Episodes
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Episode 116 First Cow
Collin, Tierney, and Matt discuss First Cow, Collin's second pick for his Lost to 2020 theme.
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Episode 115 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Matt, Tierney, and Collin discuss Matt's pick for Lo Fi Sci Fi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Episode 114 Field of Dreams
Tierney, Collin, and Matt discuss Field of Dreams, Tierney's pick for Great Baseball Movies.
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Episode 113 King of Staten Island
Collin, Tierney, and Matt discuss Collin's Lost to 2020 pick, The King of Staten Island.
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Episode 112: Gattaca
New Year, New (actually, just the same) Rommies! After a brief (horny?) holiday hiatus, the Rommies are back for their next Festival run, and this year they’re kicking things off with Matt’s first pick. Listen in as they dive into this nearly 30-year-old, lo-fi sci-fi joint that somehow seems…
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Episode 111: Everybody Wants Some!!
When it came time to wrap up the Horny Summer run, it only felt right to select a film where a) Glen Powell spends nearly the entire run time trying to hook up, and b) the movie literally ends as a new school year is starting. Join the Rommies for one final, crazy weekend full of booze, baseball,...
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Episode 110: Y Tu Mamá También
When the Rommies’ partners go away for the summer, they soon realize they need a new outlet for their horniness, and what better way than to road trip to the beach with a cousin-in-law?? Listen in as they dive into Alfonso Cuarón’s masterpiece, which may be the horniest and summeriest (and…
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Episode 109: Call Me By Your Name
After taking some time off in Somewhere In The Indian Ocean, the Rommies return to the sumptuous locales of the Mediterranean to have a romantic summer fling with their one true love: a peach. Join them as they discuss one of the horniest Best Picture nominees in recent memory (that unfortunately...
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Episode 108: Top Gun
What’s hornier/summerer than a mustachioed Anthony Edwards singing about great [big] balls, playing [the most homoerotic game of beach volleyball ever committed to film] with the boys, or [finding] that lovin’ feelin’ for your teacher? Why, the American Military-Industrial Complex of course! Join...
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Episode 107: Mamma Mia!
(In honor of Horny Holidays, the Rommies have decided to open the vault and release the Horny Summer archives. Merry Festivus and/or Happy Chrismukkah, Listener!) After the Rommies get everyone they know to come to a beautiful Greek island for their wedding, they simply have no choice but to try...
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Episode 106: Twisters
When the patron saints of Horny Summer (Glen Powell, tornadoes) team up for a new movie, you GOTTA know the Rommies are gonna be there to cover it! Join them for a whirlwind discussion about how this legacyquel updates and/or rehashes the original, the absolute joy of a dumb (but well-made)…
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Episode 105: Life as a House
After a fairly chaste school year, the Rommies decide to try and have a horny summer by moving into their dying dad’s fully automated domicile (a SMART HOUSE, if you will) which is conveniently located across the street from their crush. At first, their plan works! They are able to spend quality...
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Episode 104: Point Break
While the rest of the world transitioned from Pop Girl Spring to Brat Summer and now to Moo Deng Autumn, the Rommies are holding fast to Horny Summer with this fresh, hot-off-the-presses (i.e., recorded many months ago back when it actually WAS summer) new episode! Listen in as they praise...
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Episode 103: The Mummy
Hop into your time machine and join the Rommies (and another returning special guest!) as they keep the Horny Summer party going, but this time with a little ancient Egyptian flair. Listen in as they discuss this film’s place in the action/adventure genre lineage (and Millennial culture in...
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Episode 102: Twister
After having so much fun discussing horny in their Challengers episode, the Rommies decided to keep up the heat for the next run of the pob: Horny Summer! And what better way to kick off the new season than to welcome back a returning guest with strong horny summer bonafides to talk about this…
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Episode 101: Challengers
After getting to the end of the Road to 100, the Rommies weren’t sure which road to go down next. However, once they all saw Horny Tennis: The Movie, they knew they had a (temporary, at least) answer! Join them for this emergency pob as they discuss all of the things that make this one of the…
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Episode 100: Barbie
As they approached their 100th episode, the Rommies began feeling ill at ease, like they were conscious, but it was themselves that they were conscious of. Luckily, there was no undertone of violence, but they still weren’t quite sure What They Were Pob For. Finally, after some soul searching…
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Episode 99: White God
In the final episode of both their Unconventional Trilogy series and the Road To 100, the Rommies take a look at this Hungarian Planet of the Apes spin-off. Listen in as they discuss the similarities (“Humans do be dumb.”) and differences (literally everything else) between Caesar and Hagen’s...
