The Shot & The Chaser

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Sorry for the delay everybody, but we are back and better than ever! On this weeks episode, the boys watch Godzilla Minus One for the first time not in a movie theater. To chase this down, Matt finally gets his way and we watch Spider-Man 2 aka peak Marvel. The fellas saw Maxxxine, Nick has his movie of the year, and Joey watched Succession AGAIN. Episode 99 is here!

Croissant! Escargot! And other French things. It’s a double whammy French cinema episode here at The Shot and The Chaser pod. For our short, we begin our long awaited journey into the filmography of Agnes Varda with Vagabond. And to chase this down, we watched the 2002 Oscar nominated sensation, Amelie! Joey finally sees I Saw the TV Glow, Aggro Dr1ft has dropped, and they really made a guy hold h...

The end of an era (3 months)! Through our teary eyes, we come to the conclusion of the Nolan binge and what a journey it has been. To wrap up our first ever director binge, we watch the mindfuck classic, Memento. To chase this down, we watch the sci fi epic, Dude, Where’s My Car! Nick is in tune with the tao, Matt praises I Saw The TV Glow, and today is Joey’s birthday! Happy birthday king! What’s...

Does magic exist? Or are we all victims of con men? On this week’s episode of illusion, we are inching closer to the end of the Nolan binge with The Prestige. To chase this down, the fellas run to Tubi to watch Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Steve Martin and Michael Caine as villains? What more could you ask for! Maybe subtitles. Nick talks basketball, Matt exposes himself to the horror of Maniac, and J...

Should you let your children be exposed to Lost in Translation at the age of 12 under the impression that Bill Murray was gonna be a laugh riot? The answer is no. Your child will grow up to be Nick and no one wants that. On this week’s episode, the boys inch one step closer to completing the Nolan filmography with his feature debut, Following! To chase this down, we have our heart strings tugged o...

I was gonna try to rewrite the Aqua Teen theme song using our names, but it got complicated and weird. Anyways, we’re back with the final Nolan Batman movie, Batman Begins! To chase this down and stay on the theme of origin stories, the fellas watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. Comedy has never recovered. The fellas discuss Furiosa, Matt shares his thoughts on In a Viole...

They found your copy of Starsky & Hutch dumped in a landfill covered in GARBAGE. On this week’s crime dramedy episode, the boys make their way through Nolan’s earlier works with Insomnia. To chase this down, Nick thought that he could find a correlation with Starsky & Hutch. Spoiler alert: not so much. Matt and Joey watch Thunderdome, Nick vouches for Tubi, and will Furiosa be good? Find o...

sdeah naloN kcab emocleW! On this week’s time entry in the Nolanverse, the boys finally give Tenet another chance after dunking on it since it’s premier in 2020. To chase this down, we watched the Tumblrcore Netflix hit, Safety Not Guaranteed, and boy does it age! Nick critiques Satantango, Joey takes Matt to see Challengers, and (spoiler alert) the correlation is time travel. Let’s get inverted!...

Nazis aren’t human beings knowwhatimean? For our final week of seeing Nolan movies at our local Regal, the boys blow out their eardrums with Dunkirk. What better way to chase this down than with our favorite goofball, Ernest P. Worrell, in Ernest in the Army. Joey gets emotional, Nick loves the triumph of the human spirit, and Ernest in the Army was filmed in South Africa? We’re just as shocked as...

Which one of your friends does a good Bane impression? Or are you that friend? On this week’s episode on the Nolan trail, Nick opens the eyes of Matt and Joey to the total trainwreck that is The Dark Knight Rises. To chase this down, the boys endure another movie about heroes trying to go the distance well past their prime with Rocky Balboa aka Rocky 6. Nick is a niche YouTube star, Matt spoils Bo...

Philip K. Dick, Dostoevsky, Alex Jones. What do all of these things have in common? Apparently, insufferable people dream about them all the time! On this week’s episode in our Nolancentric series, the boys watch Richard Linklater’s college freshmen wet dream, Waking Life. To chase this down, we tackle the normies favorite Nolan film, Inception. Joey reviews Challengers, Nick begins his Bollywood...

Imagine, if you will, a world where all you can eat is corn, and your only hope for survival was Matthew McConaughey. Or, just maybe, you’re the size of an ant and you’re being tortured by aliens while psychedelic rock just ominously played in the background for eternity. Like the sound of either or both? Then you’re gonna enjoy the next episode in our Nolantastic (wow) saga! For the shot, the boy...

