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Watch Skip Plus: A movie review podcast with a lifestyle twist. Dive into the world of film with "WillDaBeast" (Mike) and "Cupcake" (Jose), your dynamic duo movie critics. Each episode, the two review a new theatrical or streaming release in a filmic conversational manner (warning: pop culture tangents ahead!). Our "lifestyle twist"? After the review, each host give a "Plus" - a bonus surprise review that can be on ANYTHING . Get ready for an engaging and informative ride through the world of

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00:00:51

BYE WEEK ANNOUNCEMENT

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2025/11/09

As you have already gathered...no new episode this weekend. BUT Friday brings a supersized episode - OUR first ever double review! Can't wait for you to hear it!- - - - - - - - - -WE ARE WATCH SKIP PLUS!FOLLOW/LIKE/SUBSCRIBE/REVIEW/LOVEEmail us: WatchSkipPlus@gmail.com

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01:25:05

Episode 145: SHELBY OAKS

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2025/11/01

FROM YOUTUBE TO INDIE FILMMAKER…SHELBY OAKS IS HERE, BUT DOES IT HERALD A POTENTIAL NEW FILMIC VOICE OR WERE MISTAKES MADE?!?!?!Stop me if you’ve heard this one: An ex-Jehovah’s Witness, pansexual, YouTube movie reviewer/influencer decides to make a movie…. And so it is with Shelby Oaks, the debut feature of one Chris Stuckmann. Kickstarter’d, delayed, reshot, remixed, edited, EP’d and shepherded to the screen by rising superstar horror director Mike Flanagan and a host of other contemporary horror

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01:27:43

Episode 144: BLACK PHONE 2

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2025/10/27

SCREEN THAT CALL FROM BEYOND…THE GRABBER IS BACK IN BLACK PHONE 2!Blumhouse pictures looks to break its poo-poo streak (Exorcist:Believer, The Wolf Man, M3G4N 2.0, The Woman in the Yard, Drop) with Black Phone 2, the sequel to the wildly successful first film. Based on a short story by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill, the sequel is directed by genre friendly director-writer Scott Derrickson who also helmed the Sinister films and Doctor Strange. Starring returning actors Mason Thames (who is on a hot

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01:38:04

Episode 143: Tron: Ares

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2025/10/20

IS THE THIRD TIME THE CHARM FOR A BELOVED FRANCHISE WHOSE FIRST FILM BOMBED AND WHOSE SEQUEL WAS ONLY A MODERATE BOX OFFICE SUCCESS?!??Fun Fact: the original 1982 Tron is one of Cupcake’s favorite nostalgic cornerstone films. This week he forces WillDaBeast to watch the third film in the franchise: Tron: Ares. Directed by one of the co-directors of the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie and starring up and coming performers Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith and Evan Peters, veteran actors Jeff Bridges

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01:17:12

Episode 142: Bone Lake

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2025/10/13

*Special thanks to Riverside whose software we use to edit our videos; there was a quirk preventing this clip from being exported/perfected, but despite the delay in release, Riverside tech support has been nothing short of brilliant and amazing in identifying and fixing the issue.SEX AND VIOLENCE COLLIDE IN “BONE LAKE”...BUT DOES IT NAIL ITS MONEY SHOT?!??Cheeky sexy marketing campaign? Check. Trailer that makes it look like a sexed-up “You’re Next”? Check. Gorgeous, drool-worthy leads? Check

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02:02:48

Episode 141: One Battle After Another

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2025/10/05

BRACE YOURSELVES!!! PTA #10 HITS THEATRES AND WS+ HAS ALL THE SCOOP!!!When one of cinema’s most brilliant and consistently dazzling American directors puts out his TENTH feature, you know the Boyz at Watch Skip Plus have you covered! On a 2 hour roundtable discussion, WilDaBeast and Cupcake welcome back Kevin from Raiders of the Podcast to discuss “One Battle After Another”, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring three…count ‘em three….acting legends: Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, and

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01:03:24

Episode 140: Jordan Peele Presents HIM

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2025/09/26

PEELE PRODUCER LABEL NOSEDIVES WITH HIM - STULTIFYING MISFIRE!Jordan Peele, the innovative and stunning director of Get Out and Nope, lends his (producer) name to HIM, a new horror film about a young football quarterback facing an aging rival for the top spot on a pro team. Directed by Justin Tipping and starring Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers, the trailers sold this as a seemingly brutal, gory “The Substance meets the NFL”. Sadly, the Boyz, from the opening moments of the episode just can’t hide

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01:33:46

Episode 139: The Long Walk

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2025/09/21

HEAVY STEPHEN KING NOVEL HITS THE SCREEN…BUT DOES IT HAVE LEGS?A 1979 Stephen King novel got a big screen adaptation, and Watch Skip Plus gives you its singular critique and analysis in a brand new episode. WillDaBeast and Cupcake take on the Francis Lawrence directed - JT Mollner written book to screen thriller with a simple premise: Young men compete in a “long walk” where the last man standing wins a wish and untold millions. The catch? Keep walking or die. Starring a crop of mega-talented new

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01:28:41

Episode 138: The Conjuring: Last Rites

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2025/09/15

Episode 138: The Conjuring: Last RitesTHE POWER OF A NEW WATCH SKIP PLUS EP COMPELS YOU!Cupcake experienced some major tech difficulties as he “Resolve”-d to master a new editing software, but the WS+ boyz are back! This time taking on the fourth Conjuring film, itself the 9th movie in the “Conjuring” universe (the “CU”). Directed by CU mainstay director Michael Chaves with returning leads Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, pic fashions the famed demonologists (or hoax-artists?) Ed and Lorraine

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00:01:45

Brief Break this week - See you soon!

