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Celebrating their recently launched NEW podcast, YA, We Read It! Laura Petro and her best friend Meggie Gates sit down to drink a lot of wine and watch the movie adaptation of The Clique book – which they read in their first episode of YA, We Read It! – Will the movie do the book justice? Will Claire ever fit in with the Clique? Why is the only thing harder than getting in staying in?

It’s time for the thrilling…middle part of Candyland, the Motion Picture! Hansel, Gretel, and their new friend Plumpy are heading deeper into the Marzipan Mountains toward Licorice City and something about the hard-nosed Mr. Mint and his ominous gumdrop muscleman doesn’t taste right. Are they heading right into Lord Licorice’s clutches? Or is it another, older foe they should be worried about? We...

In this climactic Please Make This Minisode, our top two Air Buddies movies face off against each other to see which is the best in the series. Will it be Air Buddies (2006), the movie that started the franchise with vaguely European villains and sexy wolves? Or will it be Spooky Buddies (2011), the Halloween horror with terrifying old men and petrifying farts? Who will win the crown?? EVERYTHING...

In the mysterious realm known as Candyland, life can be very sweet, or very sour. The dastardly Lord Licorice has kidnapped the princess of the Candy Kingdom and now Hansel and Gretel, two heroes, have been called out of their peaceful retirement to save her. Despite the world’s sugar coating, danger and intrigue are baked into every nook and cranny and even the friendliest candy citizen could bet...

It's the penultimate showdown before we crown the winner of the Air Buddies bracket and the competition has never been more fierce. First in this round we have Santa Buddies (2009), in which Puppie Paws learns that his father will someday die, the father of dying child unsuccessfully tries to haggle, and we learn for the first time of Christianity. Will it stand up to Spooky Buddies (2011) in...

John, Annette, Billy, Ellen, Rick, and Nancy are just your average teens, enjoying their town’s annual Beach Bash. After some surfing and some dancing, the kids stroll off for some romance in a cave the locals call “Makeout Cave.” Sure it’s a nice place to neck with your sweetheart, but if you venture a little deeper you might discover the secret of Makeout Cave: a trap laden path that leads to ch...

The Bracket Buddies enter the second tier of competition with all the champions from the first tier challenging each other to see which is the best Air Buddies Movie! In the first round, we see Air Buddies (2006) the first of the franchise up against a dark horse: Super Buddies (2013). Air Buddies starts off by introducing the Buddies, a fun movie projector scene, and farting in wine. But Super Bu...

Georgia Newman’s college fund has run out and she’s running out of options. With nothing to do but make wacky videos with her best friend, Sami, and access to her uncle’s old TV studio, the two pals set out to create a their own online studio. As the new UHF gains traction online due to Sami’s magnetic online personality and a growing cadre of oddball content makers, a pair of sinister internet pr...

The Bracket Buddies are back with the end of the first round. This week, your hosts Liz and Spencer watched Spooky Buddies (2011) and Treasure Buddies (2012). In Spooky Buddies, our five heroes fight an evil warlock that rides his staff like a surfboard, scream at a normal old man, and fart on a demon dog until it dies. And in Treasure Buddies we find out why people like dogs better than cats, mee...

Please Make This: Bernard & SonsThe Bernard family has always ran the old hardware store in Ruby Pond, Connecticut, so when Simon Bernard, the youngest son, decided to follow his brother’s footsteps and move away, things grew tense between him and his parents. After finding out his parents have disappeared in a boating accident, Simon heads back home to take care of the store and soon his pare...

The Bracket Buddies are back with the next cinematic masterpieces in the Air Bud spinoff series Air Buddies! For this episode, your hosts Liz and Spencer watched Space Buddies (2009) and Santa Buddies (2009). In Space Buddies, the Buddies walk on the moon, avoid crazy cosmonauts, and talk to a ferret! And in Santa Buddies they save the Christmas Icicle, sing a sad song about Christmas miracles, an...

Dr. Cleo Foster is a shy but ambitious chemist who stumbles on a life-changing discovery: with the right mix of chemicals she can give herself the ability to control insects with lab-made pheromones. Taking her discovery to the streets of 80’s New York, she starts to dream of ways to use her control of swarms of helpful bugs to make her life better. Pushing her powers to the limit for a chance at...

