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Dave continues on his lonely interstellar mission to prove movies aren't good. But this time he brings in a ringer, Renaissance man Benoît Lelièvre, and the two of them learn to communicate over the vast emptiness of space. It's a dirty job but no one has to do it: Dave Forgets to Introduce Ben "Nobody Remembers the Oscars" Revisited Another BRUTALIST Review Adrian Brody Suffers for our Collective Memory Get Yourself a Marble Guy Like Today's Guest Host Benoît Lelièvre An Enigma Wrapped in Some Knuckles Inside Some Klosterman ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Review Right Wing Fantasy Or Left Wing Fantasy (Why Not Both? GIF) Sean Penn's Oscar Winning Rage Boner Insider Dirt From An Academy Member EDDINGTON Review Ari Aster and PT Anderson Shared Universe? The SCRIPT DOCTOR Tackles P.T.A. Bring Back Ugly Actors THE SMASHING MACHINE Review MARTY SUPREME Review The Year of Letting Artists Off the Hook Part 1 Ben Puts the Safdie Brothers Up Against the Ropes! Timothée Chalamet As Shia LaBeouf As Marty Supreme Another SINNERS Review Michael B. Jordan Vs. Michael A. Jordan Talking About *That* Scene Again (Dave Hates Fun) TRAIN DREAMS Review Ben's Dog Flips Out When We Mention the Wolf Girl The Oscars' Most Grievous Robberies  Bonus Wolves (Dancing With Saint Costner) David Simmons' Eradicator Recommendation Mel and Kevin Go Full Dadcore HAMNET Review Remember Hamlet? That Play About Loving Your Mother? The Year of Letting Artists Off the Hook Part 2 BUGONIA Review Having Your Bees and Eating Them Too An Underpopulated Pandemic Movie That's Good? F1 Review Get It? Formula Won? Brad Pitt = Gary Sue We Learned a Lot About Tires Experience ASMR in IMAX Insider Dirt From an Academy Member Part 2 THE SECRET AGENT Review Hairy Leg Highlights SENTIMENTAL VALUE Review The Year of Letting Artists Off the Hook Part 3 Would It Make a Better Novel? The Skarsgårds Are Terrifying Pillion and Hold the Dark Recommendations IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU Review A24 Is Now B24 Frunkensteens Are Blowing Up THE BRIDE! (Film Score) Review Guillermo del Toro = Too Many Notes SONG SUNG BLUE Review Yeah, That Didn't Happen Why Do Coke Head Directors Have Pacing Issues? PROJECT HAIL MARY Review The Dumbass Martian Meets The Dipshit Arrival Ryan Gosling Solves the Male Loneliness Epidemic Dave's Finds a Way to Plug Another One of His Books Hail, Grace, Full of Slapstick Close Encounters of the Doggo Kind Happy Classroom Ending Redux Too Much Optimism for Deep Space! Project Hail Mary Contains An Actual Hail Mary Theater Gremlins Did They Just Massacre the Apostrophes?

Tonight Robb of The Arc Party fame stops by to talk all things Frankenstein. Then Dave tricks him into staying a lot longer. But who's the real monster here: ROCKY Review and Another Literal Cold Open Meet Robb Olson, Last of the Readers FRANKENSTEIN (2025) Review Was Frankenstein a Pandemic Book? Definitive Guillermo Del Toro Movie Ranking Boss Baby (Blade II) Vibes Del Toro = Bodies Exhibit Victor? More like Pricktor, Amirite? Resurrection Versus Assembly ALIEN: ROMULUS Is a Better Frankenstein Movie Mad Science Is Inherently Funny Has Del Toro Stopped Trusting Us? Poisoned by the Visual Vocabulary of Superheroes HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN Review Large Dudes Lost In Digital Translation Robb's Favorite Penny Dreadful Episode Is Also His Favorite Frankenstein Google "Meat Loaf Skins" for the Latest Recipes  Mourning the Electronic Cricket 31 "SPONTANEOUS" MOVIE REVIEWS If the Elevated Horror Tries to Break You Down... Go Crazy! Therapy Fade-Out   Books Mentioned: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Lord Byron (just kidding) The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein by Dark Horse Comics Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Stealing Propeller Hats from the Dead (a.k.a. Zee Bee & Bee) by David James Keaton (a.k.a. Me) Movies Mentioned: All of them.  

