This week, put this podcast in your earholes and I will carry you to the gates of Valhalla myself, as we die historic inducting a new entry into the podcast canon. It's 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, written and directed by George Miller, and starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Zoe Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Riley Keough. It is pure spectacle action cinema, with terrific politics and a thinking brain buried beneath its non-stop chase sequences. Plus,...

What a wonderful day! Hayley has made her way out west for an LCD Soundsystem concert, which means your intrepid hosts are in the same room recording live in person for the very first time, as we took our best gals to see 2024's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes on laser IMAX at the old SilverCity Coquitlam on a great trip through the many suburbs of Vancouver. And because they were in the room listening along during the recording anyway, J Mo and Haylz are joined on the mic by their...

This week, as Ryan Reynolds rides into theatres with the big screen release of I.F., we wind it back a few years to another movie he's in that adds a couple extra letters to that pair: 2017's Life, directed by Morbius helmer Daniel Espinosa, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada and Ariyan Sanada. It's a space-set creature feature that aims to evoke Alien but doesn't quite hit those same classic heights. Is it still passable? Our hosts are split, as...

This week, as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes hits theatres, we prepare for war by finally watching Matt Reeves' capper to the trilogy that preceded it -- 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes, written and directed by Reeves, and starring Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Karin Konoval, Judy Greer and Toby Kebbel. It's a movie pulling heavily from a number of great war films of the past, notably The Great Escape and Apocalypse Now, with a pair of terrific lead...

This week, we return to the fuzzy, high-contrast world of Tony Scott, as the late great Scott brother cranks his signature style to the max in service of a bored rich girl becoming a bounty hunter. It's 2005's Domino, directed by Tony Scott, written by Richard Kelly, and starring Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mo'Nique, Dabney Coleman, Dale Dickey, Lucy Liu and Christopher Walken. It's seemingly a staple of hot couch culture, and dropped in the middle of a very...

This week, no harm ever came from reading a book, and we test out if the same is true of watching a movie as we discuss 1999's The Mummy on the day it returns to theatres for a 25th anniversary re-release. The Mummy is written and directed by Stephen Sommers, and stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Patricia Velasquez, Oded Fehr, Kevin J. O'Connor and Erick Avari. Hayley has put this one up for canon consideration, as it is once again the last Friday of the month...

This week, we're back on the rom-com train with another selection from Hayley's collection, as we raise a blind ferret and get down with the scuba man. It's 2003's Along Came Polly, written and directed by John Hamburg, and starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, and Hank Azaria, along with countless other famous funny people who oddly aren't allowed to do anything funny in this film. It's one we come to out of appreciation for the late...

This week, we're taking up arms against the British and making moves on our dead wife's sister as we get downright independent with 2000's The Patriot, directed by Roland Emmerich, and starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson, Chris Cooper, Rene Auberjonois, Donal Logue, Adam Baldwin, Gregory Smith and a young Logan Lerman. Try as we might to tie into this week's release of Alex Garland's Civil War, this is a war epic about the War of Independence, and...

This week we're back in Cruise control as we follow Tom to a mystical faraway land of blood and honour. It's 2003's The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Koyuki, William Atherton, Scott Wilson and Masato Harada. The movie's conception of the dawn of the Meiji Restoration is bafflingly nonsensical, but what it gets wrong about Japan in 1876 can be forgiven for what it gets right about...

This week it gets lonely at night, as we live in a twilight world and there are no friends at dusk. We welcome Matt Pollock (Matty's Movie Burner) back to the program on the final Friday of the month to induct a new entry into the podcast canon: 2020's Tenet, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Himesh Patel, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, Martin Donovan, Dimple Kapadia, and...

This week we're headed to the desert in hopes the dry air will ease our sufferin'... and hell's coming with us, as we watch 1993's Tombstone, directed by George Cosmatos (or Kurt Russell, depending who you ask), and starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Dana Delany, Jason Priestley, Stephen Lang, Thomas Haden Church, Michael Rooker, Billy-Bob Thornton, Paul Ben-Victor, Billy Zane, John Corbett, Terry O'Quinn, and the voice...

We begin a new year of the show this week, and kick off the campaign by welcoming These Estates and Oiseaux musician and Briarpatch publisher John Cameron for an unseen selection from his collection, a prescient political satire that is now 52 years old but could release today with few alterations and still feel timely. It's 1972's The Candidate, directed by Michael Ritchie, and starring Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter, Allen Garfield, Karen Carlson and Michael Lerner....

We're celebrating one full year of being unlikely partners on the podcast beat by finally getting around to what we've been told is one of the all-time great buddy cop movies. Yes it's 1989's Tango & Cash, directed by a three-headed monster of directors on a deeply troubled production but overseen in post-production by Demolition Man editor Stuart Baird, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance, Teri Hatcher, Brion James, James Hong, Michael J. Pollard, Robert Z'Dar,...

