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Anyone can watch a good movie. Watching an almost good movie? That takes a professional. Two professionals.

JDO & DJK


    • Mar 3, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 27m AVG DURATION
    • 59 EPISODES


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    59 - The Monkey (+ Nosferatu)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 81:32


    We Actually Review a Movie that's Still in Theaters for Once. Be a Part of History! Digressions and Dead-Ends Include: Dave Randomly Stalking a Dude Buffalo Springfield = Snoopy & the Red Baron The Exorcist Broke Up Genesis? Wild Claims About Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel Record Sales Surprising Band Dynamics NOSFERATU Review Jim Jarmusch = Master of Black and White POSSESSION Review Why Is There So Much Real Estate In Dracula? It's "Epistolary" Not "A Suppository" Renfield = Hype Man Sleepy Hollow Reversal THE MONKEY Review Amy's Sister Hates Movies Why Is Everyone Exploding? More Rube Than Goldberg The Monkey Pulls a Martha O Brother, Where Art Thou Motivation? Tony Script Doctors The Monkey Osgood Perkins Is Working Through Some Shit Alison Bechdel Shout-Outs THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER Review LONGLEGS Review Dino DNA THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Review A Dingo Ate My Baby, Baby, Yeah! Jeff Bridges Can't Eat Ice Cream The Omen = Final Destination Zero Harlan Ellison Woulda Hated The Monkey Monkey Bangs "Symbols," Not Drums Scratching the Stephen King Itch A Lost Cusack THE GORGE Review RED ROOMS Review Why Is Dave Whispering?

    58 - Alien: Romulus

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 66:41


    Dave and Tony Try to Record a Podcast in the Morning. Chaos* Ensues: The Last Gasp of Bachelor Art Dandelion = The Perfect Organism? ALIEN: ROMULUS Review Perfect Organisms Are Bland Actors Black Goo As Space Steroids To Tube Or Not To Tube HARBINGER DOWN Tubes Review How Many Times Can Dave Say "Tubes" The Jurassic Park Problem Tony Unironically Describes The Lost World Plot Two Mystery Mags Ode To Editing ALIENS Holds Up Solving That Weird "Arcturian" Line Bug Chasers In Space Amsterdam RESURRECTION Looks Like Shit Ranking All The Robots David Touching Everything Justice For Andy Robots Looking California But Feeling Minnesota The "Used Future" Revolution H.R. Giger + Ridley Scott + Walter Hill = Perfect Organism Weaponize The Dad Jokes! Tony's Bootleg Comic Idea "Don't Make My Ghost Work" Conspiracy Against The Human Egg Fairyland "Dead Inside" One-Armed Monkey *sleepy voices

    57 - Every Phantasm Movie (+ Dune 2) w/Nathan Lamoreau

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 92:59


    Run Without Rhythm Cuz Shit's About To Get Spicy: Harkonnen DJ DUNE 2 Review Black Hole Son Paul Was The Villain! (just kidding) Killing Your Toadies Is Spice Gas or Gold? THE KILLING STAR Review Warp Speed = End of Everything The Furby Paradox Hello, Dream Police? Lasers (or the "Start With That!" Problem) They Didn't Fight Twice! Stalling So We Don't Have To Do The... ENTIRE PHANTASM PENTALOGY REVIEW Better Dream Logic Sure Plays A Mean Pinball Why Is PHANTASM a Dune Movie? Kill Me But Don't Make Me *Work* Tall Guy in a Little Coat A Theory of Accidental Greatness Collateral (Ball) Damage Why Is PHANTASM 2 an Evil Dead Movie? Dollar Store Bruce Campbell No Afterlife! Sweet. Why Is PHANTASM 3 a Home Alone Movie? Lord of the Softball Reboot Be the Ball If the Balls Ain't Broke Don't Fix 'Em Build-A-Ball How Many Times Can We Say "Ball" Why Is PHANTASM 4 a B-Roll Movie? Cliffhanger Blue Balls Tall Man = Grief Allegory Why Is PHANTASM 5 Tax Fraud? Ravager End Credits Were the Best Part Worst Catchphrase Ever Imagery vs. Coherence Final Thoughts (Ball Half Empty or Ball Half Full?)

