Send us a text What will the power of music be like in the future? Well, if you’re unlucky enough to live in the world of the 2002 Gun-fu film “Equilibrium,” music, art and emotion will be pretty much forbidden. Starring Christian Bale, Sean Bean and Taye Diggs, this weird film, which is obviously riding on the coattails of the success of “The Matrix”, introduces us to a dystopian world where creativity and emotion are stifled by mass medication and brute force. We also discuss di...

Send us a text Oh, hello there, you vinyl-vaulting philistines and cassette-clutching casuals. Another cycle spins on the turntable of existence, and this time we're cranking the volume on "The Power of Music"—films where the soundtrack isn't just background noise for your popcorn munching, but the beating heart, the narrative needle scratching deep into the grooves of the soul. We're talking movies where melodies manipulate fates, chords construct characters, and a killer riff can redeem or ...

Send us a text We’re coming to get you Barbara. We are closing out our theme of “The Fall and Rise” with Tom Savini’s 1990 remake of George Romero’s zombie classic Night of the Living Dead, where a great many people fall and rise…FROM THE DEAD! There were several changes from the original in the remake, one of the major ones being how the character of Barbara is handled, which also lends itself to the fall and rise theme. Karl had the added shakeup that the lead actor in his...

Send us a text THE POST-APOCALYPTIC MUSICAL FUTURE IS NOWWWWWW. Join us as we watch 1983's animated, demon-fighting, Canadian rock-opera "Rock and Rule;" featuring the music of Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick, and Earth, Wind and Fire. Sounds pretty amazing, right? Unfortunately. . .this movie is not as great as it sounds on paper. So be sure to listen in to hear our terrible, terrible disappointment.

Send us a text Time marches on and it's already time for another new theme. Everyone has their ups and downs (or downs and ups) and that's exactly what we're dealing with this time around with "The Fall and Rise". This cycle we'll be dealing with movies about characters who face a dramatic downfall only to make a comeback, either physically, emotionally or socially. The shakeup for this week is "must include a major flashback". The movie must include one or more major...

Send us a text We close out our “Walking the Fine Line” theme with 1982’s First Blood, the first film to feature John Rambo, as portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. Karl’s shakeup this week was that his film must feature a major social commentary, and this one certainly fits the bill. The film tells the story of Rambo, who is trying to return to a normal life after returning from Vietnam, only to run afoul of local sheriff (played by Brian Dennehy) who wants him out of town. In this episode we di...

Send us a text This week we enter the gritty, black and white world of film noir with one of the greatest examples of the genre, “Double Indemnity.” Premiering in 1944, directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyk and Edward G Robinson, this is a tale of adultery, murder, corruption, greed and …. an insurance scam. We also welcome back guest host Brian, who joined us previously in our “Cocaine Bear” episode. So join us, won’t you? We’ll see t...

Send us a text We are back! It was a good break and hopefully some of you were able to catch up on older episodes you may have missed. Getting back to business we have our new theme: Walking the Fine Line. These will be films about characters balancing between right and wrong, sanity and madness or light and dark. The shake-up this week is the film must be one that none of us have seen before. Featuring Jake Gyllenhaal in two roles our first film is 'Enemy' from 2013, where ...

Send us a text Special Episode Alert! This week we take a field trip to the actual movie theater and watch “Weapons” to see what all the hype is about! This 2025 film, starring Julie Garner and Josh Brolin, is about a classroom of children (minus one) who disappear abruptly on the same night at the same time and leave everyone in the community with many questions and a mystery to solve. It is written and directed by Zach Cregger, also known for “Barbarian” which we all enjoy...

Send us a text We close out our “Time is an Illusion” theme with 2011’s Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier forced to relive a dying man’s final eight minutes of life in an attempt to learn the identity of a train bomber. Karl’s shakeup was that his pick must have a twist ending, so our discussions are all about twists! We discuss what makes a good movie twist, go through some of our favorite movie twists, as well as some tips on writing a good twist from the “Maste...

