Silver Linings Playback

For the month of February, Joel and Andy are watching Matthew McConaughey rom-coms. This week, they watch Failure to Launch, a film where McConaughey's parents are so desperate to get him out of their home that they hire Sarah Jessica Parker to pretend to be his girlfriend.

For the month of February, Joel and Andy are watching Matthew McConaughey rom-coms. They start with Fool's Gold, the 2008 film where McConaughey and Kate Hudson search for buried treasure while trying to save their marriage.

Joel and Andy finish the month with the 2020 Robert Downey Jr. film Dolittle, which inexplicably has five Oscar winners and four Oscar nominees in its cast.

This week, Joel and Andy make the Jellicle choice to watch Tom Hooper's 2019 fever dream of bad CGI and baffling visuals, Cats, which is based on the also-baffling Broadway musical.

Joel and Andy watch Wonder Woman 1984, the new superhero film that was released on HBO Max and in theaters the same day. They try to figure out where things went wrong in the follow up to one of the struggling DCEU's strongest film.

This week, instead of reviewing a film, we are sharing Joel and Andy's best movie pitches from 2020. If you are a Hollywood producer looking for a guaranteed payday, make sure to listen and then write them both a big, fat check.

Joel and Andy end the year by watching the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, a made-for-TV movie so reviled that for years the cast refused to talk about it in interviews and George Lucas tried to have all copies destroyed.

Joel and Andy watch the 2009 made-for-TV movie The Dog Who Saved Christmas, which is essentially a lazy ripoff of Home Alone, but with a dog protecting the house from a team of robbers lead by Dean Cain.

Joel and Andy kick off the month with Last Christmas, which stars Emilia Clarke as Kate, a Christmas store elf who is having a rough time until she meets the mysterious Tom (Henry Golding), who helps her become a better, more responsible person.

Joel and Andy close out their month of heist films with the aptly-named Heist. The film revolves around a casino heist gone wrong where the robbers are forced to hijack a bus to flee from the cops.