Category Archives: Podcast

Or Is It? – Transformers

Large 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Or Is It? – Transformers

Film Studies 12-13: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mutant Mayhem

This 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Film Studies 12-13: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mutant Mayhem

Or Is It? – Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy!

Scott 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Or Is It? – Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy!

Or Is It? – Mazes & Monsters

Tom 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Or Is It? – Mazes & Monsters

Film Studies 12-12: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Film Studies 12-12: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Or Is It? – Godzilla

Finally, 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Or Is It? – Godzilla

Film Studies 12-11: The Flash

Barry 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Film Studies 12-11: The Flash

Film Studies 12-10: Transformers – Rise of the Beasts

Optimus 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Film Studies 12-10: Transformers – Rise of the Beasts

Or Is It? – Barb Wire

In 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Or Is It? – Barb Wire

Film Studies 12-9: Spider-man Across The Spider-verse

Miles 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

Posted in Podcast | Comments Off on Film Studies 12-9: Spider-man Across The Spider-verse