    56 - Pom Poko (+ Oscar Picks!)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2024 74:18


    The Oscars are Tomorrow and They're Watching Cartoons: The Land of Milk and Honey "Mid" Journeys KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD Review In Praise of Gibberish Lyrics Tony Released Three Novels At Once Once Cosplayin' vs. Genre-Hoppin' The Reinvention Trap Riders On The Norm POM POKO Review That's Nuts U.S. = Butts/Japan = Balls  They Live! from the Alien POV Abandoning Expectations Loophole Culture Clash = The Clash? East Meets West = Feast Meets Guest New Old Music Recs OSCAR PICKS! DiCaprio Acts Super Dumb Wonderballs Lite Jodie Foster Talks Like Joe Pesci Now Dark Triad Test Results Anatomy of a Best Picture Dave Meant To Say Hollywood Shuffle Past Livezzzzz Bradley Cooper Should Only Play Pricks Ode To Movie Cheeseburgers

    55 - Leave the World Behind (+ True Detective: Night Country) w/Matthew M. Bartlett

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2024 76:30


    Topical Solutions: I'm Not Talking Over People, I Swear Introducing Matthew M. Bartlett's Town of Leeds Gateways to Abomination (and Self-Sufficiency) The Pros And Cons (and Cons) Of Positivity Review Down and Punch Up? LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND Review More Netflix Totally Not Made Up Stats Lack of Info = Suspense? Monsters Are Due On Maple Street > Trigger Effect > This Shit A.I. Screenplay? The New Symmetry Red Flag TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY (Episode 1) Review Who Framed Roger Reindeer? INSOMNIA Original/Remake Comparison 30 Days Of Day, I Mean Side-Stepping Plagiarism The True Detective Season Two That Wasn't Dark Star's Ending Swiped Bradbury's "Kaleidoscope" Fake Yellow King Quote = Literal Repairer Of Reputations? TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID Review THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR = It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Definitive True Detective Seasons Ranking Revisiting The Matrix Effect Dave's Theory Of Glorifying Incompetent TV Detectives Night Country = THE LAST WINTER In Praise of Kari Reis Preemptive Hauntedness Dubious Depictions of DVD Collections WHITE NOISE (Book & Movie) Review THE HOLDOVERS Review Cherries Jubilee = Five Easy Pieces of Chicken Bartlett Hates College The Holdovers Trailer > The Holdovers LET'S GO PLAY AT THE ADAMS' versus THE GIRL NEXT DOOR Dueling Author Motivations Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction But Not As Scary? Speaking of Scary! Check out Matt's Weird World HERE

    54 - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (+ Pentalogy) w/ Nathan Lamoreau

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 123:53


    We Belong In A Museum! Our Exhibits: Nathan Lamoreau: Doomsday DJ Expired Red Bull Memories Roulette Reverse Nightingale OWNING MAHONEY Review Joyless Gambling OLD DADS vs. NO HARD FEELINGS Godzilla Moving Too Much WHEN EVIL LURKS (What Are the Rules?) Copycat Attack James "Mid" Mangold Deep Dive: HEAVY Review IDENTITY Review LOGAN vs. THE WOLVERINE Review Tony's 5-Star Autopsy Pod Shout-Out Nathan's Auteur Troupe Theory The Guy With The Eye COP LAND (COPE LAND?) Review 3:10 TO YUMA Review Mistreating Horses = My Full Attention! Plugging Dave's Western PIG IRON The Definitive Indiana Jones Movies Ranking In Defense of KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL? Hey, Movies, Go Outside! In Defense of Willie?? Harrison Ford Problematic On-Screen Relationships Ranked Rogue Academic Battle Lindsay Ellis and Her Case for Nazi Buffoonery In Defense of Fleabag/Wombat Dr. Jones ≠ Mulder He learns to Believe... Again In Defense of Nuking the Fridge??? The Dial of Destiny = Last Crusade Redux De-aging Shrunk His Head Superpowers Include: Luck, Punching, Whip Indiana Jones & Fincher's KILLER: Bad At What They Do? Greed Is Good? The Bodies Exhibit Dial of Destiny = Time Bandits Map How Many Racoon Penises Is Too Many?

