Season 2

Holy Schnikes! For the third week in our School’s Out series, we’re celebrating dads and grads as we take to the road with the 1995 Chris Farley/David Spade comedy Tommy Boy, the only movie we can think of where you’re …

In this second week of School's Out for Summer month, we're going to summer camp with our guest Etta Goodridge! Directed by David Wain, written by Wain and Michael Showalter, and featuring many other members of MTV's The Stat...

School's out for summer! That's our theme for this month, and we're kicking it off with the 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused, traveling back to the last day of school in a Texas town in 1976. We discuss the …

For the final week of our ani-MAY-tion month, we spring into the action with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. We discuss the landmark animation, which combines CGI and hand-drawn animation along with color offset, giving th...

For the third week of our aniMAYtion month, we take a look at Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book Fantastic Mr. Fox. We discuss Anderson's practical and playful approach to recording dialog...

For this second week of our AniMAYtion month, we're taking a look at one of our favorites from Studio Ghibli, Howl's Moving Castle (English dubbed). We talk aesthetics, from steampunk fairy tale to Dark Academia to Steve Mart...

We're back, and for May we'll be tackling ani-MAY-ted movies (and making that joke many times)! In the first episode of this four-part series, we welcome special guest Stewart Boyles, co-host of the unofficial MCU podcast, We...

For the fifth and final episode in our Comfort Crime month, we continue the Corleone family saga with The Godfather Part II, which manages to be both a prequel and a sequel in one. We talk sibling rivalry, evil clownish …

For the fourth week in our comfort crime series, we go straight to the source with the grandfather of all modern mafia movies, The Godfather. Coincidentally, this is also the 51st anniversary of the release of this landmark f...

For the third week in our Comfort Crime Month, we take a trip back to a sweaty August day in 1970s Brooklyn to ride shotgun with Al Pacino and John Cazale on a bank robbery gone very wrong in Sidney …

For the second week of our Comfort Crime month, John and Georgia deep dive into the Los Angeles underworld with Michael Mann's 1995 epic cops and robbers movie, Heat . This movie brings you so far into the symbiotic relation...

For the first week of our paradoxical Comfort Films Crime Month, John and Georgia team up with special guest Christopher Witty to make a move against the Lucchese crime family as they discuss the quintessential crime classic,...

This week Georgia and John are joined by their longtime friend and artistic collaborator, Wayne Cardwell, to discuss one of his all-time favorite films, Slumdog Millionaire. We talk about the boundless love which guides Jamal...

For the third week of our love month, John and Georgia turn up the heat to take on the 2013 romance/horror film Warm Bodies, starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer. We discuss the parallels with William Shakespeare's Romeo...

For the second week of our love & romance month, we're taking a nostalgic trip back to the late 90s to revisit 10 Things I Hate About You--one of the standouts among the rash of teen movies that came out …

To kick off a month of love & romance films, we welcome special guests Kate Duffy and Danny Zeliger to discuss Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen....

For the last episode of our first sci-fi series, we decided to go straight back to the source and tackle the grandfather of all modern science fiction films, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. We discuss the zeitgeist ...

For week 3 of our sci-fi series, we're pivoting from Alien to the xenomorph's equally malevolent human-hunting enemy, Predator! We're joined by the phenomenally funny and insightful Martin and Boaz from Film vs Film Podcast,...

It's the second week of our sci-fi series, and we're going back into space, but this time it's scary! Don't scream - no one can hear you anyway. We talk about Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror/thriller Alien, a landmark mov...

We're kicking off season 2 with a sci-fi film month, starting with one of our all-time favorites, fake Star Trek masterpiece Galaxy Quest! We welcome Katherine Pyeatt to discuss Star Trek fandom, the majestic Alan Rickman, c...