Today we are stepping into the blood-soaked ring with the Bronx Bull himself, Jake LaMotta. Join us as we discuss "Raging Bull". Plus we go over our Oscars picks prior to this coming Sunday! Who you got???

Recorded: 03.11.2026

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Country of Origin: USA

Release Date: Dec 19, 1980

Run Time: 2 Hr 9 Min

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer(s): Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage 

Producer(s): Robert Chartoff, Hal W. Polaire, Peter Savage, Irwin Winkler

Cinematographer: Michael Chapman

Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker

Cast: Robert De Niro (Jake La Motta), Cathy Moriarty (Vickie La Motta), Joe Pesci (Joey)

Genre: Boxing, Biography, Docudrama, Period Drama, Sport

Rating and Why: R for language, sexual content and violence

Film Location(s): Manhattan, New York (Hell’s Kitchen)

Budget: 18M

Box Office: 129K opening weekend US & Canada, 23M worldwide

Awards: 4 Oscars nominations - best picture, supporting actor, supporting actress, director. Won best actor.

Time Frame: 40s

Setting: New York

Synopsis: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Tagline: “I don’t go down for nobody.”

Watch On: Prime Video

IMDb - 8.1 (408K) #183

Letterboxd - 4.2 (771K)

Rotten Tomatoes - 92% critic (151), 93% audience (100K+)

Metacritic - 90 Metascore (28) ”Universal Acclaim”, 8.5 User Score (527) “Universal Acclaim”

Critic Consensus (RT) - “Arguably Martin Scorsese's and Robert De Niro's finest film, Raging Bull is often painful to watch, but it's a searing, powerful work about an unsympathetic hero.”

- Our Ratings -

Dylan: 3.7

Jesse: 3.8

Dawson: 4.2

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Crime. Chaos. Cameras. Crazy children. We are breaking down one of the most electric films ever put to screen. Join us as we discuss "City of God".

Recorded: 02.25.2026

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Country of Origin: Brazil, France

Release Date: Feb 13, 2004

Run Time: 2 Hr 10 Min

Director: Katya Lund, Fernando Meirelles

Genre: Coming of age, gangster, political drama

Rating and Why: R for obvious reasons

Film Location(s): Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Budget: 3.3M

Box Office: 88K opening weekend US & Canada, 30.6M worldwide

Awards: 4 Oscars nominations - director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing

Time Frame: 60s, 70s

Setting: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tagline: “If you run, the beast will get you. If you stay, the beast will eat you.”

Watch On: Paramount+ or Prime Video

IMDb - 8.6 (865K)

Letterboxd - 4.6 (1.4M)

Rotten Tomatoes - 91% critic (162), 97% audience (250K+)

Metacritic - 79 Metascore (33) ”Generally Favorable”, 9.0 User Score (663) “Universal Acclaim”

Critic Consensus (RT) - “City of God offers a shocking and disturbing - but always compelling - look at life in the slums of Rio de Janiero.”

- Our Ratings -

Dylan: 4.2

Jesse: 4.6

Dawson: 4.9

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Took a little six month break and now we are back! And what better way to jump back in than with a serial killer crime drama based on a true story. Join us as we discuss "Zodiac" and enjoy some peanut M&Ms. Only the best here.

Recorded: 02.05.2026

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Country of Origin: United States

Release Date: March 2, 2007 (U.S.)

Run Time: 2 Hr 7 Min

Director: David Fincher

Writer(s): James Vanderbilt, Robert Graysmith

Producer(s): Big list

Composer: David Shire

Cinematographer: Harris Savides

Editor: Angus Wall (The Social Network, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

Cast: Jake G (Robert Graysmith), Mark Ruffalo (Inspector David Toschi), Anthony Edwards (Inspector William Armstrong), Robert Downey Jr. (Paul Avery)

Genre: Cop drama, docudrama, psychological thriller

Rating and Why: R for killings, language and brief sexual images

Film Location(s): Vallejo, CA

Budget: 65M

Box Office: 13M opening weekend US & Canada, 84M worldwide

Awards: 0 Oscars nominations (wow)

Time Frame: 60s and 70s

Setting: San Francisco area

Synopsis: Guy kills people and sends clues to the police. Never gets caught.