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2025/09/07

Check our video announcement re: this week's episode!

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01:23:50

Episode 138: Eden

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2025/08/30

COME ASHORE FOR THE NEW WATCH SKIP PLUS!Cupcake all but ordered WillDaBeast to see the new Ron Howard film solely because advanced word had Jude Law doing a “one for the history books” full frontal nude scene. And so it is: this week the Boyz review Ron Howard’s historically based, “Survivor”-esque 1930’s period drama “Eden” starring Law, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Bruehl (BARON ZEMO!), current controversial it-girl Sydney Sweeney, and Ana De Armas. Aside from the obvious visual DELIGHTS (warning: lots

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01:14:11

Episode 137: NOBODY 2

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2025/08/22

Cupcake’s favorite action filmmakers 87North (David Leitch and Kelly McCormack’s production company) return with “Nobody 2” starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielson, Sharon Stone, RZA, John Ortiz, Christopher Lloyd, and Daniel Bernhardt. 87North might be having the same kind of year as BlumHouse with lackluster audience reception to previous releases Love Hurts and Ballerina. Will this action comedy sequel directed by Indo-Asian action filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto in his US debut break the bad streak? And

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01:19:43

Episode 135: Together

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2025/08/09

COME TOGETHER!!!! … OVER WATCH SKIP PLUS!!!!! *Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTubeWS+ takes a break from blockbusters…or rather superheroes…and takes on another type of “busting” with the indie body horror “Together”. Savvy listeners will remember Mike reviewing this for the Annual Sundance Episode where the film, its director Michael Shanks and leads Dave Franco and Alison Brie caused a bit of much-talked-about sensation (we just won’t talk about the plagiarism

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02:10:24

Episode 134: The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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2025/08/04

WARNING: Explicit language, ribald jokes, and biting commentary ensue.Episode 134: The Fantastic Four: First StepsFFinally!!! As the BO for the new Marvel film craters...our new episode is up (after tech snafus!) *Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTubeThe Boyz bring back Sam U. Rai from the Gentleman’s Guide to Midnite Cinema to discuss yet another SUPERHERO film: the eagerly awaited The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The MCU is still floundering of late, far from

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01:30:49

Episode 133: I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

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2025/07/26

A LEGACY SEQUEL? 27 YEARS LATER? I KNOW WHAT…THE……??? *Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTubeHorror franchises come and go; some endure and some….wake up and get 'requel'd nearly 27 years later (and no…it’s not the prequel to 28 Years Later). Such is “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2025)....taking the Scream (2022) route and using the original’s title with no number. WillDaBeast and Cupcake welcome a die hard horror fan Tyler, co-host of Raiders of the

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02:12:50

Episode 132: DC Studios' SUPERMAN

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2025/07/20

EPIC SUPERSIZED SUPERMAN ANALYSIS! *Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTubeThe year’s most eagerly anticipated film soars into theatres and Watch Skip Plus gives you a KRYPTON-sized critical analysis of the James Gunn-directed superhero epic. Eschewing pluses this week, WilDaBeast and Cupcake are joined by Pod-Father Sam U. Rai from the Gentleman’s Guide to Midnite Cinema podcast and “Fakest of Shemps” Jeremy (who guested on our recent Oscars episode and creamed us

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01:23:54

Episode 131: Jurassic World: Rebirth

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2025/07/13

Dinosaurs, Mutants, and ScarJo….OH MY! The 7th film in the Jurassic Park franchise has been released but is it a worthy reboot/spinoff/expansion of the JP universe or a T-Rex sized cash grab? WillDaBeast and Cupcake spare no expense reviewing Jurassic World: Rebirth, directed by visual wunderkind Gareth Edwards and with a wildly photogenic cast (Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and his SEXY LEGS!). Which host will love this and which one

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01:32:36

Episode 130: M3GAN 2.0

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2025/07/05

HOLD ONTO YOUR V*&INAS! M3GAN IS BACK….BUT IS IT AN UPGRADE? Blumhouse/Atomic Monster hit M3GAN is back with a sequel that swings so far from its horror origins the WS+ boys couldn’t review it without bringing on their YouTube brother in arms John Horgan from the “...And Now For Something a Little Bit Different” channel. Director Gerald Johnstone was clearly given free range to give us a sequel that ostensibly wants to be “Terminator 2 meets Demolition Man” but is THAT what fans of the original

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01:40:13

Episode 129: 28 Years Later

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2025/06/29

NEW EPISODE! But uh…..WHAT HAPPENED TO 28 MONTHS? JUST JUMPED TO YEARS I SEE….*Links in bio - please check out our video episodes on Spotify and YouTubeOn an episode SO EPIC not even an exploding transformer-driven power outage could stop, the Boys welcome Rob from the UK gem of a podcast “Caliber 9 From Outer Space” to take on Danny Boyle’s return to the rage zombie-genre busting/reinvention franchise with “28 Years Later”. A third sequel…18 years later…AND a planned trilogy? Will audiences eat

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01:23:37

Episode 128: Materialists

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2025/06/22

SAY I DO WITH OUR NEW REVIEW OF CELINE SONG’S NEW DEUX!Ahhhhh the eternal dilemma: Marry for true love or for your partner’s deep endless bank account! But seriously, WillDaBeast and Cupcake take on the second film “Materialists” from acclaimed director / playwright Celine Song whose debut film was the multiple critic society and Oscar nominated “Past Lives”. Her new film is an allegoric tale about love and dating in the social media/materialistic 2020’s and follows a matchmaker who has to choose

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