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April Fools! It's time to fake and prank our way through another first-time slasher film for Summer 2019. Aaron Haughton is here to talk about the cult classic April Fools Day! We were refreshingly enthusiastic about this very fun 80s psych-out, that features killer cover art and a bomb 1980s cast. (Seriously, it's like the Dazed & Confused of second-tier 80s actors.) It's time to POP THAT on Apri...

Check it! It's time to stab our way through another first-time slasher film for Summer 2019. Aaron Haughton is here to talk about the cult classic Alone in the Dark! Not to be confused with the 2005 Tara Reid joint, this film features (literally) insane performances by Jack Palance, Martin Landau, and Donald Pleasance. Are these three character actors enough to save this film? Let's POP THAT on Al...

Peep this! It's time to strangle our way through another first-time slasher film Summer 2019. Aaron Haughton is back in the house to break down John Carpenters TV Movie: Someone's Watching Me! It's always a good time for a JC joint, and even the TV powers that be couldn't take away from that signature JC style. It's time to POP THAT with Someone's Watching Me!

We're baaaaaaack! It's time to slice and dice our way through some first-time slasher film watches for Summer 2019. Aaron Haughton is back in the house to break down the seminal slasher classic Black Christmas! Listen in as we dissect such questions as: "Is it pronounced HU-SEE or HOO-SAY?" and "What is up with Bob Clark's obsession with making Christmas movies?" It's time to POP THAT on Black Chr...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Aaron Haughton joins the show to break down our best of year lists, just in time for the Oscar nominations. So, will our lists match up with the Academy's? (Magic 8 Ball says: "outlook not good.") Time to Pop That! on our favorite films of 2018.  

We're baaaaack. It's the start of Season 2, and what better way to kick off a brand new year and brand new season than to talk about SEX! Sex and the City is the subject of our premiere, and it's so much fun that we're breaking it into TWO PARTS! Regina Soto joins the show to break down the entire first season. So are you a Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, or Samantha? (Part 2 of 2)

We're baaaaack. It's the start of Season 2, and what better way to kick off a brand new year and brand new season than to talk about SEX! Sex and the City is the subject of our premiere, and it's so much fun that we're breaking it into TWO PARTS! Regina Soto joins the show to break down the entire first season. So are you a Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, or Samantha? (Part 1 of 2)

Listen in for our review of Chang-dong Lee's searing Korean film 'Burning.' Trust us, this one's a serious awards contender. It's our Pop Take on this richly rewarding film from the press screening at Austin's Fantastic Fest. 'Burning' opens in limited release November 9.

We're live on the red carpet at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX to interview Jonah Hill and the cast of "mid90s", including: Sunny Suljic, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, and Ryder McLaughlin. Jonah talks film nerd stuff with us, then the cast breaks down how much better life was on-set without cell phones. It's time to POP THAT! ("mid90s" opens theatrically October 19.)

Our first season winds down, but stay tuned for our upcoming Fantastic Fest coverage! This 25th episode will be our last FULL-LENGTH episode until November, and it's a doozy. There's nothing better in September than dissecting that perennial favorite subject: high school. Aaron joins the show to break down 5 films that deal with how rough high school can be: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Just One of t...

Summer's officially over, and we've saved the very best for last. Aaron & I were virgins to the amazing experience that is PIECES! After hearing about this infamous movie over the years, we were skeptical it could live up to the hype. But we were so happy to be so wrong. This movie has it all. Skateboarding mirror crashes, tennis matches, dismembered bodies, full-frontal male genitalia, and an act...

We're entering the home stretch of our Slasher Summer with a genre classic: THE NEW YORK RIPPER. Have you ever wanted to see a slasher movie with Donald Duck as the killer? Then you're in luck! In 1982, Lucio Fulci came stateside to bring us his take on American excess and cartoon villains. Aaron and I were so flummoxed by this movie's messages, that we were "quacking" up. Let's get punny, and POP...

It's still hot out! And Aaron and I felt so grimy and filthy after watching this week's feature film, we had to dowse ourselves in holy water. We review the grungiest, grindhouse-iest movie we've watched so far this summer with the hypnotically-perverse Nightmare. Trigger warning: this movie does not shy away from exploitation, abuse, and general misogyny, so this may not be everyone's cup of tea....

