Reel Phonies

We join Indy on one last adventure as he once again battles hidden Nazis for control of the ultimate weapon: Time. But has Indy's time already passed? And how does the franchise hold up without the influence of its creators?

In anticipation of the new last Indiana Jones film, we revisit the last last Indiana Jones movie, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's got Tarzan vine swinging and some retrospectively questionable casting decisions but it also has more in common with the first 3 than you might think.

We're catching up on some of the latest Hollywood news and rumors including whatever the heck Sony is doing with all the Spider-Man villains, a Lord of War sequel, and trailers for Martin Scorsese's new flick, Disney's Haunted Mansion, and Dune 2.

Miles Morales is back for a visually spectacular, character-rich thrill ride in this virtuosic follow-up to the first Spider-Verse film. We can't even pretend to be on the fence about this one but help us count the ways in which Across the Spider-Verse is the best superhero movie of 2023. 

The Next Generation is back for one more hurrah and 2/3 of this podcast is very excited about it! Picard and all his buddies face new and familiar foes and numerous inconveniently-timed transporter malfunctions.

The Guardians are back for one big finale! As James Gunn writes the swan song for his galactic misfits, we talk highlights/lowlights, see how this entry compares to the other two volumes, and discuss how this reflects on Gunn's big move to DC.

If you like fantasy, action, comedy, and one of the better Chris's, then you'll love the Dungeons & Dragons movie. We talk about whether the brand name helped or hurt the box office, suss out some nods to the game, and try to figure out how we can get a sequel going.

We're catching up on all the news this month including a live-action Moana film, a full (familiar) cast for the Scott Pilgrim anime, trailers for TMNT, The Marvels, and Wes Anderson's latest, and lots of Star Wars news straight from the bantha's mouth.

Ant-Man is back and smaller than ever! Does this entry make the Ant-Man series the best trilogy since Star Wars? No. Is it a serviceable action-adventure flick for the whole family? ...Maybe?

HBO's latest phenom has come and gone and left us only with our feelings. We take a look at the highs and lows, compare and contrast with the source material, and try to figure out who the bad guy was. (...it was David)