Not Actually Film Critics

This week on NAFC, the boys tackle the important questions in life, starting with their favorite Subway sandwiches. Gibbs also reveals that the WNBA might be the last sports league he can watch without worrying about corruption and whatever conspiracy has ruined the rest of sports for him. The gang then gets into a surprisingly heated grammatical debate over whether sports teams should be referred...

This week on NAFC, Mox gets into his latest food adventures with rose noodles, while Izzy continues scratching his tactical squad itch with XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. He also catches up on a pile of anime season finales, including Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games, The Elusive Samurai, Sparks of Tomorrow, Mushoku Tensei, and Tensura. Meanwhile, Gibbs makes an important observation about old p...

This week on NAFC, Izzy jumps into XCOM 2: War of the Chosen for the first time, mostly to scratch the itch before Zero Company inevitably consumes his life. He also checks out Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, an anime that loves Street Fighter so much the gang wonders where the show ends and the Capcom sponsorship begins. With Mid-Autumn Festival coming up, Mox and Izzy get into some Chine...

This week on NAFC, Mox checks back in on No Man’s Sky, while Izzy recounts being trapped for an hour listening to an extremely detailed play-by-play of a friend’s medical procedures following a go-kart accident. Some things you just don’t need described that thoroughly. Gibbs continues documenting the strange behavior of Los Angeles drivers, and the boys discuss why Steam increasingly feels like t...

The gang opens with a very serious debate over one of comedy’s great unanswered questions: Stephen Chow vs. Jim Carrey — who had the bigger comedic influence? Gibbs then brings us into the modern job market with a typing-test job application, before everyone looks back on where they were and what they remember from 9/11, 25 years later. Izzy reviews False Memory, the crew checks in on China’s incr...

No movie review this week because Izzy can't even show up on time. With an empty chair to fill, Gibbs and Mox do the responsible thing and spend the opening of the episode talking shit about him while he's gone. Gibbs brings yet more stories from his ongoing battle with Los Angeles traffic, before the boys take a look at some of the latest changes to the world map and try to keep track of what the...

This week on NAFC, Gibbs continues his ongoing battle with Los Angeles drivers before sharing a particularly strange encounter at a gas station. Izzy shows up late, but just in time for the important stuff: video games. The boys talk about NODUS: Fall and dig through some of the Gamescom trailers and announcements that actually managed to get them excited about what's coming next. Finally, the gan...

This week on NAFC, the gang talks about China's growing cultural exports through animation after Mox returns from All Wishes Come True, and what it might mean as more Chinese animation starts reaching audiences overseas. Izzy recounts the painful experience of sitting through a small guitar duo recital that left him wondering whether owning an expensive Gibson automatically qualifies you to perfor...

This week on NAFC, Izzy talks about his first blood donation, finally learning his blood type, and wondering why Americans generally aren't just told this information somewhere along the way. Then Izzy falls into yet another mobile game trap with Overgeared Hero, Mox checks out The End of Oak Street, and Gibbs works on the extremely useful skill of speaking Japanese with an Australian accent. The...

This week on NAFC, the boys catch up on their weeks before things immediately go sideways. Mox shares his thoughts on the new Spider-Man movie, Gibbs tries to understand why Los Angeles drivers would rather lay on the horn than move their cars, and Izzy explains how he’s basically “selling” his blood for Amazon gift cards at the local drive. Capitalism finds a way. The gang also gets into a full s...

This week on NAFC, Gibbs has officially fallen into the pickleball rabbit hole, leading the crew to discuss the sport's ridiculous rise in popularity, why everyone seems to be playing it, and whether it deserves all the hype. They also check out The Dink, because apparently pickleball has its own movie now. The conversation drifts back to the 2026 World Cup, where Argentina somehow earns the title...

This week on NAFC, Gibbs survives a 15-hour drive to begin life in a new city, arriving just in time to explain why the 2026 World Cup may be rigged—or at least suspicious enough to fuel several increasingly irresponsible conspiracy theories. The crew looks back at their predictions, what actually happened, and who now gets to pretend they knew it all along. Mox also shares his thoughts on Christo...

Sindi is back this week, after he and Izzy survived the logistical nightmare of bringing home a 98-inch TV from Best Buy with no box. Because apparently buying the television was the easy part. The three give a spoiler-free review of Obsession, squeeze in a little World Cup banter, and discuss the bizarre news involving a flight instructor deliberately crashing a plane. Finally, the crew dives int...

