In the Heat of the Nighttime

This week we've got another New York New York episode for you, and it's an absolute killer! It's all big dreams and big schemes this week as we take on all-NYC double feature absolutely loaded with legends! Lucky for us, we've got the brilliant filmmaker and Queens native Todd Strauss-Schulson to help us get to the bottom of...THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY!

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The printer and the radar both appear to be jammed this week—but don't worry, we've called in the one guy who can help! The man who showed us just how to deal with unruly machinery as Samir in Office Space...that's right, it's the one and only Ajay Naidu! Ajay talks growing up on Mel Brooks and working with Mike Judge as he takes us behind the scenes of an absolute comedy classic! So knock down your cubicle walls and prepare the ship for ludcirous speed because it's time for OFFICE SPACEBALLS!

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Two of our all-time great directors broke out their crystal balls when they made these movies! Sidney Lumet and David Fincher are a pair of visionary canaries singing in the coal mine for us and the result is a pair of timeless and scathing films about our ongoing struggle to connect with one another and the never-ending war between man and machine! So get up right now, go to your windows, stick your head out, and yell "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore because it's time to listen to THE SOCIAL/NETWORK!"

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It's a great day for hopeful romantics because it's time for TRUE ROMANCING THE STONE! Lovers are on the run this week and they're chasing down giant emeralds, outrunning the Detroit mob, and stealing our hearts! And it's always an extra-special day when there's a full-fledged five-rat movie on the docket! Slater, Arquette, Douglas, Turner, Hopper, Walken, DeVito, Oldman, Pitt, Kilmer, Gandolfini...they're all here! There's just one thing we have to say to you if you choose to listen to TRUE ROMANCING THE STONE: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool.

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Ahhhh New York, the city so nice they named it twice. And the perfect place for a double feature movie podcast to hang its hat! So in honor of our beloved city, we're unveiling our monthly NEW YORK NEW YORK franchise with GHOST/BUSTERS! Romance, adventure, revenge, and the supernatural all collide as we sink our teeth into two truly iconic New York movies. Is Whoopi Goldberg a national treasure? Does Rick Moranis deliver one of the best pound-for-pound performances in cinematic history? Did Bill Murray's turn as Dr. Peter Venkman both make and break Mo's life? Are all three of us total saps who are more obsessed with Ghost than we ever realized? Either way, one thing's for sure: we ain't afraid of no GHOST/BUSTERS!

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GHOST/BUSTERS Movie Index:

Ghost

Ghostbusters

Unchained

Django Unchained

New York, New York

Contact

The Godfather Part III

The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

Airplane

Top Secret!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Ruthless People

Rat Race

Point Break

St. Elmo's Fire

Comic Relief [TV]

Jumpin' Jack Flash

The Color Purple

Burglar

Fatal Beauty

Homer and Eddie

The Telephone

The Grifters

Goodfellas

Wild at Heart

Dances with Wolves

American Beauty

Boys Don't Cry

Being Julia

Million Dollar Baby

Red Dawn

Road House

Dirty Dancing

Jerry Maguire

Rosemary's Baby

The Outsiders

Next of Kin

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Look Who's Talking Too

Black Dog

Chippendales Audition - SNL [TV]

Uncommon Valor

Tiger Warsaw

Point Break (2015)

The Nutty Professor (1996)

Striptease

Disclosure

Now and Then

The Juror

Indecent Proposal

A Few Good Men

The Butcher's Wife

Heat

Soap Dish

House Party 2

The Player

Sister Act

Eddie

Made in America

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Corrina, Corrina

Boys on the Side

Star Trek: Generations

Theodore Rex

The Associate

Ghosts of Mississippi

Girl, Interrupted

The View [TV]

Homie Spumoni

Jacob's Ladder

Streets of Fire

Body of Evidence

The Thirteenth Floor

Oppenheimer

Someone Like You

Mississippi Burning

Oceans of Fire [TV MOVIE]

Uncle Buck

Old School

Coneheads

Second City Television (SCTV) [TV]

