It's time to uphold the law and watch 'Judge Dredd' Intro/preamble (0:00) Sugar Coated Murder podcast (6:42) Judge Dredd (1995) conversation (7:19) Goodbyes and social media plugs (1:04:28) Please remember to check out the Sugar Coated Murder podcast, and don't forget to join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

It's time to roll the dice and play the game! Josh and Alex get absorbed into the original 'Jumanji', starring Robin Williams.  Intro (0:00) No On 15! Allcast promo (2:13) Luis and Wembembo need to tell us how to feel about the Street Fighter movie cast (3:23) Josh loses his train of thought to tell a story about accents (6:55) Titanic movie tie-ins with back-to-back movies (8:43) Diving into Jumanji (11:27) Does Joe Johnston hate kids? (12:07) What are the rules of the game world? (16:44) Jumanji timestamps David Alan Greer carries the funny for Jumanji (25:00) Alan’s story is his father’s emotional arc (26.50) The characters are ancillary to the chaos of the game (29:49) The gun shop owner got what they deserved (33:27) The movie does a great job of not exposition too much (36:49) How the game presents itself (40:06) The game feels like a bigger threat in Jumanji (45:52) The ending is an odd duck (48:09) Where does Jumanji rank in Joe Johnston’s filmography? (50:49) Spoiler for next week's Nostalgiathon movie (1:00:28) Buyer's remorse with the streaming era (1:03:21) Paramount/Skydance trying to buy Warner Bros?! How?! Why?! (1:04:50) Social media plugs and goodbyes (1:18:54) Please remember to check out the No On 15! Allcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh and Alex revisit the high-octane, action-packed, Ang Lee directed... 'Sense and Sensibility'..? Okay. This is different. Let's see what they have in store for us this week.  Intro (0:00) The Movie Wire promo (3:09) Sense and Sensibility discussion (3:25) Directed by Ang Lee, but doesn't feel like an Ang Lee movie (6:58) Emma Thompson's script/plot of the movie (9:49) Jane Austen making high-class seem approachable (11:20) Josh's biggest issue with Jane Austen stories (17:09) Josh's first exposure to the film (18:30) God bless Kate Winslet (22:01) Hugh Laurie steals the show (26:57) Ang Lee nails the posh humor of the script (28:46) Jena Malone is not in this movie (31:10) Alex's take on the emotional resolution of the story (31:57) The Alan Rickman "problem" (36:53) Three Amigos tangent (37:35) 1995 is a problematic year for award winners not named Emma Thompson (40:53) Final thoughts on the film (43:42) The "British" invasion of Talking SMAC begins (50:29) Goodbyes and social media plugs (52:17) Please remember to check out the Movie Wire podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

The nostalgia train is rolling along. This week, Josh and Alex rediscover the first appearance of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in 'GoldenEye' (not the video game, but it is referenced several times in the episode.) Intro (0:00) I Have Some Notes promo (3:04) GoldenEye discussion (3:35) Social media plugs and goodbyes (1:12:05) Please remember to check out I Have Some Notes, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh and Alex continue their trip back to the 90s for Nostalgiathon. This week, they discuss the divisive Joel Schumacher film; Batman Forever Intro (0:00) Gaming Views promo (2:55) Batman Forever Discussion (3:29) Tommy Lee Jones Cannot Sanction Jim Carrey's Buffoonery Goodbyes and social media plugs (57:26) Please remember to check out Gaming Views, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh and Alex talk over 'The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Movie' for you to enjoy! Game Club Pod Promo (0:00) Intro & The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Movie Commentary (0:55) Social media plugs and goodbyes (1:42:25) Please remember to check out the Game Club Pod podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh sits down with the co-writers for the upcoming Kickstarter project; Nebulon: Knight of Justice - James Santana and Hunter Van Lierop.  If you are able, please help out the Kickstarter when it goes live on September 1st at 12pm EDT, and don't forget to join our Discord and check out our merch store!

Josh and Matt (the true star of the show,) discuss the movies, shows, games and other nerd things they're doing away from the pod Intro (0:00) Cultworthy Promo (3:58) Shrinking (4:38) Balatro (14:53) Check out the Game Club Pod's Balatro Episode Clair Obscur Expedition 33 (19:48) If you've finished COE33, check out our review episode HERE Apothecary Diaries  & My Dress Up Darling season 2 (29:02) Donkey Kong Bananza/Switch 2/Mario Kart World (40:10) Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 3 (57:44) Social Media Plugs & Good byes (1:07:53) Please remember to check out the Cultworthy podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

