This week, Chloe and I dive into our Top 10 Movies of 2024, including a gothic reimagining of Nosferatu, a hard-hitting emotional drama with Can I Get a Witness, and an animated masterpiece with Flow. Plus, I reflect on Sean Baker’s Anora and the surprising artistry of Furiosa. Chloe also reveals why A Quiet Place: Day One might be the best in the franchise and gushes about Monkey Man’s bold creativity. Join us for all this and much more on this week’s episode of What the Hell Should I Watch?
Missing the episode last week? Well, so was I as my computer decided to go rogue and deprive you of it! No worries, I made a redo, and now last week’s mistake is this week’s new episode! Sonic and pals make it a trilogy of fun plus, I get your eyeballs on two of the year’s best films! I also give my thoughts on a massively polarizing sci-fi TV series.
The Sony side of the Marvel Studios collaborations comes to an end with Kraven The Hunter but does Aaron Taylor Johnson make it epic? I dig into that as the lead film, documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer’s narrative feature debut, The End, and Clint Eastwood’s final bow, Juror #2. I’ve got some great streaming recommendations and post-finale thoughts on the best Taylor Sheridan show on Paramount+ and the greatest Star Wars animated series I’ve ever seen.
This week’s episode contains one of my final “Most Anticipated Films Of 2024” as I got to check out Robert Eggers’ take on a classic vampire story. Frank Grillo adorns a scientist’s degree along with his insane abs in the action horror Werewolves, Ralph Fiennes is ripped and ready for a fight as well, Iliad style, in The Return and I was not emotionally prepared for Ghostlight and you won’t be either. All of this plus I give my final spoiler-filled thoughts on The Penguin, now over for a few weeks.
This week on the show, I feel convinced that The Rock is trying to actively sap all of my Christmas spirit at the beginning of the holiday month. Another animated movie made me cry, a definite future Oscar nominee, I dig into the first ever Dreamworks film, now available on blu-ray, and I saw the real appeal of Rita Hayworth, all in gorgeous 4K. I also get to give a couple of post mortems on some very polarizing television. All of this plus a cool gift suggestion for all of the horror/sci-fi lovers on your shopping lists!
Call it Glicked, Wickiator or whatever you want, I saw both films and my thoughts on both of them may surprise you as it did me! Martin Scorsese offers up a documentary of a pivotal time in the history of The Beatles, I dug into my 4K of Wes Craven’s greatest gift to horror cinema and I received a hell of an early holiday present. All this plus my House Of The Dragon wrap-up, with the release of season 2 on 4K.
We’ve got a jam-packed episode of great goodies this week as I have nothing but good things to say about Hugh Grant’s new thriller, Heretic, as well as the most fun I’ve had with a film this year, Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, a movie that boasts the best cast of the year in my opinion. Warner Bros. has a trio of fantastic classics in the upgraded 4K format, a VIFF premiere gets its Netflix streaming debut, the Dune franchise expands to television and Disney+ has two of the best new shows of 2024 just as the year draws to a close. All this and more on this brand new What The Hell Should I Watch!
The Plague Cast is upon us! Or that’s what I’m calling this week’s episode as it comes at the tail end of me and my family fighting off a vicious flu! I emerge on the other side to give you my fierce thoughts on the new Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks collaboration that I felt done with after ten minutes. I also have two fantastic must-see documentaries and a horror film that every aficionado needs to see before the end of the year. I give a look at two classics from very different eras, now available on Blu-ray and more on this all-new episode! Mask up and dig in!
Chloe is back this week and so are all the production bells and whistles after the last episode’s fun little crash course. This week’s movie has me going outside of my comfort zone into the romantic dramas with We Live In Time but it’s with good company, being two of the best currently working in film today, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh. I try to coin the genre name for Liam Neeson as he has a new action film out as well as writer, director and creature guy Steven Kostanski’s follow-up to Psycho Goreman. All this plus we both relive some interesting 2024 cinematic moments in this week’s reminders.
Manning the desk solo again this week with a twist: I’m also editing too so don’t expect any flash stuff! That’s Chloe’s department! This week I give my thoughts on the ending of the Venom trilogy, Venom: The Last Dance, a symbiotic bromance for the ages! I also dug out two of our VIFF films, Conclave and Seeds, for their theatrical releases and finally got to give the well earned praise to Will Ferrell’s new documentary on Netflix. All of this plus I finally finished one of the best shows to stream in the last decade, albeit a few years too late.
Steve Stebbing 