Tagline: “There’s more than one way to lose your life to a killer”

Watch On: Paramount+, Netflix and Rent on Prime Video

IMDb - 7.7 (663K)

Letterboxd - 4.0 

Rotten Tomatoes - 90% critic (264), 77% audience (250K+)

Metacritic - 79 Metascore (40) ”Generally Favorable”, 8.0 User Score (663) “Generally Favorable”

Critic Consensus (RT) - “A quiet, dialogue-driven thriller that delivers with scene after scene of gut-wrenching anxiety. David Fincher also spends more time illustrating nuances of his characters and recreating the mood of the '70s than he does on gory details of murder.”

- Our Ratings - 

Dylan: 4

Jesse: 3.9

Dawson: 5.1

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The ONE and ONLY dinosaur movie. Okay, not the one and only, but the one that stomps and roars above the rest. The original dino flick. Join us as we discuss "Jurassic Park".

Recorded: 07.31.2025

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Country of Origin: United States

Release Date: June 11, 1993 (U.S.)

Run Time: 2 Hr 7 Min

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer(s): Michael Crichton, David Koepp

Producer(s): Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy (among others)

Composer: John Williams

Cinematographer: Dean Cundey

Editor: Michael Kahn

Cast: Sam Neill (Grant), Laura Dern (Ellie), Jeff Goldblum (Malcolm)

Genre: Dinosaur, adventure, sci-fi thriller

Rating and Why: PG-13 for intense science fiction terror

Film Location(s): California and Hawaii

Budget: 63M

Box Office: 47M opening weekend US & Canada, 1.1B worldwide

Awards: 3 Oscars - best sound, effects (sound and visual)

Time Frame: Early 1990s

Setting: Isla Nubar near Costa Rica

Synopsis: Dinosaur park trial goes horribly wrong…

Tagline: “An adventure 65 million years in the making”

Watch On: Peacock and Rent on Prime Video

IMDb - 8.2 (1.1M), #140 in Top 250

Letterboxd - 4.1 (182K)

Rotten Tomatoes - 91% critic (202), 91% audience (250K+)

Metacritic - 68 Metascore (21) ”Generally Favorable”, 8.9 User Score (1.2K) “Universal Acclaim”

Critic Consensus (RT) - “Jurassic Park is a spectacle of special effects and life-like animatronics, with some of Spielberg’s best sequences of sustained awe and sheer terror since Jaws.”

- Our Ratings -

Dylan: 5

Jesse: 5.3

Dawson: 5.3

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YOU TALKIN' TO ME??? De Niro puts on a clinic in this powerful flick. Join us as we discuss "Taxi Driver".

Recorded: 09.12.2024

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Origin: US

Release Date: February 9, 1976

Run Time: 1 Hr 54 Min

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: Paul Shrader

Producers: Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips

Composer: Bernard Herrmann

Cinematographer: Michael Chapman

Cast: Robert De Niro (Travis), Jodie Foster (Iris), Cybill Shepherd (Betsy)

Genre: Psychological drama, crime

Rating and Why: R for obvious reasons

Film Location: Brooklyn & Manhattan

Budget: 1.3M

Box office: 28.5M worldwide, 116K opening weekend (US & Canada), 28M gross (US & Canada)

Awards: Oscar Nominee for Best Music/Original Score, Supporting Actress, Leading Actor, and Best Picture

Timeframe: Post Vietnam War

Setting: New York City

Synopsis: Vietnam vet with PTSD and insomnia becomes Batman… sort of…

Tagline: "On every street in every city in this country, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody."

