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SPOILER ALERT Jason and Rachel break down Mike Flanagan’s Carrie, the new modern reimagining of Stephen King’s classic horror story. Somehow we do eight hours of Carrie in under an hour. We get into how the series updates Carrie White for 2026, the role of social media and smartphones in modern bullying, why the expanded runtime makes the characters much more complicated, and how Summer’s performa...

How can the funniest people we know NOT love Widow’s Bay?! We need answers. Our Patreon-only Thumb War episode is here, and we’re laying down our thumbs to shoot the shit: Dune 3 hype vs. Avengers: Doomsday dread The movies and TV shows we can’t wait for—and the ones we’re already complaining about ️ Our entirely reasonable Matthew Rhys obsession Nathan Fielder, Elizabeth Holmes and celebrity felo...

️ Full spoilers throughout. Jason and Rachel review Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother , Bassam Tariq’s wildly original action drama starring Mahershala Ali as a devout Muslim hitman struggling to protect his family after the death of his wife. Yes, this is an action movie involving assassins, swords, gangsters and gunfights. It is also very seriously about breast milk . We get into Mahershala...

️ MASSIVE SPOILERS throughout. Jason and Rachel review Digger , Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s bizarre, expensive and extremely polarizing new film starring Tom Cruise , Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman and a ridiculously stacked cast. And this is one you REALLY don’t want spoiled before seeing. We get into the movie’s massive twist, Tom Cruise disappearing under layers of makeup, the strange fake...

SPOILER ALERT Jason and Rachel review Primetime , Lance Oppenheim’s deeply uncomfortable fictionalized take on the world of To Catch a Predator , starring Robert Pattinson and Merritt Weaver. Rachel says she’d rather watch Saw than sit through this again — and somehow still gives the movie a thumbs up. We get into Robert Pattinson’s Chris Hansen-inspired character, the strange morality of predator...

SPOILER ALERT Jason and Rachel are joined by Hollywood Insider/Master of Macabre DanDanThePieMan to review Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil — a video game movie about what happens when a completely normal guy with no survival skills suddenly finds himself trapped inside a survival-horror nightmare. Jason talks about discovering the original Resident Evil on PlayStation in the ’90s and staying up until...

SPOILER ALERT Jason and Rachel review The Uprising , Paul Greengrass’ Andrew Garfield historical rebellion movie that somehow becomes a Robin Hood origin story — a twist the marketing apparently decided to spoil before anyone got there. We get into the rough opening weekend, the confusing Robin Hood pivot, the lack of bows and arrows, Andrew Garfield as the Plowman, Jamie Bell as John Ball, the hi...

Jason and Rachel review Hope , the bonkers Korean monster movie set near the DMZ that somehow combines horror, comedy, action, alien empathy, anime energy, and a whole lot of running. We get into why the movie is very long but rarely boring, the incredible production design, the cowardly/incompetent police chief who somehow becomes hilarious, the rookie cop stealing the show, the gross-but-funny a...

Full Patreon-only chaos is up now. Subscribe to our Patreon account for the full episode!   http://bit.ly/44Mo8xU Rachel is back from Nova Scotia, and she brought stories, thrift-store intel, small-town pop-in trauma, and a new insult Jason immediately regrets hearing. This week’s Patreon episode has throat burps, lake-house dreams, naked-door-answering strategies, Wharf Rat Rally leather-daddy di...

SPOILER ALERT Jason and Rachel review Onslaught , a bloody throwback super-soldier B-movie that somehow includes weird kinks, terrible old-man makeup, exploding jack-o’-lanterns, bad barbecue, poison gas, practical squibs, and Dan Stevens looking like Cousin Matthew got trapped in a student film. Jason wanted to like it. Rachel maybe kinda did. Mostly, it made us want to watch The Guest and Overlo...

Jason, Rachel, and Jesh continue their Star Wars journey with The Last Jedi , aka the movie that split the fandom in half like Snoke in a red throne room. In our spoiler-filled review, we dig into why Jesh saw the movie five times in theaters, why Jason still loves Rian Johnson’s take, and why Rachel is having a harder time with Luke, Poe, Snoke, Rose, and one deeply upsetting green-milk moment. W...

Jason and Rachel review The Dink on Apple TV, a pickleball comedy that somehow seems to hate pickleball. We get into why the movie isn’t very funny, why the pickleball makes no sense, why the cast deserved better, how Andy Roddick and John McEnroe are wasted, why the “dink off” ending is painful, and how a Hallmark movie called Pickleball Christmas somehow did this premise better. Plus: spoon mics...

New Patreon Only episode is up! Subscribe to our Patreon account for the full episode!  http://bit.ly/44Mo8xU The August Patreon episode was recorded in a Bowmanville backyard with spoon mics, train noise, a loon, and Daddy Doyle possibly hearing way too much. Jason and Rachel talk road trip chaos, Buc-ee’s, Texas Roadhouse, haunted car diagnostics, stale farts, Lawrence’s thousand-mile t-shirt jo...

