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In This Episode We Promise (at the very least) To Cover: Rat Boys Gym Enemy Update COLOR OUT OF SPACE Review Rubber Puppets Forever COLOUR OUT OF SPACE Review Lost Soul Shout-Out Story Within Story Loophole Occult Corner Osborne Casts a Spell DUNWICH HORROR Review Holy Shit Osborne's Spell Brings a Skull to Keaton's Door in Real Time HELLIER Review The Egg or the Egg Movies Catching Up with Cage H...

Back by popular demand... it's Rios! She helps us chop it up around this American Dirt thing. And It's Finally Here: Our Top Ten Of The Year! And By That We Mean ALL YEARS No, Seriously It Got Out of Hand So Fasten Your Meat Belts, Everybody

Let's Do This: Workout Corner The Importance of Leg Day Social Media Corner Writing Advice Advice Small Press Corner Hatchet Job Speak to the Manager Meme Revisited Cancelled Corner Chicken Sandwich Challenge! REDACTED Review NEVER BACK DOWN Pre-Review Review DOLEMITE IS MY NAME Review Mack Avenue Skull Game JOHN WICK 3 Revisited THE FANATIC Review WOUNDS Review CRAWL Review Never Trust Artists Re...

Topic List: All In on Baby Yoda THE MANDALORIAN Review One-Off Frog BLACK WIDOW Trailer Review Post-Midsommar WICKER MAN Re-Re-Review READY OR NOT Review Facebook (Twitter) Corner Osborne's Bouchercon Report Hard Sentences Gets the High Hat A Can Of Worms is Literally Opened Nicolas Winding Refn Gives Osborne a Much-Needed Win Unabomber Corner Keaton's Imagined Grudge With *Bleep*     The Hollywoo...

On This Episode: Hot for Teacher Thatched Roofs Facebook Corner Debut Facebook vs. Twitter Writers vs. Musicians Osborne vs. "Insufferability" Keaton Solves Facebook with Strangers on a Train Annoying British Children Impression Being One Grade Older Loophole Jiffy Lube Incident EL CAMINO Review DEADWOOD: THE MOVIE Review CREEPSHOW Review 3 FROM HELL Review CHERNOBYL Review David Thewlis Love Corn...

The two Daves come back to town just to talk about the incredibly uncomfortable new Gaspar Noe flick. Also: We Rant a Lot! The Grumpiness Continues! Is This Show a Cry for Help!

On this episode, Dave and I get really grumpy about IT: Chapter Two. Plus: We Hate Movies in General We Hate Everything? We Get Pissed and Morose Especially After Bad Movies This Was One of *Those* Movies

Today we are joined by author Rios de la Luz! All Three Of Us Talk About: Giving Up on Artists You Used to Like How to Make Scenes Tense Tarantino in General JDO Finds Himself Surrounded on All Sides Oh Shit Is Osborne the Only One Who Liked this Movie??? Trying to Convince People a Movie Is Good It's Hard to Do

On This Episode We'll Touch On: Putting Actors' Lives in Danger JDO's Ongoing Obsession With Cults Is Very Cult-like MIDSOMMAR Review The Inherent Creepiness Of Folk Music THE WICKER MAN Has to Come Up, Right? The Consequences of Innocuous Decisions

It's That Time Again: Talking About Naps Talking About Rain BANDERSNATCH Review The Limits of Meta The Importance of the Matrix JOHN WICK 3 Review Dance Fighting GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS Review A Movie Filmed Inside of an Asshole

This time we review the new postmodern weirdo flick from the director of It Follows. Discussions Include: Where It Went Wrong Where It Went Right But Mostly... How It Bears an Eerie Almost Uncanny Resemblance to Dave's Novel The Last Projector Do We Have a Case of "Inspiration" on Our Hands? Let the Evidence Speak for Itself... Read The Book That (maybe? probably? sort of?) Inspired This Film By C...

We Try To: Give an Honest-to-God Review of a Superhero Movie Have a Serious Conversation About a Stuffed Armadillo Major Spoilers Ahead for Both!

In This Episode: Vaguebooking Print-on-Demand Movies Negative Energy THE SILENCE Review The Banality of the Apocalypse Scare Tactics BETWEEN WORLDS Review The Mystery of Nicolas Cage The Mystery of Black Holes The Mystery of Penis Compliments at the Urinal

On Our Minds:  How to Ask Someone to Repeat Themselves Without Sounding Rude (You Can't) Addicted to Being Mad on the Internet Allegorical Storytelling US Review Jordan Peele Lovefest The Newest Metal Apologies for the Tech Gremlins in Full Effect But It's Still a Really Good Episode Anyway

Our Discussion: Boom! Bang! Pow! Superheroes CAPTAIN MARVEL Review Goth Murderer Cannibals LORDS OF CHAOS Review Tattling on Movie Talkers Alamo Drafthouse Remains Unusual Past Racism Writer Hierarchies Book Piracy

On This Episode: The Dangers of Podcasting Fully Caffeinated Dave Invents Coffee Stirs Are Witches Toxic? SUSPIRIA(s) Review A Glorious Satanic Mess Movies Looking Like Commercials BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Review Oscar-Caliber Fly Subverting Heist Films WIDOWS Review (Even Though JDO Says, "No Spoilers!") Hot Take Positing Jar Jar Binks as a Movie-Destroying Demon

Spoiler Alert: Movies on Our "Worst Of" List Have Been Nominated for Oscars.

This is our final episode of 2018! Conversations Include: Is Lars von Trier a "Try-Hard" and Does That Matter? THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Review A Serial Killer Movie to Kill All Serial Killers (Movies)? Dead-On von Trier Impressions by JDO Dave's Huge Checklist of All the Serial Killers This References How Does Behavior Relate to Art? Thanks for listening. It's been a great year.  

We Talk About: J.G. Ballard's Crazy Car Books Getting Into Fights While Taking Your Kid to See Santa Book vs. Movie vs. Hype Bullets vs. Arrows BIRD BOX Review The Perils of Disliking Things Your Friends Like

On This Episode: Social Media Scolding Milk Men Pre-Internet Jackassery Diluting The Joke DOG EAT DOG Review AFFLICTION Review FIRST REFORMED Review

Today We Talk About: Pulling Someone Out of the Driver's Seat of a Car Internet Squealers UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 4 Review CAM Review The Fakeness of Online in Films Harlan Ellison's Shatterday SEARCHING Review The Curious Case of a Certain Word

A Lot To Get To Today, Such As:   Straight-to-Netflix Content THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Review Anthology Movies Steve Alten's Meg Bill Maher/Stan Lee Controversy How White Is the Coen's Wild West? Dave's Meta-Fictional Opus The Last Projector

Are you ready for abortion, Nazis, and dad-rock revenge films? Also, why do we never see the rich get murdered on-screen? Makes ya think! Stuff Mentioned In This Episode (Sometimes With Links): T.C. Boyle's Short Story "Killing Babies" Charlene's Insane Tune "I've Never Been to Me" So Is This Bonkers Song the Polar Opposite? YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Review And a Ton of Other Movies Also Come Up,...

We thought it might be easier to list all our nonsense. Let's try it... Salty Rants In This Episode Include: Dave's Shaky Basketball Analogy How You're Not Allowed to Criticize Books Should Tweets Be Movies? (un)Surprising Criticisms of BLACKkKLANSMAN MANDY Review Cage Match Nepo Babies Dueling Chainsaws (Stories)

We're all we've got in this world, but we can't hug it out over Skype. Instead, we talk about The Endless, which is 100% a really really really okay (some might say "almost good") kinda movie.