Dave knows that Nathan enjoyed binge-watching these movies because he called it "torture." This is defined as "to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure," so he's fine! Let's run and pretend we're little airplanes: Cold Open: Colder Royalties MARIO BAVA MOVIE MARATHON! A BAY OF BLOOD Review Hack? Auteur? Both? Neither? BLACK SUNDAY Review LET THE CORPSES TAN Review DANGER: DIABOLIK Review Can Guns Fire Emeralds? (No) Influence on Batman Influence on Austin Powers Influence on The Beastie Boys "Deep Deep Down" X 100 BLACK SABBATH Review Bava Ranking Influence on Tim Burton Influence on ASMR Influence on Scream? BLOOD AND BLACK LACE Review Cameron Mitchell's Kitten Mitten Konfusion About Kriminalfilms Stealing the Right Stuff Dave's First DVD The Big Squeeze Bava's Real Legacy  Introducing BAVAWEEN! PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES = ALIEN and/or Everything ALIEN: EARTH Review Beating a Dead Morph The Marvelification of Alien Giggling Billionaire Trope WEAPONS Review The Title Doctor BARBARIAN Review HERETIC Review DEATH OF A UNICORN Review Chug Is the New Screech Have Your Witch and Eat It Too Cregger's Tragic Comedy Background The Weird Gun Thing Explained Happy Ending? Aunt Gladys = Uncle Sam Theory Chicken Soup for the Trolls Every Witch Way but Loose Free-Range Gelflings Summer Penile Syndrome Have you pre-ordered Head Cleaner yet?

We waited half a year to review the 2025 Academy Award nominees and winners just to prove that no one remembers them. But will anyone remember this conversation: Weapon X Fade In Reviewing Oscar Movies After The Oscars ANORA Review Inevitable A.I. Digression "Organic" Movies Writers and Professors Expediting Their Own Demise A.I. Traffics Only In The Past Cat Clocks Are Shrinking Ode To Big Bites In Movies BRUTALIST Review Forgot To Complain About Brody's Oscar Speech CONCLAVE Review Al Pacino Has Some Weird Lettuce Did the Coens Peak With Raising Arizona? Slow Roasting The Rick Rubin Effect HERETIC Review Rejecting The "You Get To Know" DUNE 2 Redux A COMPLETE UNKNOWN Review Chalamania WICKED Review Everything Is WALK HARD GODZILLA MINUS ONE Versus SHIN GODZILLA SINNERS Review Binary Brains No Battle Of The Bands? Arbitrary Twinning SUPERMAN Review Bad Projection = Kryptonite Would Clark Kent Get The Senior Discount? Ration Your Nuts, Kids The Fortress of Solitude Isn't Very Solitary A Weary Tony Educates Dave Is Superman Even A Person? The Best Superman Flicked Peanuts Days of the Week Underpants = Profit Minecraft Shit! Lois Smoking Versus Smoking Lois Spit Roasting The Tim Burton Effect Tony Flies Back To His Home Planet Dave's exciting Head Cleaner reissue pre-order is up. Random Penguins??? Get a subscription to Tony's new comic Destroying Lumen right here.

We Actually Reviewed a Movie that's Still in Theaters! Be a Part of History. Digressions and Dead-Ends Include: Dave Randomly Stalks a Dude Buffalo Springfield = Snoopy & the Red Baron The Exorcist Broke Up Genesis? Wild Claims About Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel Record Sales It's "The Living Years" Not "The Living Thing" Surprising Band Dynamics NOSFERATU Review Jim Jarmusch = Master of Black and White POSSESSION Review Why Is There So Much Real Estate In Dracula? It's "Epistolary" Not "A Suppository" Renfield = Hype Man Sleepy Hollow Reversal A Lotta Tom "Renfield" Waits in Down By Law THE MONKEY Review Amy's Sister Hates Movies   Why Is Everyone Exploding? More Rube Than Goldberg The Monkey Pulls a Martha O Brother, Where Art Thou Motivation? Tony Script Doctors The Monkey Osgood Perkins Is Working Through Some Shit Alison Bechdel Shout-Outs THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER Review LONGLEGS Review Dino DNA THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Review A Dingo Ate My Baby, Baby, Yeah! But Jeff Bridges Can't Eat Ice Cream The Omen = Final Destination Zero Harlan Ellison Woulda Hated The Monkey Monkey Bangs "Symbols," Not Drums Scratching the Stephen King Itch A Lost Cusack THE GORGE Review RED ROOMS Review Why Is Dave Whispering?

