Watch Skip Plus Episode 102: Smile 2 Emcee returns as he and Cupcake tackle the sophomore debut by Parker Finn in his follow-up to the successful Smile film from 2022. They discuss what makes the original Smile so unique, how timing is everything, and how Smile 2 performs as a sequel and on it's own volition. Is Smile 2 a worthy sequel to the hit 2022 film that makes the audience smile or does it feel like a copy and paste of the original with some different flare? Tune in to find out! TIMESTAMP...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Watch Skip Plus Episode 101: Terrifier 3 The Cinemasochist returns as he and Cupcake take on the box office horror sensation Terrifier 3, and yet again: They get downright philosophical and explore the nature of horror films and icons, "the horror film fan" vs "the Marvel film fan", and along the way, name drop iconic horror directors. No Emcee this week, but he will return next with with a big SMILE (hint hint). The two explore what makes the third installment in the Terrifier franchise unique,...
Oct 17, 2024•2 hr 7 min
Watch Skip Plus Episode 100: Deep Dive into Joker Folie à Deux Join hosts Jose (aka Cupcake) and Alex (aka Emcee) as they celebrate their 100th episode with an in-depth analysis of Joker: Folie à Deux. In this milestone episode of Watch Skip Plus, they debate the film's artistic narrative style, its psychological depth, and character development, as well as its impact as a comic book sequel. The hosts engage in humorous exchanges, providing contrasting opinions and discussing the film's musical ...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 34 min
Episode 99: Megalopolis Movie Review - Watch or Skip? In this episode, hosts Emcee and Cupcake dive into the intricate history and contentious reception of Francis Ford Coppola’s 'Megalopolis.' They discuss the film's problematic production, including cast and crew issues and legal hurdles, alongside the novel but flawed volumetric capture technology used. Alex expresses his intense disappointment, influenced by his viewing experience with Alexus (a FIRST in the history of Watch Skip Plus), whil...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Episode 98: The Not A Bomb / Watch Skip Plus crossover is here and it’s a TWO AND A HALF HOUR JOURNEY! PODCASTERS ASSEMBLE! Not a Bomb and Watch Skip Plus do their first ever epic crossover episode and it’s a doozy: All four hosts were hanging out together live and in person for a whole week so they all just had to share the fun times with all the listeners! First up, NAB’s special segment on Baltimore Comic Con and the treasures Troy and Brad found while Cupcake talks popping his Comic Con cher...
Sep 29, 2024•2 hr 31 min
Episode 97….shhhhhhhhh…don’t speak. Just listen. In this episode, hosts Cupcake (Jose) and Emcee (Alex) dive into “Speak No Evil”, the new Blumhouse written and directed by James Watkins (heads up: It’s a remake of a 2022 Danish thriller of the same name!). They discuss the performances, especially James McAvoy’s bonkers, drolling, hulking performance and evaluate the film’s effectiveness in creating tension and delivering a thrilling experience. With robust audience participation and some humor...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Episode 96 appears from the Afterlife, complete with a waiting room ticket!!! Emcee and Cupcake are joined by the host of the Backlook Cinema Podcast, Zo to review “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, the direct sequel to the 1988 classic. The film summons the original director (Tim Burton) and stars (Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara) for more bio-exorcist shenanigans. Just don’t say his name three times….the recording and editing took a (after)lifetime because Cupcake’s PC kept crashing...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr 50 min
Episode 95 just for you the Strange Darling review Cupcake and Alex recorded The Boyz are back with another episode! This time they are joined by the incredible John from the “And Now For Something A Little Bit Different” YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@johnhorgan1713), and the three take a break from big studio fare to review the current buzzy-super hot indie “Strange Darling”. With an incredible pedigree - one of the producers wrote the book “1001 Films You Need to See Before You Die...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Episode 94 Blink Twice - JUST IN TIME FOR YOUR LABOR DAY COOKOUT!!!! Emcee and Cupcake blink twice to signal their review of….wait for it…..Blink Twice, the directorial debut of actor extraordinaire Zoe Kravitz. Starring Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie, the film features a knockout cast of veteran and new actors (Simon Rex! Adria Arjona! Christian Slater!) and starts with an unprecedented trigger warning for the audience. Is this likely-to-be-polarizing, psychologically violent allegory for gende...
