It's Your Pic

Only 2 things could bring us out of circumstantial retirement: a Transformers reboot or a new Stranger Things season. See you next year.

Blood, guts, gore, skinning, hanging, stabbing, kidnapping, cannibalisms...oh, and we also watched a movie. Something about a baby sheep I think. Matthew Lillard and Jamie Kennedy showed up too for some reason.

We spend this entire episode lying on the hood of our Dodge Dart, looking up at the heavens, waiting for the little men in their fantastic vehicles. Actually, we ordered Ubereats and they're 20 minutes late (and there's probably not a road-worthy Dodge Dart left in the country). When the Zaxby's finally arrives, we watched two very different takes on the alien movie genre: one big-budgeted and star-studded, and one that takes a decidedly more subdued approach.

This month we belly up to the bar, order a sasparilla and settle ourselves at a table for a game of stud...actually, not at all. These two Westerns are a long way from the days of white hat/black hat morality tales. There are no obvious good guys to be found in Leone's revisionist take, or the Coen's Western noir mashup.

And for the record, I actually enjoy board games.

This week crime DOES pay, and it pays rather handsomely. We discuss 2 movies, each with a cast of charismatic and hilarious ne're-do-wells. Collin outdoes himself with some in depth research on all things Lupin.

Doesn't everyone think they belong to a dysfunctional family? Maybe that accounts for the plethora of choices when selecting a movie to represent the genre. For me, head and shoulders above the rest, is Wes Anderson's third feature, The Royal Tenenbaums. Collin counters with a new animated dysfunctional family flick, The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

I'm trying to write the show notes and keep getting interrupted because my family thinks the podcast is about as important as you do, so I guess just read the title; we talk about those movies.

We took a 2-week trip out west, and after exhausting ourselves hiking around the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest, we spent our evenings re-watching all the Harry Potter movies. It's one long Good Stuff/Bad Stuff episode as we hand out awards for the best and worst of what we saw this time around.

It's the end of the world on this episode of It's Your Pic. Two post-apocalyptic visions enter, one post-apocalyptic vision leaves. Actually, it's not much of a contest; Furiosa could take Hester Shaw with one arm tied behind her back.

On this episode we look at two very different stories involving iconoclasts, chain gangs, and escaped cons. Collin's main pick is the Coen brother's borderline musical O Brother, Where Art Thou? A movie that I despised on my first watch. My double feature pairing is the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke.