Cinema Psychos Movie Reviews

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a beautiful mess...and we're here for it!

We weren't planning on covering this one — but after seeing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, we had to record an emergency bonus episode. Brian and John break down why this is the most grounded, consequence-driven Spider-Man movie the MCU has made yet, the surprisingly great Punisher subplot, Florence Pugh's instantly-memeable "small potatoes" scene, and how thi...

Eric Idle and Lorne Michaels teamed up in 1978 to make the greatest Beatles parody you've probably never seen — and it worked so well that Paul McCartney sent back a real letter saying he didn't find it funny, while John Lennon loved it so much he never returned his copy. This week on Cinema Psycho Show, Brian and John dig into The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, the SNL-adjacent mockumentary packed with John Belu...

This is a spoiler-filled review and discussion of Super (2010), directed by James Gunn and starring Rainn Wilson and Elliot Page, covering the film's violence, its most divisive scene, and what it means that its director now runs DC Studios.

Before James Gunn was directing Superman, he wrote and directed Super (2010) — and it's way darker than you remember. Brian and John are joined by Josh Axelrod...

Fargo (1996) turns 30 this year. On this episode of The Cinema Psycho Show, hosts Brian and John are joined by Katie and Nat from The VHS Club podcast to revisit the Coen brothers' Minnesota crime classic — including why detective Marge Gunderson spent most of the investigation with almost nothing to go on but a single vague description of her "funny looking" suspect.

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This is a spoiler-filled review and discussion of Obsession (2026), directed by Curry Barker and starring Inde Navarrette and Michael Johnston, covering the film's themes, performances, and ending.

Obsession is finally on digital — and Inde Navarrette's performance as Nikki is going to haunt you. Brian and John are joined by returning guest Jordan the Grey Witch to break down Curry Barker's indie horror hit that's outgrossing...

Happy 4th of July — we're doing it differently this year!

Brian and John are joined by returning guest Henry O'Brien (Film Obsessive / Stuff I Watched Substack) to review Oliver Stone's BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989) — and make the case that this is not just Tom Cruise's best performance, but one of the most underseen masterworks of American cinema.

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Masters of The Universe (1987) is the ultimate 80s movie debate. Is it a sci-fi epic, or is it a glorious, awesomely bad disaster? Let's find out.

When Mattel teamed up with Cannon Films—a studio legendary for running on sheer sweat, blood, and wild choices—to bring He-Man to the big screen, the results were unforgettable. In this episode, the Cinema Psychos are joined by Justin from Epic Fil...

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🎉 EPISODE 400 🎉 — and we're celebrating with the remake nobody asked for.

For Father's Day, BrIan and John are joined by Old Man Brad (Tomb of Terrors podcast) to review THE STEPFATHER (2009) — a PG-13 slasher remake so soulless it makes you appreciate the original even more.

In t...

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Michael Keaton was making people lose their minds in a gangster parody so dense with jokes it makes Airplane! look restrained. Brian is joined by special guest KT Baldassaro to dig into the 1984 cult classic Johnny Dangerously — a PG-13 movie that somehow snuck in an exploding-balls PSA, and Weird Al Y...

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Seven years since a Star Wars film hit theaters. Disney's biggest star wars streaming property was given a $165 million budget — while every other Star Wars movie got $500-600 million which makes you wonder, did Disney short change this movie on purpose?

Brian and John break down why The Mandalorian &a...

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Amy Adams' FIRST movie. Kirsten Dunst. Allison Janney. Brittany Murphy. Ellen Barkin. Kirstie Alley. All in one movie from 1999 — and nobody talks about it.

This week on Cinema Psychos, Brian and John are joined by Amanda and Lucy of Wine & Crime — the true crime & comedy podcast — ...

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Does Amy Heckerling's Clueless from 1995 still hold up after 31 years?

This re-imagining of Jane Austen's Emma starring Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, and the immortal Paul Rudd represents the pinnacle of mid 90's culture, fashion, and slang (as if!).

In honor of 90's movie month, we ...

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Is Reality Bites the ultimate 90s time capsule — or just a movie full of people you want to shake? We dig into Ben Stiller's 1994 Gen X classic and we're not holding back.

Brian and co-host John are joined this week by Rachael and John of the YaJagoff Podcast, Pittsburgh's beloved local institution &md...

What happens when two wealthy socialite heiresses end up in the pacific northwest at the height of The Great Depression. You get The Wilde Girls, a new indie film that I had the pleasure of viewing recently. So let's break down the good and bad in this movie filled with bears, button men, and heart.

Synopsis: The year is 1932. Two clueless socialite heiresses with zero survival skills find themselves los...

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In 1996, Touchstone Pictures looked at Shaquille O'Neal, looked at their checkbook, and said: "Genie movie. Let's go." Nobody wrote a real script. Nobody asked questions. And somehow, nobody noticed the kid protagonist falls nine stories into an abandoned building in the first f...

Kevin Costner spent $200 million making a Mad Max ripoff on the open ocean — and the man has gills behind his ears.

That's right. Waterworld's hero is a merman. A gill-having, web-toed, pee-drinking merman. And Cinema Psychos is here to ask the only question that m...

McDonald's killed Batman. Then Warner Brothers buried him in neon. After Batman Returns traumatized parents and Christian groups, McDonald's panicked and pulled their Happy Meal deal. Warner Brothers, terrified of losing fast food merchandising money, forced a course correction that gave us Batman Forever—a neon-soaked, toyetic mess that abandoned Tim Burton's gothic vision for Joel Schumacher...

Is Panic Room just Home Alone For Adults? David Fincher's 2002 home invasion thriller is sharper, darker, and weirder than you remember — and this week we're breaking down every inch of it.

Brian, John, and returning guest Anastasia Elfman revisit one of the most u...

Ready or Not 2 is in theaters — so we went back to where it all started.

Brian, John, and filmmaker/critic KT Baldassaro (@MovieRuntime) dig into the 2019 original and make the case that it's one of the smartest, funniest, most satisfying horror comedies of the last decade. A bride. A devil-controlled game box. A mansion full of rich lunatics. Hide and seek to the death.

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• Why this is more satire than horror...