Bigger Movie Pod

In this episode Rob and Darren review the 2012 film, Jack Reacher. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.

In this episode Rob and Darren review the 2011 film, The Ides of March. An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

On the show this week, Rob and Darren discuss High Fidelity. Rob Gordon, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

This week we're watching Gold. Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a  similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the  uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

Turn's out Darren has never seen SpaceJam, and Rob's cycling challenge is heating up.

Special thanks to Matt, Junior and Imperial. 

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In this episode we take a look at Ex_Machina! Caleb Smith, a young programmer, gets a chance to become a part of a strange scientific experiment where he is expected to assess artificial intelligence by interacting with a female robot.

In this episode we take a look at The Dark Tower. A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known  as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and  open the gates of Hell.

In this episode we take a look at Captain Fantastic - Ben and Leslie Cash live largely off the grid with their offspring  -- Bodevan, Kielyr, Vespyr, Rellian, Zaja and Nai -- in a cabin in the  mountains of Washington state. The parents have passed their socialist  and survivalist ideals to their children. Ben considers most of Western  society to be fascist, especially corporate America. He also believes  that no one will or should be there for you, so you'd better learn how  to take care of yourself. As such, the children have been subject to  vigorous physical training; know how to deal with minor bumps, bruises,  cuts, sprains, and even fractures; and know how to hunt, forage, and  grow their own food. The children are also non-registered home schooled,  meaning that they have no official academic records. Ben and Leslie  have tried to make the children critical thinkers, however, within the  context of their ideals. Beyond these issues, Ben and Leslie made the  decision to live this lifestyle for Leslie's health.

In this episode we take a look at this cult comedy. Puppeteer Craig Schwartz and animal lover and pet store clerk Lotte  Schwartz are just going through the motions of their marriage. Despite  not being able to earn a living solely through puppeteering, Craig loves his profession as it allows him to inhabit the skin of others. He  begins to take the ability to inhabit the skin of others to the next  level when he is forced to take a job as a file clerk for the off-kilter  LesterCorp, located on the five-foot tall 7½ floor of a Manhattan  office building. Behind one of the filing cabinets in his work area,  Craig finds a hidden door which he learns is a portal into the mind of John Malkovich,  the visit through the portal which lasts fifteen minutes after which  the person is spit into a ditch next to the New Jersey Turnpike. Craig is fascinated by the meaning of life associated with this finding.  Lotte's trips through the portal make her evaluate her own self. And the  confident Maxine Lund, one of Craig's co-workers who he tells about the  portal if only because he is attracted to her, thinks that it is a  money making opportunity in selling trips into Malkovich's mind after  office hours for $200 a visit. Craig, Lotte and Maxine begin to  understand that anyone entering the portal has the ability to control  Malkovich's mind, which also alters his entire being. This experience  makes Maxine fall in love with a composite. This ability to control  Malkovich's mind begs the question of the ultimate psychedelic trip for  Malkovich himself, who begins to feel that something is not right in the  world as he knows it.

In this episode we take a look at Animal Kingdom. A 2010 Australian crime drama film written and directed by David Michôd and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, James Frecheville, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, and Sullivan Stapleton. After his mother overdoses, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody (Jacki Weaver), for help, and she invites him to move in with her. Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her home as a base. Her home is also being watched by cops who are looking for her oldest son, Andrew "Pope" Cody (Ben Mendelsohn), who is in hiding. The volatile middle brother, Craig (Sullivan Stapleton), deals drugs successfully enough to have bought the house for his mother. The youngest brother, Darren (Luke Ford), follows the lead of his siblings, while family friend "Baz" (Joel Edgerton) leads the gang, which specialises in armed robbery.