The Just Enough Trope Podcast

Get ready to SLAM EVIL this week as we explore the weird comic book films of the '90s! Batman (1989) was a smash, and it birthed a slew of clunky attempts to bring cheaply-obtained comic licenses to the screen! Rich, white guys appropriating foreign culture to fight and/or help Howard Hughes! What could go wrong? Plus, we've got a roundup of nerd news, we ask if cyborgs are haunted robots, Crips H...

We're back to do it all over again as we review Alita: Battle Angel and Umbrella Academy! Plus, a look at the comics that inspired the film and Netflix show. And we've got the news of the nerd and a look at a few Netflix shows that don't suck! Whoopsiediddle! Treat yourself to Battle Angel Alita! https://amzn.to/2SZfxDI https://amzn.to/2TVbuFE https://amzn.to/2GLC7sW Play Bingos Lanthimos along wi...

Get ready to live like a movie star and party like a rock star with us as we make the two Fyre Festival documentaries, Fyre Fraud and Fire: TPTNH, against each other! Plus, we've got another news blast from the world of the nerd. #blessed The real joke here would be to promise all that and then the show is just a recording of my neighbor's dog barking... Celebrate guilty pleasure movies with Kal o...

We're back to cruise the news this week as we cover stories of Harley Quinn and the DC army of movies, Locke and Key, CBS All Access, Quatermass, and RENT! Then, we swap stories as we try and untangle the 1950 Akira Kurosawa classic, Rashomon! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Get Rashomon on beautiful Blu-ray! https://amzn.to/2D9INhh Celebrate guilty pleasure movies with Kal on Craft Disservices! http://www.craftd...

We tuck into a little baklava this week as we spin our wheels bringing you the latest news from the world of nerdy entertainment, including stories about a Nic Cage/Lovecraft movie, the Gambit film, Resident Evil on TV, the 2019 Oscar nominations, we look askance at Jeff Goldblum, and we try to figure out if Viggo Mortensen is a good actor or not! Then, we're back in the Comic Book Clubhouse as we...

Satisfy your sweet tooth for shocking violence this week and save some room for Cheddar Goblin as we review three films that represent the best of horror in 2018: Suspiria, A Quiet Place, and Mandy! Plus, we've got takes on Diesel vs. Momoa, the JRR Tolkien biopic, we cast the Highlander reboot, and we run Mandy through the Bingos Lanthimos machine! Get on your cenobikes and RIDE! Head to Amazon t...

Catch the buzz this week as we flit through a swarm of nerd news! Plus, we are ushered into the mysteries of Lodge 49, and we go swingin' with Daredevil: Yellow! You can't smell a diamond! Pick up Daredevil: Yellow on Amazon and help support the show! https://amzn.to/2SToTgW Boldly go with Capt. Ka1iban on Enterprising Individuals! http://www.enterprisingindividuals.com Celebrate guilty pleasure m...

Lace up your wooden shoes as we go on a whirlwindmill tour of the American films of Dutch master, Paul Verhoeven! Plus, we've got the news of the nerd, including Batwoman, Rashomon, and a joyless Spawn reboot! (natch) #AboutABoy2TheAboutening You've heard us talk . . . now see the films! Robocop https://amzn.to/2Rxf6zU Total Recall https://amzn.to/2CUZ0rT Basic Instinct https://amzn.to/2LUWZ1A Sta...

As 2018 sputters across the finish line, join us as we ring in the new year with a look back at the (mostly) best of the old! Take your precious dick jokes! Celebrate guilty pleasure movies with Kal on Craft Disservices! http://www.craftdisservices.com Auld lang our syne on Facebook and Twitter! http://www.facebook.com/justenoughtrope http://www.twitter.com/justenoughtrope Follow our live stream a...

Dive in with us as we explore the new DC superhero epic, Aquaman! Plus, we're bringing a sleigh full of nerd news, a look at the new Hellboy trailer, and a review of the pilot of SYFY's Deadly Class! Everything is always Dragon Ball! Celebrate guilty pleasure movies with Kal on Craft Disservices! http://www.craftdisservices.com Swim with us on Facebook and Twitter! http://www.facebook.com/justenou...

Dip your toes into a new universe with us this week as we review the Sony animated feature, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse! Plus, we go stuntin' on DC casting news, the Devil's Advocate Fedora, and the Kanye/Kojima Konnection! #KathrynHahnsolofilm Celebrate guilty pleasure movies with Kal on Craft Disservices! http://www.craftdisservices.com Swing with us on Facebook and Twitter! http://www.fac...

It's finally here! Listen to our review and analysis of The Favourite, the latest film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos! Then, stick around for reviews of the Captain Marvel, Avengers 4, and Umbrella Academy trailers! You are my sister but I am your queen! Play Bingos Lanthimos along with us at home with your very own card! https://www.facebook.com/JustEnoughTrope/photos/a.790817924333973/193...

