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What a great weekend of stories getting wrapped up.
Dawn Staley is everything we want coaches to be.
Women's college basketball has eclipsed their male counterparts - and it's not going back any time soon.
Buffalo Bills stress test.
Rich takes Philly.
Paul did the damn thing with Wrestlemania 40.
Pro wrestling is better than the things you like.
Guest: Rich Fann - @Rich_Fann - PWTorch
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Richard Donner's The Omen (1976) follows American diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) as he investigates his adopted son’s, Damien, background once tragedy befalls those close to him. Thorn's quest for answers ultimately leads him to Italy and the unsettling revelation that his son may be the Antichrist. Sadly the subsequent installments never quite duplicated the impact of the first chapter in this genre-disrupting religious horror saga. So he idea of a compelling legacy-prequel seems like a non-starter. Well, director and co-writer Arkasha Stevenson would like a word. Because, The First Omen is an absolute master class on how to create a stunning in-canon prequel to a horror classic.
Fresh Eyes Brings Fresh Perspective on the Horrific
Stevenson's feature debut follows Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), a young American novitiate, as she arrives in Rome, Italy (1971) to complete her probationary period at a Roman orphanage before taking vows. For those new to the Omen universe, this prequel is a fresh-eyed, gnarly lure into the dark and twisted world of religious horror and one of the foundational storylines in the genre. Margaret encounters Carlita (Nicole Sorace), a troubled orphan, living in practical isolation. Reminded of her own turbulent childhood, she befriends the young girl in the hopes of acting as her champion. As increasingly disturbing happenings swirl around Carlita, Margaret stumbles into a dark and gruesome unfolding conspiracy. Just as Margaret connects with Carlita, a rogue priest (Ralph Ineson) approaches, demanding her help. He's on the hunt for proof of a plot by a corrupt sect within the Church. Margaret soon second-guessing herself. Nowhere is safe.
Unlike in The Omen, the women carry the bulk of the plot development. Tiger Free's Margaret is a convicing mix of ingénue and fervent acolyte. Shifting the story progression to her point of view adds layers to the terror of being in a new city, trying to integrate into an established social dynamic and feeling unsettled by a sense of danger dogging your every step. Stevenson relies less on the obvious jumpscares and more on discomfort, paranoia and the pay off is utterly next level.
The First Omen breathes menacing new life into religious horror
Under Stevenson's direction The First Omen comfortably resides at the intersection of fanatical secret societies and unholy dark arts. From the period-accurate production design and costuming, to the religious iconography and symbolism deftly sets the stage for a harrowing spiral into the heart of darkness with precision. Cinematographer Aaron Morton employs an earthy color palette and savvy use of light, shadow, and scene staging ably assisting Stevenon’s unabashed commitment to blending its paranoid-thriller and supernatural horror roots into a trauma-inducing story. Through a combination of awkward physicality, unworldliness, and bouts of inexplicable agitation Tiger Free creates a captivating picture of a woman pushed to the absolute brink. There's an increasingly demented energy of danger driven by the score and sound desighn that, alongside her character development, that acts as razor then thin tether to realty and a visually entralling fever dream.
Listen as Ro and special guest Richard Newby discuss (spoiler-free) the thematically rich and incisive allegories baked into The First Omen.
The First Omen opens in theaters, April 5, 2024
Director: Arkasha Stevenson
Writers: Tim Smith, Arkasha Stevenson, Keith Thomas
Starring: Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy
Runtime: 2 Hours
Synopsis: A young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, where she encounters a darkness that outs her own faith in jepardy,
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Quick Take: Dev Patel's directorial debut, Monkey Man, is a full-throttle, heartbreaking, brutal quest for vengeance. Patel and his co-writers weave ancestral lore and a biting challenge to the socio-political status quo into a underdog tale that wears its cinematic influences and cultural aesthetic on its sleeve. What starts as tale of a street-smart grief-striken man living only for revenge slow morphs into the journey of a man who learns to stand for something greater than himself. Monkey Man pulls no punches and takes no prisoners. Although far from technically flawless and clearly not attempting to reinvent the revenge tropes, in Monkey Man Patel firmly establishes his ability to straddle the line of action star and beguiling leading man with an almost supernatual grace.
Come for the fights and stay for the intense character arc.
