Novocaine & Black Bag Non-Spoiler Reviews
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This week, we venture out of the world of horror and into the worlds of action comedy and spy thriller with a double feature of Novocaine, featuring the charismatic and charming Jack Quaid as a man who can’t feel pain on a mission to rescue his girlfriend from bank robbers, and Black Bag, an ensemble espionage film about a spy (Michael Fassbender) who is working to uncover the mole in his secret organization before they can sell a stolen weapon.
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Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Episode Breakdown
00:02:46 Novocaine Review
00:003:02 Director Duo Dan Berk & Robert Olsen (Significant Other, Villains, Stake Land 2, Body)
00:03:53 Budget & Box Office
00:04:14 The Cast - Jack Quaid (Companion, The Boys, Scream), Amber Midthunder (Prey, Legion, Hell or High Water), Ray Nicholson (Jack Nicholson’s son, Smile 2), Betty Gabriel (Upgrade, Get Out, Jack Ryan, It Lives Inside), Jacob Batalon (Spider-Man movies)
00:07:53 Dan’s Review
00:09:20 Other Reviews (Rotten Tomatoes & IMDB)
00:12:17 Christopher Nolan Tangent
00:13:08 The Review Continues
00:16:09 Black Bag Review Intro
00:17:23 Director Steven Soderbergh (Presence, Haywire, Side Effects, Contagion, Ocean’s 11 12 & 13, Traffic, Out of Sight)
00:18:32 Writer David Koepp (Presence, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds (2005), Secret Window, Spider-Man, Panic Room, Stir of Echos, Snake Eye s, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, The Shadow, Carlito’s Way, Death Becomes Her)
00:21:07 The Cast - Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, the Fox X-Men Prequel films, The Killer, Assassin’s Creed, Haywire, Inglourious Basterds, 300), Cate Blanchett (Tar, Nightmare Alley, Thor: Ragnarok, Lord of the Rings, Blue Jasmine, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Aviator, The Missing), Tom Burke (Furiosa), Marisa Abela (Industry, Barbie), Rege-Jean Page (Dungeons & Dragons, The Gray Man, Brigerton), Naomi Harris ( The Daniel Craig Bond Movies, 28 Days Later, Moonlight, Venom: Let there be Carnage, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, After the Sunset), Pierce Brosnan (JamesBond / Goldeneye, The Thomas Crown Affair, The November Man, The Foreigner, Mamma Mia!, The Matador, Seraphim Falls, After the Sunset, The Tailor of Panama, Dante’s Peak, Mars Attacks!, Detonator, Live Wire, Nomads), Gustaf Skarsgard (Oppenheimer, Westworld, Vikings)
00:27:03 The Plot
00:28:05 Budget, Box Office, & Digital Release
00:29:50 Reviews (IMDB & Rotten Tomatoes)
00:30:59 Patrick’s Review
00:40:02 The Bottom Line
00:40:19 Double Feature Final Thoughts
00:41:33 News
00:41:42 Mickey 17 Home Media Set to Release on Digital Less than a month after theatre release
00:44:00 New Looney Toons Movie Struggles at Box Office with Warner Brothers Tax Write-Off Talk
00:47:07 Screenrant is reporting that the upcoming animated Predator movie will contain three anthology shorts of predators in different historical eras: pirates, samurai, and an as yet unannounced era.
00:49:30 Rumors swirling of Neill Blomkamp writing and directing a new Starship Troopers.
00:52:56 Jenna Ortega in Talks for Single White Female
00:55:00 Physical Media Showcase - Ghostbusters VHS & Inglourious Basterds Arrow Video
00:58:42 Outro
