FITWR Volume 1

With Special Guest Neil Miller! This week, Katey Rich finally has Charlie Gul'Dan and David's on assignment, so Matt Patches and Da7e invite Film School Rejects' Neil Miller over from the Citadel of Crazytown to fight in our war room. This week, the guys all like Swiss Army Man, the Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe […]

It's our fifth Quell as Fighting in The War Room, and one of us is super pregnant. With Katey Rich's due date passed, each host picks a movie that they would pass on to the next generation, even if that generation isn't biologically theirs. We go in the order of "most likely to have children in wedlock" […]

Each Host Replaced By The Person Who Puts Up With Them It’s our fourth Quell as Fighting in The War Room (and our 2nd 100th episode as a foursome), and we’ve all stopped going it alone. It’s time to meet the significant others, the people who have put up with us podcasting multiple times a week […]

Let’s Talk Literal Escapism This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David kick things off with Finding Nemo and it’s upcoming sequel Finding Dory. Patches doesn’t remember liking Nemo and is suspcious of Dory, so David tries to help. Then, Patches has two documentaries he wants to pimp in the mini segment Tickle, about an online tickling group […]

Katey Played Warcraft before seeing Warcraft This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David want to talk about Zoos as entertainment and/or cruelty. Some news items have Patches wondering if documentaries or even virtual reality provides the same connection to the other things in the world while Da7e “well, actually”s the premise. Before all that, Katey saw […]

We ALL Want a Do-Over Please Note: Da7e suffered from verbal dyslexia during Fighting In The War Room Episode 120 and knows that he said “Casual” every time he meant “Causal.” Rest assured his soul has died 1000 deaths since then and he’s eternally sorry. Thank you for letting us know, you can stop now. […]

X-Men: Part 9 This week, David, Katey, and Patches graduate from Xavier’s School for Gifted Film Snobs and take on X-Men: Apocalypse, the latest installment of the 2CFMCU (20th Century Fox Marvel Cinematic Universe). Is it… the apocalypse?? That and your answers to our mutant related lightning round question in this week’s review episode. Take […]

It’s Not A Paradox This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David fix their audio and deliver a whole show! AMC has finally brought a Preacher adaptation to screen? Is it working for our hosts, who didn’t read the graphic novel (except for Da7e, who did)? Then, Independence Day: Resurgence released an almost 5 minute trailer. That is too long. […]

Smoking Joints, Talking About Life This week, David, Patches, and Katey tackle a double feature: Shane Black’s Nice Guys and Nicholas Stoller’s Neighbors 2. Both involve smoking joints and talking about life. But do they both work? That and answers to our Neighbors 2-themed lightning round question on this week’s review episode. Take a listen, […]

When Segment 3 Got Deleted This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David suffer some technical difficulties, so this week’s segment 3 about hte “Game of Thrones” phenomena had to get cut (it was full of static and pauses, you would have hated it). After a now ironic couple of reviews that include audio quality knocks, the team […]

With returning guest Jordan Hoffman! This week, Dave, Katey, Patches, and special guest Jordan Hoffman of The Guardian invest all their critical thoughts into two cinematic options: Money Monster, the latest from director Jodie Foster, and High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s dystopian fever dream. Are George Clooney and Julia Roberts feeling bullish? Did Tom Hiddleston charm their […]

Plus, David is a Fanboy about Radiohead This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David hear you: That Captain America: Civil War review last Friday was divisive. Our comments and Twitters felt the force of Civil War fans who felt David and Patches went too hard on the film, so this week as a way of using […]

It’s 2 vs. 2 in the battle of the newest MCU installment This week, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e assemble again to review yet another Marvel movie. You know what it is, how could you avoid it? It’s Captain America: Civil War! Two hosts liked/loved it, two hosts dislike/hated it. It’s our very own Civil War. Take […]

With Special Guest Chris Plante! This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David are joined for a third segment by Chris Plante of TheVerge.com because David was forced to see video game film adaptation of Ratchet and Clank and we thought maybe an expert video game opinion was required to answer some of the deeper questions of the film’s mere existence. […]

Queen Bey in the North This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David celebrate a weekend where even non-subscribers had access to HBO. That means everyone got to check out the Season 6 premiere of Game of Thrones, maybe television’s last great watercooler show. They reflect on the loss of Prince in a mini-segment, then dig into Beyoncé’s […]

With returning guest Joe Reid of Decider! This week, Katey, Patches, and special guest Joe Reid of Decider and the Extra Hot Great podcast gaze into the magical mirror of their local AMC multiplex and wonder, “Mirror, Mirror, on the 60-foot wall, which fantasy franchise is the fairest of them all?” The answer is not […]

We’re alive, dammit. This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David pour over the second season of Netflix’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and its reception. Then, David is on the ground at the Tribecca Film Festival 2016 and has some quick hits from the ongoing fest. Finally, the success of The Jungle Book has the gang looping around […]

