What better way to celebrate election season than by watching a documentary about a partisan summer camp in Texas? At least, that's what Boys State looks like to us at first glance. We're sure it's far more nuanced than that.Since this is clea

Bonus Episode: An American Pickle

Aug 14th, 2020 30m 16s

HBO Max is here, like it or not. Some Screeners might just be in the latter group, since they're having trouble getting access to it through no fault of their own (thanks, cable companies and Amazon!).Anyway, they've put all their eggs in Seth

Movies We Hate and More

Aug 13th, 2020 1h 24m

We don't know what the next Oscars will look like, but if there's one awards show that should have a banner year, it's the Emmys. We've certainly had plenty of time to check out the nominees (https://www.emmys.com/events/72nd-emmy-nominations-a

Best of the 90s

Jul 24th, 2020 1h 52m

Our "best of" episodes have been a lot of fun so far, and it's been a minute since we've done one. What better decade to return with than the 90s?Sure, Chad was probably pushing middle age by then, but it's right in the childhood nostalgia swe

Bonus Episode: Palm Springs

Jul 14th, 2020 32m 13s

At under (under!) 90 minutes, Max Barbakow's Palm Springs shouldn't be too hard to make it through...unless its familiar plot devices make it insufferable. The reviews so far suggest it's worth the modest amount of time it asks for, and it does

Hamilton

Jul 8th, 2020 47m 49s

After all those months of trying to score tickets from shady scalpers and even shadier “legitimate” ticket outlets, Disney+ has finally scored us seats to Hamilton, and couch seats at that. Despite all the criticism (https://apnews.com/db3c9d75

Bonus Episode: The Last Dance

Jun 18th, 2020 1h 15m

If you listened to our review of Devs (https://screenerspodcast.com/172) and thought, "That's great, but can't you give me something longer to watch?", we've got your back. ESPN's docuseries The Last Dance is longer than Devs by a solid 2 hours

Da 5 Bloods and The King of Staten Island

Jun 16th, 2020 56m 33s

They've been saying that the summer movie season is canceled (https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2020/4/the-2020-summer-movie-season-is-probably-canceled) for at least a couple months now, but that's not stopping some heavy hitters from putting n

Mrs. America, Space Force, and HBO Max

Jun 10th, 2020 57m 50s

Before we get into our regularly scheduled reviews for this episode, we want to take a moment to acknolwedge the tremendous amount of pain that's come to the surface in America (and elsewhere (https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/europe/edward-colsto

The Lovebirds

May 27th, 2020 50m 55s

If there's ever been a summer that the Screeners should have some content for a What Have You Been Watching segment, it's this one. So let's go ahead lead off with that.Next, Paramount's The Lovebirds is currently the top movie on Netflix (htt

Scoob! and The Eddy

May 19th, 2020 33m 58s

Seems like most of the Screeners are either lazy or...too not-lazy, so we only have two hosts this time. Well, two plus a very special guest—we won't tell you who it is, but you won't want to miss their review.Two hosts means a pretty quick ep

Bad Education and Westworld S3

May 6th, 2020 1h 25m

With both a movie and a season of TV on the schedule for this episode, we have no shortage of content to cover. You'll have to bear with us, though; it's a little heavy on the HBO. We can't help it—if you've got the goods, you've got 'em.First

Extraction and Little Fires Everywhere

Apr 29th, 2020 1h 2m

Extraction. Chris Hemsworth's in it. All the cool kids are watching it, and we know at least April couldn't wait to review it. By the end of the episode, you should be able to tell if it's worth your somewhat-less-scarce-than-before streaming t

Devs

Apr 21st, 2020 1h 14m

In these trying times, we need...escapist content, and lots of it. Movies usually only last a couple hours unless we're talking Scorcese or Jackson, and that's just not enough. How about a TV series? FX has one of those, and it's made by the Ex

Trolls World Tour (and More!)

Apr 15th, 2020 1h 16m

You may have heard about an upstart streaming service called Quibi (https://quibi.com/)—at least, you probably have if you watched the Super Bowl. It's an entire platform built around the premise that people often only have 10 minutes or less a

Tiger King

Mar 31st, 2020 1h 20m

There are many possible reasons for the sudden overwhelming popularity of Netflix’s Tiger King docu-series.Perhaps the most likely is that Netflix is hard-selling it everywhere—including, as we found out the other night, after the last episode

Best of The Decade - 2000s

Mar 24th, 2020 1h 18m

Now that so many of us are looking at an extended staycation, the Screeners thought it would be a good time for a prequel to our Best of the 2010s (https://screenerspodcast.com/163) episode. Why review one movie when we can review 28?The real

Onward, Watchmen, and Netflix

Mar 18th, 2020 1h 5m

As you might have noticed, life is...different right now, and media is changing along with everything else. We have one more theatrical review for you—Disney’s Onward, but it seems like the only question will be “should you stream this once it’

The Invisible Man

Mar 4th, 2020 1h 11m

Fans of horror movies and reboots rejoice! This episode’s main feature is Blumhouse Productions and Leigh Whannel’s reimagining of The Invisible Man. The filme stars Elizabeth Moss, so you sort of know it’s going to be a departure from the H.G.

Screeners Catch-up

Feb 25th, 2020 1h 22m

There weren’t any compelling big releases this weekend, so the Screeners (including a couple estranged friends!) have decided to huddle around their mics and talk about what’s been on their own screens, big and small, recently. Netflix, network

Birds of Prey and Oscar Wager Results

Feb 11th, 2020 50m 57s

And the 2020 Oscars wager award goes to...just kidding; you’ll have to listen to find out. There definitely was a winner, though; we’re almost sure of that.You may have noticed that first paragraph was fairly short. That’s because we had to sa

Final Oscar Predictions

Feb 6th, 2020 57m 6s

We’re less than a week away from the 92nd Academy Awards, and with so much credibility on the line, you knew the Screeners would have to get together one final time to second-guess each other and maybe even convince themselves to change their o

Best of the Decade

Jan 28th, 2020 1h 46m

In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve switched decades! If that’s not an excuse to do another look back/best-of episode, we don’t know what is. Ten years is a lot of ground to cover, but the Screeners have trained for this. We’ll not only cover eac

Bonus: Bad Boys for Life

Jan 25th, 2020 27m 4s

It’s been nearly seventeen(!) years since the last Bad Boys movie, and Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are not what you’d typically call “boys” anymore (OK, if we’re being honest, they were decidedly post-adolescent for the last one too). That h

Top 10 Films of 2019

Jan 20th, 2020 1h 57m

At Screeners HQ, we practice not so much a “new year, new you” lifestyle as a “new year, new retrospective” one. Yes, you could accuse us of looking forward by looking back, but this podcast is about movies, not armchair psychology, so...there?