030 - Nope (2022) Review

030 - Nope (2022) Review

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're continuing Jordan Peele month with our review of Nope. After the death of their father, O.J. and Emerald Haywood are struggling to keep their family business of training horses going. One night, O.J. and Emerald experience a strange occurrence happen at their farm, and the two of them start to believe an alien ship is the cause of it. Seeing the opportunity to gain fame and fortune, O.J. and Emerald decide to try and capture an image of the flying saucer. As they try to lure the saucer out to capture it on film, they realize that this alien craft may not be exactly what they think it is. Nope was released in theaters in 2022, and became a huge commercial and critical success. Many have said that it is Peele's best movie to date, and cited its similarities to early Steven Spielberg films, like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws. But does the movie deserve the critical praise it got at the time? Listen to Nikki and Cody's review to find out!

029 - Us (2019) Review

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're continuing Jordan Peele month with our review of Us! Adeline and her family take a trip to Santa Cruz for the summer, but she's very hesitant to go. Adeline experienced a traumatic event at Santa Cruz as a child where she encountered her doppleganger. During their first night, a family of dopplegangers show up to Adeline's house and starts to terrorize them. The duplicate family wants to take over their lives, and will kill them to have it. Now Adeline's family has to survive being attacked by these Tethered people. Us came out in 2019, and was a hit at the box office, although reception on the movie was more luke warm than for Get Out. Now seven years later, is the movie actually just as good or better than Peele's first film? Listen to Cody and Nikki's review to find out.

028 - Get Out (2017) Review

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! We're kicking off the month of June by celebrating director Jordan Peele. Each week of June, we'll be reviewing each of Peele's films, starting this week with Get Out. Chris is going away for the weekend with his girlfriend Rose to meet her parents. Chris is nervous about the trip since he is the first black man that Rose has dated, and is worried about how her parents will react. Once they get there, Rose's parents welcome Chris with arms wide open. However, as the weekend goes on, strange things start to happen around the house, and Chris might be in more danger than he realizes. Get Out is Jordan Peele's first directorial film, and it was a smash hit at the box office. The film also secured the new director his first Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay. With themes of race relations in modern day America, Get Out has remained relevant for nearly a decade since its release, but what do Cody and Nikki think of the film? Listen to their review to find out!

027 - Memento (2000) Review

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we are ending Cody's Birth Month with a review of Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan. Leonard Shelby is an insurance investigator whose life is upturned when two men break into his house and assault and murder of his wife. The incident also leaves Leonard with short term memory loss, and he has to take copious amounts of notes to try and live his life as normally as he can. Leonard embarks on a path of revenge to find the man that took his memory and his wife away from him, but everyone around Leonard has their own motivations to use him and his condition to their own advantages. Memento was released in 2000, and its critical and commercial success cemented Christopher Nolan's name of great directors. But does the movie hold up 26 years later? Listen to Cody and Nikki's review to find out.

026 - The Dark Knight (2008) Review

Welcome back to Midnight Movies! This week, we're continuing with Cody's Birth Month by reviewing The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan Set 9 months after the events of Batman Begins, Batman has done great things in Gotham City. Criminals are now afraid to go out at night in fear of running into the caped crusader, but a new threat now shows up in the form of a man calling himself The Joker. The Joker works with Gotham's mob bosses to get Batman to come out and reveal his true identity to the world. As Bruce Wayne struggles with the threat that Joker poses, he's also looking to Gotham's new District Attorney Harvey Dent to be the face of Gotham's justice system. The Dark Knight came out in 2008, and was a smash hit at the box office, grossing over $1 Billion. The movie was also critically acclaimed, even earning actor Heath Ledger a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor. But does the movie still stand above all the other superhero films that have come out in the past 18 years? Listen to Cody and Nikki's review to find out.