I Watch More Movies Than You

Thanksgiving, you remember the holiday nestled between the amazing Halloween and incredible Christmas!? Well, what movies do you watch on the day we stuff our faces and bet NFL football? We got you! We battle back and forth and come up with the 10 best Thanksgiving movies EVER! From Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, to some absolutely stunning surprises- please journey with us this turkey day and let's find the best movie for you to put on as your home is full of family and gratitude! 

No spoilers, but Wes Anderson may or may not make an appearance.. and we are grumpy old men in training... I've said too much. We also discuss what defines a movie as a Thanksgiving film, had a lot of fun with that one! 

We are thankful for YOU, filmlovers and cinephiles, and we thank God for another thanksgiving to spend with family and watching movies! Please consider dropping us a 5-star review and sharing us around, we look at that as a warm hug on a cool autumnal night. Thank you so much for listening! 

Also, for an extra for those that listen until the end... we GO TO WAR over the BEST James Bond movie ever!! Also, we reminisce on those Spike TV James Bond marathons of old that always happen to be on around Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Enjoy! 

Horror movie lovers, this is YOUR episode. We go back and forth and form the top 10 SCARIEST movies of all time! Whether you are wanting a Halloween watch list, or just want to have your pants scared plum off you, there is a horror picture in this list of terrifying movies just for you!

And we mean it when we say scariest ALL TIME, we are discussing movies here that make you uncomfortable even driving home at night and even in the safety of your own home. We discuss movies that dig into your skin and refuse to let go, some have etched  their way into the horror movies zeitgeist, but others you may discover and get to experience the dread and terror anew! 

You may recognize some obvious choices here, but I want spoil all of them or the order. Scott Derrickson's Sinister (2012) may or may not be in here.. listen and find out! There are some surprises. And we want to hear your scariest movies ever too, please leave us a nice 5-star review and comment with your top 5 scariest movies of all time! 

Fear is subjective, that is what makes the question of what is the scariest movie ever so much fun! Some movies are all about when they came into your life and haunted you, others you may have found later in life and still left you terrified. So come join us as we dive into the likes of The Exorcist, The Conjuring, Session 9, and some other deeper tracks! Also, Happy Halloween! 

Viva la cinema, especially horror cinema. We hope you enjoy! Also, we hope your skin crawls. 

Terrifier 3, the Salem's Lot remake on HBO Max, and It's What's Inside (2024) on Netflix now after creating a ton of excitement at SXSW! 

Art the Clown is back in his Christmas installment! Directed by Damien Leone, whom of which I follow on twitter, starring the absolutely amazing Lauren LaVera, the now icon David Howard Thornton, Antonella Rose, Elliott Fullam returning and many more! We spoiler-free review Terrifer 3, and then we take a very deep dive into this latest installment of horror gorefiend's side of film twitter and we discuss a VERY important question- is Art the Clown etching his way so much into the horror zeitgeist that he now sits among Michael Myers, Freddy Kreuger, Jason Vorhees, and Ghostface!?  Please slam us down a 5-star review and let us know in a comment your thoughts on this! 

Up next is a Stephen King tale, these are always our favorites- the remake of Salem's Lot which is now streaming on HBO Max and in theaters across the pond. Directed and written by Gary Dauberman, and the king himself of course, starring Bill Pullman's son Lewis!! And Makenzie Leigh, Jordan Preston Carter and co! Salem's Lot discussion begins with a spoiler-free review, some awesome Stephen King talk, and then we put it to the test of fighting the original and also dive into what this iteration has going for it, and what it doesn't- come join us! 

Last but certainly not least, It's What's Inside (2024)! 'It's What's Inside' debuted at SXSW and immediately took the crowd by storm, garnering a lot of attention and even more money and distribution. Greg Jardin directing and writing, and a cast of absolute bombshell up-and-comers, I'll name a few: Brittany O'Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood, Reina Hardesty, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Nina Bloomgarden, and so many more! It is quite the ensemble of people that all movie lovers will become quite aquatinted with, and some of you already have in Fear the Walking Dead, White Lotus etc.

It's What's Inside is a trippy take on the body swap film! We don't have enough of those either, and we absolutely adore where Greg Jardin took this one! Streaming on Netflix now, let us tempt you by the spoiler-free review portion of our discussion, go watch it, and then come back as we journey through this truly novel and fun thrill ride and try to piece together a wild story worthy of discussion! 

Happy Halloween horror and film lovers, God bless you all, and we hope you enjoy pulling up a chair and discussing these fantastic (and okay) films with us! Please leave a 5-star review, subscribe, and share us with your thick mothers. And remember, HALLOWEEN EPISODE NEXT!! Spooky season forever! 

