After being kidnapped and forced to see The Dictator, Fredo goes back to the movies to right this wrong and watch Linklater's latest. Monique joins him in the studio to rave about this movie, and speculate about the future of Jack Black.

Fredo has over the acronym king of the blogosphere Dylan Fields of Man, I Love Films; they discuss family, the future, kids, the cult of office space, tex-mex music, family compounds, and the little known Mike Judge masterpiece known as Idiocracy.

Fredo is taken hostage by Xavier Mendes and Stephanie Maurie and as a form of torture he's taken to see The Dictator, at the same theater where the latest Linklater film Bernie is screening. It's a mortal sin in the Fredoverse to watch a Sasha Baron Cohen movie when a Linklater is available.

Fredo treks to Xavier Mendes' lair in Elgin IL, known for a women's prison and an insane asylum, to watch a bucket-list movie, the 2003 movie Tiptoes. One of the worst of all time. Just how bad is this movie? Just how much of a "role of a lifetime" it is for Gary Oldman. Will the theory that Kate Beckinsale looks good in absolutely everything hold up?

Fredo is joined by Monique, Xavier Mendes, and Frank Romano to celebrate the first summer tentpole of 2012, The Avengers (or Avengers Assemble in the UK) The sound you hear is not rain, but rather Frank's drool dripping with love for Joss Whedon.

This week Monique and Fredo rhapsodize over the action-packed perfection that was the Indonesian martial arts extravaganza The Raid: Redemption. Is this the most perfect action movie ever made?

Fredo and Monique comment on C2E2's cinematic discoveries, stop motion wooden-sworded cute characters, and the intellectually charged youth powered 1993 Linklater masterpiece Slacker.

Frank and Fredo check off another movie on their "have not seen" list of shame, and discuss their experiences in the Vietnam War, the magnetism of Brando and Xavier tries to get them interested in the behind the scenes. Yawn.

Xavier Mendes delves into the intellectual depths of Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, so you don't have to. Seriously, don't. Fredo saw the movie before his lobotomy, so he doesn't remember much.

The Hunger Games! The Tributes! The Books! The shaky camera! The Battle Royale comparisons! Racism! Film Yarn does it all. This show is divided in three acts. This American Life Style! Act I: The Chronicles. Monique and Fredo do the movie on opening weekend. Act II: Battle Royale with Cheese. Nicholas Jobe compares and contrasts The Hunger Games, and Battle Royale Act III: Pop Culture. Friend of the show and pop culture expert Katie Argento discusses the story, the impact on kids, and the internet racism surrounding the casting.