Watch On: Prime Video

IMDb - 8.2 (939K), #126

Letterboxd - 4.2 (1.99M)

Rotten Tomatoes - 89% critic (161), 93% audience (250K+)

Metacritic Metascore - 94 (23 critics)”Must-See”, 8.6 (1,200 users)

Critic Consensus (RT) - "A must-see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard-hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best."

- Our Ratings -

Dylan: 3.5

Jesse: 3.7

Dawson: 3.9

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Time to jump back into the good old filing cabinet! This week we go back to last year when we had a long talk about some manly men with mustaches. This flick will make you want to put on a holster, jump on a horse and yell "I'm coming! And hell's coming with me!" Join us as we discuss "Tombstone".

Recorded: 04.03.2025

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Origin: US

Release Date: December 25, 1993

Run Time: 2 Hr 10 Min

Director: George P. Cosmatos

Writer: Kevin Jarre (helped direct a little bit also)

Composer: Bruce Broughton

Cast: Kurt Russell (Wyatt Earp), Val Kilmer (Doc Holliday), Sam Elliott (Virgil Earp), Bill Paxton (Morgan Earp), Powers Boothe (Curly Bill Brocius), Michael Biehn (Johnny Ringo) 

Genre: Western Epic, Biography, Drama

Rating and Why: R for violence, language, drinking

Film Location: Arizona

Budget: 25M

Box Office: 56.5M worldwide, 6.5M opening weekend (US & Canada), 56.5M gross (US & Canada) - only showed in US

Awards: Nominated for 2 MTV movie awards - best male performance and most desirable male (Val Kilmer)

Timeframe: 19th century, 1880s, 1881

Synopsis: A bunch of manly men with mustaches shoot each other in the wild west!

Tagline: “I’m your huckleberry!”

Watch On: Hulu, Peacock, Rent on Prime/Amazon

IMDb - 7.8

Letterboxd - 3.8

Rotten Tomatoes - 73% critic, 94% audience

Metacritic Metascore - 50

- Our Ratings -

Dylan: 3.9

Jesse: 4.4

Dawson: 4.4

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Do you like British movies? How about British crime movies? How about British crime dark comedies? How about British crime dark comedies with Brad Pitt as an incomprehensible gypsy bareknuckle boxer? Then we have the right flick for you! Join us as we discuss "Snatch".

Recorded: 07.08.2025

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Country of Origin: United Kingdom, United States

Release Date: January 19, 2001 (U.S.)

Run Time: 1 Hr 42 Min

Director: Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Gentleman)

Writer(s): Guy Ritchie

Producer(s): Stephen Marks, Peter Morton, Trudie Styler (among others)

Composer: John Murphy (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Cinematographer: Tim Maurice-Jones

Editor: John Harris (127 Hours), a lot done by Guy even though he did not get credit.

Cast: Jason Statham (Turkish), Brad Pitt (Mickey O’Neil), Stephen Graham (Tommy)

Genre: Caper, gangster, crime, dark comedy

Rating and Why: R for strong violence, language and some nudity

Film Location(s): England

Budget: 6M (Euros)

Box Office: 28K opening weekend (US & Canada), 83M worldwide

Awards: Best British Director and Actor (Empire Awards, UK)

Time Frame: Early 2000s

Setting: London

Synopsis: A bunch of criminals do bad things and a huge diamond gets eaten by a dog.

Tagline: “Stealin’ Stones and Breakin’ Bones”

Watch On: Pluto TV and Rent on Prime Video

IMDb: 8.2 (950K), #122 in Top 250

Letterboxd: 4.0 (69K)

Rotten Tomatoes: 74% critic (142), 93% audience (250K+)

Metacritic: 55 Metascore (21) ”Mixed or Average”, 8.3 User Score (473) “Universal Acclaim”

Critic Consensus (RT): “Though perhaps a case of style over substance, Guy Ritchie’s second crime caper is full of snappy dialogue, dark comedy, and interesting characters.”