    53 - Beau Is Afraid (+ The Fall of the House of Usher) w/ Erin Keaton

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 80:40


    It's A Family Affaaaaaair: Library Tables Inside Baseball BUCKCHERRY Reviews A Child Called "Shit" THE MIDNIGHT CLUB Episode 1 Review THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Review WEEDS Analogy The Elephantiasis In The Room "What's A Zoomer?" (Doors, Floors, And Walls) It's All Knocking The Devil Went Down To Blackmail Poe Is In The MCU BEAU IS AFRAID Review The Lighthouse Meets The Waterboy The Strange Thing About The Johnsons Meets Little Murders P.T. Anderson Meets David O. Russell Meets Darren Aronofsky Meets... On Trial For His GUILT, Get It? No Control (aka Who's Driving That Boat) The Dangers Of Getting Everything You Want (Versus Everything You Need) The Importance Of Being Real (Not Meaning Something) The Tenderloin = Montreal? Joaquin Classic vs. Joaquin Mumblefuck De-Aged Actors Aren't Real Ari Aster Gets A Little Treat He Was CHASTE* Get It? (*chased) Director Recs Defending Defending Your Life The Telephone Is Ringing Check out Erin's art here.

    52 - Halloween Extravaganza (+ The Killer)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2023 122:50


    Halloween means candy, projectile vomiting, and watching 31 movies you've never seen before. It also means reviewing every single one of them. Also, David Fincher has a new movie! And it's the sort of thing he can do in his sleep. Is this good or bad? Find out.  Highlights Include: Bonehead Lyrics Trick or Treat Shenanigans Gold-Plated McDonald's Coffee Stir Cliff Confessional Booth "The Monsters of Heaven" Review Tony's Big New Book Deal! Dave's Big New Book Deal! EXCLUSIVE: Tony Renamed Dave's Book (for real) Baby Juggling Interlude The Literary Echosystem ® Dead Media Careers Hot New Releases Demystified Prince's White Album THE KILLER Review Efficiency Porn Payback Callback The Assassin Grind Tilda Tipping Point Hooptober Failures 31 MOVIE REVIEWS!?! (at least) Anybody Can Break Anybody's Neck Decompression Shower: The Movie Bad Faith Genies The Ultimate Hallmark Film? Usher Too All Green Cops Are Bastards "Friction Ridge" Getting Smooth-Brained Mario Bava Recs Aliens = Possession The Golden Age of Shit Movie as Movie Nut "Barbaridook" Where Are These Movie Masks Coming From? Talking Boxes Heir Not a Parent Why Tony Got Kicked Out of Karate Theme song: Dr. Octogon's "Wild and Crazy"

    51 - Christine

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2023 109:14


    A King-sized episode where, simply by never letting him get off the phone, Dave tries to convince Tony that Christine is the best Stephen King adaptation ever made. Just look at all this free content. The Winter of Our Dis-Contents: Attempts at Structure Hashtag Girl Dads E-Bike Perpetrator Round II Horror Hypetober WOUNDS Review The Alien Unease Hat Trick (Fire in the Sky/Communion/The Fourth Kind) Cronenburgers POSSESSOR Review Book Wrecks ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (book) Review Termites and Whales Need Baths VERSION CONTROL Review GRAFFITI IN THE RUBBER ROOM Preview SWAMPLANDIA Sorta Review 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE Review TWISTED METAL Review Proto-Jackass Crank Calling Massive CHRISTINE Review!!! "You Have A Baby... In A Bar" Five Star Autopsy Is Christine Top Tier King? Dave's High School "Presentation" Best Worst Bullies Ever Stephen King Hates Greasers Script Doctors Trucks Vs. Maximum Overdrive Book Vs. Movie Stinky Pinky Vs. Killdozer Deleted Scenes (There's Gold In Them There Hills) Can You Shit Angry? Alternate Universe Arnies King's Top Five Books & Stories In Defense Of Dreamcatcher? Dad To The Bone

    50 - The Flash (+ Evil Dead Rise & Asteroid City) w/ Tony McMillen

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 84:15


    You Can Expect: T-Mac: Glass Half Italian Shark Tooth Necklaces F/X Review Russell Mulcahy Lovefest Breaking Down "Can't Talk About It Yet" Tony McMillen Oeuvre New Music Corner (Still Listening To Asia In 2023) Berries & Brambles THE FLASH Review Do Kids Really Say "Beave"? EVIL DEAD RISE Review Curse Of The Double Reboot Are We Not Men, Trees? AlleHORRORical Horror © Me 2017 The Script Doctor Rises (Dead By... Dawn?) ASTEROID CITY Review Artifice Vs. ArtiFISH (What?)  Wes Hates Wes To support the hosts: Click HERE to buy Tony's comics before he gets famous Click HERE to buy Dave's new novel Head Cleaner

