Join me for my final Halloween 2025 series episode, all about the Italian giallo master MARIO BAVA!! Also included is an Intro to Early Italian Cinema, from the invention of film to the 1960s when Bava got his start! I had a ton of fun doing this episode, and I hope you enjoy it too! For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps below indicate when each discussion begins: AN INTRO to ITALIAN CINEMA - 1:25 BLACK SUNDAY (1960, dir. Mario Bava) - La maschera del demonio - 9:51 BLACK SABBATH...

Please join me for brief reviews on SEVEN 2025 movies as I catch up with my watching over the last two months! DEATH of a UNICORN (2025, dir. Alex Scharfman) FRIENDSHIP (2024, dir. Andrew DeYoung) HIM (2025, dir. Justin Tipping) ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) GOOD BOY (2025, dir. Ben Leonberg) SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME from NOWHERE (2025, dir. Scott Cooper) BLACK PHONE 2 (2025, dir. Scott Derrickson)

Join me for a four pack of horror movies that pack a PUNCH! One of the scariest movies I've ever seen, an independent found footage movie, Korean zombies, and family trauma!! For those who want to avoid spoilers, click the timestamps below to navigate to each episode individually: SINISTER (2012, dir. Scott Derrickson) - 0:55 CREEP (2014, dir. Patrick Brice) - 31:20 TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016, dir. Yeon Sang-ho) - 44:06 HEREDITARY (2018, dir. Ari Aster) - 1:02:19

Join me once again as I saw through a gaggle of teens - whoops! - I mean as I navigate once again some truly terrible sequels, remakes, and prequels and put Leatherface to bed. Night night, sweet prince. For those who want to avoid spoilers, click the timestamps below to navigate to each episode individually: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2003, dir. Marcus Nispel) - 1:43 THE TCM: THE BEGINNING (2006, dir. Jonathan Liebesman) - 20:46 TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D (2013, dir. John Luessenhop) - 31:3...

REVVV THOSE CHAINSAWS, you pig b*itches!! It's time for one of the scariest, campiest, and crappiest horror franchises of all time!! From the sublime to the head scratching, these massacres have it all! Time stamps below indicate start of section, in case you want to avoid spoilers! THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974, dir. Tobe Hooper) - 1:05 THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 (1986, dir. Tobe Hooper) - 31:29 LEATHERFACE: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III (1990, dir. Jeff Burr) - 54:30 THE R...

Join me as I pay tribute to a LEGEND of 60s and 70s Hollywood cinema, the Oscar winning director of Ordinary People (1980), founder of the Sundance Film Festival, and fighter for human and environmental rights, Robert Redford. This one's for you, Sundance. Time stamps below clickable if you need to skip around! Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, dir. George Roy Hill) - 1:13 All the President's Men (1976, dir. Alan J. Pakula) - 29:38 Three Days of the Condor (1975, dir. Sydney Pollack...

Please join me for brief reviews on FOUR new movies that recently opened at the cinema! LIGHT of the WORLD (2025, dir. Tom Brancroft, John J. Schafer) THE THREESOME (2025, dir. Chad Hartigan) DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE (2025, dir. Simon Curtis) THE LONG WALK (2025, dir. Francis Lawrence)

Please join me as a dropout of Beauty School and head back to Rydell in 1978's Grease, take a deadend summer job in Ridgemont in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and take up poetry and French at Padua in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You. Clickable timestamps below for the spoiler-conscious: GREASE (1978, dir. Randal Kleiser) - 1:11 FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982, dir. Amy Heckerling) - 30:22 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999, dir. Gil Junger) - 52:55

Please join me as I go through what made each of these new releases (or re-releases) tick, and why I loved them or even just liked them. CAUGHT STEALING (2025, dir. Darren Aronofsky) THE ROSES (2025, dir. Jay Roach) THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB (2025, dir. Chris Columbus) JAWS 50th Anniversary (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg) THE TOXIC AVENGER (2023, dir. Macon Blair) - 2025 theatrical release

