What makes a great Fourth of July movie? We take Cosmopolitan’s Top 15, load up the full ListBusters arsenal, and proceed to absolutely wreck it.

Movies get nuked, sniped, recast, rocketed, and switched as War Horse falls fast, movies you've never heard of somehow reach #1, National Treasure becomes collateral damage, and Rocky IV fights its way into the final rankings.

Plus, bonus chaos: more Toxic Moms drama and another round of The Movie Game.

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Dave is back from Maine (a.k.a. real-life Fromville) just in time for the Season 4 finale. Dave and Cody break down "If a Tree Falls in the Forest…" AKA the biggest bloodbath the show has served up in ages.

Jade confesses he lied about the bones. The bottle tree comes down and the sky goes dark. Smiley walks into the clinic and takes Marielle. Fatima reveals her secret. Can Henry pull the trigger on Victor? Will Elgin make a deal with The Sophia In Yellow?

Plus a Fromspiracy on the Book of Job that the finale gift-wrapped for Cody, the long-overdue public apology to Elgin, and a Loser of the Season built entirely around a haircut.

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Dave's just back from vacation in Maine, so he and Cody recorded this one as an unedited, free-flowing conversation. They review Supergirl, the second film in James Gunn's rebooted DCU.

They dig into Milly Alcock carrying the movie almost single-handedly, the grief and trauma (and Krypto violence) at the story's core, the choices with the ending, the literally-too-dark visuals, and Lobo as a wasted character.

Plus a callback to Cody's earlier hot take on the pre-release backlash, the Deeper Themes turn on grief and connection, a Tom Hardy recast, and an honest split on whether we're nearing the end of the theatrical era.

This is an unedited live conversation, so expect a looser, shorter hang than usual.

Movie reviewed: Supergirl (2026) — Directed by Craig Gillespie, written by Ana Nogueira, based on Tom King's comic. Starring Milly Alcock, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Jason Momoa as Lobo. In theaters now.

Dave's on vacation, so Cody takes the wheel with a very special guest co-host: his wife Leah. Together they break down "The Calm," the penultimate episode of From Season 4.

Sophia recruits Clara with a blood pact and a promise of going home. We learn the escape isn't just about getting the bones, it's about the ritual and doing it exactly right. Henry's coma-dream tightens its grip as Victor begs him to cut the anchor. Victor gets handcuffed for trying to save everyone. Fatima drinks Clara's tainted tonic and starts losing her hair. And in a gut-punch of a final scene, Elgin shows Sophia a photograph and learns the one rule that explains everything: the Man in Yellow can only take the form of people who died in Fromville.

Plus a Fromspiracy on whose bones are really in that tomb, the boy in white aging in real time, and a Jackson Browne needle drop that hits harder than it should.

Hulk Hogan spent so long being Hulk Hogan that the man underneath, Terry Bollea, may have disappeared entirely.

We watched the Netflix documentary "Hulk Hogan: Real American," his final interview before his death, and Dave, Cody, & DJ Dangerfield dig into all of it. What do we sacrifice to be famous? Was anything ever bigger than Hulkamania at its peak? Why did he lie about the steroids when the truth would have set him free?

We talk kayfabe in wrestling, in the church, and in our politics, and the question we leave open at the end: is a legacy the sum of our choices, or the moments we made people feel seen? This one runs long and goes deep.

Bonus: Our friend Kiefer shares some poignant thoughts on the trouble of kayfabe mixed with geopolitics.

Dave & Cody break down "Heavy Is the Head," the eighth episode of From Season 4...

Boyd's tremors and hallucinations are spiraling and he finally confesses the truth to Kristi. Henry sinks deeper into his coma-dream, complete with a doctor telling him to "remove the anchor." Jade realizes the bottle tree grows right on top of the bone chamber and pitches a two-team extraction plan. And in a closing scene for the ages, the Man in Yellow lures Tabitha to the RV, decorates it with Ethan's stolen drawings, and terrifies her not with violence but with affection.

Plus a Fromspiracy that might break your brain about the fallen tree in the road, the return of the Joni Mitchell needle drop, and a RIP for Fatima — who is dead, but also standing right there.

Dave & Cody bring back Kiefer, a college debate coach and cinephile, to review Disclosure Day, the new original Spielberg alien movie.

The vintage Spielberg machine is back together: John Williams on score, Janusz Kamiński shooting, David Koepp writing, Michael Kahn editing. Dave makes the case that the whole movie is tuned to a frequency Gen X kids hear and millennials might not. The table digs into Emily Blunt's career-best performance, a possibly divisive ending, the government-competence logic gaps, and whether two and a half hours earns a do-it-yourself conclusion. The Pastor's Corner lands on empathy as survival.

Plus the Sandlot reunion series and a round of the Movie Game.

SPOILER WARNING: Full spoilers for Disclosure Day after the news segment.

Movie reviewed: Disclosure Day (2026) — Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by David Koepp. Starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, with a score by John Williams. In theaters now.

The truth is finally out, and it goes about as well as you'd expect. Dave and Cody break down "Best Laid Plans," the seventh episode of From Season 4.

Boyd and Tabitha tell the town about the reincarnations. Henry, full of Sophia's blood, rejects all of it. Boyd's plan to test the totem spear on the creatures goes catastrophically sideways. And Elgin — sweet, one-eyed, busted-handed Elgin — grabs a totem spear and saves Colony House.

Plus a Fromspiracy connecting Abby's "it's all a dream" line back to season one, the second Roger RIP in three episodes, and Dave finally, fully, formally admitting that Cody was right about Elgin all along.

Dave & Cody bring back 80's kid, Lance Burnett, to review Masters of the Universe, the new live-action He-Man movie 39 years in the making.

The three of them split hard on this one. Dave had fun with it, Cody calls it a misfire, and Lance lands somewhere in between. They dig into the camp, the nostalgia, the sword swerve, Jared Leto's hard-to-understand Skeletor, and the thin handling of Prince Adam's missing years on Earth. Dave breaks down the full Mattel Cinematic Universe slate, all 16 projects, including an A24 Barney movie and M. Night Shyamalan directing a Magic 8 Ball series. The Pastor's Corner connects Prince Adam to the Beatitudes.

Plus Hot Take Cody on the Supergirl backlash, and a round of the Movie Game.

SPOILER WARNING: Full spoilers for Masters of the Universe after the news segment.

Movie reviewed: Masters of the Universe (2026) — Directed by Travis Knight. Starring Nicholas Galitzine, Camila Mendes, Jared Leto, Idris Elba, Alison Brie, with Kristen Wiig as Roboto. In theaters now.

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The Memorial Day break is over and the band is getting back together.

Dave and Cody dig into "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" — the sixth episode of From Season 4. Jade and Boyd argue their way through the entire first act. Donna has a heart attack at the most suspicious possible moment. Sophia cuts open her own hand and slips her blood into Henry's drink. Ethan and Victor draw their monsters side by side. The team finally starts sharing information with each other (only took three and a half seasons). And in the closing minutes, Boyd grabs a sledgehammer and confirms that Jade's mushroom vision was real.

Plus a Fromspiracy on why everyone in Fromville keeps drinking the tap water without question.