Manan and Peter join us to draft movie robots onto basketball teams, then argue about who actually won. Check our Instagram for the visual draft board if you want to follow along.

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Fresh off our fifth film festival, Carson rants about the most annoying people you'll meet at TIFF and shares some real advice for anyone thinking about attending one themselves.

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Dan and Lauren bring their Star Trek expertise to the show and promise to keep it strictly movies, not the shows — a promise they break almost immediately, in the best way.

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Allan and Joe join us to dig into romantic comedies — what actually makes one work — and then pitch the rom-com version of a few recent blockbusters.

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Skip the blockbuster you already know is going to let you down — here are a few documentary recommendations instead: Free Solo, Minding the Gap, and Won't You Be My Neighbor?

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Colin and Mat help us elect a Supreme Leader of Earth from a list of sixteen movie characters, build out a full cabinet, and along the way debate whether superhero movies are the best thing in cinema or the worst.

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Aaron and Syed, certified Marvel superfans, drop by to talk about Avengers: Endgame — gushing about Marvel, ignoring the time-travel plot holes, and making demands for what the MCU should do next.

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Welcome to a new series where Carson spotlights overlooked and underappreciated movies from the past month — this time, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, Dragged Across Concrete, and Reign of the Supermen.

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Carson and Paolo talk movies for ninety minutes with no consistent theme, no agenda, and no real purpose — just two guys (feat. nobody) talking about whatever's on their minds.

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We talk about the movies we're most excited for in 2019 and pitch some movie ideas based on actual dreams we've had — including superhero predictions and our best guess at how Avengers 4 brings everyone back.

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