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*Late episode post due to technical difficulties forcing a full re-edit (warning: may be editing mistakes) NEW EPISODE TRUCKING YOUR WAY!!!! The Watch/Skip’ers hitch a ride on Fury Road and take on the new entry in the popular and well-loved Mad Max series - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. This time creative brain trust director George Miller has buzzy indie darling Anya Taylor-Joy smearing the oil on he...

NEW EPISODE……WHHHHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!?!?!!!?!??!!!! What do ‘all of us’ and a ‘train’ have in common? STRANGERS!!!! And so it comes to pass….the Watch/Skip’ers review the new horror/remake/reboot “Strangers - Chapter 1”, the first in a proposed trilogy-prequel to the cult 2008 original. This episode is dedicated to the dudes over at WildreamPod as we stole their format like strangers in the nig...

GO BANANAS AND LISTEN TO OUR NEW EPISODE!!!! Missing “APE-ril” by just THIS much….the fourth film/reboot of the reboot of the Tim-Burton inspired remake of the seminal 70’s smash Planet of the Apes roars into theatres, and Emcee and Cupcake have a front row seat to the apocalyptic zoo that is “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”. The Wes Ball directed film hails CAESAR…the Moses and central charact...

NEW EPIC EPISODE EXPLODES IN YOUR EARS!!!! The Watch/Skip’ers review the new film from David Leitch who directed “Bullet Train” (the FIRST movie reviewed on WS+!) Leitch brings his stuntman origins and his expert level direction to “The Fall Guy”, loosely based on the Lee Majors-starring, legendary 80’s television show. The episode is so larger than life that there is extra discussion about Leitch...

Tie Point! New Episode served! The Boys serve up a review of “Challengers”, the new film from famed ALGERIAN director Luca Guadagnino, and lob some deep, right-on-the-line analysis and film discussion. The director of “Bones and All” serves up different kinds of bones in the tennis-threesome erotic drama, and Emcee and Cupcake find themselves volleying back and forth over the film’s performances,...

Grunt and scratch yourself vigorously….a new episode has dawned! From the second Willden-beast mentioned this film on our Second Annual Sundance episode and especially after the first red band trailer went wild, the hosts of the show have been anticipating the release of the Zellner brothers’ “Sasquatch Sunset”. (Editor’s note: This is Beanie…according to my hooman only one of you was looking forw...

*sings* WAR…..Huhh….GOOD GAR-LAND!....what is it GOOD for?....Brand new ep is streaming…GET IT IN YOUR EARS….say it again!!!!! Alex Garland’s eagerly awaited fourth directorial and scripted effort “Civil War” has been unleashed and Cupcake and Emcee are right out on the front line giving you the scoop. Starring Kirsten Dunst (minus any web-slinging hunks) and a cadre of Garland’s trusted performer...

Quit Monkey(Man)-ing around and GET A NEW EPISODE IN YOUR EARS!!!! “John Wick in Mumbai”, you say? Ticket SOLD! The Watch/Skip’ers cock their critic guns and suit up for the action vengeance, social commentary-tinged directorial debut of noted, SAG and BAFTA award winning actor Dev Patel. Is it the “audacious” film debut that stunned SXSW audiences or is it a meta-cloned, US-Bollywood inspired- ac...

RUN FOR COVER! A NEW EPISODE HAS BEEN UNLEASHED!!!! On an episode so TITAN-sized we couldn't fit a "Q and Alex" at the end, the Boys welcome back the OG co-host of Watch/Skip+...Red, the Cinemasochist, Mr. Godzilla himself...Justin!!! Thrill to the puns and listen as all three energetic pod-monsters fight for audioverse space as they take on Cupcake's beloved future husband Adam...

LIGHT UP YOUR PROTON PACKS! A NEW EPISODE IS OFF THE PKE CHARTS! The Boys are back taking on the new legacy sequel “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”. Thrill to Cupcake ragging on the film’s horrible title and Emcee pondering the movie’s overload of characters as they take the ectoplasm-laden hit and tell you whether the Gil Kenan directed, next chapter in the Ghost Corp produced Ghostbusters franchise...

HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT! New Episode out now! "The Year of the Lesbian" continues as Emcee and Cupcake pump *clap*....YOU up with Rose Glass's sophomore effort "Love Lies Bleeding" starring Bella/Charlie's Angel herself Kristen Stewart, newcomer Katy O'Brien, and Ed Harris. This movie at the very least stomps "Drive-Away Dolls" into the pavement but doe...

Emcee was not feeling well, so the Willden-Beast joins Cupcake to review Blumhouse's Imaginary, directed by Jeff Wadlow. And while you'll have to imagine that Emcee is right alongside them, WB and Cupcake briefly discuss Wadlow's resume (he's an Eastie, hailing from Arlington, Virginia) and then critique his latest about an imaginary friend inhabiting a cute teddy bear who wrecks h...

