Men shouldn’t have friends.  So says the tagline of Friendship the A24 2025 Feature Length Directorial and Screenwriting Debut of Andrew DeYoung, starring Tim Robinson as Craig Waterman (basically a connection-starved I Think You Should Leave character dropped into the real world, possessing no sense of social norms, occasionally breaking the law in the name of friendship, and just generally failing at life), Kate Mara as Tami Waterman (Craig’s way out of his league wife who is simultaneously recovering from cancer, struggling to run a floral shop out of their home, possibly having an affair with her hot firefighter ex-boyfriend, and somehow not running for the hills with every interaction with Craig) and Paul Rudd as Austin Carmichael (Craig’s impossibly hip and friendly neighbor, a night weatherman to whom Craig becomes hopelessly and dangerously Platonically infatuated). 

Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it too uncomfortable for it’s own good?  Is it actually good?  Join your bestest friends, The Rabbit Fighters and find out, won’t you?

Next Episode - Rando: Steely Dan: Aja (1977)

[Published 7/29/2025]
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If you want to make an omelette, you've got to break a few eggs.

And if by "omelette" you mean "once-in-a-generation-genius-jazz-drummer" and by "a few eggs" you mean "aspiring music conservatory bros" (aka Miles Teller as Andrew Niemann) then 2014's Whiplash "breaks" them by having Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons as a sadistic and inexplicably respected conductor) force his students to practice the worst form of music known to man:Jazz.

Wait...no, it's because he's an abusive a-hole... NOT because of the Jazz (but surely the Jazz doesn't help his case...). Sorry, Joshua wrote this intro and Jazz is NOT HIS TEMPO.

Also, Paul Reiser is in this as a father who likes Raisenettes(TM) in his popcorn, so that's cool.

Anyway, The Rabbit Fighters invite you to be neither an EFFING RUSHER nor a GD DRAGGER, and listen to this episode ON. OUR. EFFING. TIME.

Next Episode - Joshua's Pick: Friendship (2025)

[Published 7/25/2025] And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Rabbit Fighters put their tinfoil hats on and travel to 1993, when phones had cords, assassins had newspaper clippings all over their walls, and Presidents were bland and actually interested in governing.

Enter Mitch Leary, played by America's Sweetheart, John Malkovich. Mitch was a government assassin until they turned on him, and now he wants to assassinate the head of our government, the extremely bland President Traveler or something.

BUT WAIT! Old-ass Clint Eastwood wants a word or 50,000 about this. He plays Frank Horrigan, the guy who was supposed to protect Kennedy but stood there while Kennedy's head exploded.

Frank wants a second chance to save a President, so he starts a series of lovely corded phone chats where he tries to get Mitch to tell him how and where Mitch will kill the President.

Frank also finds time to get to know his partner Al for a minute before getting Al killed, pissing off everyone in the entire Presidential staff, and wedging himself into the arms of Renee Russo's agent Lily Raines with a Hoodsie stick.

Next Episode - Joshua's Pick: Friendship (2025)

[Published 6/24/2025]

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The Rabbit Fighters put on their bunny slippers and head over to some random California college where nerds are cool, except for Kent.

Kent is a dick.

Also a dick? Jerry Hathaway, the dean or something of this mysterious science nerd college. He wants to make a personal space laser that vaporizes people on Earth, and has mobilized his army of geeky teens to build it.

Chief among the geeky teens is a man who does not resemble a geek at all. In fact, Chris Knight resembles Val Kilmer so much that he actually is him.

And then there's Chris's new roommate. Mitch is a 15-year-old boy with a tragic haircut who older ladies somehow can't wait to bang.

Together, Chris and Mitch team up to build the laser, reassemble a car in a dorm room, sneak into a top-secret military base, and then direct said laser to destroy the dean's house with the world's largest homemade Jiffy Pop.

This one's for Val Kilmer. RIP.

Next Episode - Greg's Pick: In the Line of Fire (1993)

[Published 6/11/2025]

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We here at Rabbit Fighters have been unequivocally Anti-Nazi and decidedly Pro-Nazi-Punching since the early 1930s (and it’s also worth noting that we have been Pro-Indiana Jones since 1912.)

