Episodes

Saturday Jan 26, 2019
22 - Best and Worst of 2018
Saturday Jan 26, 2019
Saturday Jan 26, 2019
Spoiler Alert:
Movies on Our "Worst Of" List Have Been Nominated for Oscars.
Monday Dec 31, 2018
21 - The House That Jack Built
Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
This is our final episode of 2018!
Conversations Include:
Is Lars von Trier a "Try-Hard" and Does That Matter?
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Review
A Serial Killer Movie to Kill All Serial Killers (Movies)?
Dead-On von Trier Impressions by JDO
Dave's Huge Checklist of All the Serial Killers This References
How Does Behavior Relate to Art?
Thanks for listening. It's been a great year.
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
20 - Bird Box
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
We Talk About:
J.G. Ballard's Crazy Car Books
Getting Into Fights While Taking Your Kid to See Santa
Book vs. Movie vs. Hype
Bullets vs. Arrows
BIRD BOX Review
The Perils of Disliking Things Your Friends Like
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
19 - First Reformed
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
Sunday Dec 16, 2018
On This Episode:
Social Media Scolding
Milk Men
Pre-Internet Jackassery
Diluting The Joke
DOG EAT DOG Review
AFFLICTION Review
FIRST REFORMED Review
Sunday Dec 02, 2018
18 - Cam / Searching
Sunday Dec 02, 2018
Sunday Dec 02, 2018
Today We Talk About:
Pulling Someone Out of the Driver's Seat of a Car
Internet Squealers
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 4 Review
CAM Review
The Fakeness of Online in Films
Harlan Ellison's Shatterday
SEARCHING Review
The Curious Case of a Certain Word
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
17 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Review
Anthology Movies
Steve Alten's Meg
Bill Maher/Stan Lee Controversy
How White Is the Coen's Wild West?
Dave's Meta-Fictional Opus The Last Projector
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
16 - You Were Never Really Here
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Are you ready for abortion, Nazis, and dad-rock revenge films? Also, why do we never see the rich get murdered on-screen? Makes ya think!
Stuff Mentioned In This Episode (Sometimes With Links):
T.C. Boyle's Short Story "Killing Babies"
Charlene's Insane Tune "I've Never Been to Me"
So Is This Bonkers Song the Polar Opposite?
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Review
And a Ton of Other Movies Also Come Up, Like...
Leon: The Professional
Road House
We Need to Talk About Kevin
American History X
American Pimp
Oldboy
I Saw The Devil
John Wick
Monday Oct 01, 2018
15 - Mandy
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
We thought it might be easier to list all our nonsense. Let's try it...
Salty Rants In This Episode Include:
Dave's Shaky Basketball Analogy
How You're Not Allowed to Criticize Books
Should Tweets Be Movies?
(un)Surprising Criticisms of BLACKkKLANSMAN
MANDY Review
Cage Match
Nepo Babies
Dueling Chainsaws (Stories)
Friday Sep 07, 2018
14 - The Friendless
Friday Sep 07, 2018
Friday Sep 07, 2018
We're all we've got in this world, but we can't hug it out over Skype. Instead, we talk about The Endless, which is 100% a really really really okay (some might say "almost good") kinda movie.
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
13 - Beyond the Black Rainbow
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
On this one, we dive deep into the plasma pool with Beyond the Black Rainbow, unpacking the plot, symbolism, use of tropes in non-aesthetic ways (tools as tools!), and then we talk about brain-melting psychedelics and, ultimately, how Kill Bill 2 might just hold the key to the type of storytelling we want in our movies.

