The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights at Blockbuster Arrival So this week you can listen to our episode in whatever order you want – forwards, backwards – I mean it won’t make any sense if you go backwards, because we’re not heptapods, so we can only record it forwards and have it make sense to us – but you’re welcome to try it backwards. Because this week we are talking about the movie Arrival, in all of it’s mind bending...

We've hit the quarter mark of the season (sort of) and so we're here to correct all our mistakes, I mean update our tier rankings and talk about the biggest suprises and disappointments of the season so far.

Late Nights at Blockbuster Everyone’s on their way out…act accordingly. Our newest episode is a breakdown of the Martin Scorsese classic, The Departed. This is probably the fastest squirrel we’ve ever chased, which is impressive for us, as we discuss whether there is a different word for the male muse. We’ve also probably made some enemies based on our lead in on Scorsese’s filmography, but as you...

Late Nights at Blockbuster That Thing You Do This week we’re heading back to 1964 to revisit the greatest fictional one-hit wonder of all time: The Oneders (that’s O-N-E-D-E-R-S, folks). We’re talking catchy songs,terrible band names, questionable contracts and the meteoric rise and spectacular unraveling of a band that was, as one might say, too cool for school .  So grab your shades, hop in this...

We're back with another year of our NFL tiers - to kick off the season you get our full thoughts and preview of every team, division, playoff picks, award picks and our initial tier rankings. As usual you can tell which one of us is the pessimist and which is the optimist. We'll be back every 4-5 weeks to give you updates as we confess our misses and enjoy our victory laps.

Corner Booth at Rex's Our newest episode is a Corner Booth at Rex's on the long awaited Spider-Man: Brand New Day! Both of us were extremely pleased with the movie despite our high expectations going in. We keep things spoiler free for the first half if you are one of the few people who haven't seen it at this point. Intro/Outro music by friend of thepodcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more...

Corner Booth at Rex’s The Odyssey You might be surprised it has taken this long, but we felt like it was in keeping with the story of the Odyssey to make you wait a little while. It’s a long journey, right? But, it’s finally here our thoughts and reactions to the latest Christopher Nolan movie. We discuss the classic story, thehuge cast, and the director who had to balance it all together.   Intro...

Late Nights at Blockbuster You think you’re too cool for school…but you aren’t. Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Zoolander. There are admittedly too many quotes but, as always, we don’t care. Byers poses the question, is Owen Wilson the Scottie Pippen of Hollywood? As always, we surprise each other by finding a good spiritual metaphor/illustration for a...

Late Nights at Blockuster Chopper, Leeches, and Train Dodges! Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is celebrating the classic coming of age tale, Stand By Me. We discuss whether Gordy is actually a good storyteller, what makes Troy squeamish, and how this movie was tailor made for our podcast. Don't be feeb who believes in moons and goochers and just listen to the episode. Intro/Outro music b...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu We know this one came out “a long time ago”, but we are finally in the corner booth to discuss the newest addition to a galaxy far, far away. So grab some snacks for the little ones and join us as we discuss the Mandalorian and Grogu.   Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music....

Trust Me Bro La La Land Have you ever had a gap in your movie knowledge? Something that everyone saw and they always seem to talk about and you just never watched it? It’s ok, we all have those movies, we all those gaps. There is always Someone in the Crowd who hasn’t seen something. And it is with that idea in mind that we introduce a brand new type of episode on thePhileo Podcast – we call it Tr...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects 80s Movie Draft We’re hopping in the DeLorean and heading back to the decade of our birth to pick our favorite movies of the 80s. From finding out the villain is your father, to almost getting hit by a train, we’re here for all the hits. It’s inconceivable what a never-ending list it is. Intro/Outro music by friend of thepodcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 41 years ago today….Ferris Bueller took the day off….and it was the longest day in the history of the world. Not since God made the sun stand still in the sky so Joshua could defeat theAmorites has there been a longer day than June 5, 1985. And so we want to remember that day and talk about all the great things that happened, all the outdated tec...

Late Nights at Blockbuster If you’re not first, you’re last! Our latest Late Nights at Blockbuster is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. We discuss how no one actually refers to this movie by it’s official title. Buckle in for a long list of favorite quotes and scenes. It’s safe to say that we had to dig deep to find some good spiritual metaphors or il...

Late Nights at Blockbuster To the trees, to the trees! Our next Late Nights at Blockbuster is the 35th anniversary of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The Drax winner was so easy that we had to do the runner up discussion. After we talk glowingly about how much we still enjoy the movie, we talk for a solid 15 minutes on our “Who Beefed” section. We round out the conversation with some action figure...

Late Nights at Blockbuster  The Cable Guy  The future is now! Every American home can integrate their television, phone and computer. You can visit the Louvreon one screen, or watch female mud wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam. You could even listen to us talk about this Jim Carrey classic on your phone or your computer. You coul...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Project Hail Mary This week we are talking about the new Ryan Gosling movie – Project Hail Mary. We give it two thumbs down and absolutelyrecommend going to see it. If you are confused by that sentence, you should go watch the movie so you can understand. We keep things spoiler free until the 33:50 mark.  Intro/Outro music by friend of thepodcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more mu...

Late Nights at Blockbuster We are celebrating the 15th anniversary of X-men: First Class this week. We gush over the direction, the way that it has aged, and all the actors (all but one). There are a couple of big plot holes/quibbles even though this is a comic book movie and we are already suspending our disbelief. Everyone breaks out as a a star after this movie so our acting categories was a li...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Top Gun  We’ve got the need…the need for quoting lots of movie lines and driving a little faster when Danger Zone starts playing. Because the pattern is finally clear and so we’re coming in for much more than just a fly by as we dive deep into the 80s classic Top Gun. Byers sets a new record for times he tries to combine acting categories or make up new ones, and Troy ac...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Underoos! Our newest episode is a Late Nights at Blockbuster on Captain America: Civil War. For all that we love about this movie we've got a few bones to pick with whoever edited this movie and some of the story choices leave a little to be desired. However, there is a ton of our favorite scenes, lines, and action moments as this is one of our favorite Marvel movies...

Late Nights at Blockbuster  Scream  Do you like scary movies? Because we don’t really like them for the most part, but we love this one and can’t wait to talk about it. So just follow the rules and we’re sure you’ll survive as we discuss the 30th anniversary of Scream.  Intro/Outro music by friend of thepodcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gil...

Late Nights at Blockbuster We are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the movie that launched one of the most unexpected franchises ever, The Fast and the Furious. As you can imagine, the Drax award is very short on this one. You don't watch these movies for the dialogue. This movie also includes one of our favorite casting what-ifs, even if it is barely believable. Byers utters one of the tru...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects 2001 Movie Draft It’s the beginning of a new year, and so we are back once again drafting movies from a quarter century ago. It’s getting more and more painful to think about the movies that came out 25 years ago, but it was one of the years at the height of our movie watching and so we have plenty to talk about including some of our all time favorite movies at th...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 of 2025 PLUS top 25 of the century (so far) So we know we’re late turning in this assignment, but it’sfor a good reason – we’re really giving you 2 episodes at once – because not only did we rank our top 5 movies, tv shows and sports moments of the year – but we also ranked our top 25 movies of the first quarter century. So it was a very long assignment – an...

The regular season has come to an end, so we are here to come clean and remind you of all the things we got wrong this year, and a few that we got right. We compare our preseason predictions, look at our tiers and make our Super Bowl predictions (they have to be better than our preseason ones...right?)