Dave and Tony Try to Record a Podcast in the Morning. Chaos* Ensues: The Last Gasp of Bachelor Art Dandelion = The Perfect Organism? ALIEN: ROMULUS Review Perfect Organisms Are Bland Actors Black Goo As Space Steroids To Tube Or Not To Tube HARBINGER DOWN Tubes Review How Many Times Can Dave Say "Tubes" The Jurassic Park Problem Tony Unironically Describes The Lost World Plot Two Mystery Mags Ode To Editing ALIENS Holds Up Solving That Weird "Arcturian" Line Bug Chasers In Space Amsterdam RESURRECTION Looks Like Shit Ranking All The Robots David Touching Everything Justice For Andy Robots Looking California But Feeling Minnesota The "Used Future" Revolution H.R. Giger + Ridley Scott + Walter Hill = Perfect Organism Weaponize The Dad Jokes! Tony's Bootleg Comic Idea "Don't Make My Ghost Work" Conspiracy Against The Human Egg Fairyland "Dead Inside" One-Armed Monkey *sleepy voices

Run Without Rhythm Cuz Shit's About To Get Spicy: Harkonnen DJ DUNE 2 Review Black Hole Son Paul Was The Villain! (just kidding) Killing Your Toadies Is Spice Gas or Gold? THE KILLING STAR Review Warp Speed = End of Everything The Furby Paradox Hello, Dream Police? Lasers (or the "Start With That!" Problem) They Didn't Fight Twice Stalling So We Don't Have To Do The... ENTIRE PHANTASM PENTALOGY REVIEW Better Dream Logic Sure Plays A Mean Pinball Why Is PHANTASM a Dune Movie? Kill Me But Don't Make Me *Work* Tall Guy in a Little Coat A Theory of Accidental Greatness Collateral (Ball) Damage Why Is PHANTASM 2 an Evil Dead Movie? Dollar Store Bruce Campbell No Afterlife! Sweet. Why Is PHANTASM 3 a Home Alone Movie? Lord of the Softball Reboot Be the Ball If the Balls Ain't Broke Don't Fix 'Em Build-A-Ball How Many Times Can We Say "Ball" Why Is PHANTASM 4 a B-Roll Movie? Cliffhanger Blue Balls Tall Man = Grief Allegory Why Is PHANTASM 5 Tax Fraud? Ravager End Credits Were the Best Part Worst Catchphrase Ever Imagery vs. Coherence Final Thoughts (Ball Half Empty or Ball Half Full?)

The Oscars are Tomorrow and They're Watching Cartoons: The Land of Milk and Honey "Mid" Journeys KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD Review In Praise of Gibberish Lyrics Tony Released Three Novels At Once Once Cosplayin' vs. Genre-Hoppin' The Reinvention Trap Riders On The Norm POM POKO Review That's Nuts U.S. = Butts/Japan = Balls  They Live! from the Alien POV Abandoning Expectations Loophole Culture Clash = The Clash? East Meets West = Feast Meets Guest New Old Music Recs OSCAR PICKS! DiCaprio Acts Super Dumb Wonderballs Lite Jodie Foster Talks Like Joe Pesci Now Dark Triad Test Results Anatomy of a Best Picture Dave Meant To Say Hollywood Shuffle Past Livezzzzz Bradley Cooper Should Only Play Pricks Ode To Movie Cheeseburgers

Topical Solutions: I'm Not Talking Over People, I Swear Introducing Matthew M. Bartlett's Town of Leeds Gateways to Abomination (and Self-Sufficiency) The Pros And Cons (and Cons) Of Positivity Review Down and Punch Up? LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND Review More Netflix Totally Not Made Up Stats Lack of Info = Suspense? Monsters Are Due On Maple Street > Trigger Effect > This Shit A.I. Screenplay? The New Symmetry Red Flag TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY (Episode 1) Review Who Framed Roger Reindeer? INSOMNIA Original/Remake Comparison 30 Days Of Day, I Mean Side-Stepping Plagiarism The True Detective Season Two That Wasn't Dark Star's Ending Swiped Bradbury's "Kaleidoscope" Fake Yellow King Quote = Literal Repairer Of Reputations? TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID Review THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR = It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Definitive True Detective Seasons Ranking Revisiting The Matrix Effect Dave's Theory Of Glorifying Incompetent TV Detectives Night Country = THE LAST WINTER In Praise of Kari Reis Preemptive Hauntedness Dubious Depictions of DVD Collections WHITE NOISE (Book & Movie) Review THE HOLDOVERS Review Cherries Jubilee = Five Easy Pieces of Chicken Bartlett Hates College The Holdovers Trailer > The Holdovers LET'S GO PLAY AT THE ADAMS' versus THE GIRL NEXT DOOR Dueling Author Motivations Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction But Not As Scary? Speaking of Scary! Check out Matt's Weird World HERE

