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With Tim in Ireland Ben enlists a tag team of special guests, returning champ Nick (Nyid07) and Jeremy (jmball321) to talk Darren Aronofsky's 2008 masterpiece "The Wrestler". We get into the coolness of pro wrestling, the world that the movie captures in downright uncanny detail, Aronofsky as the dumb guy GOAT, suggest Necro Butcher matches to watch on YouTube and of course we remember so many guys. Also discussed: Stone Cold, The Truman Show, Project Hail Mary, The Alabama Solution, Den of Thieves, Killers of the Flower Moon and the work of Jean Claude Van Dam along with so much more. The Spring of Love will kick off next week when Tim returns for us to talk both the original and the remake of Solaris.

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The boys are back with another episode before Tim left in the first place. This week we are talking one of the coolest to ever do it, Jean-Pierre Melville and his brutally personal mangum opus "Army of Shadows". We dive into another tortured production, talk about the near semi-autobiographical nature of the French Resistance capering, how Le Wokeism kept this movie from most of the world for over 40 years and talk about why every director you think has made cool movies since the 70s probably was influenced by Melville to some extent. Also discussed: Brawl in Cell Block 99, Sometimes I Think About Dying, Paris 13th District plus we both saw Return to Silent Hill and boy does it suck major ass! Ben will return next week with a tag team of special guests to talk Darren Aronofsky's 2008 masterpice "The Wrestler".

Thanks to Disco for the show art and to Eric for the theme music.

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With Tim in Ireland we are back this week with an episode from the old show where we dig into Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's utterly insane 2013 film "The Counselor". Everyone knows this movie sucks but this podcast presupposes that notion.... maybe it's actually awesome? We will return with a new episode next week, the schedule for April will be:

Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)

The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008)

Solaris (Tarkovsky/Soderbergh, 1972/2002)

A Man and a Woman (Lelouch, 1966)

Thanks to Disco for the show art and to Eric for the theme music.

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Tim and Ben are back with Kelly Reichardt's masterfully tense and morally thorny terrorism thriller "Night Moves". Ben argues for her status as one of our most underrated working filmmakers and offers plenty of comparison to 2025's "Mastermind". Together we get into the fantastic Acting on display, the insane tension it builds, how it compares to How To Blow Up a Pipeline and how you can't outrun the consequences of your actions. Also discussed: In the Loop, Undertone (spoilers, like you care), 2001: A Space Odyssey, War Machine plus we preview the Oscars which have already happened and I skipped to watch wrestling instead.

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Tim and Ben are back and have reached the logical end point crap auterism, Ireland's first kung-fu crime thriller "Fatal Deviation". We talk about movie fighting, how this feels legitimately dangerous to watch in places, jam to the rock group Boy Zone, speculate as to what Irish karate might look like and get into all the things you take for granted when you watch a movie that is made by professionals. Also discussed: Hundreds of Beavers, C'était un rendez-vous, Speed Racer and somehow Marathon vs ARC Raiders. All that plus Tim reviews Akira Yamaoka live in concert! We will be back next week with a much better movie as we talk Kelly Reichardt's thorny, ecoterrorism procedural "Night Moves" from 2014 (which stars Dakota, not Elle Fanning).

Thanks as always to Disco for the show art and to Eric for the theme music.

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The boys wrap up the Winter of Torture with the first big studio comedy we have done and sorry, it's a Ben pick so it's still super nasty and unpleasent! We dive into Jody Hill's blacker than black 2009 mall cop comedy "Observe & Report" and talk about how this movie should have been the end of Jody Hill's career, how the complete opposite ended up happening and marvel at how ahead of it's time this movie is in showing a dangerous, mentally ill man trying to become a cop to live out a violent power fantasy and isn't that just 2026 America? All that, plus we examine what it means to have a "perfect comedy penis". Also discussed: Interview with the Vampire (tv), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bone Tomahawk plus impressions from the Marathon server slam. We will be back next week talking Ireland's first kung-fu action flick, 1998's "Fatal Devitation", which is certainly a movie you can watch.

Thanks to Disco for the show art and to Eric for the theme song.

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Tim and Ben go absurdly deep into Lars Von Trier's 2003 black box theater psycological horror small town drama "Dogville". We talk about what the hell this movie actually is, the murder's row cast and what this movie actually says about Our Present Moment as the Winter of Torture climaxes. Plus, Tim kinda defends the infamous sequel "Manderlay" from Ben's weed addled memory. Also discussed: The Atomic Cafe, so many vampire movies, another Red Dead Redemption 2 check-in PLUS Ben remembers Fredrick Wiseman. We will be back next week to complete Ben's trilogy of movies with relevance to 2026 America with Jody Hill's blacker than black mall cop comedy "Observe and Report".

Thanks to Disco for the show art and to Eric for the theme song.

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Ben and Tim are back talking Jordan Peele's 2019 home invasion, horror movie "Us". Ben gets really confused about why this movie exists and Tim provides some analysis that kinda helps even things out. Not crap auterism per se but a baffling movie all the same. Also discussed: Citizen Kane, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Underworld: Evolution, Lost in America, Death Rider: In the House of the Vampire. We will be back next week going deep on Lars Von Trier's 2003 black box Dust Bowl nightmare "Dogville" as the winter of torture continues apace.

Thanks to Disco for the show art and Eric for the theme song.

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Ben and Tim continue to talk crap auterism as they dig into Ryan Gosling's 2014 directorial debut Lost River. We talk non-professional actors, attempt to parse what the hell this movie is actually about and wonder if knowing who David Lynch is good enough to justify making a movie. Also discussed: The Chair Company, Sinners, Doctor Sleep, Memory of a Killer, Let the Right One In, 2000 Meters to Andriivka and Red Dead Redemption 2. Plus, Tim becomes a vampire! We'll be back next week to talk Jordan Peele's 2019 horror thriller "Us", which is not crap but still a deeply confusing movie from a legit auteur.

Thanks to Disco for the show art and Eric for theme music.

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Mangia, mangia bon appetit! Ben and Tim are joined by friend of the show PD to discuss the notorious final film by Pier Paolo Pasolini 1976's "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom". We talk about how the hell you make a movie like this, what is says about Our Current Moment plus share the recipe for homemade poop. This one has to come with a content warning because we get real nasty with this one. Also discussed: Bastarden, Inglourious Basterds, Bugonia, Ballad of a Small Player and Yellowjackets. We will be back next week to talk Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, 2014's Lost River as Tim's "crap auterism" block continues.

Thanks to Disco for the show art and to Eric for the theme music.

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