Join me as I tackle a quartet of 80s comedies and see if they're still funny, if the humor has translated over the last 40-45 years, and if we all just need to remember how to laugh! For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps indicate when discussion for each begins! REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984, dir. Jeff Kanew) - 1:58 PORKY'S (1981, dir. Bob Clark) - 25:40 WEIRD SCIENCE (1985, dir. John Hughes) - 37:02 BACK TO SCHOOL (1986, dir. Alan Metter) - 54:08

Climb on board the space station Resurrection, the Sulaco, Fury, and the Auriga as I explore the last four movies in the ALIEN franchise - using in-universe chronological order. Alien: Romulus (2142), Aliens (2179), Alien3 (2179), Alien: Resurrection (2381) For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps indicate when discussion for each begins! ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024, dir. Fede Alvarez) - 0:50 ALIENS (1986, dir. James Cameron) - 21:22 ALIEN3 (1992, dir. David Fincher) - 45:14 ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1997,...

Join me as I discuss three new releases and one I'd missed from earlier this year - SPOILER FREE - for your listening pleasure! UNTIL DAWN (2025, dir. David F. Sandberg) THE NAKED GUN (2025, dir. Akiva Schaffer) FREAKIER FRIDAY (2025, dir. Nisha Ganatra) WEAPONS (2025, dir. Zach Cregger)

Climb on board the USCSS Prometheus, USCSS Covenant, and USCSS Nostromo as I explore the first three movies in the ALIEN franchise - using in-universe chronological order. Prometheus (2093), Covenant (2104), Alien (2122) For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps indicate when discussion for each begins! PROMETHEUS (2012, dir. Ridley Scott) - 1:25 ALIEN: COVENANT (2017, dir. Ridley Scott) - 25:53 ALIEN (1979, dir. Ridley Scott) - 40:45

Join me for a SIX-PACK of new features as I discuss them - SPOILER FREE - for your listening pleasure! THE WOMAN IN THE YARD (2025, Jaume Collet-Serra) HAVOC (2025, Gareth Evans) HAPPY GILMORE 2 (2025, Kyle Newacheck) THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (2025, Matt Shakman) I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2025, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson) TOGETHER (2025, Michael Shanks)

Join me as I take a look at the Golden Age of Hollywood's greatest director of Americana films - FRANK CAPRA! ? For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps indicate when discussion for each begins! THE MIRACLE WOMAN (1931, dir. Frank Capra) - 1:24 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934, dir. Frank Capra) - 12:20 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939, dir. Frank Capra) - 27:55 STATE OF THE UNION (1948, dir. Frank Capra) - 45:56

Join me as I the movies I've seen through the first half of the year, including my Quickies review on James Gunn's Superman. Especially enjoy as I fumble to remember where I am in the Top 25 several times... ...and stay tuned for the 2025 Year-End Review to see which of these movies make it to THAT list!

Join me as I discuss cars that go vroom (an original movie!) and dinosaurs that go for the 7th time in a 3-decade old franchise. Timestamps are when each discussion begins... F1 (2025, dir. Joseph Kosinski) - 0:00 JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH (2025, dir. Gareth Edwards) - 4:50

Join me as I take a DEEP dive into the original Superman, and see how that all translated into a decade of box office cash but diminished returns for the franchise, as I prepare for James Gunn's relaunch of the DC Universe. CAN YOU READ MY MIND? For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps indicate when discussion for each begins! SUPERMAN (1978, dir. Richard Donner) - 3:27 SUPERMAN II (1980, dir. Richard Lester & Richard Donner*) - 24:41 *even if Donner doesn't split credit SUPERMAN III ...

In celebration of America's 249th Anniversary, please join me as I discuss the listeners' pick, my sister's pick, and my friend's pick, all three among my favorite movies of the 90s! TEN HUT! For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps indicate when discussion for each begins! INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996, dir. Roland Emmerich) - 1:00 THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995, dir. Rob Reiner) - 19:15 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998, dir. Steven Spielberg) - 39:22

Join me as I discuss a long-dormant franchise's new entry, Pixar's latest offering, and whether or not Elio's box office performance spells the end of animated original storytelling... Timestamps are when each discussion begins... 28 YEARS LATER (2025, dir. Danny Boyle) - 0:00 ELIO (2025, dir. Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi & Adrian Molina) - 8:13