Oops, All Movies!

“Friendship” - We return with the second part of our 100th episode celebration! This time around, we finish our top 10 lists by discussing each of our five favorite movies from 2012. And of course, we close out the episode by giving our thanks to the many deserving friends of the show.

“Wolf Boy” - This week, we make podcast history as we finally reach our 100th episode. It was such an occasion that we had to split it into two parts! We begin by discussing some of our favorite and least favorite movies of 2012. Then we close out the episode by doing a quick review of the Taylor Lautner classic, Abduction.

“That Hangover Guy” - In our review of Silver Linings Playbook, we scratch our heads over Jacki Weaver’s Oscar nomination, praise her costars, talk about director David O. Russell’s style and debate what genre the movie fits into. Also, we lose our third Bingsley after Neal provokes him to leave the show.

“Mark Strong’s Hair” - The hunt for Osama bin Laden was tense and so is our review of Zero Dark Thirty as we get into heated debates about how Osama bin Laden was presented in the movie, what motivated Jessica Chastain’s character, and more, in our most argumentative episode ever.

"Ham On Rye" - Friend of the show Kristin Jones bring her musical expertise to the table to help us review Les Miserables. Along the way, we separate the good performances (Anne Hathaway’s) from the bad (Russell Crowe’s), debate whether or not the movie’s structure works, and praise the decision by director Tom Hooper to have his cast sing live on set.

"Dances With Horses" - Special guest Jay Hooft from 3kb joins us to review Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, Django Unchained. In our review, we share which humor and action scenes were our favorites, disagree on whether or not Leonardo DiCaprio was effective as the villain and Jay lets the world know how he really feels about Django’s dancing horse.

"Neal Fouls Out" - Special guest Kat Jovey from 3kb joins us to review Jack Reacher after Bingsley ejects Neal from the show. In our review, we talk about the movie’s neo-noir elements, praise the action set pieces and Kat discusses how the movie compares to the Jack Reacher books.

"Part Three" - We conclude our review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey by discussing the dwarf characters, the presence of Gandalf the Grey, and the choice of replacing real extras with CG extras. Finally, we give our scores for the film.

"Part Two" - As we continue our review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we discuss more of the strange choices that were made with the film, such as expanding the source material and making one book into a trilogy, and Neal describes just how uninteresting this movie is to him.

"Part One" - In the first part of our three part review of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we discuss some of the choices that were made with the film, such as its length, as well as the performances of Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis. Stay tuned for part two!