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Start Trek is back! We're joined by guest Zach Grooten as we cover the least liked movie with the original cast. We're also covering the TOS episode "The Squire of Gothos," so join us to learn what being a god means to Kirk and the Enterprise crew.

SUMMER of SCREAMMAKES comes to an end with the end of man. Philip Kaufman’s remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS brought the fear of alienation in your own society to the modern day, and it feels as vibrant as ever. We’re joined by Morgan Runice. ever lovable scamp.

This week, our Summer of Screamakes is covering a remake of a movie we've previously covered, with the guest who covered it with us! We're doing our first Herzog movie with 1979's Nosferatu the Vampyre, and we're joined by Rick Kelley. You can find Rick's writing at ludditerobot.com

For SCREAMMAKES MONTH we are joined by Salim Garami! You can check him out at: https://moviemotorbreath.wordpress.com/

Screammakes enters our second month, with the 1988 remake of The Blob and Moran brothers sandwich. We're joined by Peter's brother, Charlie, to learn about high school ska music, and how much goo one human penis contains.

SUMMER OF SCREAMAKE continues to haunt us with Gore Verbinski's hugely influential remake of Ringu, THE RING. If you like what we do here and want to help us keep the lights on, please hit us up on Patreon!

It's Week 3 of Screamakes, and we're wrapping up our mini-Romero remake trilogy with 2010's The Crazies. This is a pretty solid remake that too many people slept on when it was released, but also feels "ripped" out of today's headlines with a town dealing with a sudden viral outbreak that makes people act a little funky. We're joined by returning guest Lydia Lomeli, as we decide how hot Timothy Ol...

Bill is back (again?) to talk about the action-horror romp, and maybe the only uncontroversially popular Zach Snyder film. You can find us on Patreon! Money please!

For July and August, we're doing a double month of ScreaMakes, and kicking it off with a trilogy of Romero remakes, starting with 1990s' Night of the Living Dead. Join Peter, guest-host Marcus Jones, and guest Ethan Warren, as they dig into whether this deserves a spot in the zombie canon. You can find Ethan's wonderful writing at Bright Wall, Dark Room: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/author/e...

SIEGE MONTH ends with VFW by Joe Begos! We're joined by the lovely Soheil Rezayazdi. Since we recorded this episode, some news has come out about the line producer and Fred Williamson that is worth thinking about. Here is an article laying out some of the issues involved that we didn't get a chance to get into - because it wasn't public knowledge at the time of recording. https://news.avclub.com/f...

The only thing worse than being under siege, is being under siege by Jean Luc Picard (who's a Nazi now). It's Week 3 of Siege month, and we're covering Green Room with brother-in-law of the show, Bill!

John Carpenter's first of a handful of masterpieces, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, had an outsized effect on a generation of filmmakers, and helped inspire this month. We also cover Jean-Francois Richet's remake from 2005 starring Ethan Hawke. We're joined by Ryan! He's back, babay!

It's June, and that means we're kicking off Siege Month* (*not featuring Under Siege, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, or The Siege). We'e starting with Rio Bravo, a movie so good John Carpenter cites it as a influence on Assault on Precinct 13 , which makes no sense, because these movies are nothing alike. But we forgive John, because he made a good movie, and this is a good move, and everyone is h...

Andrew Lloyd Weber. Neither the best Andrew (Kaufman), nor the best Lloyd (Christopher), nor the best Weber (grill), yet is still allowed to make music. Truly a bountiful world we have here, don't we? This week, as a special MUSICAL MAY special episode, we decided to do Cats, maybe 6 months too late. But when is too late to be traumatized? Tune in. Find us on Patreon. Save the world.

We're wrapping up Fancy High School Month with the strongest entry of the mini-genre, 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You! We're joined by returning guest, Liam Haber, as we all recall falling in love with this movie for the first time, and then all over again.

FANCY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls for another week of classes (?) with Easy A, the adaptation of Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne starring Emma Stone.

Don't You Dare returns! The We Love to watch spinoff podcast where hosts Aaron and Peter "dare" each other into experiencing art that the other one hasn't. This episode, Aaron dares Peter to listen to Third Eye Blind's eponymous 1997 debut. It was a huge album for 14 year-old Aaron, and it's a 90s novelty band for Peter. How's it gonna be when it goes down? (i.e. they listen and discuss it).

On second week of Fancy High School Month, we blow the lid off the movie She's All That! It's a move that most people don't think of as having been written by M. Night Shymalan....well, in this very specific instance, "most people" are idiots! It was! And we can prove it! By describing his tweets claiming he wrote it! We also discuss Not Another Teen Movie because how can you not?

Our new month, FANCY HIGH SCHOOL launches with Amy Heckerling's CLUELESS, a satire of high school vapidity - or a sweet portrait of high school life among the rich and privileged?

We wrap up Did We Doc, Up? Month with a laugh-a-minute, thrill ride, going from one slide, to another, to ANOTHER, with An Inconvenient Truth! We're joined by the Koski Brothers (one part Adam, one part Dustin), for half the episode due to a recording issue, but that's fine, because who wants to talk about the end of the world for this long?

"Did We Doc Up?" month continues with an appearance by THE PRODUCER (Carrie N.) as we discuss two early 2000s activist docs from back when everyone liked Michael Moore. How did they age? How much did our complicated feelings on Moore contribute to those reactions? Does the film still have value today? All that and MOORE in our Moorefest episode. Tune in next week for our final episode in the month...

In our second week of Did We Doc Up?, I can assure you that yes, we doc'd up. Because we'e covering Bill Maher's Religulous.... We get a chance to talk about our shame in being Bill Maher fans at one point in our lives, the way 2000-era comedians "hurt" conservatives on the back of marginalized people, the show Real Time, and how much this move and Bill Maher fucking sucks. So join us, as Peter an...

For our DID WE DOC UP? month we decided to re-release JESUS CAMP from our Summer Camp series a few years ago. Don't worry, you'll still get 4 episodes (2 of which are long ones!) this month, alongside RELIGULOUS, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE/FAHRENHEIT 9/11, and INCONVENIENT TRUTH. We promise it's more fun than it sounds. You can find us on Patreon!

Morgan Spurlock's SUPER SIZE ME helped Americans re-think how their food is treating them - but what did it do to get there? We're joined by Luddite Robot himself Rick Kelley! Rick has a piece coming to The Spool later this month. Read his other Spool pieces below: https://thespool.net/author/rick-kelley/ As well, here's his fantastic site: https://ludditerobot.com/

It's our 200th Episode! And because we said back on our first episode, Flash Gordon, that if we ever got to 200 episodes, we would do Flesh Gordon, we stupidly decided to stick to it! Hope you're excited to learn about our history with porn, and porn ads, and how much we don't like this movie. Putting up with us, is Luana Saitta, who you should check out on her podcast, Monster Island Commentaries...