Who's the paperboy you ask? Honestly, we don't know. Much like the rest of this movie we spent two hours watching Lee Daniel's The Paperboy scratching our heads trying to find some coherence, but instead we found a seeming parody of a 70's crime film, awkward family drama, and a terrifying performance from John Cusack. 

This week we have a doozy for you. A thriller (?), horror (?), biopic (?) about the final days of Edgar Allen Poe where he tracks down a killer that uses his stories as inspiration. It's as baffling as it sounds.  We are also happy to have Adam on this episode, check his twitter, big things are coming: https://twitter.com/strugglinguncle

What's your favorite ecology fact? Let us know at @spellabeespace on twitter.  This week we watched Shanghai, a 2010 Neo-Noir Political Thriller made for China. But mainly we talk plants, humanity, and how we're all at the whim of nature in the end.  

Happy New Year Everyone! Have you missed us in our absence? We're starting off the New Year right with an enjoyable (although very much of the time) buddy comedy, 2010's Hot Tub Time Machine. We recorded this awhile ago, but thankfully my commentary on Family Guy is just as insightful as ever.    Thanks for sticking with us, believe it or not this year is the year we WILL finish this podcast. Come along with us as we finish what we started two years ago.

It's a rare treat when we get to talk about a movie that we actually like on this podcast, it's an even rarer treat when we have declared fanatics of a specific film on to talk about said film. This week we had the opportunity to talk with Greg and Brian from the Mechanical Freak podcast to talk about the ever prescient "2012". Roland Emmerich's epic tale of the end of the world as we know it and what lessons are to be learned from it.

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about D n' D, having a healthy relationship with gaming, and wholesome youtubers. If you want to learn about Igor just read the wiki page.

In many ways 2008's War Inc should go down as an important film in the cannon of John. A satirical look at the early 2000's war on terror and corporate America that John co-wrote, produced, and starred in. How does the satire hold up? Depends on who ya ask, at the very least War Inc is a time capsule of post 9/11 insanity.  Luke's Short: https://youtu.be/IGLp1XJ8VAY

We've gone to a dark place this week and the worst part is knowing we've done this to ourselves. 2008's Summerhood is the tip of a psychologically dense and disturbing iceberg. Do you dare look beneath the surface with us?

Sometimes a film takes you to places where you never thought you’d end up. The outer reaches of galaxies, strange lands, relationships you never thought possible. Or sometimes they push you and your best friends into a mad spiral where you don’t know what is real and what is fake. Martian Child did that for us. We had Tyler and Adam come on for this one to help us unpack this beast.

We're joined by dear friend and Hollywood Elite James Trevor to talk about the surprisingly wonderful 1408. We get James' take on the Ronto Wrap, YouTubers, and other horror movies you should check out this holiday season. Follow James: https://twitter.com/jaamestrevor Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jamesrtrevor Buy his shirt: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1045041575/the-fastener-mcm-c-shirt  

We are now officially a Resident Evil podcast. Each week we are going to take a look at a different aspect of the Resident Evil franchise, the lore, the remakes, and things might even get a little controversial (Lucas likes RE7, Dylan likes RE4). Will cooler heads prevail? Tune in to find out ;)   

We've reached the point in our journey where we are questioning why we began in the first place. If we are Sisyphus, when will we experience the ecstasy of the boulder rolling back down to where we started from? Only to joyously start the slog again? I'm looking forward to that day. But until then we watched probably the worst movie we've ever seen doing this podcast. 2006's The Contract. Good lord. 

This week we watched 2005's The Ice Harvest, a well casted Cohen Brothers clone. One of us enjoyed it, one of us did not. Place your bets now on who is who. We also get into celebrity as currency, rating systems, and Lil Bow Wow.

A divisive move from the Cusack Cute Boys. 2005's Must Love Dogs is a fairly standard Rom-Com of that era, but as you would expect this leads to larger conversations about media influence and how movies reflect our culture. I'm sure there's other stuff I just can't remember.

If you love trivia than this episode is for you. Otherwise take in the "riveting" thriller from 2003 Runaway Jury. A glorified episode of Law and Order based on a John Grisham novel. We watched it, we talked about it, we did our job.

No, you read that right. 1999. Listen, we've prided ourselves in the past on how through we are when it comes to this podcast. We watch every movie in order. But hey, sometimes you miss a TV movie. We're sorry.  Carelessness aside, I think we were both pleasantly surprised with 1999's The Jack Bull. A movie written by John Cusack's dad, Dick Cusack. Some great character actors, beautiful scenery, and a pretty engaging story made this a fun movie to watch.

Identity, we all have one. But some of us. . . .don't. Some of us have more than one. Ya ever think about that? Scary. This episode we talk aging, the artistic process, and the residents. We also talk about 2003's Identity. It's a movie alright.

We recorded two episodes in one day, we're a serious podcast now. Starting off this double feature is 2002's Adaptation. A surprisingly divisive movie for the Cusack Cuties. Listen to hear our thoughts.

Max (2002), a baffling movie that proposes maybe people wouldn't do bad things if their art career took off.  We didn't have a ton to say about it so we decided to do a retrospective Top 10 of the movies we have seen thus far. Do we pick pretty much the same movies? Listen to find out.

We have a new member of the family this week, our friend Noah. A talented artist, a fantastic poster, he helps us dissect the stupid fate of 2001's Serendipity. LISTEN TO NOAH'S ALBUM (IT'S VERY GOOD, THIS IS NOT A LIE): https://mtpleasure.bandcamp.com/releases Also follow Noah on twitter @mt_pleasure (There's a weird electrical buzz from 18-20, sorry about that. It ends at 20, skip ahead)

We are joined by Adam and Tyler on this one to talk about America's Sweethearts, a movie that wraps all of us in a blanket of familiar mediocrity that is early 2000's cinema.  And despite us forgetting during the show, we made a Side 1 Track 1 playlist: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4hVT6IyBxexdqfCq57oSoW?si=S-XF4dRkS1q6mfMBAQlnSg Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/side-1-track-1/pl.u-9N9L2Gbuxm84AJR

The movie that essentially started this whole mess for Lucas and Dylan, 2000's High Fidelity. A movie we've both grown with and grown out of, but still a special movie for us and we're so happy to move past it.

We are joined this week with our friend @disc0p to talk about 1999's Being John Malkovich. One of those few movies you see as a teenager and still holds up as you grow older. We talk Charlie Kaufman, Classic Rock, and so much more. See Pierre completely demolish Warzone and spin records here: https://www.twitch.tv/disc0p

Sure, we're reviewing 1999's Cradle Will Rock with @strugglinguncle this week. But more importantly we're squashing beef. 

This week we are joined by our friends Greg (@SailPilled) and Bryan (@brian_noname) from the excellent Mechanical Freak podcast to talk about one of the most insane movies we've covered on this podcast, Pushing Tin. A movie so emotionally draining, so all over the place that the only logical conclusion is to view it as a work of art. It is a movie that will remain with you, long, long after you watch it.