Serial killers! Box magnates! Millionaire detectives! William Hurt as Kevin Costner's id! Good Dane Cook?!? This week Ian Riggins overcomes the murderous voice in his head and argues that the 2007 psychological thriller Mr. Brooks actually overcomes its overstuffed ideas and succeeds as a bloodthirsty romp.

It's Oscars week! So we decided to go with a timely (negative!) episode. The Inlander's film critic (and noted Citizen Kane stan) Nathan Weinbender drops by to cast David Fincher's Mank - the film which racked up the most 2021 Academy Award nominations - into the proverbial fire like it's some curmudgeonly tycoon's beloved childhood sled.

On the premiere episode of Everything Is Wrong, host Seth Sommerfeld introduces you to the concept of the podcast and then Jason Baxter travels through hyperspace to bring balance to The Force by defending George Lucas's much-maligned Star Wars prequel trilogy in comparison to Disney's much better received Star Wars sequel trilogy.