296 | Together

• Rated R

• Runtime: 1hr 42min

• Written & Directed by Michael Shanks

• Stars: Dave Franco, Alison Brie and Damon Herriman

• Premiered at Sundance January 25, 2025

• Released in US July 30, 2025

• RT: 89% critics / 76% audience 

• Currently streaming on Hulu

  Synopsis

Tim and Millie are a long-time couple who move to the country for a change of pace. Before long the expected resentments and arguments start to arise, but it’s the strange cave they’re forced to spend the night in that really causes the rift between the couple. After drinking some water from a hole in the cave, Tim begins to feel powerfully physically connected to Millie, and any time their skin is touching they seem to merge together. Can they get to the bottom of this mystery before two become one?

Horror Homework

This episode:

• Dead Calm - 1989 - Philip Noyce - Kanopy, Tubi

• The Loved Ones - 2009 - Sean Byrne - $3.99 rental

Next time:

• Man Bites Dog - 1992 - Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde - HBO, Criterion

• The Night Eats the World - 2018 - Dominique Rocher - Tubi, Hoopla, $.99 rental

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Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Scream 7, opening in theaters February 27.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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155 | The Rental

Directed by Dave Franco

Written by Dave Franco & Joe Swanberg

Stars Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Jeremy Allen White, Sheila Vand & Toby Huss

Premiered July 24, 2020

Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 28 min

RT: 73% critics, 44% audience 

Two brothers and their respective partners rent a gorgeous vacation home with some extra audio/visual features they don’t discover until it’s too late. Who has the incriminating footage and how far will they need to go to get it back? 

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Next up, the quarantine-filmed Host, about a seance conducted over Zoom. Yes, I agree that it sounds preposterous, but it’s currently sitting at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s also 56 minutes long, so if you hate it you’re not out too much time.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/