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Or Is It? – Simon Sez **March Madness Month**
March 20, 2024 15:48 - 50 minutes - 50.6 MBDennis Rodman makes his return to Or Is It? with Simon Sez. He plays Simon . . . and that’s basically all I can tell you about this movie because it’s an insane mess of a story that includes a … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Kazaam **March Madness Month**
March 13, 2024 17:57 - 59 minutes - 58.2 MBIt’s the mid-90s. Rap hasn’t yet given way to hip hop, basketball is America’s favourite sport du jour, and Max finds a boombox (portable stereo) that contains a magic genie. The genie, named Kazaam, gives Max three(ish) wishes and multiple … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Steel **March Madness Month**
March 06, 2024 17:36 - 52 minutes - 52.6 MBWhen the military weapons he creates are misused, he quits the military and takes the fight to the streets as a steel covered vigilante. He, his wheelchair’d love interest and his old but tenacious scrapyard owner friend team up to … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Howard The Duck
February 27, 2024 18:02 - 56 minutes - 56.2 MBHoward T. Duck is suddenly zapped away from his is home world and dumped into 1980s Cleveland, where he meets Beverly, the lead singer of an 80s girl rock group. Beverly wants to help Howard get home but it proves … Continue reading →
Film Studies 13-1: Madame Web
February 20, 2024 15:20 - 55 minutes - 51.7 MBWe checked out the latest Sony offering to their Spider-man universe. Madame Web starring Dakota Johnson about a New York paramedic who gains future-seeing abilities tasked to save three teen girls from a killer villain who also has future-see abilities. … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Freddy vs Jason
February 18, 2024 17:21 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBIt’s 2003 and it’s finally time to see the Master of Nightmares Freddy Kruger square off against the irresistable force that is Jason Vorhees . . . eventually. First, we have to suffer through the pointless adventures of the teens … Continue reading →
Film Studies 13-1: I.S.S.
January 31, 2024 01:44 - 42 minutes - 30.9 MBSix astronauts call the International Space Station (I.S.S.) home – three Americans and three Russians. But nuclear war breaks out between the two countries on Earth and now, each side tells their astronauts to take control of the I.S.S. by … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Showgirls
January 25, 2024 17:56 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBIn 1995, one special film came along and proved that all you needed was dance . . . and boobs. Elizabeth Berkley breaks off the chains from her good girl, “Jesse Spano” from Saved By The Bell image with this … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Hulk
January 20, 2024 18:15 - 1 hour - 120 MBA incredibly nerdy yet incredibly handsome scientist with a incredible secret in his own blood is zapped by incredibly powerful gamma radiation, an incredible monster is released in this incredibly not incredible movie. In a movie about The Hulk, there … Continue reading →
2023 Year in Review
January 10, 2024 15:27 - 2 hours - 94.5 MBWell it’s the new year and it’s time for our annual look back at the year in movies that was in 2023. We are revealing our picks for the best (and not the best) movies of the year. What was … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-20: Aquaman 2
January 03, 2024 17:10 - 1 hour - 128 MBArthur Curry is a husband, father, and the undisputed King of Atlantis. But when an evil foe from his past comes back and threatens to destroy everything he loves, he’ll have to team with unlikely friends to ward off the … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Santa’s Slay
December 25, 2023 23:05 - 56 minutes - 39.5 MBFor 1000 years, Santa Claus has been obligated to bring presents to good boys and girls. But this year, his required penance is over and he’s going back to his slaying ways. It’s up to Nick, his sexually aggressive girl … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-19: Godzilla Minus One
December 19, 2023 14:25 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBIt’s 1945. The second world war is over. And one failed kamikaze fighter pilot lands at an outlying airstrip. Little did he know that this particular airfield would be the beginning of the most chaotic series of events he’ll ever … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Jack Frost
December 13, 2023 01:12 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBIt’s the story of Michael Keaton dying and coming back to life to continue loving his family. Wait, no it’s not. This is the story of the serial killer mutating into a snowman and taking out his revenge against the … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Batman & Robin
December 05, 2023 14:29 - 1 hour - 71 MBWell, it’s finally time we take on one of the most renowned worst movies of all time. But we needed back up so we called in our favourite guest Scott White. Bat nipples, dumb lines, plants that eat their owners, … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Hollow Man
November 26, 2023 17:09 - 1 hour - 104 MBIn 2000, scientists (Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, and Josh Brolin) have perfected the ability of turning things invisible. But bringing them back to visible has proven to be difficult – for some reason. Also, turning invisible apparently makes humans super … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Ready to Rumble