We Belong In A Museum! Our Exhibits: Nathan Lamoreau: Doomsday DJ Expired Red Bull Memories Roulette Reverse Nightingale OWNING MAHONEY Review Joyless Gambling OLD DADS vs. NO HARD FEELINGS Godzilla Moving Too Much WHEN EVIL LURKS (What Are the Rules?) Copycat Attack James "Mid" Mangold Deep Dive: HEAVY Review IDENTITY Review LOGAN vs. THE WOLVERINE Review Tony's 5-Star Autopsy Pod Shout-Out Nathan's Auteur Troupe Theory The Guy With The Eye COP LAND (COPE LAND?) Review 3:10 TO YUMA Review Mistreating Horses = My Full Attention! Plugging Dave's Western PIG IRON The Definitive Indiana Jones Movies Ranking In Defense of KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL? Hey, Movies, Go Outside! In Defense of Willie Scott?? Harrison Ford Problematic On-Screen Relationships Ranked Rogue Academic Battle Lindsay Ellis and Her Case for Nazi Buffoonery In Defense of Fleabag/Wombat Dr. Jones ≠ Mulder He learns to Believe... Again In Defense of Nuking the Fridge??? The Dial of Destiny = Last Crusade Redux De-aging Shrunk His Head Superpowers Include: Luck, Punching, Whip Indiana Jones & Fincher's KILLER: Bad At What They Do? Greed Is Good? The Bodies Exhibit Dial of Destiny = Time Bandits Map How Many Racoon Penis Bones Is Too Many?

It's A Family Affaaaaaair: Library Tables Inside Baseball BUCKCHERRY Reviews A Child Called "Shit" THE MIDNIGHT CLUB Episode 1 Review THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Review WEEDS Analogy The Elephantiasis In The Room "What's A Zoomer?" (Doors, Floors, And Walls) It's All Knocking The Devil Went Down To Blackmail Poe Is In The MCU BEAU IS AFRAID Review The Lighthouse Meets The Waterboy The Strange Thing About The Johnsons Meets Little Murders P.T. Anderson Meets David O. Russell Meets Darren Aronofsky Meets... On Trial For His GUILT Get It? No Control (aka Who's Driving That Boat) The Dangers Of Getting Everything You Want (Versus Everything You Need) The Importance Of Being Real (Not Meaning Something) The Tenderloin = Montreal? Joaquin Classic vs. Joaquin Mumblefuck De-Aged Actors Aren't Real Ari Aster Gets A Little Treat He Was CHASTE* Get It? (*chased) Director Recs Defending Defending Your Life The Telephone Is Ringing Check out Erin's art here.

Halloween means candy, projectile vomiting, and watching 31 movies you've never seen before. It also means reviewing every single one of them. Also, David Fincher has a new movie! And it's the sort of thing he can do in his sleep. Is this good or bad? Find out.  Highlights Include: Bonehead Lyrics Trick or Treat Shenanigans Gold-Plated McDonald's Coffee Stir Cliff Confessional Booth "The Monsters of Heaven" Review Tony's Big New Book Deal! Dave's Big New Book Deal! EXCLUSIVE: Tony Renamed Dave's Book (for real) Baby Juggling Interlude The Literary Echosystem ® Dead Media Careers Hot New Releases Demystified Prince's White Album THE KILLER Review Efficiency Porn Payback Callback The Assassin Grind Tilda Tipping Point Hooptober Failures 31 MOVIE REVIEWS!?! (at least) Anybody Can Break Anybody's Neck Decompression Shower: The Movie Bad Faith Genies The Ultimate Hallmark Film? Usher Too All Green Cops Are Bastards "Friction Ridge" Getting Smooth-Brained Mario Bava Recs Aliens = Possession The Golden Age of Shit Movie as Movie Nut "Barbaridook" Where Are These Movie Masks Coming From? Talking Boxes Heir Not a Parent Why Tony Got Kicked Out of Karate Theme song: Dr. Octogon's "Wild and Crazy"