If you're anything like your hosts Liz Getty and Spencer D Blair, then you've watched just about everything on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and HBO. Well, almost everything because we've discovered that Air Bud (1997) has a spinoff called Air Buddies (2006) with not one, not three, not FIVE, but SEVEN STRAIGHT TO DVD SEQUELS. The five Buddies, Air Bud's beloved children, go on increa...

It’s a warm Summer day somewhere in Maine and three teams of documentarians have gathered to capture the elaborate mating ritual of the rare and mis-named Golden Duck. The bird, which is neither entirely gold-colored nor a duck, has one shot in its lonely life to find a mate, giving the gathered camera crews one chance to capture the waterfowl in action. As an enthusiastic Youtuber, a cheesy hunti...

Dinner has just wrapped up and while other family members split off to clean up, play in the backyard, and sit and digest, Kira, a teenage film buff, listens to her eccentric Aunt Lindsey as she describes a film she acted in as a young woman. The film, High Stakes, was a barely-seen “Vampire Western” featuring time travel, too many dance scenes, and a ton of production problems. As Lindsey winds (...

In this new Minisode series Hobert pitches a movie he thinks a friend will like to that friend and then interviews them to see if they really did like it after they watch it. That’s it. That’s the minisode. In this one, Hobert talks to Erik, a former guest writer and Ren Faire enthusiast, and pitches him Knightriders (1981), George Romero’s ode to Ren Faire stunt performers. Will Erik like it? Or...

A group of life-long friends on a mission…to traverse the galaxy…to explore the unknown…to…party. In this tale of friendship, growing up, and exploration, six friends gather to celebrate their friend’s upcoming Merging Ceremony on Mars, their old stomping grounds. But Mars’ terraformed surface has long since fallen out of favor as a vacation destination, leaving it a derelict shell and honestly, k...

Expert in trash movies, Laura Petro is joined by her fellow expert in trash movies Sierra Kenyon to discuss 2016 movie that you probably haven't heard of "Be Somebody". A movie about a teen superstar desperate for normal life who ends up joining an artsy high school girl for a few days of normalcy. Joining them is their fellow quarantined friend who doesn't like trash movies, E...

It’s the end of the garish 1970’s and two black-clad college students are about to cross paths and usher in a new generation of darkness. One is a flamboyant playboy whose wit and charm have made him popular with the ladies, but no one else (besides his oddball brother), and one is a grim but elegant sorority sister whose effortless cool quickly makes her popular. As the football season comes to a...

I hope you like animated children's movies, dear listener, because Spencer and Liz Getty (of Desks and Dayjobs) watched Pixar's latest film, Onward, and they're here to tell you about it! What started out as a test to see how much D&D knowledge they could fit into a 103 minute quest turns into a tearjerker about the importance of family that scores a natural 20!Featuring "C...

With the year 1900 on the horizon, three war buddies and their spouses gather at a remote home to ring in the new century, but find the ominous signs of their past coming back to haunt them. With a bayonet-wield maniac stalking them, they have no choice but to take cover and reckon with the truth of what they did…and what they hid…Based on the suggestion of “Period Piece Romance Slasher” from Juli...

Laura Petro is back with her exciting minisode series Please Bake This where she makes recipes the fans send in. In this special quarantine edition, Laura is taking the reigns. She has selected a recipe she has made just one time before, a Crab Pasta with a Lemon Butter Sauce. Let's bake this! (And please don't forget to send us your recipes!!!)

Adventurers, treasure hunters, and do-gooders often stop in the humble tavern, The Crow’s Feet, for libations and information. If they stay long enough, they might even get to hear the three fairy sisters who entertain the tavern with song every night. Chrysanthemum, Merriweather, and Cher (pronounced “Chair,” thank you) feel caught in the endless, repeating fantasy world that is their lives, but...

Spencer and Elsie How (safely quarantined in their own homes) sit down to watch Netflix's "Spenser Confidential" starring Austin "Post" Malone and some other fine actors. Between the buddy cop antics, the serious undertone, and Post Malone showing up twice this movie has it all! Listen in for a fun review of a not-so-fun movie!

In a distant, but familiar, future, giant monsters have torn human society to shreds. The surviving population lives in the relative safety of giant, walled cities and the only means in and out is by heavily armed train…the Kaiju Express. As Captain Chance Gunner and his veteran crew prepare for another journey between the cities on the infamously monster-infested Southern Line, a mysterious docto...