Beating a Dead Horse

We're back with a vengeance. Dragon Ball References? Check. Child Hate? Check. Inscrutable themes that may or may not exist, depending on how you view the movie? ABSOLUTELY.

Its 1987's deeply stupid (but very enjoyable) Predator! 

This week, we return to Star Wars and complain about the first movie, chronologically speaking! From Jar-Jar (you know we're gonna talk about him) to how Qui-Gon is just the absolute worst, this episodes got it all!

Jackson is far, far away living the dream of all weebs. Meanwhile, Sean is stuck without his usual cohost, so we'd like to introduce our first ever guest, Cori!

Cori brings with her Little Miss Sunshine, a surprisingly funny exercise in misery!

This is a very special episode for us. We're both in town together, we got to sit down and watch the film together, its all about togetherness.

Its also a nightmare of a movie with a mind boggling plot, an insane cast and no explanation of how it came to be.

In this episode Jackson comes clean, Sean becomes the villain and we talk all about the wild switching between incredibly dark moments and happy time road-trip that is The Darkest Minds!

Also, we have bonus shout-outs to the Art Your Way Foundation, a non-profit that looks to work with bullied youth through art!

This Friday, August 10th is their first event, a silent art auction featuring some great local Columbus bands. Tickets are available here. Not in Columbus, but still want to support them? Like them over on Facebook, Follow them on Twitter and check out their site over at aywfoundation.com!

Mission Impossible: Fallout feels like an old school action movie in the best possible way - hear us discuss this as well as how death and tension really help it out!

We got a bit of a shorter episode for you this week because we are two super white dudes and you should really take in media from people closer to this issue. That said, its a great f*cking movie and you should all watch it.

Go read:

A.T. McWilliams - Sorry to Bother You, Black Americans and the power and peril of code-switching

Briahna Gray - You Say You Want a Revolution? The Anti-Capitalist Film "Sorry To Bother You" Shows the Way

Stereo Williams - 'Sorry to Bother You' Is a Searing, Surreal Indictment of White America

Jordan Minor - Sorry to Bother You and Other Black Animal Analogies

Yeah the title is a little up our own butts, but hey, so is the episode over this charming, charming documentary.

Sources:

James Bridle: Something is wrong on the internet

We've been debating death for a year now, so we take the opening of this show to answer some audience questions! What was REALLY the first episode? Is Hurricane Heist actually worse than The Star Wars Holiday Special?

Plus, we dive into the Purge series with both the first Purge and The First Purge! Its not confusing at all!

JW:FK is everything we wanted Hurricane Heist to be. Dumb, nonsensical and all around so-bad-its-good.

So we rip it apart and talk about why it sucked! And even discuss how death plays into that - Novel in a podcast about death in movies, we know!