Reel Talk & Banter
Ever wanted to just sit around and make fun of an old movie with your friends? That's exactly what Reel Talk & Banter is all about. Join best friends Omari Williams and Jay Richardson as they rewatch movies that came out at least a decade ago. It's a mix of a film review and a comedy roast, where they discuss everything from the plot to the terrible acting, and even if the film has stood the test of time. Get ready to laugh and hear some hot takes on your favorite (and least favorite) classic films.
Reel Talk & Banter
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A Surveillance Job Turns Into A Moral Crisis: The Conversation (1974)
He’s a professional eavesdropper who builds his life around locks, alarms, and silence, then one job cracks the whole system. We’re reviewing Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 neo-noir mystery thriller The Conversation, and we keep coming back to the...
The Murder Tentacles Made Me Do It: Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 2 has a reputation that’s almost unfair: “best Spider-Man movie,” “top superhero film,” “one of the great sequels.” So we hit play and put that legacy on trial. We’re Omari Williams and Jay Richardson, and we go beat-by-beat through ...
Never Help A Guy With A Cast: Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal Lecter wins Best Actor with about 16 minutes of screen time, and somehow it still makes perfect sense. We rewatch The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and pull apart the machinery that turns a quiet psychological thriller into one of the mo...
Dorothy Dropped Two Bodies And We Need To Talk: The Wiz (1978)
Oz isn’t a shiny kingdom here. It’s a gritty, graffiti-smeared 1970s New York City dreamscape where trash cans can attack you, the subway feels like a horror movie, and the Yellow Brick Road might be a line of taxi cabs that the film forgets ab...
You Maniacs!...You Blew It Up!...:Planet of the Apes (1968)
A single broken monument turns a sci-fi adventure into an accusation, and Planet Of The Apes (1968) still knows exactly how to twist the knife. We sit down and rewatch the original film with a mix of respect, skepticism, and a lot of side-eye f...