Sep 01, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Episode 93 chest-bursting out and ready to stalk your ears! Listen and celebrate the SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF WATCH SKIP PLUS with a special episode featuring Cupcake, new 2024 co-host Emcee, and the OG WS+ Co-host/co-founder Justin the Red! With debut Episode 0: Introductions and Episode 1: Bullet Train streaming on August 22, 2022, nearly two years and a day later, the BOYZ grab their Reebok stompers and pulse rifles and review Fede Alvarez’s re-boot/re-quel/interquel “Alien: Romulus”. Hold on ti...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 40 min
Kicking Episode 92 out of the nest….just for you! Emcee and Alex record off schedule and apparently they drank several Red Bulls before recording so you get to thrill as they energetically go cuckoo for “Cuckoo” the eagerly anticipated horror thriller from new (wave?) German director Tilman Singer. Amidst the giallo-esque shadows and John Carpenter nods, a gorgeous cast including Hunter Schaefer, Jessica Henwick, and Dan Stevens spreads its wings to peck away at the central mystery of this sci-f...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Grab your Lady in the Water! Episode 91 is Happening!!!!! The Boys are Wide Awake taking on the brand new thriller from the Unbreakable director M. Night Shyamalan - Trap starring Josh Harnett. Many are Split on Shyamalan - known throughout the Village for his early thrillers with a twist which were all hits, Shymalan then had a string of disasters. Are all the Signs there for a cinematic blockbuster that will make us all Servant to the next M. Night thriller or is the writing on the Glass that ...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 53 min
Episode 90 this week on Watch Skip Plus, we're diving headfirst into the R-rated chaos of Deadpool & Wolverine, the latest balls-to-the-wall addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Shawn Levy, this film sees Ryan Reynolds back as the foul-mouthed, wisecracking Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as the gruff, adamantium-clawed Wolverine. Prepare for an uncensored breakdown of the film’s raunchy humor, brutal action, and the electric chemistry between our two antiheroes. Is Deadpool &...
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 56 min
Episode 89 of Watch Skip Plus answers whether a 28 year old film necessitated a sequel! 28 years after the original and wildly entertaining Twister was released (Special Effects! TV actors! Written by Michael Crichton! EP’d by Spielberg! Natural Disaster writ large!), Hollywood brain trusts got the idea for the ultimate oxymoron - “A standalone sequel”...with that GLEN POWELL guy! And so it goes: Twisters hits screens in a very “Top Gun: Maverick” style re-quel (listen to hear common denominator...
Jul 27, 2024•1 hr 36 min
Beware the creeping dread of Episode 88 of Watch Skip Plus! 2024 has been full of bombs, but it’s been a bountiful basket of HORROR(!) Hollywood royalty director Oz Perkins gives us "Longlegs", a uniquely styled thriller with genius marketing touting yet another legendary, singular performance by Nicholas Cage. The second coming of horror or artsy-fartsy celluloid pretension? Cupcake and special guest/GOAT/Pod-Father Sam U. Rai from the Gentleman’s Guide to Midnite Cinema put the lotion in the b...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 44 min
Plastic Rain Coats May Be Needed for Episode 87 of Watch Skip Plus! Is Horror finally back with the release of Ti West’s third film in the “X” - “Pearl” trilogy? Or does “MaXXXine” land with all the power of a wet fart albeit one that is bloody and pretty? Listen as the Watch Skip Plus Boys deliver a controversial take on the film like a knife to the throat. In This Episode: Cupcake opens with a star studded poop. Emcee talks fantasy involving burly men with shoulder pads. Ti West, trilogies, an...
Jul 13, 2024•1 hr 34 min
Prepare for massive WTF’ing for Episode 86 of Watch Skip Plus! The Poor Things over at Watch Skip Plus review “Kinds of Kindness”, the new film by Yorgos Lanthimos, a Favourite of many from Greece to the Alps to the Academy! Bleat all you want, but the film is a return to form for Lanthimos’ singular, visceral filmmaking. Is this triptych with a cast of regular Lanthimos players (Emma Stone, Willem DaFoe, Margret Qualley) the whole Lobster entree and dessert or is it a painful experience like th...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 54 min
HOP ON YOUR HARLEY AND REV UP A BRAND NEW EPISODE! The Watch/Skip’ers time travel on a Harley back to the 60’s when they review indie darling Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” based on the eponymous photo-book by Danny Lyon of the notorious Outlaw Motorcycle Club. Featuring a full throttle cast of newcomers and veteran character actors and Nichols’ chrome pedigree, pic is chopped for potential award-season mileage. But is this “Goodfellas” meets “Sons of Anarchy” worthy of its leather-studded color...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 37 min
QUIT THRASHING ABOUT IN THE WATER AND LIFE-PRESERVER OUR NEW EPISODE! The Boys dive into the streaming waters again and take on the French shark thriller Under Paris. Directed by new wave French horror director Xavier Gens - who counts as his new wave compadres Alexandre Aja (“High Tension”), Bustillo and Maury (“Inside”), and Pascal Laugier (“Martyrs”) - Sous La Seine (it’s original French title) chums viewer expectations with the ultimate B movie Jaws-ripoff scenario: a shark in the Seine and ...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 47 min
FAKE IT ‘TIL YOU MAKE IT….NEW EPISODE IS NIGH! WE’RE BAAAAAAACCCCCKKKK!!!! After a short break, the Watch/Skip’ers make a killer comeback on a new episode that is special in more ways than one! Emcee and Cupcake take on their first streaming exclusive film - Netflix’s Hit Man, directed by Richard Linklater and current IT dude, Glen Powell. The two are joined by one of THE pod-fathers - Sam U. Rai from the long running and vaunted Gentleman’s Guide to Midnite Cinema. And hang on for the ride: thr...
