
Spoilerpiece Theatre
Boston film critics Evan Crean, Megan Kearns, and David Riedel help you decide what to watch by sharing spoiler-filled reviews of the latest blockbusters and independent films, across genres, including films by women, nonbinary, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC filmmakers. Opening music: "My Life as a God" by Augean Stables. Closing music: "Pants Party" by Oilhead. Show edited by Otto Klammer. Logo design by Rita Csizmadia.
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This week Megan and Evan took in director Rachel Abigail Holder's romantic drama LOVE, BROOKLYN (2:00), starring André Holland, Nicole Beharie, and DeWanda Wise. Short version: They liked it, with Megan revisiting it after seeing it at Sundance earlier this year. Next, Dave joins them for A LITTLE PRAYER (28:09), a qui
This week we all watched the Chris Columbis-directed THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB (working title: Olds Detect), a comedy-drama about four friends (Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie), residents of an assisted living facility, who solve cold cases. That is, until a very real and current case lands i
Evan is off this week, so Megan and Dave are joined by The Lady Wan of ScreenRun. They talk about the ghost story WENT UP THE HILL (5:03), starring Vicky Krieps and Dacre Montgomery, about a widow mourning her wife's recent death, and the wife's long-lost son who arrives for the funeral. Is this ghost benevolent or not
This week Dave watched writer-director Zach Cregger's latest, WEAPONS (1:45). After not being enamored of, but not disliking, BARBARIAN, Cregger's previous feature, Dave's expectations were low-ish. But now having seen this nasty, gnarly, anti-fascist screed dressed up as a horror movie, WEAPONS is likely going on his
Dave can't make it this week, so we (Megan and Evan) fly duo. Megan kicks things off by reviewing Michael Shanks's horror film TOGETHER (2:31), starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie. It doesn't conclude quite as effectively as she hoped, but it still features some gnarly body horror and has something po
This week Megan took in the latest movie featuring Pedro Pascal looking comfortable in any setting: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (2:18). Evan and Dave watched the dark comedy OH, HI! (16:37) with Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman, and all three Spoilerpiecers saw HOUSE ON EDEN (43:33), a found-footage horror movie writt