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April turned out to be a surprisingly strong month for indie-ish movies, so Nathaniel, Sara, Marisa, and Jesse get into the particulars of Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! and Linklater's illustrious career in general, and notice some common ground with John Carney's Sing Street. We talk about the '70s, '80s, '90s, and today; what Linklater does best; and whether Once, Begin Again, and Sing Street are all the same movie.

Both The History of The Eagles and its Documentary Now! parody are currently on Netflix.  This coincides with the release of Weezer's latest self-titled album. This has gotten us thinking a lot about California music recently, but what does that even mean? Sara, Marisa, Sabrina, Jesse, and Rob tried to break that down. Topics we covered include:

Spoiler Warning: Lots of spoilers about The History of The Eagles

Jesse, Nathaniel, Rob, and Sabrina all saw Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. None of them really liked it. They knew this would probably be the case. So why go see and then record a very long podcast about it? Long story short: Zack Snyder. This film's director makes watchable movies that are always some degree of hot mess.  For the long version: listen on! You may want to read this seminal essay that is referenced early on.

There will be spoilers, but not nearly as many as there were in the trailers. 

Your pals at SportsAlcohol.com get together to talk the recent bumper crop of TV show revivals, and to ask whether TV shows can or should stay dead these days.

The SportsAlcohol.com crew got together just before the 2016 Academy Awards and discussed Oscars we'd award, Oscars we'd revoke, and how to "fix" the telecast that everyone always says needs fixing.

Five longtime Coen Brothers fans get together to discuss the newest Coen picture Hail, Caesar! along with the upcoming twentieth anniversary of Fargo and their filmography as a whole.

Our heaviest moviegoers get together to talk about our list of the 15 best movies of 2015: what made it, what didn't, and why.

The music nerds of SportsAlcohol.com get on the microphone to talk about the best music we heard in 2015, plus some of the worst.

Rob, Sabrina, Marisa, and Jesse saw the new Star Wars movie together so of course they got together and talked about it, with some remote input from Nathaniel.

The SportsAlcohol.com crew gets together to discuss favorite holiday movies, TV, and music, including an inquiry about the continued popularity of Home Alone, a spirited debate about "Baby, It's Cold Outside." and freestyled TGI Christmas episodes.