Spoilers!

Pappy, $ Mikey, and Stevie review season 1 of HBO's The Last of Us starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey! Written by Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin.

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Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across a post-outbreak America.

First episode date: January 15, 2023 (USA)

Original network: HBO

Production companies: The Mighty Mint; Word Games; PlayStation Productions; Naughty Dog; Sony Pictures Television

Based on: The Last of Us; by Naughty Dog

Genre: Post-apocalyptic; Drama; Thriller

Producers: Greg Spence; Cecil O'Connor

Stevie, Pappy and Josh go urban exploring in suburban Detroit.

Will they meet any barbarians?

Thanks, Vera.

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A young woman discovers the rental home she booked is already occupied by a stranger. Against her better judgment, she decides to spend the night but soon discovers there's a lot more to fear than just an unexpected house guest.

Release date: September 9, 2022 (USA)

Director: Zach Cregger

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

Box office: $45.4 million

Music by: Anna Drubich

Produced by: Arnon Milchan; Roy Lee; Raphael Margules; J.D. Lifshitz

Stevie and his crew, Pappy & Josh, go searching in deep space!

Hey, Derbs.

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When the Event Horizon, a spacecraft that vanished years earlier, suddenly reappears, a team is dispatched to investigate the ship. Accompanied by the Event Horizon's creator, William Weir (Sam Neill), the crew of the Lewis and Clark, led by Capt. Miller (Laurence Fishburne), begins to explore the seemingly abandoned vessel. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors, and that the horrors that befell the Event Horizon's previous journey are still present.

Release date: August 15, 1997 (USA)

Director: Paul W. S. Anderson

Box office: 42 million USD

Casting director: Alex Wald

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, CIC Video, Golar Productions

Budget: $60 million

Pappy, Josh, $Mikey, Brett, Stevie, and Korey show their business cards and Spoil Christian Bale classic: American Psycho!

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Korey / Kylo's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@BigDumbMovie

In New York City in 1987, a handsome, young urban professional, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), lives a second life as a gruesome serial killer by night. The cast is filled by the detective (Willem Dafoe), the fiance (Reese Witherspoon), the mistress (Samantha Mathis), the coworker (Jared Leto), and the secretary (Chloë Sevigny). This is a biting, wry comedy examining the elements that make a man a monster.

Release date: April 14, 2000 (USA)

Director: Mary Harron

Adapted from: American Psycho

Box office: 34.3 million USD

Distributed by: Lionsgate, Lionsgate Films

Cinematography: Andrzej Sekuła

Spoilers! goes back. WAY back. To 1931. It's Charlie Chaplin in CITY LIGHTS!

Pappy hosts Stevie, Josh & Brett!

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A hapless but resilient tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) on the tough city streets. Upon learning that she and her grandmother are to be evicted from their home, the tramp undertakes a series of attempts to provide them with the money they need, all of which end in humiliating failure. But after a drunken millionaire (Harry Myers) lavishly rewards him for saving his life, the tramp can change the flower girl's life forever.

Release date: March 7, 1931 (USA)

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Music composed by: Charlie Chaplin, José Padilla, Alfred Newman, Arthur Johnston

Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin, Harry Crocker, Harry Carr, Harry Clive

Producer: Charlie Chaplin

Box office: 4.25 million USD (worldwide rentals)

Stevie, Josh, Brett and Kylo bask in Sunshine (2007).

Thanks Sydney for the request!

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In the not-too-distant future, Earth's dying sun spells the end for humanity. In a last-ditch effort to save the planet, a crew of eight men and women ventures into space with a device that could revive the star. However, an accident, a grave mistake and a distress beacon from a long-lost spaceship throw the crew and its desperate mission into a tailspin.

Release date: July 20, 2007 (USA)

Director: Danny Boyle

Music composed by: John Murphy, Underworld

Screenplay: Alex Garland

Box office: 32 million USD

Budget: 40 million USD, 23 million USD

Korey, Brett, and returning guest Jonathan review Adam Sandler's Albums: They’re All Gonna Laugh at You & What The Hell Happened To Me!

Sandman Spoilers!

