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Send us Fan Mail The terms of John's house arrest allow him to join the Al and Chris in determining the worst person and best episodes of THE SOPRANOS's third season.  Then, Chris pretty much immediately breaks the Character Actor Guess Who game.

Send us Fan Mail Michael Martin returns to discuss Matt Reeves's dark(er), gritty(er), angry(er) version of Batman, before trying out the newest game sensation sweeping the nation, Character Actor Guess Who.

Send us Fan Mail Gwen Sisco returns to celebrate a hot run for the Bard of Avon on screen, and sketch out a theory for how the Shakespeare canon encompasses every possible plot a movie can take on.

Send us Fan Mail In which we look at two geek properties attempting to take an established villain from the movies and make them into a loveable antihero at the center of their own streaming series, to wildly different effect.

Send us Fan Mail Michael Martin meets the guys on the roof of Gotham PD to talk over the undeniable peak of Nolan's Batman trilogy, and maybe just the peak of superhero movies generally?

Send us Fan Mail John and Al finally return to the Forgotten Realms with Tyler Jakes to take a good long look at the good loooooong sequel to Bioware's epic adventure module.   We discuss punishing difficulty and complexity, overwhelming amounts of content, botched romances and the challenges of bringing  Dungeons & Dragons to the screen.

Send us Fan Mail John and Al discuss What Is Good In Life.

Send us Fan Mail Joon Kim returns to talk over Nolan's twisy opus of dueling obsessive stage magicians, THE PRESTIGE.  

Send us Fan Mail Al and Chris continue to break down the best episodes and worst people in THE SOPRANOS season 2.

Send us Fan Mail Joon comes in to reminisce about the unassailable original MATRIX and ambitiously disappointing sequels before getting into some very mixed reactions to RESURRECTIONS's hard turns into metacommentary and naked sentimentality.

Send us Fan Mail All is resolved as the contestants battle with the children of the corn for the planet of the apes during an ice age, and the gamemaster's utter dearth of police academy knowledge is laid bare.

Send us Fan Mail Joon Kim portals in for a rambling discussion about men, spiders, and the sorcerors that cheerfully shred the fabric of all realities to indulge their childish whims.

Send us Fan Mail Denis Villaneuve's extravaganzic DUNE crushes the scope and visuals, but could use a bit more blood in its veins.  It raises the question of whether this adaptation could be fairly imperfect but still impossible to improve upon.  Guest Alex Ricciardi, producer of a documentary about a visionary madman's earlier attempt at adapting the material,  is on hand to talk us thr...

Send us Fan Mail Things heat up as the contestants navigate pirates, golden receivers and black messiahs.

Send us Fan Mail Chris Prentice returns to RAAAAAAACHEL!!!  STAYWITHMEEEEEEEE!!!

Send us Fan Mail John and Al do an MCU check in, offering lukewarm takes on the charming performances and shaky structural decisions of SHANG CHI and cautious optimism about the opening salvo of the HAWKEYE series.

Send us Fan Mail Chris and Al debate the best episodes and worst person from the debut season of the seminal mob drama

Send us Fan Mail In which the Frame Work all-stars go to the hood, the future, jail, family reunions, space and back 2 tha hood.

Send us Fan Mail Brett Blake returns to talk about the most straightforward and most overlooked film, the dirty cop thriller INSOMNIA.

Send us Fan Mail A spoiler-full review of THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK leads the guys to feel nostalgic for the original run of THE SOPRANOS, and a lengthy consideration of the legacy of the show, its many imitators in the "peak TV" antihero mold, and whether those shows have anything to offer in the post Me-Too landscape.

Send us Fan Mail The Nolanoscopy gets into the swing of things with Nolan's breakthrough effort, the dazzling feat of reverse chronology MEMENTO.

Send us Fan Mail The Frame Work All-Stars assemble for the ultimate movie trivia challenge FRAME WORK PRESENTS: THE MOVIE SEQUEL TITLE GAME: VOL I.:  NOMENCLATURE RISING. How many DTV American Pie sequels can you name ?  Who could possibly rattle off the entire Hellraiser franchise?  Who has never seen Dirty Harry?  How long will it take Al to explain the rules he made up, or read his own spreadsh...

Send us Fan Mail Educator and artist Sybille Bruun joins the guys to talk about Stephen King's magnum opus (no, the other one) IT.  We dive right in to the essential nature of horror and America, and how the recent adaptation managed to find an entirely different batshit, offensive coda for the material the book's, which was already so batshit and offensive that they  and they knew not t...

Send us Fan Mail A new director series begins with Christopher Nolan's debut, the black-and-white noir exercise FOLLOWING.   Although the guys can't seem to focus for too long on this extended short film, so there is just as much talk about what is to come when the stodgy Brit gets to stretch his wings to make MEMENTO, THE DARK KNIGHT, INCEPTION and others.

Send us Fan Mail I mean, this guy was  a real jerk