Jun 14, 2024•2 hr 11 min
*Late episode post due to technical difficulties forcing a full re-edit (warning: may be editing mistakes) NEW EPISODE TRUCKING YOUR WAY!!!! The Watch/Skip’ers hitch a ride on Fury Road and take on the new entry in the popular and well-loved Mad Max series - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. This time creative brain trust director George Miller has buzzy indie darling Anya Taylor-Joy smearing the oil on her face and donning the bionic-motorized arm in place of Charlize Theron while Chris Hemsworth chews ...
Jun 01, 2024•1 hr 52 min
NEW EPISODE……WHHHHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!?!?!!!?!??!!!! What do ‘all of us’ and a ‘train’ have in common? STRANGERS!!!! And so it comes to pass….the Watch/Skip’ers review the new horror/remake/reboot “Strangers - Chapter 1”, the first in a proposed trilogy-prequel to the cult 2008 original. This episode is dedicated to the dudes over at WildreamPod as we stole their format like strangers in the night - Emcee and Cupcake had a full slate weekend and the recording came together last minute with bot...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 11 min
GO BANANAS AND LISTEN TO OUR NEW EPISODE!!!! Missing “APE-ril” by just THIS much….the fourth film/reboot of the reboot of the Tim-Burton inspired remake of the seminal 70’s smash Planet of the Apes roars into theatres, and Emcee and Cupcake have a front row seat to the apocalyptic zoo that is “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”. The Wes Ball directed film hails CAESAR…the Moses and central character of the original trilogy…but brings us new ape characters - some cute and bumbling, and others ter...
May 19, 2024•1 hr 36 min
NEW EPIC EPISODE EXPLODES IN YOUR EARS!!!! The Watch/Skip’ers review the new film from David Leitch who directed “Bullet Train” (the FIRST movie reviewed on WS+!) Leitch brings his stuntman origins and his expert level direction to “The Fall Guy”, loosely based on the Lee Majors-starring, legendary 80’s television show. The episode is so larger than life that there is extra discussion about Leitch and his stunt company 87Eleven Action Design, a NEW play-along feature when we discuss the cast, an...
May 10, 2024•2 hr 6 min
Tie Point! New Episode served! The Boys serve up a review of “Challengers”, the new film from famed ALGERIAN director Luca Guadagnino, and lob some deep, right-on-the-line analysis and film discussion. The director of “Bones and All” serves up different kinds of bones in the tennis-threesome erotic drama, and Emcee and Cupcake find themselves volleying back and forth over the film’s performances, the time jumps, the camera work, and all the sexy sexy. Is Challengers a film lover’s dream or is it...
May 02, 2024•2 hr 11 min
Grunt and scratch yourself vigorously….a new episode has dawned! From the second Willden-beast mentioned this film on our Second Annual Sundance episode and especially after the first red band trailer went wild, the hosts of the show have been anticipating the release of the Zellner brothers’ “Sasquatch Sunset”. (Editor’s note: This is Beanie…according to my hooman only one of you was looking forward to this.) Crude and quite “out there”, it’s a year in the life of a family of Sasquatch (“Bigfoo...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 19 min
*sings* WAR…..Huhh….GOOD GAR-LAND!....what is it GOOD for?....Brand new ep is streaming…GET IT IN YOUR EARS….say it again!!!!! Alex Garland’s eagerly awaited fourth directorial and scripted effort “Civil War” has been unleashed and Cupcake and Emcee are right out on the front line giving you the scoop. Starring Kirsten Dunst (minus any web-slinging hunks) and a cadre of Garland’s trusted performers from his other works, the film’s trailer and marketing set expectations high…”From the Director of...
Apr 20, 2024•1 hr 48 min
Quit Monkey(Man)-ing around and GET A NEW EPISODE IN YOUR EARS!!!! “John Wick in Mumbai”, you say? Ticket SOLD! The Watch/Skip’ers cock their critic guns and suit up for the action vengeance, social commentary-tinged directorial debut of noted, SAG and BAFTA award winning actor Dev Patel. Is it the “audacious” film debut that stunned SXSW audiences or is it a meta-cloned, US-Bollywood inspired- actioner-masquerading-as-a-Bollywood-US inspired-actioner, film directing debut that is beautiful but ...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 43 min
RUN FOR COVER! A NEW EPISODE HAS BEEN UNLEASHED!!!! On an episode so TITAN-sized we couldn't fit a "Q and Alex" at the end, the Boys welcome back the OG co-host of Watch/Skip+...Red, the Cinemasochist, Mr. Godzilla himself...Justin!!! Thrill to the puns and listen as all three energetic pod-monsters fight for audioverse space as they take on Cupcake's beloved future husband Adam Wingard's "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire". What do you get when you mix two seasoned and well-versed Monsterverse fa...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 47 min
LIGHT UP YOUR PROTON PACKS! A NEW EPISODE IS OFF THE PKE CHARTS! The Boys are back taking on the new legacy sequel “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”. Thrill to Cupcake ragging on the film’s horrible title and Emcee pondering the movie’s overload of characters as they take the ectoplasm-laden hit and tell you whether the Gil Kenan directed, next chapter in the Ghost Corp produced Ghostbusters franchise is worthy of its spectrally supernatural logline or if it deserves to be sent to containment for it...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 39 min
