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This week we're talking about Black Canary: Best Of The Best, Divinity: Original Sin II, Nothing Underneath, and Delirium. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show! Get up to 2 months free podcasting service with our Libsyn code OZONE

Today on the 5: After watching Nothing Underneath, I thought a good film to follow it with would be 1987's Delirium. I reviewed this movie back in 2019, but had never done a short review and had not revisited it since. I was curious how it would hold up following Nothing Underneath, and as I expected the primary flaw the movie has it is a little harder to ignore.

Today on the 5: Often when you hear about what people are afraid of in terms of AI, the fictional concept of "Skynet" is invoked. In talking to actual people who aren't chasing clicks or heavily tech-oriented, the concerns are smaller scale and far more grounded in what we're actually seeing examples of.

This video is our commentary for 1985's Nothing Underneath, another entry in the 80s Italian giallo pantheon. One of the hallmarks of many Italian films of that era was a high degree of sleaze, often mixed in with other genres in an attempt to elevate the material. Blending it in correctly was often tricky, which makes this movie a pleasant surprise. You'll see plenty of skin, sure, but it's layered around an effective murder mystery with a killer you can actually empathize with, at least to a point.

This week I'm joined by guest host Roejen from Project Archivist as we talk about fandom, Titans, Kingdom Come, and Umbrella Academy. Show music by OGRE. Support the show!

This week we're talking about Black Canary: Best Of The Best, Darth Maul, Worldbreaker, Survivor, and Faces In The Crowd. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show! Get up to 2 months free podcasting service with our Libsyn code OZONE

Today on the 5: Author Andy Weir recently made some comments about Star Trek that got him enough negative attention that he has since apologized for them. Apology authenticity aside, his idea of what Star Trek should be makes zero sense to me.

Today on the 5: For the second to last movie in our "Milla March" series, we watched 2011's Faces In The Crowd. A movie that has some parallels to A Perfect Getaway, this one has a killer gimmick that the rest of the movie just can't match up to.

Today on the 5: As we head into the last few movies of "Milla March", we watched a 2015 film titled Survivor. A very competent and well made movie, the biggest mystery you'll be left with after seeing this one is why it didn't do better at the box office.

Today on the 5: We've entered the week of "Milla March" where every movie is one we haven't seen before, starting with 2025's Worldbreaker. It's a strange blend of a coming of age story amidst a monster invasion, and I found it worked far better than I had expected it would.

This week we're talking about Sam Kieth, Gears Of War: Reloaded, Ultraviolet, Monster Hunter, and Future World. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show! Get up to 2 months free podcasting service with our Libsyn code OZONE

Today on the 5: For our final film in this week's selection of "Milla March" movies, we watched 2018's Future World. Based on the fairly low review scores and the presence of James Franco, we were ready for a bad time. Shockingly, this movie is far better than we expected it to be!

Today on the 5: Lando and I have finished playing Gears Of War: Reloaded. It's a very dumb game that was nontheless a fun time, at least for me. If you can find it for less than $20 and understand what it is, it'll probably provide you a good amount of entertainment!

Today on the 5: Lando and I are soldiering on with "Milla March" with 2006's Ultraviolet. A released movie that was never actually finished properly, this one has a backstory every bit as wild as the narrative itself! Weirdly, the butchered end result of this film's production lends it a fascination that it might not have had ifm it had been completed as intended.

Today on the 5: Unsurprisingly, the furor over DLSS5 has continued with some hilariously patronizing comments from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. I'm actually pretty happy that there are still CEOs who are so arrogantly dismissive of their customer base that they ignore the wisdom of silence and remind people how little they matter to these companies.

This week we're talking about MSG, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Retribution, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, and Hellboy (2019). Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show! Get up to 2 months free podcasting service with our Libsyn code OZONE

Today on the 5: The newest release of DLSS has generated a lot of discussion, and with very good reason. DLSS5 crosses an important line by opening the door to changing the nature of graphics in video games that could easily have a significant impact on how players react to them. This is exactly the thing that many people have been concerned would happen, and they're clearly not happy about it.

Today on the 5: I saw an article over on Ars Technica about a bit of a dustup over AI powered OCR usage on a Patreon where the supporters didn't seem to know that's what their money would be used for. I found it to be a really fasincating case where I can see both sides of the arguments.

Today on the 5: After watching the Resident Evil live action films utterly fumble adapting the source material to live action, you might think I was better prepared for what was coming in the 2019 reboot of Hellboy. In almost impressive ways, this movie found new avenues infuriate me!

Today on the 5: As part of our "Milla March" movie marathon, we've now gone through the last 3 movies in the Resident Evil helmed by Paul W. S. Anderson. I wish I could tell you that there was a miraculous recovery to end in quality fashion, but unfortunately the series really never gets anywhere near the entrtainment the first movie managed to provide.

This week we're talking about Uplift, The Running Man, A Perfect Getaway, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Resident Evil: Extinction. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show! Get up to 2 months free podcasting service with our Libsyn code OZONE

Today on the 5: For some reason I thought of the "tone poem" teaser trailers released in advance of the release of The Phantom Menace. Out of curiousity I decided to watch them and see if they still retained their quality. Not only do they hold up, they also still have a powerful nostalgic effect on me.

Today on the 5: As part of our "Milla March" marathon, Lando and I are watching all of the Resident Evil films starring Milla Jovovich. Out of the entire run, the movie I'm most conflicted about it is Resident Evil: Apocalypse. It's definitely not a good movie, but I can see moments in it that make me feel like it could have been a lot better.

Today on the 5: As part of "Milla March", Lando and I watched the 2009 thriller film A Perfect Getaway. Neither of us had seen it and we were both interested to varying degrees in what it was trying to do. Then the big mystery reveal happened, and movie ran straight into a brick wall while travelling at 500 MPH.

Today on the 5: Lando mentioned that he would be watching the newest attempt at adapting The Running Man, this time as a 2025 film helmed by Edgar Wright. I had thought about checking this one out myself a little while back, but when I found read that the ending had been significantly changed, it destroyed any interest I might have had in the project.