The Movie Gang Podcast

The Queen's Gambit

Main Review: The Queen's Gambit (Miniseries)

Set during the Cold War era, orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.

Scores - Jack - 8, Trevor - 8, Jena - 8.5, Sean - 9

Overview- 8.5

Brought to you by The Tuscan Shed Media Network

and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

A View to a Kill (1985)

Main Review: A View to a Kill (1985)

After recovering a microchip from the body of a deceased colleague in Russia, British secret agent James Bond (Roger Moore) discovers that the technology has the potential for sinister applications. Investigating further, Bond is led to Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), the head of Zorin Industries. Soon Agent 007 faces off against the villainous Zorin and his tough Amazonian bodyguard, May Day (Grace Jones), who are scheming to cause massive destruction that will eliminate the competition.

Scores - Jack - 6.5, Trevor - 5, Ben - 5.5

Overview- 5.5

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

The Witches (2020)

Main Review: The Witches (2020)

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe -- under cover -- to carry out her nefarious plans.

Scores - Jack - 5, Trevor - 3, Edd - 5.5, Ben - 4.5

Overview- 4.5

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Main Review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2020 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Jason Woliner in his feature directorial debut.

Scores - Jack - 6.5, Trevor - 6, Edd - 6

Overview- 6

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

Octopussy (1983)

Main Review: Octopussy (1983)

James Bond is assigned to solve the murder of agent 009, killed in East Germany clutching a fake Fabergé egg. The trail leads to India, where an enigmatic woman operates a smuggling ring under the cover of a traveling circus. However, her real motives prove to be far more sinister, and Bond uncovers a plot to blow up a US Air Force base in West Germany.

Scores - Jack - 4, Trevor - 3.5

Overview- 4

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

Never Say Never Again (1983)

Main Review: Never Say Never Again (1983)

An aging James Bond (Sean Connery) makes an uncharacteristic mistake during a routine training mission, leading M (Edward Fox) to believe that the legendary British Intelligence spy is now past his prime. M indefinitely suspends Bond from active duty. However, when SPECTRE member Fatima Bush (Barbara Carrera) and her fellow terrorists successfully steal two nuclear missiles from the U.S. military, M must reinstate Bond, as he is the only agent who can beat SPECTRE at their own game of espionage.

Scores - Jack - 5, Trevor - 4.5, Ben - 4

Overview- 4.5

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Main Review: I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm.

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

Enola Holmes (2020)

Main Review: Enola Holmes (2020)

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

Scores - Jack - 5, Trevor - 4

Overview- 4.5

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Main Review: For Your Eyes Only (1981)

British agent James Bond is dispatched to recover a strategic communications device before it finds its way into the hands of the Russians. When the secret device that controls Britain's Polaris submarines goes missing after the spy ship carrying it sinks, 007 joins forces with a vengeful woman and a wealthy hero of the Greek resistance movement to find the equipment.

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound

Mulan (2020)

Main Review: Mulan (2020)

To save her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man to battle northern invaders in China.

Scores - Jack - 2.5, Trevor - 1, Sarah - 4, Peter - 4

Overview- 3

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and Newman Visual Productions

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Music by Bensound