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The Brendans do a whole lot of catch up and super stuff this episode, with multiple incarnations of Krptonians to contend with - we talk My Adventures With Superman Season 3 and 2026's Supergirl - and some Steven Spielberg to hash out with a spoiler chat about Disclosure Day . Then for the main event, we celebrate the 15th anniversary of arguably the most influential martial arts movie of the...

The Brendans once again speak the shared language of justice as we celebrate a truly special weekend at the movies. Agnew gives some spoiler-free thoughts on Steven Spielberg's original sci-fi adventure Disclosure Day , and then the lads wade into the therapeutic waters of instant martial arts masterpiece The Furious . We also talk Masters of the Universe and Travis Knight's unsung talent...

The Brendans celebrate Connor4real's debut (and only) motion picture Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and then travel to a galaxy far, far away for the adventures of a bounty hunter and a baby Yoda with Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu . Along the way, we chat the success of Obsession and Backrooms , recommend reality-bending anarchic comedies like I Love Boosters and Pizza Movie , and l...

The Brendans are back - like in some sort of sequel to a previous installment - with a triple threat main show to make up for lost time. To celebrate the return of Summer Blockbuster Season, the lads dive spoiler-deep into Hokum , Mortal Kombat II , and The Sheep Detectives (one of the best movies of the year*). We also chat catchup on news and trailers - like Ken Russell's The Devils' new...

The Brendans are delighted to once again welcome Trey Lawson to the podcast to talk mummies, mummies, and more mummies! We chat Karl Freund's 1932 original, the 1999 Stephen Sommers bisexually-awakening remake, the most recent effort from Evil Dead: Rise director Lee Cronin, and a few other incarnations worth a look. There's also Big Talk on Little Podcast with the continuing Carpenter Chronicles,...

The Brendans celebrate Animation Domination with a brief all-spoiler chat about the money-printing Super Mario Galaxy Movie before celebrating 40 years of Studio Ghibli by diving deep into the studio's first film: Castle in the Sky . There's also chat about showing spooky 9-year-olds One Cut of the Dead , the reappraisal of 2005's Constantine , emotional pro-shots of live theater, and...

The Brendans are amaze amaze amazed by a returning special guest and a brace of hope-punk sci-fi adventures this week as A.J. Wilden climbs aboard to talk Shinji Higuchi's Shin Ultraman and Phil Lord & Chris Miller's Project Hail Mary . There's also trailer talk about recent teasers for the likes of Spider-Man: Brand New Day , Dune: Part Three , and The Furious , discussion of the...

The Brendans are once again joined by the inimitable Lindsay Wilkins of the Schock and Awe Podcast to talk monsters, gangsters, true love, and other miracles. After chatting Oscar hopes, folk horror, and Once Piece , we dive into a spoiler-filled discussion on Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! alongside one of the formative gangster pictures of the 1930's, The Public Enemy . We also talk Disn...

The lads are joined by special guest Devindra Hardawar of Endgadget and The Filmcast to talk All The Weeb Stuff. Agnew and Devindra have a spoiler-free discussion of the merits and shortcomings of Mamoru Hosada's new film Scarlet , and then we all celebrate the 20th anniversary of his breakout original hit The Girl Who Leapt Through Time . We also talk who has the juice to succeed Studio Ghibl...

The Brendan are catching castaways and travelling to faraway lands for this show, as we dive into a full-spoiler discussion of Sam Raimi's new thriller Send Help and how it plays to his strengths and those of his two very game leads. We also go on a Rogers and Clark redemption tour for Elaine May's Ishtar , a longtime punchline for over-budget disasters that's actually really damn funn...

The Brendans celebrate the potential gold for a buncha good movies from 2025 before diving into a full-spoiler (ahem) dissection of Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple . Is it as awesome as Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later ? Will we get another 28 ... movie with this one sinking at the box office? How on Earth did Foley convince Agnew to watch Ishtar ? All this, plus an update on the Carpent...

The Brendans count down their heaviest hitters of the 2025 cinematic experience, from disappointments to surprises to choices that call into question if they aren't just variants of the same guy from different timelines. There's also a spoiler-free report on the new horror film Primate , discussion on why Cate Blanchett is hottest at her most terrifying, and a look ahead to 2026's Most...

The lads welcome John Nicholson back to the show to celebrate the return of Big Jim Cameron to theaters with the hotly-anticipated Avatar: Fire and Ash . We talk first Cameron experiences and the cultural landscape at the time of the original Avatar 's release, how Way of Water and Fire and Ash have cemented it as the sci-fi-saga of the 21st century, and why Oona Chaplin's Varang is Mommy....

