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It’s awards season, WBAM style! The 6th Annual WBAMMYs are here, and in Part One, we celebrate the year by handing out little golden Scoot McNairy's. We start things off with the special category of the Lee Pace is 6ft 5 Lifetime Achievement Award for the Discovery of the Year. Main categories include best theatrical experience, most egregious cameo, achievement in dad cinema, best realm, and the...

It’s time to reveal our top 5 TV shows of the year in Part Two of our Best TV Shows of 2024 countdown. From the prestige drama of Ripley and Shōgun to the pop culture juggernauts Fallout and X-Men '97. Plus, more great picks such as 3 Body Problem, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Survivor 47, The Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, Doctor Odyssey, and more. Timecodes: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:23 - Monsters Th...

Our TV friend Dane joins us for our Listomania: Best TV Shows of 2024 countdown. This is part one, discussing our picks for numbers 10 through 6. We cover everything from Slow Horses  and Hacks to Smiling Friends and The Golden Bachelorette. Plus, we dive into House of the Dragon Season 2, The Bear Season 3, and even Love Island UK! Stick around for Part Two, where we’ll reveal our top 5 picks and...

It's time for part 2 of our top 10 favorite movies of 2024, aka "Best Films." This episode covers our number 5 through 10, including absolute heaters such as Anora, A Real Pain, The Wild Robot, The Brutalist, Nickel Boys, and more. Timecodes: The Wild Robot - 00:01:27 A Real Pain - 00:19:38 The Brutalist - 00:41:04 Challengers - 00:55:10 The Beast - 01:09:24 Nickel Boys - 01:18:23 Du...

Rejoice! It’s that time of the year. Our annual Listomania celebration continues with part one of our Top 10 Movies of 2024. This episode covers numbers 10 through 6, with picks that include I Saw The TV Glow, Furiosa, A Different Man, Nosferatu and more. Tune in for part two! Timecodes 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:10 - Remembering David Lynch 00:12:44 - thoughts on the year in film 00:26:39 - Furiosa 0...

Listomania continues with the second half of our top 10 favorite albums of 2024, covering numbers 5 through 1. Danny Seoane joins us once again to discuss albums by Charli XCX, The Smile, Vampire Weekend, Magdalena Bay, Kendrick Lamar, and more. Timecodes: Intro - 0:00 'Ill Times' by GUM and Ambrose Kenny Smith - 3:44 'Triple Seven' by Wishy - 13:19 'Only God Was Above Us' by Vampire Weekend - 21:...

Listomania begins with Part 1 of 2 of our top albums of 2024, a phenomenal year for music. We welcome back Danny Seoane to share the first half our lists, covering numbers 10 through 6. Albums discussed include No Name by Jack White, Romance by Fontaines D.C., Prelude to Ecstasy by The Last Dinner Part, What Now by Brittany Howard, and more! Stay tuned for part 2. Timecodes: Intro, thoughts on the...

Brett Nemeroff returns to help us stop some crimes of the future. It's the final episode of our Tom v Tom series. Steven Spielberg's MINORITY REPORT, released in 2002 and starring Tom Cruise as John Anderton, a pre-crime cop in Washington D.C. 2054. Based on a Phillip K. Dick novella, the film is a prescient vision of the future, and remains one of the strongest entries of both Spielberg and Cruis...

Merry Christmas! It's the final Hanks entry of our Tom v Tom series, and we're going in style with Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the real-life check fraud con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. and Hanks as the FBI agent chasing him down. Very special first-time guest Erin O'Brien joins us to discuss Spielberg's big child of divorce energy, the historical accuracy of...

It's the final stretch of our Tom v Tom Series with a review of Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise's reunion with Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe. Cruise plays David Aames, wealthy playboy whose face is horribly disfigured in an accident. The film, released in Christmas of 2001, is weird, surreal, and dreamlike, but is it good? We're joined by first-time guest Drew Biggs to discuss.

Danny Seoane returns to host another round of pop culture trivia madness, two years after his first unforgettable go as Alex Trebek's successor. This time, the stakes are higher, with brand-new categories like Letterboxd, TV Slop, Plot Twists, Girl Pop, Music Videos, Breakout Albums, One Hit Wonders, and special bonus round built to see which WBAM host knows their respective significant other the...