    49 - Oppenheimer (+ Barbie) w/ Scott Adlerberg

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2023 81:42


    Back after, what, two years?! Dave will continue to talk about movies with people in lieu of an actual social life. Tableau Of Contents: Scott's new novel The Screaming Child BARBIE Review Biting The Hand That Needs You First Zodiac Reference The Dirtiest Harry TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Review Norman Mailer Hat Trick Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast/My Return Reviews OPPENHEIMER Review John Landis Casting Oppenheimer = Amadeus Creativity = Destruction Oppenheimer = Marquis de Sade? QUILLS Review Characterization Climax The Script Doctor Tackles Nolan's Triple Endings FAT MAN & LITTLE BOY Review The Demon Core Sexualizing Quantum Physics A BEAUTIFUL MIND Rebuke The Most Terrifying Line(s) In The Movie Nolan Wants You To Pee Right After The Bomb Scene In Soviet Russia The Room Imagines *You* Naked Adventures In College And Karate Mushroom Cloud Muffins

    48 - THE EMPTY MAN (plus Monster Oscar Reviews and Predictions!)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2021 137:54


    Musings Include: Mic Drop Name That Tune Knife Corner/Knife Drop Physical Media Love Writer Online Power Fantasies THE EMPTY MAN Review Three Alien Swipes Fuck ASMR Urban Legends Experiences PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Review Revenge > Shaming THE SOUND OF METAL Review Script Doctor! Musician Doomsday Clock at One Minute Till Midnight MANK Review Ghost Clang They Split the Oscar Vote! NOMADLAND (Leave No Trace) Review THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Review Tuesday's Frogs ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Review Sam Cooke Vs. Malcolm X Responsibility of the (Protest) Artist Best Opening Sequences   King Kong Loves Nü-Metal EVERYTHING ELSE Review

    47 - NEVER BACK DOWN

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 94:47


    Aaaaaaand we're back, talking about the 2008 hit (?) MMA fight fest. We missed each other. Reunion Tour Set List: New Mic Adventures Tracksuit Corner (a.k.a. Slutty With Your Time) Xbox Corner Hot Wheels Voodoo NEVER BACK DOWN Review '80s Bullies Vs. Millennial Bullies Rise of Teen Fight Clubs, MMA, and Viral Videos Dipshit Rosetta Stone "Fuck that little dude!" Plague Corner Mask/Prepper Paradox Knife Corner The Australian "No"

    46 - TENET

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2020 54:33


    Topics!   Viral Corner Ratio'd "But I'm Okay With That!" The Plume Crosstalk  EXCLUSIVE TENET REVIEW! Nolan as Conductor  Three Hours Feels like Six Minutes! Visual Information  Catching Bullets vs. Dodging Bullets Aurora Shooting Allegory?  Future Director's Cut? Post-Credit Scenes Analysis  The Cheap Seats vs. Box Seats Nolan Loves Masks Inception Mini-Re-Review Rich People "Dreams" vs. Pillow Hands Movies as Trailers? Dark Souls Review Water Jug Dudes The Healthy Intoxication of Failure  Innerspace Swole

    45 - Hold the Dark (THE LOST EPISODE) w/ Jordan Harper

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 94:25


    Hey folks! We initially recorded this two years ago, though due to secret reasons we had to take the episode down. Now it's back for your listening enjoyment.   Topic list:   Devil's Triangle of Synopses The Wolf WhispererHOLD THE DARK Review True Detective Connection The Alaskan Hello Hollywood Ownage  Manly Shit Checklist Grimdark and Grandpa's Deathbed The Red Wolf (green is not a primary color) True Detective or Fortune Cookie? The More Dangerous Friend, Guy Doing Violence Right Three Distinct Chokes Taylor Sheridan Triggers Osborne  Wind River/Hold the Dark Whitewashing  Windigo Mini-Review The Passive Protagonist  A Scoop of Pineapple (Express) Pizzolato Corner Is That My Sandwich In There??? Lehane Corner Worst Thing Jordan Ever Wrote TV Writing Constrictions  Hightown (P-Town) Sneak Peek Tough Guys Don't Dance Mini-Review Crash Cart