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the HAUNTING indie horror film you CANNOT miss, ODDITY, and the incredible divisive film from American cinema godfather Francis Ford Coppola- Megalopolis! We journey through and discuss these three movies in depth and detail, and then battle it out in the court of public opinion on Megalopolis! And I mean battle, so come join us cinephiles and find out how awesome (or not) these three movies are, and listen in on the cinephile battle of the century- is 'Megalopolis' FFC's Mangum Opus, or a convoluted mess?! Come find out. 

Let's start of this spooky season with the return of Tim Burton and our favorite demon in 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!' Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Monica Bellucci, and Winona Ryder passing the horror girl deviant outsider baton to Jenna Ortega all come together in this legacy sequel to the infamous Beetlejuice of 1988! Does it work to recapture the amazing charm of the Hollywood outsider that is Tim Burton, or does the charm fall short and one too many stories are attempted to be woven to revitalize our favorite demon in hopes to offer him to the next generation?

Horror fans!! This one is for you. Damian Mc Carthy's Oddity! Let me start by saying, go to Shudder right now (can find it on Amazon Prime subsection) and watch 'Oddity' and then come back and join in on our incredible journey through one of the highest caliber horror films of the past DECADE! Ya, I said it! Oddity oozes Irish folktale horror goodness, showing once again they have drinking and storytelling down to a science! Carolyn Bracken, Johnny French, and Steve Wall + the isolated Irish mansion all help to bring this dreadful story of a wooden man, a witch, a shop of haunted mysteries, and deception to live in a truly masterful genre film, an absolute stone cold horror classic in the making that we will have on rotation every Halloween from this point out! Come listen as to what makes this film so special! 

Last but certainly not least, American cinematic royalty Francis Ford Coppola just brought the world his passion project over 40 years in the making in the illustrious 'Megalopolis.' Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and so, so many more stars come together to make this modern Roman epic a truly unforgettable piece of art- or do they!? My cohost and I literally BATTLE it out on our discussion of Megalopolis, from my defense of the performances as being Shakespearean operatic beats that his simple mind just refuses to grasp, to his overture that I am giving Coppola's self-financed last musings of a decaying genius, a madman at the end of his time way more credit that it deserves. 

Come listen to our dissents, a true battling it out of film bros on the titan's potential last hoorah of a passion project. Megalopolis is a lot of things, and one of those things is it occupies a place in film history that demands your viewing. Please do so and join us in our heated discussion of this play of caricatures in leu of characters, the bizarre in leu of reality, and try to find the crazy register that I believe Coppola intended- ride the ride that is MEGALOPOLIS and please leave us a 5-star review letting us know YOUR thoughts on this cinematic giant! 

MOVIES ARE BACK! But we argue they've never gone anywhere. If you feel the same way we do about CINEMA, please like and subscribe and come on this crazy journey through film with us! Plus, it's spooky season.. HORROR INCOMING! 

And remember, we watch way more movies than you. See you at the movies! 

Deadpool and Wolverine review and Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Deadpool 3 aka Deadpool & Wolverine RANKINGS with Ryan Reynolds (lol jk, maybe)!  We battle it out over the solo MCU film of 2024, our beloved rated R superhero teams up with his real life friend in 4th wall breaking, non 4 quadrant, no stakes mashup of Reddit jokes and 2000s Marvel movie characters! OR, as my cohost argues, one of the most important super hero movies ever and a potential reset to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we debate if Galactus looms all the closer! 

Love letter or goodbye letter to our Fox superheros!? Let us know your thoughts in a 5-star ranking comment please! Plus, a little Fantastic Four and Doomsday discussion with a little sprinkle of James Gunn's Superman! 

Look, Bobby gets SUPER NERDY and goes deep into the character of Deadpool from the comics all the way to the once silver screen, and I have a blast listening- I think you will too! Come learn some Deadpool in a very deep dive. 

Also, Hugh Jackman is eternal. 

Up next, Oz Perkins and Nicholas Cage! Have your attention? Let's also add the incredibly talented and next woman up, Maika Monroe, with the always amazing and underused Blair Underwood. Longlegs is the horror movie of the year, maybe the last five if you take into account the chokehold this horror flick has had on the internet and twitter / X the last few months. BUT... does 'Longlegs' live up to the immense hype?!

We have a heated debating over Longlegs, with me coming to the defense of this potentially mis-marketed procedural of DREAD! Is it Seven and Silence of the Lamb's step-son? Or a swing and a miss? Come with us and let's take a journey to the man under the stairs and find out for ourselves. We spoil the movies in this episode. But we do so with a purpose! Because we dive DEEP into Longlegs and bring up some super cool things you may have missed, there is so much awesomeness going on in this film! 

Also, Osgood Perkins is the infamous son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins, but there is a lot more than meets the eye in his upbringing. We discuss how much of that made its way into this film, and we beg the question... how far would you go to protect your kid? 

