The Picture Show with Austin and Phil Rood

Patterns are broken, up is down, left is right, monsters have families and hell is for deformed children who drowned at camp... Phil watches Jason Goes To Hell

Phil takes a luxury cruise from his summer camp to Times Square and watches Friday the 13th Part VIII

Phil wishes his psychic powers had told him to avoid this movie.

Aus and Phil return to their Maine hometown to finish what they started a long time ago: Season 7 of their podcast. To do this, they watched 2019's It: Chapter Two and discuss how it works as a continuation of Chapter One, queerbaiting, high concept cosmic horror, and a million side-track conversations. Austin's Shout Out:⁠⁠⁠  ⁠⁠ Doctor Who vs Women ⁠ Phil's Shout Out: ⁠⁠⁠ The Alan Moo...

Phil returns to the camp where it all began so he can talk about the 6th movie in the franchise and hopefully his nightmares can finally stop...

Phil discusses Friday the 13th (Part V): A New Beginning

Phil continues commenting on the Friday the 13th movies and their ever-evolving naming convention with Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Phil heads to the lake to get high and have sex, but ends up in a nightmare scenario instead. Listen to this mini-episode as Phil shares his thoughts about Friday the 13th Part III

Austin and Phil go into the sewers of their city to try to find out what happened to their missing podcast episode. While down there, they ran across a copy of 2017's It Chapter One and decided to give it a watch. The guys talk about psychotic bullies (again), the amazing cast of kid actors, the cycles of storytelling in this film, and how the film links to our other Stephen King picks for thi...

Austin here, and after watching TWD: Dead City and now TWD: Daryl Dixon I had a lot of thoughts on the state of this franchise as a whole and where it's headed. Got on the mic by myself to talk to you guys about it. Let me know what you think about The Walking Dead and it's spinoffs at our email austinandphil@gmail.com

This week, the guys take a break from their brutal playground fist fights against psychotic bullies to watch the horror movie The Black Phone. The guys talk about period pieces and nostalgia, non- Shining characters who shine, Ethan Hawke, Tom Savini, and the hope that mid-budget movies like this give us. Austin's Shout Out:⁠  ⁠ The Hottest and Coldest Places In the Universe Phil's Shout O...

Looking to reset after last week's descent into madness with The Shining Phil and Austin (and Christy) sat down this week to watch the 2019 sequel Doctor Sleep . Aus and Phil discuss the amazing casting of this movie, the themes of redemption and surviving trauma, breaking the cycle, and Rose the Hat; while Christy kicks off the episode with her thoughts on why Doctor Sleep is the superior mov...

In search of a quiet place to record podcasts, Austin and Phil have taken jobs as winter caretakers at a haunted ski lodge where they also have access to some kick ass DVDs, so they decided to watch Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece The Shining . The guys discuss abuse, ghost time travel, non-erotic sexuality, moon landing conspiracies, and Scatman Crothers... also, Phil gets insanely perso...

This week, Aus and Phil walk into war with nothing but their podcast mic to protect them, but they take a break to watch Mel Gibson's 2016 return to the director's chair: Hacksaw Ridge . The guys talk about glorifying war in film, the myth of Christian persecution in America, and what would have made this movie better. Austin's Shout Out:⁠ ⁠ Bill Hader: True Crime Phil's Shout Out:...

This week the guys broke out of podcast jail and decided to lay low in scenic Detroit. While waiting for their last big score, they watched the 1998 film Out of Sight. Phil fanboys over Elmore Leonard and spiritual metaphors while Austin tries to figure out the mindset of a career criminal and place himself in the 1990s to imagine a time when time when this comedy was en vogue. Also, our producer...

This week Aus and Phil are telling terrible bossess to f@$k right off while swiping other people's credit cards and tasing the crap out of craigslist buyers... also, they watched Emily the Criminal. The guys take hard stances against typecasting Aubrey Plaza, predatory corporate internships, art schools, and using guns to commit crimes. Also, Phil can't stop talking about The Illusionist....

This week Aus and Phil travel to faraway lands in hopes of reviving their podcast careers with the help of their young optimistic (and kind of naive) new producer. They also watched the film The Illusionist ... no, not that one. They watched the 2010 animated French film and discussed its themes of odd but sweet relationship dynamics, changing trends in entertainment, and Jacques Tati who wrote th...

This week Austin and Phil go fishing on a boat that, in all honesty, could probably stand to be a little bigger... they also watch Steven Spielberg's 1975 feature debut Jaws . The guys talk about their rich histories with this classic, the look and vibe of 70s movies, PTSD, and differences from the novel. Austin's Shout Out:⁠ ⁠ 8eyes ⁠ Phil's Shout Out: ⁠ The Oldies Mingle with Rishi B...

Austin and Phil uncover the evils of the fur industry and puppy mills by watching the Disney animated classic One Hundred and One Dalmations . They talk about eras of Disney movies, pioneering art techniques, classic design, and the Simpsons... because we love the Simpsons. Austin's Shout Out:⁠  Jaime French-Water Tok Phil's Shout Out:  Paul Reubens's Preposterous Grace EMAIL THE SHOW:...

The guys kick off their 7th season of the show with a milestone episode, Number 100! To celebrate, they go back to their roots to re-examine their very first movie 1999's Fight Club. They talk about angry incels, media literacy, satire, Jared Leto, and how their opinions may have shifted on this and other movies they've covered on the show. Plus, Phil puts Austin on the spot with a quick g...

Aus and Phil are on summer vacation between seasons, but they jumped on the mic to recognize their 3rd Anniversary as a podcast! They discuss some of the highlights of what they've been watching this summer, culminating with a discussion of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", it's influence on the animation landscape, legacy characters reimagined, terrible fans, comic books, a...

David Luzader and Phil Rood take a look at the final episodes of HBO's Barry , discussing the fate of the characters, the ending, what it all meant, and the series as a whole.

David Luzader and Phil Rood return to talk about one of their favorite shows, HBO's dark comedy Barry. They're discussing the first half of the final season on this episode.

This week, Phil and Austin look back on the individual movies and double features they watched over Season 6. They talk about their favorites, what didn't hit home with them as much, what kept resonating with them after they'd watched them, and some themes and topics that unintentionally ran through most of the season. EMAIL THE SHOW:   ⁠ austinandphil@gmail.com ⁠ Austin on Letterboxd-  ⁠...

This week the Austin and Phil have no show notes due to the writers' strike (on which we are fully in support of the WGA) Austin's Shout Out:⁠ The Rise and Fall of Replika-Sarah Z Phil's Shout Out: ⁠ Livestream For the Cure VII EMAIL THE SHOW:   ⁠ austinandphil@gmail.com ⁠ Austin on Letterboxd-  ⁠ austinnrood ⁠ Phil on Letterboxd-  ⁠ philrood ⁠