The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast

This week, Brent Leuthold joins me to review the new anthology crime comedy from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Freaky Tales in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, I share my thoughts on the action movie A Working Man. We also discuss recent movie and TV news out of CinemaCon, Val Kilmer’s passing, screenings around Indianapolis, and more.

Timestamps

• Show Start - 00:28
• Introducing Brent - 02:34
• Screening in Indy - 06:28
• News Before the Reviews - 10:20

Feature Review

• Freaky Tales (2025) - 48:53
• Spoiler - 1:10:57

Secondary Review

• A Working Man (2025) - 1:35:31

• Closing the Ep - 2:03:14
• Patreon Clip - 2:04:25

Related Links

• Heartland Film Cinemania - April 11, 2025
• Indy Film Fest
• Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale Of ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’
• Sam Mendes’ Beatles Biopics Set Release: All Four Movies to Open in April 2028
• ‘Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse’ Sets 2027 Release Date, Reveals First Look at CinemaCon
• Tom Holland’s ‘Spider-Man 4’ Gets Official Title, ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ Ahead of Summer Filming
• Keanu Reeves Set for ‘John Wick 5’ as Franchise Expands With Animated Prequel Film, Donnie Yen-Directed Caine Spinoff
• Val Kilmer, Star of ‘Batman Forever,’ ‘Tombstone,’ Dies at 65

• My 2025 Podcast and Writing Archive
• Immediate Reaction - Warfare (2025) - Mar 26, 2025
• Immediate Reaction - Opus (2025) - Mar 13, 2025
• Patreon Companion Episodes Collection
• Companion Ep - OV467 - Akeelah and the Bee (2011) & The Girl is in Trouble (2015) - Feb 26-Mar 1, 2025
• Patreon - Severance Episode Reviews

• Brent’s Letterboxd
• Awake in the Dark
• Brent’s Review of Death of a Unicorn (2025)
• Brent’s Review of Snow White (2025)
• Brent’s Review of Black Bag (2025)

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• Keystone Art
• Flix Brewhouse

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Next Week on the Podcast

• OV474 - Warfare (2025) & The Luckiest Man in America (2025)