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"Being scared of your mom is an adult thing." Back after... 5 months! With our long awaited Halloween tradition: the double feature. We watched Coraline (2009) and Nine (2009). We get into the importance of characters vs plot vs environments when it comes to our scientific scoring. It's super fun.

"The most oppressed minority: gamers." It's 2024! And we talk for a bit about how Nimona (2023) was released in (2023)! Whoops. We took a break for a while but we're getting back into it. This is a good movie and this is a good movie podcast episode about a good movie. We also talk about The Last of Us (the video game and tv show). Enjoy.

"Marriage Story but it's Donkey and Dragon." Welcome back, all you shreaks. Put your shrocs on, get a shrack, and shruddle up with us while we discuss Shrek 2 (2004). We talk about the Shrek gospel, what we would get cancelled for, and the future of the Shrekiverse. This episode is a little unhinged but stick with us cause I swear it gets good.

"It checked the box for plot." It took some getting there but after 2 months and some heated arguments over the definitions of a comedy, a coming of age movie, and misogynistic actions, we finally reviewed Superbad (2007). Jordine joins the boys on this episode and presents her declaration of the two kinds of comedy films, so don't miss out.

"Inside of you there are two wolves and one has a duel deck." This episode, we get a good look at the Daniels' first feature film: Swiss Army Man (2016). It's a good time talking about giving Hank a hug, Sarah's involvement in the story, and why Manny the corpse is so much more than a boner compass. Hashem makes Leander upset too, so make sure to listen till the end.

"I'd like to walk that all back." In hot anticipation of Oppenheimer, we take a gander at a big classic: Dr Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964). Grab a snack because we get into Stanley Kubrick's directing style, the way we watch black and white movies, and how to go about our daily lives with the threat of nukes hanging above our heads at a...

"He's in a jungle. Wearing beige." This week's pick got us a bit of a longer episode with a discussion on Good Time (2017) and a larger analysis of today's Hollywood. We get into the mud talking about Robert Pattinson and Nicolas Cage's comebacks, what a movie has to accomplish to have you sit through the credits, and the parallels between Fortnite and Everything, Everywh...

"You're willing to die on this hill?" The tables turn this week! Hashem brings in another hot classic, Accepted (2006). After a lengthy discussion about...nothing...Leander manages to get his head around the thesis statement of this hard-hitting psychological drama comedy thriller coming-of-age college film.

"My heart is not made of obsidian." We pull out a classic this episode with The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010), featuring Nicholas Cage, Secrets by OneRepublic, and a severe lack of melancholy. Tune in to find out who's wrong this week.

"It's no Joker, but it's pretty good." Warm Bodies (2013) takes the stage this week on Jump Cut. In this episode, Leander discovers a love for libraries and comic books, while Hashem changes the Jump Cut movie-picking-meta.

"We're better commentators than friends." This episode, we catch up! The itinerary for this episode includes a check in with the boys, followed by an engaging (and 'content warning'ed) discussion on Perfect Blue (1997), our guest's recommendation from last time. Catch the conversation on this light-hearted anime flick in this episode of Jump Cut.

"It's a song about the internet." "Did we both say a song?" Welcome to Jump Cut everyone, where today, we bring a resident Anime Expert TM to the scene! Joining us today is George, to talk about Belle (2021) and how it really is just Beauty and the Beast, but anime. We discuss anime tropes, what makes them cool, and how this movie makes the internet look the coolest.

"I am an advocate of women's rights and women's wrongs." Anne Hathaway rises to power in The Intern (2015) and we get INTO it. If you're looking for a discussion on growing old and watching your friends die -- I mean, unexpected friendships later in life, this is the podcast to catch.

"Hashem's in his Scorsese arc." This episode, we have some fun! Jordine joins the episode for a review and celebration of Jump Cut so far. She hosts her own talk show with Green Goblin and the Green Knight -- I mean Hashem and Leander, with some hard hitting questions about Jump Cut's humble beginnings, and quizzes them on their podcast and co-host knowledge. This episode was a g...

"Nintendo isn't the government of Japan." We review another banger of a recommendation from Leander this week: Old Boy (2003). Before we get into the nitty-gritty of it though, we take some time away from our hard-hitting journalism to check in on what's been up in the boys' lives lately. Hashem gives a shout out to the gym rats out there and Leander rejects the title of 'tech bro'. In all serious...

"The woke mind virus got to us." It's about time we got back to a regular posting schedule! Haha! This week, Hashem and Leander get into some seriously involved discussions about autonomy in time travel movies, the lost potential of this film, and their own ideas of how "About Time" (2013) could've easily been fixed.

"That's so anime." This week we find out that everything is not what it seems. We watched In Bruges (2008). Hashem and Leander get into some absolutely artistic and scholarly discussion about the nuances of imprecise dialogue, religion's absolute ideals of morality, and even get a little meta talking about how movie ratings and reviews are formed. It's a wild one and the boys spit FIRE this episod...

"Do you classify a genre by its style or substance?" Welcome back to Jump Cut, and boy do we have a banger this week! Today we're talking No Country for Old Men (2007) and how death exists in that movie. We ignore everything about the movie and focus on the philosophy, as real film bros do. Leander shows his true colors by simping for a sociopath. Tune in to see us slowly become a true crime podca...

"The meat and potatoes of the stew are already there." Happy holidays everybody! We missed all of them during our accidental (second) break! This episode was recorded about a month ago and Hashem is still sick, so send cough syrup his way. In this episode, we go sicko mode (bless you) on The Wonder (2022) talking about our love for Florence Pugh, Leander's disdain for The Lighthouse, and Hashem's...

"The Muppet Movie is probably one of the peak of recent cinema entertainment in the last 20 years." Welcome back to another episode where our hosts aren't sick! Today we talk some avant-garde cinema; The Muppet Movie (2011), and how it's the greatest comedies of our generation. Leander and Hashem discuss adult animation, why Big Mouth sucks now, the fall of the Simpsons, and why Futurama is the GO...

"You and the homies, sitting around, talking about the Lighthouse, the gayest movie to ever exist." On this weeks episode, we get some real head butting, as Leander and Hashem talk The Lighthouse (2019), a movie about everything, and nothing. We go through what online reviews can do to a movie, does the movie even have meaning, or maybe, it's all us going insane on an island together. Does a movie...

"There are parents, if you really wanna get your rocks off." For the third official Halloween Double Feature, we get some spooky picks in with Werewolf By Night (2022) and The Fear Street Trilogy (2021). In our jump-scariest episode yet, Hashem and Leander find a common ground in discussing how new media pays homage to the films that (some) horror fans hold so dearly today. Happy Halloween!

"He's a right piece of shit." Hashem and Leander dive deep into their this fetch quest for the meaning behind The Green Knight (2021). They tried stringing along Hashem's dad and Jordine, but it didn't go very well, so it's now your job to come along for the ride and make up for it. The boys navigate the three-way venn diagram of "time passing", "death's inevitability", and "nature overcoming all"...

"Goku's kamehameha doesn't look the same." Jump Cut is back for another anime movie. Pop in for our review and analysis of Paprika (2006). What is it, exactly, that ye olde anime could teach us today? The best use of your 24 frames per second? The superiority of subbed over dubbed? We take the time to learn some of those lessons while navigating through Leander's mind games. Our hosts are especial...

"He's the stereotypical Alpha." Slide into the world of spies with us as we review The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015). Our mission details include notes on Hugh Grant, Ed Helms, and where Leander's loyalties lie. That can't be good. All this and more on another episode of Jump Cut (sponsored by Blue Moon Paper).