After Lunch

Rob, Michael, and Pax re-enter the Lounge to talk about the  Wonder Man  TV show,  Black Canary: Best of the Best ,  Dungeon Crawler Carl , eternity, death, and  Rocky IV .

As is annual tradition around this time of year, Michael, Pax, and Noel Thingvall look back at the movies of 10 years ago and talk about their favorite (and also least-favorite) films of 2016.

Jetpack Tiger returns! Carlin and Dashiell Trammel watched last year's live-action remake of  How to Train Your Dragon  and you recorded themselves doing it. So queue up the movie, sync with this episode, and enjoy the  Jetpack Tiger   How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Commentary Track!

Michael, Rob, Pax, and Jacob gather one more time in Dartmoor to discuss the first Basil Rathbone Holmes film: 20th Century Fox's  The Hound of the Baskervilles . Last month we talked about the Hammer version from 1959, so we do some compare/contrast to that as well as the Conan Doyle novel.

In the second half of this month's Lounge, Pax, Rob, and Michael discuss S upergirl: Woman of Tomorrow ,  Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight , Rob and the  Ramblin' Man , our reading origin stories, our  Star Wars  homeworlds, and  Ella McCay .

Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about a lot of things in this first half of this month's lounge:  The Rise of Skywalker , Wonder Woman on TV and in comics,  Stranger Things  Season 5, Stephen King and Maurice Sendak's  Hansel and Gretel, and Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, for example.  We also talk about our good friend (and frequent podcast guest) William Bruce West, who - we learned the day afte...

Starting a new project for the new year where we read 12 Stephen King novels, Michael and Jess talk about all things  Carrie . And not just the book, but also all the movies, and even the musical.

Michael is joined by Pax, Kay, and Robert Zerbe to look back on the art and pop culture of 2025 and also to peek ahead at what's coming in 2026.

Michael, Rob, and Pax embrace their f8 as they talk about  The Fate of the Furious , the first post-Brian movie in the series and the beginning of #JusticeForHan. Can we forgive Deckard Shaw for his crimes? And if we do, can we forgive ourselves?

While Pax remains in London to close a different case, Jacob, Michael, and Rob hit the moor to talk about the Hammer adaptation of Hound of the Baskervilles , starring Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, André Morell as Watson, and Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville.

Michael and Jess talk about the horror! We start with a little on  The Menu  and  A Ghost Story for Christmas , then a little more on Ted Naifeh's first  Courtney Crumrin  volume,  The Night Things , and then a lot on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's  From Hell and Jack the Ripper in general. That finishes our 2025 of horror comics, so we also talk about our focus for 2026.

Better late than never, but Michael, Pax, and Rob finally complete last month's lounge with conversation about Christmas podcasts, werewolf movies, Universal Monsters comics,  Hamnet , an update on Pax's  Young Guns signatures, and movies we've never seen on the big screen, but want to.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Preston A Whitmore II's  This Christmas may not be a super popular holiday movie, but Michael thinks it's underrated and under-discussed, so he's invited William Bruce West and David May to watch and talk about it. The movie stars Loretta Devine, Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba, Regina King, Keith D Robinson, Mekhi Phifer, and others as members of a family coming together for t...

Michael and Rob welcome Sue London and Michael DiGiovanni to come help build a cinematic multiverse out of our favorite Christmas specials. We've assigned each other a couple of specials each to crossover, then once we've revealed our mashups, we work together to create an  Avengers -style feature combining all eight of the original ideas. It's nice, it's occasionally naughty, but most of all it's...

In the first part of a sort of crossover with the  Advent Calendar House  podcast, Mike Westfall joins Michael and Rob to talk about an unusual version of  A Christmas Carol . From CBS's 1954 anthology variety show, Shower of Stars , it features Fredric March as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Marley, and bunch of questionable songs. And be sure to tune in next Sunday to  ACH   for Part Two in which Mi...

Michael and Rob invite Jody Collins and Jacob Bean-Watson over to put up the Christmas decorations and talk about the Ernst Lubitsch classic,  The Shop Around the Corner . The movie stars Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan. And it was of course the inspiration for  You've Got Mail . We talk about all of those people and the other characters, as well as the remakes and just how much...

Michael and Jess talk about lots of horror stuff including  A Ghost Story for Christmas ,  Lost Boys , Mike Mignola's  Hellboy  comics, and Dan Brereton's  Nocturnals.

Our Sherlock Holmes panel reconvenes as Pax, Jacob, Michael, and Rob talk about the Spielberg-produced '80s favorite (and self-admittedly non-canonical),  Young Sherlock Holmes . 

Michael, Pax, and Rob talk about lots of stuff including Silver Age Wonder Girl, Man-Wolf,  Hell House  by Richard Matheson, three Shirley Jackson novels, podcast apps, and  Predator: Badlands .

To celebrate the 400th episode of  After Lunch  (give or take), Michael welcomes back the original  Nerd Lunch  crew - CT, Jeeg, and Pax - to wrap up some unfinished business from the  Nerd Lunch  days. In June 2019, Jeeg led the gang, including Michael in the Fourth Chair, in an Overs/Unders exercise to predict what might happen in the proposed Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum. Of course, we...

Michael, Rob, and Pax continue their occasional look at pulp and superhero serials with  The Adventures of Smilin' Jack . It's one of Michael's favorites, but will Rob and Pax feel the same way? Starring Tom Brown, Keye Luke, and Rose Hobart.

Michael and Rob are joined by Ben Graham and new guest Nick Casbarro to talk about Nick's novel,  Vitalerium: Descent into the Void , and then to determine the greatest spaceship of all time. And of course we determine that the only way we know how: by listing 16 of our favorites, putting them into tournament brackets, and voting on them until only one remains.

Michael and Rob are joined by Joanna from  Bloody Popcorn and Shawn Robare to create teams of horror-themed athletes and terrifying events for them to compete in. Who will win the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals? The Hex Pistols? Scare-istocracy? The Grisly Grahams? The Hellboy Hooies? Pick your favorite team and root them on!

Rob, Michael, and Pax finish up this month's Lounge talking about  The Oracle Year  by Charles Soule,  Disney Dreamlight Valley , Superman comics,  Batman: Resurrection  by John Jackson Miller, Zach Cregger's  Weapons ,  KPop Demon Hunters , and more!

Michael, Rob, and Pax continue their occasional series covering the  Predator  movies by talking about the original film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, and the introduction of one of the coolest-looking monsters in cinema history. And stay tuned after our conversation for a special rerun of Pax's  I Read Movies  episode covering the  Predator  novelization by Paul Monette.