Clint Worthington of Alcohollywood and Consequence of Sound joins me to defrag 2001's would-be game-changer Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Dan McCoy (The Flop House podcast, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah) joins me to discuss The Monster Squad. Voices by us, clattering noises by his cat Archie.

"The problem of leisure / What to do for pleasure..." Shannon Campe of the Stage of Fools podcast joins me to talk Sofia Coppola's unfairly maligned 2006 biopic Marie Antoinette. http://www.shannon-campe.com/ http://quaintmagazine.com/cinema-of-the-teen-girl-marie-antoinette

"I'm alive!" John McCoy of Sophomore Lit joins me to talk fairy tales, death, time, and 70s soft rock bands. https://www.theincomparable.com/sophomorelit/

Jamelle Bouie, Slate Chief Political Correspondent & CBS News Political Analyst, joins me to talk action movie masculinism, Guillermo Del Toro's female gaze, and giant robots. Follow Jamelle on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jbouie) or visit his website (http://jamellebouie.net/). Follow the show on our site (loosecanonpod.com), on Twitter (https://twitter.com/loosecanonpod)or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/loosecanonpod/), and subscribe to our newsletter (tinyletter.com/loosecanonpod).

"Thirty, flirty, and thriving..." Christy Admiraal of The Toast returns as we close out this month with another romantic comedy, 2004's Jennifer Garner vehicle 13 Going on 30. We talk teenage wish fulfillment, Peak Ruffalo, and the magic of synchronized group dance sequences. Read Christy's work (http://the-toast.net/author/christy-admiraal) and follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AdmiralChristy).

"Cake? Cake is my world!" In the first of our good-bad April Fools' episodes, Alison Abrams (https://twitter.com/sarcasticvoice) helps me try & make sense of the desperately strange 2001 romantic comedy Down to You.

"I used to hate history, didn't you? It's all just a load of stuff that's already happened." I sat down with my friend Chris Tracy (twitter.com/oldchris) of Clean Girls(http://cleangirls.bandcamp.com/) to talk McDonagh, violence, inherited morals, and the Irish worldview. It's a little more academic than we usually get, but there may have been whiskey involved.

Chicago-based librarian & self-professed "fansie" Sarah Kantor helps me carry the banner through Newsies, the 1992 cult Disney musical from which Christian Bale is still recovering.

Christy Admiraal of The Toast joins me to discuss Billy Wilder's 1960 romantic comedy The Apartment. See Christy's writing here: http://the-toast.net/author/christy-admiraal