SPOILER ALERT! Rhaenyra wanted to be anointed queen, so naturally she killed the High Sept and may have started a full religious war. Great plan. No notes. In our spoiler-filled recap of House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 8 , the season finale, we break down Rhaenyra’s mad-queen spiral, Daemon calming her down with High Valyrian prophecy therapy, Baela finally calling her out, Alyn stepping up,...

SPOILER ALERT Is Spider-Man: Brand New Day the best movie of the year? Jason is not joking. Mostly. This week on Thumb War , Jason, Rachel, and special guest Jesh break down Spider-Man: Brand New Day , Tom Holland’s return as Peter Parker, the loneliness after the memory wipe, the Punisher/Spider-Man buddy-comedy energy, Jean Grey’s shocking arrival, Bruce Banner, MJ and Ned, organic webbing, seco...

SPOILER ALERT Sunfire is back, Aegon is giving speeches, Rhaenyra is begging a sleeping psychic for validation, and Aemond’s mommy issues have somehow gotten worse. This week on Thumb War , we’re breaking down House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 7: The Dragon in Winter , aka the episode Rachel would like to rename Let Sleeping Dragons Lie . We get into Rhaenyra spiraling, Helaena’s gray mare drea...

New Patreon episode is up, and this one goes fully off the rails. Subscribe to our Patreon account for the full episode!  http://bit.ly/44Mo8xU It’s the July Patreon episode of Thumb War , and Jason and Rachel are laying down their thumbs for movie recommendations, Nolan rankings, celebrity crushes, and general nonsense. This month, we talk The Invite , Motor City , Sheep Detectives , Hazel’s love...

SPOILER ALERT Criston Cole wanted a blaze-of-glory death song. Instead, he got arrows and immediate irrelevance. This week on Thumb War , we’re breaking down House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 6: Faceless Man or The Butcher’s Ball? , aka the episode Rachel correctly renames The Hubris and the Humbling . We get into the Butcher’s Ball, Black Aly shutting Criston Cole up, Alicent and Helaena being...

SPOILER ALERT Rhaenyra has the throne, but King’s Landing has rats, unpaid guards, murdered gold cloaks, graffiti problems, rogue dragons, and one very tense small council. This week on Thumb War , we’re breaking down House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 5: Unbowed and Unbent , aka the episode where nobody relents, nobody listens, and Daemon being right is somehow the most annoying development of...

SPOILER ALERT Christopher Nolan made The Odyssey , and somehow the loudest movie of the year is about a guy who just wants to go home. This week on Thumb War , we’re joined by Dan to break down Nolan’s massive Greek mythology epic: Matt Damon as Odysseus, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Robert Pattinson, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, Samantha Morton, Elliot Page, Charlize Thero...

SPOILER WARNING Aegon has gone from the Iron Throne to the latrine. This week on Thumb War , we’re breaking down House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 4 , where Ormond Hightower takes over Tumbleton from a bathtub, sniffs his perfume ball, flashes the room, and apparently starts setting up a holy war against the Targaryens. Meanwhile, Aegon and Larys stumble upon Sunfire — who may or may not be dea...

We’re continuing our journey through the Star Wars sequel trilogy with Episode VII: The Force Awakens , aka the movie that made everyone feel like Star Wars was finally back… at least for a little while. In this spoiler-filled Force Awakens rewatch , we revisit the magic of seeing a brand-new Star Wars movie in theaters, the brilliance of that first trailer, the reveal of Kylo Ren’s extremely cool...

House of the Dragon S3E3 Review: SPOILER ALERT Rhaenyra has King’s Landing… but she might also be losing her mind. This week on Thumb War , we break down House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 3 , aka what Rachel calls Rhaenyra’s Unraveling . The Red Keep is haunted, the music is screaming, everyone is starving, Corlys is furious, Daemon wants to burn the world down, and Rhaenyra decides the best wa...

New Patreon episode is up, and this one goes fully off the rails. Subscribe to our Patreon account for the full episode!  http://bit.ly/44Mo8xU We start with Jason’s new life as a five-milligram gummy guy, somehow turn rehab into a vacation fantasy, revisit Rachel’s hospital bed-rest era, and then get into a bunch of quick recommendations: Toy Story 5 , Sisu: Road to Revenge , Widow’s Bay , The De...

SPOILER WARNING The new Supergirl movie had everything we wanted on paper: Milly Alcock as a more broken, bitter Kara Zor-El, a fresh contrast to Superman’s optimism, Krypto the Superdog, Jason Momoa as Lobo, and a chance to keep the new DC Universe momentum going after James Gunn’s Superman . Unfortunately… we did not love this one. In this spoiler-heavy Supergirl movie review , we break down why...