Good evening, basement dwellers! Welcome to the first multi-episode series in The Shot & The Chaser podcast history: The Nolan Gauntlet (just made that up). To kick it off, we are watching The Dark Knight as our shot, and to chase it down we are breaking back into Terrence Malick’s filmography with Days of Heaven. The boys marathon the extended cuts of The Lord of the Rings, Matt discovers mor...

Quit daydreaming about listening to a myriad of better shows! You’re here and that’s all that matters. On this week’s episode, Joey gets the fellas to watch Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. To chase this down, we endured the 2013 blockbuster hit, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Nick deletes social media, Matt finishes his Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th binge, and Joey b...

Real bummer here on the show this week. We just found out that anyone can be an artist? Tragic. On this week’s episode, the boys take on their first Orson Welles movie with F For Fake. To chase this down, we watch every Pacsun shopper’s favorite documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop. We really are not the same people we were an episode ago! Nick finishes his Evangelion cut, Joey needs a Criterio...

Yes Twilight! A request in having Molly and Hannah back on the show was that the soundboard be aggressively utilized during this episode and I think we did a good job of that. On this week’s episode, Nick picked the 1990 lost Hungarian film Twilight (bless you Arbelos for the 4K restoration), and to chase this down, we all watched New Moon because we thought it would be funny, but there’s nothing...

Who is surprised? It’s the 2024 Oscar recap because our opinion on this award ceremony is top priority! The fellas cover the nominations, who predicted the most, and who did and did not deserve an Oscar! We’re looking directly into your soul Brad Booker and David Mullins the creators of War is Over. Boy, it’s good to be done with Academy Award movies, especially when you know it’s gonna be a Dune...

How is your relationship with your father? On this week’s episode, the fellas dive into a movie that seemingly needs no introduction, Bicycle Thieves! To chase this down, we (unfortunately) sat through The Pursuit of Happyness. Infuriating that it’s spelled wrong and all for one half assed bit from the first few minutes of the movie, but we’ll save our comments for the show. The boys watched the O...

Where is your honor?! Matt cooked up quite the combo this week with David Lowery’s The Green Knight and Tim Burton’s feature debut, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. There are a lot more correlations than we had expected, but you’ll have to listen to find out. Additionally, the boys saw Dune Part 2 (multiple times) and have some spoiler free thoughts about it. The Oscars are just days away, our favorite Le...

Are you ready for the invasion? Or do you think they’re already here? On this week’s episode, the boys watch Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (god bless you king). To chase down this sci fi epic, Nick finally gets the fellas to watch what he considers the greatest piece of “found footage” media of all time, Cloverfield! Joey is about to finish the Oscar list, Nick puts on a tin foil hat, and Matt doesn’...

Cinema is dead! On this weeks episode, the fellas began their journey into the filmography of late Peter Bogdanovich with The Last Picture Show. To chase this down, we then enter an entirely different (yet heartwarmingly similar) world of Last Action Hero. The Oscar watchlist is dwindling, Vladimir Putin is a villain, and will we see the end of the movie theater in our life time? Probably! The new...

Don’t skip around too much or you’ll wear out the tape! What a terrible joke, almost as bad as 3 grown men with a podcast! On this week's episode, the theme is VHS tapes and Matt chose for us to watch VHS as the shot, and Be Kind Rewind as the chaser. An anthology vs another anthology? It’s gonna be fun. The boys continue the Oscar watchlist, we discuss the spectrum of cinephila, and we should sen...

What are we gonna review today, cinema bros? Whatever we feel like reviewing, GOSH. In all seriousness, the boys are heading back into the chaotic mind of Harmony Korine for the shot this evening with Trash Humpers! To chase this down, we revisit every homeschool kids favorite movie, Napoleon Dynamite! The Oscar watch list continues, Matt steals chicken fingers, and will Joey hate Trash Humpers as...

We are all connected! We are continuing our PTA binge this month and diving deeper into the Criterion Collection with our shot and chaser this week. Our shot is PTA’s 3 hour cacophony of humanity in crisis, Magnolia. To chase this down, the boys go to hell and back trying to get their hands on Tampopo. We go over our thoughts on the 2024 Oscar nominations, Nick hates Radiohead, Matt makes us all h...