Doomsday at the Movies

Ryan & Amber watched 1979's Mad Max and discuss its strange place in the doomsday movie canon. Think of them when you look a the night sky.

Amber & Ryan check out Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors and talk musicals, the 1960 movie, and the director's cut that features the original ending.

Tonight, Amber & Ryan are filled with magic because they watched 1999's Beowulf starring Christopher Lambert and Rona Mitra. Outro Song: Life at the Outpost by The Skatt Bros. (1980)

Amber & Ryan explore a gonzo world of pigmen, mustachioed women, male models, and ridiculous violence in 2019's Bullets of Justice .

Amber & Ryan go on a journey with The Book of Eli . They talk about cinematography, subtle worldbuilding, and ponder the intent of the film's message.

Amber & Ryan are not kind to Nemesis 5: The New Model . They discuss the various things it does wrong, the couple of things it does very right, and reflect on the series as a whole.

Amber & Ryan watch Nemesis 4: Death Angel and discuss how it functions as an endpoint for the series, its tonal disparity to the previous films, and how the movie's protagonist has changed between entries.

Amber & Ryan are confused and fatigued after watching Nemesis 3: Time Lapse .

Amber & Ryan travel forward 100 years into the future in order to go back 20 years into the past and learn to throw machetes at pigs and blurry cyborgs as they watch Nemesis 2: Nebula .

Amber & Ryan wade through a tangled web of dropped plotlines in between martial arts gun battles as they watch Albert Pyun's Nemesis .

Amber & Ryan avert their eyes from 2018's  Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich. Content Warning: Contains discussion of suicide.

Amber & Ryan suffer the effects of acute nostalgia poisoning as they watch and discuss Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One .

Amber & Ryan watch 1999's Dogma and discuss theology, comedy, and Kevin Smith.

Amber & Ryan watched 2019's Steven Universe: The Movie . They discuss the difference between children's and all-ages entertainment, whether the movie is a worthy successor to the TV show, and question why this is a musical.

Amber & Ryan bring Aftermonth to a close with the double feature of the 1985 esoteric anime Angel's Egg and the 1988 mixed-media American reappropriation of the film, In the Aftermath . They discuss art films, religious overtones, whether a movie that exists purely to make money can still be artistic, and sum up what Aftermonth has taught them.

Aftermonth enters its third week as Amber & Ryan watch 1982's The Aftermath and discuss the film's progressive and regressive sexual politics, Sid Haig, and how the movie gives off divorced dad energy.

Amber & Ryan talk about 2014's bummer indie gem Aftermath  featuring Monica Keena and Edward Furlong and get derailed talking about diesel engines, EMPs, late-period Friday the 13th sequels, and pop tarts.

Aftermonth is upon us! Amber & Ryan experience 2012's zombie/other stuff(?) film Aftermath and then, exhausted of things to talk about, watch two short films also called Aftermath .

Amber & Ryan try not to panic as they make their way through the glacially paced 1981 miniseries version of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Amber & Ryan dive into the 2005's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Is the movie a good adaptation of the material? Is Sam Rockwell doing a George W. Bush impersonation? Is Trillian a Manic Pixie Dream Girl or just being played by Zooey Deschanel? All will be answered.

Unable to pass up an opportunity to discuss movies about a dystopia that we're all currently living in, Amber & Ryan discuss the Covidsploitation films Songbird and Corona Zombies .

Amber & Ryan ask all of your biggest questions about 2010's Repo Men . Does Jude Law's character have any redeeming qualities? Is this movie's subtext supposed to be this homoerotic? Did this movie rip off Repo! The Genetic Opera ?

Amber & Ryan talk rock-opera Repo! The Genetic Opera ; Bill Moseley's singing voice, why everyone involved should be frankly embarrassed to sing the presence of Sarah Brightman, and how little the movie actually has to do with organ repossession.

Amber & Ryan discuss 2018's Mortal Engines , predator cities, CGI bombast, how themes get lost in translation between books and movies, and do their best phlegmatic robot imitations.

Amber & Ryan discuss the Australian zombie movie Cargo ; its unique approach to a zombie apocalypse story, its handling of Indigenous Australian people, and how it adapts a 7 minute short film into a nearly 2 hour movie.