Spoilers!

Stevie, Pappy, $ Mikey, Korey, Josh, and special guest Dave review "Tim Burton's" The Nightmare Before Christmas!

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The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

Release date: October 13, 1993 (USA)

Director: Henry Selick

Screenplay: Caroline Thompson

Box office: 91.5 million USD

Budget: 18 million USD, 24 million USD

Art director: Deane Taylor

"Contributor: Tim Burton"

Is the NBA rigged?

Pappy and Josh talk about the dark side of basketball after having binged the Whistleblower podcast!

All the gory details of the referee lifestyle are here.

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In 2007, NBA referee Tim Donaghy was arrested for betting on games he officiated. It was the biggest scandal in American sports history, but it quickly faded from the headlines. Why? Because everyone in this scandal has something to hide. This isn't a story about basketball - it's a story about money, and a conspiracy that spans far beyond one referee. Sports journalist Tim Livingston takes you inside his eight-year odyssey to find the truth at the heart of the scandal.

Can 6 spoilerboys defeat the Persian hoards?

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(Thanks so much Lindsey L. for this request!)

Stay after the movie for special trivia that's unlike any other!

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In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, leads his badly outnumbered warriors against the massive Persian army. Though certain death awaits the Spartans, their sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against their common enemy.

Release date: March 9, 2007 (USA)

Director: Zack Snyder

Box office: 456.1 million USD

Adapted from: 300

Nominations: MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Villain, MORE

Sequel: 300: Rise of an Empire

Spooky Spoilers continues with Brett, Mikey, Josh, Pappy, and Stevie reviewing the vagina dentata classic: Teeth!

Dawn (Jess Weixler) is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey (Hale Appleman), nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.

Release date: January 18, 2008 (USA)

Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein

Budget: 2 million USD

Distributed by: The Weinstein Company, FilmFlex, Roadside Attractions

Edited by: Joe Landauer

Spooky Spoilers is back!

Mikey, Pappy, Josh, Stevie, and Brett review the (not) Tom Hardy spooky classic Upgrade!

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure -- an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility -- skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

Release date: June 1, 2018 (USA)

Director: Leigh Whannell

Production companies: Blumhouse Productions, VicScreen, Goalpost Pictures

Box office: 17 million USD

Budget: 3 million USD

Stevie, Josh, Pappy, Korey, and $ Mikey review Jason Segel / Judd Apatow classic Forgetting Sarah Marshall!

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Struggling musician Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) is better-known as the boyfriend of TV star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). After she unceremoniously dumps him, he feels lost and alone but makes a last-ditch bid to get over it by going to Hawaii. However, she and her new boyfriend (Russell Brand) are there in the same hotel.

Release date: April 2008 (USA)

Director: Nicholas Stoller

Screenplay: Jason Segel

Nominations: Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy, MORE

Art directors: Scott Meehan, Alicia Maccarone, Bill Matthews

Pappy, Josh, Korey, Brett, and Stevie reivew James Cameron classic: Avatar! This podcast is in 3D!

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On the lush alien world of Pandora live the Na'vi, beings who appear primitive but are highly evolved. Because the planet's environment is poisonous, human/Na'vi hybrids, called Avatars, must link to human minds to allow for free movement on Pandora. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paralyzed former Marine, becomes mobile again through one such Avatar and falls in love with a Na'vi woman (Zoe Saldana). As a bond with her grows, he is drawn into a battle for the survival of her world.

Release date: December 18, 2009 (USA)

Director: James Cameron

Box office: 2.878 billion USD

Budget: 237 million USD (2009)

Sequel: Avatar: The Way of Water

The big brain gang takes the early-phase Christopher Nolan movie MEMENTO.

As you begin, or rather, finish listening to this podcast remember...we all lie to ourselves to be happy.

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Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Release date: March 16, 2001 (USA)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Adapted from: Memento Mori

Cinematography: Wally Pfister

Production companies: Newmarket Films, Summit Entertainment, MORE

Box office: 40 million USD

KOREY IS IN PERSON with Pappy, Josh, and Brett to review the latest Brad Pitt vehicle Bullet Train!

Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz, and produced by Antoine Fuqua, who initially conceived the film. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle by Kōtarō Isaka.

Release date: August 5, 2022 (USA)

Director: David Leitch

Distributed by: Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing

Adapted from: Bullet Train

Box office: $175.9 million

Cinematography: Jonathan Sela

Josh, Pappy, Stevie, Mikey and Brett spoil Children of Men.

Pull our fingers.

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Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian action thriller film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The screenplay, based on P. D. James' 1992 novel The Children of Men, was credited to five writers, with Clive Owen making uncredited contributions. Wikipedia

Release date: December 25, 2006 (USA)

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Screenplay: Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, David Arata

Awards: Award for Best Technical Contribution, MORE

Nominations: Award for Best Technical Contribution, MORE

Adapted from: The Children of Men