The rest of it. All Quiet on the Western Front, Top Gun, Women Talking, Tar, The Whale, Elvis, Triangle of Sadness. Plus the shorts, animated movies, and foreign films.

Part one of our Academy Awards recap with one of our oldest e-pals. Covering: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Banshees of Inisherin, Avatar 2, Black Panther 2, Beauty and the Bloodshed, Navalny, Top Gun, The Fabelmans, and Aftersun, more or less in that order.

Rick talks about his failure in Mexico and Tanner goes in on "Lost in Translation" (2003). Subject include the cultural losses due to globalization, Bill Murray, loneliness, Sofia Coppola, and how, every once in a while, when I'm out of town, I really feel like I'm gonna do it.

We welcome back our good friend and filmmaker Casey Puccini to discuss another documentary about trying to get films made, Overnight (2003), the chronicling of Troy Duffy's infamous squandering of his sweetheart Boondock Saints deal due to his ego. We talk opportunities and regrets, the pleasure of watching others fail, Mark Wahlberg, and Tanner almost makes the case for Boondock Saints as a great work of art. 

You didn't think we'd actually do it but we did it: we're back with another ep in just one week, talking about reactionary calls for more purity in cinema and the tendency online people have to revise history when it comes to depictions of sexuality onscreen. Also the green M&M, the death of Mr. Peanut, John Fetterman, getting turned on by the plant from Little Shop of Horrors, the political nature of the Hays Code, and "Brainwashed: Sex Camera Power" (2022). 

Our first solo episode, where Tanner recounts a story about a man he met in the psych ward who offered him money to help end his life. This is the first in what will be an ongoing series of diary-like personal stories centered around mental health, psychiatry, and treatment.