
Nostalgia is the primary focus of The Last Blockbuster, a documentary ironically recently released on Netflix that covers all the bases of the rise and fall of an American corporate icon.
Amazon Prime Video's sequel to Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy has its moments, but we disagreed on whether it's a worthy follow-up or a disappointment.
Murder Among the Mormons on Netflix avoids common pitfalls to deliver a tight, informative and compelling docuseries.
Characters too awful to overlook are a major obstacle in Netflix's I Care A Lot, but the story and the acting pull it all together.
A mysterious disappearance, strange coincidences and a notorious location could have made Netflix doc Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel stunning. Instead, it fails to launch.
HBO Max biopic Judas and the Black Messiah ably portrays the betrayal behind the murder of Black Panthers' leader Fred Hampton with star turns by Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield and others.
Despite having Oscar winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto, The Little Things on HBO Max feels like a missed opportunity.
Don't believe the reviews -- the Netflix original Malcolm & Marie, starring John David Washington and Zendaya, is a finely executed exploration of Hollywood, film criticism and relationships.
Netflix’s adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-winning The White Tiger, starring Adarsh Gourav and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, sharply examines class, culture and family dynamics in India.
Spycraft, an eight-part Netflix docuseries about the amazing technology and nefarious practices of espionage, should be gripping. But it isn't.
Netflix sci-fi action thriller Outside the Wire, starring Anthony Mackie, has a high body count, a confusing plot and a nonsensical ending. Other than that, it was good.
Using interviews with dealers, addicts and cops, Netflix's Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy examines the causes and tragic fallout from the 1980s drug epidemic.
Netflix's latest international crime drama Lupin slickly focuses on a gentleman thief and master of disguise bent on revenge.
Nicolas Cage brings an appropriate level of crazy to Netflix's quick-binge docuseries The History of Swear Words.
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart on HBO Max is a well-rounded look at the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of one of pop's most influential bands.
We had high expectations for a Wonder Woman double bill on HBOMax, but it instead left us lamenting the loss of five hours of our lives.
If you missed Lovebirds, The Good Detective, Rogue City and Hard Kill when they came out, we can catch you up as we look back on overlooked hits and misses of 2020.
Trying but failing, Pixar's Soul feels like two movies mashed into one for DisneyPlus. And don't get us started on the hallucinogenic afterlife.
Star and director George Clooney (not David Letterman) aims high but crash lands with Netflix's middling The Midnight Sky.
DisneyPlus wrapped up Season 2 of The Mandalorian with scary dark troopers, Baby Yoda's rescue and the return of the Jedi. Plus, we grade the season as a whole.
In the thrilling penultimate Season 2 episode of DisneyPlus' The Mandalorian, Mando and friends crash an Imperial mining colony in their desperate search for Moff Gideon and Baby Yoda.
Starring Riz Ahmed as a drummer who loses his hearing, Amazon's Sound of Metal is the small movie you need to find time to watch.
We really wanted to like Mank, but Netflix's biopic of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz feels like it was more showing off than substance.
After a very disappointing start to Season 2, DisneyPlus' The Mandalorian redeems itself with episode 6 by bringing us Boba Fett, dark troopers and a shackled Baby Yoda.
We've got Ahsoka Tano, Baby Yoda's backstory and a martial arts battle featuring Bruce Lee's goddaughter. Finally, the Mandalorian is living up to expectations.
Goldie Hawn sweetens things up with Kurt Russell's Santa, but the Christmas Chronicles 2 is more coal than candy.
In this special marking our 100th episode, we take a look back at the top movies, docs and series we've watched since we started the podcast in January 2018.
With the fourth episode of the second season, DisneyPlus's The Mandalorian is exciting again with the return of two key characters. But could we please change the plot going forward?
The Netflix docuseries about Sean Ellis, wrongfully convicted of murder in Boston in 1995, is artfully and achingly presented in Trial 4.
Dave Chappelle's sketch comedy show from the early 2000s recently detonated on Netflix in a cloud of f-bombs. But does it hold up? We weigh in.
We can't believe it took until the third episode of the second season of The Mandalorian for the DisneyPlus series to get Baby Yoda closer to the Jedi.
If the second episode of the second season of DisneyPlus' The Mandalorian is any indication, we're in hyperspace going nowhere fast.
The Netflix romcom Holidate lacks originality, romance and genuine laughs ... or does it?
Forget the hype because the Season 2 opener of Disney+'s The Mandalorian felt like a one-off episode of old sci-fi TV, complete with bad acting and subpar effects.
Portraying notorious British serial killer Dennis Nilsen, David Tennant delivers an award-worthy performance of quiet crazy in Sundance Now's Des.
We really didn't want to watch Amazon Prime Video's Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, but minus some cringey scenes, the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy was surprisingly entertaining.
Back for a shortened third season, Netflix's My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman is starting to find its groove.
