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It's our third, and final round! After a quick race to the bottom to crown the Loser of Losers, it's off to the final contest of the season: Erin Raising Arizona / Vampire's Kiss / Snake Eyes / Pay the Ghost vs. Carly Pig / Kick Ass / Drive Angry / Jiu Jitsu Who will take home the crown as the Ultimate Cage Team? Tune in to find out! You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

We're continuing on to round two! Today's matches: Erin Raising Arizona / Vampire's Kiss / Snake Eyes / Pay the Ghost vs. Jon Moonstruck / Con Air / National Treasure / Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance & Kevin Face/Off / The Rock / Wild At Heart / 8mm vs. Carly Pig / Kick Ass / Drive Angry / Jiu Jitsu Next time: The Finals You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

Let the Cage Match commence! Each 'coach' will present and defend a movie in a head-to-head battle. Win two match-ups and the team will move forward to the next round. Round one brings us: Dan Mandy / Longlegs / Zandalee / The Wicker Man vs. Erin Raising Arizona / Vampire's Kiss / Snake Eyes / Pay the Ghost & Carly Pig / Kick Ass / Drive Angry / Jiu Jitsu vs. Jon Moonstruck / Con Air / National Treasure / Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

Let's ride. It's time for our annual Nicolas Cage movie bracket – but this time: we're going head to head. Instead of simply pitting movies against each other, this year each participant will pit their team against another in a best 2 of 3 contest. Prepare for rivalries, heartbreak, and plenty of Cage. Up first: drafting and ranking our teams. Our featured guests: Carly Hayward, Erin Sheehan, & Jon Waugh You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

It's the end of our Women Best Director Nominees season. Back to the 'ancient' days of 2008 when a woman (finally) won this dang award.  We'll be off the rest of February; see you in March for Cage Match! content warning: discussions of the iraq war, the american military, war crimes, & the horrifying ways bombs and bodies intersect. You can shoot us an email at [email protected]

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]