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Vertebreaker! is a weekly insight into the world of wrestling and pop culture. If it is cool, we talk about it. Join Andrew, Aaron, and Mike every week for great shows that have special guests also every show.
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Boston film critics Evan Crean, Megan Kearns, and David Riedel help you decide what to watch by sharing spoiler-filled reviews of the latest blockbusters and independent films, across genres, including films by women, nonbinary, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC filmmakers. Opening music: "My Life as a God" by Augean Stables. Closing music: "Pants Party" by Oilhead. Show edited by Otto Klammer. Logo design by Rita Csizmadia.
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Welcome to The Sunday Movie Marathon podcast! Every Sunday, Chris, Max and Darcie get together and marathon some films to discuss. Be it from a franchise or recommendations, the all-powerful spinning wheel decides!
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Episode 521: "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F," "Kill," and "MaXXXine"
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We just marked a national holiday in the United States, so you know what that means: It’s cash grab season! Megan and Dave talk about said (possible) cash grab, BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F (1:53). Eddie Murphy and cohorts return in the legacy sequel that continues the legacy of shittiness that BEVERLY HILL COP III unleashed on the world 30 years earl…
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Episode 520 - "Kinds of Kindness," "Conversion," and "A Family Affair"
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This week Megan saw Yorgos Lanthimos’s KINDS OF KINDNESS (2:28), a whackadoo triptych fable starring Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone, and Willem Dafoe. It’s getting all kinds of raves but also some drubbings — including Megan’s. Evan, Megan, and Dave watched CONVERSION (15:15), Zach Meiners's documentary about survivors — the film’s director, an ex-Mormo…
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Episode 519: "Chestnut" and "Fancy Dance"
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This week, Megan and Dave check out writer-director Jac Cron’s CHESTNUT (2:19), a low-key (very low-key) queer drama about Annie (Natalia Dyer), who, after graduating college in Philadelphia, falls into a love triangle with Tyler (Rachel Keller) and her maybe-boyfriend Danny (Danny Ramirez). But is Tyler in love with Annie? Or Danny? And is Danny r…
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Episode 518: "Tuesday" and "Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution"
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This week Megan and Dave check out writer-director Daina O. Pusić’s TUESDAY (1:57), starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a mother reckoning with her daughter’s imminent demise when Death arrives - literally - in the form of a size-shifting, talking bird. We had mixed feelings about it, but one of us liked it more than the other. Then Evan joins Megan an…
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Episode 517: "This Closeness" and "Jim Henson Idea Man"
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Welcome the wacky world of Spoilerpiece! Why wacky? Because for our first film, Megan and Dave watched Kit Zauhar's THIS CLOSENESS (2:33), one of the most indie films to ever indie, and we’re not sure it’s a good movie…but it’s not bad, either? And the ending is…we’re not sure also? And every character in it is an assbag, but that’s OK? Good sound …
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Episode 516: "The Dead Don't Hurt" and "Backspot"
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What a week for movies! Megan and Dave watched writer/director/composer/co-star Viggo Mortensen’s THE DEAD DON’T HURT (2:30), a bittersweet drama set in the 1860s. Viggo (the only actor Dave permits being called by first name, because it’s fun to say “Viggo”) is Olsen, a Dane, and Vicky Krieps is Vivienne, a French-Canadian, who meet in San Francis…
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Episode 515: "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," "Atlas," and "Hit Man"
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Dave, after initially going to the wrong theater, made it to the FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA (3:21) screening. He yaps about it, and then Megan and Evan join him for Jennifer Lopez’s new sci-fi flick, ATLAS (11:32), about A.I. that’s - natch - trying to wipe out humanity. A.I. is on everyone’s minds lately, right? Too bad there wasn’t some originality …
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Episode 514: "Babes" and "You Can't Run Forever"
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What happens when all three critics on Spoilerpiece have problems with both movies on the docket? Listen and you’ll find out! First up is director/co-writer Michelle Schumacher’s YOU CAN’T RUN FOREVER (2:26), a wannabe thriller starring Schumacher’s husband J.K. Simmons, Schumacher’s daughter Olivia Simmons, and a bunch of people who apparently did…
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Episode 513: "Let It Be" remastered, "Evil Does Not Exist," and "Force of Nature: The Dry 2"
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This week there’s a music documentary, an eco-fable set in Japan, and Dave’s favorite cinematic subgenre: Australian detective stories starring Eric Bana! To start things, Dave fills Megan and Evan in on Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s remastered LET IT BE, which crawled so Peter Jackson’s GET BACK could fuggin’ sprint. Megan watched EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, sa…
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Episode 512: "The Fall Guy," "New Life," and "Unfrosted"
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This week Megan fills Dave and Evan in on the Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt-starring THE FALL GUY (2:03), which is an update of the TV series "The Fall Guy" (bet you didn't see that one coming). Is it good? Bad? Somewhere in between? Then Megan and Dave talk about the genre hyphenate NEW LIFE (12:56), which seems to be one thing (suspense thriller) and …
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Episode 511: "Boy Kills World," "Butterfly in the Sky," and "Humane"
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This week on the show, we got some wires crossed (which is to say *Dave* got some wires crossed). So he mistakenly watched BOY KILLS WORLD (2:24), the new Bill-Skarsgård-kills-the-shit-out-of-everyone movie, instead of BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY (12:33), a new documentary about “Reading Rainbow.” But fear not! Megan and Evan watched BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY,…
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Episode 510: "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" and "We Grown Now"
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This week Megan took one for the team and checked in on Guy Ritchie’s latest, THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE (2:38). Does this based-on-a-true-story movie take Ritchie down some less traveled paths? Or is it standard Guy Ritchie fare? Megan has the answers! Evan and Dave join Megan to talk about WE GROWN NOW (17:52), writer/director Minhal B…
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Episode 509: "Civil War" and "The Greatest Hits"
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Perhaps you’ve heard the brouhaha surrounding writer-director Alex Garland’s Kirsten Dunst-starring CIVIL WAR (2:18) and wondered what it’s all about (um...a civil war...in the United States...in the near future). Wonder no more! Megan and Dave saw it, and they have things to say: unkind, complimentary, and all points in between. One of them hated …
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144 - Immaculate & The Exorcist Trilogy
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In the first non-wheel based marathon, Chris forces the gang to watch The Exorcist trilogy (comprising of The Exorcist, Exorcist II: The Heretic and The Exorcist III), while Max discusses new release Immaculate. The power of SPOILERS compels you TIME STAMPS 00:00 Intro 03:46 Immaculate 10:40 The Exorcist 31:55 Exorcist II: The Heretic 43:56 The Exo…
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Episode 508: "The People's Joker" and "Girls State"
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This week on the show we Megan and Dave tackled the controversial (to Warner Bros.) THE PEOPLE’S JOKER (1:53), director/co-writer/editor/star Vera Drew's queer coming-of-age superhero parody. Good sound design, good visuals. What else is good about it? Then Evan, Megan, and Dave talk about the documentary GIRLS STATE (24:27), directors Jesse Moss a…
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Dave can't join us, so it’s just Megan and Evan this week! First, Megan reviews Giuseppe Tornatore’s lengthy, yet fascinating documentary ENNIO (2:35) about the life and work of Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. Then we both discuss Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s gritty queer thriller FEMME (16:18), which captivated us, but left us with so…
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After the tragic deaths of Chris and Darcie, Max takes over the podcast for a discussion of one of the true classics. Chestnut: Hero of Central Park. The gang (following Chris and Darcie's resurrection) will be back for a marathon of The Exorcist trilogy.
