I discuss the phenomenon of zoning out when watching a movie. When exhaustion, boredom, sameness, dull sheen, and bad projection intersect, you enter The Zone!

I go through the career of the late, great Joel Schumacher, focusing on how this genial libertine often had an inadvertently darker undercurrent.

I go through every Spielberg movie from Duel to Ready Player One in an epic endurance test. Enjoy at your leisure, apologies for the length!

Coming 2 America sends me down memory lane with my ‘80s buddy Eddie and somehow I land on his bomb Best Defense

Just a brief look back at one of my favorite Brian De Palma movies, Body Double starring God Craig Watson.

I ask how Inglourious Basterds took Pulp Fiction’s spot as everyone’s favorite QT. Mini episode.

I indulgently run through some party movies of my formative years — Animal House, Saturday Night Fever, 80s teen comedies, Back to School, Bright Lights Big City, The Doors, riffing about where I was in life, culminating with Swingers. A bit different.

I take you through the first 20 years of movies starring the most powerful human being in the history of the world — Tom Cruise. Super fast like beyond fast.

LexG talks about doing a 180 on this uneven but interesting belated sequel to one of his favorite movies.

B-side episode, no movie review today but just musing about theaters reopening,