The Shot & The Chaser

It’s an A24 double feature here on the pod! This week, we tackle every cinema bro's favorite masterpiece, The Lighthouse, and we chase it down with the wildly underrated C’mon C’mon. We tackle the wins and snubs of the Golden Globes, our fears about the Oscars, and Joey wants to have a kid after watching C’mon C’mon? We’re off to a wild start this year, but we’re glad to have you here!

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode will discuss mass shootings displayed in the movie “Vox Lux”. Okay now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, hello listeners! In this week’s episode, we wanted to discuss pop stars, and what better way to do this than with two wildly different movies that correlate more than we had expected? For the shot, we watched Neon’s Vox Lux, a film produced by Sia (do with tha...

Happy New Year everyone! We are kicking off the new year with a doozie. First off, it’s Nick’s birthday so be sure to wish him a happy birthday (or else). Secondly, we have quite an interesting combo for you this week. We begin with Titane, a movie we all believed was simply about a woman having sex with cars, and then to chase this down we endured Michael Bay’s 2007 blow-shit-up fest, Transformer...

Happy New Year cinephiles! Can’t believe 2022 is already over and boy were there some god-tier and god-awful movies that came out this year! To commemorate this year in cinema, the boys are narrowing down their top 5 best and top 5 worst movies of 2022! We go over soul-crushing celebrity deaths, James Cameron’s thoughts on indigenous people, and our favorite creepypastas! 2023 is gonna be wild and...

Happy Holidays everybody! On our first ever Christmas special, we thought it would be fun to get Hannah and Molly back on the pod, talk about our favorite Christmas specials, and do a lil gift exchange! That’s right, we are cucking you this year for Christmas. We cover your classics such as The Charlie Brown Christmas Special and the Year Without a Santa Claus. Then we go into some early 2000’s no...

It’s a Christmas monster episode! On this week’s (delayed) episode, the boys dive into the 2015 hidden gem, Krampus, and then try to chase it down with Ron Howard’s 123 million dollar middle finger to Dr. Seuss’s immortal classic, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Nick receives hate mail for his hatred of this classic, Matt thinks someone is named Stevie in the movie Krampus, and Joey had faith in t...

Jingle bells, Hallmark smells, David Steiman only ever directed one movie? Hello again avid listeners! To kick off our month of holiday cheer, we are starting with the underrated masterpiece, Santa Slay, and to chase it down, we watched Nick’s mom’s Hallmark classic, The Christmas Cottage! The boys discuss their favorite Christmas songs and recast The Christmas Cottage if Paul Thomas Anderson was...

Happy cyber week, avid listeners! We hope you had a great and unproblematic Thanksgiving with your conservative relatives! Before we jump into our Christmas month, we watched two oddly profound movies for this week’s episode. To kick things off, we watched Terrence Malick’s neverending cycle, The Tree of Life. To chase down this Criterion piece, the boys endured The Lorax with surprisingly mixed r...

Gobble Gobble motherfucker and Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We are so very thankful to have listeners like you who tolerate our random tangents and wildly hot takes. On our first ever Thanksgiving episode, we endure the $3500 catastrophe, Thankskilling, and we chase this down with a John Hughes classic, Planes Trains and Automobiles! We also discovered that Matt and Joey have never listened to the...

Are you afraid of dying? You should be! Welcome back to the Shot and the Chaser! This week, the boys watched Gaspar Noe’s newest movie, Vortex, a movie that we watched in total silence. Then to chase it down, we watched the movie that put all Christian couples in a chokehold that faithful summer in 2004, The Notebook. Nicolas Sparks is a prick, Gaspar is king, and the boys discuss how Regal Cinema...

We told a story a few weeks ago about when Nick told his wife that they were gonna watch Detective Pikachu but ended up showing her (and a group of people) Beyond the Black Rainbow. Traumatized, Molly requested that we rewatch Beyond the Black Rainbow for our shot and Detective Pikachu for the chaser! We could not think of a better challenge to find a correlation between these two wildly different...

It’s November so Merry Christmas! On this week’s episode, the boys dive into the world of sentient automobiles because why not? For the shot, we have Leos Carax’s Holy Motors, a truly confusing anomaly that will make any arthouse film student tearfully whisper “cinema” to themselves. To chase this down, we ran to Disney+ to watch the 2005 vehicle (hehe) Herbie Fully Loaded! Which movie did we like...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY! To wrap up Spooktober, we are covering an immaculate movie and a movie that may actually be the worst movie we’ve seen this year! For our shot, we are covering John Carpenter’s masterpiece, Halloween. And then we thought, what better way to conclude our horror series than with Halloween Ends… right? WRONG. Nick has a nervous breakdown, Matt drives everyone’s anxiety up a...

