Flicking and Screaming

You won't catch us on stage at the Comedy Cellar anytime soon, but we'll certainly give our takes on Bradley "Balls" Cooper's newest stand-up flick!

To celebrate spring weather and a back-to-back Masters for Rory McIlory, we're spending time with America's favorite dad. How good is Kevin Costner's golf swing? What exactly is Rene Russo's deal in this movie? Could Jed make the U.S. Open with just a shovel and rake??

We're celebrating the return of the great game by covering Carson Lund's EEPHUS. Plus: everyone's favorite segment, the boys make MLB predictions no one cares about except us!

The 98th Academy Awards have come and gone. Did Conan and the ceremony live up to expectations? What moments made us tear up, or made our eyebrows raise in surprise? Plus: running through a list of what movies we might see at next year's show!

Every year, once a year, we get to decide who gets the trophies and hardware. But do we think The Academy is about to get this right? Either way, we're beating them to the punch.

The latest, hottest, Miami-by-way-of-Cleveland-est Netflix original is here. Why are Ben and Matt turning their attention to these kinds of movies together? What should the billboards for this movie have said?

Evan and Chip go girbossing their way around the island of gore, boar, and shore.

We've reached the conclusion of our year-long project with the kid from Texas. But first, a little look back at ASTEROID CITY before a collective filmography ranking.

One of our favorite episodes of the year, it's time for us to pull back the curtain on our individual tastes and reveal our favorite movies of 2025. Will we have a unanimous #1? What surprises do the boys have in store for each other?

We love spending time with our good friend Martin Mauser from the Lower East Side, don't we folks? What do we make of Chalamet's filmography from the time he signed on to this film in 2018 to now? Plus: is there enough table tennis in the movie?

The boys take a look at the top earners at the box office in 2025. What went right, and what took a surprising left turn? What genres still matter at the box office? Have sports movies and superhero movies been left behind? Plus, Jed gives his thoughts on how the younger generations experience the magic of the movie theater.

Happy New Year, friends, family, magazine writers, painters, criminals, muses, cops, and chefs! We are approaching the end of our Wes Anderson retrospective, but did the release date of THE FRENCH DISPATCH impact its legacy? What would we call *our* favorite Wes Anderson tricks and features? Plus: because we can't help ourselves, another extended James Bond tangent.

We're breaking down the Lazarus door to investigate Benoit Blanc's third mystery. But is it even Blanc's movie? Do these films require an autumnal setting to succeed? Plus: we love and miss Rob Reiner, and a tangent on the best looking Netflix originals.

Wes Anderson's return to stop motion gives us pawse. Is this film all bark and no bite? Are the movie's politics deep enough for us to sink our teeth into? Plus: someone put a leash on Chip's Liev Schreiber take!

We thought about cutting the end of the episode and replaying the same 45 minutes twice, but couldn't bring ourselves to commit so deeply to the bit. Let's get nihilistic!

This podcast may not be an institution yet, but that hotel in the spa town of Nebelsbad below the Alpine Sudetenwaltz certainly is.

The brothers of the podcast call upon another brother droog, Dylan, to assist in a collective, collaborative ranking of this infamous director's filmography.

It won't be the last time our Wes Anderson series brings us to talking about a movie we've already covered, but MOONRISE KINGDOM was an early controversial episode, thanks to a certain kid-hating host . . . will cooler heads prevail on this contentious episode*?* admittedly, this is total clickbait

Courage, Bob.Courage.It's the movie event of the year.

Boggis, Bunce, and BeanOne fat, one short, one leanThese horrible crooks, so different in looksBut nonetheless equally meanEvan, Jed, and ChipAll smart and keen and 'quippedTo hang with The Fox and give us their TalksAt a delightfully comedic clip

Do YOU eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

Your three favorite podcast hosts are catching a train with three (new) sons in Wes Anderson's world.

More like, "Je m'appelle Bond. James Bond." Am I right? Plus, a catch up on other movies we're digging right now.

Today's episode is BYOHG - Bring Your Own Hand Grenade.

Won't you invite us, and our podcast episode, into the barn for a night of music and revelry? 🧛

Our 2025 journey through the World of Wes takes us underwater this week.

Nothing connects young millennials / elder zoomers like George Lucas' much-maligned prequels. Can we sort through the nostalgia of these films and see what remains?

We're suiting up with Ben Affleck this week, from the pocket protector to the sniper rifle.

Well, everyone knows Wes Anderson's third feature achieved box office and critical success, further establishing the Anderson-ian style and rhythms. What this podcast presupposes is . . . maybe he didn't?

We turned the key on the monkey's back this week . . . will we survive long enough to make it to the end of the episode?

