For The Watercooler

Matt and Caroline recap SNL 50 and Captain America: Brave New World! Plus we're joined by University of Virginia kicker Will Bettridge to talk Breaking Bad!

It's Captain America Week! Matt and Caroline get ready for another Marvel movie and recap all the big summer movie trailers from the Super Bowl! Later, we're joined by ESPN's Lauren Sisler to talk about the granddaddy of all kids' adventure movies, The Goonies!

Caroline is out this week but wife of the pod Francesca steps in to discuss Tim Robinson's forgotten comedy series Detroiters plus some recent movies like The Wild Robot and My Old Ass!

The Oscar nominations came out just a few hours too late for us last week so we give our thoughts this week on what will win and what we still need to see! Later, the Right Reverend Spencer Hall joins us discuss The Righteous Gemstones!

Matt and Caroline continue their journeys into random movies in 2025! Later, we're joined by our good friend Blake Schuster to discuss the under-seen and underrated Christopher Nolan thriller Tenet!

Matt and Caroline are back for another year of For The Watercooler! The Pals catch up on their big movie-watching projects for the year plus some big movies they watched over the break! Later, Matt and Caroline predict which 2025 movies will hit the magic $1B mark!

It's our last show of 2024 and we're going out with a bang! Matt and Caroline hand out their first ever Cuppy Awards for the best Pop Culture Things of the Year. Later, we're joined by Caroline's Best Friend Helen to discuss an all-timer Christmas classic, Home Alone!

Caroline has a bunch of hidden gems from the streaming wilderness to recommend this week and Ryan Nanni joins us to discuss the Bill Murray cult classic Scrooged!

For The Watercooler returns from Thanksgiving break with a recap of the biggest Thanksgiving in box office history! We give our thoughts on Wicked, GladIIator, and Moana 2, all of which had HUGE holiday weekends! Later, Matt's wife Francesca returns to the show to talk about her favorite Christmas movie, Meet Me In St. Louis.

We're finally staring down the holiday movie season and we are PUMPED! Later in the show, Blake Schuster joins us to talk Peaky Blinders!

This week: Matt and Caroline break down the Grammy nominations plus guest Jeremy Burgess delves into the magic of VHS and the inexplicable phenomenon that was Pauly Shore as we discuss his magnum opus, Son In Law!

We're doing our best to distract ourselves from so we're talking about our favorite comfort watches! Later, Watercooler superfan Stewart Hawk joins the show to discuss Big Fat Liar starring Paul Giamatti!

It's Halloween Week so we're watching, what else, Halloween! Caroline and Matt discuss some of the spooky movies they've been watching lately and Kyle Bandujo of Big Screen Sports joins us once again to talk about his extensive knowledge of the Michael Myers Cinematic Multiverse.

Caroline's been up late playing Mario Party. We talk about the year's best rom-com starring Andrew Garfield and Chicken Shop Date Girl. Later, we're joined by special guest Robert Clay from SEC Shorts to discuss the 1950s sci-fi monster movie Them!

AOOOOOOOO! It's a full moon and we hunger for pop culture! Caroline got to hobnob with the stars of the Hallmark Christmas Universe! Comedian and writer Andrew Farmer joins us to discuss the Universal Monsters!

Season 2 of The Rings of Power has officially come to a close and we're here to talk about it with Charlotte Brandstrom, an executive producer on the show and director of multiple episodes including the spectacular season finale! Charlotte joins Matt and Caroline to discuss how she brought the world of Middle Earth to life in the show, how she managed rotating shifts of orcs, and how she got to do...

October has arrived and that means it's SPOOKY SEASON! Matt and Caroline discuss Marvel's witchiest series yet, Agatha All Along and the trailer for the surprisingly intriguing Juror #2! Later, we're joined by Jamie and Bhavna, co-hosts of The Bloody Broads podcast, to discuss some Halloween episodes of our favorite TGIF sitcoms! You can also hear Matt and Caroline on the latest episode of The Blo...

Matt and Caroline give their picks for the actors they know can always deliver a good time, even in a bad movie. Later, LPGA Tour star Lauren Coughlin joins us to talk about her favorite walk-out music (Metallica) and her favorite TV show, The Black List!

It's been a big week in pop culture! Matt and Caroline discuss Taylor Swift's big endorsement and why it matters even if you don't care about politics, plus the big winners from this year's Emmys. Later, Elizabeth Lowder joins us for our Pop Culture Potluck segment to discuss the foundational teen drama The OC!

Your virtual office buddies at For The Watercooler are once again joined by the writers of the number one movie in the world! Screenwriters Al Gough and Miles Millar (Spider-Man 2, Wednesday) join the show to discuss their screenplay for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, how it came together, what it was like working with Tim Burton, how they juggle so many crazy characters in one film, and much more!

This week, Caroline and Matt fill the void in the theatrical movie schedule with streaming shows, including the, uh, unique stylings of Emily in Paris with Friend of the Show Alex McDaniel!

This week Caroline watched multiple scary movies in a row and she survived to tell the tale, plus Matt and Caroline show some love to Sabrina Carpenter's album Short n' Sweet and explain why it might be the album of the summer. Later (35:00) we're joined by Patrick Monahan, host of What a Time to Be Alive, to discuss the pillar of pop culture that is the bargain bin DVD! Send us an ema...

No guest this week but Matt and Caroline saw TWO new movies still in theaters right now and they settle in for in-depth discussions on both! Listen to them discuss M. Night Shyamalan's Trap or skip to 40:48 to hear them discuss Alien: Romulus. OR if you don't want either movie spoiled for you yet but still want to hear Matt's stupid jingle and a fun game, skip ahead to 1:26:13.

After a month overseas, Caroline makes her triumphant return to For The Watercooler and she and Matt have a LOT to catch up on! Later in the show, CBS Sports' Brandon Marcello joins us to talk about the nasty/funny/brilliant/trashy 80's classic RoboCop!

Deadpool and Wolverine have taken over the universe, Inside Out 2 is breaking records, and after a brief humiliation in 2023, Disney seems to be back on top of the world! Will it last? Matt is joined by fellow Disney enthusiasts John and Mark Hammontree to discuss the state of the Mouse House and their thoughts on Deadpool and Wolverine.