The Review Review
Hosts Ben and Paul welcome special guests from all walks of life to watch, rate, discuss, and RERATE the films close to their hearts. You'll laugh (hopefully), you'll cry (maybe), you'll reconsider everything you have ever known! Welcome, to "The Review Review"
Episodes
Ben Burris returns to pinch hit for Jose Canseco as our Guest Cohost, and kinda nails the first several bars of “Turtle Power” (Partners In Kryme), and as a result we grow, specifically in intellect, to discuss his COMBO BREAKING pick “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (1990 dir. Steve Barron) Starring: Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, and Josh Pais. (The V & B) An episode in which we help each other, draw upon one ...
Guest Taylor Harris (Harris Talent Agency) rolls in for her pick, and our 24 hr marathon of "A Christmas Story" (d. Clark 1983). Starring: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsly. Swears? Check. Mouth washing experiences? Check. BB Gun stories? Check. Holiday glow? Check. Bunnies in man suits? Check. Paul trauma dumping? Check Check (2x). 12/23!
After a calendar year +, and now 37 episodes, it’s come to this…A Review Review Clip Show! Our “Retrospecticus,” offers a look back at every episode so you can Review your Review Review! Ben & Paul offer their “Naughty & Nice,” list for 2023. A phone call from our old pal Ben Burris to settle our age old Alien V Alien$ “Debate Debate." And what you all came here for HARD CORE SIMPSONS REFERENCES
WOW. What a year! It's finally time for "RETROSPECTICUS 2: Yabba Dabba Do! We Like Yappin' at You!." Featuring 18% new audio, and the other 82% has 66% more junk stuffed into it! It's barely recognizable/like new!
**All episodes contain explicit language**
Artwork - Ben McFadden
Review Review Intro/Outro Theme - Jamie Henwood
"What Are We Watching" ...
Guest co-host Rachael Fosket ("The Librarians," "Midway" - 2019 ) joins Paul for a little trip to "The Shop Around the Corner" (d. Lubitsch 1940). Starring: Margaret Sullivan, and Jimmy Stewart. Budapest, 3 o'clock in the morning, and were looking for a thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck ("Twins&quo...
Writer, and local celebrity (Burbank, CA and greater valley) Rob Weldon (Author/Creator "The Omnist Series") is back in the Paul Blart chair to dig into our collective subconscious, and his choice "Being John Malkovich," (1999 D. Spike Jonze). Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and if yoooouuuuu ccaaannn beeellliiieeevvveee it JOHN MALKOVICH. The adventure of debating ac...
Guest co-host Ben "Burrito" Burris joins his bro (not-identical) "regular” co-host Paul for a thorough examination of "Twins” (d. Reitman 1988). Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Kelly Preston. Is it possible for a PG rated comedy to be one of the horniest, busiest, raunchiest, rootenest, tootenest, and glutenest movies in the history of The Review Review?! That stuff, and ...
Well, it's the end of Spooky Season, and what better way to do it than with a "You Choose the Review," poll episode? And what better movie, than a bit of every horror movie/trope/sub-genre "Cabin in the Woods?!" (2011 d. Drew Goddard) Answer: there is no better way. Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, and Fran Kranz. Sawfaces, Scorpion Robots, Mermen, and Mutant Redneck Zombi...
Our good chum Chris Olds buzzes back in with “The Fly” (1985 d. Cronenberg) Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, and John Getz. This movie has a baboon. A real baboon. You can’t really train a baboon to act. It’s a wild f***ing animal. It will rip your face off. Have yourself a good laugh at this delightful Mel Brooks produced romp. 10/21!
****A member of the “Review Review,” family is in the fight of her life...
Stimson Snead (Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox) has returned to talk about BEN'S CHOICE(?!) for Spooky Season “Dawn of the Dead” (2004 d. Zack Snyder) Starring: Sarah Polley, Jake Weber, and Ving Rhames. Line up early for the mall opening, cause it's limited capacity, and everything is on sale...FOR FREE! We wax on about the ouvrè of Snyder, have some back and fourth about the importance (...
