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The Review Show

The Whatnauts present The Review Show, a book club style podcast covering a variety of genres and mediums including movies, TV shows, comics, anime, manga, and even audio fiction. Join your intrepid co-hosts Kyle and Melissa for fun discussions on a wild variety of entertainment you should know!

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In the Mood for Love

The Review Show ·

2022/02/09

Episode 192. We watched In the Mood for Love, a Chinese film from the year 2000. In 1960s Hong Kong, two couples move in next to each other in a crowded apartment building. One husband soon leaves for an extended business trip, and one wife goes to care for a sick mother. The remaining Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chen realize that their spouses have run off to have an affair with each other. As they connect over this grief, they begin to fall in love, but refuse to start their own affair and sink to

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85:03

Knights of Sidonia vol. 1-8

The Review Show ·

2022/02/02

Episode 191. For this monthly special, we read volumes 1-8 of the sci-fi manga Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei, and next month we'll conclude the series with volumes 9-15. Nagate Tanikaze has lived his entire life alone in the depths of a massive spaceship, experiencing the world through his grandfather's stories and old training simulators. When he ventures out into the rest of the ship, he's taken into the pilot program, controlling a Garde mech to fight the mysterious shape-shifting

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70:12

Landscapers

The Review Show ·

2022/01/26

Episode 190. We watched the new HBO Max miniseries Landscapers, a creative dramatization of a true crime story from England. Fifteen years ago, Susan and Christopher Edwards buried the bodies of Susan's parents in their garden and told everyone they moved away. Now that their secret is out, the couple is separated and put through intense interrogation to determine if this was a murder for money, or a painful act of desperation to escape an abusive past.The Whatnauts present The Review Show,

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93:35

The Power of the Dog

The Review Show ·

2022/01/19

Episode 189. We watched Jane Campion's 2021 drama film The Power of the Dog. In 1920s Montana, a rancher brings home a new wife and her teenage son, much to the annoyance of his curmudgeonly brother. He taunts and intimidates these new additions to the household, until someone goes to extreme lengths to try and stop him.The Whatnauts present The Review Show, a weekly book club style podcast for all sorts of pop culture. We cover a variety of genres and mediums — movies, TV shows, comics,

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124:09

The Matrix Franchise

The Review Show ·

2022/01/12

Episode 188. It's a new year, it's the future! We watched the entire Matrix series, including the new Resurrections movie, and The Animatrix anthology of short films. A man called Neo leads a dull life, finding excitement through his hacker identity, until he learns that he's been living in a simulation. He can reinvent himself, learn to take advantage of the simulation around him, and become The One, the hero destined to take down the machines that have imprisoned mankind in digital

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191:42

6 Year Anniversary Retrospective

The Review Show ·

2021/12/23

Kyle, Ignacio, Melissa, and Alan reflect on the movies, shows, and video games of 2021, and what we covered in our podcasts The Review Show, The Captain's Log, The Reactor Corps, and Crossplay this year! It's a night of pizza, statistics, and 2022 goals.Check out our other podcasts here, or wherever you get your podcasts. If video is more your thing, then check our YouTube channel. And if you like what we do, support us on Patreon to unlock early access to most of our podcasts as well as

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71:29

The Review Show Recap 2021

The Review Show ·

2021/12/22

This is a special bonus episode looking back on the shows, movies, comics, and more that we covered this year on The Review Show. We discuss recurring narrative themes, favorite performances, dream dates, and give out the prestigious Skinboy Memorial Award for Supporting Players.Listen to Melissa's annual themed playlist here on Spotify!The Whatnauts present The Review Show, a weekly book club style podcast for all sorts of pop culture. We cover a variety of genres and mediums — movies, TV

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95:14

8-bit Christmas

The Review Show ·

2021/12/15

Episode 187. For our final episode of the year, we watched the new HBO Max holiday movie 8-Bit Christmas! A young girl begs her dad for a cell phone and he tells her the story of the gift he wanted most when he was her age: a Nintendo Entertainment System. The dad narrates flashbacks to 1988 illustrating the antics he and his friends got into trying to obtain an NES for Christmas, and the impact this quest had on his family.The Whatnauts present The Review Show, a weekly book club style

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77:22

Love Hard

The Review Show ·

2021/12/08

Episode186. We watched the new Netflix holiday-themed romcom Love Hard. Natalie is a blogger who writes about her perpetual bad luck with dating apps. When she starts talking to Josh, the first man she really likes, she flies across the country to surprise him for Christmas. The surprise is on her -- he's been using the photos of a more handsome friend to catfish her. Natlie agrees to act as Josh's girlfriend to impress his family, as long as Josh helps her win a date with the hot guy.The

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115:56

The Leftovers s3

The Review Show ·

2021/12/01

Episode 185. We've finished all our Leftovers! When season three starts, it's almost the seven year anniversary of The Departure, and many people believe this is a special day that could either bring everyone back, or bring the end of the world. After the bizarre events that Kevin survived in season two, some of his friends and family now believe him to be a god. As Kevin considers his destiny, Nora discovers an experiment that could reunite her with her departed children.The Whatnauts

