Allen, Gerald, and Lacey return after a long hiatus to continue the good work of watching every single comic book movie ever made. Picking up right where we left off, this episode tries to focus on the oft-maligned Thor: The Dark World. Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in full swing here, and the footing isn't exactly firm, and the creative vision is a little cloudy. Join us as we reflect on how far the MCU has come, the essential challenges of telling a story about a god of limitless power, the struggles of talking about a movie with a lot of action and no consequences, and Gerald's inability to shut up about Kat Dennings.

Allen, Gerald, and Lacey reconvene for a belated birthday special! Allen's choice this year was Dark City, one of his all-time favorite films.

Spooky month continues! This week brings us the 1982 George A. Romero/Stephen King team-up Creepshow! Were we spooked? Is this movie scary? Do we still love Ted Danson despite Becker? Did Leslie Nielsen ruin his own career with comedies? Why was Adrienne Barbeau a sex symbol? Find out!

Spooky month begins proper as the crew jumps back to 2007 to pick up the 30 Days Of Night, which was forgotten on the main run. It's not very spooky, but it's where we're starting all the same.

It's Lacey Day's birthday! To celebrate, the crew had to watch her birthday selection, 1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Kristy Swanson as the titular character, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, Paul Reubens, David Arquette, and Hilary Swank.

EJ Moreno joins Allen, Gerald, and Lacey to defend Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. The 2013 reimagining of Superman at the hands of Christopher Nolan and David Goyer, filtered through a Snyder's lens is highly divisive, splitting critics and fans alike. This dynamic translates to here, as everyone very politely disagrees with one another.

The crew watches Shane Black's Iron Man 3 and decide that it's the best movie since Batman Forever. Allen copes with his favorite C-tier character from his childhood becoming the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Should you just immediately start sleeping with your dead spouse's clone? These are the big questions we're here to answer, as the crew watches 2013's Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, and marking Joseph Kosinki's second directorial effort, following up the critical and box office disappoint of Tron: Legacy. Based off of an unpublished graphic novel by Kosinski himself.

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The crew watches Walter Hill's Bullet to the Head, starring Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Jason Momoa, and Christian Slater. It has an axe fight in it, and that's enough to amuse one of us.

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In what is certainly the most contentious episode this podcast has ever experienced, Alan Hardy joins the regular crew to side with Gerald in defense of Christopher Nolan's final Batman film, as Allen and Lacey find few redeeming qualities in the in the trilogy's closing chapter. Allen struggles to lay this monolith to rest and close the book on one of his biggest cinematic disappointments, while Gerald contemplates if he can even do this podcast anymore.