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Episode 98: War for the Planet of the Apes
Sliding in just under the wire while still just a trilogy, the Rommies set aside their somewhat irrational anger at the naming convention switch to dive into the final entry of Caesar’s story. Listen in as they discuss how effectively Andy Serkis, Matt Reeves, and co. wrap up the reimagined Apes...
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Episode 97: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
For the next episode of their Unconventional Trilogies series, the Rommies are joined by an extra special guest to discuss the next entry in the PotA reimagining saga. Listen in as they highlight all of the ways this film leveled up from Really Good Popcorn Flick™️ to Legitimately Great Cinema™️,...
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Episode 96: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Rommies begin the final entry in their Unconventional Trilogies run with the first film in the Caesar Trilogy. Listen in as they discuss all of the things that make this so much better than it had any right being, worship at the altar of Mo-Cap God Andy Serkis, and spend WAY too much time...
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Episode 95: Kingsman 2 The Golden Circle
In both a spiritual sequel to the Cornetto Trilogy (stylized genre comedy) and a spiritual sequel to the Frozen short film episode of the pob (Tierney wants silly vibes but Matt and Collin take the assignment WAY too seriously), the Rommies reconvene for the next episode of their Unconventional...
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Episode 94: The World's End
Years after a failed attempt at recording a pobcass, the Rommies return to their respective home studios to finally finish what they started: talking about the Cornetto Trilogy. Listen in as they try to work through complicated feelings about this film in comparison to the other two, make wild…
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Episode 93: Hot Fuzz
Continuing their run of Unconventional Trilogies, the Rommies return to spoofy ol’ England for a quick bite of Classico Cornetto. Join them as they discuss all of the recurring bits, visual gags, and references to the first film in an otherwise unconnected sequel, and stick around as Matt drops…
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Episode 92: Shaun of the Dead
For the next segment of their Unconventional Trilogies series, the Rommies turn their attention to the first entry in Tierney’s selection of the iconic genre(s) spoofing Cornetto Trilogy. Listen in as they do a complete 180 away from the quiet, dramatic stylings of Dickie Links into the visual...
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Episode 91: Past Lives
In honor of the film’s strong showing across numerous Best of 2023 lists/critics groups’ awards (and definitely that reason only), the Rommies have decided to finally release their long delayed episode covering Collin’s favorite film of the year. After finishing the Before Trilogy, listen in as...
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Episode 90: Before Midnight
The Rommies take one final trip to Europe to catch up with Jesse and Celine in the concluding* chapter of the Before Trilogy. Listen in as they discuss the various deviations this film takes from the preceding chapters and whether or not they were effective in closing out** these characters’…
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Episode 89: Before Sunset
The journey through the Before Trilogy continues as the Rommies welcome a very special guest to talk about the second entry in the series. Join them as they take a casual stroll (on a strict time limit) through one of the biggest cities in the world (but only a four block radius of it) while...
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Episode 88: Before Sunrise
After a little* hiatus, the Rommies are back to kick off a new season looking at Unconventional Trilogies. In this episode, Collin gets things started with the first film (importantly, NOT the third film) in one of his favorite movie series of all time. Listen in as the Rommies Bill O’Reilly…
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Episode 87: Broadcast News
The Rommies watched Broadcast News. Sorry it’s 14 weeks late. *clears throat* For the final film of the 2023 Festival, the Rommies go back to a simpler time where the hair and outfits were insane, but the news was not (... yet). After clearing up some initial Hurt confusion, they discuss the...
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Episode 86: The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
For Matt’s final selection of the 2023 festival, the Rommies don their fanciest dresses made of shoes and hit the road for some drag shenanigans. Listen in as they discuss how progressive this film was for its time (and how relevant it remains today), heap praise on the impeccable script (and...
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Episode 85: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
For Tierney’s last pick of this year’s festival, the Rommies revisit Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to Cinema™️. After revealing some surprising changes of heart about the film as a whole, the Rommies dive in to discuss the immaculate vibes, the fairy tale elements, and the potentially…
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Episode 84: The Parallax View
In a full-circle moment of Director Bullshit synergy, Collin’s next selection for this year’s festival is this 1974 paranoia thriller classic. How fair was Marvel’s comparison between this film and a Captain America movie? Listen in to find out! Also, be sure to stick around to hear the Rommies…
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Episode 83: Prisoners
For Matt’s next pick of the Festival, he decided to give the Rommies a really bad time by selecting Denis Villeneuve’s 2013 American breakout. Join them as they talk through this beautifully made but brutal to watch film, discuss its place in Villeneuve’s filmography to date, and … debate the...
