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We're back into our Women Best Director Nominee season and picking up with Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. Sometimes art really emotionally resonates and gets appropriately lauded by the industry, eh? You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

We did it, we survived 2025! Let's look back at the films (& other media) we watched this past year and discuss our general thoughts on em. In a new(?) record, Dan has an existential crisis fueled by his own decisions within just 25 minutes. Here's to getting through 2026 together ❤️ Here's the big list of everything we discuss: MOVIES/TV! The Brutalist Meshes of the Afternoon Wicked The Fall The Ugly Stepsister Hell House LLC Lineage 825 Forest Road Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor Best Wishes To All V/H/S/Halloween O Brother Where Art Thou Sinners Sinners and the Death of Black Art - F.D Signifier The Conjuring: Last Rites One Battle After Another Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare Screamboat Shiver Me Timbers Popeye The Slayer Man Popeye’s Revenge Severance Only Murders in the Building Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  Poker Face I Think You Should Leave What We Do in the Shadows Captain America: Brave New World Thunderbolts Superman The Fantastic Four: First Steps Death Rider in the House of Vampires Dawn of the Dead (1978) Bring Her Back 28 Years Later The Monkey Keeper Companion Weapons Heart Eyes Until Dawn FriendshipThe Chair Company Clown in a Cornfield K Pop Demon Hunters Frankenstein Wake Up, Dead Man Clue A Simple Wish Final Destination Bloodlines I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Together Good Boy The Naked Gun (2025) The Bear Hacks Peacemaker Taskmaster Breaking Bad Arrested Development Adolescence Andor GAMES! Mario Kart World Donkey Kong Bananza Archipelago Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment Dynasty Warriors: Origins The Seance Of Blake Manor Ball x Pit FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles Hades 2 Silent Hill f Strange Antiquities Powerwash Simulator 2 Civilization VII Monster Hunter Wilds Doom: The Dark Ages Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Elden Ring Nightreign Hollow Knight: Silksong Skate Story Sol Cesto BOOK! Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

Our season of women Best Director nominees continues with Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird. Let's go on a trip back to post-9/11 high school and all the drama, anxiety, and oddity it contained. Hope you have a lovely holiday and get a chance to watch whatever films fit the bill for you (Die Hard or otherwise).  You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

Our tour through the women nominated for Best Director continues and this time we've got: Legal drama!  Interpersonal Conflict!  A Gorgeously Subjective Camera!  Murder!?  Take a trip with us to the French Alps as we dig into the anatomy of this Anatomy Of A Fall. content warnings: broad strokes discussions of suicide, parent/spouse death, pet endangerment, legal misogyny  You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

It's time for a new season! Our theme this time: Women Nominated for Best Director. Up first, 2024's The Substance – a perfect Thanksgiving movie. Jump on in for grotesque body horror as we unpack the unrealistic beauty standards for women. #JusticeForMonstroElisasue You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

It's sequel season so we've found, perhaps, the most sequel movie we could. A sequel to Alien(s) and Predator? Incredible stuff. Is it also a de-make of Prometheus? Maybe! Happy 6 year anniversary to our silly little podcast here! Thanks for joining for any and all of this ridiculous ride that you have; we appreciate you. We'll be back with our next proper season in a few weeks. Until then, Happy Halloween! You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

We've got a great podcast, and you can get your head all the way up it.  It's Heat time! Let's acquaint ourselves with Michael Mann's heist classic featuring every dad-cinema guy you could ever dream of.  Also, it's the Double Classic/secretly heat-themed Season finale! We'll walk memory lane for a bit before bidding you adieu as we take a lil breaky break. cw: discussions of domestic abuse, child endangerment, and self-harm You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

Our twice-missed classics season (which is quickly shaping up to be the unintentional 'hot' season) continues with a certified Spike Lee joint. Summer may have just ended in real life, but let's roll it back to the hottest days of the year. 😎 cw: discussions of racism, police violence/killing You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

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The season continues as we crack open The Best Movie Ever Made™️ Does it live up to the title? Is the knowledge of the "twist" put a damper on the experience? Themes: what good are they? These topics, and more! Ahh, the French champagne... You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

It's time for a new season! We're back to our roots with classic films Kevin really should have seen by now... that somehow Dan also hasn't seen. Up first: 12 Angry Men; perhaps the ultimate bottle episode.  Let's put twelve men, their biases, masculinity, and the American judicial system in a pressure cooker and see what comes out. You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

The grand conclusion of Giallo Season! Join us as we fast-forward all the way to 2018 to see what a modern, queer, giallo looks like. Buckle up for some blood, neon, and sexy gay boys as far as the eye can see. Thanks for joining us on this genre quest; catch ya in a month for our next season 😎 You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

The giallo films from good ol Dario Argento just keep comin! Time to get a bit meta and introspective with Tenebrae as we discuss the nature of self-critique, feelings on "challenging" works, and - all things aside - how delightful it is to see someone's hand lopped off by an axe. Also, a "brilliant" pitch for how a modern remake of this film should be made. There's just one more (modern) stop on the giallo train after this - buckle up! You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

Profondo Rosso? More like, a profondo real good time! We're here checking out, arguably, the prime of Argento's Giallo time. Spiral into a winding mystery with us as we chat about puppet murder, top notch haunted house, the DNA of Halloween, and the true specter haunting our podcast; Richard Riehle. You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

Giallo Season continues with Dario Argento's first foray into the genre. Let's dive in and get trapped in a... colorful mystery.  You can shoot us an email at [email protected]