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Ed Harris turns 75 today! So we're closing out Higher Ed — our monthlong celebration of the actor's birthday — with Brent Leuthold's (awakeinthedark.bsky.social) reflection on his work in THE TRUMAN SHOW.
Check out Brent's essay in the reply as well as all the other essays in our Higher Ed series!
Check out Brent's essay in the reply as well as all the other essays in our Higher Ed series!
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ed Harris turns 75 today! So we're closing out Higher Ed — our monthlong celebration of the actor's birthday — with Brent Leuthold's (awakeinthedark.bsky.social) reflection on his work in THE TRUMAN SHOW.
Check out Brent's essay in the reply as well as all the other essays in our Higher Ed series!
Check out Brent's essay in the reply as well as all the other essays in our Higher Ed series!
Opening in theaters tomorrow, this fantasy romcom is a clever and touching tale of life after death. Here's my review of Eternity #filmsky 📽️
Eternity
Joan is in a tricky place. To begin with: she's dead. When she wakes up in the afterlife, she's on a train headed for a terminal where recently departed souls choose where to spend their eternity. Thi...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Opening in theaters tomorrow, this fantasy romcom is a clever and touching tale of life after death. Here's my review of Eternity #filmsky 📽️
Predator becomes prey in this fast-paced sci-fi action spectacle. Here's my review of Predator: Badlands #filmsky 📽️
Predator: Badlands
After a detour on Hulu, with two entries that streamed exclusively on the platform, the Predator franchise is back on the big screen for the first time since the 2018 dud The Predator. Those direct-to...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Predator becomes prey in this fast-paced sci-fi action spectacle. Here's my review of Predator: Badlands #filmsky 📽️
Jennifer Lawrence gives another lights-out performance in this psychological drama. Here's my review of Die My Love #filmsky 📽️
Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay isn't a director who makes movies for the brittle of spirit. 2011's We Need To Talk About Kevin depicts a mother reeling from unspeakable violence committed by her teenage son, while 2018...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Jennifer Lawrence gives another lights-out performance in this psychological drama. Here's my review of Die My Love #filmsky 📽️
Frankenstein is now streaming on Netflix #filmsky 🎥
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Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro reimagines Mary Shelley's classic tale of a brilliant scientist and the creature his monstrous ambition brings to life.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Frankenstein is now streaming on Netflix #filmsky 🎥
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos collaborate for the fourth time in this pitch-black comedy remake. Here's my review of Bugonia #filmsky 📽️
Bugonia
Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos continue their creative collaboration with Bugonia, their third project together in as many years. This time, the two-time Academy Award winner plays Michelle ...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos collaborate for the fourth time in this pitch-black comedy remake. Here's my review of Bugonia #filmsky 📽️
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In this week's all-new ep of The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, I review Frankenstein and Shelby Oaks with my guests Brent Leuthold and Joe Shearer. Check it out, subscribe, and share!
The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 492 – Shelby Oaks (2025) & Frankenstein (2025) – Guests: Brent Leuthold and Joe Shearer
This week, Brent Leuthold and Joe Shearer join me to review the new Chris Stuckmann movie, Shelby Oaks in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, Brent and I talk about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. We also discuss screenings around Indianapolis, movie trivia nights, and more.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
In this week's all-new ep of The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, I review Frankenstein and Shelby Oaks with my guests Brent Leuthold and Joe Shearer. Check it out, subscribe, and share!
Sorry, Baby is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 📽️
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Watch Sorry, Baby on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on...for everyone around her, at least.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Sorry, Baby is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 📽️
Opening at Cinema Center this weekend, the lavish new @realgdt.bsky.social outing deserves to be seen on the big screen. Here's my review of Frankenstein #filmsky 📽️
Frankenstein
There may not be a filmmaker working today who understands monsters better than Guillermo del Toro. Yes, many of his films feature otherworldly creatures, but his fascination with them implies a deepe...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Opening at Cinema Center this weekend, the lavish new @realgdt.bsky.social outing deserves to be seen on the big screen. Here's my review of Frankenstein #filmsky 📽️
Weapons is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 📽️
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Watch Weapons on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at 2:17 a.m., a community is left questioning who or what is beh...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Weapons is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 📽️
Ethan Hawke returns as The Grabber in this unnecessary horror sequel. Here's my review of Black Phone 2 #filmsky 📽️
Black Phone 2
Released in the summer of 2022, The Black Phone wasn't the most revolutionary horror movie in the world, but it provided a mix of gritty and supernatural scares while sporting several terrific child p...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Ethan Hawke returns as The Grabber in this unnecessary horror sequel. Here's my review of Black Phone 2 #filmsky 📽️
Disney goes to The Grid once more for this sci-fi action sequel. Here's my review of Tron: Ares #filmsky 📽️
Tron: Ares
True to its subtitle, 2010's Tron: Legacy was a prototype for what we now consider the legacy sequel. Taking place 28 years after the groundbreaking original film, it follows the now-adult son of Tron...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Disney goes to The Grid once more for this sci-fi action sequel. Here's my review of Tron: Ares #filmsky 📽️
The Substance is now streaming on HBO Max:
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Watch The Substance (HBO) on HBO Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. Aging TV star Elisabeth Sparkle gets the chance to try a miracle substance that can make her younger, more beautiful and more perfect....
