What Were They Thinking?

This week, the guys talk about The Circle, a super-dumb critique of social media and Big Tech and starring... Tom Hanks as the villain? WHAT!? Yes, this is a real movie. They also discuss Nathan's interesting viewing experience of the film, Mae's changing personality in every scene, the fascist "happy ending," all the kayaking scenes, Bill Paxton and much more. Next week: Small-Screen Shameful! Wh...

Wait - they're talking about the Best Picture-winning Russell Crowe film? Huh!? ... nope. This week, the guys discuss the 1992 underground boxing film Gladiator. They discuss Brian Dennehy playing a character that can beat up jacked-up fighters half his age, Tommy getting amazed by hats and babies, the hilarious dummy stunt during the climax and much more. Next week: the Internet - what's up with...

This week, the guys tackle the 1993 erotic drama/thriller Indecent Proposal starring a bunch of sexy, young actors and the maestro of masculinity himself, Robert Redford. As the discussion intensifies, they are joined by Steve and Izzy of Everything I Learned from Movies to figure out if sleeping with someone for a million dollars is as much of a conundrum as this movie theorizes to the audience....

The guys FINALLY get to the sequel GI Joe: Retaliation years after covering the first film. And much like the first adventure with the Joes, they have brought back Matthew Pettifer to help break it all down! After Matt schools the movie on all the inaccuracies, they also discuss Duke's (and many other characters) early exit from the film, Jonathan Pryce's campy performance and much more. Next week...

The summer hits conclude with a discussion of the Vietnam War film for kids... Operation Dumbo Drop. This week, Brendan is joined by guest co-host Jason MacLeod as they discuss the weird Vietnam setting in a Disney film and the sanitizing of that war for a PG audience, confusion over this and the Bill Murray elephant movie, Ray Liotta not having any trigger discipline, the "gunfights" that involve...

The summer hits keep on coming as Brendan discusses the 1991 Ethan Hawke vehicle Mystery Date with guest co-host Britany Sparrow! They talk about the confusing plot that makes zero logical sense, one of the creepiest stalkers in film history (and he's supposed to be bumbling and charming!), the inclusion of BD Wong, James Hong AND Victor Wong, crazy flower delivery guys and much more. Next week: B...

Alien Invasion Summer continues and concludes with the notorious SNL flop Coneheads. Joining the guys is Galen Howard, who helps them break down an 86-minute movie that somehow just keeps repeating the same joke over and over again. They also talk about the all-star 90s comedian cast, Michael McKean as a Trump stand-in, using your parents' sex toys and much more. Next week: Brendan has a guest co-...

Back to the usual as the guys tackle the first of two Alien Invasion Summer movies with the McDonald's/Coca-Cola-sponsored film Mac and Me. The guys dive into this blatant E.T. ripoff (right down to the same name for the older brother character) and talk about disastrous falls, the inconsistent location setting of the film, Christine Ebersole holding it all together, Coca-Cola literally saving an...

Listeners Choice Month finishes off with The Gossip Columnist. I'm sorry... what? That's right, the 1980 TV pilot starring Canadian treasure Kim Cattrall and Robert Vaughan. The guys talk all about Cattrall's character getting name-dropped every 30 seconds, the egregious and pointless celebrity cameos, the Harvey Weinstein stand-in, The Littlest Hobo in Space and much more. Next week: Back to the...

Listeners Choice Month rolls ahead with a discussion and breakdown of the 2019 version of Hellboy starring David Harbour. The guys talk about the first ten minutes of the movie providing some false hope, the buckets of exposition that get dumped CONTINUOUSLY throughout the film, the CGI that looks really bad in daylight, puke-ghost Ian McShane and much more. Plus: Brendan confuses Milla Jovovich w...

Listeners Choice Month runs into the nadir of this entire list as the guys tackle Sia's completely misbegotten, misguided, offensive and unnecessary movie Music. The guys, of course, talk about how this film is alarmingly offensive, the weird cameo appearances by Ben Schwartz and Juliette Lewis (among others), the Felix subplot that goes nowhere and adds nothing, the blatant lies in regards to hel...

This week... on a very special episode... It seems like a jokey way to start this but it's no lie! This is a very different episode of the show than usual as the guys dissect Stuart Saves His Family, a flawed movie but completely unexpected in every single way. They discuss the very real facts and helpful knowledge about mental health within the film, the refreshing way in which it doesn't go for...

