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As Christmas approaches, we check in on the military record of jolly old Saint Nick in the famously terrible 1964 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians .  Join in as we discuss holiday specials, Pia Zadora, Martian naming conventions, and Mrs. Claus's screen debut.  Plus: How much conquest actually occurs in this movie? Were Martian kids sad before they had TV? Is the theme for this movie good? And, m...

We're continuing our sort-of Christmas with a look at the romance of Billy Wilder's 1960 Best Picture winner The Apartment , starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and a shocking amount of adultery.  Join in as we discuss our favorite movie apartments, the split reaction to this movie, the real-life Hollywood sex scandal that (partially) inspired it, and the upcoming film Jesus Revolution .&...

We're kicking off the Christmas season with a Yuletide thriller as Robert Redford exposes CIA secrets in Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor .  Join in as we discuss "technically Christmas" movies, the differences between the movie and its source novel, the cultural and political environment of the 1970s, and the career of animation director turned RHOBH guest star Rob Minkoff.  Plus: Is The...

As the 2022 awards season gets underway, we're taking a look at the last pre-podcast Best Picture winner: Barry Jenkins's quiet masterpiece, Moonlight .  Join in as we discuss movies we've never seen, our love of Nicholas Britell, the differences between the movie and Terrell Alvin McRaney's play, and - of course - what might be the craziest Oscars moment ever.  Plus: Where does La La La...

We're celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday by checking into a possibly-unsavory resort in Yorgos Lanthimos's 2016 art-house favorite The Lobster !  Join in as we discuss Lanthimos's ups and downs in the US, the Oscar history of star Colin Farrell, European film financing, and vengeful elephants.  Plus: What are the rules for determining someone's definint trait? Does Lea Seydoux actually...

We've got a real-life geologist on the show this week to walk us through the tectonic and platonic relationships of the 2003 disaster movie The Core , starring Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank.  Join in as we discuss unobtanium, the Earth's magnetic field, our favorite movie rocks, the hard life of a terranaut.  Plus: Is this movie a reverse Armageddon ? Was it a mistake to open The Core opposite th...

We're ringing in our fifth birthday with our first dive into Christian cinema for a look at the 2008 Kendrick Brothers hit Fireproof !  Join in as we discuss Kirk Cameron, chain emails, stress relief, and The Love Dare .  Plus: Where does this fit in the history of Christian cinema? Does Catherine have an Elektra complex? Is James Bond a moral exemplar? And, most importantly, did former...

We're ending our spooky season with a possibly-cursed episode on Dan Curtis's 1976 haunted house movie Burnt Offerings !  Join in as we discuss our favorite Halloween traditions, Bette Davis's onset feuds, the death of Oliver Reed, and the silent hearse driver.  Plus: Is this whole vacation made up of chores? What's the deal with the Allardyce kids? Why do the only transfers of this movi...

We're not sure whether it should count as part of our Halloween spooktacular, but the advertising for Darren Aronofsky's 2017 film mother! certainly led us to believe it should!  Join in as we discuss the varied discourses of mother!'s release, the film's surprisingly effective (if blunt) storytelling, the PETA Oscats, and Christ allegories.  Plus: What's in that yellow drink? Why didn't mother br...

We're continuing our October spooktacular with a look at the romance of James Whale's 1933 adaptation of The Invisible Man !  Join in as we discuss fictional drugs, the Invisible Woman, the film's complete lack of an opening act, its groundbreaking visual effects, and, of course, the Dark Universe.  Plus: Why did Claude Raines and James Whale fight onset? What is Flora and Jack's relatio...

We're celebrating the release of Halloween Ends by looking at the franchise's original threequel: 1982's Season of the Witch !  Join in as we discuss doomsday plans, the continuity of the Halloween franchise, deceptive app ads, and how to spice up your financially-strapped relationship.  Plus: Why are there so many unrelated movies called "Season of the Witch"? Is this movie's reputation...

In honor of its long-awaited sequel, we're taking a look at the teenage romance of Kenny Ortega's beloved(?) holiday classic(?), Hocus Pocus !  Join in as we discuss Ortega's career, our favorite cinematic witches, the movie's long development, and the iconic Salem-California rivalry.  Plus: When did the cat learn to talk? Why doesn't Sarah Jessica Parker's spell work on the main charact...

