For the final episode of this spooky season, Kyle welcomes back Eric and Mikey to discuss the classic Universal Monsters movies. Eric and Kyle are big fans; Mikey has never seen a single one...until now! How well do these nearly 100-year-old movies fare to a brand new viewer in 2025? Is there a reason Halloween can't get enough of them?
This week, Kyle welcomes back Lindsey Romain to talk about why and how horror media can be comforting and what specifically they look for in cozy horror watches. Get those pencils ready to write down the metric ton of titles they mention!
Kyle has some conflicted feelings about Peacemaker season 2, which just wrapped up on HBO Max. Joining him to parse out his thoughts is Popverse staff writer and friend of the show Jules Chin Greene. They also discuss the future of the DCU and the hopes for what's next.
Ahead of the finale of HBO's Peacemaker season two, Kyle welcomes John Economos himself, Steve Agee, to discuss not just working on the popular DCU series but his love of Three's Company, Dr. Demento, and slasher movies. Also more pneumonia talk than expected.
It's Nerdoween season once again friends, and to kick things off, Tai Gooden returns to the show to talk about the 2023 horror-comedy, The Blackening. She and Kyle discuss why the movie perfectly reflects both horror tropes and racial stereotypes and why it's important.
This week, Eric is back to talk with Kyle about the just-wrapped first season of FX's Alien: Earth. How well does it continue the legacy of the Alien franchise? Does it hold up as its own thing? And why is the damn sheep the scariest creature on the show? Also, listen to Kyle's exclusive interview with show creator and head writer Noah Hawley!
It's been 25 years since superhero cinema as we know it began with the very first X-Men movie. Eric Diaz joins Kyle once again to reflect on the film's initial release, what it gave us, and whether or not it holds up at all.
If you can believe it, the Muppets are 70 years old this year. While once they were everywhere, known to children and grown-ups alike, today they've lost a lot of their cultural relevance. But is there a world where the Muppets can come back strong? That's what Kyle and Mikey discuss this week. From The Muppet Show to Sesame Street to Muppet Babies, we need the felt party to continue.
It may barely be September, but we're already thinking about spooky times. As such, this week Kyle is joined by Nerdist Editor-in-Chief Ro Rusak to discuss this year's Halloween Horror Nights offerings at Universal Orlando. Which houses are worth your time, which are a pass, and which house is the grossest? (Spoilers, it's the Terrifier one.)
This week, Kyle couldn't decide what movie turning 30 this year he wanted to talk about, so he chose all of them! It's a certified longboy as returning guest Lindsey Romain and Kyle go month by month through 1995 and reflect on the huge number of stone-cold classics that came out that year. It's a Millennial Nostalgia Fest.
This week, Kyle watched a bunch of episodes of Jem and the Holograms, the cartoon series from the '80s, at the behest of Tai Gooden. Turns out, it's way different, and way more interesting, than he expected. Music and fashion, sure, but also sci-fi computers and loads of crime. Whoa!
This week, Kyle welcomes back Jules Chin Greene to discuss the summer movie season that was as well as Zach Cregger's new hit horror movie, Weapons. Plus more about Superman and Fantastic Four, in case you haven't gotten tired of that yet.
The busiest movie month in ages comes to a close with Marvel's last foray of 2025, The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Joining Kyle to discuss the film and all the wild things happening at Marvel Studios lately is friend of the show Hector Navarro. Did we like the movie? And more importantly, is this a harbinger of things to come for the MCU?
Jurassic World: Rebirth made a lot of money at the box office, just like the previous Jurassic World movies, but nobody seems to like it or them. So how did the franchise that began in 1993 with Jurassic Park get to this point? Kyle seeks to answer that question this week with Adam Murray, who has spent a lot of time researching all things Jurassic.
Look up! Or, wherever you want to. But listen up because Kyle welcomes Eric Diaz and Dan Casey to discuss James Gunn's Superman, full of spoilers and everything. Did it live up to expectations? Is the DC Universe in good shape? And is Krypto the best bad dog or the worst good dog?
This week, Kyle welcomes a new member to Laser Focus' Three-Timers' Club: writer, performer, video essayist Maggie Mae Fish! In addition to discussing her new Nebula exclusive series Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse, Maggie and Kyle also get down on some shared media therapy. Raised on kids TV that never told us how being a grown up would super suck. Also there's talk of horror movies, naturally.
Watch Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse on Nebula by visiting this link! https://nebula.tv/dreamhouse
This week, Kyle has Superman on the brain. Ahead of James Gunn's live-action film, Kyle welcomes back Eric Diaz to talk about Superman: The Animated Series, still arguably the best and most influential version of Superman on screen. Best episodes, best casting, best villains, and that's just the beginning!
This week, Kyle welcomes back Head Over Feels co-founder Sage Young to continue their exhaustive retrospective of The X-Files. This time, it's seasons 5 and 6 and the first movie, The X-Files: Fight the Future. And that's it! Enjoy.
This week, Kyle and Mikey discuss Steven Spielberg's Jaws which turns 50 this year. It was the movie that spawned the term "Blockbuster," is one of the greatest movies ever made, and might just be the most perfect summer movie in history. We're all gonna need a bigger boat!
It's episode 100! To celebrate, Kyle welcomes writer, author, and podcaster Rosie Knight to discuss her work writing Godzilla comics, including a story starring Doug the kaiju in Legendary's Monsterverse Declassified. And because it's episode 100, they also talk about Batman Forever a little bit.