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What would you do if you discovered your Neil Breen-esque religious studies professor was, in fact, a 14,000-year-old man who has paraded around the globe changing identities in secret while also becoming the inspiration for the one and only Jesus Christ -- you know, from Christianity? If your answer is stalk, kidnap, and attempt to kill them before your fanatical friends start a new religion, goo...

In which we find shockingly little to say about a film that sees internationally beloved martial arts superstar Jackie Chan globetrot in search of nuclear warheads while doing the following: fighting a bunch of guys with a ladder; jumping out of a helicopter into a frozen lake; snowboard; kick a dude while wearing stilts; be scared of a shark; be very high up; drive a car onto a boat; and wear a s...

In this episode we discover that Corey may well be the only living person to know absolutely nothing about SCREAM -- like, he's just fully and totally in the dark, it's borderline unbelievable. So, to hype him up for the inevitable viewing of SCREAM, we end up setting the foundation by taking a peek into the future with SCREAM 4, while also giving Liam a chance to reminisce on something he...

From the second we heard about BRAHMS: THE BOY II, we intended to see it in the theatre, but 2020 had other plans. So, to ring in the new year we're wrapping up this loose end and finally seeing what all the fuss is about... but the latent grasp of 2020 seems to have Corey in a bit of a Film Funk, so Liam takes the reins to analyze how BRAHMS compares with THE BOY and we recount our Christmas...

We don't need to tell you it's been a bad, weird year. What we do need to tell you is that there's better ways to end your year than by watching NEW YEAR'S EVE, a bland movie about a holiday we're pretty sure no one cares about this much, and so we'll spend our time reflecting, getting engaged, and planning to get Dr. Dad on the show in 2021 instead of talking about the mov...

We made a terrible mistake, and as a result, got ourselves the worst possible Christmas present this holiday season... the return of Brian Levant of THE FLINTSTONES IN VIVA ROCK VEGAS infamy. Join us as we discover our inevitable fate and spend as much time as possible stalling our yuletide woes before finally going in on, well, whatever this is. Shout out to Wallows. Art by Jade Dickinson: @jades...

James Rolfe may have scooped us on the BATMAN RETURNS is a Christmas movie discourse by a couple of days, but we're not going to let that get in the way of our love for him OR our attempt to continue building a genuine Christmas atmosphere in this weird year by galivanting around with a bunch of Tim Burton-y weirdos in a snowy art deco clown violence hellscape that is quite the thing to look at, b...

For a lot of obvious reasons, it doesn't really feel like the holidays right now, so we're trying to do our best to artificially create that atmosphere with cinema. One of us is a bit more into Christmas than the other, so they're having an easier time, but ELF: BUDDY'S MUSICAL CHRISTMAS has big buckled shoes to fill if it wants to become a holiday classic -- is the Bazinga Boy up to the task? Art...

We try not to judge things by their cover on this show, or in this case, by their memes. As it happens, there's a lot more to SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT PART 2 if you're willing to get it a chance: a simultaneously resourceful and fascinating opening narrative structure, clever interweaving of previous material, uncanny strangeness in the lead character, bizarre tonal shifts, and the makings of som...

The most important lesson we've learned over the last year and a half or so is that there's really only so much you can say about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So, we keep it brief this time, and we're still going to tell you everything there is to know about TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III, the All Effects Company, and the profound influence of James Rolfe on our psyches. Art by...

In a shocking exposé, the intro shows that some of us are frauds and not true, genuine fans of the Brady Bunch and it's various media. Will the non-stop bit parade that is THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE correct that? There's a truly unbelievable amount of goofs to cover, and only so much time. Even still, one question remains unanswered: when will people start listening to Jan? Art by Jade Dickinso...

You can't keep us away from horror for long, and while October may be over, our quest through the Big Franchises are not. Once again, why not start with the worst possibly entry point, the Michael Bay-produced reboot from the Year Of Reboots. You know it's a classic when you remember watching it on a PSP UMD. There's a lot to discuss, like the wild cold open, but mostly we're here...

Content warning: discussion of physical and emotional abuse, sexual abuse and assault, and incest throughout the episode.  This one is a doozy. Whether you've seen the show or not, there's a lot to unpack with TWIN PEAKS as a cult favourite, cultural force, and David Lynch experiment, and to make sure we're up for the task we've brought back resident TWIN PEAKS superfan Madeline to...