We crash land somewhere in the South Pacific with our volleyball friend Danny Seoane to discuss the classic Tom Hanks film, CAST AWAY, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and released in December 2000. Hanks delivers one of his most iconic performances, earning him an Oscar nomination. We discuss the real-life challenges of production—from Hanks nearly dying on set to gaining and losing 50 pounds for the...

It’s that time of year again. We’re talking all the big fall and holiday 2024 releases— Wicked , The Brutalist , Anora , and even Hot Frosty . Timecodes: Wicked  - 00:01:58 Rebel Ridge- 00:19:18 Piece by Piece - 00:24:00 Anora - 00:34:05 Nickel Boys - 00:46:41 Venom the Last Dance - 00:56:55 Hot Frosty - 01:06:33 The Brutalist - 01:15:26 Maria - 01:29:48 Conclave - 01:40:17 Juror #2 - 01:48:46 Bli...

We air kick into the year 2000 with flames, doves, leather, and exploding sunglasses to discuss John Woo’s action sequel MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2, featuring Ethan Hunt's biggest fan, Adam Sirdoreus. Is this really the worst movie in the series? Was that really Tom Cruise rock climbing? Are there too many mask gags? We get into all of it and more as we reach the final stretch of our Tom v Tom series....

Our old pal Javi Navarro invites us to a very exclusive and secret club to discuss the final film by legendary director Stanley Kubrick: EYES WIDE SHUT, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. We put on our masks and cloaks to dive deep into the dreamlike world of this enigmatic story of a married couple struggling to communicate their desires. Released in the summer of 1999, just a few months afte...

It's a packed episode this week, featuring a grab bag of TV and movie recommendations, culminating with a deep-dive spoiler discussion of Coralie Fargeat's body horror masterpiece, THE SUBSTANCE, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. Plus, thoughts on the new show from Alfonso Cuaron, DISCLAIMER*, the latest DreamWorks animated movie, THE WILD ROBOT, the 50th anniversary season of Saturday Nig...

We log on to the World Wide Web to check in with our anonymous pen pal Lee Perry and discuss the 1998 romantic comedy, You've Got Mail , directed by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Plus, we share thoughts on The Substance and Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable . Timecodes: Intro - 0:00 Megalopolis - 07:37 The Substance - 26:43 You’ve Got Mail - 53:46

Is it hell on earth or is it military propaganda? We investigate and discuss one of the most monumental achievements of Steven Spielberg’s career, Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks. Set during World War II, the film follows a group of soldiers on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action. Winner of five Academ...

We're back with another ketchup episode to close out Summer 2024 and look forward to Fall. We bring you a review of House of the Dragon S2, along with some other shows like Presumed Innocent on Apple TV Plus. Then, we give you our movie and TV hype meters for upcoming Fall releases such as Wicked and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It all culminates with reviews of Trap, Alien: Romulus, and quick thought...

We are joined by returning guest Steven Addington to try and try to forget you girl but it’s just so hard to do, every time you make a 1960s one hit wonder pop song, and discuss ‘That Thing You Do!’ written and directed by Tom Hanks.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to our thoughts on the 1996 Brian De Palma film Mission: Impossible, starring Tom Cruise. We're joined by returning guest Stephen Baker to break into the Langley CIA headquarters and review this action classic.

It's a summer movie check-in as we bring you reviews of two major releases - 'Twisters' and 'Deadpool & Wolverine.' Plus, thoughts on some smaller movies like 'Kinds of Kindness' and 'Longlegs' and catch up on other releases from earlier in the summer. Timecodes: Intro - 0:00 Twisters - 3:07 Summer Movie Wager Check-In - 27:53 The Fall Guy - 29:58 Kingdom Of...

We check in on the first half of the year with a draft of our picks for our 24 favorite things of 2024 so far. Guest: Daniel Seoane

Show me the money!! We review one of Tom Cruise's most iconic roles in the 1996 classic JERRY MAGUIRE, written and directed by Cameron Crowe, and co-starring Renée Zellweger and (an Oscar-winning) Cuba Gooding Jr.

To infinity and beyond! We welcome back Camila Calderon to dive deep into the 1995 Disney-Pixar classic, TOY STORY. The original, the one that started it all. Part of our series covering the films of Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise.