Movie Fighters

We're kicking off 2019 by giving one of last year's maligned blockbusters a second chance! Does the reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise deserve one? Listen and find out!

It's Christmas! So we're watching the new Netflix movie starring Kurt Russell as Santa Claus, and following it down the very surprising roads it takes us (in a red Dodge Challenger).

We're trying a second batch of Little Debbie holiday snacks as we head toward Christmas!

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and the Christmas Tree Cakes are out! So we're trying all three currently available varieties, plus Christmas Tree Brownies for good measure. Ho ho ho!

Because you demanded it, we watched the two My Little Pony: Equestria Girls specials from this year, Forgotten Friendship and Roller Coaster of Friendship. One we liked! One we didn't! One even had some answers to our numerous questions! Find out which!

It's time for spooky snacks, so we went to Starbucks and each got a Witch's Brew Frappuccino, plus we try Reese's Pumpkins, Cookies and Screeem M&M's and Halloween Crunch!

This Halloween, we're giving ourselves a treat. Chris and Matt both love the Hammer Films Dracula movies starring Christopher Lee and (sometimes) Peter Cushing, so they're watching the last of the bunch. How does it hold up against the rest? Find out!

We're getting pre-Halloweeny with this prequel to the Scooby-Doo live action movies (maybe)! How will a movie about Daphne and Velma meeting IRL in high school stack up? Listen and find out!

We're finishing up our box from the Philippines this time with the (mostly) sweet stuff!

We skipped Constantine back in 2005 since it didn't really seem like a faithful comics adaptation, and we never watched it back when we were doing movie reviews on ComicsAlliance, for whatever reason. So we're catching up with it now that it's on Netflix. We weren't wrong about how good of a comics adaptation it is, but it does have plenty of merits on its own!

At Wizard World Winston-Salem last weekend, we loaded up on all-you-can-drink soda from a booth that was offering seven different flavors, all (except the diet root beer) with pure cane sugar. Experience it with us.

Listener Patrick Faner sent us A LOT of snacks from the Philippines, and we're trying half of them on this episode! We're saving the sweet ones for later, but all the savory snacks--chips, mostly--are in our sights. A lot of them are...very familiar!

Yes, we started a new series of cartoon movies intended for young girls. In particular, this one has some striking similarities to one of the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls movies we watched, so we got out our compare-and-contrast tools to see which one had the edge. This one has Granny Goodness in it, by the way, so it's off to a strong start.

We've talked about it for a long time, so we're finally diving into 1990's Darkman, a strange, personality-filled 1990 superhero movie that shares a lot of the DNA of Tim Burton Batman but also has a whole lot of Raimi weirdness and a little bit of Dick Tracy built in, too. Not only does it have a Danny Elfman score, but it's also got Liam Neeson acting buck wild.

From Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina, we're keeping it close this time by doing some tests with regional sodas.

We went to a snack Mecca in Ohio. Listen as we describe its glory and wonder, then try some local-favorite chips, exotic jerky and assorted sodas. Plus, Matt ruins his mouth with hot sauce.

It's our second time going to a movie theater for a Movie Fighters and our second video-game-based movie starring Dwayne Rocky "The Rock" Maivia Johnson, as we watch the 2018 blockbuster Rampage for this week's show. Guess what: It's bad! Like, shockingly bad. Marvel as we are utterly baffled by the choices in this movie, including every line of dialogue and the accent Jeffrey Dean Morgan chooses...

We're wrapping up our run of Faux-nans with a 1983 barbarian movie led by a woman, and that might just rule.

A listener sent us some candy bars and chips from Ecuador, and we're psyched to try them!

Matt lost a trivia contest fair and square, so he has to try some truly gross Oreos. Or are they? See how he liked Hot & Spicy Cinnamon, Cinnamon Bun, Peeps and Red Velvet flavors of a cookie that really shouldn't be messed with.

Is it a movie? Is it a TV series? Is it an OAV? Whatever it is, we're watching the three-episode Netflix series about the Pony Girls. None of our questions are answered. (Also: Apologies for some poppin' p's. We weren't using our usual audio setup.)

The series we've lovingly dubbed No-nans is back as we watch 1982's Ator the Fighting Eagle, a Conan ripoff that was at the very least timely, if nothing else.

It's that time of year, so we're trying some tasty treats sold by the Girl Scouts!

We visited JJ's Red Hots in Charlotte, NC, for a very special meal situation! Chris, Matt and special guest Chad Bowers each tried one or more specialty hot dogs, as well as some famous sides!

Look, everybody. We needed this. To kick off 2018, we're watching a classic. That's right. The 1982 film The Beastmaster, directed by Don Coscarelli, is kicking off a series of fantasy films! It's on AmazonPrime if you want to watch along.