Listeners Choice Month begins this week with a very special look at Arnold Schwarzenegger's dystopian hit The Running Man. After dispatching of the notions that this is anything close to resembling the source material, the guys discuss the Lite Brite-covered opera singer, Richard Dawson's fantastic performance, theories about Sven secretly being Arnold's brother in the film, Nathan name-drops Yaph...

This week, the guys are joined by Galen Howard to talk about a film intended-for-children-but-not-really buddy cop comedy Cop and a Half. They talk briefly about the evolution of mismatched buddy cop movies before moving on to discussing Burt Reynolds smoking throughout the movie to set up his save-the-cat moment, the uncomfortable air surrounding the plot considering the time of the film's releas...

The guys waited to get their old pal Josh Kotsabasakis back on so they could tackle the first ever Marvel comic book (and semi-final runnerup) together - Howard the Duck. The guys talk all about THAT OBVIOUS THING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON AND IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL SO JUST DROP IT OKAY? ....um. They also discuss Tim Robbins' lunatic performance, the wildly different reactions that...

Back to the ninja well this week as the guys break down Sam Firstenberg's schlocky classic Ninja III: The Domination. Do you like The Exorcist? Flashdance? Ninja movies? John Hughes? Well, it's all wrapped up in a neat little bow in this absolute classic from Cannon Films. They talk about the hairiest love interest of all time, carpeted gyms, ninja exorcisms, terrible police work, Sho Kosugi's rea...

It's a real mad house in here! That's right, the guys talk about the little-remembered comedy from 1990 starring John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley - Madhouse! They discuss how every character is "literally the worst," how this is the most 80s Reagan-era yuppie movie ever, Lil' Dahmer, Kirstie's penchant at going-for-broke for every laugh and much more. Oh yeah, and Dennis Miller is (barely) there...

Our very loyal listeners get to pick movies for us sometimes... and this one comes from Luc Shannon of Game It All! Because of Luc's patronage, the guys watched the Nicolas Cage comic book movie Ghost Rider. They talk about everything from the vast amounts of property damage perpetrated by our hero, the weird time period look during the film's prologue, the lame villain names, way too much backsto...

Continuing on with our tournament runner-ups is the Dan Aykroyd-directed and written Nothing But Trouble. The guys talk about Aykroyd's unfiltered hellish nightmare world and awkward marriage of comedy and horror, the Brazillionaires, the on-screen debut of Tupac Shakur, the phallic-shaped nose and much more. Next week: A bad movie legend is on fire! What We've Been Watching: The Florida Project B...

Last week was the tournament final but this week, we have a semi-finalist that didn't quite make it in The Master of Disguise. They talk about Dana Carvey making the movie without anyone on-set to say no, all of the slaps in the face, the mind-boggling weird celebrity cameos, the Turtle Club scene, the ENDLESS amount of outtakes and deleted scenes during the closing credits and much more. Next wee...

Appropriately so, the winner of a long-standing tournament is Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and because the people have spoken, that is what the guys opted to discuss on this week's episode. They talk about the movie killing off the most popular character from the first film in the opening scene, the worst CGI for a wide release maybe ever, the characters that are discussed as already having been ki...

A very special time(s) of the year - there's five Thursdays this month and therefore, it's time for a Small-Screen Shameful... and boy howdy, is this one ever something. The guys are joined by Galen Howard to break down the 1994/1996 film Vibrations. It's the timeless tale of a man losing his hands when his car is attacked via pneumatic drill by some hicks, which causes him to become a homeless al...

The March to Wrestlemania concludes with a discussion of an event taking place in the worst year of WCW's existence - Superbrawl 2000. The guys are once again joined by Ryan Gilbert and all three are aghast at how hardly any matches exceed 5 minutes but they also discuss Gene Simmons having his own wrestler in a contractually-obligated "main event," James Brown's surprise appearance, Tank Abbott n...

The March to Wrestlemania begins this week with the guys being joined by series regular Ryan Gilbert and talking all about the famed WWE Studios production 12 Rounds starring John Cena. They discuss the movie never really quite figuring out what constitutes a "round," Cena barely reacting to most of the deaths in the movie, the weird optics with Cena's partner and the FBI jerk, Miles' wavering Iri...

This week, the guys welcome back Britany Sparrow to help discuss the inane "satirical" hijinx of 1994's The Chase starring Charlie Sheen. How accurate is this baseline satire of the media? Why does Henry Rollins play an aggro police officer? Does the score undercut the tone of the film at least in the opinion of 2/3 of this episode? Should Butterfinger have gotten its own acting credit? And what i...