November 16, 2023 17:37 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBWhen Jimmy “The King”, a popular wrestler and WCW World Champion, is defeated, unseated, and disgraced, two of his faithful followers set out to right the wrongs. It’s a race against time and training to whip The King back into … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-18: The Marvels
November 14, 2023 19:21 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBCarol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Kahn all have light-based powers and after a intergalactic jump-point opens above Earth, their powers are now intertwined. Plus there’s a new enemy from Captain Marvel’s past coming back for revenge. Now, everyone Bollywood … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-17: Five Nights at Freddy’s
November 07, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBIn 2014, Five Nights at Freddy’s took the computer game world and YouTube by storm. Finally, we have the live-action, cinematic version of the blockbuster game starring Josh Hutcherson and Matthew Lillard. We checked it out and we’ll tell you … Continue reading →
2023 RetroSpooktive – The Exorcist: Believer
October 31, 2023 15:38 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBOur RetroSpooktive comes to a close ON HALLOWEEN – it’s almost like we planned it that way – with 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer. Two girls go missing for three days and when they are found in a barn at a … Continue reading →
2023 RetroSpooktive – Dominion: A Prequel to The Exorcist
October 29, 2023 14:04 - 34 minutes - 26.3 MBThis time around, we’re looking at the ORIGINAL cut of the movie we looked at last time. Yes, this version was deemed to be not violent/bloody enough and the studios spent millions of dollars to reshoot it. That having been … Continue reading →
2023 RetroSpooktive – Exorcist: The Beginning
October 25, 2023 12:48 - 47 minutes - 33.6 MBOur look at the Exorcist series continues with the production hell project that became Exorcist: The Beginning. It’s the prequel story of Father Maron’s adventure into Central Africa that pits him against Pazuzu on the demon’s home turf – a … Continue reading →
2023 RetroSpooktive – The Exorcist III
October 24, 2023 03:35 - 57 minutes - 42.4 MBAfter an abysmal offering that was The Heretic, The Exorcist series rolls on into a sleeper/cult hit with The Exorcist III. A grizzled detective is investigating a series of murders that are reminiscent of the recently captured and killed Gemini … Continue reading →
2023 RetroSpooktive – The Exorcist II: The Heretic
October 10, 2023 22:27 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBAfter The Exorcist became a worldwide success, The Exorcist II: The Heretic was the follow up. It was the continuing story of Regan and her demonic possession and the battle between science and religion over how to save her. It … Continue reading →
2023 RetroSpooktive – The Exorcist
October 07, 2023 12:31 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBIt’s October and you know what that means . . . it’s time for the annual RetroSpooktive. This year, we’re taking a look at the Exorcist series. We start with the cinema classic that started it all, The Exorcist. It’s … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-16: Saw X
October 05, 2023 15:46 - 1 hour - 84 MBJohn Kramer has just been given his cancer diagnosis and he’s been given just months to live. However, he soon hears about a radical medical treatment out of Mexico that could cure him within weeks. But alas, the treatment was … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-15: Gran Turismo
October 02, 2023 15:20 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBJann Mardenborough is an elite Gran Turismo player with online records worth bragging about. But one day, he gets invited to participate in a contest where online racers get a chance to drive in a real world race for Team … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Event Horizon
September 16, 2023 13:07 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBIt’s the not-too-distant future, the Event Horizon spaceship has gone missing around the planet Neptune. A rag-tag crew is tasked with search and rescue it but one of the people aboard may not be showing all of their cards. Included … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-14: Blue Beetle
September 05, 2023 14:38 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBThis time around we’re taking a look at DC’s latest offerings, Blue Beetle. It’s the story of a reluctant young man chosen by a mysterious, alien scarab to be the new superhero, The Blue Beetle! His mission is to take … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Transformers
August 30, 2023 14:36 - 59 minutes - 83.5 MBLarge alien robots arrive on Earth and interrupt the flirtatious budding relationship of two high school teens who look like 25 year-olds. That’s the over-arching story but drilling down we found pointless scenes, characters that don’t go anywhere, and Transformers … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-13: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mutant Mayhem
August 17, 2023 17:28 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBThis time around we’re back with movie reviews and stories from our movie-going experiences. First, a quick spoiler-free review of The Meg 2: The Trench. Then, our review and Mark’s harrowing drive-in experience with The Barbie Movie. Finally, we end … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy!
