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Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Nineteen: Love & Peace (2015) ラブ＆ピース Our Christmas drama took us to the UK, and it looks like our foreign Christmas movie is taking us to Japan. We couldn't find the KFC that Frye wanted, but we did find a prolific director. Sion Sono -- a deeply insane person -- wrote and directed this passion project. It's 20 years in the making, and i...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Eighteen: The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) Happy Holidays! 'Tis the season around here, and the Wheel has demanded Christmas drama. Where better to look than where it all started? It's Victorian England and it's ol' Charlie Dickens. It turns out, the process of creating A Christmas Carol was a surprisingly cinematic one. Who would&a...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Seventeen: Jurassic World Dominion (2022) It feels like we've come full circle in a strange way. Our first episode over two years ago was another Jurassic World movie. And now James comes into this one knowing full well what Frye and Russ are selling. They brought back Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and also eve...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Sixteen: Nuts! (2016) The world of animated documentaries is wider than you might think, and we were lucky enough to discover this depiction of the life and many, many, many frauds of America's greatest quack doctor -- John R. Brinkley. As if treating every ailment with an implantation of goat testicles wasn't enough, he also skirted the FCC by bu...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Fifteen: Sundown (2021) James didn't want to watch Mélanie Laurent stuck in a tube, so we've got to bring back the spicy foreign drama. Maybe instead of watching Mélanie Laurent stuck in a French tube, he'll be more amenable to watching Tim Roth stuck on a Mexican beach. Although, he is there by choice. James also has a lot to say about the J...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Fourteen: Oxygen (2021) Oxygène (2021) The wheel demanded foreign drama, so we gave James a French sci-fi film where Mélanie Laurent is stuck in a tube. That's the entire movie. It's like that flick we did last year called Galaxy of Horrors , except there aren't any dumb scary short vignettes to break up all the tube stuff. Additionally, Russ...

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Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twelve: Cold Pursuit (2019) "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have is a trophy for being voted Best Person in Town, and a snowplow. My snowplow makes me a nightmare for people like you. If you let Laura Dern out of this movie, that'l...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Eleven: Hellraiser (2022) Happy Halloween, everybody! We've come full circle to good ol' bloody horror and unnecessary remakes all in one! From sex demons dressed in their own skin to the silliest tailoring job you've ever seen, no idea was too silly for the writer's room. This reimagining of Clive Barker's classic will surely polar...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Ten: His House (2020) It happened again. We needed a new ghost story, and we accidentally picked one that was too good for the podcast. Of course, that won't stop us from making the most of it. The immigration experience framed as a horror is just the beginning of everything that's happening here. You'll also have to deal with the boys'...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Nine: A Ghost Waits (2020) Spoopy Season continues! James was ever so excited by our comedy cosmic horror, but now the wheel has called for a ghost story. James isn't a fan. He'll probably be less of a fan this week because Russ and Frye have to deal with a ghost story that throws the viewer the most unnecessary suicide this side of Romeo and Juli...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Eight: Glorious (2022) Happy Spoopy Season everybody! It's that time of year when we do a month of horror! The wheel called for horror comedy, but we knew James was disappointed. We knew he really wanted Lovecraftian cosmic horror. But Russ and Frye are wily. What if they could deliver both? What if they could deliver an eldritch god voiced by JK Simmo...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Seven: Promare (2019) プロメア (2019) The wheel called for animated action?  That's certainly a thing, but it's usually called DragonBall Z. When you hear "animated action," it's almost certainly an anime -- right? Not to worry. We're weebs -- we know what's up. This is Studio Trigger, and this is Hiroyuki Imaishi. Do you...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Six: Detour (1945) We usually stick to pretty recent stuff on this show, but the wheel is merciless and it has demanded a classic. While the idea of an "unnecessary" classic film is chuckle-worthy, we think we've delivered. This is a film noir from 1945 directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. If you want to play blackout...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Five: Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022) I hope you're all ready to learn something, because it's documentary week. If there's one thing we love more than Werner Herzog's speech patterns, it's clowning on crypto and crypto-bros. Luckily, this movie has lots of both. Marvel at the parade of bad decisions, mysteries, an...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Four: We Couldn't Become Adults (2021) ボクたちはみんな大人になれなかった (2021) Romance yet again. Russ and Frye now know that James wants a romance without any of those pesky romance trappings like love or passion or human contact or fulfillment, so maybe a depressing slice-of-life Japanese pseudo-romance will suffice. The boys are feeling especially...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Three: The F Word  - OR- What If? (2013) Romance, eh? You know this one's going to be a tough sell, but maybe Harry Potter AND Kylo Ren can help out. It's the most Tik-Toked romcom of 2022, and Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, and Adam Driver are giving it their all. This movie is called What If? in the US and The F Word everywhere else. Seems the imp...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Two: Carter (2022) We forgot to spin the wheel last week, so Russ has hijacked the podcast again! With his newfound power, he has brought the latest action movie out of South Korea that might be more action than movie. The list of things wrong with this movie is exactly the same as the list of things this movie gets right. Is it possible to have too much ac...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and One: Men (2022) Suspense! As is turns out, James didn't want a thriller at all -- he wanted a suspense movie. Accordingly, it's up to the boys to convince him that this "folk horror" -- per Wikipedia -- is sufficiently chilling. With a title like Men , I bet all the guys in this one are just real swell. It's Alex Garland directing J...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred: The Gray Man (2022) We've been doing this for a hundred episodes now, and the movies are just as unnecessary as ever. James wasn't interested in watching Spiderhead , so we brought him a thriller with a lot more explosions, Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, podcast favorite Ana de Armas, and Billy Bob Thornton. If you don't think those names just screa...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Nine: Spiderhead (2022) The wheel has demanded thrillers, so Russ and Frye picked a movie that is definitely classified as a thriller on Wikipedia. Spiderhead shows us a terrible world where pharmaceutical companies are also prisons run by Chris Hemsworth, and are about as unethical as they are in real life.  Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett round out our cast of pr...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Eight: BIGBUG (2022) James is under the impression that countries other than the USA make comedies, so it's up to Russ and Frye to go along with that. Jean-Pierre Jeunet has brought us classics like Amélie , The City of Lost Children , and also Alien Resurrection , because we all have to take an L sometimes. In BIGBUG , we get to watch a bunch of futuristic Fre...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Seven: The Last Days of Coney Island (2015) Independent animation. We do pick some good ones here, don't we? Who better to tempt James than the architect of so many of your childhood nightmares -- Ralph Bakshi. Here he is presenting the last piece he made before he retired from the animation game. We'll be honest -- it wasn't a close call on this epis...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Six: The Last Days of Capitalism (2021) James didn't want to watch Tom Hanks and his pet robot, so we're going even more dramatic this week. What could be more dramatic than a single Vegas hotel room, two people, sex, drugs, and a lot of cash. Pair all that with a bunch of pseudo-philosophical gibberish and you have this week's movie, or pretty much a...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Five: Finch (2021) James has a LOT to say about Assassin 33 A.D. , but Russ and Frye are not to be contained. The wheel demands drama, so we brought it sci-fi. Well. Sci-fi drama. More fi than sci. It's Tom Hanks, C-3PO, a Roomba, and Toto wandering around a Fallout 76 map, and somehow we didn't just describe an episode of Love Death + Robots .  Logo desig...