Send us a text This week, our pick must reduce all saturation and so we watch “The Trial,” a strange and unusual film about a man who has been accused of an unknown crime and who has to navigate a timeless and labyrinthine judicial system, about which he knows nothing. Shot in black and white, from 1962, this visual treat is directed by Orson Welles and stars Anthony Perkins. It is based on the posthumously completed Franz Kafka novel “Der Prozess” and it certainly lives up to t...

Send us a text OK everyone, time for a new theme again. Speaking of time, we will be delving into films that play with time in unconventional ways such as time loops, alternate timelines or nonlinear narratives because our new theme is "Time is an Illusion". In addition to talking about time, relativity, quantum physics, car accidents, Ozzy Osbourne, Jaws and Iceland we will be watching a film that fits our new theme along with the first shake-up: "Must be set in a war-zone". Tha...

Send us a text We close out our “In the Shadow of Giants” theme with 1985’s horror comedy Fright Night, about a teenager who suspects his new neighbor is a vampire. Our discussion covers all things neighbor, from stories about notable neighbors we’ve had in our lives, to the group taking a quiz about how involved we would get with neighbor disputes. Did Rachael really live next door to a lady of the evening? Tune in to find out!

Send us a text This week, our pick has to feature “a prolonged chase sequence integral to the plot.” And so, we watch 1993’s “The Fugitive” starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones; this movie IS a prolonged chase sequence. We also explore the Character Alignment table, created as a moral and ethical perspective for characters in the RPG Dungeons and Dragons. So please join our always chaotically neutral conversation. And remember, we didn’t kill our wife!

Send us a text Buckle up because we're rolling right into the first episode under our new theme: "In the Shadow of Giants." This one's all about flicks where folks are dwarfed by towering figures—be it a boss, a celeb, or some unstoppable influence—and they've gotta scramble to find their own path amid the chaos. Naturally, we've got a twist to crank up the intrigue: this episode demands a "Non-Traditional Villain," so we're talking foes that aren't your standard mustache-twirler, but s...

Send us a text We close out our “One Last Chance” theme with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, about a mother (Frances McDormand) trying to provoke the local police department in an effort to reinvigorate the stalled investigation into the murder of her daughter. The shakeup this week was that the film must have come out within the last ten years, and this one fits the bill (board), having been released in 2017. We also talk about the top ten films with the longest titles, as w...

Send us a text This week, our podcast shines the spotlight on the Female Protagonist, as we continue our "One Last Chance" theme. And so, we watch the 2011 film about the young female assassin, "Hanna," who has one last chance to escape a ruthless intelligence agent trying to track her down across continents. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett, this movie has the added bonus of a great score by the Chemical Brothers. We also take a deep dive into what we be...

Send us a text Well, it's that time again. What time you might ask? Well, it's new theme time of course, and this time our AI overlords have blessed us with the theme of "One Last Chance". As ominous as that sounds it just deals with movies where characters are given a final opportunity to change their fate, make amends or redeem themselves. Of course there's always a shakeup to go along with the theme and this week that shakeup is "must be a horror movie". To appease our AI...

Send us a text We close out our theme of “The Long Journey” with a journey of 140 million miles…to Mars! Karl had the added shakeup that his pick must feature a conspiracy. So we are watching 1990’s Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as lowly worker Douglas Quaid, who dreams of one day visiting Mars. But when Doug visits “Rekall”, a business that implants false memories for a fee, it sets of a chain of events showing there is more to Doug than meets the eye. We also dis...

Send us a text The Long Journey continues, and this time it must be considered a cult classic. And so, we take a trans-dimensional trip back in time to watch 1984's "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension," about a neurosurgeon-physicist-rock star and his posse, The Hong Kong Cavaliers, fighting a bunch of aliens all named John. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It received mixed reviewed upon its release, but for some, became a cult classic, still enjoyed to this day.&nb...