Beverly Hills Cop III

Beverly Hills Cop

Trading Places

Coming to America

Little Shop of Horrors

Ghostbusters II

Ally McBeal [TV]

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Gremlins

The Karate Kid

Police Academy

Footloose

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Terms of Endearment

Splash

Purple Rain

The Natural

Revenge of the Nerds

Bachelor Party

The Terminator

Broadway Danny Rose

Scarface

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Amadeus

The Sugarland Express

Die Hard

Bio-Dome

Groundhog Day

As Good As It Gets

Stripes

Young Adult

Bedtime for Bonzo

Pretty in Pink

Designing Women [TV]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

It's science fact vs. science fiction this week as we tackle the latest from Christopher Nolan and an '80s classic from Paul Verhoeven. These are two inventive films about men losing control of their inventions—but only one will get the coveted 5-star treatment! You may have heard of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and you might know about RoboCop, but there's a new guy in town…and his name is ROBOCOPPENHEIMER!

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ROBOCOPPENHEIMER Movie Index:

Network

Oppenheimer

RoboCop

Chain Reaction

The Fugitive

Rocky IV

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Hail, Caesar

Zodiac

Amadeus

Barbie

Following

Memento

Insomnia

Batman Begins

The Prestige

The Dark Knight

Inception

The Dark Knight Rises

Interstellar

Dunkirk

Tenet

The Deuce [TV]

The Irishman

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Starship Troopers

JFK Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Good Time

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

Black Mirror [TV]

Exterminate All the Brutes [TV]

The Insider

Green Room

Blue Ruin

Logan Lucky

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Zero Dark Thirty

White House Down

The Devil All the Time

Total Recall

Entertainment Tonight [TV]

That '70s Show [TV]

Flesh + Blood

Soldier of Orange

Basic Instinct

Showgirls

Hollow Man

Black Book

Elle

Benedetta

Wall Street

The Terminator

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Shoot the Moon

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Batman Forever

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Leviathan

Blow Out

Spotlight

Sinead O'Connor: 'War' live at the Bob Dylan Tribute

The Band - The Weight [Woodstock]

Well, this is a real special one because we get to dig into one of our all-time favorite movies Midnight Run! And on top of that, we get to highlight the overlooked action gem Run All Night while we're at it! It's a week of elite dynamic duos: Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin on one hand, Liam Neeson and Ed Harris on the other. Has there ever been another human like Charles Grodin? Does Ed Harris have the sharpest face in showbiz? Can a pretty good movie be better than a great movie? Does Midnight Run have the best closing line in the history of movies?? Find out the answers to all of these questions and more this week on…MIDNIGHT RUN ALL NIGHT!

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MIDNIGHT RUN ALL NIGHT Movie Index:

Midnight Run

Run All Night

Before Midnight

Before Sunset

Before Sunrise

10 to Midnight

Run

My Two Dads [TV]

The Godfather

War Dogs

Law & Order [TV]

Taken

Maid in Manhattan

Unknown

Nonstop

The Commuter

Mare of Easttown [TV]

Out of the Furnace

The Way Back

State of Grace

Garden State

Enemy of the State

Oppenheimer

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Mad Max: Fury Road

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Schindler's List

A Walk Among the Tombstones

8 Million Ways to Die

Cold Pursuit

The Ice Road

Husbands and Wives

Rob Roy

Michael Collins

Next of Kin

The Fugitive

The Abyss

Glengarry Glen Ross

The Firm

Needful Things

China Moon

Milk Money

Just Cause

Apollo 13

Nixon

Eye for an Eye

The Rock

Absolute Power

The Truman Show

Stepmom

Waking the Dead

Pollock

The Hours

A Beautiful Mind

Romeo Must Die

The Lost Daughter

A History of Violence

Robocop

The Killing [TV]

The Irishman

Mindhunter [TV]

Fringe [TV]

Paid in Full

Body of Evidence

Streets of Fire

Body Heat

Se7en

Blank Check

Charles Grodin on The Tonight Show [TV]

48 Hrs.

Going in Style

Beverly Hills Cop

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Eddie Murphy: Raw

Eddie Murphy: Delirious

Scent of a Woman

Josh and S.A.M.