We've still got spy fever after BLACK BAG, so we are returning to a classic. Plus, an extended conversation on James Bond, Amazon, and the future of our prestige franchise.

This week, Steven Soderbergh asks the question: how sick would it be to create international strife through advanced spycraft to prove just how monogamous you are?

Join us as we bounce from one extracurricular activity to the next in Wes Anderson's hilarious and spiky RUSHMORE.

Baseball. Is. Back. We are celebrating the return of our great game by covering SEE HER BE HER, a new documentary on women's baseball. Veronica Alvarez, manager of the US Women's Baseball Team, joins us to chat about the making of the documentary, the 2026/2027 World Cup season prep, and the future of international women's baseball. Plus, we preview the upcoming MLB season!00:20 - talking SEE HER BE HER20:40 - chatting with Veronica Alvarez46:00 - MLB preview and predictions

From tennis courts to Canadian courtrooms, from the Australian desert to the deserts of Arrakis, from the Vatican to Vegas, it's our favorite movies of 2024.

Yeah, yeah, the "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" has a little show for the best movies of 2024, but the real awards are on this podcast. Best Picture, all the acting categories, maybe a little sound and score action. What surprises do we have in store?

It's a far-reaching and honest conversation for our boys this week. How quickly can Jed's Oscar take provoke Evan? What does AI in movies even mean? Is THE BRUTALIST, like, THAT good, or just that good? Plus: SING SING, A REAL PAIN, THE APPRENTICE (which we will never watch), and WICKED (again).

Two of the most discussed (over-discussed?) horror movies feature on this week's episode, as Jed and Chip take a look at these two fairy tales. Are the prosthetics the real stars of these movies? Is the discourse cursed? Should we even attempt to parse through the noise to get to the truth of these films?? Should we have even pressed record????

Justin Kurzel's gritty crime drama helps us continue to celebrate Nic Hoult. How does the cinematography set the tone for this period? Has Jude Law ever looked better? How happy are we that this isn't a TV show? Plus: this movie's story is uhhh pretty relevant!

We've gone against the wishes of our mentors and plugged our (podcast microphones) into amplifiers. We're going electric! But will Chalamet take home his first Oscar? Does it matter if they are singing live on set? Are the soft and steady hands of James Mangold right for this story? Plus: a fiesty Mark Ruffalo tangent.

We're filling in the gaps on our Wes Anderson coverage in 2025, starting with Martin Scorsese's favorite! Which Wilson brother steals the show in this debut feature? How does Wes fragment his personality amongst the three leads? Plus: some WICKED talk, some generators talk, and a new arbitrary ranking scale.

Step into the judge's chambers with us for the movie Warner Bros doesn't want you to see. But is Clint's latest (and final?) movie worthy of a Max dump? How does Nicholas Hoult's good looks play into his part? Is he worthy of forgiveness, or justice? What is the difference? Plus: do we read anything into Clint's daughter cast as he victim?

Phase 2 of the Lindsay Lohan Netflix Cinematic Universe (LLNCU) is underway. Could Francis Ford Coppola have made this movie? Would this movie be better if it wasn't a romance? Plus: FORD V FERRARI, and boy, those opening credits were something. Happy Holidays!

It's the MEAN GIRLS of the Vatican, it's a touch of the Tucc, it's your parent's favorite movie of the year - we are talking CONCLAVE. Is this movie too catty, or not catty enough? This movie will win HOW many Oscars? Plus: rock and roll Chronicles of Narnia?

We didn't forget these movies were released this year! But did everyone else? How sleepy are the actors in these movies? What's up with Apple's release strategy? Plus: a popcorn sponsor, and Evan confuses STAR WARS and SPIDER-MAN.

It's fall, and we are looking for reasons to be happy. What better way than Rob and Nora, than Billy and Meg, than Carrie and Bruno?

We've got dollars in our fists. We've got some MORE dollars in our fists. And we are three men who can only be described as good, bad, and ugly. It's the best of the west on Flicking and Screaming.

We're not letting Tom Chaney get away! Will Chip repent for his repeated dismissals of this film? What makes Roger Deakins' work special and subtle? Plus: Hailee Steinfeld's place in the child actor pantheon.

It's the longest movie title ever, and it's just the first movie! Will the other three planned installments come to fruition? Is Kevin Costner's mortgage worth the franchise, or is that flawed question? Plus: casseroles, Michael Rooker's accent, Venice, and scorpions.

We're making a deal with the devil this week. Do these two horror surprise hits have more in common with each other than we think? Do those shared ideas end in the same place? Does FIRST OMEN separate itself from the IP studio machine? Is LONGLEGS, ya know, scary? Plus: BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH and IMMACULATE.