Flicking and Screaming

The boys take a look at the top earners at the box office in 2025. What went right, and what took a surprising left turn? What genres still matter at the box office? Have sports movies and superhero movies been left behind? Plus, Jed gives his thoughts on how the younger generations experience the magic of the movie theater.

Happy New Year, friends, family, magazine writers, painters, criminals, muses, cops, and chefs! We are approaching the end of our Wes Anderson retrospective, but did the release date of THE FRENCH DISPATCH impact its legacy? What would we call *our* favorite Wes Anderson tricks and features? Plus: because we can't help ourselves, another extended James Bond tangent.

We're breaking down the Lazarus door to investigate Benoit Blanc's third mystery. But is it even Blanc's movie? Do these films require an autumnal setting to succeed? Plus: we love and miss Rob Reiner, and a tangent on the best looking Netflix originals.

Wes Anderson's return to stop motion gives us pawse. Is this film all bark and no bite? Are the movie's politics deep enough for us to sink our teeth into? Plus: someone put a leash on Chip's Liev Schreiber take!

We thought about cutting the end of the episode and replaying the same 45 minutes twice, but couldn't bring ourselves to commit so deeply to the bit. Let's get nihilistic!

This podcast may not be an institution yet, but that hotel in the spa town of Nebelsbad below the Alpine Sudetenwaltz certainly is.

The brothers of the podcast call upon another brother droog, Dylan, to assist in a collective, collaborative ranking of this infamous director's filmography.

It won't be the last time our Wes Anderson series brings us to talking about a movie we've already covered, but MOONRISE KINGDOM was an early controversial episode, thanks to a certain kid-hating host . . . will cooler heads prevail on this contentious episode*?

* admittedly, this is total clickbait

Courage, Bob.

Courage.

It's the movie event of the year.

Boggis, Bunce, and Bean

One fat, one short, one lean

These horrible crooks, so different in looks

But nonetheless equally mean

Evan, Jed, and Chip

All smart and keen and 'quipped

To hang with The Fox and give us their Talks

At a delightfully comedic clip