Hard Ticket

It's a hard ticket between Ice Princess and I, Tonya . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! That's right, it's a Disney flick vs. Allison Janney's shameless string of atomic f-bombs. What could these two movies possibly have in common besides the occasional pair of ice skates? Well, despite one being a very direct adaptation of the real-life Tonya Harding scandal, the other may be even more dir...

It's a hard ticket between Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Arrival . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! Spielberg Summer continues with the man's first stab at the extraterrestrial. And what better movie to pair it with than the film boy's contemporary holy text Arrival ? These two have more in common than just alien invaders; they put their protagonists up against one...

It's a hard ticket between The Batman and Superman (2025) . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! Supergirl has just hit theaters, expanding James Gunn's DC Universe and paving the way for a promising future. So, while we continue to wait impatiently for The Batman: Part II , we decided to pit these Justice Leaguers against one another for the ultimate superhero showdown. Noted Zack...

Spielberg Summer continues! And wouldn't you know it? The master has decided to grace us with a brand new flick. We couldn't miss it. So, this week, we're talking about the throwback thriller Disclosure Day ! This movie is getting reviews all across the board. What did we think? Our thoughts are... complicated, but we're more than happy to talk it out. So sit back and listen. 0:00...

It's a hard ticket between Citizen Kane and The Room . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! And happy birthday! Hard Ticket is officially one year old, so to celebrate, we're covering one of our biggest matchups to date. It's best vs. worst. The Citizen Kane of bad movies vs.... Citizen Kane ! It may seem like a stretch, but these two flicks have more in common than you might re...

It's a hard ticket between Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! Spielberg Summer kicks off with one of the legendary director's most legendary flicks: the war movie. The Spielbergian soldier with a shaky hand, shell-shocked even before his legendary landing at Normandy. Establishing a tried and true formula, it's a movie worthy to stan...

It's a hard ticket between The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and The Mandalorian and Grogu . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! Or how about neither? Jesus! It's a bleak year for blockbusters if this is the best we can muster up. A cosmic adventure from one set piece to the next. We'll save the princess / giant slug monster just as long as no character grows or no themes are explor...

Hard Ticket celebrates the 49th anniversary of the original Star Wars — and the release of the newest spinoff film, The Mandalorian and Grogu — with this latest Ticket Stubz episode analyzing the themes of fate and free will across the three Star Wars trilogies. It’s a scripted metatextual comparative analysis (again, about Star Wars ) from the mind of Hard Ticket co-host Tristan Moore, so the onl...

It's a hard ticket between Moonstruck and It Happened One Night . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! This week, we're crossing over with Adam and Sarah from Best Picture Brainrot , a fellow movie podcast counting down the weeks to the 100th Oscars by watching every Best Picture winner since the ceremony's conception. And what better way to do it than with a couple of legendary...

What? You like movies, and you've never seen Jon Turteltaub's National Treasure? What are you, some kinda freak? That's right, The Blind Spots returns with another one of Jeff's. We didn't mean for it to happen, exactly, but Midtown Cinema just so happened to be playing National Treasure while we were in the neighborhood with all our recording gear in the back of Tristan's...

It's a hard ticket between Happy Gilmore and Caddyshack ! Which one will you watch? Let's decide! The legendary directorial debut of Harold Ramis, Caddyshack has persevered as a timeless(?) comedy with massive influence, including Sandler's own Happy Gilmore . Both are relentlessly quotable slapstick sports stories, but they're structural opposites: an ensemble mess vs. a focused,...

It's a hard ticket between Lake Mungo and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! It's no secret that this is a very Lynch-friendly podcast, so it would take one hell of a movie to hold its own against our first Lynchian stab (and Twin Peaks , no less!). Lo and behold, we think we found it in Lake Mungo , a legitimate cult horror flick that skewers true...

He like to have fun on this show. Have we ever mentioned that! This week, we thought we'd roll some clips of some of our most memorable laughs of 2025. So enjoy the compilation, and we'll be back to our regularly scheduled program next week!

This past week, Jeff attended the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, and got to screen the documentary Inside Gaza . It's not an understatement to call this movie the most important movie a person can watch right now. For more information, visit here .

It's a hard ticket between F1 and Days of Thunder . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! Aaron Radcliff is cashing in on last month's Oscar sweepstakes win with a racing matchup for the ages: old school, American-style NASCAR versus the pristine, high-octane world of F1 racing. Why stop our Oscar marathon after the Oscars? Pick your poison. Do you favor the grenadine-tinted "go...

It's a hard ticket between Vertigo and When Marnie Was There . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! This week, we're crossing over with the legendary Amy Hensarling, host of Watch This List and its brand new sub-series "Psychoanalyze This!" Seems as appropriate a time as any to talk about Vertigo , the movie for obsessive film fans by an obsessive film director about a man...

What?? You like movies and you've never seen Signs? Uh... yeah? Is M. Night Shyamalan's Signs a blind spot? Tristan seems to think so, and Josh is none the wiser. So, in this episode of The Blind Spots , the two sit down to determine, definitively, if this invasion flick that scarred so many children has earned "must watch" status. What do you think? Is Tristan onto something, or...

We're stepping away from our regularly scheduled program to talk about the hottest movie of 2026 thus far: Project Hail Mary . This movie is absolutely tearing up the box office right now, and like many others, we've made the trek to the theater to partake. What do we think? Well, we have... opinions. What else is new? Jeff actually read the book, so he's got something to say. 0:00 - T...

It's a hard ticket between Finding Nemo and One Battle After Another . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! Now that One Battle has officially been canonized by the Academy as the Best Picture of 2025, we're ready to put the discourse to bed. What better matchup to do that with than the story of another father braving the big, blue, dangerous world to reunite with his progeny? Finding Nemo has...

The Oscars are over, and the canon has been set. Which movies did you think deserved the gold? Did they win? Were they snubbed? We certainly have our own opinions, one being that it was a contentious Oscar year to start. Let's talk it out, y'all. Nobody died.

It's a hard ticket between Hamnet and Shakespeare in Love . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! Our Oscar countdown concludes with one of 2025's greatest dramas — and one of 1998's great instigators of drama. Yes, we're talking about the famous Saving Private Ryan snub that decorated Harvey Weinstein in gold. That's all anyone seems to remember about John Madden's Shakespeare in Love . But how...

It's a hard ticket between Robert Eggers' Nosferatu and Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! As we continue to capitalize on the upcoming Academy Awards, we're taking an opportunity to compare two decorated, contemporary updates on classic Gothic horror tales. These two Halloween mainstays feel appropriately similar yet curiously diametric. Why are Eggers and...

It's a hard ticket between Bugonia and Pass Thru . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! Awards season is in full swing, so we're counting down to the Oscars by talking about some of the biggest films from last year. What to put up against Yorgos Lanthimos' latest critical darling? How about an equally talky indie flick held together with duct tape instead of VistaVision film? That's right, Neil...

It's a hard ticket between The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. Which one will you watch? Let's decide! These two 70s blockbusters flicks harken to a time when audiences took disasters a little more seriously. And, despite quite the overlap in crew, their claustrophobic escape premises couldn't be more different: a capsized ocean liner or a smoking skyscraper. Which one would you rathe...

It's a hard ticket between Elvis and Priscilla . Which one will you watch? Let's decide! These are two flicks in direct conversation with one another: Baz Luhrmann's bombastic biopic and Sofia Coppola's quiet counter balance. In some ways, these two movies couldn't be more different. Yet, they cover roughly the same subject and moment in time. Let the discourse ensue! Joining us in the studio is R...