The Shot & The Chaser

WARNING: Playing our drinking game will have you blacked out by the end of the episode so please drink responsibly. On this week’s episode, the boys are joined by Roberto to discuss 2 movies about fighting AND the triumph of the human spirit (drink). For our shot, the boys became men with the 1976 Academy Award winner, Rocky. To chase this down, the men slightly returned to boy status with Jack Bl...

PTA is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and it’s not even a question. This is not our first PTA movie for the show and most definitely will not be the last, but for tonight’s shot the boys watched There Will Be Blood! You would think that Matt had seen this movie before, however, a misquote may convince you otherwise! To chase this down, Joey introduces the fellas to Kelly Reichert with...

We’re starting the new year with a crisis (Letterboxd is down). Forgive us, we’re not ourselves without our life support system (Letterboxd. Which is down). On the first episode of 2024, the fellas expose Joey to another David Lynch masterpiece, Blue Velvet. To chase this down, Nick pledges his life for Bob Clark’s most despised movie on Letterboxd (down), Rhinestone! The boys adjust their top 5 o...

2023 has finally come to an end! Thank you for being with us through such a chaotic year for this planet. Contrary to popular belief, making a list of worst movies that came out is actually based and these lists should be celebrated. Joe Russo, it is okay to shit on a bad movie! With this firm stance in mind, join us as the fellas go over their honorable and dishonorable mentions of 2023 and their...

Happy Holidays everybody! It’s our favorite time of the year! We get to spend time with our loved ones, dunk on horrible Christmas movies, eat our body weight in desserts, but most importantly we get to do our annual gift exchange! That’s the reason for the season, right? Before we give out our presents this year, The pod boys and their wives ranked the Grinch movies from best to worst and blows w...

Lock your doors and make sure you don’t leave your menacing children behind this Christmas! On our second week of the 2023 holiday season, we are diving into Bob Clark’s slasher classic, Black Christmas! To chase this down, we visit a movie we all saw on TV at some point in time, Home Alone! Matt shares his thoughts on Godzilla Minus One, Nick downloads a cursed movie, Joey doesn’t want his parent...

Happy Holidays you goons! To kick off the Christmas season, we decided to jump head first into arguably one of the worst movies ever to curse Tubi, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas! To chase down this genuine poison, we returned to our lovable king of slapstick, Ernest P. Worrell in Ernest Saves Christmas! Nick’s nana is racist, Matt is still watching horror movies, Joey catches a W at the Regal My...

Happy belated Turkey day everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that your boomer relatives didn’t spark any weird fights about things they’re wildly misinformed about! On this year’s annual Thanksgiving special, the fellas are covering Eli Roth’s 16 years in the making commercial success, Thanksgiving. To chase this down, we went with the classic Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Spec...

Beep Boop Cling Clang, iron enthusiasts! On this week’s episode, the boys get into the world of robotics and cinema while also discovering one of Disney’s (many) bizarre secrets! For our shot, we watched Shinya Tsukamoto’s cult classic, Tetsuo: The Iron Man. To chase this down, we truly suffered through David Kellogg’s final film, Inspector Gadget. There are too many Toy Story movies, Garfield loo...

Hello Lars Listeners! On this week’s episode, the fellas question how much they trust their wives after watching David Fincher’s Gone Girl. To chase down the fear that kept us awake at night, we let Craig Gillespie break our hearts with Lars and the Real Girl. The boys review Divinity, Nick gives a history lesson in Digimon, Joey is done with Taika Waititi, and Matt just doesn’t like when a movie...

Good evening Evangelion fans. On this week’s episode, we are once again joined by Julius for our Godzilla episode that was recorded on time but released a way after Godzilla day. (insert 1998 Godzilla roar here). For the king of monsters big day, we sat down and watched Hideaki Anno’s Shin Godzilla. To chase this down, we watched Inishiro Honda’s 1954 kaiju masterpiece, Godzilla. Matt watches The...

Halloween is over, Christmas is officially here! What better way to kick off the holiday season than by watching a Rob Zombie movie that has nothing to do with joy at all? On this week’s episode, Clay Graham guest stars, and the fellas endure Zombie’s cult classic, House of 1000 Corpses. To chase this down, Joey gets another Jarmusch win with Dead Man! Nick reveals his most watched movie with Movi...

Happy Halloween cinephiles, and thanks for tuning into the 2nd annual Shot & Chaser Halloween Special! As some of you may remember, last year Nick gifted the fellas a copy of the 4-hour cut of Halloween for Christmas. It has laid dormant on all of our movie shelves all year and we finally sat down, turned off the lights, and watched the longest Halloween movie to date! We reviewed our take on...

