The Number One Movie in America

Our first holiday edition kicks off with the most yule-logged superhero flick of all time, 1992's wacky BATMAN RETURNS! Will the film's many, many charms (most of them Catwoman related) outweigh how stunningly over-the-top Tim Burton went? What's up with ... pretty much everything relating to the Penguin? And what does Batman actually accomplish in this movie? Plus, Kahmeela endorses LAST CHRISTMA...

Trivia contest winner Bill Fisher joins us, and he's picked a bit of swashbuckling fun! THE MASK OF ZORRO brought the masked pre-Batman back to the top of the box office, and for a few brief moments, made Anthony Hopkins ... sexy? Plus an expected round of FRIENDS chat and more! This week's recommendation: Kahmeela gives a ringing endorsement for HIS HOUSE, Robin and Sean split on HAPPIEST SEASON,...

Order yourself a $5 milkshake and a Big Kahuna Burger and hop on the podcast chopper for our first entry into the Tarantino-verse! Will Hollywood-changing mega-hit PULP FICTION become our top-rated film of all time, or will Quentin find some way to sabotage himself? And, more importantly, can a foot massage just be a foot massage? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela has somehow watched all of in...

Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We ... don't, but we're totally fine with him. It's POLICE ACADEMY, the series-launching 1984 megahit! What was the deal with this thing? Is it actually funny? Is Michael Winslow a comic treasure? (Yes.) This week's recommendations: Robin is on brand with endorsements of The Color of Money (1986) and Missing (1982)! Sean is on brand with endorsements of Candyman...

Our first-ever fan vote led to a mild upset, as SNEAKERS edged out early favorite A League of Their Own to take the crown! Robin is thrilled to have her selection on the table -- but will Kahmeela and Sean rain on her Redford parade? Plus, the last(?) word on Forces of Nature! This week's recommendations: Sean likes Let Him Go; Robin endorses The Witches; and Kahmeela found another NXIUM series, S...

Brimley, Busey and brisket, it's 1993's hottest legal thriller, THE FIRM! Young and plucky Tom Cruise is in way over his head with a law firm / criminal enterprise containing a stunning array of white guy character actors; what will he do? (Succeed where he should have absolutely just mobbed up.) Plus, let's reveal what YOU chose for next week's episode! This week's recommendations: Watching both...

It's a superhero movie with Michael B. Jordan! No, not that one. No, not Fantastic Four, either. The world's only prominent found-footage superhero movie, CHRONICLE, got great reviews on release. Eight years later ... eh. But stick around, because you (yes, you) are going to pick an upcoming episode -- after Robin and Sean fight it out over the nominees! Plus, recommendations! Sean likes the 2019...

All the Jason movies in cinema history, and we somehow landed on the worst one. After The Final Chapter was very much not the final chapter, Jason returned (in a manner of speaking) with 1985's parade of bad decisions, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning! Can it become the worst-ranked movie in show history? (Of course not. We watched TWO Transformers.) Plus: a partial endorsement of Honest Thief; te...

Brooms? Hats? Nope, these witches have tennis rackets and sharp '80s fashion! It's THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, the surprisingly raunchy and weird hit that features at least one perfect scene (the one where Cher dismantles Jack Nicholson). You'll never look at cherries the same way again! That is a warning!

It's the closest thing the Conjuring Universe has to an origin story and the second highest-grossing film in the series. Did anyone actually like it? Kinda! Maybe! It's The Nun, a simple tale of a Romanian count conjuring a demon that occasionally disguises itself as a creepy nun, but also needs to possess a real nun and ... yeah, we don't quite get it, either.

You can't kill the boogeyman! No, seriously, it's been 42 years, you just can't stop Michael Myers, either on or off-screen. Special guest John Greenlee joins us to look at the first of many (many) Halloween sequels, as Michael makes his way to a curiously understaffed hospital for a later-that-night slasher!