It's August! Now that the year's half done, Aaron and I thought it would make sense to break down our thoughts on 2018's cinematic releases so far. It's shaping up to be a banner year for tentpole blockbusters, indies, and genre stories alike. We have films on our lists that we can already seeing making the year-end best-of list. So what are we going to do with all this awesome movie love? Share i...

It's so hot out! So we're staying cool indoors and talking shop about The Prowler. Aaron and I break down what works (the gore!) and what doesn't (the excruuuuciating pacing) of this Friday the 13th knock-off that could (let's be real) also double as a prequel to Toy Soldiers. This movie has a truly WTF ending that you'll wanna hear Aaron and I attempt to make sense of.   It's Episode 2 of our #Sl...

Aaron and I are cinephiles of trash celluloid, yet somehow we both managed to have several films slip through the cracks over the years. So we fix that starting this summer with our very first #SlasherSummer episode devoted to the best slashers we had never seen (until now.) First up is Tourist Trap (1979), which is about a bunch of deadly mannequins manipulated psycho-kinnetically by a maniac. Ye...

It's our very first Second-Chance Cinema episode and we're packing in a double-feature doozy! Jason Pippin is in the house to talk about Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. A lot has been said about these movies over the years, so how did they hold up on a second-chance watch? You'll have to listen and find out. Two die-hard Alien fan-geeks talking shop about the franchise we love. What's better than...

It's a first for Movies 101! An actual Q&A with director J.A. Bayona, the talented filmmaker behind the new summer blockbuster Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. We were fortunate enough to attend this Q&A session after an advanced screening presented by the awesome folks at Birth. Movies. Death, Alamo Drafthouse, and Rooster Teeth. If you're a fan of the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World franchise or jus...

Grrrr!!! Rawr!!!!! It's time to take a dino-bite out of J.A. Bayona's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Come for our dinosaur puns and stay for our social critique on how this movie finally puts some humanity back into this franchise. (Seriously, there's a scene that will have you boo-hooing into your Fruity Pebbles like you're 12 years old again.) But, is that enough? Get our Pop Take! (the good an...

Have you seen Hereditary? Or are you avoiding spoilers, but want to know what sort of time you may be in for? Then listen to our Pop Take on Ari Aster's first feature-length movie. It's a doozy and not for the squeamish. Well-crafted arthouse horror for the mainstream sure is a rare gem to find, but this film (mostly) earns that praise. It's a truly scary, scary movie. It's time for our Pop Take!...

We couldn't be more excited to have our friend (and one of our favorite funny ladies) Regina Soto back on this episode to break down all the mixed messages we get about love and romance from movies and TV. Seriously, why didn't Andie end up with Duckie at the end of Pretty In Pink? And why don't we feel worse than we should about that?? This and other questions are answered on this episode of Movi...

It's TV 101! And we're talking serious about "Roseanne: The Return." Susan Pickover joins the show for an "emergency" recording to break down the cancellation of the recently-returned series. We discuss our love for the original show, break down how the new season ultimately succumbed to its own politics, and try to answer the question: how did this go so wrong? This was a pretty emotional episode...

Star Wars is back, baby! Kicking off the summer this Memorial Day weekend with both Chris Calilung and Chris Shatraw in the house to dissect our viewing. Did it measure up? You'll have to listen to find out. So grab a glass of moof milk, kick off your shoes and let's get our Pop Take on Solo: A Star Wars Story!

It's the inaugural show of one of our new themed episodes, where we ask the question: WTF Were They Thinking??? And we couldn't be more excited to have our friend (and one of our favorite funny ladies) Susan Pickover on this episode to break down the classic 1989 extravaganza: Teen Witch. Betcha didn't know the show was named after this classic! Tune in to find out why we love this glorious POS mo...

It's that time of year! We're gonna predict which summer movies will be tops at the box office. Chris Calilung and Matthew McKibben join me to see if we're winners or losers by summer's end. (If it's anything like last year, our dreams will be crushed like a bug under Thanos' boot.) May the odds be ever in your favor!