The second installment of Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries reboot so effectively lays out its heartbreaking stories that we are eager to find out how they are solved.
The brilliant Aaron Sorkin and a stopper of a cast -- including an extremely hate-worthy Frank Langella -- make Netflix's The Trial of the Chicago 7 a courtroom drama actually worth watching.
Netflix's American Murder: The Family Next Door effectively uses police, personal and social media video in a documentary style that could be the wave of the future.
Take an iconic character from literature and film, mix in a great cast and successful showrunners, and we should be good, right? Alas, Netflix's Ratched drove us crazy for so many reasons.
Heart-wrenching interviews and revelations of NASA's institutional arrogance make Netflix's Challenger: The Final Flight a compelling watch.
Through interviews with top former executives, the Netflix doc The Social Dilemma confirms the terrifying truth when it comes to our addictions to Facebook, Twitter and the like.
You'd think with a battle between Spider-Man and Edward Cullen, Netflix's The Devil All the Time would be highly recommended. But plot detours and some overacting threw us for a loop.
The brilliantly written and acted Criminal series is back on Netflix with a whole host of new villains -- but with a deeper, underlying issue that's tough to overlook.
The Netflix original series Away has drama, weeping, conflict and backstabbing. Oh, and they go to Mars, too.
Charlie Kaufman's latest creation, Netflix's I'm Thinking of Ending Things, is a twisted, mind-bending piece of cinema that will leave you dazed and confused.
The Netflix docuseries High Score has linear issues, but offers a pretty decent look at the first decade or so of the home video-game industry.
Jamie Foxx is back and on a mission in Project Power, the lamely named Netflix movie that actually packs some original punch.
We're back with a post-quarantine viewing of The One and Only Ivan, the DisneyPlus movie that is much deeper than you'd expect.
The Netflix docuseries Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia has murder, mayhem and more, providing an intriguing glimpse into what made the Big Apple so rotten in the '70s and '80s.
Down to Earth with Zac Efron is an earnest attempt to raise awareness about climate change, but the result is less than gnarly.
The Netflix original Fatal Affair tries hard to be suspenseful and dramatic, but instead delivers a surplus of accidental comedy.
Netflix brought back the legendary Unsolved Mysteries for six episodes. But how does it stack up against the original?
The celebrated Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton has a lot going for it on stage, but watching it on DisneyPlus gave us a whole new perspective.
Netflix's The Old Guard is your typical superhero shoot 'em-up, this time with a kick-ass Charlize Theron, big pharma as the villain ... and a surprising twist.
Coco had a fit of nostalgia and forced Dalts to watch the new Netflix series The Baby-Sitters Club and it wasn't as painful as he was expecting.
From Bon Cop, Bad Cop to new Kids in the Hall to Margaret Atwood to City and Colour, we've got our top choices for Canadian pop culture.
Disney took over the Star Wars franchise with much fanfare, but completely dropped the ball with The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.
In need of a good comedy? Will Ferrell has found his funny again in Netflix's Eurovision Song Contest send-up, co-starring Rachel McAdams and Dan Stevens.
Sure, Jar Jar Binks ruined the Phantom Menace. But Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith provide a thrilling narrative of conflict and combat that makes the Star Wars prequel trilogy worth revisiting.
How do Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi stack up, all these years later? We dropped in again on Luke, Han, Leia, Chewy and ... those cursed Ewoks.
Netflix's docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich provides compelling interviews with the previously forgotten victims, but leaves some questions unanswered.
The Netflix series White Lines has sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll wrapped in a murder mystery in exotic Ibiza. But should you watch it?
The Netflix limited series Criminal solves crimes in four countries without using guns, action or blood -- and it's somehow a gripping, don't-miss binge-watch.
Halfway through, does the eight-part DisneyPlus docuseries Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian add value to the Star Wars universe?
A binge-watch of three seasons of the Nordic noir Netflix series Bordertown gave us gory murders, a Rain Man detective and the Finnish Jake Gyllenhaal.
Yes, yes they were. No, no they weren't. We disagree about how bad/good Netflix original Dangerous Lies really was.
The Netflix action thriller Extraction has 'splosions, manly fights, gore galore and ... more than one machete?
Feeling the need the lighten the mood, we give our unvarnished opinions on Netflix comedies Uncorked and Love Wedding Repeat.
What are the best sports movies to watch when there are no sports to watch? We've got lots of suggestions.
The Valhalla Murders, a Netflix Scandi noir limited crime series, is a cold, dark look at an Iceland we never knew existed.
The new Mark Walhberg Netflix buddy-cop flick Spenser Confidential is not exactly what we expected. In other words, it's actually good.
Self-isolation got you down? We watched Outbreak, Contagion and Pandemic and came up with the best one to watch.
Even with a star-studded cast, the Netflix original The Last Thing He Wanted is a broken and convoluted wreck of a movie.