A King-sized episode where, simply by never letting him get off the phone, Dave tries to convince Tony that Christine is the best Stephen King adaptation ever made. Just look at all this free stuff we have for you. The Winter of Our Dis-Contents: Attempts at Structure Hashtag Girl Dads E-Bike Perpetrator Round II Horror Hypetober WOUNDS Review The Alien Unease Hat Trick (Fire in the Sky/Communion/The Fourth Kind) Cronenburgers POSSESSOR Review Book Wrecks ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (book) Review Termites and Whales Need Baths VERSION CONTROL Review GRAFFITI IN THE RUBBER ROOM Preview SWAMPLANDIA Sorta Review 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE Review TWISTED METAL (half of episode 1) Review Proto-Jackass Crank Calling Massive CHRISTINE Review!!! "You Have A Baby... In A Bar" Five Star Autopsy Is Christine Top Tier King? Dave's High School "Presentation" Best Worst Bullies Ever Stephen King Hates Greasers Script Doctors Trucks vs. Maximum Overdrive Book vs. Movie Stinky Pinky vs. Killdozer Deleted Scenes (There's Gold In Them There Hills) Can You Shit Angry? Alternate Universe Arnies King's Top Five Books & Stories In Defense Of Dreamcatcher? Dad To The Bone

You Can Expect: T-Mac: Glass Half Italian Shark Tooth Necklaces F/X Review Russell Mulcahy Lovefest Breaking Down "Can't Talk About It Yet" Tony McMillen Oeuvre New Music Corner (Still Listening To Asia In 2023) Berries & Brambles THE FLASH Review Do Kids Really Say "Beave"? EVIL DEAD RISE Review Curse Of The Double Reboot Are We Not Men, Trees? AlleHORRORical Horror © Me 2017 The Script Doctor Rises (Dead By... Dawn?) ASTEROID CITY Review Artifice Vs. ArtiFISH (What?)  Wes Hates Wes To support the hosts: Click HERE to buy Tony's comics before he gets famous Click HERE to buy Dave's new novel Head Cleaner

Back after, what, two years?! Dave will continue to talk about movies with people in lieu of an actual social life. Tableau Of Contents: Scott's new novel The Screaming Child BARBIE Review Biting The Hand That Needs You First Zodiac Reference The Dirtiest Harry TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Review Norman Mailer Hat Trick Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast/My Return Reviews OPPENHEIMER Review John Landis Casting Oppenheimer = Amadeus Creativity = Destruction Oppenheimer = Marquis de Sade? QUILLS Review Characterization Climax The Script Doctor Tackles Nolan's Triple Endings FAT MAN & LITTLE BOY Review The Demon Core Sexualizing Quantum Physics A BEAUTIFUL MIND Rebuke The Most Terrifying Line(s) In The Movie Nolan Wants You To Pee Right After The Bomb Scene In Soviet Russia The Room Imagines *You* Naked Adventures In College And Karate Mushroom Cloud Muffins

Musings Include: Mic Drop Name That Tune Knife Corner (Knife Drop) Physical Media Love Online Power Fantasies THE EMPTY MAN Review Three Alien Swipes Fuck ASMR Urban Legends Experiences PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Review Revenge > Shaming THE SOUND OF METAL Review Script Doctor! Musician Doomsday Clock at One Minute Till Midnight MANK Review Ghost Clang They Split the Oscar Vote! NOMADLAND/LEAVE NO TRACE Reviews THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Review Tuesday's Frogs ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Review Sam Cooke Vs. Malcolm X Responsibility of the (Protest) Artist Best Opening Sequences   King Kong Loves Nü-Metal EVERYTHING ELSE Review?

Aaaaaaand we're back, talking about the 2008 (?) hit (?) slash lunkhead Mixed Martian Arts wish-fulfillment fest. We also missed each other. Reunion Tour Set List: New Mic Adventures Tracksuit Corner (a.k.a. Slutty With Your Time) Xbox Corner Hot Wheels Voodoo NEVER BACK DOWN Review '80s Bullies vs. Millennial Bullies Rise Of Teen Fight Clubs, MMA, and Viral Videos Dipshit Rosetta Stone "Fuck That Little Dude!" Plague Corner Mask/Prepper Paradox Knife Corner The Australian "No"

