The Review Show

Episode 91. This week we watched the 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not. Grace is marrying into a board game dynasty, and her new in-laws have a tradition when someone joins the family: on the wedding n…

Episode 90. We read the first two volumes of The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage from Valiant Comics. Shan Fong-Mirage can speak to the dead, but she can't speak to her late husband Hwen. She's desolate …

Episode 89. We used our winter break to watch the entire BBC series Sherlock, a contemporary take on the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. Dr. John Watson is a returning solider trying to find…

It's our 4th birthday! Wow. It feels like it's been forever. Whether you have stuck around with us since the beginning, or are a new listener, thank you so much. We could not do any of this without y…

Episode 88. For our final episode of 2019, we went with the holiday-themed comic The Last Christmas, by Deadpool writers Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan. In a post-apocalyptic world where he hasn't wor…

Episode 87. We watched Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), from director Joe Dante, writer Chris Columbus, and producer Steven Spielberg. Billy receives a mysterious creature as a C…

Episode 86. We watched the 13-episode anime series The Devil is a Part-timer. Satan escapes his dimension of angels and demons through a portal that sends him to modern day Japan, but he's too weak t…

 Episode 85. We watched the mind-bending sci-fi movie Primer, a 2004 indie feature from writer/director/star/everything Shane Carruth. Two engineers accidentally invent time travel and start reliving…

Episode 84. We watched season one of Ben 10 a cartoon from 2004 created by Man of Action. Ben Tennyson is a normal boy on the worst summer vacation of his life when an alien device that crash landed …

Episode 83. We watched the new Netflix original series Living With Yourself, starring Paul Rudd and… Paul Rudd?! Feeling depressed and unsuccessful, Miles tries out a mysterious spa experience that p…

Episode 82. We watched season one of the British crime show Happy Valley. Catherine is a older policewoman trying to keep drugs out of her small town. She runs into a kidnapping gone wrong and finds …

Episode 81. To cap off October, we watched the British horror movie Ghost Stories, written and directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, based off their stage play. A paranormal investigator is contac…

Episode 80. We read the first two volumes of horror comic Harrow County by writer Cullen Bunn and artist Tyler Crook. Decades ago, the townsfolk of Harrow killed a witch who threatened to return one …

 Episode 79. We watched Paranorman, the 2012 family feature from the stop-motion animators at Studio Laika. A young boy named Norman can talk to ghosts, an ability that his family and the rest of his…

Episode 78. We read the first two volumes of Scott Synder's American Vampire comics. The outlaw Skinner Sweet is the first vampire made in America, and he possesses a set of powers unknown to the res…

Episode 77. To kick off October, the month of spooks, we watched Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this lavish Gothic tale, Dracula traps young barrister Jonathan Harker in his castle …

Episode 76. We read the first two volumes of Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth's Stumptown comic, ahead of it premiering as a new TV show! Dex Parios is a Portland-based PI with a history of gambling…

Episode 75. We watched the truly bizarre 2010 film Rubber, directed by Quentin Dupieux. A tire awakens to sentience and the ability to blow up living creatures with his mind. A group of spectators wa…

Episode 74. We read the first two volumes of Dan Slott's 2004 run on She-Hulk. The east coat's top law firm for superhuman cases wants Jennifer Walters on their team -- but not She-Hulk. Jennifer str…

Episode 73. We watched season one of AMC's historical horror show The Terror. This is an anthology series, so season one is a self-contained story! It's 1845 and two British ships are sailing through…