The Review Show

Episode 72. This week we read volume one of Hip-Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor. It's a non-fiction history lesson on the origins of hip-hop in 1970s New York, from house parties to the first record pre…

Episode 71. We watched Annhilation, a 2018 sci-fi/horror film from director Alex Garland. A meteor hits a lighthouse on the coast of Florida and the area around the crash site becomes a growing bubbl…

Episode 70. We read the first two volumes of a manga called I'm in Love and It's the End of the World by Taamo. Mahiru Yanase has always lived in the shadow of her more popular twin sister Mayo and i…

Episode 69. There was only one choice for Episode 69: we read the first two volumes of the comic Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Suzie and Jon can both stop time when they orgasm and…

Episode 68. We watched the first season of the DC Universe exclusive show Titans. Dick Grayson is a detective trying to distance himself from the Robin identity, Rachel Roth is a young girl haunted b…

Episode 67. This week on The Review Show we watched Sweetness & Lightning, a 12 episode anime all about good food. Kohei's wife has recently passed away and he isn't much of a cook. He doesn't have m…

Episode 66. We watched Metropolis, a 2001 anime film based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka, written by Katsuhiro Otomo and directed by Rintaro. Metropolis is a city full of robot workers who are mistruste…

Episode 65. This week we listened to season one of the audio show Hadron Gospel Hour, a combination of sci-fi adventure and sketch comedy, from writer/producers/stars Richard Wentworth and Michael Mc…

Episode 64. We read The Wreckers Saga, an arc from the Transformers comics by James Roberts and Nick Roche. The Wreckers are a team of Autobots who fight the most dangerous missions behind enemy line…

Episode 63. We watched the 2000 animated sci-fi film Titan AE, from directors Gary Goldman and Don Bluth, with screenplay work from Joss Whedon and Ben Edlund. Earth has been destroyed and the surviv…

Episode 62. We read the first two volumes of the Valiant Comics superhero buddy comedy Quantum & Woody. Eric and Woody Henderson are estranged adopted brothers, one straightlaced and one disastrous, …

Episode 61. We watched Serenity, a 2019 film written and directed by Stephen Knight and starring Matthew McConaughey and Ann Hathaway. A fisherman is struggling to keep his business alive as he throw…

Episode 60. We watched Flavors of Youth, an animated anthology movie with three stories set in China, produced by Chinese and Japanese studios. Story one features a man reminiscing on how his favorit…

Episode 59. We watched the first season of Gravity Falls, a Disney Channel cartoon from 2012. Twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines are staying the summer with their great uncle at his sham of a "supe…

Episode 58. We watched the 2011 sci-fi action adventure film Attack the Block. It's Guy Fawkes Night in South London and a gang of teenage hoodlums kill what they think is a strange animal, but disco…

Episode 57. We watched Brave, Pixar's 2012 fairy tale film set in a medieval and fantastical Scotland. Merida feels stifled by her life as a princess, and especially by her overbearing mother trying …

Episode 56. This week we watched the Hulu original series Castle Rock. It's produced by Stephen King and based on the settings and characters from many of his novels. Lawyer Henry Deaver returns to h…

Episode 55. We listened to the first two seasons of a sci-fi audio drama called The Earth Collective, from creator Mike Troup. Humans colonized a planet far out in space but find that the darkness is…

Episode 54. We watched an anime by beloved director Shinichirō Watanabe called Terror in Resonance, AKA Terror in Tokyo. Two masked young men calling themselves Sphinx plant bombs across Tokyo and ta…

Episode 53. We watched Birdman, the Oscar-winning 2014 film by Alejandro Iñárritu. Riggan Thomson is a former superhero movie star trying to be taken seriously as he writes, directs, and stars in a B…