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John and Bethany dig into Nora Ephron's culinary bio-/blogo-pic, Julie & Julia. It's pretty food and frankly incredible performances to celebrate the Pocket Podcast Potluck.

John and Bethany try very hard to channel Roger Deakins and do it in one take. They maybe don't succeed all that well.

John and Bethany dive into one of the biggest American movies of 2019, Knives Out. You know we love a Southern Daniel Craig, we live for a cast as stacked as this one, and we dig Rian Johnson's groovy style. If you haven't watched this movie, just GO DO IT.

John and Bethany dig in to Russel Crowe and Ryan Gosling's take on a buddy cop movie. The Nice Guys is good, but it's got some stuff it could've done better! But not the chemistry or the killer bees: that's on lock. CORRECTION: Angourie Rice isn't in American Vandal. She's in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Far From Home, and John just got his blonde teenagers in American high school media confused.

Pablo Larrain gets pomo in 2016's Neruda, with performances from Luis Gnecco that can't stop John from talking, and not just because he's drinking wine from the setting.

Sometimes, a 90ish minute comedy doesn't need to be much more than it is. But that doesn't mean we can't wish Rose Byrne did even more. John and Bethany get into the 2014 Seth Rogen/Zac Efron prank war, Neighbors.

John continues the tradition of crying about good new Disney movies, but in a more subdued way during the episode. Much like in Moana, there’s quite a bit of singing in this one.

John and Bethany go globe hopping with Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill to talk all about Mission Impossible: Fallout. Chases, stunts, explosions, masks, Wolf Blitzer cameos…it’s all here.

Did this lose luster after high school? Yeah, I think it really did! John and Bethany talk a 1999 Shakespeare adaptation with a truly stacked cast.

Sail with John, Bethany, and special guest Chris to The Far Side of the World, to see what Paul Bettany was up to before he became everybody’s red android husband. Russell Crowe is there too, and maybe they’re married?

Grab your fries, chips, and mash, because we’re talking about everyone’s favorite Martian, Matt Damon. In their fourth Space Disaster episode, John and Bethany get into why this movie doesn’t completely stick the landing, but doesn’t blow up after liftoff either.

It’s another overexcited talkfest when John and Bethany take on what may be the greatest action movie ever made, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron devastate with barely a word, practical effects go boom, and Nicolas Hoult rides forever, shiny and chrome.

This one is long and excited, and barely scratches the surface of the defining trilogy of the 2000s, The Lord of the Rings. John DOES cry in this one, of course, and Bethany is surprisingly open to just another very long journey into fantasy and fandom.

John and Bethany dive into John's pick for Best Film of 2017, Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky, a movie about capitalism and imperialism's exploitation of the body of the worker...and also the Hillbilly Heist.

John and Bethany are joined by Mike from Green Mountain Mysteries to discuss Logan, a sad superhero movie that hits the mark...except with its non-white characters. Come on, Mangold, can't you make characters of color multi-dimensional?

John and Bethany dive into the 2014 Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt military sci-fi time loop adventure, Live. Die. Repeat. - Edge of Tomorrow. And lemme tell ya, a movie with a title that long really does drag on once it abandons the comedy that made it work, huh? Can we get a crumb of women? Or non-white people? Please?

John and Bethany take a look at Greta Gerwig's sophomore feature, 2019's Little Women, with all the love they can muster for Dern, Ronan, Chalamet, Watson, Pugh....this cast is stacked y'all. And who's that hot professor?

John and Bethany watch a (barely) spooky movie they wanted to like and really, really didn't. Next episode, they get back on to a much more comfortable track with Little Women (2019).

John and Bethany dig in to Greta Gerwig's 2017 debut, Lady Bird, a coming of age movie that feels way too much like actual high school. Did John remember way too much about Catholic School? Were John and Bethany both Beanie Feldstein? Did Laurie Metcalf deserve an Oscar for this?

John and Bethany jump into Damien Chazelle's not-quite Best Picture winner, La La Land, a movie that they love and hate all at once. Can Ryan Gosling save jazz, or is he just keeping it from moving forward? Is Emma Stone one of the best comedic actresses of our generation? Do white people actually know what they're talking about? Follow us on Twitter @HomeViewingPod for our soundtrack giveaway, and other fun updates. Next episode: Lady Bird!