The Marvel train keeps rolling. Have they set up Avengers: Doomsday in a satisfactory way? Does Fantastic Four: First Steps stand well enough on its own? Or has Marvel truly lost its way and we're watching their reign of box office dominance come crashing down? Intro (0:00) Ain't nobody got time for banter. Casting Views promo (2:05) We've got a little time for banter. Alex's car story (2:48) Fantastic Four non-spoiler thoughts (4:53) Talking SMAC rating (13:54) Fantastic Four: First Steps spoiler discussion (15:19) Are we hyped for Avengers: Doomsday? (57:50) Social media plugs and goodbye (1:01:10) Please remember to check out the Casting Views podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh and Alex are joined by returning guest Gary H. Lee - the Head of Cinematography Layout at Sony Pictures Animation  for K-Pop Demon Hunters - to discuss the making of the phenomenon that is K-Pop Demon Hunters, exclusively on Netflix.  Please join our Discord and check out our merch store!

The DCU launches its first theatrically released entry. Has James Gunn captured the Superman magic we've been longing for? Or has Gunn missed the mark?  Intro/Josh's grown up purchases (0:00) Josh's war with Comcast update (3:53) 2 Blokes from Blighty promo (5:55) The sass is strong with Matt (star of the show) and Alex (6:51) Non-spoiler Superman thoughts (8:35) Is Superman a Must-See or Pass? (19:19) Spoiler review of Superman (20:58) Socials and goodbyes (1:23:52) Please remember to check out the 2 Blokes from Blighty podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

*Sigh* It's another Jurassic Park/World movie. Does it recapture the magic of the first movie? Does it hit the action movie highs of Jurassic World? Or is it just another gash in the legacy that is the original film? Josh and Alex debate.  Intro/Alex Re-writes history (0:00) Josh's deal with the devil (aka Comcast) (2:30) Super Familiar with the Wilsons promo (9:51) Jurassic World Rebirth full spoilers (10:19) Social Media Plugs and Goodbyes ( Please remember to check out the Super Familiar with the Wilsons podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh and Alex discuss their favorite movies that help them relive that summer blockbuster feeling Intro (0:00) John Stamos and the Beach Boys (2:19) Sugar Coated Murder Promo (4:29) M3GAN 2.0 blind review (5:25) Feels-Like-Summer Movies honorable mentions (6:02) Jaws (7:27) What About Bob? (9:11) Armageddon (11:23) Happy Gilmore (15:02) Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (17:15) Jurassic Park (20:22) Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (24:19) The Sandlot (28:59) The Crow (36:32) The Rocketeer (40:01) National Treasure (51:38) Spider-Man 2 (59:23) Independence Day (1:09:27) Social media plugs and goodbyes (1:21:27) Post credits shenanigans (1:23:32) Please remember to check out the Sugar Coated Murder podcast, and don't forget to join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh and Alex are joined by the Lovely Dan from Casting Views and Gaming Views to discuss the sleeper hit game; Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 *SPOILERS AHEAD* Intro (0:00) Alex, meet The Lovely Dan. The Lovely Dan, meet Alex (2:27) No On 15! Allcast promo (7:15) Alex's mistake in the Blockbuster Fantasy Draft resurfaces (8:28) Clair Obscur Expedition 33 talk begins (9:40) How did Alex learn about the game? (12:02) Expedition 33 has very French storytelling (13:41) How did The Lovely Dan learn about the game? (14:59) Expedition 33's realism in their animation (16:22) Back to the misery and balance of action and humor within the game (18:43) What difficulty did we play the game on? (22:18) The music. (29:03) Praising the cast and crew (31:18) Who was our core party group and how did we build our characters? (33:40) Josh breaks down the story (badly) (42:48) *Trigger warning* Endings and the overall theme of the game (1:06:40) Josh's lack of experience with French media (1:19:11) Josh has a revelation about some world building in the game (1:22:23) Is Expedition 33 a Must-Play or a Pass? (1:23:21) The Expeditoin 33 Waifu Tier List (1:28:05) Goodbyes and social media plugs (1:32:57) Please remember to check out the No On 15! Allcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh & Alex review the latest entry in the Predator franchise; the animated feature Predator: Killer of Killers Intro (0:00) Father's Day for Josh (0:54) Sports: Steelers, Banana ball, playoff hockey (1:34) How to Train Your Dragon (8:34) The Movie Wire podcast promo (11:21) Our 2025 Box Office predictions are terrible, allegedly (11:37) Predator: Killer of Killers review (16:30) The Shield: VIKINGS! (18:20) The Shield: Samurai! (26:50) Predator concept of honor is... off (32:14) The Bullet: WW2 Dogfights! (38:02) The finale: (41:58) A lot of allegedly (50:50) Terrible impressions (55:40) SMAC-ratings (1:01:01) Wrap up (1:05:44) Please remember to check out the Movie Wire podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Alex & Justin from The Movie Wire discuss From The World of John Wick: Ballerina (0:01) Intro (3:05) Ballerina first impressions (7:43) Gaming Views promo (8:22) Non-spoiler review (20:09) SMAC rating (23:18) Spoiler discussion w/ things only Alex observes (48:16) Wrap up Don't forget to support Dan & Dan at Gaming Views! Join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Ricki and Josh take you on a journey of their thoughts for the soon-to-be-adapted, smash hit novel Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros. Join in on the conversation with Josh and Ricki on the Talking BAK discord subchannel and follow Ricki on Tome

