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Chris Rock steps behind the camera for his fourth feature and his most serious swing yet — but is a dramatic Chris Rock the comeback anyone was actually asking for? In this A24 Hollywood drama, Rosalind Eleazar stars as Misty Green, a once-promising actress whose vices and setbacks have torched every attempt to revive her career. When a director from her complicated past dangles the perfect role, she’s forced to choose between the glory she’s been chasing and the life she actually needs. The irony isn’t lost on me: a movie about a stalled comeback, directed by a guy whose own directorial career has been quiet for over a decade. So does Rock prove he’s still got something to say behind the camera, or is this a swing that whiffs despite a genuinely stacked cast — Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace? One thing I’ll say up front: Rosalind Eleazar came to play. I’m getting into her performance, Rock’s choices, and whether this second act was worth the wait. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 In Theaters October 9, 2026 (Limited, A24) |Streaming on Netflix November 9, 2026 | Drama | Dir. Chris Rock | Premiered at TIFF 2026 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #MistyGreen #ChrisRock #A24 #RosalindEleazar

This one’s special. Friend of the show and 11-time Emmy Award winner Tim Hardiman returns to The Reel Pineapple to go behind the scenes of his latest documentary, “Huck’s Herd” — the story of Marshall basketball coach Rick Huckabay’s meteoric rise and dramatic fall. We get into what drew Tim to this story, the challenge of capturing a subject as complicated as Huckabay — the championships, the showmanship, the NCAA violations, and the deep community love that complicates the whole legacy — and what it takes to bring a documentary like this from idea to the big screen. It’s a genuine conversation with a master storyteller about craft, legacy, and the stories that stick with us. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 🎬 “Huck’s Herd” — World Premiere: Saturday, November 7, 2026, 7:00 PM | Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center, Huntington, WV | Dir. Tim Hardiman 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Pull up for a great conversation and drop your questions in the comments! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #TimHardiman #HucksHerd #Documentary #Filmmaking

I’m breaking down “Huck’s Herd,” the feature-length documentary chronicling one of the most electric and controversial eras in college basketball history. The film tells the story of coach Rick Huckabay, who transformed the Marshall Thundering Herd from 1983 to 1989 into a genuine powerhouse — three Southern Conference championships, three NCAA Tournament appearances, and an NIT bid in just five years. But this is a classic rise-and-fall. Huckabay was pure showmanship — Rolls-Royces, tuxedos, and a deep bond with the Huntington, West Virginia community — right up until it all came crashing down in 1989, when he resigned amid NCAA violations and probation. Directed by 11-time Emmy winner Tim Hardiman, the doc is a story about ambition, loyalty, legacy, and the real price of winning. I’m getting into how the film handles its complicated subject, what it gets right, and whether it sticks the landing. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 Dir. Tim Hardiman | Produced by Terry Bumgarner | World Premiere: November 7, 2026, Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center, Huntington, WV 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #HucksHerd #MarshallBasketball #Documentary #CollegeHoops

Remember the bright orange unicorn from that cheerful kids’ TV show, the one who always wanted to give you a hug? Director Casper Kelly, the mind behind the cult internet classic Too Many Cooks, makes his feature debut with a horror comedy that turns the warm, sing-along world of 90s children’s television into a nightmare. Freddy (Delaney Quinn) and her friends live inside the show, and they slowly realize their unicorn pal Buddy, played by Keegan-Michael Key, is not as innocent as he seems. When one child refuses to play along, Buddy is not pleased, and cracks start to show in the perfect world. With a cast that also includes Cristin Milioti, Topher Grace, Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt, this one premiered in the Midnight section at Sundance in January 2026 before hitting theaters in August. A mascot that smiles too wide and a world that’s way too cheerful is a great horror setup, but can it hold for a full feature? I’m getting into the scares, the nostalgia, the performances, and whether Buddy earns a spot on your Halloween watchlist or leaves you wanting your hug back. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 In Theaters August 28, 2026 | Runtime: 1hr 35min | Dir. Casper Kelly | Roadside Attractions & Saban Films | Premiered Sundance 2026 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #Buddy #CasperKelly #HorrorMovies #SpookySeason #Halloween

Before there was Hamlet, there was Hamnet. Chloé Zhao, the Oscar-winning director of Nomadland, adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel, which she co-wrote for the screen with O’Farrell herself. Jessie Buckley plays Agnes, a free-spirited healer, and Paul Mescal is a young, ambitious playwright named William Shakespeare. When tragedy strikes their family with the death of their young son, their bond is tested in ways that would eventually inspire one of the greatest plays ever written. With Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, and Jacobi Jupe in the cast, a score by Max Richter, and Steven Spielberg as an executive producer, this one swept the 2026 awards season. It earned eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and Jessie Buckley won Best Actress. But does the film live up to the buzz, and does it earn every tear? I’m getting into Buckley and Mescal’s performances, Zhao’s filmmaking, and some surprises from the film. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 Now Streaming on Netflix | Runtime: 2hr 5min | Dir. Chloé Zhao | Focus Features | Premiered Telluride 2025 | 8 Oscar Nominations, 1 Win 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #Hamnet #ChloeZhao #JessieBuckley #PaulMescal #Oscars