John and Bethany are all over the place in the intro in this one, as they try to fill 30 minutes talking about an all around good Colin Firth Oscar Vehicle, The King's Speech.

Alex and JD from Sorted are taking over for PPN's Show Swap month, and are here to talk about the Back to the Future trilogy - that's right, all three films in one go. Great Scott, this is heavy! Does the classic trilogy hold up five years after the futuristic vision of 2015? Only time will tell! John and Bethany are covering The West Wing over on Sorted. Home Viewing's theme music is Oil Waves by The Organ Machines. Find their music wherever you listen. Next time, it's The King's Speech!

John and Bethany dig into Matt Vaughn's comedy action spy flick. Is it actually a neoliberal hellscape though? Does Matt Vaughn hate poor people? Is Colin Firth a class enemy? Next time, it's show swap! And after that, we're going to watch The King's Speech.

John and Bethany take a look at Key and Peele's Keanu, a movie about a cat that is coveted by several drug dealers. It's pure popcorn, but we had fun. Our intro and outro music is by The Organ Machines. Find them wherever you stream music.

We got into some Dino Digs, like that old Zoo Tycoon expansion. We discuss Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (which John contends is a perfect film) and Colin Trevorrow's far from perfect reboot, Jurassic World. Our intro music is by The Organ Machines. Listen to their music wherever you stream. While you're here, donate to the Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid Fund. https://www.atlantamutualaid.org/make-a-donation

John and Bethany welcome Britty Lea for PPN's guest month, to discuss Christopher Nolan's take on hard (ish) Sci-Fi and also familial love. Even Bethany likes this one...until the last thirty minutes. Check out other shows as part of PPN's guest month! John guests on Sorted, Bethany's on Them's the Facts, and you can hear more of Britty's work on No Dice!

Daniel joins John and Bethany to both celebrate and dunk on the hit horror adventure of 2017. WHERE ARE THE TURTLES, SIGNOR MUSCHIETTI?! Next time, it's guest month! It's also our birthdays! What could possibly happen with all this fun stuff?????!!!!

CW: Discussions of Suicide and Mental Illness. John and Bethany dive into 2010's It's Kind of a Funny Story, a movie where young adult actors play off of middle aged character actors. Also: montages!!!

Bethany and John dive into the oceans surrounding Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson's delightful stop-motion dog movie. It's a fun one, it's an emotional one, and it has....problems. Sponsors this week: warbyparkertrial.com/ppn bit.ly/chewyppn

In this bonus episode, John and Bethany dive into the scientifically accurate Steven Soderbergh drama, Contagion. What commonalities exist between this fictional story and the pandemic that we are currently living through? Is the lab equipment real? What surprise comedians show up in minor roles? If talking about pandemic stuff stresses you out, skip this one.

Bethany and John butt heads as they take on Christopher Nolan's Inception. Does one of John's nostalgic favorites stand up to a ten year retrospective, or will Bethany's legitimate criticisms reveal the mansplainer hiding inside of him? The moving image is profane, and none of us should partake in it.Next episode: It's Kind of a Funny Story. WASH YOUR HANDS!!!

Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are the main topics of discussion in our episode on I Love You, Man. Hear us talk about this generally pretty positive comedy with a truly STACKED cast. Next time, get your totems ready, because we're going several layers deep on Inception.

John and Bethany rhapsodize over one of their favorite movies, featuring one of their favorite actors and one of their favorite bands on the soundtrack. It's I time, baby!! Listen to us get into the Coen Brothers once more, before we kick off a nice run of movies. Next Time: we get into buddy comedy with I Love You, Man! Intro and outro music by The Organ Machines. Find them wherever you stream music.

John and Bethany take on 2017 Awards Season Contender Hidden Figures, and ask the question: was the racism really that pure and neat back then, or does the Pharrell soundtrack just make it seem like that?

We watch Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which WAS very important to a younger John and now leaves a weird taste is his funny bone. Also discussed are movies of 2019, the end of the decade, and a bunch of other stuff because dang we did not really want to talk about the movie.

It's a PPN takeover, as Zach and Emily from STEAMPunks host this week's episode, all about Steven Universe: The Movie!As part of the PPN Show Swap, John and Bethany jumped over to the STEAMPunks feed to talk about one of the most important unsung women in modern medicine. Check them out over there!We'll be back in two weeks with Hidden Figures!