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74:37

Kiki’s Delivery Service

The Review Show ·

2021/11/24

Episode 184. We watched Hayao Miyazaki's 1989 film Kiki's Delivery Service. Kiki is a witch, and when all witches turn 13, they leave home to live in a new town and practice their particular magical talent for a year. Kiki decides to put her broomstick to use delivering packages, but when a series of setbacks makes her lose confidence in herself, she risks losing the ability to fly too.The Whatnauts present The Review Show, a weekly book club style podcast for all sorts of pop culture. We

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84:50

Flashpoint

The Review Show ·

2021/11/17

Episode 183. We read the DC comics event from 2011, Flashpoint, from Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert. Barry Allen knows the world where he is The Flash, where his mother was murdered, where he has friends in the Justice League. He wakes up one day in a world where his mother is still alive and he never became The Flash, and the familiar faces around him are behaving very differently. He'll have to confront his nemesis to set the world back to the reality it needs, even if it means losing his

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104:12

The Leftovers s2

The Review Show ·

2021/11/10

Episode 182. We're continuing our ongoing series on The Leftovers with season two, and look for our discussion on season three at the end of the month! We're introduced to Jarden, TX, the only town in the world where no one was lost to The Departure. Some people believe this place is magical, and flock to it like a holy site, disrupting the lives of its regular citizens. Kevin and his family move there for a fresh start, but when one of his new neighbors disappears, the town worries that

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100:26

Suspiria (1977 & 2018)

The Review Show ·

2021/11/03

Episode 181. We watched the 1977 horror movie Suspiria from director Dario Argento, and its 2018 remake from director Luca Guadagnino. Both movies are stylistically and tonally very different but share the same initial plot: a young woman named Susie travels to study at a prestigious ballet academy in Germany, where she begins to suspect that the instructors are engaged in witchcraft and have sinister plans for their students.The Whatnauts present The Review Show, a weekly book club style

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93:28

Something Is Killing the Children vol. 1-2

The Review Show ·

2021/10/27

Episode 180. We read the first two volumes of horror comic Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Children have been disappearing from the small town of Archer's Peak, Wisconsin, and those that have been found are reduced to gruesome corpses. Erica Slaughter comes to town because she is a monster killer, it is all she does because it must be done, and she teams up with a bewildered young survivor to try and stop the monster before it kills again.The

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87:50

Beetlejuice

The Review Show ·

2021/10/20

Episode179. We're covering a Halloween classic this week with Tim Burton's 1988 movie Beetlejuice. The Maitlands are a young couple living a quiet life in their small New England town, until they die. Then they have to learn the confusing bureaucracy of the afterlife and how to scare off the new owners of the house they still "live" in. They've seen ads for a man named Beetlejuice who promises to exorcise the living out of the homes of the dead, but everyone warns them to stay away from

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95:55

Brand New Cherry Flavor

The Review Show ·

2021/10/13

Episode 178. We watched the new Netflix show Brand New Cherry Flavor, a magical revenge thriller set in early 90s Hollywood. Young filmmaker Lisa Nova is trying to get her short film made into a feature-length movie, but when a producing partner takes advantage of her and signs a movie deal without her as the director, she swears to burn his life to the ground. She contacts a mysterious witch to grant her the powers to destroy her enemy, but with serious consequences to Lisa herself.The

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99:32

Lake Mungo

The Review Show ·

2021/10/06

Episode 177. To kick off the spooky month of October, we watched the 2008 Australian film Lake Mungo. This mockumentary follows the Palmer family coping with the sudden death of teenage daughter Alice, and their investigation when they find photos and videos that seem to show Alice after her death. While they confront the possibility of the supernatural, the family also confronts the secrets Alice kept from them in life. The Whatnauts present The Review Show, a weekly book club style

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106:52

The Leftovers s1

The Review Show ·

2021/09/29

Episode176. We're starting another ongoing series covering one show to its conclusion, starting this month with season one of the 2014 HBO drama The Leftovers. Three years ago, there was a sudden unexplained event called "the departure" where 2% of the human population disappeared into thin air. Now, the rest of humanity struggles to find answers, closure, and purpose. We follow sheriff Kevin Garvey as he deals with the dissolution of his family and the rise of a cryptic cult in his small

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99:25

Looper

The Review Show ·

2021/09/22

Episode 175. To conclude our Shametember series, time travel nerd Kyle needed to watch Rian Johnson's 2012 film Looper. Joe works as a "looper," a hitman who only kills bodies sent back to him from criminals thirty years in the future. When his own future self arrives, Old Joe explains that the future has been taken over by a tyrannical genius and he's there to kill the child who will grow up to be this terror. Young Joe has to predict his older self's movements and protect a child who is

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