Men shouldn’t have friends.  So says the tagline of Friendship the A24 2025 Feature Length Directorial and Screenwriting Debut of Andrew DeYoung, starring Tim Robinson as Craig Waterman (basically a connection-starved I Think You Should Leave character dropped into the real world, possessing no sense of social norms, occasionally breaking the law in the name of friendship, and just generally failing at life), Kate Mara as Tami Waterman (Craig’s way out of his league wife who is simultaneously recovering from cancer, struggling to run a floral shop out of their home, possibly having an affair with her hot firefighter ex-boyfriend, and somehow not running for the hills with every interaction with Craig) and Paul Rudd as Austin Carmichael (Craig’s impossibly hip and friendly neighbor, a night weatherman to whom Craig becomes hopelessly and dangerously Platonically infatuated). 

Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it too uncomfortable for it’s own good?  Is it actually good?  Join your bestest friends, The Rabbit Fighters and find out, won’t you?

Next Episode - Rando: Steely Dan: Aja (1977)

[Published 7/29/2025]
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If you want to make an omelette, you've got to break a few eggs.

And if by "omelette" you mean "once-in-a-generation-genius-jazz-drummer" and by "a few eggs" you mean "aspiring music conservatory bros" (aka Miles Teller as Andrew Niemann) then 2014's Whiplash "breaks" them by having Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons as a sadistic and inexplicably respected conductor) force his students to practice the worst form of music known to man:Jazz.

Wait...no, it's because he's an abusive a-hole... NOT because of the Jazz (but surely the Jazz doesn't help his case...). Sorry, Joshua wrote this intro and Jazz is NOT HIS TEMPO.

Also, Paul Reiser is in this as a father who likes Raisenettes(TM) in his popcorn, so that's cool.

Anyway, The Rabbit Fighters invite you to be neither an EFFING RUSHER nor a GD DRAGGER, and listen to this episode ON. OUR. EFFING. TIME.

Next Episode - Joshua's Pick: Friendship (2025)

[Published 7/25/2025] And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Rabbit Fighters put their tinfoil hats on and travel to 1993, when phones had cords, assassins had newspaper clippings all over their walls, and Presidents were bland and actually interested in governing.

Enter Mitch Leary, played by America's Sweetheart, John Malkovich. Mitch was a government assassin until they turned on him, and now he wants to assassinate the head of our government, the extremely bland President Traveler or something.

BUT WAIT! Old-ass Clint Eastwood wants a word or 50,000 about this. He plays Frank Horrigan, the guy who was supposed to protect Kennedy but stood there while Kennedy's head exploded.

Frank wants a second chance to save a President, so he starts a series of lovely corded phone chats where he tries to get Mitch to tell him how and where Mitch will kill the President.

Frank also finds time to get to know his partner Al for a minute before getting Al killed, pissing off everyone in the entire Presidential staff, and wedging himself into the arms of Renee Russo's agent Lily Raines with a Hoodsie stick.

Next Episode - Joshua's Pick: Friendship (2025)

[Published 6/24/2025]

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The Rabbit Fighters put on their bunny slippers and head over to some random California college where nerds are cool, except for Kent.

Kent is a dick.

Also a dick? Jerry Hathaway, the dean or something of this mysterious science nerd college. He wants to make a personal space laser that vaporizes people on Earth, and has mobilized his army of geeky teens to build it.

Chief among the geeky teens is a man who does not resemble a geek at all. In fact, Chris Knight resembles Val Kilmer so much that he actually is him.

And then there's Chris's new roommate. Mitch is a 15-year-old boy with a tragic haircut who older ladies somehow can't wait to bang.

Together, Chris and Mitch team up to build the laser, reassemble a car in a dorm room, sneak into a top-secret military base, and then direct said laser to destroy the dean's house with the world's largest homemade Jiffy Pop.

This one's for Val Kilmer. RIP.

We here at Rabbit Fighters have been unequivocally Anti-Nazi and decidedly Pro-Nazi-Punching since the early 1930s (and it’s also worth noting that we have been Pro-Indiana Jones since 1912.)

