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Brendan and Brendan celebrate their love of the human body as the ultimate special effect with the police action series The Roundup and this summer's new action comedy The Fall Guy, as well as celebrating the other kind of special effects. From Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to Challengers, from Satoshi Kon to the Fallout series, we range far and wide to chew the fat while still keeping things under 2 1/2 hours...for once.

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The Brendans go extra long as we talk Alien and The Mummy this recent May the 4th, as well as a first-timer's impressions of 1973's The Wicker Man, spooky movie catch-up, and some big Part 2s that recently dropped - along with much more.

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We're knee-deep in Ape-ril, so the Brendans get up to some monkey business diving into spoiler-filled thoughts on both the powerful visual storytelling of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and the rich themes and kinetic action of Dev Patel's Monkey Man. We also celebrate 10 years of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Raid 2 and examine why Wish was such a whiff of a 100th Anniversary movie for Disney Animation.

It's a kaiju-sized feast in celebration of the coming of Godzilla and King Kong - they are risen. And what fruits we have for you.

Brendan and Mab caught up with Immaculate, which slaps. The Brendans get a report from the Boston Underground Film Festival out of the Brattle Theater (including spoiler-free impressions of Boy Kills World) and then gorge themselves on the choicest morsels of the Legendary Monsterverse. There's spoiler-free thoughts on The New Empire and what it improves (or doesn't) on its immediate predecessor, a first-timer's impressions of Last Action Hero, our rankings of the recent Planet of the Apes Trilogy, and why you should watch GIRLS5EVA.

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The Brendans stay in and catch up on television, in addition to discussing recent films like Netflix's Damsel and checking in with Marian on Kung Fu Panda 4. 2024 kicked off with two high-profile adaptations of "east meets west" adventure sagas, with Avatar: The Last Airbender struggling to find its footing while Shogun clears hurdle after hurdle. We also pay our respects to the recently passed Akira Toriyama and offer up some lesser-known classics for viewing recs.

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The Brendans are joined by a very special guest for a Wet and Dry Epic Extravaganza as we chat Jim Cameron's The Abyss (celebrating its 35th Anniversart this year) and Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two with Alan Cerny of Vital Thrills and Matinee Heroes. We go deep into spoilers on both Cameron's ambitious underwater sci-fi film as well as the ending of Herbert's opus (major spoilers for Dune at about 1hr55m onward). However, both of these films get our highest recommendation.

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The lads celebrate the life of the late, great Carl Weathers (of Predator, Arrested Development, and The Mandalorian - among many others) as well as chatting Dune: Part II reactions, the changing landscape of audience tastes, and DreamWorks recent Netflix release Orion and the Dark.

The Brendans share our favorite Valentine's Day-flavored movies, because sharing is caring.

In celebration of the recent 2024 Oscar Nominations announcement, the Brendans talk two historic Best Picture Winners that we finally made ourselves watch - The Godfather: Part II and In the Heat of the Night - as well as giving our takes on a great year of cinema, why Road House is Dope, Actually, and which Best Animated Picture nominees are the Best Ones (hint: it's most of them).

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