The Review Review

Ben McFadden & Paul Root
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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"

  1. 6 DAYS AGO

    RRR - Batman Returns...Returns (Guest: Mike Bowers)

    Send us a textThe hell is this...oh! It's the first ever "Review Review RemixWind!" Enjoy this random recut of our classic episode for "Batman Returns" (D. Tim Burton 1992) with the fantastic Mike Bowers of the 'Agree to Disagree' podcast. We took a whole 2hr edited episode and then smushed it, and crushed it, and compacted it, and compartmentalized it, and crammed it all into a neat little package just for you! More random noises! More music than before! More offensive than you recall!...

    1h 27m

  2. 12/24/2024

    HH 7 - Gremlins / The Little Drummer Bill (Guest: Jessica Martin)

    Send us a text“Great, now I have another reason to hate Christmas…The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn’t home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Ever...

    1h 45m

  3. 12/11/2024

    HH 6 - Scrooged / First Contract (Guest: Audrey Marlene)

    Send us a textSeasons Greetings from The Review Review, and our second of three new holiday episodes to close out 2024. Ghost of episodes past, and Christmas Sweater Queen, Audrey Marlene joins us with her pick, "Scrooged." (Dir. Richard Donner 1988) Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, and Alfre Woodard. We go on a tonal journey through the years, and the tears that are abound in this modernized take on the classic Chucky Dick (Charles Dickens) story "A Christmas Carol." A stark reminder that...

    1h 57m

  4. 11/27/2024

    HH 5 - Hard Target / Only Time(Cop)

    Send us a textThis Thanksgiving, hunting season is over, as Ben and Paul go guestless (hunting is hard) and get restless for a mulleted JCVD, and as a result, a “guaranteed good time” (guarantor @whollymoses). This go round it's the action classic “Hard Target” (d. John Woo 1993) starring: Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, Yancy Butler, and Lance Henrickson. Should this have been a Lance Henrickson vehicle? Is the only cop working during a strike the only cop you can count on? Do po...

    1h 28m

  5. 11/13/2024

    True Romance / Perfect Strangers (Guest: Matt Barrow)

    Send us a textGuest Matt Barrow is back, and he’s putting us in the hot seat, with a movie he hadn’t seen, but we had, in “True Romance.” (1993 d. Tony Scott) Starring: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, and Gary Oldman. We have a heart to heart to heart about how badly we truly all want burgers, and where to get them. A sequel pitch made possible with the magical Second Sight of Ai. And the Perfect Stangers we meet at amusement parks, hotels, abandoned nuclear power plants. **All epis...

    1h 46m

  6. 10/30/2024

    Alien3 / Pauly Gets Irregular (Guest: Moses Olson)

    Send us a textIt’s Ken Vs Guile (pick Paul or Ben for whichever) in this no holds barred, knock down, drag out, rootin, tootin, scootin, hoot of a wrap to Spooky Season with our guest writer/director/actor Moses Olson! We proudly honk the honk, cause we fully tonk the tonk through his choice, a rare sequel, Alien3! (D. David Fincher ((don’t remind him)) 1993). We talk through this complicated…self hating (probably?), and strange looking hodge podge of a movie as long as Paul has a breath in h...

    2h 14m

  7. 10/23/2024

    Shaun of the Dead / So Go Back to the Cluuub

    Send us a textStick around pull up a bar stool, and open the pig snacks, cause we're in the annals for "Shaun of the Dead." (D. Edgar Wright 2004) Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Bill Nighy. We break down what the Director/Writer, and tagline describe as "a romcom with zombies," whoops, zed word. Favorites in The Edgar Wright pantheon, the general Evil Dead pantheon, even THE VERY SUBJECT OF THE EPISODE! That's right, this one has it all, and a Drumstick ©️ for your Trick or Treat bucke...

    1h 31m

  8. 10/16/2024

    Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas / The Fudge Detective (Guest: Ben Burris)

    Send us a textWell, here we are it finally happened. You shook, and waited, and Chrtmahweenas (?) has arrived. Guest, and bday boy Ben Burris brought us, a HENRY SELICK FILM, “Tim Burton’s: The Nightmare Before Christmas.” (D. HERNY SELICK people, we cannot stress this enough. 1993) Starring: Chris Sarandon (Jack speaking), Danny Elfman (Jack singing), and Catherine O’Hara (doin’ it all, baby!). Is it good enough for someone to have good intentions, even if they’re making everyone’s existence...

    1h 36m
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15 Ratings

About

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"

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  • Creator
    Ben McFadden & Paul Root
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    72
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 The Review Review
  • Show Website
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