It’s a review menagerie! This week, Kitty Rich, Matt Pooches, and David Ehrliphant brave the wild for Disney’s reimagined Jungle Book. Jon Favreu’s live-action take wants to be like the original, wants to walk like the original, and wants to talk like the original. FITWR’ll see if it’s true. Plus, answers to our talking animal lightning round […]

Plus, David breaks down and watches OJ This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David all unite to talk about movies once again, except for a mini-segment where David breaks his No Ryan Murphy Rule because he has a subway commute, that’s about TV. Girlfight director Karyn Kusama is back with The Invitation, a suspense/horror/dinner-party movie that is […]

Hardcore. This week, Da7e heads to the West Coast for business, so Katey, David, and Patches bring their East Coast Bernie Sanders impressions to the war room. What trash TV are we watching? Are video games more influential than movies to today’s modern filmmakers? Who’s The Boss? All questions answered on this week’s show. Take […]

With Returning Guest Joanna Robinson!! This week, Katey, Patches, and special guest Joanna crack open some beers and head back to their college days for a raucous review of Richard Linklater’s new hang out movie, Everybody Wants Some!! Plus, we pick your answers to our spiritual sequel lightning round question. Take a listen, embed and/or […]

There are no small parts, just small…whatever. This week, David Ehrlich takes a sudden vacation to switch jobs, so Katey, Patches and Da7e have run of the war room. After a review that asks for fewer political opinions, the group unwisely decides to talk about the Tribecca Film Festival scheduling the anti-vaccination documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up […]

God Vs. Knight. Day Vs. Night. Dust Vs. Night. This week, Patches, David and Da7e finally get to see Zack Snyder’s sequel to Man of Steel, Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, after being aware that it was coming since 2013. What does Warner Bros’ biggest super-franchise gamble actually end up looking like? Turns out […]

Each Host Replaced By The Person Who Puts Up With Them This week, we’re changing up the format for our 100th Episode Full Quell Special! It’s our fourth Quell as Fighting in The War Room (and our 2nd 100th episode as a foursome), and we’ve all stopped going it alone. It’s time to meet the significant others, the […]

Back to the bunker. This week, Da7e and Patches both saw Zootopia and Da7e’s crazy animation brain got spinning on anthropomorphized animals by Disney and how being “on style” can help and hurt in 3D animation. Them, Katey’s pretty sure there’s a Divergent movie coming out an no one cares, should we care? Finally a follow […]

Monsters come in many forms. One of those is man. This week, Patches, Katey, and David wake up in a bunker and are told that a second Cloverfield movie exists. This time, it’s not a found footage movie about a giant monster from the ocean but a three-handed thriller between John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and […]

The other thing is Venom. This week, Patches and David kick things off with a review of Terrence Malik’s newest, Knight of Cups, because there wasn’t a review episode last Friday (Patches was stuck on a train). Then, Katey asks Da7e what’s up with Sony annoucing that they’ve rebooted the solo Venom movie, because she’s […]

This week, Katey phones in from California where she was covering The Academy Awards for Vanity Fair! Da7e, Patches and David also watched the ceremony and discuss the telecast after some harsh reviews. Then, Katey spills on the Vanity Fair after-party before all four hosts comment on every award . Take a listen, embed and/or […]

Episode VIII has begun. The Fighting In The War Room podcast family acknowledges that Star Wars Mania is here to stay now that Disney-purchased Lucasfilm plans to spin the saga and anthology movies out into the foreseeable future. It’s time to fight in the galactic war room for the foreseeable future! We’ll never see STAR […]

Plus The Mermaid and a segment called “Alex Proyas: Good Director?” Katey has disappeared to prepare for Oscar coverage, so Da7e, Patches and David strike up another Brocast. First, With Gods of Egypt coming to theaters this week, Patches wants to ask: “Alex Proyas: good director?” Then, David catches Patches and Da7e up on China’s […]

The Witch, Deadpool’s success, and a Listener-prompted segment! Absent a Patches, Katey, Da7e and enemy of Fox news David Ehrlich are free to hear David’s thoughts on A24’s first wide release The Witch that comes out this Friday and discuss with Da7e how Deadpool could have become such a massive financial hit. Then, a comment […]

And the Best Picture Oscar is still up for grabs. This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David all watched the Broncos from Da7e’s home state of Colorado defeat the Carolina Panthers but were pretty disappointed in the way that 2016’s upcoming blockbuster movies were advertised, except for David, who liked the Batman V. Superman: Dawn of […]

It’s Coen time. This week, Patches, Katey, and David put on their tap shoes, adjust their flapper caps, and head back to the golden age of Hollywood to review the latest Coen brothers movie, Hail, Caeser. Plus, your answers to our actors-playing-actors lightning round question. Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from […]

