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Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are living with pain, sadness, and occasionally beautiful hope across many lifetimes in the 2018 film by Dan Fogelman, Life Itself. If there’s ever been a sadder character than the one Oscar Isaac plays in this film, then I don’t know who that could be. I don’t think I want to ever meet that person. Seriously, dude loses his wife, nearly l...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are getting lost in the woods but finding ourselves in this week’s adventure-filled episode about the hilarious and touching Taika Waititi film from 2016, Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Look, can we all just elect Taika Waititi to be our worldwide joy creator already? I see no reason not to at this point, to be honest. His movies have all been...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are convinced there’s someone watching us from the corner of the room. No seriously, he’s right there. We’re not crazy! He’s invisible and he’s watching us right now! It’s the 2020 film from Leigh Whannell, The Invisible Man. I’ve just got to say right now at the start of this thing: Elisabeth Moss is wonderful. She’s just an amazing actin...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are throwing one last rager and really, really, really not looking forward to tomorrow while we talk about the very heavy 2002 film from Spike Lee, 25th Hour. If you only had one single day of freedom left before being sent away to prison for seven whole years, what would you do with that time? Would you have the greatest party ever? Would...

Send us Fan Mail Let me ask you one simple question: are you going to throw away your shot at listening to a podcast episode featuring an amazing movie about a certain somebody named… Alexander Hamilton? I sure as heck hope not! We’re wrapping up our entire month of musicals with the captivating, rapturous 2020 film by Thomas Kail, Hamilton. Boy, what a doozy this one is. From his humble beginning...

Send us Fan Mail Put on your finest Christmas duds and warm up those pipes of yours because we’ve got a comedy horror… musical in store for you? Wait wait. This one is a comedy and a horror and a musical? All in one movie? You bet your butt it is! For our latest B-movie bonus episode, we watched the gruesome and hilarious John McPhail film, Anna and the Apocalypse. So it’s Christmas time in the U....

Send us Fan Mail When it’s musical month you can bet on us watching and talking about a movie that just gets our toes tapping. This week, we’ve got a musical all the way from 1935, starring the two greats, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Which one of their ten co-starring films is in store for us today? Why, it’s the Mark Sandrich film, Top Hat! If you wanted to hear us talk about our various hair...

Send us Fan Mail We’re keeping this musical train rolling this week with a movie that has thrills, chills, and a whole lot of blood spills. Is it too much blood? When it comes to Sweeney Todd, there is no such thing! That’s right, this week, Steven and Sean are talking about the gruesome Tim Burton musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Is there anything grander than jolly ol’ En...

Send us Fan Mail It’s week two of our month of musicals series and in-store, for us this time is a classic. Steven and Sean are wooing our lady loves by pretending to be dastardly pirates in this week’s episode. It’s the 1948 Gene Kelly and Judy Garland film, directed by Vincente Minnelli, The Pirate. Shiver me timbers! Wait wait, it’s not really that sort of pirate film. It may be called The Pira...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are belting out some majestic tunes as we kick off an entire month of movie musicals! Oh, what a beautiful day. We’re starting things off with the Michael Gracey film that’s all about chasing your dreams, The Greatest Showman. You may know Mr. Phineas Taylor Barnum from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from when just about...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve got a one-two punch of an episode for you. Today we’re comparing both Judge Dredd and Dredd. One movie came out in 1995; the other came out in 2012. Which one is great and which one is a bit of a stinker? Or maybe, just maybe, we’ll learn that they’re both pretty dang awesome. To cap things off, this is our monthly B-movie bonus episode, so prepare yourselves for something a...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are learning how to blast off into orbit as we watch the enlightening, thrilling Philip Kaufman film, The Right Stuff. Strap yourselves in because this one’s gonna be a doozy of an episode. Not only is it one of the longer movies we’ve ever watched for the podcast, but this one can also be a bit of a contentious one in some ways. I think t...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are loving our future and past selves—literally and simultaneously—in the trippy, thrilling Spierig Brothers film, Predestination. Get ready to have your freaking mind twisted and blown with this one because it’s got a doozy of a twist. A twist that’s crazy for two reasons: it’s just bananas and somehow it actually works! We’ll warn you no...