Saturday Night Fever got a sequel ... kinda! STAYING ALIVE (the letter G is not an error, they actually added a letter to the name of the song) follows Tony to Broadway, as he fights for his chance to walk down Satan's Alley. Is it the worst sequel of all time? Is it yacht rock? Is Frank Stallone helpful? Listen and find out!

This is what it sounds like when doves cry. It's also what it sounds like when your hosts are absolutely overjoyed at the subject matter, as we get to talk Prince and the wonderful, paisley-soaked absurdity of Purple Rain for an hour. Dig if you will ... this episode. (You will.)

Can you trick a psychic person? What happened to Samantha Mumba? Why does Jeremy Irons do what he does? Is Guy Pearce good at acting? These questions and many more as we wrestle with the 2002 scifi romp THE TIME MACHINE! Also, our hearts have never been this warm after the movie draw!

Let's double down on our "Sex in the '70s" streak with the bewilderingly beloved "10"! Does this translate at all to modern audiences? Is Dudley Moore actually charming? How many beads can you attach to just one head? These questions and more -- plus, a speechless (not in a good way) review of Tenet!

You want more Jaws? Well this is kinda it! (More than half of the Jaws sequels, anyway.) Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte and a deliberately soggy Jacqueline Bissett star in THE DEEP, that other watery 70s adaptation of a Peter Benchley novel! Plus, is there finally a new Number One Movie in America?

In between the Ninja Turtles movies you remember and the Ninja Turtles movies you hate, there's TMNT, the 2007 cartoon that looks like it was drawn and then bathed in grey soup! Plus, we do some gymnastics with our own rules to devote half of the episode to Aliens, where Ripley has traded an inconvenient cat for an equally inconvenient child!

Our rollicking recording session with Addi Twigg meant plenty of box office gold was left on the cutting room floor. Here's a quick collection of deleted scenes!

Our second-ever guest host, the inimitable Addi Twigg, joins us and blesses us with a viewing of the horror classic Alien! A burst chest, a lost cat and confusingly small underpants in one of our most rollicking episodes yet!

It's our fiftieth episode, and this is what we have to watch? After last week? What did we do? Yes, in a statistically improbable development, we drew neighboring Transformers movies in back-to-back weeks. Does this one make sense? Will we get answers about the Merlin business from last week? Will familiarity with the franchise help to make this one more enjoyable? (Spoiler: No.)

We could only avoid it for so long. This week, your hosts are all out of vetoes and can't help but tangle with a Transformers movie. Not just any punchy robot venture, either; the worst-reviewed of all! See if Mark Wahlberg can drag his robot friends into the bottom spot on our all-time rankings. And stick around for the next-episode draw, it's a doozy!

It's our second encounter with a young Chris Rock (although he is way busier here than he was in Beverly Hills Cop 2). CB4 is a music industry satire lampooning the media frenzy around early-'90s gangster rap. 23 years later, is it a lost comedy gem or just kind of an oddity? Don't worry, none of us try to rap the recap!

Come Scorp Out with us as we try to figure out why every decision leading to the production of the Scorpion King happened the way it did! Dwayne Johnson's starring debut is a sword and sandal stinker, but at least there's well-groomed people in historically inaccurate cosplay! Plus raves about movies new and very old in You Can't Handle the Truth!

Duh DUN duh daDAH dun dah, duh DUN duh daDAH dun dah, DAH DUH DUN duh dun dadah DUN DUN! Except the second one. Axel Foley is back, for a movie that even the star calls mediocre! Will our hosts find more to love in Axel's second trip out west? Plus, breaking news: Hamilton is a quality piece of work!

Singing, dancing, comedy, tragedy and a guy named Lazer Wolf! Fiddler on the Roof topped the box office one to two times (probably), drawing droves to theaters for a long, sad yet immaculately presented epic on both ends of the 1970s. Which host will give Fiddler their highest score to date? Which host will really sink the average? All this and more! Tradition!