This week, he will, he will rock you as we begin the first themeless month on the pod in quite a while with a movie that Hayley has seen north of 50 times and Justin has never seen before now. It's 2001's A Knight's Tale, written and directed by Brian Helgeland, and starring Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Laura Fraser and James Purefoy. It's the movie that firmly cemented Ledger as a movie star, as Helgeland crafts an underdog sports movie...

This week we're wrapping up February Is For Lovers with another potential entry to the podcast canon, as we dip our toes into rom-com waters for the first time this month with a movie that very much aspires to be a modern take on classic Nora Ephron material: it's 2015's Sleeping With Other People, written and directed by Leslye Headland, and starring Alison Brie, Jason Sudeikis, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Jason Mantzoukas, Andrea Savage, Natasha Lyonne, Katherine Waterston, and Adam Brody....

This week, it's trouble in paradise as we conclude the Before trilogy and keep it on brand with a big blow-up argument. Yes, February Is For Lovers continues with 2013's Before Midnight, once again directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and written by all three. This final chapter keeps you guessing throughout on exactly what kind of movie it's going to be, and is of course lifted once more by two outstanding lead performances. It even earned Oscar gold for...

This week, we continue to stroll through Europe as we're joined by traffic anchor, physical media archivist and Vancouver film criticism scion Marc Staehling for an unseen entry from his collection: 2004's Before Sunset, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, from a script by Linklater, Hawke and Delpy. Like the 1995 film it follows, the whole appeal is a stripped-down, naturalistic approach to onscreen romance, as Jesse and Celine reunite 9 years later for a...

This week we're getting off the train on a whim to walk-and-talk our way through Vienna, as February Is For Lovers begins with 1995's Before Sunrise, directed by Richard Linklater, written by Linklater and Kim Krizan, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. It's a cozy little romance about a chance encounter that turns into one magical night of human connection. Simple stuff for sure, but a refreshing break for us here on the show to get to enjoy something of immense quality again, and...

This week, we're closing out an unsuccessful hunt with a movie about a man with no name, no identity, no family, and no reason to really be too interested in him as the main character of a film. Yes, it's 1997's The Saint, directed once again by Phillip Noyce, and starring Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Henry Goodman, Alun Armstrong, Valeri Nikolaev, Charlotte Cornwell and Emily Mortimer. It's a movie that pairs up a man with no inner life and a woman with no self-esteem as our...

This week we are experiencing some technical difficulties because Apple absolutely wrecked my audio set-up with an unnecessary OS update that doesn't seem to have made anything better. That's beside the point, but I did want to apologize off the hop. Anyway. The Hunt For The American James Bond continues both in our hearts and on the show, as we dip our toes into the chilly waters of Lake Jack Ryan one last time with 1994's Clear and Present Danger, directed once again by Phillip Noyce, based...

This week as a schismatic sect is caught tunnelling underground in New York, we're dealing with a schismatic sect of the Irish variety, intent on burying themselves in pursuit killing of Jack Ryan. Yes, the hunt for the American James Bond continues with 1992's Patriot Games, directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Harrison Ford, Sean Bean, Anne Archer, Thora Birch, Patrick Bergin, Samuel L. Jackson, Polly Walker, James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. Yes Alec Baldwin has been turfed from the...

This week, the hunt is on as we kick off the new year with a spy thriller from the director of Die Hard. It's 1990's The Hunt For Red October, directed by John McTiernan, based on the book by Tom Clancy, and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Tim Curry, Courtney B. Vance, Stellan Skarsgard, Jeffrey Jones, Rick Ducommun and Fred Thompson. It's the first of a four-week January series that we're calling The Hunt For The American James Bond, as we go...

For one last time in 2023, this week we ring out the old and ring in the new with a New Year's Eve-set dad-pandering actioner, the 2005 remake of John Carpenter's crime-horror classic Assault on Precinct 13, directed by Jean-Francois Richet, and starring Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Mario Bello, Drea de Matteo, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, Ja Rule and Kim Coates. I'll be straight up: the movie is not good. It's not horrible either, and definitely has a lot of strong...

MERRY SHAQMAS EVERYONE! We kick off a pod tradition with the First Annual Shaqmas Celebration on ADHD-DVD as returning guest and FED Talks host E.J. Feddes brings an unseen film from his collection with our man Shaquille in the lead role. It's 1997's Steel, written and directed by Kenneth Johnson, and starring Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall, Ray J, Steve Matilla, Kevin Grevioux, and John Hawkes. Shaq has a Superman tattoo so why not cast him as a...

A DePalmber to ReMalmber reaches its thrilling conclusion as our intrepid director kicks off an action mega-franchise with an opening entry that's far more 'film' than 'flick' -- it's 1996's Mission: Impossible, directed by Brian DePalma, written by David Koepp and Robert Towne, and starring Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emilio Estevez and Rolf Saxon. This classic of the 90s now takes its rightful place...