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This week, the Dial of Destiny is pointing Indiana Jones back into conflict with the Nazis, and Disney hopes toward a box office hit as well. If it comes and goes without much fanfare this weekend, it wouldn't be the first time the House of Mouse has struck out trying to recreate the thrills of matinee serial adventures from the 1930s, as this week we wind the clock all the way back to 1991 and wa...

This week we go fishing for belly stones and are flashing our moolti-pass as we're joined by podcaster and pro wrestling commentator Jordan Bowman (Trust The Process, At The Movies 10 Years Later, Nation Extreme Wrestling) for an unseen selection from his collection: 1997's The Fifth Element , written and directed by Luc Besson, and starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chr...

This week on the program, bust out the Courry Brand cat food and light up a cig because we're joined by actor, podcaster and Boom Pro Wrestling personality Travis Woloshyn for a selection out of his collection: Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), starring Elliot Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson and Jim Bouton, and featuring the very first acting role for a young Arnold...

As the Autobots make contact with the Maximals for the first time in this week's big theatrical release, we're getting in touch with extraterrestrials of a different sort this week with 1997's Contact , directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt and James Woods, based on the book by Carl Sagan. It's a pick out of Hayley's collection this week,...

This week as both the Spider-Verse and Clone High make their way back to screens big and small, we trace it back to Christopher Miller & Phil Lord's first animated feature: 2007's Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs , written and directed by Miller & Lord, starring Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Bruce Campbell and Andy Samberg, adapted from the 1978 children's book of the same name. It's a movi...

The Demolition derby continues this week, as we go from a self-destructive Jake Gyllenhaal dramedy to something that is decidedly not that: an early 90s action slugfest with a thin veneer of reactionary satire, dreading the coming Liberalized future. It's 1993's DEMOLITION MAN , starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock and Bob Gunton. We're lightly breaking the rules this week as...

Sometimes you need to break it all down to put it all back together, which is exactly what Hayley and Justin are thinking this week as they dissect 2015's Demolition , directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis -- a Blu-ray disc that J-Mo scooped up on a whim out of the Shoppers Drug Mart discount bin a few years ago not long after watching th...

This week, as Ben Affleck's latest directorial effort AIR drops on Amazon Prime, we're finally popping in a DVD J Mo's been hauling around for nearly 15 years now: 2007's Gone Baby Gone , Affleck's debut in the director's chair -- from a script he co-wrote as well -- starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Amy Ryan, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman. Based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, coming hot off...

This week, it's tax time! We crunch the numbers and list a spare bedroom as a home office to boost our returns with the autism-as-a-superpower action thriller The Accountant (2016), directed by Gavin O'Connor, starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons and Jon Bernthal, along with a murderer's row of character actors in a movie that plays on American cable TV all the time. This is a big tim...

This week, we're joined by a guest for the very first time, which is exciting! Unfortunately they have brought with them an unwatched DVD from their own collection which was excrutiating! JACKSON McDONALD (Roxy Fever) guides us back into bio-pics with a movie that at times feels like a made-for-TV Ray , 2009's Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story , starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, and Aunj...

This week, we're back with a belated 4/20 celebration, watching the movie who's own early 90s marketing campaign encouraged filmgoers to "watch it with a bud", Richard Linklater's 1993 high school classic DAZED AND CONFUSED . This one is a Hayley Hasn't Seen, despite the fact she's owned it for roughly 13 years without ever popping it in the player, and perhaps the movie's stoner reputation scared...

We shift gears wildly from last week's animated family fun to a blood-soaked, neon-drenched revenge thriller, as we synch up with today's theatrical release of Renfield to discuss 2018's Mandy , written and directed by Panos Cosmatos, starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache. It's a movie very much of a pattern for Cage alongside Pig , A Color Out of Space and even Drive Angry ....

This week, it's Mel Gibson leading a pack of chickens out of a POW death camp in the British claymation classic, 2000's Chicken Run! That's right, Music Month is over, though discussion does return to music bio-pics before the show is over. Plus: Having just seen Knock At The Cabin, Hayley and Justin get into it about the Shyamalan revival, with The Visit, Old and Knock arguably making him a must-...

This week on the pod... the wrong kid died! Music Month closes out with one last bio-pic -- the music movie parody that renders all the serious attempts that follow it laughable in how closely they hew to the cartoonish comedy of this brilliant send-up. It's 2007's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story , directed by Jake Kasdan, co-written by Kasdan and Judd Apatow, and starring John C. Reilly, Jenna Fis...

Music Month continues with a classic comedy of the 80s, while Justin and Hayley struggle with how to talk about a movie that is clearly exceptionally crafted but just so happens to be directed by one the great bastards of cinema: Hayley's unproblematic fave, the child-murdering John Landis. While so many hit comedies of its day have not stood the test of time, does The Blues Brothers still hold up...

Justin and Hayley are back to review the film that spawned the entire idea for the podcast, a movie that had been collecting dust on J Mo's shelf for sixteen and a half years without ever having been watched: 2004's Ray, written and directed by Taylor Hackford, and starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington and Regina King, for which Foxx won the Academy Award for Best Actor. After starting the show la...

It's the first episode! Hayley and Justin kick off Music Month on the pod with a movie that is sort of a bio-pic, sort of a meditation on the pointlessness of bio-pics in general, and a great excuse to get a ton of great bands together and record some wonderful covers of Bob Dylan's more obscure songs. Yes it's 2007's I'm Not There , the only movie that both of your intrepid hosts had each added t...

NEW SHOW OVER HERE. Yes that's right, we're putting out a trailer just to have something on the feed so that people can already be subscribed when real episodes start to drop. It's a movie podcast about watching the DVDs and Blu-rays we own, and in some cases have owned for decades now without ever actually sitting down and pressing play. Every week Justin and Hayley sit down to watch something th...