Track listing

No. Title Length

1. "Joining the Cult" 2:52

2. "Respect" 4:34

3. "Ode to My Car" 3:55

4. "The Excited Southerner Orders a Meal" 0:45

5. "The Goat" 8:51

6. "The Chanukah Song" 3:44

7. "The Excited Southerner Gets Pulled Over" 1:04

8. "The Hypnotist" 8:02

9. "Steve Polychronopolous" 3:11

10. "The Excited Southerner at a Job Interview" 1:10

11. "Do It for Your Mama" 5:23

12. "Crazy Love" 3:56

13. "The Excited Southerner Meets Mel Gibson" 1:08

14. "The Adventures of the Cow" 5:04

15. "Dip Doodle" 3:48

16. "The Excited Southerner Proposes to a Woman" 1:03

17. "Memory Lane" 2:43

18. "Mr. Bake-O" 4:06

19. "Sex or Weight Lifting" 7:06

20. "What the Hell Happened to Me?" 2:26

"Assistant Principal's Big Day" (Sandler/Tim Herlihy/Rob Schneider) – 2:20

"The Buffoon and the Dean of Admissions" (Sandler/Herlihy) – 2:16

"Buddy" (Sandler/Schneider) – 2:12

"The Longest Pee" (Sandler/Schneider) – 2:15

"Food Innuendo Guy" (Sandler/Jon Rosenberg) – 2:24

"The Beating of a High School Janitor" – 0:31

"Right Field" (Sandler/F. Wolf/H. Busgang/D. McGrath) – 3:11

"The Buffoon and the Valedictorian" (Sandler/Herlihy) – 2:16

"Mr. Spindel's Phone Call" (Sandler/Robert Smigel) – 2:01

"The Thanksgiving Song" (Sandler/Smigel/Ian Maxtone-Graham) – 3:46

"The Beating of a High School Bus Driver" (Sandler/Koren) – 0:57

"Oh Mom..." (Sandler/Schneider) – 2:08

"Fatty McGee" (Sandler/Spade/Meadows)– 3:12

"At a Medium Pace" (Sandler/Koren/Smigel) – 3:16

"The Beating of a High School Science Teacher" – 0:50

"The Cheerleader" (Sandler/Schneider) – 1:34

"I'm So Wasted" (Sandler/Schneider) – 5:00

"Lunchlady Land" (Sandler/Bob Odenkirk/Allen Covert/Herlihy) – 5:01

"The Beating of a High School Spanish Teacher" – 0:28

"Toll Booth Willie" (Koren/Sandler) – 3:47

"Teenage Love on the Phone" – 2:32

"My Little Chicken" (Sandler/Schneider) – 2:15

Mikey, Josh, Brett, and Pappy review Michael Mann / Hannibal Lecter classic: Manhunter!

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham (William L. Petersen) is called out of early retirement to assist on a serial murder case involving a killer known as the "Tooth Fairy" (Tom Noonan). Graham enlists the help of imprisoned serial killer -- and cannibal -- Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox), who is the reason Graham took an early retirement. Soon, Graham and the FBI are entangled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game between the Tooth Fairy, Lecktor and an interfering journalist (Stephen Lang).

Release date: August 15, 1986 (USA)

Director: Michael Mann

Cinematography: Dante Spinotti

Screenplay: Michael Mann

Story by: Thomas Harris

Pappy asks Josh about the 5 films he saw at Sundance 2023.

Details about Eileen, Landcape with Invisible Hand, Scrapper, The Deepest Breath and Theater Camp inside!

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Dates: Jan 19, 2023 – Jan 29, 2023

Location: Park City, Utah

festival.sundance.org

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to 29, 2023. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 7, 2022.

Josh hosts this topical episode about arms dealing. Lord of War!

Pappy and Kylo hang out. Brett does great research!

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The 20-year arms dealing career of Queens, N.Y., outcast Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) serves as a window onto the end of the Cold War and the emergence of worldwide terrorism. He finds himself reassuring his more ethically challenged younger brother, Vitaly (Jared Leto), while adeptly sidestepping the pursuit of federal agent Jack Lawrence (Ethan Hawke). The globetrotting arms dealer also pursues the woman of his dreams, supermodel Ava Fontaine (Bridget Moynahan).

Release date: September 16, 2005 (USA)

Director: Andrew Niccol

Screenplay: Andrew Niccol

Music composed by: Antonio Pinto

Box office: $72.6 million

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Lionsgate, Lionsgate Films