Please consider leaving a 5-star review and comment because WE LOVE YOU! AND MOVIES! And we truly appreciate you and your time, and can't wait to watch more movies than you and with you! See ya people. 

From John Krasinski's rockstar directorial debut, A Quiet Place (2018), we had a new kind of horror born- blind aliens with super(alien) human hearing- high level concept, baby! We then had a sequel, and now we are given A Quiet Place: Day One by Michael Sarnoski (The Pig) and starring the always amazing Lupita Nyong'o, Stranger Thing's Joseph Quinn, and an amazing cat named Frodo! We talk through a quick and spoiler-free movie review that we hope you enjoy! 

What if David Lynch wrote and directed an adaptation of Bill Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? We may never have that answer, but we have an entry here that is just as powerful and out-there as that would be- Bertrand Bonello's The Beast. La bête in French, the film's native tongue. Starring potentially the greatest actress of all time, the haunting and wonderful Lea Seydoux, along side a tense and nearly magical performance turned in by George MacKay. 'The Beast' debuted in festivals in 2023, but truly got theatrical release and distribution in 2024, and you absolutely CANNOT miss this incredible film.  Come along as we dive deep down into the wonderland of ghosts, fate, and time-travel in an absolutely unforgettable and suffocatingly unique movie.. The Beast aka La bête.  Again, Léa Seydoux, you're sold? 

We finish the episode with a stone-cold classic you've probably never even heard of, the absolutely terrifying Seconds which came out in 1966 directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Campanella, the always fantastic John Randolph.. and oh ya, ROCK HUDSON!! Horror fans, kino fans, old Hollywood fans, cinema lovers, do NOT let your life go by without watching and traveling to the black and white nightmare that is 'Seconds.' A little bit Twilight Zone, a bit of a cerebral dive into the American dream, but entirely human and soul-wrenching. Please listen join us as we adventure into the beautifully demented mind of Frankenheimer, the out-of-body performance by one of the greatest actors to ever grace Hollywood, Rock Hudson, and allow yourself introspection as you witness one of the most horrifying questions ever be asked and played out on your screen- What if it's all not enough? Seconds evocates an all too human feeling that we hide deeply buried in our souls, experience this film for yourself- we guarantee you won't leave it the same as you went into it. Seconds (1966) is what movies are all about, discover this gem. And for the real, real cinema & kino nerds, this is Frankenheimer's conclusion to his paranoia trilogy, and by far his most weird and amazing! 

Also, huge shout out to the Criterion Channel for the recommendation for Seconds! 

And, as always, we watch WAY more movies than you! See you people! If you love us like we love you, please consider sharing us with your amazing mothers and dropping a 5-star review! THANKS! 

What if I told you that a movie came out in Germany in 1973 is still the greatest depiction of the Simulation Theory, and not only does it surpass The Matrix (1999), but gave birth to it? Let us introduce you to Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire (Welt am Draht). 

The Criterion Collection twitter / X handle recommended me 'World on a Wire' based on my love for Kubrick, and boy did they hit the nail on the head. World on a Wire stars the amazing Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentine, Mascha Rabben, and was the only sci-fi entry for the amazing and tragic Fassbinder, who shot this film at 27 and unfortunately only lived 10 more years afterwards. 

World on a Wire depicts the source material 'Simulacron-3' beautifully, with gorgeously antiquated and charming camera work (long shots and odd angles, making it difficult to even depict the subject of a given scene) that truly transports you into the future, which is given life on the set using beautiful brutalist architecture with a 2001: A Space Odyssey aesthetic coated over it, oh.. and a lot of mirrors. Fassbinder loved mirrors. 

Couple the immensely gifted directing, cinematography, and unique distinctive style with the philosophical depth, the rediscovery and background to this film, and its outsized influence on science fiction in cinema, and you truly have a CAN NOT MISS motion picture. World on a Wire is 3 and a half hours of pure cinematic goodness and I cannot recommend it enough, thanks Criterion- I immediately purchased their edition! #physicalmedia

But one cannot discuss 'World on a Wire' without discussing the Wachowski's 1999 cult classic 'The Matrix.' Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving breath life into this cybernetic masterpiece that truly defined a generation and is still going strong in cinematic discourse to this day, hence why it's on our pod! 

The Matrix needs no introduction, but I encourage you to journey with us as we show you its daddy, World on a Wire, and also celebrate the beautiful juxtaposition of these  two films and although they both play with the simulation theory, they have completely different outcomes and reads. 

The Matrix is more than a visually stunning film, it is Plato's Allegory of the Cave come to life, the internet and all of the fear and angst as we barreled into the millennia come to the silver screen, and even large than that.... red pill or blue pill? 

