- 45 minutes 49 secondsEpisode #632: "Insidious: Out of the Further"
This week Evan and Dave take in INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER (2:29), the sixth (sixth!) entry in the venerable-adjacent INSIDIOUS franchise. (Not to be confused with INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURNACE.) This is Dave's sixth trip through the red door, and Evan's third, having seen INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY and the first movie in the series, the unsurprisingly but aptly titled INSIDIOUS.
How did it work for them? Listen and find out, but know Dave says this at one point: "It's better than INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR." High praise, indeed?
Over on Patreon, we talk about the 2015 horror-comedy THE FINAL GIRLS. And just because we want to write the word "insidious" one more time: INSIDIOUS.
21 August 2026, 1:59 pm - 42 minutes 8 secondsEpisode #631: "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma"
This week Evan and Dave get down with TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA (2:46), and let us tell you: Lots of death! Lots of sex! Lots of blood and guts and blurring of fantasy and reality and some of it really works and some of it really doesn't. You know, when we rate movies on Spoilerpiece, we have a "Your Mileage May Vary" subcategory, and believe it: TSADACM is the definition of YMMV. Like, if copious blood (fake looking on purpose, but still) ain't your bag, or the psychosexual thing isn't for you, then the confluence of those things isn't going to be for you. HOWEVER, if you're remotely given to slasher movies (as we are), and the psychosexual (while not our favorite thing, also not an auto turn-off)? Well, maybe fuggin' go for it! Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun pulls out all the stops, and Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson sink into their roles with aplomb. One thing is guaranteed: Ya ain't gonna see nothin' else like TSADACM this year. Over on Patreon, Evan and Dave talk about Abel Ferrara's 1990 crime drama KING OF NEW YORK.
14 August 2026, 4:01 am - 44 minutes 21 secondsEpisode #630: "Tony"
Director and co-writer Matt Johnson's Anthony Bourdain biopic TONY (2:04) wisely focuses on one short period of Bourdain's life: The summer Tony (Dominic Sessa) went to Provincetown, Mass., and worked in a kitchen while trying to woo his high school classmate Nancy (Emilia Jones). This movie isn't afraid to show you what a jerk Bourdain could be, how aimless he was, and how he made wrong decision after wrong decision. With an excellent central performance from Sessa and superior supporting work from Antonio Banderas as the chef/owner of the restaurant where Tony works, and Leo Woodall as a crude colleague, TONY is terrific, and we had a good conversation about it. Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1986 film CROSSROADS, starring Ralph Macchio and Joe Seneca.
7 August 2026, 6:56 am - 43 minutes 55 secondsEpisode #629: "Spider-Man: Brand New Day
We're slinging into this week's episode...webslinging that is, because we're reviewing SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2:22). Tom Holland and Zendaya are back as Peter Parker and MJ, but this time they have to find their way back to each other in the wake of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME's events. (By the way, how is the last live-action Spider-Man movie already from five years ago?!)
With the world having forgotten Peter Parker ever existed, our favorite wall-crawler has to face a powerful new villain while battling his own worst instinct: that he has to handle everything alone. Is it the best Spider-Man movie? Probably not. BRAND NEW DAY has plenty of great ideas, but too many of them feel underdeveloped. It runs longer than it needs to, and at times feels less like a complete story and more like a setup for whatever Marvel has planned next. In other news, in this week's Patreon exclusive audio, we're reviewing the winner of our Sam Neill poll, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER!
31 July 2026, 4:10 am - 29 minutes 59 secondsEpisode #628: "The Dink"
Yep, we're reviewing a movie called THE DINK (1:38), named after a type of shot in Pickleball - a real sport - called a "dink." No, we're not making that up, and yes, Evan and Dave really watched this movie, which stars Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Harris. Johnson is a long-washed up tennis player, Steenburgen is his pickleball partner, and Harris is his father.
Anyway, one member of Spoilerpiece really liked THE DINK, and one just hated it. Hated it. Can you guess which is the liker and which one isn't? Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1986 film STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME, in honor of its fortieth anniversary.
24 July 2026, 4:14 am - 59 minutes 38 secondsEpisode #627: Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" and Spoilerpiece is 12!
This week Evan and Dave sat side by side in the movie house (notably not an IMAX movie house) to watch THE ODYSSEY (2:44), Christopher Nolan's film of Homer's epic poem. Because after OPPENHEIMER, what do you do? Swords and sandals, obviously.
