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It’s our shortest episode ever- Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and The Secret Life of Pets are pretty self-explanatory– and good!

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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates earns its R-rating, but its four leads are so charismatic it’s hard to dislike them, even if they’re being sociopathic douches. Very funny, and very wrong. Andy gives it 7/10

The Secret Life of Pets is a bulletproof concept, even if its plot is a little formulaic. Kevin Hart as Snowball the bunny steals the movie. Adam gives it 8/10 and Andy is at 7.5/10.

Lots of movies for the Fourth of July weekend! We start with The Legend of Tarzan, The Purge: Election Year, The BFG, and Swiss Army Man.

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The Legend of Tarzan – 4/10

The Purge: Election Year – 6.5/10

The BFG – 7.5/10

Swiss Army Man – 8/10

This week we take on Blake Lively’s shark attack movie The Shallows, Matthew McConaughey fights for good ol’ boy southern freedom and equality for people of all races in the Civil War drama Free State of Jones, and we bitch about how awful Independence Day: Resurgence  is. Warning: spoilers. Luckily, this movie is spoiler-proof, as it comes pre-spoiled for your convenience.

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The big movie of the week is Finding Dory, and stick around to the end for our late-breaking In Memoriam to Anton Yelchin.  Random topics in this episode: better than popcorn but not as good as caramel apple sucker, Octodad. Pixar sequels and best Pixar movies, judging on the Spider-Man scale, seeing The Shallows and Jaws on the water, and buy your tickets for The Killing Joke for July 25th.

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It’s Warcraft, The Conjuring 2, and Now You See Me 2. We also get sidetracked talking about Patrick Wilson for a few minutes and see our list of 13 original movies that came out this year in case you’re tired of sequels, reboots and adaptations.

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It’s our birthday episode! Also we review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. We also celebrate our birthday and reminisce about the last year, how we got into reviewing movies, etc.

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We review Alice: Through the Looking Glass and recap our previous reviews of The Lobster and X-Men: Apocalypse.

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Don’t listen to the cynical critics about X-Men: Apocalypse, which is out this week and Andy and Adam previously gave a 7 and an 8 to, respectively. Did you not hear that episode? Stay a while and listen!

Alice: Through the Looking Glass – The Hatter is Madder and only Alice can help him. Time Travel. It looks nice! Johnny Depp’s vocal affectation. Sacha Baron Cohen’s accent. Adam is meh on it and gives it a 5. Andy holds all time travel movies to a higher standard and gives it a 4. Brooke says we’re entirely too harsh and kids will love it and gives it a 6.

Also don’t forget that the Sundance movie  The Lobster  is out this week in theaters– but you can also catch it at home on video on demand or dvd if you’d prefer that. Adam gave it a 7, and if you’re complaining about Hollywood not doing enough original, then go support this.

Andy and Adam have major disagreements on Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, and we review The Nice Guys and Angry Birds. Then we talk about the controversy around Ghostbusters. . . and “ethics in film journalism.”

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Worst to first means we start with Angry Birds. We don’t need this much backstory.  Bright, colorful, and definitely Angry Birds, but that doesn’t make it a great movie. Andy gives it 3/10 and has a more full review here.

We drastically disagree on Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. Andy thinks it’s a bit been-there, done-that for the main storyline, but it adds a layer of social commentary and a nice heart that is excellent. Adam says this movie is everything that is wrong with America. It’s basically Donald Trump in movie form. We have dueling reviews here (Andy’s positive one- 7/10) and here (Adam’s negative one- 1/10).

What we both agree you should go see is The Nice Guys. It’s very Shane Black-y. Gosling and Crowe are both having a blast here. It’s the little details in the script that really make this work. Both of us give this a 9/10 and Andy has a more full review here.

Ghostbusters. Choosing which movies we see and review. Is the Angry Video Game Nerd a film critic? No. But he has 2,000,000 Youtube subscribers! “Well, actually…”

(Andy would like to apologize to Kim Kardashian for a factual misstatement on the podcast for underestimating her age.  With a birthdate of October 21, 1980, she will turn 35 a whopping 18 days before Election Day, November 8, making her 2 1/2 weeks being Constitutionally eligible to be our president.  You go, girl? I guess.)

Aristotle and Batman. Rhymes with “sexism.”

This week we review X-Men: Apocalypse, Money Monster, and talk a lot about boob windows and if they’re sexist or not. #FassbenderPeenWindow

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Money Monster should have been more exciting. Script is kind of boring and never delves into why we should care. Unlike The Big Short, which had Margot Robbie in a bubble bath to help explain boring finance and economics. Andy doesn’t remember Selena Gomez’s name.  Adam gives it a forgettable 5/10. Go watch The Big Short and Hail, Caesar! instead.

X-Men: Apocalypse is the third movie in the rebooted X-Men universe. Plays out a little like a Greatest Hits but is still incredibly fun. That Quicksilver scene, though. Apocalypse is a boring villain who’d rather fuss over costumes Tim Gunn style than actually be menacing. Wasted opportunities with great characters and great actors.

The Great Boob Window Debate of 2016.

You can read a roundtable review Adam and Andy participated in here, but [spoiler alert] Adam gives it 8/10 and Andy 7/10. 

We almost come to blows over Captain America 3: Civil War, as the redoubtable Brooke Heym argues for Team Iron Man against Andy and Adam, still on Team Cap.

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Minor plot spoilers, but nothing major.  We will do a spoiler-filled deep dive in a few weeks.

The moral dimensions of the debate. Loyalty. Did Brooke watch a different movie from Andy? Cap is the arrogant, shortsighted one.

All 10 heroes get a character arc. The quiet, talky moments in between the action. The comedy tempers the depressing parts. The Empire Strikes Back of the MCU.

Brooke gives this a 8.5 or 9, Andy and Adam are both at 10.