In The Cold Open #38, The So Bad It’s Comfortingly Good Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel begin with an in depth discussion of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. They then each detail their top five lists of media objects so bad they’re comfortingly good, which includes things such as the remake of The Wicker Man, Tiptoes, the films of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal, several reality TV shows, CSI Miami, and the theme songs to WKRP in Cincinnati and The Bionic Woman, which also serve as our intro and outro this week.

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In The Cold Open #37 Part 2, The Franchise Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel discuss their top five best film franchises lists, which include some of the usual suspects–the Fast and the Furious, Mad Max, Night of the Living Dead, Rocky/Creed, and Toy Story films–as well as some pleasingly unexpected choices like the Luchador films and the Police Story movies featuring Jackie Chan. Our intro this week is “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” by Randy Newman, and our outro is “El Santo” by King Chango.

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In The Cold Open #37 Part 1, The Franchise Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel discuss their top five least favorite film franchises, which includes the Scary Movie, Transformers, Death Wish, Carry On, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hobbit, Saw, Pirates of the Caribbean, Matrix, Madea, and James Bond franchises, as well as a couple of controversial surprise choices. Our intro this week is the James Bond Theme Song as performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and our outro is the Pirates of the Caribbean Theme Song as performed by Geek Music.

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In The Cold Open #36, The Nuclear Meltdown Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel discuss Booksmart, John Wick 3, Rocketman, and Chernobyl.  Both our intro and outro this edition are songs featured in Booksmart, Leikeli47’s “Attitude” from the album Wash & Set and Sampa the Great’s “FEMALE” from the album The Great Mix Tape.

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In The Cold Open #35, The Endgame Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel begin with an unexpected digression on The Big Bang Theory finally ending before moving on to discuss the cultural phenomena trifecta of Us, Avengers: Endgame, and the final season of Game of Thrones. We then finish with each of us recommending a TV show the other two haven’t watched: Catastrophe, Happy!, and PEN15. Our intro this edition is  Michael Abels’ “Anthem” from the Us Soundtrack and our outro is Alan Silvestri’s “One Shot” from the Avengers: Endgame Soundtrack.

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In The Cold Open #34, The Generational Films Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel discuss generational defining films.  This was inspired by a recent assignment in an Intro to Film Class in which half the students wrote on either The Perks of Being a Wallflower or Love, Simon.  While these are beloved films for teens and early twenty somethings, they don’t necessarily appeal to older audiences in the same way, but they aren’t supposed to.  So it got us thinking: what are some films that we think defined our generations (X for Matt and Robert, cusp Millennial for Kynde)?  The only rule was no John Hughes’ films, because duh.  We discuss the following eight films at length: Best in Show, Slacker, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Valley Girl, Vision Quest, Blue Velvet, Brain Candy, and Pump Up The Volume.  Our intro this edition is Journey’s “Only the Young” from the Vision Quest soundtrack and our outro is Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo’s “Girls Like Me,” from the Valley Girl soundtrack.

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In The Cold Open #33, The Pop Culture Deal Breakers/Fiery Passion Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel discuss a litany of their pop culture deal breakers, including the way art and artists are depicted in film & TV, critical disdain for what’s popular, online celebrities, Mark Wahlberg, CNN, Trump surrogates (especially Jason Miller & Jack Kingston), NPR both siderism, Mel Gibson’s torture porn, movies that disregard the time space continuum, Matthew McConaughey, the sad lack of contemporary rom coms, the Netflix algorithm, babies and weddings on TV shows, and Angelina Jolie.  Our intro this edition is Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch’s “Good Vibrations (feat. Loleatta Holloway)” from their epic 1991 album Music For the People and our outro is “Wildside,” from the same opus.

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In The Cold Open #32, The Spring Can Not Get Here Fast Enough Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel discuss movies released over the past few months, including, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Mother!, The Shape of Water, The Post, Phantom Thread, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Suburbicon, It, and Blade Runner 2049.  Also, throughout this episode Matt pays homage to Mark E. Smith, the lead singer of The Fall, his favorite band for 30 + years.  Our intro this edition is Jonny Greenwood’s “House of Woodcock” from the Phantom Thread Soundtrack and our outro is Alexandre Desplat’s  “You’ll Never Know (feat. Renée Fleming)” from The Shape of Water Soundtrack.

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In The Cold Open #31, The Lunar Eclipse/Welcome to Fall Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel discuss their recent media consumption, which includes Game of Thrones, The Beguiled, Logan Lucky, Baby Driver, Detroit, Dunkirk, Atomic Blonde, and a whole lot more. Our intro this edition is Carla Thomas’ “B-A-B-Y” from the Baby Driver Soundtrack and our outro is Nena’s “99 Luftballons” from the Atomic Blonde Soundtrack.

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In The Cold Open #30, The Wonder Woman/Summer Day Drinking Vol. 2 Edition, Matt Reynolds, Robert Sickels, and Kynde Kiefel start off by pouring some out for the recently departed Adam West. They then discuss what they’re currently consuming (The Keepers, Fargo, Twin Peaks, Better Call Saul, The Leftovers, Silicon Valley, Catastrophe, The Handmaid’s Tale, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Romanzo Criminale, Sound Opinions Podcast), before delving into their main topic, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman. Our intro this edition is Han Zimmer’s “Is She With You (Wonder Woman Theme)” from the Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice soundtrack and our outro is the 70s TV show theme song, “Wonder Woman,” from The Greatest TV Heroes of All Time.

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