The Five Best Movies From 2023
The Five Best Movies I Saw Released In The Year 2023
Just End The Suffering Podcast: Pop Culture Party 5
It’s time to kick off 2024 by looking back at the year in pop culture from 2023 on the Just End The Suffering podcast! Host Mike Phillips (@MPhillips331) is joined by pop culture correspondent Sam Derosa (@SDeros5) and resident film critic Jon Stanko (@JStanko99) to revisit what 2023 had to offer in terms of pop culture.
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” Trailer Reaction
The Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) trailer dropped about a month ago, and you can bet your ass that I watched it multiple times that day. Today I am writing about it for the first time just to get my thoughts out. Yes, I know 16 million people have watched this trailer alone on the Warner Bros. Picture page…but I am going to have my moment here.
“Beautiful Boy” Is A Hard But Rewarding Watch; It Is Excellent Steve Carell.
“Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a […]
It Somehow Gets Worse Than “New Moon”?
I asked for this. I volunteered to watch New Moon (2009). I may have been under the influence of something, but I can’t blame this 130-minute experience on anyone else but me.
“No One Will Save You” Deserves To Be On Your Radar
The quiet disposition of Brynn and her living area gets a loud and rude awakening when an alien invasion begins. Out of nowhere, extra-terrestrials start descending from the sky and Brynn is on her own defending herself and her home.
“Apt Pupil” Is One Of The Strangest Movies I’ve Ever Seen
In my (most likely futile) quest to watch all Stephen King inspired movies, I stumbled across one of the weirdest viewing experiences of my life.
Martin Scorsese Was In His Allegorical Horror Bag Early With “The Big Shave”
“In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.”
“Infinity Pool” Is A Better Think Piece Than Movie
For those who are new to Stanko’s Stance, welcome. Appreciate the YAK fans and support. I am a psycho. I write in a stream of consciousness sort of way, so […]
Another “Ferrari” Trailer Reaction
Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is in trouble, and is seemingly having an identity crisis while also trying to save the family business from falling into irrelevant bankruptcy.
I Wrote Too Much About “Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts”
HOW MANY TIMES DOES BUMBLEBEE NEED TO DIE IN A TRANSFORMERS MOVIE?? JESUS CHRIST.
“Bones And All” Will Consume All Your Thoughts & Emotions
I never would have thought that I would be tearing up on the train watching a young man desperately pleading with his girlfriend while bleeding out on the floor of a dusty dorm apartment. I never would have thought this character uttering “eat me” would force me to cuddle up in a ball and hide my tear ducts.
“The Blackening” Is A Surprise In The Best Way. It’s Eminently Self Aware And It Works.
The perfect plane movie. Possibly the best plane movie experience I have ever had. The Blackening (2023) is a horror comedy (released in June for some reason) that takes every single horror movie trope about black culture and characters and skewers the expected with laugh-out-loud satirical and oh shit sass-oozing wit.
“The Bikeriders” Trailer Reaction
Let’s get out in front of this. Austin Butler is one sexy mother fucker, and the James Dean persona he is bringing to The Bikeriders (2023) is not fair to the rest of the male population.
“Rebel Moon” Trailer Reaction
First things first. If your trailer is 3:42 then your trailer is too long. It is WAY too long. Second thing is that I know my thoughts on this trailer are incredibly late. Still I never really dove in, so now I am diving in.
“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” Shrinks Under The Pressure Of Trying To Keep Marvel Afloat
“Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne are dragged into the Quantum Realm, along with Hope’s parents and Scott’s daughter Cassie. Together they must find a way to escape, but what […]
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