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May 13, 2025 Clown in a Cornfield
INSTANT REACTION: A fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.
20 min
May 07, 2025Top Grossing Movies of 2008, Ranked Part II
EP 196: 2008’s Box Office Countdown (5–1) – Jokers, Jones, and ABBA (ft. Phoenix Clouden)
Episode Description:
Jason is joined by the ever unpredictable Phoenix Clouden (The Film Canon) to finish the epic climb through 2008’s biggest box office hits! This is the top 5 where caped crusaders, crystal skulls, pandas, demigods, and dancing queens battled for cinematic dominance.
It's a strange mix of gritty realism, nostalgic absurdity, and pop musical euphoria
Films Discussed:
Mamma Mia! (5) – Meryl, ABBA, and summer dreams you can sorta almost sing along to.
Hancock (4) – A drunken antihero gets a redemption arc, and the movie continues.
Kung Fu Panda (3) – The animated surprise that kicks harder than anyone expects.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2) – Aliens? Fridges? And the first real internet backlash blockbuster.
The Dark Knight (1) – Ledger’s Joker, Nolan’s vision, and the box office juggernaut that changed the game. But is it...good?
IN THIS EPISODE:
Phoenix defends Kung Fu Panda as top-tier animation with real heart and craft.
Jason revisits Hancock and some tone deaf creative choices.
Can Mamma Mia! actually work as a movie?
Was Crystal Skull ever really that bad, or just a victim of overhype?
And does The Dark Knight still hold up as the superhero movie to beat?
2 hr 43 min
April 29, 2025TOP GROSSING MOVIES OF 2008, RANKED PART I
EPISODE 195: 2008’s Box Office Countdown (10–6) – Iron, Espionage, Penguins, and Robots (ft. Robert Yaniz Jr. & DW Lundberg)
Episode Description:
The countdown continues! Jason is joined by returning guests Robert Yaniz Jr. and DW Lundberg to tackle the back half of 2008’s top-grossing movies—where talking animals, malfunctioning robots, and emotionally exhausted spies battled it out for box office supremacy.
This batch has it all: MCU beginnings, Pixar magic, Bond reboot blues, and a certain talking lion who just can't catch a break.
Films Discussed:
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (6) – The animals are back and... still trying to get home.
Quantum of Solace (7) – Bond is brooding, brutal, and possibly bored.
Iron Man (8) – The movie that launched a universe (and Robert Downey Jr. into legend).
WALL·E (9) – A near-silent ode to love, loneliness, and environmental collapse.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (10) – Slightly darker, slightly edgier, but did anyone notice?
IN THIS EPISODE:
Was Quantum of Solace an artistic casualty of the 2008 writers' strike?
How Iron Man became a bigger gamble than anyone remembers.
Why WALL·E might be Pixar’s boldest and most bittersweet gamble.
Robert, DW, and Jason try to answer the eternal question: "Who actually watched Prince Caspian?"
From Armored Avengers to existential robots, the back half of 2008’s top 10 is more influential than you might think.
2 hr 26 min
April 22, 2025John Milius, Ranked
EPISODE 195: An American Original! – No apologies, no half-measures, all fire. (ft. Joe Buttice)
Episode Description:
This week, Jason is joined by Joe Buttice (Reel Spoilers) to lock and load a ranking of five films tied to the myth, the man, the cigar-smoking cinema warlord: John Milius. Whether writing frontier survival epics or directing operatic war fantasies, Milius brought a thunderous, unapologetic voice to American film.
Strap in for manifest destiny, surfboard theology, Cimmerian steel, and teenage guerrilla warfare.
Films Ranked:
Jeremiah Johnson (1972, writer) – The loner as legend in a snow-covered survivalist western.\
Dillinger (1973) – Milius’s directorial debut, mixing gangster cool with mythic Americana.
Big Wednesday (1978) – A lyrical, wave-soaked ode to brotherhood and the end of an era.
Conan the Barbarian (1982) – Barbarism, Nietzsche, and epic vengeance in the Hyborian Age.
Red Dawn (1984) – Wolverines! Teenage insurgents defend America in a Cold War fever dream.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Joe defends Red Dawn as both fantasy and prophecy
Jason meditates on Big Wednesday as the most personal of war films
The complicated politics, masculine myth-making, and the man behind the bombast
2 hr 44 min
April 18, 2025 Sinners (2025)
INSTANT REACTION:
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
23 min
April 15, 2025Criterion Collection Vol 2, Ranked
EPISODE 194: Elegant, epic, existential, and electric. Volume 2 goes to 11 (ft. Megan Kearns)

Episode Description:
Jason returns to the closet of cinema history to crack open another stack from the Criterion Collection! From enchanted castles and sinking ships to philosophical chess matches, outback odysseys, and the loudest band in England, this lineup is as diverse as it is iconic.
Films Ranked:
Beauty and the Beast (1946) – Cocteau’s poetic dreamscape of love and transformation.
A Night to Remember (1958) – The definitive Titanic film, long before Leo and Kate.
Walkabout (1971) – A haunting vision of isolation, survival, and cultural collision.
The Seventh Seal (1957) – Bergman’s meditation on mortality, meaning, and the black plague.
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – The rockumentary that turned it up to eleven... and never came back down.
Jason and Megan wrestle with the big questions: Could anyone make the Seventh Seal today? Does Spinal Tap still hit as hard in the age of memes? Is A Night to Remember secretly the most profound film of the bunch? And where does Walkabout fit into the pantheon of coming-of-age stories?
ALSO:
Cocteau’s magic mirrors and movie sorcery
The layers beneath the surface of A Night to Remember
Existential laughs in chain mail
Why the line between satire and reality might be thinner than we think
2 hr 19 min
April 08, 2025David Lynch, Ranked
EPISODE 193: Through a Dream, Darkly — Ranking David Lynch (ft. Molly Razz)
Episode Description:
This week, we tumble headfirst into the subconscious as Jason is joined by the enigmatic Molly Razz to rank five of David Lynch’s most haunting cinematic visions. From industrial nightmares and small-town secrets to Hollywood hallucinations, we tackle the big questions:
What is real? What is a performance? And where does that damn radiator song keep coming from?
Films Ranked:
Eraserhead (1977)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Is Eraserhead a surreal masterpiece or an anxiety dream gone on too long? Is Fire Walk with Me the secret key to Twin Peaks? Does Mulholland Drive mark the apex of Lynch’s dream logic? And how many mysteries can be packed into one velvet curtain?
Molly brings razor-sharp insight, Jason brings existential dread, and together they attempt the impossible: ranking the unrankable.
PLUS:
The legacy of Lynchian dread
The fine art of being uncomfortable
Molly’s theory on Blue Velvet and American repression
A brief trip into the Black Lodge (we think)
2 hr 47 min
March 21, 2025 Black Bag (2025)
INSTANT REACTION: Five original films hit theaters and failed to draw audiences. When we say we want more original movies who are "we" and do "we" mean it?
27 min
February 14, 2025 The Monkey (2025)
Instant Reaction: Everybody dies. And that’s fucked up.
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
23 min
February 11, 2025 Heart Eyes (2025)
INSTANT REACTION: No couple is safe.
When the “Heart Eyes Killer” strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine’s Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now, they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.
23 min

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