The Avid Indoorsmen

If you’ve listened to our show regularly you’ve probably heard us quote lines from Forgetting Sarah Marshall often. It’s one of our favorite comedies and since it’s celebrating its 15th Anniversary we thought we’d break it down for ya! We brought back a couple of our college buddies you’ve heard in previous Movie Game Night episodes, Jessie Pellowski and Kate Duncan! It was fun having them on a pr...

For whatever reason we missed talking about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever when it came out…to right this wrong, we brought back our Marvel expert, Reilly Zamber, to break it down for us. We have Reilly on for most of the Marvel films and he’s always a good time. This was a fun one. Enjoy! 2:37 John Wick: Chapter 47:17 Life After Beth9:07 Cunk On Earth (Netflix)10:46 Plugarooni’s 11:11 Patreon.com...

The Spike Jonze written and directed film, Her, is turning 10 years old this year. We brought back our buddy Chris Chatham to break down the film and we had a great time with him, as always. Enjoy! 2:50 Cha Cha Real Smooth (Apple TV +)4:20 Misery7:17 Marvelous Mrs Maisel Season 4 (Prime)8:37 Perry Mason (HBOMax)10:34 Plugarooni’s 11:03 Patreon.com/theavidindoorsmen12:54 Chris Chatham @chathambomb...

Making their AI debut is the musical group, Cypress Fyre, with recurring guest Chris Rupp and his bandmates Jeff Grider and Tyler Walls. We had a fun time playing some movie games with these fellas. Enjoy this Movie Game Night! 1:23 Jeff Grider @drjeffisin ; Tyler Walls @tkwalls ; Chris Rupp @christhehatguy ; @cypressfyreband www.cypressfyreband.com 5:20 Plot Tub Time Machine19:52 The Quotes Game...

The classic Tim Burton film, Beetlejuice, is celebrating it’s 35th anniversary. We brought back our good friend and the Tour Manager for Home Free, Abe Sword, to break it down with us. Always love having Abe on the pod and we had a blast discussing Beetlejuice! Enjoy! 2:33 Creed 36:25 Creed 29:11 The Old Man (HULU)10:50 Plugarooni’s 11:12 www. Patreon.com/theavidindoorsmen13:01 Abe Sword ; @abe.sw...

Paul Rudd is back as everyone’s favorite tiny superhero in the most recent Marvel film, Quantumania. We brought back our resident Marvel expert, The Hound + The Fox’s Reilly Zamber. Love hearing him talk about these Marvel films and y’all are gonna have a good time with this one. Enjoy! 2:41 Storks (Netflix)4:31 Scream 6:41 The English (Prime)8:55 The Heat (Netflix)10:18 Plugarooni’s 10:45 Patreon...

It’s that time of year…OSCAR PREDICTIONS TIME!!! We had fun giving our thoughts on who we think will win. We will be posting a ballot and want y’all to fill it out and play against us. If you’re a Patron and you beat us, you can make us watch a movie of your choosing. Enjoy watching the Oscars on Sunday! 1:48 Reds8:30 Cocaine Bear10:13 Aftersun12:50 Plugarooni’s 13:22 Patreon.com/theavidindoorsmen...

We finally get to talk about one of our favorite movies of all time: THE BIG LEBOWSKI!!! We’ve been waiting for a reason to break down this film and it just so happens to be celebrating its 25th Anniversary. We got Dan Ristrom and Benny Elledge back on the show and we laughed a bunch. Hope you enjoy listening to this one as much as we did making it. 2:32 Knock At The Cabin4:11 Devotion5:46 Hacks S...

No it’s not one of our movie game nights, we are doing an episode on the movie, Game Night! It’s having its 5th anniversary and we know one of our favorite couples enjoys it as much we do, Adam Chance and Sami Matarante! Had a blast chatting with them about this fun film and we think you’re going to enjoy it as well. Enjoy! 4:36 Four Weddings and a Funeral5:50 The Hunger Games7:21 Welcome to Wrexh...

The film that gave us Frank the Tank, the term “earmuffs”, and shone a light on the fact that Vince Vaughn is a comedic treasure, has just turned 20 years old. Old School has been a favorite of ours since it came out back in 2003. We brought back Rob’s friend from when he was in Kindergarten, Timmy St. Sauver. We hope you enjoy this one! Bring your green hat! 2:01 Doc Hollywood5:28 Vengeance7:12 J...

Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are all at the awards shows these days because of their new film, The Banshees of Inisherin. But 15 years ago they collaborated together for the first time with the very dark dramedy, In Bruges. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, we brought back our buddy and Rob’s manager, Luke Pierce, to chat about it with us. Enjoy! 3:37 Avatar: The Way of Wate...

We brought back our wonderful female friends from college with whom we’ve stayed very close. This episode was filled with trivia and many tangents fueled by what our guests were drinking. Hopefully you don’t find it too chaotic, we had a lot of fun. Enjoy! 1:22 Anne Tower ; Molly Pernu ; Krista LaPlant ; Jessie Pellowski ; Kate Duncan ; Kelsey Lundquist7:22 Plot Tub Time Machine23:31 Starting 553:...