Like zoinks dudes! We’re watching a low-budget sequel and a masterpiece tonight! On this week’s episode, the boys show Joey the Wes Craven vehicle, Scream. To chase this down, we rifled through the discount bin at Walmart and grabbed Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed! The fellas discuss the last time they cried (all 3 were relatively recent), Joey spends the day at the movies, Nick reaches the next...

Don’t touch that dial, we are live! Not really, but it works for the bit. On this week’s episode, we watched the controversial BBC Halloween TV movie, Ghostwatch. and to chase this down we watched Chris LaMartina’s homage to a beloved time of television, WNUF Halloween Special. Nick and Matt review Saw X, Joey’s scared of ghosts, and apparently the new Exorcist movie is cheeks? It’s awful, but tha...

SOUNDBOARD! We bit the bullet and spent the Star Wars jar on a soundboard and now our show has gotten exponentially more insufferable! On this week’s migraine infused episode, the boys watched George A Romero's 1968 immortal classic Night of the Living Dead. To chase this down, we watched Edgar Wright’s zombie romcom, Shaun of the Dead. Nick and Matt trudge further into the Saw universe, The boys...

Aloha Rob Schneider haters! On this week’s episode, we are joined by Hannah to discuss her favorite Tumblr movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! To chase this down, we suffered through 50 First Dates, a movie that aged like milk. Everyone has religious trauma, Matt falls asleep during Saw 2, Joey goes to bat for Paul Dano once more, Nick goes over religious sleepovers, and Hannah ages all...

DO NOT WATCH BAD BIOLOGY WE ARE VERY SORRY THAT WE ARE EVEN DISCUSSING THIS MOVIE BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT WATCH BAD BIOLOGY. Okay, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, welcome back listeners! After a brief delay, we are back on schedule and continuing to shit on movies that deserve it. For this week’s shot, we had Frank Henenlotter’s 2008 abomination, Bad Biology. To chase down this s...

Not quite our longest episode yet, but it got close. Sorry for the delay everyone! On this week's episode, the boys invited two guests to discuss two deeply spiritual and philosophical films about men’s truest desires. For our shot, we have Hideaki Anno’s controversial feature film, The End of Evangelion. To chase this down, we watched a group of men unknowingly give themselves radiation poisoning...

Enjoy the festivities while you can! As summer is coming to a close, it’s time to say goodbye to either your seasonal fling or your toxic relationship, and what better way to celebrate this rebirth than with Ari Aster’s masterpiece, Midsommar! Not dating a sociopath? No problem. To chase this down we watched Richard Linklater’s foundational love story, Before Sunrise. Nick has an ego death, Joey i...

Welcome to hell, High Roller! That’s right gang, we are heading to the worst place on this godforsaken planet, Las Vegas! Nic Cage takes us on a journey to Rock Bottom in Leaving Las Vegas, and to chase this down we visit Vegas if it was a fun place where the only bad thing was high speed car chases with animated Warner Brothers characters, Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Nick vehemently hates Las V...

Cowabunga young sapian! On this week’s episode, the boys move in shadows for our Samurai/Ninja episode by watching Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. To chase this down, Nick dawns his rose colored glasses and makes the boys watch the 1990 immortal classic, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Matt HATES The Meg 2, Joey sees his first Polanski film, and the fellas each wish list Hagakure on th...

We are so “beary” excited for this week’s episode! It’s Joey’s turn to pick the movies and this week he had us watch Alejandro González Iñárritu’s critically acclaimed film, The Revenant! To chase this down, Joey finally made us sit down and watch Paddington, but not Paddington 2. Joey also saw the new TMNT, Matt saw Talk to Me, and Nick finally finishes the Evangelion rebuild movies! Don’t hit th...

Back to our regularly scheduled programming! In this week's dog oriented episode, the boys suffer through the film adaptation of Stephen King’s Cujo, and Nick faces his childhood trauma with Snoopy Come Home. The fellas discuss movie theater snacks, Matt defends Burger King’s chicken nuggets, Joey gets flustered with Synecdoche, New York, and Nick loves his dogs! Check out the new episode now!

BREAKING NEWS! Sorry to lie to all of you, but the Cujo/Snoopy Come Home episode will come out next week. After our Barbenheimer weekend, we had to drop everything and do a very special episode of the pod dedicated to 2023’s biggest cinematic event. Joey spoils Neon Genesis Evangelion, Matt hates modern comedy, Nick learns that he is part of the problem, but in the end the boys realize that they a...