Gregg Araki, the director behind Mysterious Skin and Kaboom, is back with a colorful, kinky erotic comedy thriller that premiered at Sundance in January 2026, and the early buzz was loud. Cooper Hoffman plays Elliot, a young man who lands a job as the sexual muse of Olivia Wilde’s Erika Tracy. The two quickly discover they have very different expectations for the arrangement, and the fantasy turns into a mess of sex, power, lies, and murder. Written by Araki and Karley Sciortino, it has a stacked supporting cast: Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs, Charli XCX, Johnny Knoxville, and Margaret Cho. The reviews have been warm, and I wanted to love it, and maybe I did.....maybe I didn't. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 In Theaters July 31, 2026 (Limited) | Rated R | Runtime: 1hr 30min | Dir. Gregg Araki | Magnolia Pictures | Premiered Sundance 2026 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #IWantYourSex #GreggAraki #OliviaWilde #CooperHoffman #CharliXCX

Happy Halloween, Hazy Core Crew. You came here for something scary, and I’ve got it: the scariest thing this season might be how bad this movie is. After twenty years of insanity, Ali G is back, and nobody asked for it. Sacha Baron Cohen returns to his most iconic character for his feature directorial debut, and this time Julie is eight months pregnant, which means Ali G actually has to get off his batty and do something. So he heads to America to reclaim his former glory, with unsuspecting real people along for the ride as usual. Shot entirely in secret, in the same guerrilla, man-on-the-street prank format that made the original so gloriously uncomfortable, this is less a traditional film and more a chaos documentary. Does Sacha Baron Cohen still have the bite, or is this the real horror story of the year? I’ve got thoughts, and they are not small ones. And if you want something actually worth your Halloween watch time, go watch “Taboo,” the award-winning short film from the brilliant Jennifer Levinson. She always deserves the shoutout. 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=kMz2bSNvgao This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 In Theaters October 23, 2026 | Rated R | Dir. Sacha Baron Cohen | Amazon MGM Studios 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #GiveJenniferAnA24 #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #Halloween #SpookySeason #AliG #SachaBaronCohen #AmazonMGM #Comedy #Taboo #JenniferLevinson

n an era where studios are racing to automate everything and cut every corner, LAIKA is still out here building entire worlds by hand, one painstaking frame at a time — and thank god for it. The studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo returns with its most ambitious film yet: a handcrafted stop-motion epic following headstrong teenager Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) as she launches a desperate rescue into the Impassable Wilderness, an enchanted and dangerous forest hidden just beyond Portland, after her baby brother is stolen by a murder of crows. Directed by Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) and written by ParaNorman’s Chris Butler, Wildwood brings a genuinely stacked voice cast — Mahershala Ali, Carey Mulligan, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina, Tom Waits, and more — to a surprisingly mature, PG-13 fantasy adventure full of talking animals, bandits, and power-hungry figures driven by grief and ambition. This is a movie that could have been churned out fast and soulless, and instead chose the hard, beautiful way. I’m getting into the craft, the darkness, the ambition, and whether this two-hour-plus odyssey earns every handmade frame. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 In Theaters October 23, 2026 | Rated PG-13 | Runtime: 2hr 19min | Dir. Travis Knight | LAIKA 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #Wildwood #LAIKA #StopMotion #TravisKnight

Hollywood has been trying to crack Resident Evil on the big screen for over two decades — and mostly whiffing. So when Zach Cregger, fresh off the one-two punch of Barbarian and Weapons, signed on to reboot the whole thing, I paid attention. This is the eighth live-action Resident Evil film, but a total fresh start: no legacy characters, no rehashing the Milla Jovovich era — just a brand-new story set on the periphery of Raccoon City’s worst night, built to honor the dread and pacing of actually playing the games. Starring Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, and Kali Reis, and drawing inspiration from RE2, RE3: Nemesis, RE4, and even Evil Dead 2, this thing already shattered franchise box office records. But does Cregger finally give us the Resident Evil movie the games always deserved — genuinely scary, genuinely faithful — or is it just the best of a cursed bunch? I’m getting into the scares, the Cregger of it all, and whether the video game movie curse is officially dead. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 In Theaters September 18, 2026 | Rated R | Dir. Zach Cregger | Sony Pictures 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #ResidentEvil #ZachCregger #HorrorMovies #SpookySeason

Olivia Wilde is BACK in the director’s chair — and after the whole Don’t Worry Darling saga, this one’s a genuine redemption. In this A24 dark comedy, Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela (Wilde) are a long-married couple stuck in a stale rut, so they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors — the magnetic Piña (Penélope Cruz) and Hawk (Edward Norton) — over for dinner. What begins as awkward small talk about cheese and wine spirals fast into something far more provocative, as the night’s unexpected propositions turn a quiet evening into a full-blown psychological pressure cooker. Have they reignited the spark, or lit the match that burns it all down? This is the kind of one-location, star-driven ensemble piece that lives or dies on its cast — and this cast absolutely delivers. I’m digging into the performances, Wilde’s genuine growth as a filmmaker, the deliciously uncomfortable tension, and why this thing earned a standing ovation at Sundance. So pull up a chair and pour a glass. You’re invited... but don’t say I didn’t warn you. This is The Reel Pineapple. Let’s talk about it. 🍍 Now Streaming on HBO Max | Rated R | Runtime: 1hr 47min | Dir. Olivia Wilde | A24 🍍 The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for honest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, and unfiltered film talk — no hype, no gatekeeping, just reel takes from your favorite podcaster’s favorite podcaster. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/thereelpineapple 🦋 Follow on BlueSky: reelpineapple.bsky.social 🎥 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @jhunterreelpineapple 🎬 Follow on Letterboxd: BlackShazam 🎮 Catch me live on Twitch: twitch.tv/thereelpineapple 🎙️ Hazy Core Crew — this one’s for you. Drop your thoughts in the comments and let me know what YOU thought! #HazyCoreCrew #HazyCoreFam #JoinTheHazyCore #ReelPineapple #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #TheInvite #OliviaWilde #A24 #SethRogen