This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl look ahead in 2026 for upcoming movies and TV shows that could be worth watching.

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (1/16/26)

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This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl share their #CertifiedInfamous tv shows of 2025!

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My Hero Academia s8 (9.3/1)

The Bondsman (7.5/10)

Alien: Earth (5.1/10)

Untamed (Netflix)

Dexter Original Sin (Paramount+)

Wednesday (Netflix)

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This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl share their favorite movies of 2025!

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Sinners (8.75/10)

The Gorge (6.7/10)

Nobody 2 (3.25/10)

F1 (8.5/10)

HIM (5.7/10)

The Accountant 2 (5.75/10)

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This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl talk about a couple movies the saw this week in individual mini-reviews (Avatar: Fire & Ash and The Housemaid). Then breakdown season 2 episode 1 of Fallout. Then give a review of HIM.

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Rating Out 10 It’s the Third Movie and It’s Fine… it’s Fine

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As tensions rise between Na’vi factions and the ever-encroaching human presence, the film shifts from a clear-cut nature-vs-invaders narrative into something far more morally complex. Fire and Ash explores how trauma, rage, and vengeance can fracture even the most deeply spiritual societies, forcing characters to confront uncomfortable truths about leadership, legacy, and the cost of endless war.

Visually, the film leans hard into contrast. Lush blues and greens give way to scorched landscapes, molten rock, and smoke-filled skies, creating a harsher, angrier version of Pandora that mirrors the emotional state of its characters. At its core, Fire and Ash is about consequence. Not just for humanity’s actions, but for the choices the Na’vi themselves make when survival demands brutality.

This entry reframes the Avatar saga as less of a mythic adventure and more of a generational reckoning, setting the stage for a future where Pandora’s greatest threat may no longer come from the stars, but from within.

Rating Out of 10 The Dad Who Rocks the Cradle

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But behind the manicured lawns and spacious rooms, the Winchesters’ life is anything but perfect. Millie soon discovers that Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried) is temperamental and volatile, her daughter Cecilia is cold and disrespectful, and unsettling secrets lurk beneath the surface of this elite household. As Millie becomes more entangled in their lives, the film steadily shifts from domestic drama to a gripping, twist-heavy thriller where trust is scarce and danger hides in plain sight.

The tension escalates when Millie realizes that the family dynamics are far darker than she suspected, leading to shocking betrayals and a violent confrontation that upends everything the audience thought they knew. The Housemaid blends suspense, psychological games, and interpersonal manipulation in a holiday season release that delivers both unpredictable twists and intense character play.

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This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl say goodbye to Johnathon Felix Anthony Cena Jr. from West Newberry Massachusetts. The last five fingers have been shuffled, the attitude was finally adjusted, and his jorts were left in the middle of the ring.

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This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl celebrate the Infamous Podcast’s most Infamous Milestone yet… 500 Episodes. Here, they will discuss how the pop culture landscape has changed since July 2015.

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Five hundred episodes in, Brian and Darryl have seen some things. Chief among them: the slow realization that Hollywood learned absolutely the wrong lessons from its biggest successes.

Take Marvel. Once upon a time, this was the gold standard. The MCU built toward Avengers: Endgame like it mattered, because it did. When nostalgia showed up, it was earned. Even the contentious stuff, like Captain Marvel or the very “look around, ladies” A-Force moment, happened inside a franchise people still trusted. Then the Disney+ floodgates opened. Too many shows, too little focus, and suddenly big ideas like Doomsday didn’t feel epic. They felt panicked. The machine kept pumping content, but the soul quietly clocked out.

Spider-Man: No Way Home briefly reminded everyone how this is supposed to work. Nostalgia wasn’t the point. Story was. Seeing multiple Spider-Men together actually meant something, and for a minute, Marvel felt dangerous again. Then everyone immediately tried to copy the trick without understanding why it worked.

Star Wars didn’t even get that far. Somehow, with the original cast alive and willing, the sequel trilogy never once put Luke, Leia, and Han on screen together. Not once. It’s arguably the biggest fumble in modern blockbuster history. Nostalgia wasn’t used to unite fans. It was used like window dressing, leaving audiences staring at the screen thinking, “How did you miss that?”

Indiana Jones followed the same road into the ditch. Instead of honoring what Indy stood for, the franchise tried to modernize the wrong things, misunderstand its own appeal, and slowly sand down the character until nothing recognizable was left. The so-called “Phoebe Waller effect” isn’t about one person. It’s about Hollywood confusing quippy cynicism and tonal shifts with actual evolution and then acting shocked when audiences check out.

And that’s the real takeaway here. Nostalgia can’t save a floundering global box office. Audiences aren’t idiots. They know when they’re being sold a memory instead of a story. Recognition has replaced risk, and comfort IP has replaced creativity. The result is a lot of familiar logos and a shocking lack of excitement.

And then there’s Dexter, quietly walking into the room and embarrassing half of Hollywood.

Instead of screaming “remember this?” every five minutes, Dexter did something radical. It changed the setting, brought in new characters, raised the stakes, and kept the core of the character intact. Same morally broken serial killer, new problems. No endless callbacks. No cosplay storytelling. Just character, consequence, and actual intent.

Which is wild, because Dexter figured out the thing billion-dollar franchises still can’t. If the only thing your revival has is memories, you don’t have a revival. You have a reunion tour. Dexter wasn’t trying to recreate Miami or trick audiences into nostalgia dopamine. It trusted that people missed the character, not the wallpaper.

So while Marvel is throwing multiverses at the wall, Star Wars forgot to put its Trinity in the same room, Indiana Jones got power-washed into irrelevance, and DC is still arguing with itself, Dexter just showed up, changed the scenery, and reminded everyone how this is actually done.

Same Dexter. New playground. No panic. No apology tour.

Five hundred episodes later, Brian and Darryl aren’t mad that pop culture changed. They’re annoyed that it changed this lazily. Because if there’s one thing a decade of podcasting proves, it’s this: people don’t stop loving franchises. Franchi

This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl are reviewing two very different family movies… one where the whole family works to fight the “King of the North”. The other was an all-out brawl with Mom and Dad for all the flowers.

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This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl get together to revive the Instant Reaction Review for SISU: Road to Revenge.

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What follows is an explosive trail of carnage across the frozen frontier: mines, traps, improvised weapons, and an old soldier’s creativity pushed to mythic extremes. The film doubles down on everything that made the original a cult favorite — gnarly kills, dark humor, insane resilience, and the legend of a man too stubborn to die.

SISU: Road to Revenge is a stripped-down, savage revenge ride that proves once again that SISU-ness isn’t just toughness… it’s a whole survival philosophy. Perfect for fans of the first film, pulpy action, and anybody who loves watching one man absolutely ruin an army’s week.

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This week on The Infamous Podcast, Brian and Darryl dive into a stacked slate of reviews — including The Running Man starring Glenn Powell, Predator: Badlands, and Guillermo del Toro’s haunting Netflix adaptation of Frankenstein. Plus, we break down John Cena’s emotional final appearance at Madison Square Garden. In News Bites, we react to the brand-new Season 2 trailers for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and Fallout. Tune in for reviews, insights, laughs, and plenty of pop-culture chaos.

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Season 2 Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSfq48ytevA

Fallout – Season 2 Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECI3eCAxRGw

An emotional, career-spanning farewell from one of WWE’s most iconic figures. Cena gives a speech that’s equal parts gratitude and grit, putting a final period on his legendary MSG history. We’ll recap the full segment, crowd reaction, notable cameos, and what this means for Cena’s future inside the ring.

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This week on The Infamous Podcast, Brian and Darryl break down the Hulu original series Chad Powers, the sports comedy nobody saw coming but everyone’s talking about. Also, they talk about the frantic trade deadline in the NFL.

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Supergirl Reshoots https://geektyrant.com/news/supergirl-reshoots-underway-and-it-sounds-like-they-involve-superman

Saturday Night’s Main Event

List of trades https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46306378/2025-nfl-trade-deadline-updates-latest-news-deals

Ratings: Out of 10 Helmet Wearing Strong Powerful Males

Series Overview

Chad Powers is a six-episode sports comedy series that premiered on Hulu on September 30, 2025. The story follows Russ Holliday (played by Glen Powell), a once-promising college quarterback whose career flames out after a humiliating mistake and public scandal. Eight years later, he reinvents himself — literally — as “Chad Powers,” donning prosthetics and a wig to walk onto a struggling small-college football team, the South Georgia Catfish.

Inspired by Eli Manning’s viral “Chad Powers” sketch from his ESPN+ show Eli’s Places, the series combines heart, humor, and a little bit of helmet hair. The result is a surprisingly sharp commentary on fame, failure, and the lengths people go to for a second chance.

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