Avast and parlay! Still the only adaptation of a theme-park ride to totally work, the first PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN film was an unlikely megahit that rose from "should we just have this be a direct to video thing" to "should we make ten more movies because we're very rich now." But how's it looking with 20 years on the long side of the periscope? Or telescope? Periscopes are submarine things, aren't they? Who cares! This movie has a skeleton monkey!

Recommendations: Sean raves about THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, Robin has joined the CHALLENGERS brigade and Kahmeela has gone Dutch for SPEAK NO EVIL.

Hope you enjoy cloaks, pauses and meaningful glances! The movie-within-a-movie THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN is a classic movie for grown ups who read books and have complicated feelings and stuff. Does that make it interesting in our age of nostalgia and robots?

This week's recommendations: Sean loves CHALLENGERS. Robin gives a solid endorsement to nearly forgotten Syfy series DUNE and CHILDREN OF DUNE. And Kahmeela has a warning about BABY REINDEER.

Save the whales! Staying with our odd recent focus on the year 1981, we take a look at the third Cheech & Chong caper, NICE DREAMS, which has silent-movie homages, Pee-Wee, a surprising number of sturdy bits, an even more surprising number of helicopter shots and one to two good songs! Oh, and it has weed.

Recommendations: Robin gives a cautionary endorsement to A THOUSAND AND ONE. Sean likes STEVE!, the Steve Martin documentary. And multiple members of Kahmeela's household are into TANGLED.

Ah yes, a comedy classic that ... wait, hmm, we haven't thought much about this movie in the past 25 years. What happens, again? The plot is about what? They make fun of who? Oh. Oh no. Oh boy, not at all. Oh, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY should really have stayed as a memory.

In better news: Sean discovers the joys of EVENT HORIZON and Kahmeela catches up to HELL OR HIGH WATER, while Robin has many thoughts on ROAD HOUSE. (Both versions.)

Sean finally won a movie draft, even if he was decidedly unclear on what the movie he selected was! MOMMIE DEAREST is a biopic turned into a horror movie, as Joan Crawford gets obliterated by the industry she helped build. It's sort of weird that this movie exists!

Plus, Robin grapples with her growing love of DUNE, Sean has some qualified praise for IMAGINARY and Kahmeela at least sort of watched MARCEL THE SHELL.

Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish team up in a movie that would've been better served as a sitcom ... or maybe a Super Bowl commercial. NIGHT SCHOOL has heart but a script that needed a bit longer in the oven; will we find anything to like (outside of Fat Joe, who is obviously a treasure)?

Plus, in this week's recommendations, a long discourse on whether or not MADAME WEB is worth looking at.

The poster told us that "No One is Safe," so I'm not sure the titular SAFE HOUSE is doing its job! CIA vanilla pudding cup Ryan Reynolds and spy with a bad name Denzel Washington tear through Cape Town in a tense, if not exactly fascinating, game of spycraft! At least Robin can give us valuable South Africa travel tips!

Plus, in this week's recommendations, we all love THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP!

It's the movie that made Shirley MacLaine and Nic Cage co-adopt a zebra! (Listen, it'll make ... slightly more sense.) GUARDING TESS took the box-office crown in the midst of a year full of comedy; 30 years later, is watching two icons yelling at each other still funny?

We've got recommendations, sure, but we've also got OSCAR NOMINATION MADNESS!

As Dwayne Johnson looked to leave The Rock behind, he tried his hand at the first of several big-guy-little-kid family comedies, THE GAME PLAN. Does this logistically distinct from the NFL football romp add up to much of anything? Can anyone, in fact, smell what The Dwayne is cookin'?

Plus, everyone reveals their favorite film of 2023! What are our picks? We're not giving them away! Listen to the episode!

Get ready for kickin' dudes, makin' boasts and ... surprisingly little information about the life of Bruce Lee! It's DRAGON: THE BRUCE LEE STORY, the ill-timed but decidedly fun pseudo-biopic about the Hollywood legend. You picked it as part of our latest movie draft; how did we like it?

Plus, a loaded week of recommendations and awards-bait discussions, including endorsements of MAESTRO, ANATOMY OF A FALL, LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, THE COLOR PURPLE and many more!