"Topics" is not a word that's the same forwards and backwards, but here they are anyway: Viral Corner Ratio'd "But I'm Okay with That!" The Plume Crosstalk  Exclusive TENET Review! Nolan as Conductor  Three Hours Feels Like Six Minutes! Visual Information  Catching Bullets vs. Dodging Bullets Aurora Shooting Allegory?  Future Director's Cut? Post-Credit Scenes Analysis  The Cheap Seats vs. Box Seats Nolan Loves Masks INCEPTION Re-Review Rich People "Dreams" vs. Pillow Hands Movies as Trailers? DARK SOULS Review Water Jug Dudes The Healthy Intoxication of Failure  Innerspace Swole

We initially recorded this two years ago, though due to secret reasons we had to take the episode down. Now it's back for your listening enjoyment. Topic List: Devil's Triangle of Synopses The Wolf Whisperer HOLD THE DARK Review True Detective Connection The Alaskan Hello Hollywood Ownage Manly Shit Checklist Grimdark and Grandpa's Deathbed The Red Wolf (a.k.a. Green Is Not a Primary Color) True Detective or Fortune Cookie? The More Dangerous Friend, Guy Doing Violence Right Three Distinct Chokes Taylor Sheridan Triggers Osborne Wind River/Hold the Dark Whitewashing WENDIGO Review The Passive Protagonist A Scoop of Pineapple (Express) Pizzolatto Corner Is That My Sandwich In There??? Lehane Corner Worst Thing Jordan Ever Wrote TV Writing Constrictions Hightown (P-Town) Sneak Peek TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Review Crash Cart

It's our Big Bad Cop Bash! Also: The Return of Product Reviews Headphone Corner Ants in Our Pants Bad Cop Movies/Bad Cop Movement Old Enough to Remember Tasers To Protect and Serve Man: It's a Cookbook! Radio Raheem the Prophet Osborne Dark Souls Training Keaton's Cop Rant Again More like the Policeman's Bawl, amirite? Jackass Paddy Wagon Italian Choices and Voices INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Review Freudian Corner Revolution Is in Our Blood Blood Simple Dead-End Massive List of Good Bad Cop Movies (not to be confused with Bad Good Cop Movies)

Likely Topics List: Positivity! It's Our New Thing Product Reviews Vitamin Corner Swamp Thing Workout VAST OF NIGHT Review Breaking Kayfabe CAPONE Review Choices and Voices Capone vs. Bronson Tom Hardy's Dog Penis Reverse Piracy Dog Walk Test Fail   Like Removal Machine Keaton's New Missing Girl Novel Massive Stephen Graham Jones Lovefest DR. SLEEP Review Rios Drive-By Why Is Horror Green? More Like Dr. Swipe, amirite? Sharing is Caring (a.k.a. Please Buy Our Shit)

Topics: Homeless Corner Bermuda Rectangle Construction Worker Hierarchy Osborne Song #1 EXTRACTION Review MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT Review John Wick vs. Extraction Fun vs. Fraught More Netflix Shenanigans Movie Pool Mythbusting Facebook Corner Osborne Song #2 Joke Thieves FORD Vs. FERRARI Review We're Not Real Meltdown Over a Meltdown! The Purge Dance FRACTURED Review

Hot Topics Include: Soft Apocalypse™ Update Imperfect Produce The Irish Sell Out Failed Hunt Invoking Nine Eleven Osborne Gets Coronacancelled Bats Are Delicious  STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK Review Right-Wing Reservoir Dogs? Cop Hate Is The Rosetta Stone, People Big Spoiler Alert at 56:30 Is Depiction Endorsement?  UNDERWATER Review More Like Underwear, amirite?   Return of the Male Gaze Loophole? Kristen Stewart Is the Rosetta Stone Cthulhu Bait And Switch Thirsty Loophole Stoker Awards Time Travel  Dave Doesn't Understand Poetry Hot Mic Incident 

Topics Uncovered: Apocalypse Workout Corner Small Press Success Stories Conspiracy Corner Are Viruses Alive? THE PLATFORM Review Dumb Dubbers Improving Movies with Fast Forward "You Can't Shit Up" THE HOLE Review Osborne Interlude Song THE HUNT Trailer Review THE HUNT Review The Movie-Before-The-Movie Mistake Fake Controversy  Hunger Games with a Political Skin It's Called a Hunting Blind, Dave It's Called "Ode To Billy Joe," Dave Bobbie Gentry Lovefest Us vs. Them vs. Us vs. Us Deplatformed by The Platform (aka The Scrunt) Black Town Car Rolls Up the Driveway Willing Pizzagate Into Existence Slipknot Is Safe