The Rom-Com classic, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. To celebrate we brought in one of our faves, Sami Matarante, to chat about it with us. This episode was too much fun. We end with a Starting 5 game and our Patrons can hear us draft our Top 5 FavoriteMovie Characters Who Play Writers. Enjoy! 4:07 John Wick5:17 The Fablemans 8:33 Andor (Disney +)9:53 Who Killed...

Farewell 2022! Hello 2023. In our first episode of the year we discuss each of our Top 10 films of 2022. There were many good ones to choose from. This will be a good episode to get some movie recommendations or just to see if your favorites line up with ours. We end the episode with our Top 5 shows of 2022 that only our Patrons will be able to hear. Enjoy! 3:20 Patreon Shoutouts4:52 #1 Movie7:20...

We end 2022 with our Champions Edition Movie Game Night. Timmy St. Sauver was last year’s champion and we got Benny Elledge and Brandon Miller to compete against him this year. We had a bunch of fun, threw some tough questions at them and had some laughs in the process. Hoping you’ve enjoyed listening to us this year. We’re going to take a couple of weeks off to start the new year, but we’ll be ba...

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas! We decided to chat about the new Will Ferrell/Ryan Reynolds holiday musical, Spirited. It’s currently on Apple TV+ if ya wanna check it out and then listen to this episode. Hope you all have a wonderful time getting together with your families or friends. Enjoy! 2:32 The Grinch (2018)3:47 Causeway (Apple TV+)5:25 Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special (Disney +)6:35 S...

New Episode Right Ahead! We brought back Amberly Hall to have her discuss her thoughts and feelings on James Cameron’s Titanic. She was lovely and entertaining per usual. Enjoy as we talk about one of the successful films of all time! 1:22 Banshees of Inishiren3:35 The Gentlemen (HBOMax)5:06 What We Do In The Shadows (HULU)6:32 Andor (Disney+)9:27 Plugarooni’s 9:55 Patreon.com/theavidindoorsmen12:...

A Few Good Men is 30 years old and to celebrate it’s anniversary we brought in our Sorkin expert and recurring guest, Luke Pierce. Or did we? Do you want the truth? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH! This was a fun one. Enjoy! 4:30 The Banshees of Inishiren 6:47 Enola Holmes 2 (Netflix) 9:35 Road House (Netflix) 11:46 Plugarooni’s 12:18 patreon.com/theavidindoorsmen 14:53 Luke Pierce @wlukepierce 22:12 A...

This is one of those movies we’ve talked about doing since we started the podcast. Since it is so special to us, we decided to have 3 of our favorite recurring guests on, Benny Elledge, Adam “Renegade” Wilson and Taylor Hays. It’s the first time we’ve ever had 3 guests on for a movie breakdown and we had the best time. Enjoy! 2:47 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 5:32 Marcel the Shell With Shoes On...

We grew up on this Disney classic and brought back a couple guys that enjoy this movie as much as we do, Adam Rupp and Nate Stone! We had a bunch of fun on this episode and hope you have fun as well. Enjoy! 3:10 Clerks 3 6:55 She-Hulk: Attorney At Law 9:55 Plugarooni’s 10:31 Patreon.com/theavidindoorsmen 12:33 Adam Rupp @adamhfbeatbox and Nate Stone @nathanrodes ; info@ builttolastinspections.com...

Chicago won Best Picture 20 years ago and it just so happens that one of our recurring guests was in the Broadway touring production of Chicago, our good buddy Benny Elledge. We love having Benny on and we think you’re gonna enjoy this episode a bunch. Enjoy! 2:10 Black Adam 5:07 Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester (Netflix) 6:10 The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power (Prime) 8:07 Plugarooni’s 8:41 Pat...

The brilliantly adapted film of the Cormac McCarthy novel, No Country For Old Men, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. The Coen bros made a cinematic masterpiece and we were so excited to do an episode on it. We decided to just stick with a couple of old men on this one, so it’s just the two of us and it was a blast. Enjoy! 2:37 In & Of Itself (HULU) 4:27 Lyle Lyle Crocodile 7:26 The White Lotus...

Halloween is just around the corner and we decided to get super spooky and do an episode on the brand new film, Hocus Pocus 2. Our good friends Reilly and Kenz from The Hound + The Fox have released a new album called Haunted Folk just in time for the spooky season. They love Halloween and we instantly thought of them when coming up with a Halloween episode. Hocus Pocus 2 is on Disney + right now...

The Jungle Book is 55 years old and was a big part of our childhoods, so we did an episode on it. We brought in one of our faves who’s also super into Disney, Jenika Marion! She’s the best and we always love hearing her thoughts on movies. Y’all are gonna have a bunch of fun with this one! Enjoy! 3:41 This Is 40 (Netflix) 5:07 A Man Called Ove (Prime) 6:48 The Lost City 8:12 Dahmer Monster: The Je...

The movie that skyrocketed Paul Thomas Anderson and Mark Wahlberg’s film careers, Boogie Nights, is turning 25! It’s just the two of us on this one and it was a bunch of fun. We end with a Last Man Stanton and our Patrons can watch us draft our Top 5 Movies that Feature the Adult Film Industry. Enjoy! 4:10 Me Time (Netflix) 6:21 Thirteen Lives (Prime) 8:03 City Slickers (Netflix) 10:35 House of th...