Trilogy in Theory

Jack plus any other two equals a good time. Even if the character Mr. Nicholson is playing is racist, homophobic, sexist and any other cancellable offense. The thing is though... he was offensive in 1997! But he's Jack Nicholson! Which excuses a lot. (Disclaimer: but not everything.) Since we are not Jack we have to work a little harder to out-charm this classic from James L. Brooks WITHOUT using...

Batman is more than an HBO Max premiere. It's a podcast event. And we celebrate all the Batmen in our lives. Mainly because one co-host wants the other to stop talking about Battinson (that unfortunately obsessive man has now watched the latest adventure three times) so he had to offer up these films to the podcast gods: Michael Keaton as a hero fighting for squatter's rights in PACIFIC HEIGHTS! C...

In which we travel back to a time when people liked Jeremy Renner. Though he's playing a character in Ben Affleck's THE TOWN that is only SLIGHTLY less likable than Hawkeye. Thankfully if Renner at his best is still not your cup of tea we have Blake Lively (at her worst... which is still really nice) and Rebecca Ferguson continuing her cinematic journey of being the straight arrow surrounded by sh...

In which even a dork finds many horrific acts more appealing than Reese Witherspoon. Thankfully we don't share Christian Bale's taste in romantic partners... or more importantly his love of HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS in the modern classic of a dark comedy AMERICAN PSYCHO. Along the way we debate if this avoided becoming a college dorm room poster thanks to the sensibilities of director Mary Harron an...

In which real estate thrillers aren't that thrilling. Michael Keaton upset a young Batman fan back in 1990 but a lifelong devotion to Melanie Griffith was born with that VHS rental of PACIFIC HEIGHTS. Unfortunately the same can't be said about Matthew Modine as the hosts spend a good few minutes searching for his charisma (answer: AND THE BAND PLAYS ON or when Julianna Moore is sans pants) and ans...

In which one host caters to the other who really, really loves his funny books. But also... we are pandering for listeners with the only new release around. Thankfully (?) director Matt Reeves is making the media rounds pulling from superior works such as SEVEN and ZODIAC. Alas, there is no David Fincher behind the camera but there is Colin Farrell in a lot of makeup hiding his pretty face. I don'...

A valentine episode with enough distance from that wretched holiday. Get drunk instead this week for St. Patrick's Day! Traveling to a second love comes very naturally to this podcast especially when a Kevin Smith joint is included. A future month feature a trilogy on the amount of times this great auteur has been mentioned on this podcast... but today is all about Ben Affleck picking up garbage i...

In which we applaud the use of crying and male nudity in film. While also still finding it very funny. Also some disagreement to be had in the applause a man deserves for calling off oral sex when having a crisis of conscious. These show notes for FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL are going to do gangbuster numbers with the SEO material provided by Jason Segal, Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand, Jon...

In which Liv Tyler somehow makes us miss video stores even more. One host could be forgiven for stopping with Ms. Tyler but apparently there are at least two other Jersey girls in Kevin Smith's much maligned JERSEY GIRL. We are glad that the world is a little more welcoming of a Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez romance in 2022 but remain split on the idea of fatherhood and musicals being good for The On...

In which it all comes down (or up) to height. We can assume the above was the tipping point for Oscar voters when appraising the Academy Award performance of Geena Davis in Lawrence Kasdan's THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST. However Kathleen Turner is fine. Very fine. Okay, we will eventually turn our attention to William Hurt. But not before an odd moment of stanning for Meg Tilly. Who is not in this movie...

Ae winter holidays for an episode wondering why we can not be happy. What began with a Thanksgiving feast Paul Newman's old beautiful blue eyes filled with youthful glee at his pranks in NOBODY's FOOL turned to Sam Raimi decidedly not having fun in the new year with his crime gone wrong in A SIMPLE PLAN. And then we get to one of the biggest comedy actors of all time choosing to get his heart brok...

In which we look forward to Valentine's Day by looking back at memories we no longer have. As part of the wretched film Internet community at large we ALSO tend to forget how we felt about films in our youth versus what we favor now. Thank god we have a podcast so we can work through those issues as well as assigning blame to this Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet starring classic... for POSSIBLY starti...

