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Episode 111 - The Gorge (2025) Movie Review

March 31, 2025·26 min·5 clips

He opens before sunrise with an espresso macchiato and a quick check-in. He says he meant to go deeper on the Snow White backlash, but that can sit for now, so he turns to a review of The Gorge. He calls the film pretty decent. It is an Apple TV exclusive, and he singles out Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller as the pair carrying it. He also says the poster never really pulled him in. Once he settles in, he walks through the setup of two people sent to an undisclosed location for a long, lonely assignment on opposite sides of a gorge. They do not have phones or walkie-talkies. Instead, they build a connection through whiteboards, drawings, binoculars, chess, birthday bits, and small back-and-forths that slowly make the relationship feel real. He likes that a lot. The romance grows in a cutesy-woodsy way, and he says you can buy it because the film takes its time with them. Then the danger wakes up. At night, whatever lives in the gorge starts attacking the towers, and the review gets into the mines, the fences, the gunfire, and the way both sides cover each other. He thinks those scenes look very good. He gives the cinematography a proper nod and likes the action because it stays clear and lively without getting fancy about it. The date across the gap is the big beat. He talks about Miles Teller managing to get a rope across, crossing over for a visit, and stepping into the kind of moment the trailer already hints at. From there, things are heading where you expect. He is open about the film telegraphing its shape, but he keeps the tone playful and the review moving at the same easy pace as the rest of the show. The whole thing lands as solid. It is a plainspoken, conversational take on a movie that mixes romance, creature threat, and action while keeping the host in couch-chat mode.

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A spoiler-forward review of The Gorge that follows the romance, danger, and action beats.

The review treats The Gorge as a solid watch built around an isolated assignment and the uneasy courtship that grows across the gorge. It keeps returning to the whiteboard notes, binocular exchanges, chess games, the birthday moment, and the rope crossing that makes the romance…

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