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This week, we're back with a belated 4/20 celebration, watching the movie who's own early 90s marketing campaign encouraged filmgoers to "watch it with a bud", Richard Linklater's 1993 high school classic DAZED AND CONFUSED. This one is a Hayley Hasn't Seen, despite the fact she's owned it for roughly 13 years without ever popping it in the player, and perhaps the movie's stoner reputation scared her away as someone who does not partake.

But before we can get into a certified five-star classic, we must take the opportunity to gush about another film some are saying that could also describe, and that's John Wick: Chapter 4, which we should be free to talk about now because if you really wanted to see it at this point and haven't, like... what is your problem?

Come back next week when we're joined by guest Jackson McDonald for a recap of the absolutely horrendous made-for-TV biopic, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.

And as always, special thanks to Eastman Presser for our music and Sydney Beaudin for our cover art.

We shift gears wildly from last week's animated family fun to a blood-soaked, neon-drenched revenge thriller, as we synch up with today's theatrical release of Renfield to discuss 2018's Mandy, written and directed by Panos Cosmatos, starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache. It's a movie very much of a pattern for Cage alongside Pig, A Color Out of Space and even Drive Angry. Plus J Mo has field reports on trips to the theatre to see Creed III and 65, while Hayley makes the case for Scream as brunette culture.

Thank you Eastman Presser for our theme music and Sydney Beaudin for our cover art!

Despite what we teased at the end of this episode, we will back next week honouring 4/20 with a hang-out movie for the ages: Richard Linklater's 1993 classic Dazed and Confused.

This week, it's Mel Gibson leading a pack of chickens out of a POW death camp in the British claymation classic, 2000's Chicken Run! That's right, Music Month is over, though discussion does return to music bio-pics before the show is over.

Plus: Having just seen Knock At The Cabin, Hayley and Justin get into it about the Shyamalan revival, with The Visit, Old and Knock arguably making him a must-see director again. And J Mo froths at the mouth recalling being held captive on an airplane by a Hugh Grant movie with a premise so boring you'll have to hear it to believe it.

At the time of this show's release Chicken Run is available to stream on Crave in Canada, and on Peacock in the United States. If you'd like to watch along before our discussion. And we kind of recommend you do, it was good!

This week on the pod... the wrong kid died! Music Month closes out with one last bio-pic -- the music movie parody that renders all the serious attempts that follow it laughable in how closely they hew to the cartoonish comedy of this brilliant send-up. It's 2007's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, directed by Jake Kasdan, co-written by Kasdan and Judd Apatow, and starring John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer and Kristen Wiig. It's the perfect capstone for the first month of the podcast, a movie that Hayley has never seen and Justin has watched countless times.

If you'd like to watch along with us, the movie is currently streaming free on the CTV app in Canada.

We'll be back next week with the British claymation classic Chicken Run.

Music Month continues with a classic comedy of the 80s, while Justin and Hayley struggle with how to talk about a movie that is clearly exceptionally crafted but just so happens to be directed by one the great bastards of cinema: Hayley's unproblematic fave, the child-murdering John Landis. While so many hit comedies of its day have not stood the test of time, does The Blues Brothers still hold up? Your intrepid hosts are eager to find out.

PLUS: Recorded in the immediate aftermath of last year's spooky season, we discuss the many works of James Wan, and pick a side in the Team Edward vs Team Jacob battle that is the Twilight Saga. And Justin spends a little time with The Blues Brothers' Super Nintendo tie-in game.

We'll be back next week to wrap up Music Month with Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Justin and Hayley are back to review the film that spawned the entire idea for the podcast, a movie that had been collecting dust on J Mo's shelf for sixteen and a half years without ever having been watched: 2004's Ray, written and directed by Taylor Hackford, and starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington and Regina King, for which Foxx won the Academy Award for Best Actor. After starting the show last week with an unconventional music bio-pic, Music Month continues this time around with a movie that wallows in convention to such an extent it is often flirting with self-parody.

If you want to watch along before you listen to the show, Ray is streaming in Canada on Amazon Prime and Starz at the time of publication, while it can be streamed free in the United States on Tubi. We'll be back again next week with John Landis's The Blues Brothers.

It's the first episode! Hayley and Justin kick off Music Month on the pod with a movie that is sort of a bio-pic, sort of a meditation on the pointlessness of bio-pics in general, and a great excuse to get a ton of great bands together and record some wonderful covers of Bob Dylan's more obscure songs. Yes it's 2007's I'm Not There, the only movie that both of your intrepid hosts had each added to their collections without ever watching. We do our best to summarize a rather unsummarizable film, pick our Best Bobs, and fantasy-cast which actors would have made great Dylans.

All that plus a general movie chat that ranges from Thor: Love and Thunder to Tenet, and Hayley explains the merits of spoiling yourself for horror movies. Thanks for listening.

NEW SHOW OVER HERE. Yes that's right, we're putting out a trailer just to have something on the feed so that people can already be subscribed when real episodes start to drop. It's a movie podcast about watching the DVDs and Blu-rays we own, and in some cases have owned for decades now without ever actually sitting down and pressing play. Every week Justin and Hayley sit down to watch something that's been collecting dust on one of their respective shelves, review the movie, and dish on whatever they're currently hyper-fixated on.

FULL EPISODES COMING VERY SOON.