https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5wab4-1140882 This week, we get horny as hell for the end of the world and welcome fellow journalist Ben Freed as we enter Her Majesty’s Secret Service with this installment from the James Bond oeuvre.  This flick is eerily contemporary in subject matter, considering it’s 42 years old, but painfully dated in other ways. Needless […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p7z6t-112d628 Whoever said late-90s comedies don’t hold up anymore? Oh, right, we say that, like, every three weeks. And this Hollywood sendup, featuring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy, is a great example of exactly that. Our guest who brought us this film is Zach Seidel, who made his name via social media platforms that the […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jieyz-1119b54 We’re changing things up a bit this week with our first documentary, the 2007 doc “Helvetica,” brought to us by musician Davy Andrews. Yes, it’s about the font. Yes, really, stop asking. This may not be the kind of topic you’d expect to be worth the full 80 minutes of runtime that it occupies, […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vv22z-1105f1e With the big budget blockbuster Denis Villeneuve’s shot at Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi story due out next week, we figure there’s no better time to revisit the David Lynch version from more than 35 years ago. I was actually in Europe last week, where the new movie was already playing, but resisted seeing it […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3c5ri-10f3aab Chris Evans, Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba and Jeffrey Dean Morgan? In a mid-budget, summer blockbustery, Michael-Bay-attention-span action movie? It’s OK, we’d never heard of it either. Guest and Editor in Chief of Baseball Prospectus Craig Goldstein joins us as we strap in for a tight 97 minutes of explosions that neither need, nor are […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x8xdj-10ea805 Oh, great, spiders. Reem Nadeem returns and brings us back to 1990 once again, just as she did with her first appearance on the pod, this time with the Jeff Daniels and John Goodman vehicle “Arachnophobia.” We didn’t discover until after taping that the other connection to the name Canaima comes from the actual […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4nrb2-10d847a We go guestless as we revisit the final innocent days of New York romance with this 2001 film that a younger version of me used to call, “the only good romantic comedy.” Starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale as our primary couple, the supporting cast is a who’s who of early aughts character actors, […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dzie8-10cf775 Guest Zeke Hartner returns and upholds his minimal promise of bringing us a better film than he did in his last visit, with this Vin Diesel-powered sci-fi horror flick that eschews the science aspect, on both the astronomical and evolutionary fronts. We have legitimate disagreements about what works and what doesn’t in this film, […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mhvj3-10c6096 Our first guest from Ep. 2: The Tool That Time Forgot Matt Poldberg returns with another early aughts comedy, the Broken Lizard comedy troupe’s breakout hit “Super Troopers.” A note that we recorded this before the events of the last few weeks in Afghanistan, so while we note that those references already did not […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gf8np-10b3d38 Conspiracy theorist extraordinaire and my wive Micah Backus takes us back to 2001 with this baseball rom-com, starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard, Fred Ward, Brian Dennehy and Brittany Murphy. There is a LOT of baseball talk in this one, especially relating to the stuff the movie clearly got wrong. Also, I […]