Get Ready For: Workout Corner! Dead Pools It's Not Cockfighting Virus Corner What Would Dunst Do? Prepper Corner! What's In Dave's Bag? The Urban Prepper On Brand Till the End UNCUT GEMS Trailer Review UNCUT GEMS Review Circling-the-Drain Movies: NIGHT AND THE CITY(s) Review BAD LIEUTENANT(s) Review THE GAMBLER(s) Review The Psychology of Gamblers Adam Sandler Review Chekhov's Goon A Tale of Two Buttholes Eric Bogosian Lovefest  My Birds

In This Episode We Promise (at the very least) To Cover: Rat Boys Gym Enemy Update COLOR OUT OF SPACE Review Rubber Puppets Forever COLOUR OUT OF SPACE Review Lost Soul Shout-Out Story Within Story Loophole Occult Corner Osborne Casts a Spell DUNWICH HORROR Review Holy Shit Osborne's Spell Brings a Skull to Keaton's Door in Real Time HELLIER Review The Egg or the Egg Movies Catching Up with Cage HARDWARE Review Grading On a Curve Ambrose Bierce's "The Damned Thing" Lovecraft Adaptations Ranked DIE MONSTER DIE Review

Back by popular demand... it's Rios! She helps us chop it up around this American Dirt thing. And It's Finally Here: Our Top Ten Of The Year! And By That We Mean ALL YEARS No, Seriously It Got Out of Hand So Fasten Your Meat Belts, Everybody

Let's Do This: Workout Corner The Importance of Leg Day Social Media Corner Writing Advice Advice Small Press Corner Hatchet Job Speak to the Manager Meme Revisited Cancelled Corner Chicken Sandwich Challenge! REDACTED Review NEVER BACK DOWN Pre-Review Review DOLEMITE IS MY NAME Review Mack Avenue Skull Game JOHN WICK 3 Revisited THE FANATIC Review WOUNDS Review CRAWL Review Never Trust Artists Regarding Art IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON Review

Topic List: All In on Baby Yoda THE MANDALORIAN Review One-Off Frog BLACK WIDOW Trailer Review Post-Midsommar WICKER MAN Re-Re-Review READY OR NOT Review Facebook (Twitter) Corner Osborne's Bouchercon Report Hard Sentences Gets the High Hat A Can Of Worms is Literally Opened Nicolas Winding Refn Gives Osborne a Much-Needed Win Unabomber Corner Keaton's Imagined Grudge With *Bleep*     The Hollywood "No" ChiZine Controversy Perfect Politics/Shitty Person THE IRISHMAN Review BOARDING HOUSE REACH Review Trading Up the Chain Men Making Movies Postmortem The Mad Dog & Glory Swap UNCUT GEMS Trailer Review Short Garbage Can vs. Large Garbage Can

On This Episode: Hot for Teacher Thatched Roofs Facebook Corner Debut Facebook vs. Twitter Writers vs. Musicians Osborne vs. "Insufferability" Keaton Solves Facebook with Strangers on a Train Annoying British Children Impression Being One Grade Older Loophole Jiffy Lube Incident EL CAMINO Review DEADWOOD: THE MOVIE Review CREEPSHOW Review 3 FROM HELL Review CHERNOBYL Review David Thewlis Love Corner! Meltdown

The two Daves come back to town just to talk about the incredibly uncomfortable new Gaspar Noe flick. Also: We Rant a Lot! The Grumpiness Continues! Is This Show a Cry for Help!

On this episode, Dave and I get really grumpy about IT: Chapter Two. Plus: We Hate Movies in General We Hate Everything? We Get Pissed and Morose Especially After Bad Movies This Was One of *Those* Movies

Today we are joined by author Rios de la Luz! All Three Of Us Talk About: Giving Up on Artists You Used to Like How to Make Scenes Tense Tarantino in General JDO Finds Himself Surrounded on All Sides Oh Shit Is Osborne the Only One Who Liked this Movie??? Trying to Convince People a Movie Is Good It's Hard to Do

On This Episode We'll Touch On: Putting Actors' Lives in Danger JDO's Ongoing Obsession With Cults Is Very Cult-like MIDSOMMAR Review The Inherent Creepiness Of Folk Music THE WICKER MAN Has to Come Up, Right? The Consequences of Innocuous Decisions

It's That Time Again: Talking About Naps Talking About Rain BANDERSNATCH Review The Limits of Meta The Importance of the Matrix JOHN WICK 3 Review Dance Fighting GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS Review A Movie Filmed Inside of an Asshole

This time we review the new postmodern weirdo flick from the director of It Follows. Discussions Include: Where It Went Wrong Where It Went Right But Mostly... How It Bears an Eerie Almost Uncanny Resemblance to Dave's Novel The Last Projector Do We Have a Case of "Inspiration" on Our Hands? Let the Evidence Speak for Itself... Read The Book That (maybe? probably? sort of?) Inspired This Film By Clicking Here.