So don your best fedora, scrounge through your closet to dust off your bullwhip, yell out the window at those damn hippies to turn that blasted "music" down, and join your three pals, The Rabbit Fighters (and their one esteemed guest, Dr. Tim) as we discuss whether it's necessary to have seen Crystal Skull to understand just what the hell is going on with this, the final installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. (We here are Rabbit Fighters have no actual knowledge as to whether this last statement is true, but it feels true, so let's just say it is...)

Next Episode - Surprise Random Pick: Real Genius[Published 5/6/2025]And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://tinyurl.com/rabbitfighters)  and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://tinyurl.com/RabbitFighters2) .

Terry Gilliam's ambitious and fanciful box office bomb, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, about an 18th century German Aristocrat who may be A. dead, B. a demi-god, C. insane, D. all three, or E. possibly none of the above, is the topic on this episode of Rabbit Fighters. Can The Baron survive a dance with Venus in the age of #MeToo? Can visual effects win the day in a world of Jar Jars? Will an episode with only 2 out of 3 Rabbit Fighters carry a weight of Gilliamesque magnitude? Join us and find out, won't you?

Next Episode - Random Pick: Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny

[Published 4/22/2025]

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The Rabbit Fighters go back to when America was at its most golden: the 1960s!

Towns like Tulsa, Oklahoma blossomed with quality schooling, nurturing family life, great employment opportunities, and roving gangs of murder kids who engaged in rain-soaked death match brawls.

Wait a minute, Ponyboy...this town isn't golden! WHAT THE F*** IS WRONG WITH THIS TOWN?!!!

Well, I guess all the murder is OK when the kid gangs are populated by future Hollywood dreamboats like Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Leif Garrett, and Diane Lane.

Wait, what were we talking about? Who remembers...we got lost in their eyes. Or at least that's what Francis Ford Coppola is hoping will happen with this most un-golden film.

Next Episode - Joshua's pick: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

[Published April 11, 2025]

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The Rabbit Fighters hop in their convertible T-Bird and get the hell outta Dodge (or Arkansas) for a wild ride to NOT MEXICO!

Two gals head out of their suffocating small-town lives for a little fun and suddenly find they are outlaws after Louise murders Thelma's would-be rapist in a parking lot.

They hit the road and realize that they are better off as free outlaws than they ever were as trapped women.

On the way, they see lots of water, Brad Pitt's hairless chest, a weepy desert cop, a surprisingly un-psycho Michael Madsen, sweeping desert vistas of Arkansas that's actually Utah, the Grand Canyon which is actually Utah, and the bottom of the Grand Canyon, which is STILL Utah.

And they would've gotten away with it all if it wasn't for those meddling state troopers, led by the only nice-ish guy in the movie, Harvey Keitel. Where are the inept clowns from Super Troopers when these ladies need them?

Next Episode - Brian's pick: The Outsiders

[Published February 4, 2025]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Rabbit Fighters have had a year.

We all have, right?

And at the end of the year, we all like to look back and reflect on what’s gone well, what’s gone OK, and what we’ve totally effed up. 

In our final episode of 2024, we look back at our past movie and album grades and make amends for our snap judgments.

What did we rate too high?

What did we rate too low? 

What’s the dumbest thing we've reviewed this year?

What pleasantly surprised us?

What do we wish we’d seen/watched sooner?

We hope you enjoy this funny and sometimes brutal reevaluation of our evaluations.

We promise more laughs and eff-ups in 2025!

Next Week - Greg's pick: Thelma and Louise

[Published December 31, 2024]

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On this Very Special Episode(TM) of Rabbit Fighters, we find our pals cracking wise about the 1983 John Landis Christmas-(adjacent)-classic, Trading Places: THE FIRST FILM TO BE ADDED TO THE RABBIT FIGHTERS RANDOMIZER 3000!

Somehow, Joshua failed to see this holly jolly/racially-and-class-warfare charged buddy comedy when he was 5 years old, starring Eddie Murphy, Dan "Too Many Y's In His Name" Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Amtrack.

It's a pseudoscientific glimpse into the 80's day trader psyche as we finally put to rest the age old question: "If you committed multiple counts of criminal conspiracy in the states of Pennsylvania and New York FOR SCIENCE, would you still make it onto Santa's Naughty List"?

