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Imagine escaping a deadly escape room only to wind up back in one again a while later. An experience very similar to the one Rick and Paul have reviewing Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions . Rick explains the Dubai Porta-Potty concept to Paul.

The power of the dog is a curious thing Make a one man weep, make another man sing, Change a heart to a little white dove More than a feeling, that's the power of the dog.

Found footage superhero movie Chronicle is the opener for season 4. Mysteries arise such as what prison eating-trays are called, the difference between telekinesis and psychokinesis, and who were the "Fabulous Four"?

We learn that birds are the most reliable for train announcements, truths about the wild west, and Paul describes his vowel movement. The British found-footage timey-wimey movie is Lola. 

Korean BBQ, shuffleboard and Paul's surprising competitive streak enrich this review at the core of which Paul and Rick discuss Oppenheimer . Recommended podcast: The Rest Is History .

What did Paul and Rick have to say when they snapped out of Danny Boyle's Trance ? Talk of what to do with a stolen painting, hypnosis and Columbian scam powder, or Devil's Breath, which seems mostly to be a legend. The Netflix series mentioned is This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist .

Covering a lot of ground this week, from Just Stop Oil protests, corporal punishment for children, alligators in sewers, American vs British toilets, energy security, the Japan of Europe, geography of the pacific north west, reform of cricket rules, classic datsuns, Veronica Mars and Sweet Valley High, MGMT, The Dandy Warhols, Baba Vanga and John Titor. "Live by the internship, die by the internsh...

This week looking at Rubber , a comedy horror from the person behind Flat Eric.

Don't bathe owls, don't feed bees sugar, and don't pair a grieving orphan with a murderous AI android girl, as they do in M3GAN. 

Sex education for an economist with Paul. Gogglebox makes people watch Fall. And Paul and Rick reflect on AI relationships while watching Her .

Rick watches as storms hit Paul's hometown on the live lightning map ., a discussion of the Duxford Air Museum , vegan ethics and other stuff distract them from horror romance road-movie Bones and All . 

Gauge blocks and postmodernism. Rick and Paul discuss the 2022 movie of the 80's novel White Noise .

Don’t look down! Paul and Rick can’t help but go back to last week’s movie before moving on to discussing embarrassing things that can happen while on a sleeper bus or in a Japanese movie theatre. No it’s not being eaten by vultures, although that is a concern in Fall . 

Rick was wrong about Paul being wrong about polo necks, while Paul explains to Rick how to fix a flat bike tyre. Alex Garland meanwhile explains something or other in Men .

A rumination on class structures as Rick and Paul discuss Triangle Of Sadness .

As anarchy in the UK ends, Rick and Paul discuss Nobody , the patriarchy, Apple Newtons (again), and the hydraulic press channel .

2012 ghost story When The Lights Went Out purports to be a true story - is it credible or just truly terrible? Paul displays an astonishing understanding of the failure of the British car industry as with Rick they grapple with their 1970's childhoods. 

Steve Jobs , great man of history or bit of a plonker? Paul makes a spirited defence of the Microsoft Surface, while Rick laments the Apple Newton.

Do cinemas have lobbies? It's a question. Paul and Rick also discuss techno-possession thriller Black Box . Also p-zombies.

Paul explains why Minstrels were invented (the chocolates not the entertainers) as he attends the cinema to watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves . The D&D game is 'jazz storytelling' we learn.

Mostly Rick here talking at length about time travel puzzler Primer . Also the ethics of AI creativity.

Trigger warning: descriptions of painful intimate medical examinations. One-boxer Rick and two-boxer Paul discover the The History Of Future Folk , while grappling with the slippery dividing-line between real and fictional music acts. Take a look at fictional act Ashley O - I'm on a roll .

Join Rick and Paul in the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell as they discuss temporal photography thriller Time Lapse . Paul explains kardassian pointing while Rick encourages everyone to watch the Bobby Fingers YouTube channel . 

Dementia horror in The Taking Of Deborah Logan , a found footage phd thesis. Rick asks Paul to compare to songs from the previous decade: Tenderoni by Kele and Wearing My Rolex by Wiley .

Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes is a Japanese sci-fi comedy about a café owner named Kato who discovers he can communicate with a version of himself from two minutes in the future through a computer screen. As the film progresses, Kato's interactions with his future self become increasingly complex and lead to some unexpected consequences. This is a low-budget, "one cut" style movie fascinates bot...