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On this episode of WTFAWTA we are discussing Brandon Cronenberg's film "Possessor"! the film is an unusual and at times surreal freefall into the world of mind invading assassins and its horrifying consequences

The best streaming service is yet again the focus of this week's episode- and this time we're talking about the Shudder exclusive "Watcher", a near perfect little thriller that would make Hitchcock himself sit up and take notice of its quiet menace, methodical pacing, and shocking conclusion.

Ron's pick for favorite movie of 2022 is the subject of this week's episode of WTFAWTA, as we sit down to discuss the brilliant dark comedy and suspense of Mark Mylod's "The Menu", a delightful film of righteous (albeit, quite mad) vengeance that will leave you begging for s'more.

Josh Simmons' bootleg bat book "Dream of the Bat" is the best Bat comic published in a decade, and it weren't done by DC! join us as we discuss the four stories that comprise this beautiful edition from The Mansion Press, and dig into the deeper meanings hidden in its pages and how outsiders who love these iconic characters create the most thoughtful explorations of what they represent. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Kayla and Ron revive a series from the "What's the Story?" podcast- "Christmas Spirits" Wherein we breathe life into the seemingly forgotten tradition of telling spooky stories at Christmas! We've each come prepared- First up is Kayla, who's story is about a fateful chance encounter with a man that may well be the devil himself, and then I close out the episode with a tale of a man who has lost the christmas spirit- and will lose himself entirely, in short order! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

