Popcorn Optional

Who would be the best studio executive? It is time to find out as we do our draft for the summer box office season and see whose films have the highest domestic box office gross. Is Avengers: Infinity War the number one pick? Does anyone draft Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again? Find out on this bonus episode!

The Man. The Honorable Mensch. Wes Anderson is back with a new stop motion animation movie and Jake and Trevor are here to tell you whether or not it lives up to the excellence of his previous movies. We also talk trailers for The Incredibles 2, Ocean's 8, the idea of crowdfunding a movie, and as always end with our content of the week. Listen in and enjoy!

Who ever thought that John Krasinski, the lovable Jim Halpert from The Office, would deliver one of the best films of the year so far? Well this week we are here to talk about the greatness of A Quiet Place and why John Krasinski is director to keep an eye on in the years to come. We also talk the new Solo: A Star Wars trailer, The Meg trailer, how in the world The Accountant was the most rented movie of 2017, mention some underrated movies, and as always end with our content of the week. Listen in and enjoy!

We had some technical difficulties this week but thanks to Jake being an editing wizard, we are able to bring you some thoughts on Ready Player One, a new edition of The Popcorn Optional Fight Club including the T-800 Terminator, King King, The Joker, and the Master Chief, and as always we end with our content of the week. Listen in and enjoy!

This week we get to review the sequel to one of our favorite action of recent years, Pacific Rim: Uprising. With the ground work set by Guillermo del Toro in the 2013 film Pacific Rim, does this film continue that trajectory or end up falling more into the Transformers realm of movies? Hear our review while we also talk Black Panther breaking box office records, Chris Evans leaving Captain America, underrated monster movies, and as always end with our content of the week. Listen in and enjoy!

Video game movies in the past do not have a good record of translating well from the console to the big screen. Does the new Tomb Raider starring Alicia Vikander continue that same trend or carve a new path as a successful video game movie? Listen in to hear Cameron and Trevor's review on the new movie.

We are introducing a new segment as a mini-episode! The new segment is our very own Fight Club where we take characters and debate about which ones would win if they ever faced off. In this episode, we put Wonder Woman vs. Indiana Jones and Lara Croft vs. Darth Vader. The winners of those fights faces off in a championship so listen in to find out who is our very first Fight Club Champion!

This week we review Ava DuVernay's new adaption of Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 novel, A Wrinkle in Time. With a top notch director, all-star cast, and beloved source material, does this film deliver on what all the parts are capable of? We talk just that as well as Kristen Wiig being cast as Cheetah in Wonder Woman 2, Jon Favreau working on the new Star Wars TV show, the Obamas developing content for Netflix, Moviepass tracking our locations, the trailers for The Grinch and Christopher Robin, nominate the 11th class of Honorable Mensches, and end as always with our content of the week. Listen in and enjoy!

In a special Academy Awards episode we get take a look back at the 80th Academy Awards honoring the films from 2007 and re-award the films based on how the films have held up 10 years later. Did No Country for Old Men deserve to win Best Picture? Should Ellen Page have won Best Actress for her role in Juno? We answer these and so much more in this episode while also breaking down the wins and snubs from this past weekends 90th Academy Awards. Listen in and enjoy!

Annihilation is a film that no matter how you feel about it deserves to be talked about simply for all the different ways that you can interpret the meaning of what is on screen. It is a film with layers upon layers waiting to be unfolded and that is what we are here to try and do. Annihilation is the new film from writer and director Alex Garland, based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, and stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac in a film about a lot of different things. Before we talk Annihilation though we get into what we feel should win at this Sunday's 90th Academy Awards ceremony. Listen in and enjoy!