Meet Joe Black

Gigli

Spies Like Us

Rosemary's Baby

The Heartbreak Kid

Beethoven

Beethoven's 2nd

Clifford

Louie [TV]

Blue Collar

Alien

Across 110th Street

First Reformed

Bad Boys [1983]

Wise Guys

Hard Eight

Seinfeld [TV]

Barney Miller [TV]

The Sopranos [TV]

Bound

Speed

Don Juan DeMarco

Coach Carter

Titanic

Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous

29th Street

The Butcher's Wife

Basquiat

The Pope of Greenwich Village

16 Blocks

The Nice Guys

Bad Boys [1995]

Village of the Damned [1995]

War on Everyone

What About Bob?

CHiPS

CHiPS [TV]

Observe and Report

Made

Miracle Mile

The Firm

Jackie Brown

Goodfellas

Meet the Parents

We're No Angels

The King of Comedy

The Red Balloon

Today's secret word is ADVENTURE and we're looking back at two big '80s movies that are all about it. One of them just wants to make it back to the 'burbs alive, the other wants to hit the road and make some big weird dreams come true. So get yourself a ticket and hop onboard PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING! Be sure and tell 'em Ben, Stefan, and Mo sent ya!

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PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING Movie Index:

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Adventures in Babysitting

Showgirls

Bad Boys (1995)

Romeo Must Die

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Patch Adams

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Hang Time [TV]

The Family Man

Flirting with Disaster

Boys on the Side

Borat

Dave Chappelle Show [TV]

Tiger King [TV]

Billy Madison

Pee-wee's Playhouse [TV]

The Pee-wee Herman Show [TV]

The Secret of NIMH

Frankenweenie (1984)

Oppenheimer

Chain Reaction

Back to the Future

The Goonies

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar [TV]

Midnight Run

The Simpsons [TV]

Edward Scissorhands

Batman

Batman Returns

Good Will Hunting

Men in Black

Big Fish

Milk

Pee-wee's Big Holiday

Big Top Pee-wee

The A-Team [TV]

Red Dawn (1984)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Money Talks

From Russia with Love

Commando

Independence Day

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Blow

Dunston Checks In

Mystery Men

Blues Brothers

Ed

Ed Wood

Beetlejuice

Mars Attacks!

Sleepy Hollow

Planet of the Apes (2001)

The Cooler

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

War for the Planet of the Apes

Wednesday [TV]

Beetlejuice 2

Big Eyes

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Alice in Wonderland

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Saturday Night Fever

Strangeland

Houseguest

Diff'rent Strokes [TV]

The Wonder Years [TV]

Saturday Night Live [TV]

Uncle Buck

Weird Science

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Body of Evidence

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Carlito's Way

The Quiet Man

It's a double dose of action this week on In the Heat of the Nighttime as one movie divides your hosts, and the other unites them in '90s NYC ecstasy! Are Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson one of the best on-screen duos of the modern age? Will your hosts survive the Romeo Must Die discourse? Could Die Hard With a Vengeance edge past Heat on the podcast's best of '95 list?! Think fast, look alive, and listen hard because it's time for ROMEO MUST DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE!

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ROMEO MUST DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE Movie Index:

Romeo Must Die

Die Hard With a Vengeance

Heat

Se7en

Apocalypse Now

Nixon

Kids

Babe

Dead Man Walking

War of the Worlds (2005)

Knight and Day

Waterworld

Goldeneye

Crimson Tide

Casper

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Pocahontas

Toy Story

Apollo 13

Batman Forever

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Lethal Weapon 4

Exit Wounds

Cradle 2 the Grave

Top Five

Johnny English

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Paid in Full

Doctor Dolittle

Borat

Fist of Legend

Black Mask

Boyz n the Hood

Menace II Society

Rush Hour

Shanghai Knights

Shanghai Noon

High Noon

Dinner Rush

The Departed

Ted

Ed Wood

Malcolm X

The Godfather

Romeo Is Bleeding

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Beautiful Girls

Girls Trip

A Night at the Roxbury

Coneheads

Superstar

MacGruber

True Romance

Enter the Dragon

The Green Hornet [TV]

Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood

Deadly Hero

Prince of the City

Death Trap

The Verdict

Terms of Endearment

Prizzi's Honor

Power

The Morning After

Nuts

Twins

Family Business

Q&A

A Dog's Life

A Stranger Among Us

Falling Down

Speed

Species

Jade

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Dante's Peak

The Devil's Advocate

Laverne & Shirley [TV]

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Me, Myself, & Irene

The Raid

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Goodfellas

There's Something About Mary

The Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

Disclosure

Nell

White Men Can't Jump

Brown Bunny

The Godfather: Part II

The Big Lebowski

Showgirls

Robocop

Total Recall

Starship Troopers

Three Amigos

Body Heat

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Mad Max: Fury Road

Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard

The Dark Knight

Jackie Brown

Boogie Nights

Jurassic Park

My Pet Monster

Tony Drazan's Student Film Starring Bruce Willis in his motion picture debut

Nobody's Fool

Moonlighting [TV]

Blind Date

Look Who's Talking

The Fifth Element

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Real Genius

Death Becomes Her

Bonfire of the Vanities

The Wire [TV]

Predator

13th Warrior

Thomas Crown Affair

Basic

It's all about LOVE this week as we tackle two true romances. One's a rom-com about falling in love with music and your best friend at the very same time. The other's a thrilling modern-day classic about love at first sight, the art of the con, and the pursuit of a better way of life—featuring some of the finest performances committed to celluloid in the second half of the 20th century. Is Jackie Brown Quentin Tarantino's best film? Does it perhaps feature Robert De Niro's best acting? Is Mos Def a top 5 most charming human?! Prepare to have your mind blown this time with JACKIE BROWN SUGAR!

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JACKIE BROWN SUGAR Movie Index:

Jackie Brown

Brown Sugar

Return to Me

Me, Myself & Irene

Stuart Little

Little Women (2019)

Little Women (1994)

Mr. Show [TV]

The Wire [TV]

Chicago

Taxi

Taxi Driver

The Driver

The Wood

Dope

Dopesick [TV]

It [2017]

Stranger Things [TV]

Tales from the Hood

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Love & Basketball

Boogie Nights

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Out of Sight

No Way Out

The Sopranos [TV]

Full Circle [TV]

Life of Crime

Deadwood [TV]

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Life

The Ref

Beautiful Girls

Who's the Man

Blow

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Cheech and Chong's Next Movie

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Casablanca

Paid in Full

Scarface

Fight Club

Full Metal Jacket

Pulp Fiction

GI Jane

The 94th Academy Awards [TV]

The Godfather

Father of the Bride

The Godfather Part II

Father of the Bride Part II

Children of a Lesser God

Ben

Willard

Willard

Annie Hall

Jennifer's Body

All New 3's a Crowd [TV]

To Live and Die in L.A.

American Hustle

Sexy Beast

American Psycho

Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood

Heat

Goodfellas

Awakenings

Guilty by Suspicion

Backdraft

Cape Fear

Night and the City

Mad Dog and Glory

This Boy's Life

A Bronx Tale

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Casino

The Fan

Sleepers

Marvin's Room

Cop Land

Wag the Dog

The Departed

Reservoir Dogs

As Good As It Gets

Meet the Parents

Ghostbusters

Shakespeare in Love

A History of Violence

The Silence of the Lambs

Network

Tootsie

The Hateful Eight

Django Unchained

The Vietnam War

Titanic

Good Will Hunting

The Apostle

The Full Monty

Inglorious Basterds

Desperado

From Dusk Till Dawn

Pan's Labyrinth

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Get Out

Hackers

Original Gangstas

Jawbreaker

Across 110th Street

Zorba the Greek

Midnight Run