LONG LIVE THE PODCASTERS!!!!!! Break out your stillsuits and take a shot of the Water of Life as the Watch/Skip'ers fold the interwebs to bring you their visions and thoughts on the much anticipated, prophesied to save exhibition, tentpole blockbuster that is Denis Villenueve's Dune Part 2. While talk of who's sexy in the sand is minimal, the boys deep dive on the source material and t...

The 2nd Annual Oscar Prediction Episode is HERE! HALF the length of the first Red Cupcake Oscar Prediction Episode, FULL-ON mad Oscar prediction analysis! Join Emcee, Cupcake, and special guest Willden-Beast Mike as they trip through all the major Oscar categories before the BIG OSCAR TELECAST ON SUNDAY MARCH 10TH 7 PM EST. You'll hear what each host "wants to win" and what "wil...

EPISODE SIXTY-NINE!!!!! The irony that the Boys for Episode 69 (!) are reviewing Ethan Coen's new frenetic farce comedy "Drive-away Dolls" which is overflowing with "lesbian s%^t" is not lost. Gorgeous Margret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan take to the road in a Coen-esque Thelma and Louise road movie-crime thriller hybrid. Should you drive TO the theatre to see it or &q...

AS PROMISED....it's our SECOND annual Sundance Experience episode! Willd-a-Beast returns to share his passion for the Sundance Film Festival which he has attended every year for nearly two decades (!) He walks us through the TWENTY-SIX films he saw at the Festival. Film lovers sit back because you are in for a treat as Willd-a-Beast spills the Sundance beans on what movies MUST be on your rada...

ALONG CAME A SPIDER...er, NEW EPISODE! This week the Boys get caught in the web of the current pop culture zeitgeist / backlash against superhero films and spin up a review of Sony/Marvel's Madame Webb starring Dakota Johnson and Tahar Rahim. You don't need to be clairvoyant to know who might possibly have been bit by the film's comic book thriller, girl power vibes but as we say here...

NEW EPISODE IS ALIVE.....IT'S ALIIIIIIIVVVEEEEEE! After Emcee's inaugural ep as co-host, the Watch/Skip'ers take on another buzz-y film...yet another mish mash of genres: the horror-comedy "Lisa Frankenstein", directed by Zelda Williams (daughter of the one and only Robin Williams) and written by polarizing screenwriter Diablo Cody ("Jennifer's Body" anyone?). I...

NEW YEAR...NEW EPISODE...NEW CO-HOST! CALL IT A COMEBACK! Watch/Skip+ returns with a brand new episode. If you heard the prior, you know that Red is on a leave of absence from the pod, and out of the river of tears, Cupcake and a brand new co-host are back in the saddle! Ride along and get to know the new guy; then stick around as the two break the (reviewing) ice with "Kingsman"/"K...

WE ARE BACK!!!! Red and Cupcake are gassing up more episodes of Watch/Skip+ for the future and breaking the Hiatus that started mid December 2023. This episode features BREAKING NEWS about the show with some pretty big plusses from the hosts. Come for the bombshells and stay for a follow-up KETCHUP CATCH-UP of all of the films seen in the interim (most of which are available for VOD as of this pos...

The Boys head to “Saltburn” this week to partake in debauchery and mind games when reviewing Emerald Fennell’s latest. Did they find the arthouse feature to live up to the buzz? Before finding out, Cupcake pluses a Disney+ series and recent controversy surrounding a long-running franchise, while Justin shares his frustration with a streaming app, then salvages his mood by discussing a wondrous gam...

WE'RE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!! In what has been teased and building since Episode 2 of this podcast, the Boys and superhero / comic book movie perennial guest Masaki (AKA Landon AKA Son of Sam U. Rai of the Gentleman's Guide to Midnite Cinema fame) review the long awaited, much reviled, divisive and polarizing sequel/crossover/shared with everything Disney/Marvel you can think of, MCU...

The Boys dip their toes into the youth horror pool this episode, as they cover the much-anticipated film adaption of the animatronic video game terror sensation that is “Five Nights at Freddy’s.” They didn’t dare brave this venture alone, bringing along good friend Kevin from Raiders of the Podcast to discuss the peculiar day-and-date release of an adaptation that all three parties admit they’re n...

The Watch/Skip'ers are back after a short break welcoming onto the show one of our "Pod Fathers"- Sam U. Rai of the Gentleman's Guide to Midnite Cinema - for a suitably EPIC discussion of legendary and pioneering filmmaker Martin Scorsese's EPIC new film "Killers of the Flower Moon". In an episode that is nearly the run time of the movie itself (but still shorter th...

Another October, another horror franchise taken over by David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. This year, the Boys tackle “The Exorcist: Believer,” the first in a planned trilogy from Blumhouse. Did Red & Cupcake find this to be a good start a la 2018’s “Halloween?” Before finding out, Jose pluses a new film streaming on Netflix that reunites ‘90s icons, while Justin sees the return of a new ni...