Take a scenic tour of beautiful Los Angeles in this week's episode as we discuss Michael Bay's action-packed 2022 flop AMBULANCE

AMBULANCE
DIRECTED BY: Michael Bay
RELEASED: April 8, 2022
STARRING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza Gonzales, Garret Dillahunt
BUDGET: $40m
BOX OFFICE: $52.3m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $30m

NEXT EPISODE: We're going back to the relatively quaint jingoism of 2004 with TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE

0:00 Intro 
4:26 Show & tell
10:38 This week's movie

We're ALIIIIIVE! We're back with a deep dive into late-80s kids sci-fi with Guttenberg-less sequel SHORT CIRCUIT 2

SHORT CIRCUIT 2
RELEASED: July 6, 1988
DIRECTED BY: Kenneth Johnson
STARRING: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Tim Blaney
BUDGET: $15M
BOX OFFICE: $21.6M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $8M 

NEXT EPISODE: We're hitting the road with our old pals Michael Bay and Jake Gyllenhaal for 2022's AMBULANCE

0:00 Intro 
3:51 Show & tell
10:02 This week's movie

We're wrapping up our look back at 2025 with one of the most talked about (and expensive) movies of the year: Paul Thomas Anderson's epic ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
RELEASED: September 8, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson
STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Regina Hall
BUDGET: $175M 
BOX OFFICE: $207M 
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80M

NEXT EPISODE: We go back to the 80s for problematic childhood favorite SHORT CIRCUIT 2. 

SHOW NOTES

Michael Cera CeraVe ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwOpQHeWo4c

0:00 Intro 
2:41 Show & tell
9:04 This week's movie

Bong Joon Ho is back with an original sci-fi movie! Did it make a bunch of money? We wouldn’t be talking about it if it did. It’s MICKEY 17

MICKEY 17
RELEASED: 
DIRECTED BY: Bong Joon Ho 
STARRING: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun 
BUDGET: $118m 
BOX OFFICE: $133m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80m 

NEXT EPISODE: We wrap up our 2025 retrospective 

0:00 Intro 
3:08 Show & tell
8:12 This week's movie

We're heading back into the MCU for one of their best movies in years, that still unfortunately underperformed at the box office. It's the THUNDERBOLTS ASTERISK.

THUNDERBOLTS*
RELEASED: May 2, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Jake Schreier
STARRING: Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gerladine Viswanathan
BUDGET: $180m
BOX OFFICE: $382.4m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $40m

NEXT EPISODE: We cover another 2025 bomb, this time an adaptation of a recent sci-fi novel.

Wheaties popcorn bucket Ian got at the premiere
https://imgur.com/a/LLnSqV2

Quotes about AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY that have us concerned

Alan Cumming
https://imgur.com/a/SOe56l8

Paul Rudd
https://imgur.com/a/GtSLinY

0:00 Intro
3:39 Show & tell
8:49 This week's movie

We're back from our holiday break, and all January we'll be covering some noteworthy box office disappointments from 2025. We'll kick things off with Ari Aster's EDDINGTON

EDDINGTON
RELEASED: July 18, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Ari Aster
STARRING: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Deirdre O'Connell, Michael Ward
BUDGET: $25m
BOX OFFICE: $13.1m 
ESTIMATED LOSS:  $20m

NEXT EPISODE: You'll have to tune in to find out. 

0:00 Intro 
3:00 Show & tell
10:41 This week's movie

We're back! Join us on a trip to the optimistic days of the early 80s as we discuss the extremely bizarre but highly charming sci-fi comedy THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION
RELEASED: August 10, 1984
DIRECTED BY: W.D. Richter
STARRING: Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum
BUDGET: $17m
BOX OFFICE: $6.3m
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: We'll be back in January as we start our 2025 Year-In-Review

0:00 Intro 
2:55 Show & tell
9:36 This week's movie

This week we cover our first, and definitely not our last, Guy Ritchie movie with 2015's throwback spy action comedy THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
RELEASED: August 14, 2015
DIRECTED BY: Guy Ritchie
STARRING: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Debicki
BUDGET: $84m 
BOX OFFICE: $110m 
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80m 

NEXT EPISODE: We get real weird and real 80s with THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION. 

0:00 Intro 
2:52 Show & tell
9:08 This week's movie

We wrap up another successful Blastober with the final film from horror master Clive Barker: it's an interesting mix of cosmic horror and noir, 1995's LORD OF ILLUSIONS

LORD OF ILLUSIONS
RELEASED: August 25, 1995
DIRECTED BY: Clive Barker
STARRING: Scott Bakula, Famke Jannsen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Daniel von Bargen
BUDGET: $11M
BOX OFFICE: $13.3M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $8M

NEXT EPISODE: We're done with the scaries for now and getting into espionage with 2015's Guy Ritchie spy jaunt THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

SHOW NOTES
Swann's fake mustache
https://imgur.com/a/CeeBt7a

0:00 Intro 
3:44 Show & tell
9:00 This week's movie

Blastober barrels forth with 2001's creepy psychological horror FRAILTY! 

FRAILTY
DIRECTED BY: Bill Paxton
RELEASED: April 12, 2002
STARRING: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Luke Askew, Jeremy Sumpter 
BUDGET: $11m
BOX OFFICE: $17,4m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $2m

NEXT EPISODE: We wrap up Blastober with the third and final feature from a Master of Horror. 

SHOW NOTES

Auto shop angel
https://imgur.com/a/6Q7J43s

Scenes of Meat, TX
https://imgur.com/a/g1kxxFn

0:00 Intro 
3:45 Show & tell
8:30 This week's movie