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Episode 506: "Late Night with the Devil" and "Road House"
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On this week’s show, Megan and Dave kick things off with LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (2:18), Cameron and Colin Cairnes's nasty found-footage horror thriller starring David Dastmalchian and featuring demonic possession, heads on fire, garroting by necklace, all wrapped up in a nifty 1970s production design. Bonus: Michael Ironsides does the opening vo…
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143 - Oscars 2024, Dune Part Two and Ocean's Eleven
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It's the end of an era. In the final marathon picked by the wheel, the gang attempt and fail to watch the Ocean's trilogy as well as discuss the recent Academy Awards and Dune Part Two. It's the SPOILERS Al Gaib TIME STAMPS: 00:00 Intro 04:55 Oscars 23:18 Dune Part Two 39:14 Ocean's Eleven The next marathon picked by Chris, (out April 14th) will be…
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Episode 505: "Love Lies Bleeding," "Stopmotion," and "Frida"
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Megan kicks things off this week with talk of LOVE LIES BLEEDING (2:16), Rose Glass's intense queer thriller starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian. Verdict? LISTEN (ha). Next Dave and Megan review STOPMOTION (6:11), Robert Morgan's horror movie starring Aisling Franciosi and featuring lots of compelling stop-motion animation. Megan likes it but…
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Episode 504: "American Dreamer" and "Damsel"
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This week Megan and Dave tackle AMERICAN DREAMER (2:07), and it ain’t pretty. Sure, Peter Dinklage and Shirley MacLaine are fine. And sure, Dave laughed at a few things. But that’s about all the positives we have for it (hoo boy, do we get amped up during this talk!). Then Evan, Megan, and Dave watched DAMSEL (22:40), the new dragon’s-gonna-eat-ya-…
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142 - King Kong, King Kong vs Godzilla & King Kong Escapes
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It's Kong time! This week, the gang take a look at three King Kong movies. 'King Kong (1933),' 'King Kong vs Godzilla' and 'King Kong Escapes.'King Kong vs SPOILERSTIME STAMPS:00:00 Intro09:36 King Kong25:48 King Kong vs Godzilla39:19 King Kong EscapesThe next marathon (out March 17th) is of the Oceans trilogy.…
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Episode 503: "Dune: Part Two" and "Spaceman"
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This week, Megan and Dave discuss DUNE: PART TWO, Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and Rebecca Ferguson. Dave found the fatalism inherent in its story rendered it dramatically inert, even if he dug its look (despite the on-the-nose Nuremberg rally-inspired sequence) and some of the performances. Megan loved the sp…
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Episode 502: "Lovely, Dark and Deep" and "Players"
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It’s been two weeks since we talked horror at Spoilerpiece, so Megan and Dave remedied that by watching Teresa Sutherland’s LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP, a bump-in-the-night-type thriller that plays out in a national park. While Megan and Dave came to roughly similar conclusions about the movie’s technical aspects and Georgina Cambell’s lead performance, …
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In this week's spooky special, the gang take a look at the Universal Monsters Dracula movies 'Dracula (1933)', 'Dracula's Daughter' and 'Son of Dracula.' Son of SPOILERS! TIME STAMPS: 00:00 Intro 07:17 Dracula 26:34 Dracula's Daughter 35:48 Son of Dracula The next marathon (out March 3rd) is a King Kong spectacular of King Kong (1931), King Kong vs…
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Episode 501: “Orion and the Dark” and “The Hobby”
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Megan is back! And to kick things off, she and Dave talk about the animated film ORION AND THE DARK (2:33). Yes, it’s screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first foray into children’s films. But is it any good? Not surprisingly, Megan and Dave have divergent views. But who liked it and who did not?!! (Eh, it’s exactly what you think.) Then Evan, Megan, an…
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Episode 500: "Out of Darkness" and "Restore Point"
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Spoilerpeeps, this is the 500th episode of the show. Megan couldn’t make it this week, leaving the duo of Riedel & Crean. (That doesn’t roll off the tongue like Hall & Oates. Such is life.) Dave watched OUT OF DARKNESS (2:04), a survivor horror film (so its marketing says) set 45,000 years ago, about six people struggling in a new, vast, inhospitab…
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140 - Oscar Noms, Poor Things, Magnolia, How to Have Sex & Misery
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In this slightly delayed episode of The Sunday Movie Marathon, the gang take a look at the Oscar nominations, new release Poor Things; and discuss Magnolia, How To Have Sex & Misery as part of another free for all.Spoilers....TIME STAMPS:00:00 Intro04:09 Oscar Nominations47:50 Poor Things01:09:18 Magnolia01:39:32 How to Have Sex02:17:21 Misery Next…
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