In which we make a New Year's Resolution to eat the rich. Billy Bob Thornton not included... as he is already playing a pretty sad dude in this Sam Raimi thriller. Bridget Fonda on the other hand as Lady Macbeth here... Okay, enough shenanigans, In 2022 we tackle the American Dream. Simple enough podcasting for the new year as we continue to pick up the scraps in our latest TRILOGY IN THEORY! Supp...

In which one host rediscovers Melanie Griffith. And a few other things to be thankful for ahead of Thanksgiving. Such as: The fact that this film is not the Tiffany Haddish comedy from a few years ago. Although we haven't seen that flick so maybe we are wrong. Wrong like the perennial loser character played by Paul Newman in THIS Nobody's Fool. Although he is Paul Newman. And we are not. But we re...

We test our commitment to sequels as we choose to visit three horror franchise hotels again... ... and it's THE DEVIL'S REJECTS getting the poor Airbnb review. This is just one of many hot takes as we sing the praises of PSYCHO 2 and DOCTOR SLEEP. For that your favorite TRILOGY IN THEORY hosts assign blame on everyone but themselves: A podcast history with not completing THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE stoppe...

In which a director's cut almost causes a divorce... ...but thankfully Mike Flanagan's DOCTOR SLEEP is so good that both your hosts remain married. The tragedy of our respective wives lives is our listeners gain as we do a poor job of maintaining our glee for Stephen King's course correction of THE SHINING cinematic universe. However... we still love Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film. And we l...

In which we support divorce for the Zombies. That's a bit unfair to Sheri Moon Zombie as she represents only one third of THE DEVIL'S REJECTS. She is also not a clown. And on this episode we encourage people to slap clowns. But do we really want to slap clowns? Tim Curry was fine. This is not fine. Stop playing Free Bird, Rob Zombie. It's beneath even clowns. Support what we do with bonus content...

In which we have fun with gaslighting. As long as that gaslighting is being done to a serial killer! It's fun we promise. Along the way we talk about what many may perceive to be a great insult to classic cinema in the first sequel to PSYCHO but we look upon with great reverence for inspiring the likes of SCREAM 3 or more importantly... JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK. The day that cinema was compl...

We let a trilogy of films ask the questions... ...and then question why the characters in said films asked them. However we do manage to challenge each other on a few points: Why has it taken one host THIS LONG to watch TOMBSTONE and does he feel like less of a man because of this absence in his life? Is John Cusack more annoying than ghosts? And can Emily Blunt ever be unattractive even or especi...

Doddering old podcast hosts try to remember the three films they watched last month. And the only reminder we get from our friends on the Internet is that we discussed Rian Johnson's STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI. Those comments were pleasant, as usual. But fear not! For the them of this month that we stole from Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON is that we can choose to remember fan feedback differently! We ca...

In which we discuss the movie that caused us to lose faith in our fellow man. Among other things. Anyway this is an episode about STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI which proved that once and for all that a small minority of obnoxiously loud Star Wars fans are neither fans of Star Wars nor movies. On the first part we can now agree with them as we are tired of the discourse surrounding this Rian Johnson ent...

In which we discuss an ample bosom. And missiles. Also Brian De Palma's SNAKE EYES. We like to think that the director would be proud of this. For Nicolas Cage with runaway chest hair, hideous fashion sense and overall just being loud in every capacity calls for an episode... ...on the ample bosom of cinema. Enjoy! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Twitter / Insta...

In which we discover that Akira Kurosawa did not in fact make a film similar to BARBERSHOP. As it's long been said by one host on this show "a Kurosawa film is the bran muffin of cinema." Yes, dear listeners... it is probably time that we retreat back to yet another Tarantino film on this feed. However while we're here we might as well try and discuss the classic bowel movement aid of a...

As usual... this episode starts with our segment called Ask Women As Answered By Two Men. And it goes horribly wrong for one co-host. While the other one giggles we get back to the online arguments that we are comfortable with: movie trilogies of our own making. This month it was a combination of Sidney Lumet's 12 ANGRY MEN, Quentin Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT and J.J. Abrams' (or one of his fel...

If two movie podcast hosts find themselves in a bunker during the end of the world... they still grumble about J.J. Abrams. ...HOWEVER, we aren't total elitist snobs. An insult to Terrence Malick is included in the first two minutes of this episode. That means it only takes two minutes to conclude that your hosts can never be pleased. Except if you've hit play! And subscribe! Rate! Review! Five st...