Oh god... the Spooktobrman... HE'S FINALLY HERE! AND HE'S... he's... he's looking for friendship? Nothing is necessarily as it seems in this Halloween Special which sees Corey, Liam, and FinalNeal trapped in peril across multiple locations, forced to deal with the Spooktoberman's sick game and rollicking improv comedy. It might feel like the walls are closing in, but never fear...

Still no Spooktoberman as Halloween looms large. Instead, we finally bring back FinalNeal to debate his bad HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION opinions in a court of law, revisit his past AMERICAN PIE-nia with their latest, dive into the truly impressive and lengthy filmography of George Wilbur, and take the ultimate gamble... is Austin Powers still funny in 2020? The answer may surprise you. Find Neal onlin...

Our Spooktober celebrations bring us back to the small screen, seemingly with no Spooktober Man in sight for now. It's another reboot of a childhood classic with ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?, reminiscing about the original show and seeing how this mini-series manages to update things... but first we're going to spend a lot of time talking about the other scary things we've gotten to thi...

This one's a roller coaster, folks. Our dear friend Laura is back and just in time, because, we'll just come out and say it, we watched one of the best things we may ever do on this show. HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II both shreds and slaps in profound ways, and we have a ball talking about it, the Halloween season, and why travelling makes experiences that much sweeter. We even fend of the...

It's that time of year again -- SPOOKTOBER IS HERE! For the next month we're going all out with the spooks, scares, haunts and horror and to start, we've got the most terrifying thing of all: an old director trying a new genre! OOOoooOOoOoooOOOoOoOO. The boys dive hard into the social commentary and thematic points George Romero is trying to get out, debate the best Halloween treat box...

Well, 2020 has been a pretty terrible year, dude. But we have one shining light in the darkness -- inexplicably, unexpectedly, miraculously -- a new BILL & TED movie is here. It's been over a decade in the making but couldn't be better suited for right now, so it was only right we bring in BILL & TED aficionado (he saw it in theatres), actor extraordinaire, and voice of our soundbo...

At the start of every show we say "an oft-forgotten installment in a franchise," and this time we meant it. With our newfound ability to plumb the depths of genuine obscurity, a finger on the monkey's paw curled. This is PARENT TRAP III, a movie related to a movie Liam loves the remake of. It is exactly what you think it is. We don't have profound insights into it, but we do have...

We are no longer the TMAO Boys, we are the Hypercube Car Kids, and we're ready to talk all things theoretical mathematics and malevolent sci-fi shapes. There's more Jerry-based content in this one episode than a single person could possibly want or need, but that's what happens when things get wild in the hypercube. We also spend a lot of time talking about stuff other than the hypercu...

This one goes out to all the Trem-Heads in the chat. We hop in a dusty rust-bucket of a truck and head on down to a Mexican oil field to learn all there is to know about scissors-paper-rock, fingerless gloves, Shasta, survivalists, bad CGI, great practical effects, and the metaphysical burden of looking like Neil Breen in 2020. Time to find out if this movie packs the same punch as 'ol Burt&#3...

This episode is the perfect distillation of the "discovering MAMMA MIA" experience. It starts with general enthusiasm for a movie that is so fun and pure of heart, and by the end you're incoherently laughing, shouting, and insistent that anyone who claims to hate it is woefully wrong. For our first MAMMA MIA journey, it was only right to bring on Ben and Kirby Mekler, resident ABBA-h...

Television? In my movie podcast? You're goddamn right. We're joined this week by Liam's longtime friend Bean to talk about a longtime love of theirs, BOY MEETS WORLD, and how its sequel series fared. In our first trip to the small screen we cover seven episodes, and remember nostalgic teenage moments, what it was like to find new media decontextualized on the internet, appropriate semi...

You might think this is a discussion of the sequel to David Cronenberg's THE FLY -- and you'd be right -- but it's also an extensive slow-motion dunking on Eric Stoltz for not getting the part of Marty McFly in the end. We aren't trying to be mean and it wasn't on purpose but BACK TO THE FUTURE comes up a lot. In between, you might notice that this is the first time Liam and Co...