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Why Wasn't It Better?
Have you ever watched a movie you were excited for but felt disappointed in some way? Were you left wondering why it wasn't better? This is the podcast that has the answers! We review films that were highly anticipated, but were for a variety of reasons either disappointing, underachieving, or misun...
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2026 Oscars Preview & Predictions
Join us for a bonus episode as we ramble about the famed awards show and give our half-baked predictions for the upcoming 98th Academy Awards.
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No Country for Old Men | Bonus Episode Preview
A preview of our coverage of No Country for Old Men. The full episode is available right now for our supporters over on Patreon. This will become avai...
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek Generations was supposed to bridge the gap between the original crew and the Next Generation. The result was something that's nobody's favor...
Ranking the Original Star Trek Films
By popular demand, we're back with another ranking episode. This time we try to sort out the original six films in the Star Trek galaxy with guest Pau...
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is still the gold standard for Batman storytelling — and it’s not even live-action. Released theatrically at the height o...
The English Patient
The English Patient won nine Academy Awards and became one of the most debated Best Picture winners of all time. Often dismissed as slow or overpraise...
The Exception (2016)
A film few people have seen or even heard of, The Exception is adapted from The Kaiser’s Last Kiss and stars Christopher Plummer as the exiled former...
Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies was Pierce Brosnan's second outing as British secret agent James Bond. While not quite as warmly received as GoldenEye, it's been...
Rio Bravo
Like him or not, John Wayne is an American icon. It's high time we covered one of his films and Rio Bravo seemed like a great place to start. Dismisse...
200th Episode Special
Our (second) centennial celebration. We are now three years and two hundred episodes in! No official format here, just us and our producer rambling ab...
Big Trouble in Little China
Few films have experienced reputational turnaronds like John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China. Now a beloved classic, it was equally ignored by...
Ranking the Original Star Trek Films | Bonus Episode Preview
A preview of our Ranking of the Original Stark Trek Films. The full episode is available right now for our supporters over on Patreon. This will becom...
Season Nine Recap
Now that Season Nine is in the wraps, join us as we give our traditional recap and preview what's on deck for next season.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The darkest chapter in the Harry Potter saga brings political intrigue, teenage angst, and the rise of Voldemort out into the open. But despite its im...
The English Patient | Bonus Episode Preview
A preview of our coverage of The English Patient. The full episode is available right now for our supporters over on Patreon. This will become availab...
Chicago
The latest in our "Worst Best Picture Winners series. Chicago is credited with briefly reviving interest in Hollywood musicals. It's a slick, fun musi...
The Emperor's New Groove
It wasn’t supposed to be this movie and somehow, that’s what makes it work. The Emperor’s New Groove began as an epic Disney musical and ended up a ch...
Torn Cutain
Alfred Hitchcock directing superstar talents Paul Newman and Julie Andrews in a spy thriller? Torn Curtain should’ve been a Cold War classic — so what...
Captain America: Civil War
Sometimes called Avengers 2.5, Captain America: Civil War had a lot riding on it. Tensions exploded as heroes took sides over government oversight, fr...
I Am Legend
Will Smith is the last man on Earth, sort of. We revisit the post-apocalyptic blockbuster that launched a thousand memes, a few tears, and arguments a...
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
The third Benoit Blanc mystery came out a couple weeks ago, to the usual acclaim. How does it stack up against the first two? Guest Peter Baldeo retur...
Munich (2005)
In 2005, Steven Spielberg released one of his most ambitious and polarizing films. Despite critical acclaim and multiple Oscar nominations, Munich nev...
Finding Forrester
“You’re the man now, dawg!” Finding Forrester gave us Sean Connery’s penultimate role — and one of the most quoted (and memed) lines of the early 2000...
Ranking the MCU Phase One
By popular demand, here's another ranking episode! Guest and Marvel superfan Garret Ohringer joins to help us rank the Phase One films of the Marvel C...
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Our annual Christmas episode! Jim Carrey as Scrooge, animated in mo-cap 3D sounds like a holiday classic, right? Robert Zemeckis' version of A Christm...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe promised magic, epic battles, and a talking lion. And it delivered, mostly. The 2005 big...
Young Sherlock Holmes
Before Sherlock Holmes was a genius detective, he was an adventurous schoolboy in Young Sherlock Holmes. This forgotten 1985 gem combines teen detecti...
A Tribute to Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
A special emergency episode as we honor the passing of one of our favorite actors, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
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Doctor Zhivago
It’s sweeping, it’s romantic, it’s nearly three and a half hours long. Doctor Zhivago was a box office smash and an Oscar darling, but does it actuall...
Anastasia
Don Bluth’s Anastasia brought lush animation, catchy songs, and a not-so-historically-accurate fairy tale to the late 90s — and for many, it was the n...
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
It’s peace in our time… or is it? The original Enterprise crew faces their final frontier with political intrigue, Shakespeare-quoting villains, and a...
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
It’s morphin’ time! This week we dive into the mid-90s explosion of spandex, sparks, and nostalgia with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. From...
Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent had all the makings of a gripping legal thriller: a best-selling novel, Harrison Ford at his dramatic peak, and a twisty murder myst...
A House of Dynamite
A House of Dynamite turns seventeen minutes of nuclear uncertainty into a Netflix thriller. Kathryn Bigelow delivers a fractured, overlapping narrativ...
King Kong (2005)
Peter Jackson's follow up to his Lord of the Rings triumph was his most personal project, a remake of his favorite film. King Kong was an enormously e...
Elio
Pixar's latest entry has unfortunately turned out to be its biggest loser at the box office. Whether it was the delay in production, controversy aroun...
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
He's baaaaack! After the poorly-received bizarre third film, the studio decided to bring back Michael Myers. The fact that he died in the second film...
Last Night in Soho
Edgar Wright’s stylish dive into psychological horror had fans buzzing — but Last Night in Soho left audiences split. Was it a bold genre experiment o...
Interview With the Vampire
It's gothic, it's moody, and it's kind of a mess. We sink our teeth into Neil Jordan’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire. Tom Cruis...
The Thing (1982)
Perhaps John Carpenter's finest work, The Thing may be beloved now but was completely ignored by audiences upon its release in 1982. It's a perfect ch...