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In 2010 'The Social Network' rocked the tech world for it's candid depiction of humble beginnings turned sour at one of the biggest tech companies on the planet. Now, Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to blow the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets in 'The Social Reckoning' the underperforming follow-up from writer-director Aaron Sorkin starring Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, and Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg.After her father's sudden death, sheltered teenager Carrie White, raised by her overprotective mother, enters public high school, where she faces a viral bullying scandal and discovers mysterious telekinetic powers in 'Carrie', the new 8-episode miniseries from Mike Flanagan and Amazon Prime studios starring Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan, Alison Thornton, and Matthew Lillard.New trailers for 'The Exorcist: Martyrs' and 'Blade Runner 2099' have hit the internet as Francis Ford Coppola's 2024 megabomb 'Megalopolis' swings back into theaters and Quentin Tarantino swashbuckles onto the directorial stage in his newly announced first stageplay 'The Popinjay Cavailer' starring Sacha Baron Cohen. And how is Sony still planning on releasing four Sam Mendes Beatles biopics in the same month??Movie News, Movie
7 Oct 2026
Episode 351: - Digger, Lanterns & Coyote VS. ACME
The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything in 'Digger', the new film from Alejandro G. Inarritu starring Tom Cruise, John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, Jesse Plemons, & Sandra Huller. After enduring years of malfunctioning products, Wile E. Coyote teams up with a local personal injury attorney to take on ACME, the manufacturer of anything and everything used by the Looney Tunes characters in 'Coyote VS Acme', the long-awaited nearly buried film from Ketchup Entertainment and director Dave Green starring Will Forte, Lana Condor, John Cena, and Eric Bauza. As 'Lanterns' wraps up on HBO Max with stars Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre in tow, one has to wonder - is this the most aggregious example of Surf Dracula? Also Paramount officially takes over Warner Bros. as Skydance Productions, Steven Spielberg gets involved with 'Transformers' alongside series director Michael Bay, and are Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro coming back for Sicario 3? Movie News, Movie Reviews, and more every Tuesday on Off Script Film Review!
30 Sept 2026
Episode 350: - Primetime & Mutiny
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history in 'Primetime' the new thriller from director Lance Oppenheim starring Robert Pattinson, Skyler Gisondo, & Meritt Weaver.After his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime -- leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy in 'Mutiny', the new Jason Statham action vehicle starring Jason Statham and Annabelle Wallis.As the New York Times publishes their Top 100 Television Shows of the 21st Century, Warner Bros. announces a Game Of Thrones film coming to theaters Summer 2029 as Disney sets its Star-Wars sights on a very peculiar screenwriter for penning their upcoming Skywalker trilogy (again). Also new trailers for Werwulf, Naza, Elsinore, and Ray Gunn!Movie News, Movie Reviews, and more every Tuesday on Off Script Film Review!
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Episode 277: - Nosferatu, A Complete Unknown, Babygirl, & SE7EN
Published 10 Jan 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like any saw film pick, pick any one of them out of the filmography, like in this looks like nothing. You know what I mean? Like most of it's off screen, most of it's subtle, most of it takes time. I'd forgotten about the seven day structure of the week. You've got like these title cards, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but most importantly, like there's no reference to time in place really. Like we know it's the 90s because we can see the phones they're using kind of their style, but like this city is unnamed. We they're not in Chicago, they're not in New York. We don't really know where they're at. […]
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