Peak behind the curtain of the Matrix and plug in and let's follow the white rabbit down the hole, you won't regret it. And please consider giving us a 5-star review if you enjoy our movie reviews, deep dives, and true exploration through this science fiction dystopian playing out real time as I type this films. These are simulation theory juggernauts, but there is so, so much more than meets the eye.

Movie lovers, let's ride!  Or.... are you going to stay in wonderland?

The slasher genre has a new entry, but this time it is from the perspective of the killer! In a Violent Nature is directed by Chris Nash and s tarring Ry Barret, Andrea Pavlovic, and Cameron Love, we are dropped into the beautiful forests of Canada and over the shoulder of Johnny, our brutal and vengeful spirit turned brutal slasher! A wonderful homage to Friday the 13th, Texan Chainsaw Massacre, and the others that come before it, don't miss In a Violent Nature and our review of it to find out... go to the theater now, or wait for it to come to Shudder? Join us for our spoiler free review and of this deconstruction of the slasher genre, trading fear for suspense!

Oh ya... and the yoga kill!

Up next, Stopmotion. Another IFC film that is streaming on Shudder now, we have the fantastical horror of stop motion and all of the wonderful aesthetics and style that come with it.  Directed by Robert Morgan and starring Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, and Tom York, we are dropped into a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons in the midst of great loss and she starts to blur dark fantasy and reality. Listen as we provide a spoiler-free review and discussion of this cool and unique horror film! 

A genre-bending sci-fi horror masterpiece released by the great Ridley Scott... ALIEN! Alien dropped in 1979 and nothing has been the same since. Jaws in space, slasher in the stars, a tonally dark sci-fi that came on the wake of the success of Star Wars but absolutely carved out its own path, come with us aboard the Nostromo as we face one of the scariest creatures ever to grace the silver screen- the Xenomorph!

H.R. Giger's art paints the walls of Alien, and with it comes all of the dark and pseudosexual imagery, incredible influence on Oscar winning production design, and the scariest alien we've ever witness and has yet to be topped! From Jerry Goldsmith's haunting score, to the layers of subtext throughout, and some of the most famous and unforgettable scenes to ever shock audiences worldwide- come explore the Nostromo with us as we dive very deep into 'Alien' and discuss what makes this film immortal! 

Dan O'Bannon and ronald Shusett partnered with Ridley Scott brought us a masterpiece, and then Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, and co gave it a heartbeat. Don't miss our discussion of a nearly perfect film! And please consider leaving us a 5-star review and sharing us! SHARING IS CARING film-lovers! 

George Miller's installment after the infamous Mad Max Fury Road, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga spoiler free movie review! We dive deep, keep it spoiler free, but have a blast talking about mythologizing of the story of Mad Max, the apocalypse, and the unending desert road trip accompanied by the incredible Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, and more! 

What if we told you there was a film containing both Zack Snyder AND James Gunn! The DCEU and DCU leaders combined into one film, Snyder's directorial debut after Subaru commercials with a script by Guardians of the Galaxy's James Gunn- DAWN OF THE DEAD! Romero's haunting classic reimagined and brought to the millenia, Dawn of the Dead has the best cold open in cinema history and we dig deep into this zombie new classic film- come join us! 

2004 Dawn of the Dead is a modern CLASSIC in the zombie genre, with Gunn's script grounding Snyder in the best way possible. Come explore with us what makes this iteration of Dawn of the Dead so memorable, even if it does lack the social commentary of George A. Romero's original. 

 Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown. Regarded as THE GREATEST SCREENPLAY EVER!!! We deep dive into the goodbye wave to Old Hollywood, Roman Polanksi's 'Chinatown.' Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston (director of The Maltese Falcon) bring us LA noir to life in one of the greatest films in history. A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. But like any great film, the logline is just the beginning..  Journey with us through a movie masterpiece, a film that finds itself on top of lists time and time again, as we explore what makes Chinatown so special.. and so haunting and unforgettable. 

Movie lovers, come be apart of movie magic as we journey through the greatest artform in history, and please consider leaving us a 5-star HITTER review! WE LOVE YOU! 

See you at the movies! 

David Lynch, ever heard of him!?  Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, and so much more! Every single surrealist work of his leaves his audience grasping for answers. From the mysteries of Twin Peaks, to the surreality (my invented word) of Lost Highway (1997), and all of his other works. Can we trust our own perspective? Can we truly know ourselves, or just a version of such?

Dale Cooper to Bill Pullman, Lynch goes further than an unreliable narrator- he asks... are WE unreliable at narrating our own lives?

Please come with us, film lovers, as we traverse the Lost Highway of our souls and dive deep into this amazing film! From haunting imagery, to unforgettable characters, and sequences involving Patricia Arquette that will etch their way into your psyche forever- don't miss this episode! 

We love you all, now go out and watch some WEIRD MOVIES! All hail David Lynch!