Join us, won't you?

Next Episode - End-of-the-Year Re-Grade

[Published December 24, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Rabbit Fighters get rotoscoped, forget how to act, and ride their glowcycles back to 1982...when Disney was floundering and desperate to get those hip kids to love them.

Jeff Bridges stars as Kevin Flynn/Clu, a software guy who has his ideas stolen by a desk with a British accent. As the only person in the movie who can act, he must jump into a supercomputer to save the day!

Bruce Boxlightningpantstner stars as Alan Bradley/Tron...a total mopey turd in real life who also plays the titular character of Tron, who, surprisingly, has no real point in the plot.

Cindy Morgan also kind of stars as Lora/Yori, a scientist who likes dissolving oranges and rebuilding them with lasers. She also likes it when Jeff Bridges takes his top off, even though she is dating the mope.

Together, they battle The MCP, or Master Control Program, a supercomputer who wants to take over the world and force everyone to play Jai Alai at a rave.

Next Week - RF Christmas Special: Trading Places

[Published December 20, 2024]

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The Rabbit Fighters hit the road to examine the frenemy road pic, Midnight Run, which was directed by middle school boy-favorite director Martin Brest. Brest also directed such hits as “Beverly Hills Cop”, “Scent of a Woman”, and “Meet Joe Black,” before the movie “Gigli” made him quit directing forever. 

Noted comedian Robert DeNiro stars as Jack, a chain-smoking ex-cop bounty hunter who just wants to open a goddamned coffee shop, OK, you sunuvabich?!

But FIRST, he has to capture The Duke, a chatterbox accountant who crossed the mafia, played by dog-lover and professional dad, Charles Grodin.

Yaphet Kotto from Alien, John Ashton, aka Taggart from Beverly Hills Cop, Dennis Farina aka that guy who plays a cop or gangster in every film, Joe Pantoliano, aka Joey Pants, and Philip Baker Hall round out the star-studded cast. 

WILL Jack get the Duke to LA in time for a big payday?

WILL Joey Pants' wig stay on while he screams on the phone?

WILL all the actors develop lung cancer from all the damn smoking?

And how about those chickens?

Those were some good-lookin chickens, amiright?

Next Week - Greg's pick: Midnight Run

[Published December 10, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - "The Rabbit Fighters would like to wholeheartedly apologize on behalf of the podcast and decent folk everywhere. This movie is all kinds of awful and watching it made us feel icky (Joshua will never be clean again). That said, the Fighters did enjoy ripping on it because in 1000 years (if humanity survives, which, let's face it, ain't looking too great) we'd like to be on the right side of history (cinematic and otherwise)." - The Fighters

Next Week - Greg's Pick: Midnight Run

[Published December 3, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This week the Fighters wrestle with the 2002 Sam Jones documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, about the troubled recording of Wilco's seminal album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot but in doing so, find more questions than answers and so also dive into the 2021 Bechard/Uhter documentary Where Are You, Jay Bennett?

Was Jay unfairly kicked from the band? Was this the beginning of the end for Wilco's street cred and the beginning of their evolution into Dad-Rock scions? Was Chicago in the late 90s/early 00s rad?

Join us and find out!

Next Week - Brian's Pick: Boondock Saints

[Published November 26, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠.

This week the Rabbit Fighters revisit a dreamworld of magic: Tempe, Arizona! In the 80's! Why, it's the Coen Brothers' second film, Raising Arizona!

Its a madcap story about a convict (Nicholas Cage) who falls in love with a cop (Holly Hunter), cleans up his act and marries her, settles down to experience the "salad days", but things quickly spiral out of control when they discover they can't conceive or adopt. And so they decide to kidnap one of the Arizona Quintuplets (as one does).

Is it all a dream? Is Nicholas Cage actually good in this? Are spherical balloons funny? Join us, won't you?

Next Week - Joshua's pick: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

[Published November 19, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠.

The Rabbit Fighters travel back in time to NYC's Lower East Side in the 1930s, where a humble Irish delivery boy named Johnny Kelly is about to become New York's most notorious gangster, Johnny Dangerously. Amy Heckerling directs this parody of gangster movies that 2/3rds of the Rabbit Fighters absolutely hate.