More Christmas coming right at ya, as we sit down to discuss A Christmas story unlike any other! More Coen Brothers Neo Noir western than Rudolph, Fatman tells the story of a rundown Santa in our ever naughtier world. and what happens when an entitled rich kid (who receives a lump of coal for Christmas) hires an assassin with a long standing personal grudge against Santa to take out the titular Fatman. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On an all new WTFAWTA, we're talking about the clash action lawsuit that will undoubtedly bankrupt Sowell Robotic Products come 2023, and the night of abject terror that befell record store owner Tori Tooms one fateful Christmas Eve. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In part 1 of our 3 part Christmas season event, we sit down to discuss "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale". This Finnish-made film follows a young boy as he discovers the truth about Santa Claus when a mysterious firm known as Subzero begins an excavation of a mountain known as Korvatuntori near his home and threatens to release an ancient evil upon the world. If it sounds great, it's because it is. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we're talking about Shaft- er, ah, well, the episode is mostly about Black Dynamite, Michael Jai White's fantastic comedic throwback to 70's Blaxploitation cinema from 2009. But there's also a pretty sizable amount of Shaft jammed in this- uh- I'm saying that for whatever reason Ryan and I couldn't stop talking about Shaft during this episode. the character, if I'm not being clear. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we take a sobering look at the true story of a flawed and deeply troubled genius and his haunting struggles with fame, addiction, and family that ultimately led to an event that shocked the entertainment world and left a legion of his fans to grieve in bitter disbelief and despair. It's a long way to the top if you squeeze accordions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we sit down to talk about The Lovecraftian terror of the Paramount Plus original film "Significant Other", a movie about love and anxiety. But especially love. Like, that's the theme... not anxiety. Why was the climax not about love? I don't know. But, it was a fun movie and you should totally watch it. Oh, and the Beavis and Butthead movie is also on Paramount Plus. Just so you know. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week on an all new episode of WTFAWTA we sit down to discuss "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever", the real life tragedy that looms over the film, and how actual stakes and consequences elevate Marvel's latest effort to greater narrative resonance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Smile" is a horror film that was plucked from the grips of a streaming premiere and brought to cinemas instead, where it has accrued 10 times its budget in box office returns! It's a smash hit, but is it really that good? don't fret- turn those frowns upside down, and join us as we dissect the most popular horror film of 2022! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On another all new episode of WTFAWTA, We're sitting down to talk about "Barbarian" which chronicles the crimes of a barbaric librarian, who seeks vengeance on any and all who accrue late fees on overdue books! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The hierarchy of middling podcasts is about to change as we sit down to talk about the most electrifying movie in movie entertainment history and the first film in The Rock's DC universe film franchise, "The Rock Presents: The Rock's DC Universe's Black Adam" starring The Rock... As himself. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Greater delights await as we sit down to discuss a horror reboot done mostly right, Hulu finding a niche, and in the Off Topic- Ryan's Cartoonist Kayfabe success, Black Adam spoilers, and the She-hulk finale. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this week's episode we're discussing the return of 3 witches in the new disney plus original film "Hocus Pocus 2". And there could be no more appropriate or fitting an occasion as this, for us to bring back a witch of our own... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we're talking about our experiences and all the fun we had at the Small Press Expo that was held in Bethesda, Maryland recently! A simple show, but we're tired. and working on more comics. Getting back to regular show schedule shortly! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Enemy" is a 2013 film from Denis Villeneuve that tells a tale of 2 Jake Gyllenhaal's. Adam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a responsible university professor and Anthony (Also Jake Gyllenhaal) is a wild sex pest that always plays by his own rules. But when a cruel twist of fate forces them to become roommates in a small flat in Toronto, they must learn to coexist and see the method in each other's perceived madness. ALSO, SPIDERS! EVERYBODY RUN THERE'S FUCKING SPIDERS EVERYWHERE! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we're talking about the 2013 British Film "Locke" starring Tom Hardy as the titular Ivan Locke, a construction foreman on a fateful journey to an uncertain future. Along the way he'll lose most everything he has in his life and get into more than a few heated debates with his back seat sitting ghost dad (played by comedy legend and sex criminal Bill Cosby). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Predator franchise returns with a relatively stripped down entry in the series that trades spectacle for story, in a move that breathes new life into the mythos and gives cinema the best heroine on film since Furiosa. Is it good? Heck yeah it is. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we were going to talk about Jordan Peele's latest film, but when I asked if Alves wanted to talk about the movie he said Nope. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we talk about the sobering documentary "Maniac" which follows a week in the life of former child star Elijah Wood as he struggles to maintain equilibrium in a city that has left him behind and desperately struggles to control the bitter and resentful homicidal urges that are festering just below the surface of his beautiful man-flesh. I say such beautiful things. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we discuss the third film in Reddit's "Yellow Light Trilogy", Michael Mann's "Collateral" and dive into what makes a yellow light trilogy movie a yellow light trilogy movie and why Collateral, while still an entertaining film, may not be a fit for this imaginary film trio. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What does it take to become a success in modern day America? That's the question that entrepreneur and motivational speaker Lou Bloom is out to answer for anyone willing to listen. Lord knows that the man was a very important figure in my development into the absolute monster I am today. So, join me and my intern Ryan Alves this week as we discuss Dan Gilroy's "Nightcrawler". --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we sit down to discuss what is arguably the best film in the so called Yellow Light Trilogy, "Drive". Ryan Gosling stars as the mysterious Driver who works as a stuntman and auto repair mechanic by day and a getaway driver by night, in one of the most elegant crime noir romances ever put to brutalized celluloid. What a winner. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, we discuss the second volume of David Lapham's sprawling crime saga "Stray Bullets", wherein Beth, Orson, and Nina have absconded to the quiet little town of Seaside in the hopes that they can leave their troubles behind. But, When your troubles arise after ripping off the mysterious criminal Harry, don't expect that quiet to last. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On the Season 4 premiere of WTFAWTA, we're discussing "Mad God", the new film from legendary director, producer, and special effects guru Phil Tippett. It's a trippy, psychedelic journey into a hellish netherworld infested by darkness, death, torture, and horrific medical experiments. A far cry from Mr. Tippett's more cheery fun-loving work on Spongebob Squarepants. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The king of body horror returns to theaters, this time with a film 20 years in the making. it's gory, it's sexy, and it's gonna make you wish you were being vivisected in front of a live studio audience. Well, maybe not the last part. So, sit back, relax and crack open a fresh box of Legos as we discuss Crimes of the Future. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In an ooey gooey nightmare of a film, director Rob Jabbaz goes boldly where modern film doesn't dare. It's a blood and guts horror show that's as exploitative as it is chilling. So check your scruples at the door- because your morality won't survive The Sadness. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Alex Garland isn't afraid to make surprising and novel choices. For instance his new film "Men" casts said gender as a horrifying force of nature, single-mindedly focused on gratifying their wants, desires, and needs at the expense of anyone who stands in their way, and utilizing the powers of fear and intimidation to do so! Where does he come up with this stuff? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Prisoners of the Ghostland" is the topic of this week's episode of WTFAWTA. Chock full of bizarre visuals, strange plot turns, and Nicolas Cage being extra Nicolas Cagey, the film is the sum of its parts- for better or worse. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we discuss Volume 1 of David Lapham's sprawling crime noir universe, "Stray Bullets". At a glance, one might make the comparison to Frank Miller's "Sin City" series, but once in the thick of Lapham's masterful storytelling you quickly recognize the heart, humor, and humanist bent he applies to his seedy crime noir, and thus- the horror of it all. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Director Sam Raimi returns to the world of Marvel (and cinema in general) with the 28th film (GoOd GoOgLy MoOgLy) in the Marvel cinematic universe which finds Doctor Stephen Strange plunged into the multiverse, The Scarlet Witch plunged into villainy, and a light post plunged into an eyeball in what one cinema-goer (me) says made him throw up into his popcorn. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The latest Robert Eggers film is here! An epic viking revenge thriller, It stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, Anya Taylor-Joy as Olga of The Birch Forest, Ethan Hawke as King Aurvandill, Nicole Kidman as Queen Gudrún, Claes Bang as Fjolnir The Brotherless and Willem Dafoe as himself. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Michael Mann's 1983 film nearly defies categorization. Is it a horror film? an action adventure picture? Or is it an original IP in the superhero genre? The answer, however strange it may be, is a resounding "yes". --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week on an all new episode of WTFAWTA, we're talking about Ti West's "X" one of the best horror films in recent memory. it follows a group of young ambitious pornographers who are faced with the hard realities of aging. Ironically, they won't actually grow old themselves... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we discuss the documentary film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". It chronicles the real life events surrounding the downfall of rising star Ezra Miller, an actor whose battle with a swirling black mass of demonic energy made national headlines this past March when the demon lurking in his soul attacked a karaoke singer, a dart-player, and forced him to threaten to bury a man and his slut wife. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What a time to be alive! The best film ever has hit cinemas and we are lucky enough to be able to unpack all the nuance, all the subtlety, and all the layers of the film Martin Scorsese is calling "the truest height of cinema". The film is truly an achievement, and chief among its many accomplishments? Jared Leto stretching the limits of his acting abilities as he portrays a pseudo-gothy weirdo who is not so secretly a terrifying predator. talk about casting against type... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Frank Hennenlotter's "Brain Damage" puts modern cinema to shame. It's the subject of the latest episode of WTFAWTA and therein we lament the loss of a simple time with straight forward fun and offbeat quirky narratives and admire the juxtaposition of a phallic purple poop alien having the voice of Michigan J. Frog. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