So don your best fedora, scrounge through your closet to dust off your bullwhip, yell out the window at those damn hippies to turn that blasted "music" down, and join your three pals, The Rabbit Fighters (and their one esteemed guest, Dr. Tim) as we discuss whether it's necessary to have seen Crystal Skull to understand just what the hell is going on with this, the final installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. (We here are Rabbit Fighters have no actual knowledge as to whether this last statement is true, but it feels true, so let's just say it is...)

Next Episode - Surprise Random Pick: Real Genius[Published 5/6/2025]And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://tinyurl.com/rabbitfighters)  and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://tinyurl.com/RabbitFighters2) .

Terry Gilliam's ambitious and fanciful box office bomb, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, about an 18th century German Aristocrat who may be A. dead, B. a demi-god, C. insane, D. all three, or E. possibly none of the above, is the topic on this episode of Rabbit Fighters. Can The Baron survive a dance with Venus in the age of #MeToo? Can visual effects win the day in a world of Jar Jars? Will an episode with only 2 out of 3 Rabbit Fighters carry a weight of Gilliamesque magnitude? Join us and find out, won't you?

Next Episode - Random Pick: Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny

[Published 4/22/2025]

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The Rabbit Fighters go back to when America was at its most golden: the 1960s!

Towns like Tulsa, Oklahoma blossomed with quality schooling, nurturing family life, great employment opportunities, and roving gangs of murder kids who engaged in rain-soaked death match brawls.

Wait a minute, Ponyboy...this town isn't golden! WHAT THE F*** IS WRONG WITH THIS TOWN?!!!

Well, I guess all the murder is OK when the kid gangs are populated by future Hollywood dreamboats like Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Leif Garrett, and Diane Lane.

Wait, what were we talking about? Who remembers...we got lost in their eyes. Or at least that's what Francis Ford Coppola is hoping will happen with this most un-golden film.

Next Episode - Joshua's pick: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

[Published April 11, 2025]

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The Rabbit Fighters hop in their convertible T-Bird and get the hell outta Dodge (or Arkansas) for a wild ride to NOT MEXICO!

Two gals head out of their suffocating small-town lives for a little fun and suddenly find they are outlaws after Louise murders Thelma's would-be rapist in a parking lot.

They hit the road and realize that they are better off as free outlaws than they ever were as trapped women.

On the way, they see lots of water, Brad Pitt's hairless chest, a weepy desert cop, a surprisingly un-psycho Michael Madsen, sweeping desert vistas of Arkansas that's actually Utah, the Grand Canyon which is actually Utah, and the bottom of the Grand Canyon, which is STILL Utah.

And they would've gotten away with it all if it wasn't for those meddling state troopers, led by the only nice-ish guy in the movie, Harvey Keitel. Where are the inept clowns from Super Troopers when these ladies need them?

Next Episode - Brian's pick: The Outsiders

[Published February 4, 2025]

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The Rabbit Fighters have had a year.

We all have, right?

And at the end of the year, we all like to look back and reflect on what’s gone well, what’s gone OK, and what we’ve totally effed up. 

In our final episode of 2024, we look back at our past movie and album grades and make amends for our snap judgments.

What did we rate too high?

What did we rate too low? 

What’s the dumbest thing we've reviewed this year?

What pleasantly surprised us?

What do we wish we’d seen/watched sooner?

We hope you enjoy this funny and sometimes brutal reevaluation of our evaluations.

We promise more laughs and eff-ups in 2025!

Next Week - Greg's pick: Thelma and Louise

[Published December 31, 2024]

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On this Very Special Episode(TM) of Rabbit Fighters, we find our pals cracking wise about the 1983 John Landis Christmas-(adjacent)-classic, Trading Places: THE FIRST FILM TO BE ADDED TO THE RABBIT FIGHTERS RANDOMIZER 3000!

Somehow, Joshua failed to see this holly jolly/racially-and-class-warfare charged buddy comedy when he was 5 years old, starring Eddie Murphy, Dan "Too Many Y's In His Name" Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Amtrack.

It's a pseudoscientific glimpse into the 80's day trader psyche as we finally put to rest the age old question: "If you committed multiple counts of criminal conspiracy in the states of Pennsylvania and New York FOR SCIENCE, would you still make it onto Santa's Naughty List"?

Join us, won't you?

Next Episode - End-of-the-Year Re-Grade

[Published December 24, 2024]

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