It's The Review Review RAPID FIRE for Spooky Season! Our returning guest, Kimbo, joins Paul for a short stay in the studio for "Poltergeist," (d. Hooper ((?)) 1982). In our most questionably rated adventure since "Earth Girls Are Easy," we attempt to invoke the spirits of the MPAA to explain their logic in the PGness of this film. Can armchair Quarterback parents be more effective tha...
Jono Matt is BACK to get us going for our annual “Spooky Season,” here on the program! We’re getting it started with our lust for discussing his choice “SE7EN,” (d. Fincher 1995) Starring: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, and Gwyneth Paltrow. At times we have a lot of pride in our loud opinions of this movie, at others we become gluttons for information. You may yourself envying the fun we have in this deep dive on...
BLORPT! Returning guest Mellinda Hensley arrives at The Review Review drive-thru window with her choice “Good Burger” (d. Robbins 1997). In this episode, we ask that eternally unanswerable GLOOOOP! question, “Welcome to Good Burger... home...of the Good Burger....Can I take your orrrr” 💥 No. No you may not. GAK! Also everyone is fired. Also the building is condemned. That was actually really easy. Lesson lear...
Friend, collaborator, co-conspirator, fantasy football foe, and human dynamo Christopher Morson blazes through the rest of our TRUCK MONTH here on The Review Review with "SPEED“ (d. De Bont 1994). Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper. Outside of realllllly wanting to see your commitment to Sparkle Motion®️, all we have ever wanted to make you do is jump jump. Review Review wanna make ...
Our neighbor, Guest: Eric Driscoll (Mr. D Likes Movies), from the Yada Yada Podcast barges through the door with his choice “Maximum Overdrive” (d. King 1986). Starring: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, and Laura Harrington. In a movie with the most confusing rules on the pod since “Gremlins,” we spend this entire episode questioning the motivations, the hows, the whens, the whys, that this movie asks us all. Forgi...
In our most demure and mindful episode to date, Guest: Sam Bullington checks in for a stay at “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” (2014 d. Anderson / Writings - Zweig) by way of a Review Review. Starring: Ralph Finnes, F. Murray Abraham, and Adrien Brody. This episode gets almost as charming as this clearly (that’s Willem Dafoe) Wes Anderson film, until Corporate Overlord Gerrah Joees comes in to make us talk football...
“Meat Loaf Month,” goes furiously forward into “Fight Club,” (1999 d.Fincher book - Palahniuk) with our guest, Aaron Goodman - LMT (Licensed Massage Therapist). Baby, we hear the blues a callin’, but we’re gonna keep on dancin’ at the paper st. pink soapy club. And don’t worry, there’s plenty of tossed salads and scrambled eggs for everyone with metaphors, dated references, confusing lines, and of course, less...
It's a bird! It's a plane! No! It's a NEW NEW REVIEW REVIEW with Guest Cohost Moses Olson, that was edited faster than a speeding locomotive, to wrap up our "Swingin' Seventies Summer Series," with 'Superman: The Movie,' (D. Donner 1978) and "Superman (5uperman)" (d. Gunn 2025). And don't worry, as we have "Brainiac" Ben join to join in on the di...
Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, and guest Keiko Green returns for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," (1975 d. Sharman). Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick. We approach the castle lair of Dr. Frank-N-Furter ready to party, for what has to be one of the Dr.'s most jovial, and moist affairs (except Rocky). The spills, the chills, the bumps, the lumps! It's alllllll here, ...
For this very special BIRTHDAY EDITION of "You Choose the Review," for "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade," (d. Spielberg 1989) Ben's invited the most excellent Damian Peterson to the party, and he's got a two day head start on recording, which is more than he needs. Damian's got friends on audio and video podcasts from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows e...
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