Josh is joined by Gregg Beever; 1/3 of the I Have Some Notes crew, to review and discuss the themes from season 2 of the Star Wars spin-off series from Tony Gilroy; Andor *SPOILERS AHEAD! Intro and chit chat with Gregg (0:00) Game Club Pod promo (6:02) Josh challenges the Game Club pod (6:46) Andor season 2 discussion begins (8:18) Andor introduces the BBY system to general audiences (10:49) How did we feel about the four 3-episode arcs for the season? (12:30) Favorite moments in the first 3 episodes (21:50) The Ghorman occupation (26:40) The Syrill and Dedra relationship (28:06) So much great acting (34:08) Did Bix and Cassian need to be in a romantic relationship? (36:13) Star Wars canon is always subject to change (42:58) The Emperor's presence and lack thereof (44:09)  The Bail Organa recast (44:09) Andor season 2 shows us how bad the Empire truly was prior to A New Hope (51:12) Fandoms and corporations promoting the bad guys is kinda gross (56:44) Can Star Wars expand beyond the Skywalker space opera stuff? (1:00:01) A quick dissection of the sequel trilogy (1:03:06) Give us the thing we didn't know we wanted (1:08:17) Goodbyes & social media plugs (1:14:08) Please remember to check out the Game Club Pod podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

Josh pulled a Stitchion Impossible and did a double feature of Lilo & Stitch, as well as Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Alex only saw the later.) Intro (0:00) Lilo & Stitch (6:15) Cultworthy promo (24:58) Alex is mad and then we go down a bad Smurfs rabbit hole (25:40) Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (32:54) Goodbyes and social media plugs (1:04:56) Please remember to check out the Cultworthy podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

We celebrate 200 episodes of Talking SMAC with a special live recording at our favorite hometown nerd shop: Cataclysm Games and Collectibles! Intro (0:00) Let's meet Doug from Cataclysm Games & Collectibles! (1:32) Hemanstarfox joins the group! (5:14) Kicking things off with an AMA question (6:20) Rocket Racoon vs Legolas (7:01) Marvel Rivals tangent about Jeff the Landshark (8:29) Back to Rocket Racoon vs Legolas (10:50) Lara Croft vs Aloy - One Bow, One Shot battle (15:20) AMA: Joey Fitz question (19:06) Goku vs Omni Man (23:49)* Homer Simpson vs Fred Flintston vs Peter Griffin (27:00) Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park) vs Boris Grishenko (GoldenEye) - Hacker off (28:18) Engineer-Xeno Hybrid from Alien Romulus vs Human-Xeno Hybrid from Alien Resurrection (32:42) AMA: Slade question (36:11) The Rookie vs Malcolm Reynolds vs Rick Castle vs Guy Gardner - Nathan Fillion character fight (43:10) Xenomorph vs The Death Angel from A Quiet Place (45:27) Stuart Little vs Remy (52:40) Purrgil vs Chitauri Leviathans (Space Whale battle) (55:46) Batman (from Batman Begins) vs V (V for Vendetta movie) (1:04:28) Heel John Cena vs Ruthless Aggression Era John Cena (1:10:21) Did Hemanstarfox lied about his backstory?! (1:13:26) Goodbyes and social media plugs (1:15:38) Please join our Discord and check out our merch store! Special thank yous to Ricki for running our mixer for the live recording.  Also, special shoutouts to our friends who have supported us and teamed up with us throughout the years: Luis, Scotti, Matt and Bepbo (Talking SMAC OGs who helped kick off the podcast) Derek, the creator of our original logo Dan at Casting Views Antonio at The Cultworthy Joey, Tim & Alex at the Game Club Pod Justin at the Movie Wire Cesar at the No on 15 All-Cast Karen and Ann at the Sugar Coated Murder Josh and Amanda at Super Familiar with The Wilsons Liam, Scott and Gregg at I Have Some Notes Slade at Driveway Studios We truly could not have made it this far without your support and friendship. Thank you all, so much!  *Omni Man vs Thanos was suggested in Episode 150, Goku vs Invincible was suggested in episode 74