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Episode 82: I, Tonya
After weeks of prelude, the Rommies have finally made it to the film that inspired Tierney’s entire theme of this year’s festival. Listen in as Tierney sings her highest praises of this innovative take on a sports biopic (“bye-opic”? “bio-pick”?), Matt and Collin harmonize over their love of the...
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Episode 81: Umbrellas of Cherbourg
After much confusion (“is it the animated music one? is it the nuclear meltdown one?”), the Rommies finally sorted it out for Collin’s next pick of the Fest. Join them as they discuss what works and what doesn’t about this extremely unique movie musical, fawn over the immense hotness of the...
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Episode 80: Pariah
After some internal debate of his own, Matt finally settled on this 2011 uber indie as his next pick for this year’s festival. Join the Rommies as they discuss the emotional roller coaster contained within this beautiful film. Plus, stick around for Tierney and Collin tag-teaming against Matt’s...
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Episode 79: Moonrise Kingdom
After a lot of internal turmoil and debate, Tierney finally settled on returning the pob to its Wes Anderson roots for her next selection of the Festival. Listen in as the Rommies do an impromptu rehash of their personal rankings, discuss the innocence and awkwardness (and inappropriateness?) of...
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Episode 78: All About Eve
In a surprising turn of events, Collin’s next selection for the Festival was quite well received by The Rommies across the board! Did that mean that they would show this classic the respect it deserves? In an unsurprising turn of events, nope! Listen in as they talk Some About Eve, Mostly About…
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Episode 77: Under the Silver Lake
For Matt’s next selection of this year’s Festival, the Rommies go for a swim to investigate the seedy underbelly of one of Los Angeles’s most prominent neighborhoods. Alternatively, they sit around their bizarrely well-furnished apartment and dream up a vast conspiracy just to have something to…
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Episode 76: Dirty Dancing
The Rommies (and a very special first-time guest!) pack up the car and head out for a summer (month? week? day?) in the Catskills to discuss Tierney’s next pick for the festival. While there, they meet Carrie Frances D’Watermelon-Houseman, and together they team up to change the minds of snooty…
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Episode 75: His Girl Friday
With his first selection of this year’s Festival, Collin had the sheer audacity to pick (apparently) the wrong 1940 Cary Grant comedy. While many consider this film to be one of the greatest of all time, the Rommies are considerably more divided, so listen in to find out who falls into which camp...
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Episode 74: Cleo From 5 to 7
In a fun quirk of timing, the Rommies gather to discuss Matt’s first pick for this year’s festival mere weeks after its meteoric rise up the rankings of Sight & Sound’s iconic, decennial list of the Greatest Films of All Time. Listen in as Matt and Tierney highlight all the things that make this...
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Episode 73: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Welcome back for the 4th (Semi-)Annual One F Film Festival aka somewhere between the 3rd and 7th season of the pob! This time around, Tierney is kicking things off with a Coen Brothers classic. Join the Rommies as they (clumsily) ease their way back into the pobbing groove, sing the praises of...
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Episode 72: The Shining
The Rommies wrap up their Kubrick Retrospect-ish as they discuss The Shining, just in time for Halloween! Will they be able to navigate through their labyrinth of tangents about why hotels are gross, kissing ghosts, poor Shelley Duvall, and how many episodes of One Piece there are? All talk and…
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Episode 71: Lolita
The Rommies are back for the penultimate entry in their Stanley Kubrick retrospectish! They’re joined by friend of the pob Becca Sita to discuss Kubrick’s iconic fun family road trip film. Listen in as they discuss the differences between the movie and the book, what worked and didn’t work for…
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Episode 70: Full Metal Jacket
After the double-whammy disappointment of a bad Kubrick and the tamest orgy ever put on screen, the Rommies rebound to continue their retrospect-ish with his iconic (anti-)war film. Listen in as they discuss the effectiveness of the messaging throughout its two distinct sections, while Matt works...
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Episode 69: Eyes Wide Shut
In honor of the Rommies hitting this momentous achievement, they decided to continue their Kubrick retrospective with his crazy sex party themed film. Listen in to find out if they felt like the movie’s horniness was adequate for this important milestone, and then stick around as they determine…
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Episode 68 A Clockwork Orange
After years of either being too scared to try or being too upset by the first 5 minutes to continue watching, the Rommies finally gathered up their courage to force themselves to get through Kubrick’s iconic dystopian crime/horror film. Listen in as they discuss how the experience measured up to...
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Episode 67: Barry Lyndon
After a brief holiday hiatus, the Rommies return to their Kubrick deep dive with a look at his classic period piece character study. Join them and their special guest as they discuss their initial reactions to the film (it was a first viewing for most!), the gorgeous cinematography, and the...