- Our Ratings - 

Dylan: 3.9

Jesse: 5.2

Dawson: 4.1

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We are digging through the files yet again. Get ready to smell some napalm during this week's episode as we dive into one of the most renowned war flicks ever. Join us as we discuss "Apocalypse Now".

Recorded: 03.19.2024

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Run Time: 2 Hr 27 Min

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Martin Sheen (Captain Willard), Marlon Brando (Colonel Kurtz)

Release Date: August 15, 1979

Budget: $31.5m

Box Office: $105m worldwide

Awards: Won 2 Oscars (Best Cinematography and Best Sound)

Tagline: "The Horror... The Horror..."

Watch On: MovieSphere and Prime

- Our Ratings - 

Dylan: 4.1

Jesse: 4.6

Dawson: 4.9

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Let's dig through the old files. This was our very first trial episode! And we picked a doozy. To make it an even more immersive experience, we recorded it inside the actual Endurance spaceship (aka sucky sound quality). Though we thought it was impossible to cover such an epic space flick, it was necessary (said with a McConaughey accent). Join us as we discuss "Interstellar".

Recorded: 03.13.2024

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Origin: US / UK / Canada

Release Date: November 7, 2014

Run Time: 2 Hr 49 Min

Director: Christopher Nolan 

Writer(s): Jonathan and Christopher Nolan

Composer: Hans Zimmer (has done 7 for Nolan, this is probably the best)

Cast: Matthew M (Cooper), Anne H (Brand), Jessica Chastain (Murph) 

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure Epic, Quest, Drama

Rating and Why: PG-13, some intense perilous action and brief strong language

Film Location(s): Iceland, Calgary, Alberta

Budget: 165M

Box Office: 731M worldwide, 47.5M opening weekend (US & Canada), 188M gross (US & Canada)

Awards: Won 1 Oscar (Visual Effects, should've got more)

Tagline: "Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here."

Watch On: Paramount+, Pluto TV, Prime Video

- Our Ratings -

Dylan: 5.2

Jesse: 5.4

Dawson: 5.4

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HAPPY 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO BRUCE! Let's sink our teethers into this iconic movie that set the bar HIGH for all shark flicks to come. Join us as we discuss "Jaws".

Recorded: 06.18.2025

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Country of Origin: United States

Release Date: June 20, 1975 (U.S.)

Run Time: 2 Hr 4 Min

Director: Steven Spielberg (E.T., Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan)

Writer(s): Peter Benchley (wrote novel, cameo as new reporter on the beach), Carl Gottlieb

Producer(s): David Brown, Richard Zanuch 

Composer: John Williams (THE GOAT)

Cinematographer: Bill Butler (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Grease)

Editing: Verna Fields

Cast: Roy Scheider (Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint), Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper), Lorraine Gary (Ellen)

Genre: Monster horror, sea adventure, survival, thriller

Rating and Why: PG (great for kids)

Film Location(s): Massachusetts, Australia, LA

Budget: 70M

Box Office: 478M worldwide, 7M opening weekend (US & Canada), 267M gross (US & Canada)

Awards: Oscar Winner: Best Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Music, Original Dramatic Score.

Time Frame: Summer of 1975 

Setting: Amity Island off coast of New York

Synopsis: Shark eats multiple people before anyone does anything about it.

Tagline: “You’ll never go in the water again”

Watch On: Peacock and Rent on Prime Video

IMDb: 8.1 (698K), #202 in Top 250

Letterboxd: 3.9 (148K)

Rotten Tomatoes: 97% critic (149), 90% audience (250K+)

Metacritic: 87 (21 critics) ”Universal Acclaim, Must-See”, 8.7 (779 users) “Universal Acclaim”

Critic Consensus (RT): “Compelling, well-crafted storytelling and a judicious sense of terror ensure Steven Spielberg’s Jaws has remained a benchmark in the art of delivering modern blockbuster thrills.”

- Our Ratings -

Dylan: 4.2

Jesse: 4.7

Dawson: 5.2

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