Doomsday at the Movies

Amber & Ryan take up yodeling as Mars Attacks! (1996)

Amber & Ryan have less than an hour to get out of Los Angeles before the bombs drop as they watch 1988's Miracle Mile.

Amber & Ryan glide over the toxic jungle and learn that war is not good in 1984's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

Amber & Ryan traverse an island of trash in a dystopian future Japan to explore the bond between boy and dog with Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs.

Amber & Ryan are back from an unplanned hiatus with their most cursed episode where they discuss the spoof(?)/mockbuster(?) Stripperland.

Amber & Ryan feel old as they watch Zombieland: Double Tap

Amber & Ryan dig through the trash at Amazon Prime and unearth the failed pilot for Zombieland: The Series.

Amber & Ryan learn some important rules and scour the wasteland for pre-packaged snack cakes as they watch 2009's Zombieland.

Amber & Ryan get out and stretch their legs in a world filled with giant deadly beasts as they watch 2020's Love and Monsters.

Amber & Ryan buckle in for a depressing ride with the Indigenous zombie film Blood Quantum

Amber & Ryan clean up junk in a cluttered universe as they watch 2021's Space Sweepers.

Amber & Ryan take a quirky road trip through the robot apocalypse with The Mitchells vs. The Machines.

Amber & Ryan struggle to find much to talk about after watching Charles Band's Parasite.

Amber & Ryan act according to their nature as they discuss James Gunn's Slither.

Amber & Ryan are thrilled and learn the perils of brainworms as they watch Night of the Creeps

Amber & Ryan spend a rainy day inside and fight man-eating slugs from outer space as they watch The Deadly Spawn.

Amber & Ryan kick off killer slugs month with David Cronenberg's Shivers. CONTENT WARNING: Shivers deals heavily with the subject of sexual assault.

Amber & Ryan collect bounties, play future sports, and do robot karate as they watch Alita: Battle Angel.

Amber & Ryan fall asleep in their chairs and let their robot avatars watch Surrogates for them.

Ryan & Amber watch 2013's Bounty Killer and dream about a world where rich people are punished for their crimes.

Amber & Ryan visit the far-off future year of 2017 as they watch 1996's Pamela Anderson vehicle Barb Wire.

Amber & Ryan go a little batty as they watch 1974's Chosen Survivors.

Amber & Ryan hang out in a crumbling apartment building with quirky French cannibals as they watch 1991's Delicatessen.

Amber & Ryan travel all the way back to 1916 to watch the first post-apocalyptic movie: The End of the World.

Amber & Ryan celebrate the podcast's 1st anniversary by searching for Dryland with a grumpy fish-man as they watch 1995's Waterworld.

Amber & Ryan talk Badlands 2005, a failed TV pilot for ABC directed by George Miller that bears a few elements of Mad Max: Fury Road. Does it live up to the Mad Max legacy?

Amber & Ryan ride into Valhalla, shiny and chrome, as they discuss George Miller's magnum opus, Mad Max: Fury Road.

Amber & Ryan say bidey-bye to the highscrapers and find out who run Bartertown as they watch Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Amber & Ryan are just here for the gasoline as they discuss Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

Ryan & Amber watched 1979's Mad Max and discuss its strange place in the doomsday movie canon. Think of them when you look a the night sky.

Amber & Ryan check out Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors and talk musicals, the 1960 movie, and the director's cut that features the original ending.

Tonight, Amber & Ryan are filled with magic because they watched 1999's Beowulf starring Christopher Lambert and Rona Mitra. Outro Song: Life at the Outpost by The Skatt Bros. (1980)

Amber & Ryan explore a gonzo world of pigmen, mustachioed women, male models, and ridiculous violence in 2019's Bullets of Justice.

Amber & Ryan go on a journey with The Book of Eli. They talk about cinematography, subtle worldbuilding, and ponder the intent of the film's message.

Amber & Ryan are not kind to Nemesis 5: The New Model. They discuss the various things it does wrong, the couple of things it does very right, and reflect on the series as a whole.

Amber & Ryan watch Nemesis 4: Death Angel and discuss how it functions as an endpoint for the series, its tonal disparity to the previous films, and how the movie's protagonist has changed between entries.

Amber & Ryan are confused and fatigued after watching Nemesis 3: Time Lapse.

Amber & Ryan travel forward 100 years into the future in order to go back 20 years into the past and learn to throw machetes at pigs and blurry cyborgs as they watch Nemesis 2: Nebula.

Amber & Ryan wade through a tangled web of dropped plotlines in between martial arts gun battles as they watch Albert Pyun's Nemesis.

Amber & Ryan avert their eyes from 2018's Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich. Content Warning: Contains discussion of suicide.

Amber & Ryan suffer the effects of acute nostalgia poisoning as they watch and discuss Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One.

Amber & Ryan watch 1999's Dogma and discuss theology, comedy, and Kevin Smith.

Amber & Ryan watched 2019's Steven Universe: The Movie. They discuss the difference between children's and all-ages entertainment, whether the movie is a worthy successor to the TV show, and question why this is a musical.

Amber & Ryan bring Aftermonth to a close with the double feature of the 1985 esoteric anime Angel's Egg and the 1988 mixed-media American reappropriation of the film, In the Aftermath. They discuss art films, religious overtones, whether a movie that exists purely to make money can still be artistic, and sum up what Aftermonth has taught them.

Aftermonth enters its third week as Amber & Ryan watch 1982's The Aftermath and discuss the film's progressive and regressive sexual politics, Sid Haig, and how the movie gives off divorced dad energy.

Amber & Ryan talk about 2014's bummer indie gem Aftermath featuring Monica Keena and Edward Furlong and get derailed talking about diesel engines, EMPs, late-period Friday the 13th sequels, and pop tarts.

Aftermonth is upon us! Amber & Ryan experience 2012's zombie/other stuff(?) film Aftermath and then, exhausted of things to talk about, watch two short films also called Aftermath.

Amber & Ryan try not to panic as they make their way through the glacially paced 1981 miniseries version of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Amber & Ryan dive into the 2005's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Is the movie a good adaptation of the material? Is Sam Rockwell doing a George W. Bush impersonation? Is Trillian a Manic Pixie Dream Girl or just being played by Zooey Deschanel? All will be answered.

Unable to pass up an opportunity to discuss movies about a dystopia that we're all currently living in, Amber & Ryan discuss the Covidsploitation films Songbird and Corona Zombies.

Amber & Ryan ask all of your biggest questions about 2010's Repo Men. Does Jude Law's character have any redeeming qualities? Is this movie's subtext supposed to be this homoerotic? Did this movie rip off Repo! The Genetic Opera?