    44 - Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2020 106:14


    The Big Bad Cop Bash!The Return of Product Reviews Headphone Corner Ants in Our Pants Bad Cop Movies/Bad Cop Movement Old Enough to Remember Tasers To Protect and Serve Man: It's a Cookbook! Radio Raheem the Prophet  Osborne Dark Souls Training Keaton Cop Rant The Policeman's Bawl  Jackass Paddy Wagon Italian Choices and Voices INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Review Freudian CornerRevolution Is in Our Blood Blood Simple Dead-End MASSIVE LIST OF GOOD BAD COP MOVIES

    43 - Vast of Night

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2020 79:23


    TOPIC LIST:   Positivity! Product Reviews Vitamin Corner Swamp Thing Workout VAST OF NIGHT Review Breaking Kayfabe CAPONE Review Choices and Voices Capone vs. Bronson Tom Hardy's Dog Penis Reverse Piracy  Dog Walk Test Fail   Like Removal Machine Keaton's Missing Girl Novel Massive Stephen Graham Jones Lovefest  DR. SLEEP Review Rios Drive-By Why Is Horror Green?More Like Dr. Swipe, amirite Sharing is Caring/Buy Our Shit

    42 - Extraction

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2020 106:40


    Topic List!Homeless CornerBermuda RectangleConstruction Worker HierarchyOsborne Song #1EXTRACTION ReviewMission Impossible: Fallout Mini-ReviewJohn Wick vs. ExtractionFun vs. FraughtMore Netflix ShenanigansMovie Pool MythbustingFacebook CornerOsborne Song #2Joke ThievesFord vs. Ferrari Mini-Review It's Not Real Meltdown Over a Meltdown! The Purge DanceFractured Mini-Review

    41 - The Standoff at Sparrow Creek

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2020 85:23


    Hot Topics Include:   Soft Apocalypse™ Update Imperfect Produce The Irish Sell Out Failed Hunt Invoking Nine Eleven Osborne Gets Coronacancelled Bats Are Delicious  STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK Review Right-Wing Reservoir Dogs? Cop Hate Is The Rosetta Stone Big Spoiler Alert at 56:30 Is Depiction Endorsement?  UNDERWATER Review Underwater? More Like Underwear Amirite!   Return of the Male Gaze Loophole?Kristen Stewart Is The Rosetta Stone Cthulhu Bait And Switch Thirsty Loophole Stoker Awards Time Travel Dave Doesn't Understand Poetry Hot Mic Incident   

    40 - The Platform / The Hunt

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2020 85:14


    TOPICS COVERED:   Apocalypse Workout Corner Small Press Success Stories Conspiracy CornerAre Viruses Alive? THE PLATFORM Review Dumb Dubbers Improving Movies With Fast Forward"You Can't Shit Up" THE HOLE Review Osborne Interlude SongTHE HUNT Trailer Review THE HUNT Review The Movie-Before-The-Movie Mistake Fake Controversy  Hunger Games With A Political Skin It's Called A Hunting Blind, Dave It's Called "Ode To Billy Joe," Dave Bobbie Gentry Lovefest Us vs. Them vs. Us vs. Us Deplatformed By The Platform (aka The Scrunt) Black Town Car Rolls Up The Driveway Willing Pizzagate Into ExistenceSlipknot Is Safe

    39 - Uncut Gems

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2020 88:05


    WORKOUT CORNERDead Pools It's Not Cockfighting Virus Corner What Would Dunst Do? PREPPER CORNER What's in Dave's Bag? The Urban Prepper On Brand Till the End UNCUT GEMS Trailer review UNCUT GEMS review Circling the Drain movies: NIGHT AND THE CITY(s) review BAD LIEUTENANT(s) reviewTHE GAMBLER(s) review The Psychology of Gamblers Adam Sandler reviewChekhov's Goon Tale of Two Buttholes Eric Bogosian lovefest  My Birds  

    38 - Color Out of Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2020 83:18


    In this episode, we cover: Rat Boys Gym Enemy Update COLOR OUT OF SPACE review Rubber Puppets Forever COLOUR OUT OF SPACE review Lost Soul Shout-Out Story Within Story Loophole OCCULT CORNER Osborne Casts a Spell DUNWICH HORROR review Holy Shit Osborne's Spell Brought a Skull to Keaton's Door in Real Time HELLIER review The Egg or the Egg Movies Catching Up with Cage HARDWARE review Grading on a Curve THE DAMNED THING review Lovecraft Adaptations Ranked DIE MONSTER DIE review

    37 - The Best Movies Since 1999 w/ Rios de la Luz

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2020 172:23


    Back by popular demand, Rios! She helps us chop it up around this American Dirt thing.   And finally.......The top ten of the year. ALL YEARS.

