Film Reviews Podcasts

The one that started it all — Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — and the first episode of our October So Many Scares series on the Nightmare franchise. Garrett's Blockbuster-kid origin story with slashers, David's first-ever watch, a $1 million budget that turned into $57 million worldwide, Tulsa's own Heather Langenkamp as the final girl who fights back, the "old man writing what teenagers say" dialogue, David's modest proposal that Freddy get two claw hands, the ending nobody c...

The third film in the Bring It On franchise — the 2006 straight-to-DVD cheer-off starring Hayden Panettiere and Solange Knowles-Smith — discussed as a tribute to Hayden Panettiere.All three hosts went in with zero expectations. All three came out giving it the exact same score. Along the way: the "Bring It Oniverse," the straight-to-DVD theatrical rumor, the Heroes connection ("save the cheerleader, save the world"), Rihanna's gloriously bad green-screen music video, a Letterboxd score game with...

9 to 5 is remembered as a groundbreaking comedy, but rewatching it today reveals a movie that casually pivots into kidnapping, false imprisonment, and accidental corpse theft.In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock revisit the 1980 classic. They discuss Dolly Parton’s flawless acting debut, the film’s massive $103.2 million box office run, and how a movie about a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical boss still feels entirely relatable today.In this e...