For Halloween, John and Bethany get spooky with The Witch, or is it The VVitch, a movie that's available on Netflix. Really, it's an excuse to watch it before we see Robert Eggers' next movie, The Mermaid. Get nice and spooky with us before we go to space next week with Hidden Figures!

John and Bethany talk about jokes, movies, communism, and the sheer amount of white people in The Coen Bros' 2016 film, Hail! Caesar. Athena has opinions about the real world Eddie Mannix! Next time....it might get spooky?!?!

Back in June, in anticipation of getting to letter H, John and Bethany sat down and decided to watch all eight Harry Potter Films in one weekend. The resulting hour plus of audio contains a documentation of their thoughts, feelings, emotions, and mental states as they attempted this frankly gargantuan, 19 hour feat, featuring some special guests.Hail! Caesar will be the next episode.

We talk about the first Marvel movie that Bethany ever liked and how it treats women pretty terrible even as it gets so much more right. Next episode, we're covering Hail! Caesar.

We're back....IN SPACE. John and Bethany get into fear, instinct, survival, and a return to birth in a trip into space with Alfonso Cuarón, Sandra Bulloch, and a tiny bit of Clooney. Gravity's not readily available for free on streaming services, so we summarized it, or you can rent it on Google or other sites for $3.99. Next time, we're watching Guardians of the Galaxy. Bring your dancing shoes.

John and Bethany get into the 21st century take on 19th century sensation literature. Did you know there's a literal orgasm of blood in this movie? Yeah!Next episode, we continue our series on space disaster movies with Gravity.

John and Bethany dig into FFC's immigrant gangster epic. Al Pacino is Hot. Fredo is sad. Vito is trying so hard to love all of his sons. Sonny is just mad. What is a woman anyway? Next episode, we're discussing blood orgasms, also known as Gone Girl.

It's a full table for this week's episode as John and Bethany invite Corey Couch, a PhD student involved in the Liquid Blackness research group at Georgia State, and Chris, friend of the show and host of Them's the Facts, to discuss Jordan Peele's directorial debut, Get Out. In our longest and most contentious episode yet, get a glimpse of what hanging out with film students is like, but also enjoy the discussion of this really great movie!Next episode, it's The Godfather! And yes, we mean all of them.

Warning: there's some rape discussion in this one. John and Bethany dive into the 2010 Russell Brand/Jonah Hill vehicle/spinoff/comedy allstar game: Get Him to the Greek. The sex comedy barely works, but do the jokes?Next Week: Get Out!

John and Bethany dive into 2018 comedy Game Night. They also dip into some other pools. Can you believe Bethany has never heard of Pinball Wizard? Love to Fatt Damon and Lamorne Morris. Next Week: Get Him to the Greek

It's John and Bethany Birthday Month, so it's time for dogs, cars, guns, and hotels in the John Wick 1 and 2 Birthday Special!!!!We're gonna be back on our alphabetical shiz next week with Game Night!Theme music by The Organ Machines.https://theorganmachines.bandcamp.com/track/oil-wavesSummer Mvt 3 Presto by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

John and Bethany dive into Frozen, a Disney Princess Movie (Unlike Brave, which has a Disney Princess, but is a Pixar movie). They get into it about animation, Broadway composers, and the actors who sing (and don't sing enough). Our intro and outro music is Oil Waves, by the Organ Machines! Find them on bandcamp.

John and Bethany watch an old favorite, (500) Days of Summer. Music videos, Post-Modernism, all that good stuff makes an appearance. We had a lot of hard opinions on this one. Music by the Organ Machines. Next week we watch Frozen!

John and Bethany dive into Newt Scamander: A Conservationist's Story. We almost lost the files on this one folks so we're just happy to get it to you. Big Questions Include: Should John save earlier in Audacity? Is New York New York without you love? Are these descriptions becoming overwrought?Vote on twitter.com/homeviewingpod to let us know if (500) Days of Summer is next or Frozen!

John and Bethany dive into Alex Garland's first directed, Oscar Isaac featuring film, Ex Machina. Big questions include: Does Alex Garland know how to write women? Is Oscar Isaac our greatest actor? Can she f***? Next week, it's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! Check out theorganmachines.bandcamp.com