Listen as Phenom and Ro discuss (spoiler-free) just how brash Monkey Man is from start to finish.
Monkey Man opens (wide) in theaters, April 5, 2024
Director: Dev Patel
Writers: Dev Patel, Paul Angunawela, John Collee
Starring: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Sikandar Kher, Sobhita Dhulipala, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte, Makarand Deshpande
Runtime: 1 Hour 53 Minutes
Synopsis: After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Note for podcast episode: Monkeypaw Productions and Jordan Peele came on board towards the end of shooting.
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Catch Fedler on B/R in April ahead of the NFL Draft
Gambling and predictable consequences
Freaknik documentary out, and we are SAFE
March Midness
Why fight Mike Tyson?
Dunked on or Trucked, easy answer honestly
Guest: Felder - @InTheBleachers - It's Felder on Substack
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Playing football made us worse fans.
Running backs getting paid.
Draft season is upon us, watch Felder on Bleacher Report.
Quarterbacks on the move.
Love is Blind reunion talk with the clearly better Felder.
Guest: Felder - @InTheBleachers - It's Felder
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Throw out all the notes, the NFL has gone insane.
Caitlin Clark discourse has gotten weird, but she's fantastic.
Not quite a kerfuffle in the SEC, but SC is a team of destiny.
Steelers country, let's ride!
How much for a running back?!?
Captain Kirk of the Starship Falcon.
Celtic doubt and LeBron faith.
Mania Season!
Guest: Nata - @NataTheScribe - Eye On College Basketball
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It's Felder Fridays, except we get a few minutes with the superior Felder.
Love is Blind is a collection of terrible people.
Buffalo Bills window closing fast.
Arch Manning knows his worth.
Podcast Friday y'all!
Guest: Felder - @InTheBleachers - It's Felder
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LeBron lived up to every expectation.
Are the Nuggets inevitable?
Caitlin Clark stands alone. But South Carolina stands atop the sport.
NIL could save Men's College Basketball.
Who's got time for the combine?
Mania season y'all!
Guest: Justin - @Ljay90 - Shutdown Fullcast Live Show
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Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, Frank Herbert
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler
Runtime: 2 Hour 46 Minutes
Synopsis: Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
Kriss, Ro, Brandon review Dune Part 2.
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Felder Friday y'all!
Cam Newton fight updates
Draft season is lying season keep your head on a swivel
Quarterbacks of the future now
An argument about Ladd McConkey
Throwback LeBron
Guest: Felder - @InTheBleachers - It's Felder
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Nata got hitched, and I got him a guest spot on the podcast.
I shouldn't have, I know.
You probably shouldn't run up on Cam Newton.
Naked baseball players. Doc Watch continues.
Mania season and a rumble down under.
Guest: Nata - @NataTheScribe - Eye on College Basketball Podcast
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Two very much football guys talking about not-football. Sometimes.
#FelderFriday
Recapping Fullcast live show.
The joy and pain of NCAA 2025.
Fans do not want to learn JJ Reddik.
Doc is doing Doc stuff again.
Jeezy forever.
Guest: Felder - @InTheBleachers - It's Felder!
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You saw the title. You're all very welcome. An officially unofficial #DYCAlumni event, we've got Chad here to break down All Star Weekend, Todd Monken, and Love Is Blind.
Guest: Chad - @ChadsPads
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Brace yourselves - Felder brought the notebook. And he's got stuff to get off his chest, football wise. First, I distract him with talk of Reba going over on the anthem, but we settle on marveling at the talent Kansas City has amassed on defense. And we make fun of Kyle. Cause it's objectively funny. Again.
Guest: Felder - @InTheBleachers
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Quick Take: Madame Web should've been a fun and fantastical origin story for a dynamic comic character with real spin-off potential. Instead it’s a mishmash of barely interesting plot points, disjointed visual trickery, and underwhelming performances. More than anything else, Madame Web proves it’s not enough to throw all the “expected” set pieces in a movie, you actually need to know what to do with them.
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Official Synopsis: Cassandra Webb develops the power to see the future. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women bound for powerful destinies, if they can all survive a deadly present.
