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We just rewatched 1964’s classic comedy, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Truncate Extremely Long Titles. This week JT and Jeremy debate whether or not it’s actually a comedy or a thrillomedy, and find a way to compare and rank it against Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as well as… Fight Club? Yep, we went there. We also try to find the common theme with Cloud Atlas and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (we promise - there is one). Finally, JT pitches us on how he’d take on the loose script Kubrick outlined for “Son of Strangelove”.

This week (episode 37) the boys tackle the question: what songs in a scene are so iconic you couldn’t possibly picture (hear?) it differently. And while we’ll never spoil an episode, it’s safe to assume we have a guy with a boombox and an AMC Pacer with some headbanging in this one. But we also have some John Denver, some Elton John, a little Mancini, a little Skynyrd, and of course, Felix Mendelssohn. In our eyes, this episode might just take you to the danger zone, but hopefully, you don’t feel under pressure to give it a listen.

Hey peeps, we have a guaranteed first on today’s episode: JT and Jeremy compare Les Miserables to Mad Max; Fury Road (for reals)! In this week’s We Just Watched, the guys discuss George Miller’s 2015 “instant classic”, question just how scarce the resources are, find a role for one of Dennis Quaid, Nicole Kidman, or Nicolas Cage, and see where the VFX stack up in comparison to Sharknado, The Day After Tomorrow and… the Wizard of Oz? Also, keep your ears open for both Tom Hardy’s I’m-doing-Bane-again crazy muffled accent as well as a reference to a former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Definitely, the only movie podcast that can say all of the above! Also: SPOILERS if you haven't seen it!

Kicking off February, JT and Jeremy do their best at identifying the funniest villains (loosely interpreted) they’ve seen on screen. Now whether we’re laughing with a character, or… at them, there’s a lot of ways to interpret such a category. This week’s picks include at least one Joker (but which?), an animated villain from the Bible, and a guy who has problems with Pizza, Yogurt, and … Barf. We’ll never spoil the Top Five list, but some fun from Pong includes The Lego Movie, Dodgeball, and Tropic Thunder (and oh, so many more).

Pretty much all of Quentin Tarantino’s body of works have already made their way into several of our Top 5 episodes, today Jeremy (@jtoeman) and JT (@thebsideoflife) dive deep into 2012's Django Unchained. In this week’s episode, they rank the performances by Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leo, Nick Fury, and the bad guy from Inglorious Basterds. There’s also a little wizardry about Billy Zane and Nicole Kidman, pondering Tarantino’s revenge themes, we see where it ranks relative to The Avengers and The Hobbit (wha?) and JT is forced to decode 12 alternate Django-titled movies.

This week, LoFiTop5 Hosts Jeremy and JT discuss their Top Five Guilty Pleasure Movies...you know the films you love rewatching but maybe don’t want to admit it. The boys bare their souls a little when they admit their fondness for a pretty mediocre Matthew McConaughey rom-com from the 2000s, a universally disliked 80s sequel, and have a debate about the (un)intentional satire for one of Tim Burton’s zany flicks (aren’t they all?). Come swim in the nostalgia this week, it’s truly over the top.

This week Jeremy explains the 1980's Thriller / Suspense / Drama / Sci-fi-but-not-really film "The Manhattan Project". To say this episode is full of surprises would be an understatement. It's got a cast that will make you feel old as dirt and a plot that only makes sense in the '80s. So press play and be transported back in time...

This week the boys discuss the best movies that in SOME sense were a one-hit-wonder. Maybe the actor. Maybe the director. Maybe something completely different that is not-so-obvious. As always, there are twists and turns and lots of random movies and actors. So join the fun and see if the boys miss any of your favorite one-hit wonders are left off the list!

This week Jeremy explains, as only he can, the 1980's classic film "Overboard". It's got one of Hollywood's most enduring star-romances with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel. It's on a boat (Jeremy likes 80's movies with boats we think). It has other actors too! Who, you ask? We have no idea, not one of them rings a bell! So join the boys and decide for yourself if You Would Watch; Overboard!

The boys are back into the normal routine this week folks, and they are coming in HOT! This week they discuss the Top 5 most angering movie characters of all time. While the podcast is about being angry, they are anything but during the actual podcast. Turns out getting them both fired up leads to quite a bit of laughter. So think through the movie characters who really got under your skin and see how many you have in common with your favorite Top 5 duo!