Casting The Net

Misadventures and hilarity when a group of friends have to venture through the wilderness to get a friend's dismembered "appendage" to him before doctors threaten to leave him . . . less of a young man. The folks behind Workaholics try their hand at raunchy teen comedy with The Package.

The internet can be unforgiving, especially for an aspiring MC who becomes a laughing stock after he blows his chance to impress industry professionals at a local music showcase. But when his best friend declares himself bound and determined to right this wrong, they'll have to strap in for one wild night.

This week's episode is tons of fun, as we discuss the wild and outlandish adaptation of the wild and outlandish comic book, Officer Downe. Kim Coates plays the undying police officer in question, who puts his life on the line every night for the badge, even if it kills him . . . which it usually does!

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It's been a while since the last one, but we have a new movie that is sure to be a hate-watch for the ages, as a group of friends trip out on some extraterrestrial bud in the sci-fi/thriller Star Leaf. When James' (Julian Gavilanes) friends take him into the woods to help him get his mind off of his PTSD from being in the military, they'll discover the the most powerful weed in the entire solar system, and they may not be ready for this trip!

This week we're talking about Son of a Gun, where after a harrowing jailbreak, two convicts (Ewan McGreggor and Brenton Thwaites) team up for a gold heist that could have them set for life. But who to trust gets complicated with every twist and turn.

An adolescent girl has to learn to face her demons in the comic book-inspired I Kill Giants, as young Barbara (Madison Wolfe), traverses the woods of her quite coastal suburban town, sworn to protect it from an onslaught of giants. Meanwhile, her overwhelmed sister (Imogen Poots) and a school psychologist (Zoe Saldana) try to help Barbara cope with some life-changing events.

This week, we're seeing what lengths two overworked office assistants will go to to get their respective bosses to hook up, in the Netflix original romantic comedy, Set It Up. If Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell) want more free time to enjoy their lives, they'll pull every trick in the Parent Trap playbook to get their bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggss) to fall in love with each other. Will it work? Does hilarity ensue? Will Creepy Tim (Titus Burgess) find love as well?

This week, we discuss the perils of artificial intelligence as we talk about the sci-fi thriller. When Julie (Maika Monroe) is kidnapped by an obsessive engineer Alex (Ed Skrein), she finds herself bonding with A.I. program that Alex has been developing, Tau (Gary Oldman).

What's the best way to put out a brain fire? This week we discuss the Netflix original film, Brain on Fire, as Chloe Grace Moretz plays Susanna Cahalan, a real-life reporter in New York who experienced neurological episodes that, for a time, no doctor could properly diagnose, ultimately leading to a month-long hospitalization.