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writers: Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker, S.J. Clarkson
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O'Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott
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Madame Web, Sony’s third standalone spin-off of a Marvel comic character, opened the door for the studio to fully reimagine the origins of its titular character and set the stage for robust worldbuilding in its Spider-Man Universe. The Cassandara Webb of the comics is an elderly woman, with a neuromuscular disease, connected to a life support system that resembles a spider web. She’s fully in control of her clairvoyance and precognition. Webb’s an exceptionally powerful mutant and infrequent supporting character in the Spider-Man comic book series. There’s very little known of her beginnings. When carving a lane for future stories, it doesn’t get much better than having firm grounding in source material but an otherwise clear field to play.
There’s something to be said for nostalgia in movie styling (we won't talk about those reshoot blunders). Setting a story in the recent past opens the way for the sleight-of-hand of soft revisionist storytelling often beneficial when telling a story with supernatural elements. For audiences, everything feels familiar and contemporary but the edges are just blurry enough to make way for a world full of magic, mystery, and untold danger existing alongside the mundane. What Madame Web gets right(ish) is blending an intentionally pulp-esque vibe into a recognizable version of the contemporary New York City circa 2003. The story moves at a digestible (and thankfully relatively quick) pace of a thriller. So it’s a shame that absolutely nothing else; not direction, editing, character arcs, visual effects, cast performances, or story direction, amounts to more than a “comic movie” checklist neither the screenwriters nor the director knew how to navigate.
The movie opens with a flashback, because of course it does, of a pregnant Constance Webb (Kerry Bishé) deep in the Peruvian Amazon in 1973. She’s on the hunt for a spider said to have miraculous healing properties. She’s whip smart, driven, and desperate. So desperate she misses all the glaring red flags that her impatient head of security, Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim), isn’t really there to protect her waving in her face. Through hamfisted dialogue, a lore info-dump about a secretive indigenous people with powers, known as Las Aranas, (that would’ve carried more weight as naturally occurring revelations), and scenes of a furtive tent search practically lifted from Tomb Raider, it’s obvious Sims’ intends to acquire the spider for his own ends. The action sequences that follow shortly after the expected doublecross are a reminder that staging and filming action and stunts is a skill not all directors possess. Director S.J. Clarkson relies on quick cuts, odd camera angles, and bouncing shots of rustling foliage and blurred glimpses of people leaping from great heights to simulate action and fast-moving “spider people” traveling through the trees coming to the rescue. It’s the first sign, of many, that Madame Webb’s practical and visual effects are a detriment to an already poorly conceived storyline. And although the flashback is a smart entry point for Webb’s origin story, -
Chief Chiefs Propaganda Officer Richard Fann is here to tap dance on the Niners grave. Your intrepid host does his best to keep things positive, but the spirit of petty continues to grasp Rich. Fortunately, we right the ship by talking rasslin, and the rocky rhodes to Wrestlemania.
Guest: Rich Fann - @Rich_Fann
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The return of Felder Fridays is rung in by us talking signing day and how to fix it. The Big 10 and the SEC have agreed to "advise" the NCAA...sure Jan. And we talk the Super Bowl - take the over on Reba's anthem - indoors, wants to show off.
Guest: Felder - @InTheBleachers
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Can the NCAA withstand death by a thousand problems? What does the NCAA actually do? Is anyone cheering for them ever? All this and more on this week's Tuesday UDPod!
Seriously, we talk Women's College Basketball, the insanity that is the Knicks, the Super Bowl and Dwayne going full Dwayne.
#WeWantCody
Guest: Justin - @Ljay90
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End your week with religion, wrestling promos, and the combination of the two, college football.
We've got part of the Shutdown Fullcast hivemind with us as Jason Kirk is on to talk about his new novel, Hell is a World Without You. We talk about the easy part of writing the book, the culture that birthed it and the good work he's doing with the proceeds.
Then, we talk rasslin cause the Royal Rumble was last weekend and wrestling is better than the things you like. And they're selling beer in Athens.
Guest: Jason Kirk - @JasonKirk_fyi - Buy His Book
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Nobody panic, but we've lost contain on Felder. He's spilled into the middle of the week to talk birthday parties, HBCU coaching goals, and break down the conference championship games from this weekend. Plus, he sings Usher songs. Forewarned is forearmed.
Guest: Michael Felder - @InTheBleachers
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