The lads celebrate the season by connecting with each other and all of you through time and space to suggest good stuff you should watch, because good stuff is dope. We try for a few lesser-known entries into the holiday canon, films that mean something to us personally, so if you need something in your ears in between Die Hard or The Muppet Christmas Carol , we got you covered. Happy trails. Our...

The Brendans are shaken and stirred by the linear passage of time and ostensible miracles of resurrection this week as the lads talk Pierce Brosnan's inaugural adventure as 007 in 1995's Goldeneye , reminisce about Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums , and go six feet under the spoiler-filled foundations of Wake Up Dead Man . There's also chat about Supergirl 's new trailer, th...

The Brendans are solving mysteries and defying gravities, but not alone! Two very special guests - returning ringer Austin Wilden and longtime friend the show John Nicholson - are on deck to examine why movies like Knives Out , Glass Onion , and Wake Up Dead Man are so consistently electrifying. Then for the main course, we go full spoilers on this year's much-awaited musical follow-up Wicked...

The Brendans are thrilled to be joined in the hunt by Producer Max of the Action for Everyone Podcast (as well as numerous prestigious outlets like Fangoria ) to talk monster madness. The lads chew over whether or not Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein was worth the wait and then go on the prowl with Dan Trachtenberg's new blockbuster Predator: Badlands . There's also talk about the new...

TRIGGER WARNING : This episode contains discussions of suicide, primarily in relation to horror/fantasy fiction. Be advised. The Brendans are pleased to welcome Chris Finik, longtime online chap and fellow student of the "School of Movies" podcast, to chat some tasty tasty horror. We talk scary movie sequels that made Big Choices, and go long and spoiler-heavy on Scott Derrickson and C....

The Brendans are hip-deep in Halloween shenanigans as we dive into a double-helping of Guillermo del Toro in prep for Frankenstein . Agnew watches Cronos for the first time (spoilers: it's good), and we chew over Crimson Peak for its 10th Anniversary - as well as chatting George Romero's Monkey Shines , the original Amityville Horror , and more. Our Opening/Closing Music is from #Uppbeat (...

The Brendans convene to join Paul Thomas Anderson in saying "fuck you" to Donald Trump and ICE as we talk One Battle After Another and how it both is and is not the movie the trailers have been selling. We also pay our respects to recently departed film icon Robert Redford by looking how both George A. Romero's Knightriders and Redford's work in Barry Levinson's The Natural r...

The lads are once again graced by the presence of EIC of Cinapse Ed Travis to talk end of summer highlights, beloved classics, and new hotness. Ed and Foley sing the praises of both Akira Kurosawa's High and Low and how Spike Lee makes it his own in this year's Highest 2 Lowest , and Ed talks about why MJ Bassett's Red Sonja spoke to him so strongly. We also chat Jaws , which as old no...

Agnew is joined by his daughter, Marian, to guess each other's Top Picks for movies they saw in the theater this summer, from new releases to repertory favorites. Did we both like Superman ? How high does Kpop Demon Hunters rank on our lists? We also make a couple predictions about what are sure to be two of the biggest movies of the holiday season - Wicked For Good and Avatar: Fire and Ash ....

The Brendans mark the anniversary of Foley's birth and the finale of yet another season of "Make Me Watch It" with a feature-length commentary on the next film of the Cornetto Trilogy - 2007's Hot Fuzz . They also do a lightning round of stuff they've watched, from this year's The Naked Gun reboot to the re-release of 2009's The Boy and the Beast and a few other sweet treats in between . (If you w...

The Brendans say "Excelsior!" as we blast off to wax poetic about how much we still love James Gunn's Superman (we don't have a problem, you have a problem) and the impressive merits of Marvel's First Family in their first MCU outing. We also talk previous Fantastic Four incarnations (they're bad), exciting new trailers (they're good), and Foley goes on a rant on the...

The Brendans don their Hypno-glasses to talk caped crusaders and last sons of Krypton with a fabulous special guest. Zaki Hasan of IGN , the San Francisco Chronicle , and the MovieFilm Podcast joins us to talk Batman Forever at 30, Batman Begins at 20, and a deep dive into James Gunn's Superman . We also chat the new Jurassic World: Rebirth , Agnew's reaction to 28 Years Later , and Marian...