August 16, 2023 13:02 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBScott White begrudgingly joined us for a look at the – somewhat – Canadian movie about a small Ontario town being attacked by a giant rock-octopus hyrid. Well, maybe more like minors are attacked underground. Ok, change miners to a … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Mazes & Monsters
July 21, 2023 17:38 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBTom Hanks returns to Or Is It? with his first major movie role – a TV movie is still a movie! – as a young college student drawn into the mind-bending world of “Mazes & Monsters”. The evil tabletop roleplaying … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-12: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
July 11, 2023 12:49 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBIndiana Jones is back! This time he’s trying to find the pieces to an ancient artifact that could allow one Nazi to travel back in time and drastically change the course of World War II. Along with him is his … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Godzilla
July 07, 2023 14:30 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBFinally, Roland Emmerich is back on Or Is It? This time his much-maligned Godzilla from 1998. We have a main character with a first name that nobody can pronounce, a military that can’t even graze a 40-storey lizard trampling through … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-11: The Flash
June 29, 2023 16:19 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBBarry Allen is The Flash. He’s the “clean-up crew” of the Justice League and he’s sad that his mommy is dead and his daddy is going to jail. But then he learns he can travel back in time with no … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-10: Transformers – Rise of the Beasts
June 28, 2023 01:16 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBOptimus Prime, Bumblebee (kind of), Mirage, and all of the other Autobots are back and need to save the Earth from the threat of Scourge – leading the Terracons – and his dark master, Unicron. But they’ll need help, first … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Barb Wire
June 23, 2023 14:55 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBIn the future war-torn world of 2017, where America is being ripped apart by a new Civil War (imagine that, eh?), one woman is at the centre of actions that could bring the war to its end. But she doesn’t … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-9: Spider-man Across The Spider-verse
June 13, 2023 14:18 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBMiles Morales is Brookyn’s Spider-man but he longs for more. More challenging schooling, bigger and tougher opponents rather than the run of the mill “villain of the week”, and he pines to see Spider-Gwen again since their adventures last time … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Hook
June 01, 2023 15:04 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBPeter Banning is a corporate takeover lawyer who’s living the busy life. But little does he know that he is actually the living, breathing real-life version of Peter Pan. The stories are real, Wendy is real, and so is the … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Inspector Gadget
May 19, 2023 16:03 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBIn 1999, they made a live-action adaptation of a 1980s cartoon series which was based on a 1960s comedy TV show. Inspector Gadget is the story of a bumbling police officer being given the power over hundreds of various gadgets … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-8: Guardians of Galaxy Vol. 3
May 11, 2023 15:35 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBStarlord, Gamora, Nebula, Drax, Mantis, Groot, and Rocket are back for the final (?) time. This time around, Rocket has suffered a serious injury and it’s a race against the clock to get the necessary information to save his life. … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Need For Speed
May 05, 2023 19:01 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBToby is a car maker, designer, and racer but when his professional and personal arch rival challenges him to a race, his rival kills his best friend and frames Toby for the murder. Now on parole, Toby is looking for … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-7: Super Mario Bros
April 25, 2023 12:26 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBWhile working in Brooklyn, New York, two struggling plumbers stumbled into a mysterious that led them into a strange new Mushroom World. They must find each other and then take down the evil King Bowser! Based on the world famous … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-6: Spring Catch Up
April 19, 2023 12:08 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBIt’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve been able to record together but we’re back and jam-packing a Film Studies episode full of the latest releases both in theatres and on streaming.This episode includes NON-SPOILER discussions for:TetrisJohn Wick: Chapter … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Winne-The-Pooh: Blood & Honey
April 14, 2023 14:06 - 53 minutes - 49 MBChristopher Robin leaves Winnie-the-Pooh and friends to fend for themselves in the Hundred Acre Wood when he goes to college and Pooh just can’t even! It’s all about revenge and a group of young women just looking to get away … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – The Wizard *Retro Re-Release*
April 06, 2023 13:17 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBWell, the new Super Mario Bros movie is coming out this weekend and to celebrate, we’re looking back at our review of The Wizard. We originally released this in January of 2106 but it’s one of our favourites. It’s the … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-5: Scream VI
March 21, 2023 17:04 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBSam and Tara have moved to NEW YORK to escape the horrors of Woodsboro. Their friends Mindy and Chad have come with them. Gale also lives in NEW YORK now. They have new friends too. But when a new Ghostface … Continue reading →
Or Is It? – Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue
March 09, 2023 18:39 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBBack in the 90s, there were two alienable constants. Saturday morning cartoons and the war on drugs. So why not combine them? Yes, all of our favourite Saturday morning cartoon characters joined forces to preach against using drugs. Michael is … Continue reading →
Film Studies 12-4: Ant-man & The Wasp – Quantumania
February 28, 2023 03:53 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBPhase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally arrived! Ant-man and family are sucked into the Quantum realm and lo and behold there’s more there than anyone ever knew – well, except for Janet. There’s a civil war going … Continue reading →