Matt Verlaque
Co-Host of Criticless Cast Unhinged
Matt Verlaque, also known as Spicy Meatball, is sassy AF and loves to rebel against main stream opinion even though he indulges in all things stereotypical such as plaid, beards, and craft beer. Want an excellent guide to the local beer scene? Say no more fam. He also enjoys Michael Bay, Wes Anderson, and Guillermo Del Toro. Based on that line up, you could say he’s a jack of all trades.
Matt Verlaque has hosted 111 Episodes.
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There's NO Monkeying Around in Monkey Man, The Review
April 5th, 2024 | Season 3 | 50 mins 33 secs
movie, movie review, review
On this week of Unhinged Blaine, Matt and Chis discuss revisit Godzilla x Kong scores in Criticless, and we discuss Monkey Man. Plus we send you off with some sick tunes.
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Review, This is how Chris gets canceled
March 29th, 2024 | Season 3 | 1 hr 24 mins
movie, movie review, review
On this week of Unhinged Blaine, Matt and Chis discuss what we've been watching, revisiting Ghostbuster Frozen Empire scores in Criticless, and the kaiju smashing Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Plus we send you off with some kicking tunes.
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Is Ghostbuster: Frozen Empire worse than the Ghostbusters (2016)?
March 29th, 2024 | Season 3 | 1 hr 42 mins
movie, movie review, review
On this week of Unhinged Blaine, Matt and Chis discuss Criticless, what we've been watching, revisiting Dune Part 2 scores in Criticless, and the highly anticipated (by us) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Plus we send you off with some totally rad tunes.
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Piecing Together Lisa Frankenstein, the Review
March 29th, 2024 | Season 3 | 57 mins 55 secs
movie, movie review, review
This episode Blaine, Matt and Chris discuss the workings of how to raise the dead and piece him back together as is told in the movie Lisa Frankenstein. Also we hook you all up with some new music to check out.
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Critically HATED Audience LOVED = Vanilla Sky Review
March 29th, 2024 | Season 3 | 58 mins 18 secs
movie, movie review, review
This episode we turn the clocks back to 2001 as Blaine, Matt, and Chris discuss the critically hated but audience loved movie Vanilla Sky. After were done shooting the breeze we also send you off with what were listening to currently.
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Dune 2 review, the beigiest movie of them all?
March 29th, 2024 | Season 3 | 1 hr 47 mins
movie, movie review, review
This episode Blaine, Matt and Chis discuss Criticless, things we've been streaming, smoking plastic, anddd uhhh, oh yeah. Dune 2. Plus we send you off with some sick tunes.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (& a man hugging a rat in the dark)
November 21st, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 42 mins
action, adventure, angela bassett, black panther, danai gurira, dominique thorne, drama, letitia wright, lupita nyong'o, martin freeman, marvel, mcu, ryan coogler, tenoch huerta, winston duke
If you have been a long-time listener, then you will know Blaine's extreme dislike for the first Black Panther movie so at the very least this will be a pretty interesting one! It's now been 4 years sense the first film, the public is losing faith in the MCU, and on top of it all we have a new-ish actor in the role of Black Panther. Can director Ryan Coogler bring the MCU back to life or is he going to drive the wedge deeper with the die hard fans in favor of critics and the Twitter Twats?
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Black Adam (& anyone else please!)
November 8th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 27 mins
action, adventure, aldis hodge, dc, dwayne johnson, fantasy, jaume collet-serra, noah centineo, pierce brosnan, quintessa swindell, sarah shahi
So DC has a new movie out about one of their long running villains... but it's staring The Rock who is notorious for refusing to be the bad guy. So, there are two big questions to ask. First, can Dwayne break bad?... and second, but most important, it's a DC movie... so does it suck?
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Barbarian (& knee knockers)
September 20th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 36 mins
bill skarsgård, georgina campbell, horror, jaymes butler, justin long, matthew patrick davis, richard brake, thriller, zach cregger
So a new horror film called Barbarian in theaters now... We don't have any idea why that's the name but what we do know is that you should not research this movie at all and definitely don't watch the trailer!
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Bullet Train (& America's @$$hole)
August 22nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 59 mins
aaron taylor-johnson, action, andrew koji, bad bunny, brad pitt, brian tyree henry, comedy, david leitch, hiroyuki sanada, joey king, karen fukuhara, logan lerman, masi oka, michael shannon, sandra bullock, thriller, zak olkewicz, zazie beetz
The name of the game for Critically Aroused lately is to record an episode and then wait an insanely long time to go live with it, so at long last here is your Bullet Train review! Also...The critics strike again! Don't consult Rotten Tomatoes before seeing this one!
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Nope (& don't talk about chimps!)
August 3rd, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 58 mins
brandon perea, daniel kaluuya, horror, jordan peele, keke palmer, michael wincott, mystery, sci-fi, steven yeun
Jordan Peel is critically loved as a director but common to what they would like for you to think he's an extremely divisive director at the very least. Being that Get Out is one of Blaine's most hated movies of all time, paired with his extreme dislike for Jordan and his political effect on the industry, you should definitely give this week's review a listen!
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Spiderhead (& Sandy Little Snow Bastard)
June 29th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 57 mins
action, chris hemsworth, crime, drama, george saunders, joseph kosinski, jurnee smollett, mark paguio, miles teller, paul wernick, rhett reese, spiderhead, thriller
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Jurassic World Dominion (& Donk-a-Sarus-Rex)
June 16th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 17 mins
action, adventure, bd wong, bryce dallas howard, chris pratt, colin trevorrow, dewanda wise, isabella sermon, jeff goldblum, jurassic world dominion, laura dern, mamoudou athie, sam neill, sci-fi
The Jurassic Park films have been capturing the minds of adults and children alike for almost 30 years between the two franchises and its supposedly time to put a wrap on things and close out the story... well, until they reboot it or give us another sequel series! (which we talk about at length). Join us once again for a deep dive chat about all things Jurassic, and the legendary Donk-a-Sarus-Rex!
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Top Gun: Maverick (& recording at bedtime)
June 3rd, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 29 mins
action, drama, glen powell, jennifer connelly, jon hamm, joseph kosinski, lewis pullman, miles teller, monica barbaro, tom cruise, top gun: maverick, val kilmer
Joseph Kosinski is teaming back up with the holy lord of Scientology, Tom Cruse! He might be as crazy as a bed bug but love him or hate him you can't deny the man's on screen charisma and dedication. First they gave us the interesting scifi flick Oblivion and now we are getting a sequel to one of the most highly praised movies of the 80's, Top Gun! Is it too little too late or is the need for speed undeniable regardless of a 36 year wait!?
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (& we forgot a clever title)
May 26th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 41 mins
action, adventure, benedict cumberbatch, benedict wong, chiwetel ejiofor, elizabeth olsen, fantasy, rachel mcadams, sam raimi, xochitl gomez
Yeah yeah we know, our Doc Strange 2 review is dropping super later... it's all Blaine's fault... but listen anyways please and thank you, love yooooou, byeeeee!
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The Northman (& the big toe comparison)
May 8th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 56 mins
action, adventure, alexander skarsgård, anya taylor-joy, claes bang, drama, ethan hawke, nicole kidman, robert eggers, the northman, willem dafoe
This mothers day you get a mega macho movie review, your welcome! Indie director Robert Eggers just hit theatres with The Northman; his third film, and this time he's going all out with a bigger budget, action, Viking period piece. We reviewed his last film which had very mixed opinions so the questions is, does a more main stream approach have a more wide appeal for audiences?