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October 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Substance is now streaming on HBO Max:
Also, now streaming on Netflix!
No Sleep October — our monthlong ode to horror that terrifies, titillates or transfixes us — continues with Brent Leuthold (awakeinthedark.bsky.social) clearing out his thoughts on 2023's underappreciated COBWEB.
Find Brent's essay in the reply and be sure to check out new essays all month long!
Find Brent's essay in the reply and be sure to check out new essays all month long!
October 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Also, now streaming on Netflix!
The Rock guns for an Oscar in this hard-hitting biopic, now playing in theaters. Here's my review of The Smashing Machine #filmsky 📽️
The Smashing Machine
Dwayne Johnson steps into a different kind of fighting ring in The Smashing Machine, a biopic covering the life and career of early UFC champion and MMA pioneer Mark Kerr. Johnson's career in the WWE ...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Rock guns for an Oscar in this hard-hitting biopic, now playing in theaters. Here's my review of The Smashing Machine #filmsky 📽️
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The video version of our One Battle After Another review with @awakeinthedark.bsky.social is up on YouTube. youtu.be/02sr3VvQDmI
One Battle After Another (2025) Review - The Obsessive Viewer Podcast - Ep 488
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October 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The video version of our One Battle After Another review with @awakeinthedark.bsky.social is up on YouTube. youtu.be/02sr3VvQDmI
Bring Her Back is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 🎥
Watch Bring Her Back (HBO) | HBO Max
Watch Bring Her Back (HBO) on HBO Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother in this nerve-shredding possession h...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Bring Her Back is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 🎥
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In this week's episode of The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, my guest Brent and I review PTA's One Battle After Another and the new VHS movie V/H/S/Halloween! Available wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe, share, rate, and review!
October 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
In this week's episode of The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, my guest Brent and I review PTA's One Battle After Another and the new VHS movie V/H/S/Halloween! Available wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe, share, rate, and review!
The Naked Gun is now streaming on Paramount+ #filmsky 📽️
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Only Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world! He's following in his father's footsteps
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September 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The Naked Gun is now streaming on Paramount+ #filmsky 📽️
Scarlett Johansson directs for the first time in this misguided melodrama, now playing in theaters. Here's my review of Eleanor The Great #filmsky 📽️
Eleanor The Great
Scarlett Johansson sits in the director's chair for the first time with Eleanor The Great, a saccharine melodrama whose heart is in the right place but whose brain is nowhere to be found. It's a film ...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Scarlett Johansson directs for the first time in this misguided melodrama, now playing in theaters. Here's my review of Eleanor The Great #filmsky 📽️
Found Footage is now streaming on Amazon Prime #filmsky 📽️
Found Footage
An acclaimed documentary crew quickly realizes they have triggered a real and terrifying rampage when sinister phenomena begin to unfold as they chronicle a budding filmmaker as he creates the world's...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Found Footage is now streaming on Amazon Prime #filmsky 📽️
Well, here it is: my 500th review! Big thanks to everyone who has read and supported my work over the past 10+ years. Here are my thoughts on #OneBattleAfterAnother, which opens this weekend #filmsky 📽️
One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another, the latest masterpiece from one of the finest filmmakers working today, is a testament to what can be achieved when a major studio puts their money where their mouth is and b...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Well, here it is: my 500th review! Big thanks to everyone who has read and supported my work over the past 10+ years. Here are my thoughts on #OneBattleAfterAnother, which opens this weekend #filmsky 📽️
Superman is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 📽️
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Watch Superman (HBO) on HBO Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. When Superman is drawn into conflicts both abroad and at home, his actions to protect humankind are questioned, and his vulnerability allow...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Superman is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 📽️
Rainn Wilson stars as a paramedic on the edge in this dark medical comedy, now playing in limited theaters. Here's my review of Code 3 #filmsky 📽️
Code 3
The medical dramedy Code 3 is a bit like if the Emmy-winning series The Pitt had an episode that stepped outside the titular emergency room and just focused on the paramedics who rush patients to Dr. ...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Rainn Wilson stars as a paramedic on the edge in this dark medical comedy, now playing in limited theaters. Here's my review of Code 3 #filmsky 📽️
Warfare is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 📽️
Watch Warfare (HBO) | HBO Max
Watch Warfare (HBO) on HBO Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. The harrowing true story of a US Navy Seal platoon surveillance mission gone dangerously wrong. Warfare captures the intensity of combat lik...
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September 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Warfare is now streaming on HBO Max #filmsky 📽️