Michael Keaton is the suave, fast-talking gangster Johnny.

Former funnyman turned greaseball gym rat Joe Piscopo is the villainous Danny Vermin.

Taxi alum, redhead, and MENSA member Marilu Henner is Johnny's main squeeze, Lil' Sheridan.

Maureen Stapleton is Johnny's foulmouthed, hardworking, bisexual mom, Ma Kelly.

Peter Boyle is peak-Boyleness Irish mafia boss, Jocko Dundee.

Griffin Dunne is Johnny's weasel-faced, clueless, horny younger brother, District Attorney Tommy Kelly.

Dom DeLuise plays Dom DeLuise in a Pope costume.

Danny DeVito plays Danny DeVito in a smoking jacket.

And for absolutely no reason, legendary Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus plays some schmo with 4 lines driving a car.

Next Week - Brian's Pick: Raising Arizona

[Published November 12, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠.

The Rabbit Fighters hop on their BMX bikes and pedal past the full moon as they examine this beloved Steven Spielberg movie about a blobby, hammerheaded alien with googly eyes and glowing fingers that fix boo-boos and geraniums.

E.T.'s ship lands in Los Angeles to gather California kindbud for their condom garden. When men with jingly keys approach, E.T.'s comrades ditch him on Earth, where a lonely boy named Elliott lures him into captivity with free candy.

From there. E.T. makes a phone out of a Speak-N-Spell, gets drunk on Coors Banquet beer, brings fame to Reese's Pieces, telepathically forces Elliott to free hundreds of frogs, bumbles around the house in front of Elliott's clueless mom, and finally dies and comes back from the dead...destroying the hearts of Gen-X kids and preventing them from ever crying again as adults.

This episode brought to you by special guest, #1 E.T. fan, and professor of Xenobiology and Exobiology: RYAN!

Next Week - Greg's pick: Johnny Dangerously

[Published November 5, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠Youtube⁠.

Whether it's "Dead," "Un-Dead," "the Zed-Word," "White Walkers," or "Zombies," back in the mid to late aughts you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some sort of media that featured societal collapse at the hands of these brain eaters.

And the 2004 Edgar Wright comedy horror film Shaun of The Dead had a lot to do with that. This Halloween Week we find the Fighters going crate digging across the zombie and horror movie genres and swing by the Winchester to talk about late 90's British Comedy's place in the world when everything comes crashing down and the dead walk the Earth.

How's that for a slice of fried gold?

Next Week - Special Guest Star Ryan's pick - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

[Published October 29, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠Youtube⁠.

Never before has a pick proved so divisive to the Rabbit Fighters as "Weird" Al Yankovic's 1989 absurdist opus "UHF."  Filmed entirely in Tulsa, Oklahoma and filled to the brim with Weird Al's brand of pop culture parody and inanity, the Rabbit Fighters find themselves debating this time capsule of a film. 
Will Brian try a Twinkie Weiner Sandwich(TM)?  Will Greg figure out how to get turtles unsuction-cupped from the ceiling?   Will Joshua finally admit that some of this movie has aged poorly? 
Join us this week as we take a drink from the firehose!
Next Week - A Very Special Halloween Episode: Shaun of The Dead
[Published October 22, 2024]

And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on Spotify and Youtube.

In today's episode we hit the eject button on our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a state-sponsored experiment entitled “Desertion and the Psychological Effects of Music.” Liability waivers have been forged, beneficiaries replaced and blindfolds distributed as the gang is whisked away in their respective ornithopters towards the deep desert.

Equipped with piss suits, food pills and a crate of 10 albums, our three Fighters must survive the harsh vastness whilst continuing to bring the thumpty thump. Only he who playeth the best 10 shall entice the maker and drink the water of life. All else shall be consumed and forced to live out their days within the belly of the beast ... naked, alone with only the entire Steely Dan discography to comfort them....

"can I volunteer?"

"“NO, BRIAN YOU CAN'T F*CKING VOLUNTEER!”

Let the games begin.

Next Week - Joshua's Pick: UHF

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