Look, folks. This film is long. But it's engaging, has an incredible score, and Matt Damon gives the performance of this career, along with excellent work from Anne Hathaway, John Leguizamo, Robert Pattinson, Himesh Patel, and Samantha Morton. Evan is on board with the movie, and Dave is, too, though they're both ambivalent about Nolan, and they go down that rabbit hole, too.
And Spoilerpiece is 12 years old! Wow! We'd make a joke about time flying, but nah. We just go through some of the ups and downs and then get the hell off the mic. Over on Patreon, we talk about NOBODY 2.
17 July 2026, 2:17 am - 32 minutes 57 secondsEpisode #626: "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass"
This week Dave was happy to see GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS (1:34) - Evan less so - a comedy by director David Wain with a screenplay by Wain and Ken Marino, members of the 1990s sketch comedy group "The State." Eight members of "The State" appear, including Marino, and there are a billion celebrity cameos as Kansas hairdresser Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) and her friend Otto run around L.A. trying to find Jon Hamm so she can fuck him (because her fiancé used his celebrity sex pass to bone Jennifer Aniston after a book reading in their town).
Yes, it's as absolutely bonkers as it sounds. And if you're not into anti-humor, senseless violence, and intentionally unfunny jokes played completely straight, this may not be the movie for you. But it was for Dave! Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1981 slasher THE BURNING.
10 July 2026, 9:24 am - 36 minutes 17 secondsEpisode #625: "Enola Holmes 3"
It's one of those weeks over at Spoilerpiece when one of us is pretty neutral about a movie, and the other is pretty irritated (by the movie; not, like, by life). Such is the quandary of ENOLA HOLMES 3. The Millie Bobby Brown-starring series about Sherlock Holmes younger sister is the kind of thing that makes Evan bristle, and makes Dave pretty - what's the word...noncommital?
One thing both Evan and Dave agree on: This movie has a lot of plot for a picture that's pretty short but feels pretty long ("More endings than RETURN OF THE KING," says Evan). eek! Not high praise. Over on Patreon, we watch FIRST BLOOD and RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II.
3 July 2026, 2:58 pm - 41 minutesEpisode #624: "Lucky Strike"
Given how many films have been made about WWII, it's impressive when one tells a new story, like Rod Lurie's action drama LUCKY STRIKE (1:47), which follows a wounded American soldier (Scott Eastwood) stranded behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. Scott Eastwood looks more like his dad, Clint, than he ever has, but unfortunately, looks don't mean he inherited his father's charisma. His blandness definitely hurts the movie. Also, its plot follows predictable beats, and not much is really surprising. However, its period accuracy, harrowing encounters with Nazis, and decent war set pieces make it surprisingly watchable. Evan and Dave are split on whether you should see it as well, so they come up with a new rating system for the show.
In the Patreon exclusive audio this week, Evan and Dave talk about TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, the winner of our poll of movies with "America" or "American" in the title. It's a really fun conversation, so check it out, Patrons!
26 June 2026, 4:23 pm - 35 minutes 6 secondsEpisode #623: The Voices of Our Mother
You know, sometimes you spend your young adulthood worshipping Satan, being a dirty heretic basking in the glory of His evil. And then, sometimes, inexplicably, you find God and dedicate your life to him. You even adopt a child and plan to raise her with a steady diet of God's love.
And then what does Satan do? HE SHOWS UP ON YOUR DOORSTEP IN THE GUISE OF A CHURCH GARGOYLE AND DECIDES IF HE CAN'T HAVE YOU, HE'S GOING TO POSSESS THE BABY! Satan: What a bastard. So now you have to spend your life with the child attached at your hip, praying the evil away. Meanwhile, the child grows into adulthood, marries some dude, and the dude is semi-infected by your evil and abuses your children, and...
Fuck it, it's nuttier than it sounds; just listen to us talk about THE VOICES OF OUR MOTHER (2:11) on the episode. Over on Patreon, Evan and Dave discuss the 1962 CAPE FEAR.
19 June 2026, 1:08 pm - 42 minutes 58 secondsEpisode #622: "Disclosure Day"
Steven Spielberg's aliens-are-among-us-and-we're-gonna-prove-it blockbuster is out, and Dave and Evan have seen it. And they liked it! Mostly! There are many odd choices in DISCLOSURE DAY (1:29), but also lots of things that are rather nifty, beginning with Emily Blunt's bravura performance. Over on Patreon, we talk about the 1995 anthology film FOUR ROOMS.
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