It's Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool! It's Hugh Jackman as Wolverine! It's profanity and violence and innuendos galore IN THE MCU!! We did it! We're back! Wait... are we back? It's "Deadpool & Wolverine," the last great hope for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's smashing records and is a certifiable hit. It is mainlining nostalgia and action and hilarity directly into your veins. But is it... good?

LFG!

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01:03 - What Keith thought 02:16 - What Ev thought

04:04 - This movie is wildly enjoyable

05:05 - Ev loved the opening credits

06:22 - Finally, a movie where the targeted demographic is 40-year-old guys

09:46 - This film has a lot of great comedy writing

11:45 - Ryan Reynolds' comedic stylings, and why Keith thinks Jim Carrey deserves a gift basket

14:46 - Hugh Jackman is excellent, and brings emotional gravitas to a film that sorely needs it

17:56 - Some of our favorite sequences and cameos

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"Hit Man" hit Netflix this past weekend. Directed by Richard Linklater and starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, the movie has earned rave reviews almost across the board. But does it REALLY deserve them!? Yes. It's very good. Join Ev on a solo mission as he discusses "Hit Man."

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03:06 - Adria Arjona is also excellent

04:05 - Richard Linklater does great, not that Ev would know

06:25 - A minor plot complaint(?)

08:07 - All the greatness and one criticism of the ending of this film

10:50 - Closing AKA this movie is pretty awesome

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The poignant relatability of the ending

Ev's major criticism: Why do the moral and climax of the story not more directly include the primary protagonist of the film?

The movie definitely takes a hard right into Kid Town in that third act

The visual representation of the mythic Beast

Smalls hung out with these kids all summer and never learned who Babe Ruth was? Come on...

Keith has either a continuity issue or a directing issue with Benny's slide into home

Ev hates grownup Benny the Jet, the Dodgers, and maybe Keith

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For folks of a certain age, "The Sandlot" is about as good as kids movies get. The 1993 classic was a staple of endless rewatchability and quotability for an entire generation. But what makes it so great? Why was it so timeless? And what, gulp were the... flaws? Join the aged and overweight boys of The Bluff Council as they dive head first into the deep end, even though they can't swim, and fake their own death so the lifeguard has to come give them CPR, which sure gets a little sketchy, but hey they all got married after so LEAVE IT ALONE OK, IT WAS TRUE LOVE. Er... sorry. Join us as we discuss... "The Sandlot."

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Ugh Ev is going to try to ruin this isn't he

The solid performances by this young cast and some of our favorite characters, including Squints, Ham, Benny, Yeah Yeah, and Smalls

This movie is filled with memorable lines and memorable sequences 11:00 - Awesome use of music throughout

Setting the story in the 1960s gives the film a timeless appeal

This movie makes us love baseball and miss our childhoods

The beautiful 4th of July sequence

Keith loves the beginning of the film and all the groundwork it lays

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All the drama: This film's streaming release, Doug Liman's beef, and his open letter - Was it all just a marketing gimmick?

Are the streaming companies intentionally trying to kill the movie industry?

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The original "Road House," released in 1989 and starring Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott, was loud, dumb, and incredibly fun. This new "reimagining" of "Road House," released in 2024 and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor, is loud and dumb. Two outta three ain't bad! Right? Right!? Let's talk about the script, the performances, the effects, and also maybe a few good things about this new Amazon product. Oh boy...

KEY TOPICS

What Keith thought

Jake Gyllenhaal is good!

This movie is all FUN and ENERGY and sometimes that's OK

Comparisons to the original "Road House"

This film would have been better experienced in a theater

Worst script ever? With examples

Conor McGregor's performance is... a choice, and Jessica Williams' performance is... bad

There is absolutely ZERO character development in this film

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"Barbie" may be the biggest film story of the year. 1.5 BILLION dollars raked in. Immeasurable cultural impact. So when the director of the film, Greta Gerwig, was not one of the five directors nominated for Best Director at the upcoming 2024 Academy Awards, the streets of the internet were filled with rage. Was Greta Gerwig snubbed? Or were there simply five directors that Academy voters found to be more deserving? Should a film's box office and cultural impact play a larger role in the voting for these nominations? At the end of our recent Oscars Predictions Spectacular episode, we argued about this very subject. Keith thinks Greta should be there. Ev thinks that the Academy got it right. It gets heated. What do YOU think?

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Tom Cruise as Les Grossman, hilarious and a bit overplayed

Ev isn't a fan of Jack Black 30:30 - Kevin Hart was almost in this film

The amazing trailers at the beginning of the film aren't just hilarious, they serve a much more important purpose

This movie loses its way in the third act - the child warmonger, the final battle, the missile-stopping Tivo

OK we'll put ONE woman in this movie but she has to be Maria Menounos

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A big-budget, R-rated, studio comedy, filled with megastars and graphic violence and dirty jokes... and an OSCAR NOMINATED blackface performance!? Y'all, 2008 WASN'T EVEN THAT LONG AGO. What a time... To many, it's a comedy masterpiece, a tremendous swing from director and star Ben Stiller. To others, it's an overrated aberration, unfunny and offensive. Per usual, the Bluff Council guys have a lot of thoughts, and will share them ad nauseam, until no one thinks ANYTHING is particularly funny, ever again. You people better come watch.

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This film is very unique and was very successful

Has "Tropic Thunder" become under-appreciated?

Ev has always kept this movie at arm's length...

Robert Downey, Jr., blackface, and taking a major risk

Simple Jack is the more problematic inclusion

Robert Downey, Jr. may have won an Oscar for this role if Heath Ledger was still alive

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Keith loves the experience of watching this film and its surprising structure

Let's talk about the ending

The "Madeleine Writes Her Letter" scene/exposition ruins EVERYTHING

Falling in love too fast and the wild age gap between James Stewart and Kim Novak

We weep for Midge... sweet, crazy Midge

The challenge of interpreting a film this complex by a master like Hitchcock

Keith solves the entire movie, THE VERTIGO RIDDLE IS SOLVED KEITH DID IT

The highs and lows of Jimmy Stewart, Actor

Keith likes the murder plot and wishes there was more of it, Ev hates the murder plot and is getting surly

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