It's the end of our Women Best Director Nominees season. Back to the 'ancient' days of 2008 when a woman (finally) won this dang award. We'll be off the rest of February; see you in March for Cage Match!...

We're back into our Women Best Director Nominee season and picking up with Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. Sometimes art really emotionally resonates and gets appropriately lauded by the industry, eh?

We did it, we survived 2025! Let's look back at the films (& other media) we watched this past year and discuss our general thoughts on em. In a new(?) record, Dan has an existential crisis fueled by his own decisions within just 25 minutes...

Our season of women Best Director nominees continues with Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird. Let's go on a trip back to post-9/11 high school and all the drama, anxiety, and oddity it contained.Hope you have a lovely holiday and get a ...

Our tour through the women nominated for Best Director continues and this time we've got:Legal drama! Interpersonal Conflict! A Gorgeously Subjective Camera! Murder!? Take a trip with us to...

It's time for a new season! Our theme this time: Women Nominated for Best Director.Up first, 2024's The Substance – a perfect Thanksgiving movie. Jump on in for grotesque body horror as we unpack the unrealistic beauty standar...

It's sequel season so we've found, perhaps, the most sequel movie we could. A sequel to Alien(s) and Predator? Incredible stuff. Is it also a de-make of Prometheus? Maybe!Happy 6 year anniversary to our silly little podcast...

We've got a great podcast, and you can get your head all the way up it. It's Heat time! Let's acquaint ourselves with Michael Mann's heist classic featuring every dad-cinema guy you could ever dream o...

Our twice-missed classics season (which is quickly shaping up to be the unintentional 'hot' season) continues with a certified Spike Lee joint.Summer may have just ended in real life, but let's roll it back to the hottest days of the yea...

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The season continues as we crack open The Best Movie Ever Made™️Does it live up to the title? Is the knowledge of the "twist" put a damper on the experience? Themes: what good are they? These topics, and more!

It's time for a new season! We're back to our roots with classic films Kevin really should have seen by now... that somehow Dan also hasn't seen.Up first: 12 Angry Men; perhaps the ultimate bottle episode. 

The grand conclusion of Giallo Season! Join us as we fast-forward all the way to 2018 to see what a modern, queer, giallo looks like. Buckle up for some blood, neon, and sexy gay boys as far as the eye can see.Thanks for joini...

The giallo films from good ol Dario Argento just keep comin! Time to get a bit meta and introspective with Tenebrae as we discuss the nature of self-critique, feelings on "challenging" works, and - all things aside - how delightful it is to see...

Profondo Rosso? More like, a profondo real good time!We're here checking out, arguably, the prime of Argento's Giallo time. Spiral into a winding mystery with us as we chat about puppet murder, top notch haunted house, the DNA of Hallowe...

Giallo Season continues with Dario Argento's first foray into the genre. Let's dive in and get trapped in a... colorful mystery. 

Welcome to Giallo season.We've got a great slate of five films queued up this season to dive in and get to know one of Dan's favorite genres. Bava, Argento, and more, oh my!Up first, the OG itself - Blood and...

It's finale time, baby! Time to wrap up Cage Match 6 with the match of the century; but first, a losers bracket.The Main Event:Dream Scenario v. Longlegs.Featuring special guests Jon Waugh and Erin She...

Semi-finals time, baby.Dude Division:Longlegs v. ZandaleeDad Division:Dream Scenario v. The Weather ManFeaturing special guests Jon Waugh and Erin Sheehan<...

The 6th season of Cage Match continues! This time we're unpacking the incredible films contained within the Dude Bracket. The most-hated films of the year are discussed, winners and losers decided, and the coveted Cage Ma...

Oh lord, The Cage Match is back.Time for our annual March Madness Nicolas Cage bracket! For your listening pleasure, this year we've collected 8 films across two divisions: Dude Cage v. Dad Cage.Today: Dad Cage, Round O...

It's time to recap a Truly Bizarre Year! Join us as we reminisce the auxiliary media we experienced across the year. There are some true gems and some True Gems™️ in here.Behold, the Grand List of Media Discussed:Po...

Merry Nosferatu-mas!Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is finally here and so our Vampire Season has come to a close. Time to hang with some Swedish children, joyfully traipse through every vampire trope in the book, and unpack the trauma of bull...

We're goin back to two of our favorite boys - Nosferatu and Willem Dafoe!Join us as we re-imagine the filming of Nosferatu through the lens of the oddest German accents ever recorded. 

Happy Thanksgiving - hope y'all have a lovely dinner and don't have to suffer any vampires at your table.We've brought in our good friend and resident Rice scholar, Jon Waugh, to walk us through the magic of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's h...