Hard Ticket

By Jeffrey Boggess

You're walking up to the theater to catch a double feature, only to find that both movies are playing at the exact same time! Now you've got a hard ticket to choose between the two. Which one will you... more

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The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.

Hard Ticket episodes:

August 21, 2026 51. "The Shining Carriage" (with Dr. Ethan Lyon!) - The Phantom Carriage vs. The Shining
It’s a hard ticket between The Shining and The Phantom Carriage. Which one will you watch? Let’s decide!
Decades before Jack Torrance would tear down the halls of the Overlook Hotel terrorizing his family, David Holm would take an axe to the only door standing between him and his own family. That’s right, the most famous scene from The Shining, and possibly Kubrick’s whole career, is stolen. But that’s okay, we’re pretty sure that Victor Sjöström — or “Big Vick,” as we call him — wouldn’t mind.
We’ve recruited Dr. Ethan Lyon to help us dissect these ghostly tales of misogyny. What is The Shining really about? Why do men chase women (and children)? And what pimped out ride is the phantom carriage driver rolling up in in 2026? All this and more in this week’s Hard Ticket!
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1h 30min
August 14, 2026 The Blind Spots: Catch Me If You Can
Jeff and Josh are tackling one of Spielberg's most popular flicks for Spielberg Summer. Did you know that Catch Me If You Can has been logged more times on Letterboxd than any other Spielberg movie? We're kinda baffled, actually. Could this be a true blind spot?
So, this week, we're getting to the bottom of whether or not this crime caper truly warrants the phrase "What? You like movies and you've never seen Catch Me If You Can?" Well, we have now. Let's rap about it.
Email - ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠Jeff's Profile⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠Josh's Profile⁠⁠⁠
Blue Sky Link - ⁠⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠⁠⁠
Instagram Link - ⁠⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠
Chapters:
0:00 - Act I
17:29 - Act II
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1h 3min
August 07, 2026 50. "Avatron" - Tron vs. Avatar
It's a hard ticket between Tron and Avatar. Which one will you watch? Let's decide!
This week's heroes find themselves strangers in a strange land: the lush forests of Pandora and the neon circuits of the INCOM server. Has humanity's technology freed it or kept it a slave? All we know is... if you die in your fake body, you die in real life!
James Cameron's technical marvel makes a great companion for Steven Lisberger's ambitious CGI experiment. Both movies were well ahead of their times, yet both reflect those times to a fault. Nevertheless, prepare yourself for total immersion.
Email - ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeff's Profile⁠⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Tristan's Profile⁠⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠Grayson's Profile⁠⁠
Blue Sky Link - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠⁠⁠⁠
Instagram Link - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠
Chapters:
0:00 - Act I
15:41 - Act II
56:54 - Act III
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1h 9min
July 31, 2026 49. "Jawrassic Park 3: The Lost D" (with Grayson Taylor!) - The Lost World: Jurassic Park vs. Jaws 3-D
It's a hard ticket between The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jaws 3-D. Which one will you watch? Let's decide!
Actually, this ticket probably isn't very hard for most people. Nevertheless, we're continuing Spielberg Summer by taking a look at the legacy of two of the auteur's biggest blockbusters. One he actually returned for, the other he saw chummed up and thrown to the bloodthirsty masses. Either way, neither could capture the essence of their predecessor. But do they capture a spark at all?
We invited our long-time friend Grayson Taylor on this week's episode, mainly due to the fact that he's an avid Jaws 3-D defender and apologist, as Tristan would say. What do you think? Is the time for a reevaluation finally upon us, or does this movie bomb just as hard today as it did in the eighties?
Email - ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠Jeff's Profile⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠Tristan's Profile⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠Grayson's Profile⁠
Blue Sky Link - ⁠⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠⁠⁠
Instagram Link - ⁠⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠
Chapters:
0:00 - Act I
12:48 - Act II
50:07 - Act III
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1h 4min
July 24, 2026 The Blind Spots: The Hangover
Tristan hasn't seen The Hangover. You know what that means? It's his first turn on the hot seat of The Blind Spots, our miniseries where we determine conclusively whether or not a movie warrants the ancient phrase "What? You like movies and you've never seen ______??"
What do you all think? Do you think The Hangover is a classic comedy blind spot that everyone should see? Is it a favorite of yours? Because, if so, maybe you should skip this one...
Email - ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeff's Profile⁠⁠⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Tristan's Profile⁠⁠⁠⁠
Blue Sky Link - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠⁠⁠⁠