This week on NAFC, Izzy has a lot to get off his chest. He checks in with thoughts on Spider-Noir and What We Do in the Shadows, before launching into a full rant about the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2. From the casting choices to what the show is getting right—and very wrong—he breaks down what has him excited and what has him worried. Meanwhile, Gibbs is still riding the World...

This week on NAFC, it’s mostly just Mox and Izzy catching up and complaining about the economy like two old men who still buy video games. GTA 6 pricing, Steam Machine pricing, and the general feeling that everything costs way more now all get tossed into the grinder. There’s a little anime talk, because of course there is, before Gibbs jumps on late with some thoughts on Maria Bamford specials an...

This week on NAFC, Izzy and Gibbs are fully infected with World Cup fever, spending way too much time talking football, tournament storylines, and why every fan suddenly becomes an expert every four years. Meanwhile, Mox visits The Lines of Evangelion exhibit and shares his experience wandering through a shrine dedicated to everyone's favorite emotionally damaged teenagers and giant robots. Then t...

What was supposed to be a review of The Disaster Artist (2017) somehow turned into an entire episode of the boys just shooting the shit—and honestly, it may have been for the best. The crew helps Gibbs investigate a coffee shop anomaly that has been haunting him, reminisces about nostalgic lemon tea brands and flavors from their childhood, and discusses the surprisingly uncomfortable world of groc...

This week on NAFC, Mox returns from Hong Kong Comic Con 2026 with stories about the latest trends, convention insanity, and things that probably shouldn't exist but somehow do. Izzy says goodbye to a piece of history after selling his 25-year-old 40" CRT, prompting the crew to reflect on a simpler time when TVs weighed as much as refrigerators. Sindi is back as a guest, helping keep the conversati...

This week on NAFC, Gibbs finally catches up with The Pitt, Mox checks out Witch Hat Atelier, and Izzy somehow ties together cement pouring, The Boys, and the emotional damage of Now and Then, Here and There. Normal episode. Totally normal. The crew also squeezes in a quick review of Buffet Infinity before diving into The General (1926)—Buster Keaton’s silent-era action-comedy classic, packed with...

After a week off due to Izzy finally moving into the new house, NAFC is back—and this time with a guest. Sindi joins the boys for an episode that immediately devolves into complete nonsense in the best way possible. The gang bounces between sperm whales, video games, movies, and the truly important debate: who wins in a fight, Frodo or Harry Potter? There’s also plenty of millennial gamer nostalgi...

This week on NAFC, Izzy finally has a move-in date—progress! Meanwhile, Patchwife is fully locked into Cult of the Lamb, and Izzy shares what it’s like being second-in-command to a rapidly growing cult. Izzy also vents about Invincible (again), while Gibbs gets blindsided by one of the dumbest ads imaginable during a hockey game. Mox checks in with a small Mewgenics update, proving no one is ever...

This week on NAFC, the boys somehow juggle politics, sports, and life frustrations before diving into something way darker. They kick things off talking about ICE, facial recognition tech showing up at MSG, and somehow land on the Charlotte Hornets—because nothing says smooth transition like that. There’s also a unanimous agreement that children’s band recitals are universally painful experiences....

This week on NAFC, the crew compares notes on their Mewgenics runs—tips, builds, and questionable life decisions included. Izzy also shares an incident that almost cost him his hand, because apparently survival is optional now. He checks in with thoughts on Rental Family, while the gang runs through a quick Anime Corner for the latest season. Gibbs finally starts The Pitt, joining the rest of the...

This week on NAFC, Izzy and Mox hold it down with the usual mix of side tangents, pain, and questionable cinema. The two get into the latest episode of The Pitt, while Izzy checks in from the front lines of homeowner renovation misery. Mox also brings a review of GOAT (2026), because apparently that’s where his time is going now. Gibbs jumps in with a review of The Darwin Incident, adding a little...

This week on NAFC, the crew somehow manages to cover everything from social media lawsuits to why cats have completely won the internet. Mox and Gibbs continue their descent into Mewgenics, while Gibbs shares a bizarre church marquee message that feels like it was written by an NPC. The gang also touches on the Meta vs Google social media lawsuit—because tech companies fighting each other is alway...