Reel Spoilers Review St. Louis

Hello all. I am proud to say this week I officially finished Grad school for becoming a Physician Assistant. I wanted to thank you because I couldn’t have done it without this podcast.

From the three hour drives to study breaks to down time between classes you’ve been there. Your humor always made me laugh and your honest passion on film always made me appreciate something I loved even more. I saw a movie almost every weekend and even if I saw it alone I could know my “Movie Uncles” would have a discussion I felt like I could weigh in on. You all seem like pretty cool dudes who do this because you love it and that’s pretty inspiring for me at least.

So thank you guys for the last two and a half years of box office, superheroes and Monkees references. I look forward to having you guys with me as I begin my next journey.

Sarah, PA

I’m going to give y’all 5 stars, so I’m going to speak freely. This USED to be my favorite podcast. I would see movies I normally bypass in order to enjoy the conversation along with the guys. However, as the woke-tastic reviewer (maybe) implied, Joe became too problematic for me. While listening to the “Us” review, I was frustrated with his take on the film making a statement on black-on-black crime because (1) paraphrasing of course, “that’s a big issue in his line of work”, while (2) ignoring the fact that there was a WHOLE ENTIRE white family murdered by their own set of doppelgängers. What does that mean then? Perhaps, violence is typically perpetrated by people that look like their victims?

Yes, everyone is entitled to there own ideas, but that was just the cherry on the top of a long-history-of-eyebrow-raising-comments sundae. Look, do I think the guy is a racist? Nope. Do I appreciate his comic book references? Very much. But as a woman of color, I’ll pass.

The rest of the gang is cool. I like that they bring on guests relevant to the movie of the week and are fairly woke-ish. Tom gave the best critical review of The Butler that I’ve heard. I secretly hoped him and Dan would do a spin off podcast called “Old-Timey References”, but alas...

Anyways, I gave this 5-stars because it is genuinely top-quality if certain occasional problematic comments don’t bother you (which is not a critique, everyone has valid experiences which shape the way they receive and interpret information). Even though I’ve cooled on my weekly listening, others should definitely give it a chance.

Love the podcast, love the point of view. I have gone back in the past year and listened to all of them.