We Try To: Give an Honest-to-God Review of a Superhero Movie Have a Serious Conversation About a Stuffed Armadillo Major Spoilers Ahead for Both!

In This Episode: Vaguebooking Print-on-Demand Movies Negative Energy THE SILENCE Review The Banality of the Apocalypse Scare Tactics BETWEEN WORLDS Review The Mystery of Nicolas Cage The Mystery of Black Holes The Mystery of Penis Compliments at the Urinal

On Our Minds:  How to Ask Someone to Repeat Themselves Without Sounding Rude (You Can't) Addicted to Being Mad on the Internet Allegorical Storytelling US Review Jordan Peele Lovefest The Newest Metal Apologies for the Tech Gremlins in Full Effect But It's Still a Really Good Episode Anyway

Our Discussion: Boom! Bang! Pow! Superheroes CAPTAIN MARVEL Review Goth Murderer Cannibals LORDS OF CHAOS Review Tattling on Movie Talkers Alamo Drafthouse Remains Unusual Past Racism Writer Hierarchies Book Piracy

On This Episode: The Dangers of Podcasting Fully Caffeinated Dave Invents Coffee Stirs Are Witches Toxic? SUSPIRIA(s) Review A Glorious Satanic Mess Movies Looking Like Commercials BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Review Oscar-Caliber Fly Subverting Heist Films WIDOWS Review (Even Though JDO Says, "No Spoilers!") Hot Take Positing Jar Jar Binks as a Movie-Destroying Demon

Spoiler Alert: Movies on Our "Worst Of" List Have Been Nominated for Oscars.

This is our final episode of 2018! Conversations Include: Is Lars von Trier a "Try-Hard" and Does That Matter? THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Review A Serial Killer Movie to Kill All Serial Killers (Movies)? Dead-On von Trier Impressions by JDO Dave's Huge Checklist of All the Serial Killers This References How Does Behavior Relate to Art? Thanks for listening. It's been a great year.  

We Talk About: J.G. Ballard's Crazy Car Books Getting Into Fights While Taking Your Kid to See Santa Book vs. Movie vs. Hype Bullets vs. Arrows BIRD BOX Review The Perils of Disliking Things Your Friends Like

On This Episode: Social Media Scolding Milk Men Pre-Internet Jackassery Diluting The Joke DOG EAT DOG Review AFFLICTION Review FIRST REFORMED Review

Today We Talk About: Pulling Someone Out of the Driver's Seat of a Car Internet Squealers UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 4 Review CAM Review The Fakeness of Online in Films Harlan Ellison's Shatterday SEARCHING Review The Curious Case of a Certain Word

A Lot To Get To Today, Such As:   Straight-to-Netflix Content THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Review Anthology Movies Steve Alten's Meg Bill Maher/Stan Lee Controversy How White Is the Coen's Wild West? Dave's Meta-Fictional Opus The Last Projector

Are you ready for abortion, Nazis, and dad-rock revenge films? Also, why do we never see the rich get murdered on-screen? Makes ya think! Stuff Mentioned In This Episode (Sometimes With Links): T.C. Boyle's Short Story "Killing Babies" Charlene's Insane Tune "I've Never Been to Me" So Is This Bonkers Song the Polar Opposite? YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Review And a Ton of Other Movies Also Come Up, Like... Leon: The Professional Road House We Need to Talk About Kevin American History X American Pimp Oldboy I Saw The Devil John Wick

We thought it might be easier to list all our nonsense. Let's try it... Salty Rants In This Episode Include: Dave's Shaky Basketball Analogy How You're Not Allowed to Criticize Books Should Tweets Be Movies? (un)Surprising Criticisms of BLACKkKLANSMAN MANDY Review Cage Match Nepo Babies Dueling Chainsaws (Stories)

We're all we've got in this world, but we can't hug it out over Skype. Instead, we talk about The Endless, which is 100% a really really really okay (some might say "almost good") kinda movie.