Another is local DIY-comedy-wrestling league, Party World Rasslin’, where Tessa scrambles around stage-handing and doing art department nonsense. One of which is the Other Worlds Film Festival, Austin’s first SciFi film fest, working in the capacity of Outreach Director and programmer. Tessa works an office day job, creates puppets and fiber art, cosplays, models for gaming and animation studios, and volunteers for various organizations. Well-rounded nerd and artist, Tessa Morrison grew up in the misty mountains of West Virginia and was constantly ridiculed for being a “weirdo.” Then moved to Austin in 2009 where people said the same thing, but in an endearing tone. Tessa Morrison (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Unstabletop Gamers) Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)īy day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. In the before times I worked music and film festivals across the US and will hopefully return to that sometime in the future. Also, I read a ton of modern horror novels/comics and stan Matt Berry. Big fan of genre, and the biggest fan of supernatural horror and dark sci-fi with meaningful representation and narratives that use trauma, grief, and grace as more than surface-level content. Just about all of my screen time is spent on international horror, drama, and hour long episodic. Moonlighting as a musician off and on since adolescence, I am as big a fan of scores and needle drops as I am of slow zooms, production design, and third act exposition. If it weren’t for sad music and scary stories I wouldn’t be as well-adjusted and cheerful as I am today. STARRING: Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Nathan Foad, Kristian Nairn, Samson Kayo, Rory Kinnear, Con O’Neill, Vico Ortiz, Ewen Bremner, David Fane, Joel Fry, Guz Khan, Matthew Maher, Nat Faxon, Samba Schutte, Leslie Jones, Fred Armisen, Claudia O’Doherty, Boris McGiver, Gary Farmer, Kristen Schaal, Nick Kroll, Tim Heidecker, Kristen Johnson, Yvonne Zima, Will Arnett, Angus Sampson So, listen now to hear us talk about our varying prior exposure to pirates on screen, how effective the drama and comedy is, a special loving shoutout to our fellow reviewer Nathan, the show’s ties to reality, and Dogget’s list of lesser known pirate movies. Robert, Marco, Tessa, and Dogget are here with a lengthy talk about what surprised them, what they loved, and what they would love to see more of. Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Rory Kinnear, and a phenomenal cast bring us a show that takes representation and its portrayal to heart. He wants to become the first “gentleman pirate.” From paying his crew a salary, to lining his quarters with books and the finest clothing, Stede is a different kind of pirate and this is a different kind of show. Stede Bonnet has left his family behind to become a pirate, but not just any kind of pirate. The Screener Squad is setting out on the open seas with the new comedy/drama Our Flag Means Death. Subscribe: RSS OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SERIES REVIEW They are two very different but brilliant comedies that have helped to make HBO Max such a success in the US.Podcast (theatrical-movie-review-podcast): Play in new window | Download Discovery said: ‘We’re thrilled that Search Party and Our Flag Means Death have both found their UK home at the BBC. The Corporation has also acquired Search Party – a dark comedy about a group of friends who become involved in the search for a missing young woman – which was previously available on Channel 4’s on-demand service All 4.ĭescribed as ‘a trenchant satire of millennial culture, full of escalating events and consequences’, the show’s five seasons will air on BBC Three and iPlayer.Īlison Morris, and executive at international distributor Warner Bros. Sue Deeks, the BBC’s head of programme acquisition says ‘Our Flag Means Death is a wonderfully rich and warm-hearted period comedy.’ The show – which has been renewed for a second series – has garnered praise for its substantial LGBTQ+ representation, which consists of three queer relationships, one of which involves a non-binary character. The cast also includes Brits Joel Fry, Samson Kayo, Nathan Foad, Guz Khan, Con O’Neill, Ewen Bremner and Rory Kinnear – while the starry line-up of guest stars includes Leslie Jones, Fred Armisen, Claudia O’Doherty, Kristen Schaal, Nick Kroll, Tim Heidecker and Will Arnett. What We Do in the Shadows co-creator Waititi – who went on to direct Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit – plays the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Our Flag Means Death – the swashbuckling comedy starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi – is coming to BBC Two in the new year.įirst released by HBO Max in March, the show is loosely based on the true adventures of 18th-Century would-be pirate, Stede Bonnet, played by Darby.
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