Ya-The-Wan-Tha-I-Whant. Hoo. Hoo. Hoo. Honey This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David are all reunited in the War Room to discuss Fox’s Grease: Live! and how it changed the game as far as broadcast live musicals go. Then, because Pride, Prejudice and Zombies is finally coming out, the gang wonders how Seth Grahame-Smith happened. Finally, when […]

David and Patches are in Park City, Utah This week, another Sundance Film Festival has Patches and David off in the snowy mountains, watching a ton of movies most of us won’t get to see for months. As per usual, we have a dispatch from the festival as the main segment on this episode. Meanwhile, back […]

It sure was hard to make This week, Katey, Patches, and David review The Revenant—the perfect blizzard listening. Do they seek revenge against one another or all curl up inside a dead horse? That, and a bunch of other nonsense. Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: […]

10 Cloverfield Lane and the state of True Crime This week, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e discuss what the new Bad Robot surprise movie 10 Cloverfield Lane could be about, if it relates to the previous surprise movie with Cloverfield in the title and what Katey thought about it since we finally made her watch […]

With returning guest Jordan Hoffman! This week, David, Katey, Patches, and special guest Jordan Hoffman move the war room to a secret CIA base in Libya to fight about 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, the ripped-from-headlines action movie from director Michael Bay. Where do they stand? Find out, along with answers to this week’s […]

What we've learned about the universe since The Force Awakens The Fighting In The War Room podcast family acknowledges that Star Wars Mania is here to stay now that Disney-purchased Lucasfilm plans to spin the saga and anthology movies out into the foreseeable future. It's time to fight in the galactic war room for the […]

R.I.P. David Bowie This week, Katey, Patches and Da7e have recovered David to give their reactions to the 73rd Annual Golden Globes, the maybe-doesn’t-matter awards presentation put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Also, Katey is wondering if maybe the dumping ground of January has shortened itself and all four hosts mourn the passing of […]

Nobody wins. This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and Joanna all traveled to real theaters to see an Ultra Panavision 70 movie shot and projected on honest-to-God celluloid: The Hateful Eight 70mm Roadshow.  Quentin Tarantino’s latest is a Western potboiler in two acts with a bunch of characters who are trapped together in a snowstorm inside […]

With returning host Joanna Robinson! This week, Katey, Patches and Da7e have swapped out a David for often requested podcast co-host Joanna Robinson! First, Patches and Joanna discuss MTV’s new (and crazy sounding) fantasy adaptation, The Shannara Chronicles. Is the duo sold on the concept? Can they convince Da7e or Katey to tune in? Then, Patches wants everyone’s […]

The Sixth Annual Top Ten Show! It's that time of year again: time to make a list! Katey, Patches and David all have their top ten films of the year and Da7e will host a countdown episode while throwing in his Top 5 of the year. If we've previously mentioned or reviewed these films  they've […]

An All FORCE AWAKENS Episode The Fighting In The War Room podcast family acknowledges that Star Wars Mania is here to stay now that Disney-purchased Lucasfilm plans to spin the saga and anthology movies out into the foreseeable future. It's time to fight in the galactic war room. In the third Star Wars Special, Katey […]

Fighting in the Star Wars Room This week, David, Patches, Da7e and Katey have all seen J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You probably have too! If you have, you want to talk about it. If you haven't, prepare to pause this episode or delve into spoilers.   Yes, spoilers. The first 29 minutes […]

Plus The Force Awakens speculations The Fighting In The War Room podcast family acknowledges that Star Wars Mania is here to stay now that Disney-purchased Lucasfilm plans to spin the saga and anthology movies out into the foreseeable future. It's time to fight in the galactic war room. In the second Star Wars Special, Matt […]

The financial sky is falling This week, David, Patches, and Katey bet against the banks, make a billion dollars, then quit the podcasting business. Just kidding. They made a billion dollars and decided to review The Big Short. They also pick answers to a lightning round question about celebrity cameos. Take a listen, embed and/or […]

The Phantom Menace > Return of the Jedi The Fighting In The War Room podcast family acknowledges that Star Wars Mania is here to stay now that Disney-purchased Lucasfilm plans to spin the saga and anthology movies out into the foreseeable future. It's time to fight in the galactic war room. In the first of […]

Circling back to Spotlight and listening to critic's circles This week, the podcasters have lost Da7e to a galaxy far, far away, so Katey, Patches and David talk about the "Best of" lists that have been released thus far and if they have captured 2015's year in movies. Then, Patches has an odd question for […]

Really good or the best? This week, Katey, David, Patches and Da7e convene to talk about what is most likely David Ehrlich's number one movie of the year: Carol. The Todd Haynes directed lesbian love story is set in the 1950s and features Rooney Mara meeting Cate Blanchett's Carol. You seen the tweets, now hear […]