We're back to remind you of those shows that were canceled too soon and the shows we'd like to see replace them! Plus, we club ourselves over the head with Ben Affleck's Daredevil! Get me Senor Spielbergo's unionized American equivalent! Play Bingos Lanthimos along with us at home with your very own card! https://www.facebook.com/JustEnoughTrope/photos/a.790817924333973/1936970646385356/?type=3&th...

Every show's a memorial show these days and this one is for famed director Nicolas Roeg as we celebrate his work by talking about two of his best films, Performance and Don't Look Now! Plus, we run Performance through the Bingos Lanthimos machine to test its Yorgosity! This episode is so good I could vomit! Play Bingos Lanthimos along with us at home with your very own card! https://www.facebook.c...

The Generalissimo's gone but our smiles stay on as we celebrate the life and lesser-known characters of Stan "The Man" Lee! Excelsior! Play Bingos Lanthimos along with us at home with your very own card! https://www.facebook.com/JustEnoughTrope/photos/a.790817924333973/1936970646385356/?type=3&theater Celebrate guilty pleasure movies with Kal on Craft Disservices! http://www.craftdisservices.com M...

Special guest neighbor's vacuum cleaner joins us this week for a look at the Alicia Silverstone masterpiece, The Killing of a Sacred Deer! Get out your Bingos Lanthimos cards because this one flips the script! Sick T.J. Eckleburg reference, bro! Play Bingos Lanthimos along with us at home with your very own card! https://www.facebook.com/JustEnoughTrope/photos/a.790817924333973/1936970646385356/?t...

Our bodies are destroyed but our brains are OK this week as we take a look at the strangest superheroes of them all, the Doom Patrol! Plus, we're cleaning out the nerd news closets with stories of Waterships Down, "Hey, brother . . . can you spare a lens flare?", and a Prince documentary from the director of The Inhumans . . . er, The Eternals . . . uh, The New Gods! We want more "sci" with our "f...

We get thrown for a loup this week as we look for the silver lining in a pack of werewolf films! We get started with the 1941 classic The Wolf Man, then we chase down 1981's The Howling, and we wrap it all up with the 1987 cult classic, The Monster Squad! Plus, our "Yorgos, I Hardly Lanthimos" series continues with a look at the *real* movie about people becoming animals, The Lobster! What's on yo...

Don't go steaking our umms this week because the SPOOOOKYNESS continues as we unearth a sepulcher's worth of classic vampire films! We start all the way at the beginning with the silent chiller Nosferatu, then sail to England for Tod Browning's Dracula, then take the train to Budapest for Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dragcooleyeagh, then drive right off a cliff into Shadow of the Vampire!...

The SPOOOOKYNESS starts in earnest this week as we begin a series of episodes looking at the classic monsters of early Hollywood and the influence they've had on modern horror! First up, it's the legend of Frankenstein and his misunderstood monster. We look at the novel that started it all, the 1931 classic film directed by James Whale, and the 1998 film Gods and Monsters which looks at the phenom...

Feel the rush with us this week as we kickfilp over the most XXTREME film that could have come straight from the '90s: Venom! We've got a spoiler-filled review of Sony's latest superhero monsterpiece that surely would have starred Jerry O'Connell if it hadn't fallen through that time warp. Plus, we've got updates from this year's New York City Comic-Con, a review of the new Doctor Who, and we go b...

Pull a hat out of a rabbit with us this week as we perform a good scrubbin' of the news bin, with stories about Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn's Birds of Prey film, new movie release dates, a review of the new Transformers and X-Men: Dark Phoenix trailers, Mika negs Macbeth, Kal defends Leto's Joker, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is writing the Veronica Mars revival? Plus, we take the boom tube to New Gen...

We polish up our late night monologues this week as we respond to the controversy over Batman's . . . uh, his . . . look, it's his dick, ok? Yes, we review the new Netflix series Maniac. Yes, we talk about the new issue of Fantastic Four. But, it all comes back to the Batawang. Later, we switch comic companies and genders as we talk about the Captain Marvel trailer, we try to finally put this whol...

Stand in Superman's grave with us this week as we try to figure out what makes the Justice League the Justice League and how the film Justice League could have gone so wrong! Plus, we examine our strange power over the news, we recoil in horror over whatever Henry Cavill thinks he's doing, we look for Fan Bingbing, contemplate the McAvoy Redemption, and we tell Brie Larson to smile more! (ironical...

Inna gadda your vita with us this week as we explore films and TV shows about serial killers and the tortured men who hunt them! Like . . . well, Manhunter, I guess. And Se7en, True Detective, and Mindhunter. Do Manhunter and Mindhunter ever get each other's mail? Plus, we've got news of the doom of Denis Villeneuve's Dune, we posit a Henry Cavill "Peggy Sue" scenario, we tour the Hall of Cinemati...