Send us Fan Mail We almost can’t believe this day has finally arrived, but it’s here. Let’s pop some bubbly 🥂 and start tooting those party horns 🎉 because today is the day that we tie a bow on this mini-series all about our current top five favorite films! This one has been a long time coming. While it’s only been a month and change since the first episode showed up in your podcast player, we a...

Send us Fan Mail It’s time for the amazing and fabulous fourth part of our top five favorite movies mini-series! It’s the penultimate part, which is one of the very best parts of anything. There’s the feeling of accomplishment you get from making it this far and none of the sadness from knowing that you’re listening to the end of the series. It’s all just good times! First up, we’ve got a thrillin...

Send us Fan Mail Is that a U.F.O.? Nah, it’s just our monthly B-movie bonus episode! Get ready for it, because we’ve got all our terrifying death lasers set to disintegrate this time. We’re talking about Tim Burton’s peculiar and pretty dang silly film, Mars Attacks! Let’s kick off this episode by pissing off loads of Tim Burton fans! That’s what all good podcasts about movies are supposed to do,...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve got one question for you… Are you ready for part three, a.k.a. “the middle part,” of the mini-series where we share and discuss our current top five favorite movies with you and each other? We hope you’re ready for it, because it’s here and we’re doing it! This time we’re diving headfirst into, you guessed it, another pair of our favorite movies. Coming up first is another o...

Send us Fan Mail Get your ears ready for some goodness because we’ve got part two of Our Top 5 Favorite Movies mini-series zooming its way to you right now! You felt with us through Seven Pounds, you laughed with us through The Grand Budapest Hotel, and now it’s time to feel some feelings as we launch into another pair of amazing films. This time we’re talking about some especially meaningful and...

Send us Fan Mail We’re kicking off a brand new mini-series on the podcast this week: an extensive and appreciative talk about our current most favorite movies ever. Somebody cue the celebration horns! 🎉 🎉 🎉 Over these five episodes, Steven and Sean are going to be sharing their favorite movies with each other and then they’re going to gush about those stupendous films. What better place to cele...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Skipper Steve and Sean are going to avenge our best friend in the delightful and unique Wes Anderson film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Seems like Scuba Steve is doing his very best to become our nation’s very first Pun-Maker Laureate. He’s got them firing off left and right as we get into this film. Somebody nominate him for that very prestigious...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are getting into numerology and seeing 23s everywhere while talking about the Joel Schumacher film, The Number 23. Did you know that 11 + 12 is 23? And that the nuclei of cells in human bodies have 46 chromosomes made out of 23 pairs? And that William Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April and died on the 23rd of April? And also that if...

Send us Fan Mail The day we’ve all been waiting for is finally here! This time, for our monthly B-movie bonus episode, Skipper Steve and First Mate Sean are subjecting themselves to the clearly very accurate documentation of the hunt for mankind’s greatest aquatic murder machine. That’s right, we’re talking about the Declan O’Brien masterwork, Sharktopus! If Skipper Steve’s dog is any indication,...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are doing some very morally and legally questionable things to Paul Dano in the mysterious Denis Villeneuve drama, Prisoners. If it’s not clear by now, we kinda really super duper love Denis Villeneuve’s work. We started with Enemy, hit up Sicario, and are continuing our apparent series of emotionally tense and dramatic films with Prisoner...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are rackin’ up those sweet Bitcoins in the L.A. adventure Rick Famuyiwa film, Dope. Sean is thrilled to have made Steven watch this underappreciated and phenomenal gem of a movie and even more thrilled to find out what he ended up feeling about this movie by the time the credits began rolling. It was tough going at the beginning for Steven...

Send us Fan Mail On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are doing some legally questionable things with the help of government agencies in the very tense Denis Villeneuve film, Sicario. We open up with a quick overview of just who this amazing Villeneuve director guy is and all the amazing films he’s produced in his time. Sean gets on Steven’s case for not having seen his Blade Runner movie and...