Welcome to week 3 of spooky season! In this frightening installment, we do a deep dive into Andrzej Żuławski’s uncut 1981 masterpiece, Possession. We then chase it down with William Friedkin’s 1973 classic, The Exorcist! Joey was/is unsure how we viewed The Exorcist as the chaser, but it is what it is. We also discuss David O. Russell’s problematic directing as well as ponder if we actually will s...

Hello again die-hard listeners! To continue our month of terror and gore, we are on the topic of killer mothers. Our shot is Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother, a black and white film that gave Nick night terrors, and to chase this down, we watched the very first Friday the 13th movie. Some of us even watched the director’s cut in hopes of a deeper viewing experience. Also, fuck Kevin Bacon.

Happy spooky month you ghouls! To kick off our month of horror, we are on the topic of vampires, and what better way to start this than with the best vampire movie of all time and the worst vampire movie of all time! It’s up to you to decide which is which. We kick things off with Robert Bierman’s Vampire’s Kiss, a movie about a man (the king Nic Cage) who believes he is turning into a vampire. We...

We also watch anime on this show! The boys are back again to discuss another trigger-heavy movie, Perfect Blue. Perfect Blue follows an ex-pop star entering the world of acting while being stalked by a mysterious man and being haunted by her former self. To chase this down, we watched one of the best anime “musicals” ever to grace the big screen, Belle! As a reminder, Belle received a 14-minute st...

We are back to our regularly scheduled programming this week! Sorry to disappoint everyone who has loved hearing our voices for 2 hours every Wednesday, but this week we have quite the doozy for you guys. Getting into our Disney nostalgia feels, we embarked on a journey with the directorial debut AND only movie from Randy Moore, Escape from Tomorrow! This horror film is a legend in the world of gu...

Goooooooooood morning all 18 of you! On this fine Wednesday, we have a listener request (shout out to Willow and Chad) for a movie called Sleep. Sleep is the directorial debut for Michael Venus and a strong one at that. To chase it down, we took a trip down memory lane, put on our eyeliner and fingerless gloves, and watched Coraline! The boys also learn that Coraline was not a Tim Burton movie and...

I promise we’re not gonna keep putting out two episodes a week, but we will this week! On our latest episode, the boys convinced Joey it was time to watch the Snyder Cut. Joey was hesitant due to his experience with the Whedon cut and really who could blame him? While it’s obvious that the Snyder Cut is the better movie, we discuss just how much of a better movie it is and how the WB intentionally...

SURPRISE! We’re dropping a second episode today where we discuss Gaspar Noe’s wildly controversial Irreversible and Noah Baumbach’s recent addition to the Criterion College, Marriage Story! We also discuss how Bullet Train is actually a well-executed love letter to Taoism!

On this week’s episode, we get real horny with Dasha Nekrasova’s conspiratorial right-wing erotica, The Scary of Sixty-First and we chase it down with the Russo Brother’s dog shit waste of $200 million, The Gray Man! We also cover the night terrors we have been giving Joey as well as the plight of pedophile directors!

On this week's episode, the boys dive into Harmony Korine's grotesque masterpiece, Gummo and Jim Jarmusch's love letter to New Jersey poet's, Paterson. While both movies seem to cover wildly different topics, we discuss the commentary on their emptiness on opposite ends of the spectrum! Also Nick meets Brendan Fraser! Don't miss it! 

Welcome back! On our latest episodes, the boys watched Alejandro Jodorowsky's controversial acid trip "The Holy Mountain" and controversial jerk-off Louis CK's "Pootie Tang", both telling the story of a Christ figure guiding the world to an ultimate goal. Spirituality, animal abuse, jive, and the multiple personalities of Chris Rock, don't miss this deep dive into The Holy Mountain and Pootie Tang...

Welcome to The Shot & The Chaser Podcast! This is a show where Nick, Matt, and Joey watch one thoroughly disturbing movie and follow it up with a more audience friendly movie and then attempt to find any connections that these movies have. For our pilot, we figured we'd start strong with Salo: 120 Days of Sodom AND  the Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers movie!