🎬 Moviewallas Episode 599 – Practical Magic 2, Onslaught & Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
One episode away from 600! This week, Joe, Rashmi and Yazdi are back with witches, genetically engineered super-soldiers, ballroom dancing, chicken meat floss pie and a brand-new Moviewallas theme tune.
We also have three picks for when you “can’t find anything to watch” – including one thriller that all three of us think you should watch knowing as little as possible.
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🔮 Practical Magic 2
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reunite as the Owens sisters almost three decades after the original. The critics and audiences may be divided, but we find plenty to enjoy in this charmingly messy return to the world of Practical Magic. Does everything make sense? Absolutely not. Does that really matter? Maybe not.
⚔️ Onslaught
Adam Wingard delivers an old-school siege movie involving genetically engineered super-soldiers, veterans, conspiracies, enormous quantities of weaponry and some spectacularly gruesome violence. Joe detects the DNA of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13, while Rashmi calls it “ridiculousness at its best.” But is there simply too much going on?
💃 Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
And then we fall in love.
Rinko Kikuchi stars in this funny, moving and wonderfully surreal story of grief, love, loss and ballroom dancing in Tokyo. Yazdi calls it “the embodiment of delight.” Joe thinks Kikuchi gives one of his favorite performances of the year. And Rashmi? She has just found her favorite movie of 2026.
📺 I Can’t Find Anything to Watch!
Rashmi recommends Lupin – the wonderfully playful French crime series starring Omar Sy.
Yazdi picks Strange Darling – a twisty, non-chronological thriller that constantly plays with your expectations. Our advice: don’t read about it. Just watch it.
Joe recommends Call My Agent: The Movie – a welcome reunion with the characters from the much-loved French series. If you haven’t seen the show, start there first.
🛋️ PLUS…
Chicken meat floss pie. Why nobody recognizes Lupin when he puts on a hat. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman becoming the new old Hollywood. Joe’s continuing trauma over Holy Motors. And, as Episode 600 approaches, we debut what might finally be the fully cooked version of the new Moviewallas theme tune.
💬 What are you watching? Have you seen any of this week’s movies? And are Rashmi and Yazdi right to be quite so besotted with Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!? Let us know in the comments.
Too many movies. Too little time.
🕰️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Welcome to Episode 599
03:02 – I Can’t Find Anything to Watch!
03:32 – Lupin
05:33 – Strange Darling
09:12 – Call My Agent: The Movie
12:07 – Practical Magic 2
25:01 – Onslaught
36:44 – Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
50:14 – Wrapping up Episode 599
51:47 – The new Moviewallas theme tune
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