    36 - Dolemite Is My Name

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2020 109:35


    Workout Corner The Importance of Leg Day Social Media Corner Writing Advice Advice Small Press Corner Hatchet Job Speak to the Manager Meme Revisited Cancelled Corner Chicken Sandwich Challenge! REDACTED review NEVER BACK DOWN review DOLEMITE IS MY NAME review Mack Avenue Skull Game JOHN WICK 3 revisited THE FANATIC review WOUNDS review CRAWL review Don't Trust Artists Regarding Art IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON review

    35 - The Irishman

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2019 139:05


    Topic List: All In On Baby YodaTHE MANDALORIAN reviewOne-Off FrogBLACK WIDOW trailer reviewpost-Midsommar WICKER MAN rewatchREADY OR NOT reviewFACEBOOK (Twitter) CORNEROsborne's Bouchercon ReportHard Sentences Get The High HatA Can Of Worms Is Literally OpenedNicolas Winding Refn Gives Osborne A WinUnabomber Corner Keaton's Imagined Grudge With *BLEEP*    The Hollywood "No"ChiZine ControversyPerfect Politics/Shitty PersonTHE IRISHMAN reviewJack White BOARDING HOUSE REACH reviewTrading Up The ChainMen Making Movies PostmortemThe Mad Dog & Glory SwapUNCUT GEMS trailer reviewShort Garbage Can vs. Large Garbage Can

    34 - Chernobyl

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2019 114:00


    On this episode: Hot for Teacher Thatched Roofs FACEBOOK CORNER debut Facebook vs. Twitter Writers vs. Musicians Osborne vs. "Insufferability" Keaton solves Facebook with Strangers on a Train Annoying British Children ImpressionBeing One Grade Older Loophole Jiffy Lube Incident EL CAMINO review DEADWOOD MOVIE review CREEPSHOW review 3 FROM HELL reviewCHERNOBYL reviewDavid Thewlis Love Corner! In Defense of Real Diversity Meltdown

    33 - Climax

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2019 98:07


    Dave and I talk about the incredibly uncomfortable new Gaspar Noe flick Climax. We also rant a lot. The grumpiness continues!

    32 - IT: Chapter Two

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2019 93:24


    On this episode, Dave and I get really grumpy about IT 2, movies in general, everything! We always get pissed and morose after a bad one. And IT 2 was a *bad* one.

    31 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2019 119:10


    Today we have our first guest! We are joined by author Rios de la Luz to talk about giving up on artists that you used to like, how to make scenes tense, and Tarantino in general. JDO finds himself surrounded on all sides by people who didn't like the film. Will he convince them the movie was good? Listen and find out!

    30 - Midsommar

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2019 88:09


    On this episode we talk putting actors' lives in danger, JDO's obsession with cults, the creepiness of folk music, and the consequences of innocuous decisions.

    29 - John Wick 3 / Godzilla

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2019 57:26


    We talk naps, rain, Bandersnatch, the limits of meta, the importance of The Matrix, John Wick dance fighting, and a movie filmed inside of an asshole.

    28 - Under the Silver Lake

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2019 71:30


    In this episode, Dave and I discuss the new weirdo flick from the director of It Follows. We talk about where it went wrong, what it got right, but mostly...we talk about how it bears an eerie, almost uncanny resemblance to Dave's novel The Last Projector. That's right, folks. We might have a case of some "inspiration" on our hands. Don't believe us? We think the evidence speaks for itself... You can read the book that (maybe? probably? sort of? kind of?) inspired the film here.

    27 - Avengers: Endgame

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2019 69:42


    In this episode, Dave and I give an honest to god review of the new Marvel movie. We also talk about a stuffed armadillo. Major spoilers ahead!