In 1992, Eddie Murphy, director Reginald Hudlin, and the writers of Coming to America made a foray into the world of romantic comedies with Boomerang , a movie about a playboy who decides it's time to settle down.  Join in as we discsus the movie's shockingly racist critical reaction, the changes to the script along the way, token white people, and the 1992 MTV Movie Awards.  Plus: Remem...

We're taking a look at a miniscule romance in the 1937 Anna May Wong vehicle Daughter of Shanghai , which ends with a proposal nobody saw coming!  Join in as we discuss going Wong's storied career, going undercover, money laundering tips, and U.S. immigration history.  Plus: What's the weirdest Batman villain? Who should play Bond next? And, most importantly, can you force your lawyer to...

We're headed across - but not into! - dimensional space as we look at the bizarre romance of the 1984 cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension , starring Peter Weller and Ellen Barkin.  Join in as we discuss the movie's thoroughly stacked cast, John Lithgow's Italian accent, stories told by children, and whether it's weird to date twins.  Plus: How does...

We're wrapping up our look at the romances of 1988's Best Picture nominees by digging into the winner, Barry Levinson's road trip drama Rain Man .  Join in as we discuss our favorite kidnappings, the Crimean War, the action movie version of Rain Man that almost happened, and our own top five movies of 1988.  Plus: What was Rain Man 's impact on autism awareness? How did it come to be abo...

We're celebrating 250 episodes with a return to the romances of DreamWorks Animation as we look at the studio's 2012 holiday character mashup Rise of the Guardians .  Join in as we discuss the movie's underperformance at the box office and with awards bodies, William Joyce's Guardians of Childhood universe, some of DreamWorks's more recent output, and the giant Cheez-It from Taco Bell.  Plus: Why...

We're climbing into the radiator as we look for love in David Lynch's 1977 debut Eraserhead !  Join in as we discuss the movie's feelings on parenthood, its autobiographical elements, George Lucas's sequel trilogy plans, and our favorite appliances.  Plus: Why did this movie take six years to shoot? Which parts would most upset a child? And, most importantly, where did that puppet come f...

We're near the beginning of rom com star Jennifer Aniston's film career as we look at her 1997 fauxlationship feature Picture Perfect !  Join in as we discuss Kevin Bacon's mullet, Kevin Dunn's unreasonable promotion policies, terrible ad campaigns, and CBS's Bull .  Plus: What caused onset tension between Aniston and costar Jay Mohr? Why does Nick keep hanging out after the fake breakup...

We're checking over our shoulders as we look at the small but skeevy romance of David Robert Mitchell's horror hit It Follows , about a murderous monster that's transferred via sex.  Join in as we discuss the rules of It, the movie's ambiguous setting, literary quotations, and Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples's Saga .  Plus: What ideas does the movie have about sex? What's the most ethi...

We're dipping back into the world of Hallmark romances for a look at the wedding-adjacent sorta-musical In the Key of Love , starring Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 's Scott Michael Foster and Broadway star/vaccine skeptic Laura Osnes.  Join in as we discuss the seedy political world of Piedmont Island, the 2018 Little Women adaptation, a deranged refrigerator, and the future of the #POstables.  Pl...

We're taking a look at the ultimate "what would you do" movie, Adrian Lyne's 1993 erotic drama Indecent Proposal !  Join in as we discuss the career of director Adrian Lyne, whether we'd take John Gage's million-dollar offer, and why you shouldn't have sex on a pile of money.  Plus: How is the movie different from the novel it's based on? To what extent did Diana and David have the optio...

We're looking at the beginning of Julia Roberts, movie star as we dig into the romance of Donald Petrie's 1988 coming of age movie Mystic Pizza .  Join in as we discuss Petrie's pizza-ful career, Roberts's incredible performance, the great young cast working alongside her, and our favorite fictional musicals.  Plus: What's the secret ingredient in that pizza? Are movie stars making a com...

We're finally closing the book on the High School Musical trilogy by looking at the 2008 theatrical finale, High School Musical 3: Senior Year .  Join in as we discuss the ridiculous show they put on, the High School Musical: Get in the Picture reality show, promposals, and the Julliard admissions process.  Plus: How good is Troy at basketball? How did Sharpay get that locker setup? What...

We're celebrating Independence Day with a look at another film from Hollywood's "cool president '90s," Ivan Reitman's 1993 doppelganger comedy Dave !  Join in as we discuss our love of Kevin Kline, onscreen depictions of DC, the fairness doctrine, and the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.  Plus: What other actors did the studio consider? Why did several U.S. Senators withdraw their agr...