🎬 Moviewallas: One Night Only, The End of Oak Street & Spider-Man: Brand New Day
This week on Moviewallas, Joe, Rashmi, and Yazdi tackle three very different new releases: the high-concept romantic comedy One Night Only, the dinosaur-filled suburban adventure The End of Oak Street, and the latest chapter in Tom Holland’s Spider-Man story, Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
The team also responds to listener feedback about The Odyssey, including the suggestion that Peter Jackson might have been better suited to tell the story across several films.
Then it is time for another edition of “I Can’t Find Anything to Watch…”, with three streaming recommendations and a bonus pick from a listener.
📺 Streaming Picks
💸 Margot’s Got Money Troubles – Apple TV
Rashmi recommends this series starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, and Greg Kinnear. A college dropout and aspiring writer must find a way to support herself and her new baby while facing a rapidly growing pile of bills.
🚪 The Room Next Door – Netflix
Yazdi recommends Pedro Almodóvar’s thoughtful drama starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The film explores friendship, dignity, life, death, and the choices people make when confronting mortality.
🏓 The Dink – Apple TV
Joe recommends this warm-hearted pickleball comedy starring Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Harris, with appearances from Ben Stiller and several familiar faces. It may lovingly mock the sport and its players, but it also delivers a funny and thoroughly enjoyable Friday-night movie.
🔎 Bonus Pick: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Netflix
Listener Michelle recommends this binge-worthy mystery series for fans of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys.
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❤️ One Night Only
In a fictional New York City where premarital sex and public displays of affection are forbidden for all but one night of the year, two people search for love while repeatedly missing, finding, and losing one another over the course of a single evening.
Directed by Will Gluck and starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro, the film combines a deliberately absurd premise with the familiar pleasures of a romantic comedy.
The hosts discuss the unanswered questions raised by its strange dystopian world, whether the premise needed a sharper political edge, and why none of that ultimately matters when the two leads have such appealing chemistry.
Stylish, funny, romantic, and considerably more risqué than its sweet nature initially suggests, One Night Only succeeds by making the audience genuinely care about whether its central couple will find their way to each other.
🦖 The End of Oak Street
Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, The End of Oak Street follows a suburban family whose neighborhood is transported somewhere unfamiliar after a mysterious cosmic event.
Starring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery, the film blends family drama, science fiction, horror, and the nostalgic spirit of 1980s Amblin adventures.
The team describes it as Jurassic Park in suburbia – hammy, underwritten, occasionally ridiculous, but enormously entertaining. They discuss its impressive creatures, its surprisingly frightening and violent moments, its commitment to genuine danger, and the way it captures the look and atmosphere of films such as Super 8, E.T., and the classic Spielberg productions of the era.
It may not be the film that saves cinema, but it is a loud, tense, nostalgic popcorn movie that deserves to be experienced in a theatre.
🕷️ Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker in the fourth film of this Spider-Man series, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton.
Following the events of the previous film, Peter is living alone in a world where the people closest to him no longer remember who he is. As he continues his life as Spider-Man, the emotional weight of that loneliness begins to shape his choices.
The hosts discuss the film’s quieter and more melancholic tone, its focus on sacrifice and isolation, the importance of revisiting the previous movies before watching, and whether audiences may be feeling some degree of superhero fatigue.
While Yazdi questions the reuse of familiar Marvel villains, Rashmi and Joe respond strongly to the film’s emotional core, focused storytelling, and the journey of a Peter Parker forced to ask what a meaningful life looks like when it must be lived alone.
The action is polished, but it is the film’s heart, relationships, and sense of longing that make Brand New Day stand out.
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🕰️ Timestamps
00:00 – Start
00:41 – New Moviewallas Music and Episode 600
04:08 – Listener Feedback on The Odyssey
05:59 – Streaming Picks
06:15 – Margot’s Got Money Troubles
06:58 – The Room Next Door
08:33 – The Dink
11:30 – A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
11:53 – One Night Only
25:21 – The End of Oak Street
44:04 – Spider-Man: Brand New Day
56:21 – Closing Thoughts and Outro Music
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