Instagram Link - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠⁠
Chapters:
0:00 - Act I
17:58 - Act II
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1h 6min
July 17, 2026 48. "Freddy Guy One" (with Scrambled!) - Free Guy vs. Ready Player One
It’s a hard ticket between Ready Player One and Free Guy. Which one will you watch? Let’s decide!
Spielberg Summer continues, but they can’t all be winners. RP1 is surely one of the auteur’s more decisive works, but does his vision still prevail? We put it up against Free Guy to see whether a shinier veneer works better for this story if the exceptional(ly online) individual.
And returning to the studio is Letterboxd user Scrambled, who initially suggested the idea of Spielberg Summer and has opinions of their own. Take a deep breath, folks. Your virtual Hard Ticket experience begins now.
Email - ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠Jeff's Profile⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠Tristan's Profile⁠⁠
Letterboxd - Scrambled's Profile
Blue Sky Link - ⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠⁠
Instagram Link - ⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠
Chapters:
0:00 - Act I
11:51 - Act II
58:43 - Act III
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1h 9min
July 10, 2026 47. "Ice, Tonya" (with Adaptive Difficulty!) - Ice Princess vs. I, Tonya
It's a hard ticket between Ice Princess and I, Tonya. Which one will you watch? Let's decide!
That's right, it's a Disney flick vs. Allison Janney's shameless string of atomic f-bombs. What could these two movies possibly have in common besides the occasional pair of ice skates? Well, despite one being a very direct adaptation of the real-life Tonya Harding scandal, the other may be even more directly informed by it.
So, seeing that this is something of an "adaptive" matchup, we invited Josh and Cameron from Adaptive Difficulty on this week's episode. These guys cover adaptations on a weekly basis, so who better than to gauge these decidedly non-princess-related flicks?
Email - ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠Jeff's Profile⁠⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠⁠Tristan's Profile⁠⁠
Blue Sky Link - ⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠⁠
Instagram Link - ⁠⁠Hard Ticket⁠
Chapters:
0:00 - Act I
10:51 - Act II
59:15 - Act III
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1h 11min
July 03, 2026 46. "Close Arrivals of the Third Kind" (with Davis Rohrer!) - Arrival vs. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
It's a hard ticket between Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Arrival. Which one will you watch? Let's decide!
Spielberg Summer continues with the man's first stab at the extraterrestrial. And what better movie to pair it with than the film boy's contemporary holy text Arrival? These two have more in common than just alien invaders; they put their protagonists up against one of the most terrifying yet tantalizing unknowns humanity can face: parenting.
That's why we invited our old friend Davis Rohrer onto this week's episode. Davis is a fresh dad, an award-winning moviemaker and a shameless Denis Villeneuve fan through and through. Have the scales been appropriately balanced, or does one of these movies run circles around the other? Tell us what you think in the comments below!
YouTube - 6 Shop Films
A Film by Davis Rohrer - Trial 54
Email - ⁠[email protected]⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠Jeff's Profile⁠
Letterboxd - ⁠Tristan's Profile⁠
Blue Sky Link - ⁠Hard Ticket⁠
Instagram Link - ⁠Hard Ticket
Chapters:
0:00 - Act I
10:39 - Act II
57:36 - Act II
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1h 30min
June 26, 2026 45. "The Batman v. Superman" (with Dallas Hartman!) - The Batman (2022) v. Superman (2025)
It's a hard ticket between The Batman and Superman (2025). Which one will you watch? Let's decide!
Supergirl has just hit theaters, expanding James Gunn's DC Universe and paving the way for a promising future. So, while we continue to wait impatiently for The Batman: Part II, we decided to pit these Justice Leaguers against one another for the ultimate superhero showdown.
Noted Zack Snyder fanboy Dallas Hartman rejoins us, having hopped on for our first Batman v. Superman matchup in the form of Man of Steel vs. Batman Begins. Without Snyder representing, which way will Dallas lean? Will our heroes make it out of this one alive? Tune into the latest Hard Ticket to find out!
Links:
Email - [email protected]
Letterboxd - Jeff's Profile
Letterboxd - Tristan's Profile
Letterboxd - Dallas's Profile
Blue Sky Link - Hard Ticket
Instagram Link - Hard Ticket
Chapters:
0:00 - Act I
13:52 - Act II
1:12:05 - Act III
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1h 23min
June 19, 2026 Hot Ticket: Disclosure Day
Spielberg Summer continues! And wouldn't you know it? The master has decided to grace us with a brand new flick. We couldn't miss it. So, this week, we're talking about the throwback thriller Disclosure Day!
This movie is getting reviews all across the board. What did we think? Our thoughts are... complicated, but we're more than happy to talk it out. So sit back and listen.
0:00 - The HOTTEST Ticket!
9:26 - A Regularly Hot Ticket
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1h 5min

FAQs about Hard Ticket:

How many episodes does Hard Ticket have?

The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.