2016's South Korean horror film, "The Wailing" is the topic of this week's episode of WTFAWTA! Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of a truly ambiguous piece of cinematic horror, our general love of South Korean film, and the art of the simplified synopsis.   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Brimming with metaphor, pathos, and a multilayered story structure that helps reveal the hidden depths of its character's pain- Tom Ford's "Nocturnal Animals" stands as one of the most most beautiful and poetic films Ron has ever seen and has Alves calling it, "a perfectly fine movie" and a "C". Tune in as we say goodbye to Alves in his final appearance on WTFAWTA. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Batman has taken the world by storm! It's the moment we have all been waiting for! Is Battinson our new favorite Batman? Does the movie live up to the hype? Will Zoe Kravitz reply to my Goddamn messages?!? Find out on an all new WTFAWTA! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On a Special Bonus episode of WTFAWTA We sit down to talk about The Lego Batman Movie!

This week we are sitting down to talk about the epic conclusion to Chris Nolan's "The Dark Knight Trilogy". After two solid blockbusters that redefined the Batman character on film, can the third movie stick the landing? The answer is a resounding sort of. Come join us as we discuss the highs and lows of the most ambitious Batman film to date.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Chris Nolan's "The Dark Knight" changed the game for comic book movies in its time and stands as one of the most satisfyingly dramatic ventures in superhero cinema. But how does it cut it as a Batman film? Does it improve on the groundwork laid by "Batman Begins"? Or in an effort to further cement the Caped Crusader as a legitimate figure in art and culture, does it strip away some important elements that make Batman, Batman? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

After an 8 year hiatus, Batman returns to the screen- directed by (at the time) indie filmmaker Christopher Nolan in a magnificent entry in the Batman film series, brimming with action, heart, pathos, and humor. Can you tell it's my favorite Batman film? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we're talking about "Batman and Robin" from director Joel Shumacher! Batman's back and this time he's battling the chilling cruelty of Mr. Freeze and the venomous vixen known as Poison Ivy, along with her equally venomous enforcer Bane! Is it the best movie ever? No- But, is it the worst? Well, actually, perhaps. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week we're sitting down to talk about Batman Forever and how there used to be a graying tower alone on the sea. and how you became the light on the dark side of me. and how love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill. but did you know that when it snows my eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The best Bat film of the 80-s and 90s was not directed by Joel Shumacher. Hell, it wasn't even directed by Tim Burton. It was- however- a financial flop, not even covering its production cost during its initial theater run. Join us this week on a special bonus episode of WTFAWTA where we discuss what might by the very greatest that Batman has to offer on film. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app