Episodes
We finish up our December January (no, YOU fell behind!) blockbuster month with Christoper Nolan’s head-trip extravaganza Inception and Brad Bird’s vaguely Randian, Epcot adaptation(?) Tomorrowland.
Published 01/07/21
Witness us as we ride eternal, shiny and chrome, on the highways of George Miller’s action-punk magnum opus Mad Max: Fury Road and descend into the sour pits of the franchise-ender The Mummy.
Published 12/21/20
We continue our blockbuster December by diving into superhero cinema, contrasting the decade-swallowing behemoth Avengers: Endgame and 2015’s DOA franchise-launcher Fantastic Four.
Published 12/15/20
We begin our blockbuster December by looking at two attempts to “crack” digital filmmaking, James Camerons’ record-breaker Avatar and the Wachowski Sisters’ oddball Matrix follow-up Speed Racer.
Published 12/07/20
Our duo takes on a duo of duos both friendly and non as they take a look at the Joan Crawford/Bette Davis psycho-camp-thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and the misbegotten Michel Gondry superhero reboot The Green Hornet.
Published 11/29/20
We’ve got two contrasting entries in the wider Catholic Cinematic Universe this week, with Federico Fellini’s Amarcord and the Keanu-starring Hellblazer adaptation Constantine.
Published 11/22/20
The boys take a look at the strange Spielberg/Kubrick amalgam A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and the medieval sports comedy A Knight’s Tale.
Published 11/16/20
We’ve got two dueling takes on the Catholic Cinematic Universe with Federico Fellini’s carnivalesque Amarcord and the Keanu Reeves vehicle Constantine.
Published 11/16/20
Join us on The Episode That Should Not Be, as a very sick Rob and a very nonchalant Matt cough and stumble their way through a foggy discussion of Jacques Tati’s monumental slapstick epic Playtime and the latest from Adam Sandler, Hubie Halloween.
Published 11/09/20
Rob done goofed up and failed to get his homework done in time so the boys just had themselves a free-floating discussion off all things Cinematic, plus a little half-assed trivia. Consider yourselves warned.
Published 11/01/20
There’s no way out for the boys as they lock themselves in the claustrophobic confines of the 1979 sci-fi/horror game-changer Alien and the misguided William Castle remake Thirteen Ghosts.
Published 10/25/20
Silencio: This week the boys take a long, strange trip through David Lynch’s epic nightmare-noir Mulholland Drive and muddle through the Eddie Murphy-starring Disneyland ride adaptation The Haunted Mansion. Remember: He’s the one who’s doing it.
Published 10/19/20
We head deeper, deeper, deeper into horror with Takashi Miike’s singular Audition and the ironic boobsploitation flick Zombeavers.
Published 10/11/20
Our monthlong horror-fest begins with dueling looks at the original folk-horror standard-bearer The Wicker Man and the Nicolas Cage he-man-women-hating reboot.
Published 10/05/20
Join us for the episode that came closest to costing Matt & Rob their sanity. If you can survive their discussion of Joshua Oppenheimer’s harrowing doc The Act of Killing, you’ll be rewarded(?) with a manic, unfocused take-down of the all-time-stinker Epic Movie. There are no heroes here, only survivors.
Published 09/27/20
Brew yourself a nice stiff drink of turpentine and settle in as our mismatched pair debate the merits of Paul Thomas Anderson’s midcentury mind-bender The Master and the vampire/werewolf fight flick Underworld.
Published 09/20/20
Here’s a pairing to convince you life is pain all the way down, as the boys tackle Bela Tarr’s existential marathon The Turin Horse and the Happy Madison also-ran The Animal.
Published 09/14/20
Sally forth with the boys for a very English double-feature as they tackle Ben Wheatley’s Renaissance head-trip A Field in England and the cosmic council flats invasion flick Attack the Block.
Published 09/07/20
This week our two ronin blow into town to talk the American Samurai-flick recut Shogun Assassin and the Lonely Island music-doc parody Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
Published 08/30/20
We’ve got a double-dose of the Dutch master as our boys dive deep on Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers and Showgirls. Would you like to know more?
Published 08/17/20
Join us as our pair tackles Elia Kazan’s pre-HUAC antisemitism expose Gentleman’s Agreement and Joe Dante’s anarchic Gremlins 2.
Published 08/10/20
Listen up, pigs: We’ve got your killer tire movie, as requested, but don’t expect us to get excited about it. Remember: none of this matters.
Published 08/04/20
Our boys debate whether is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of Nazi occupation, or to take up arms against a sea of Universal monsters, as they discuss Ernst Lubitsch’s classic To Be or Not to Be and the comic monster mash-up Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
Published 08/03/20
Grab your matchlocks, consult your seconds, and have a doctor handy, as our pair of rivals duel over Jean-Luc Godard’s nouvelle vague standard-bearer Breathless and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash musical Hamilton.
Published 07/27/20
Flee for your lives, citizens, as our destructive duo lumbers its way through the original Ishiro Honda Godzilla and Roland Emmerich’s Americanized update.
Published 07/20/20