In the 96th episode of The Extra Buttery podcast, Jason and Robert open with Richard Donner’s death and how SUPERMAN made an impact on the modern superhero films. We then hop on the TemPad and enter the Marvel universe with a discussion about Disney+’s LOKI (4:15) and the mass confusion in plots that involve time travel, then stay in-house with Pixar’s LUCA (17:33) and why it lacks that Pixar magic. Skip ahead to THE TOMORROW WAR (29:41) for the meat of the episode, a sci-fi action film about how a basic white dude and his rag-tag team of unlikely heroes save Earth from a terrifying (but cool) group of alien monsters in a screenplay borrowed from, like, 10 other movies.

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In their fifth bonus episode, Robert and Jason revisit a terrifying movie from Jason's childhood: Tarsem Singh's psychological thriller THE CELL. Don't ask us why Jason was watching something this creepy at 12 years old! We start off by discussing Robert's previous disappointment with Tarsem's IMMORTALS, and then move into THE CELL's crazy but time-tested visual effects and the central performances from Jennifer Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Vince Vaughn. Should Tarsem get some Netflix or Amazon money to make up for the terrible direct-to-DVD sequel?

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In the 95th episode of The Extra Buttery Podcast, summer movie season is crawling back to life. We begin in the Montana wilderness with a new thriller from Taylor Sheridan, THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, starring Angelina Jolie (2:40). Then we retreat back into the house with THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (16:36), a long-delayed Hitchcock ripoff starring Amy Adams. Finally, we puzzle through our second Zack Snyder film of the year, ARMY OF THE DEAD (35:25), an apparent franchise-launcher of a zombie film with an ensemble cast and a few too many ideas for its own good. 

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In the fourth episode of Jason and Robert Watch Old Movies, we take a deep dive into Robert Altman's THE PLAYER. Released in 1992 and nominated at the 65th Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, Tim Robbins stars as a hot shot movie exec who gets embroiled in a murder-mystery with a bitter screenwriter. We talk about how we stumbled upon this film (3:00), its light skewering of Hollywood (19:40) and our final thoughts (39:01).

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In the 94th episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert recap the Oscars (2:29) – Robert’s second favorite holiday of the year – before discussing Clueless Cole in MORTAL KOMBAT (19:06), the predictability of the new space thriller STOWAWAY (32:56), before finishing off with THE CAPTAIN FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (42:54), a TV series that’s equal parts action, comedy, drama, thriller and horror, but ends up kind of getting lost in the middle of nowhere despite its stern messaging about race politics in American history.

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In the third episode of Jason and Robert Watch Old Movies, we head back to the beginnings of the superhero era with the smash box office miss, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. An ill-fated project from inception, a grumpy Sean Connery (in his last film ever) stars in a dieselpunk superhero flick directed by Stephen Norrington (also his last film), based on an adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s graphic novel about a team of superhero fictional characters in Victorian England who are tasked with stopping The Fantom from starting a world war. We go through the film’s troubled history (4:42), the awesome production and the characters (19:14), and finish off the episode reminiscing about LXG when it was first released (44:34).

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In the 93rd episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert open with a brief discussion about some casting news with Disney+’s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series before taking a deep dive into ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE (3:40). After discussing our initial thoughts, we talk about pivotal inclusion of The Flash and Cyborg’s backstories and stylistic differences between Snyder and the-man-who-replaced-Snyder until we are joined by a friend of the show, Peter Henderson, where it gets all kinds of philosophical (25:37).

(Sincerest apologies on Jason’s behalf for the audio quality – we had some technical issues that we tried our best to fix in post.)

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In the 92nd episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert share their thoughts on the WANDAVISION finale and Scarlet Witch's grieving process (4:13) before diving into the Oscar nominations, including the inclusion of Thomas Vinterberg and SOUND OF METAL, two films we thought would get overlooked. The meat of the episode (16:16) begins with a brief chat about our biggest surprises before moving on to each of the individual categories. 

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It’s our second bonus episode, part of our new series where Robert and Jason go back over older titles one of us has never seen before. This time we get into GATTACA (1997), starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. We go over Jason’s attempts to get Robert to watch (3:54), and catch everyone up on how Andrew Niccol burst on the scene with his directorial debut (5:56). We discuss how the movie may have predicted the rise of Elon Musk and SpaceX (12:18), as well as whether you can classify the movie as horror (22:35). Then we talk about Jerome (Jude Law) and his motivation (28:40), Niccol’s later projects (34:17), and then close things out with what a remake might look like. Next bonus episode: THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (2003).

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In the 91st episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert discuss Lee Isaac Chung’s MINARI (7:40), about a Korean family trying to carve out their own little space in America, and Shaka King’s JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (35:17), about Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. How did these films tackle racism and prejudice? What do they tell us about America? Skip to the end if you want to hear how they stack up against the competition (48:33).

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