    26 - The Silence / Between Worlds

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2019 128:28


    In this episode, Dave and I talk about vaguebooking, print-on-demand movies, negative energy, The Silence, the banality of the apocalypse, Scare Tactics, Between Worlds, the mystery of Nicolas Cage, black holes, and penis compliments.

    25 - US

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2019 81:12


    On this episode we talk about how to ask someone to repeat themselves without sounding rude, people addicted to being mad on the internet, allegorical storytelling, US, and nu-metal. The tech gremlins were in full effect so I don't sound as crispy cool as normal, but it's a really good episode.

    24 - Captain Marvel / Lords of Chaos

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2019 107:42


    In this episode we talk boom bang superheroes, goth murderer cannibals, tattling on talkers in movie theaters, past racism, writer hierarchies, and book piracy.

    23 - Suspiria / Widows

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2019 76:15


    On this episode, Dave and I talk about a glorious satanic mess of a movie, a nice subversion of the heist film, and a hot take that posits Jar Jar Binks as a demon who destroyed movies.

    22 - Best and Worst of 2018

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2019 122:13


    Spoiler alert: our "worst of" list have mostly been nominated for Oscars.

    21 - The House That Jack Built

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2018 67:35


    For our final episode of 2018, Dave and I talk about Lars von Trier's (try-hard?) new serial killer movie to kill all serial killer movies. Dave gives me (JDO) a checklist of all the serial killers this movie is referencing, and we talk von Trier's behavior and how it relates to his art. Thanks for listening! It's been a great year.

    20 - Bird Box

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2018 70:54


    Dave and I talk JG Ballard, getting into fights while taking your kid to see Santa, Bird Box, and the perils of disliking movies that your friends all seem to like.

    19 - First Reformed

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2018 78:11


    On this episode, Dave and I talk social media scolding, Dog Eat Dog, and Schrader's newest, First Reformed.

    18 - Cam / Searching

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2018 56:34


    Dave and I talk: pulling someone out of the driver's seat of a car, internet tattletales, Universal Soldier 4, Cam, the fakeness of online in films, Harlan Ellison's Shatterday, Searching, and the curious case of the n-word entity. N-tity? 

    17 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2018 76:38


    Dave and I talk about the newest straight-to-Netflix Coen Brothers movie, anthologies, the Meg, and the Bill Maher / Stan Lee controversy Meg by Steve Alten What Maher said about Lee "The Blinding Whiteness of the Coen Brothers' Wild West" The Last Projector

    16 - You Were Never Really Here

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2018 53:49


    Abortion, Nazis, and dad rock revenge films. Why do we never see the rich get murdered? Mentioned in this episode: "Killing Babies" by T.C. Boyle Charlene - "I've Never Been to Me" Movies: Leon: The Professional Road House We Need to Talk About Kevin You Were Never Really Here American History X American Pimp Oldboy I Saw the Devil John Wick

    15 - Mandy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2018 90:03


    In this one, Dave and I rant about how you can't criticize books, then he talks about not liking BlackKklansman, then we talk MANDY.

    14 - The Friendless

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2018 78:04


    Me and Dave are all we've got in this world. ALso, we talk about the Endless, a real ok movie

    13 - Beyond the Black Rainbow

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2018 55:00


    We go in-depth with Beyond the Black Rainbow, unpacking the symbolism, what exactly is going on, the use of tropes in a non-aesthetic way (using tools as tools), brain-melting psychedelics, and how Kill Bill 2 might hold the key to the type of storytelling we want in a movie

    12 - STBY

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2018 68:39


    I was really frustrated on this one. Me and Dave talk about SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, which is one of the best movies I've ever seen

    11 - Millenials Stabbin' Horses (and Sharp Objects #1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2018 78:19


    on this episode dave and i talk thoroughbreds (american psycho meets heathers, according to the very smart packaging in which the dvd is packaged), equus (lots of penis in that one), heavenly creatures, a good old fashioned rag on true detective 2, samurai swords, and the new hbo series sharp objects

    10 - Jurassic House / Evil Wes Anderson

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2018 76:25


    what if the predators in the new predator movie 69ed? all opinions are invalid big time love fest for hereditary

    9 - Dipshit Heat

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2018 100:13


    in this one me and dave go in on the worst movie of the summer, 'den of thieves' definitely our most 'tacticool' ep also: why does stallone cut a pizza with scissors in cobra? answers inside

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