The Suspense is Killing Us

Give a listen to this episode about legendary good actor/bad guy James Woods and the full spectrum of tightly wound yelling guys he can play. Don't jerk us around, fella.

COP (1988, James B. Harris)

TRUE BELIEVER (1989, Joseph Ruben)

THE SPECIALIST (1994, Luis Llosa)

From our Patreon page! We eventually get around to talking about the movie but as you might imagine this is more of a retrospective of David Lynch's entire career and what it meant to us individually. But if you ever ask us to explain what this podcast is about, we'll politely say "No."

ALL ABOARD for thrills and chills as we get railed by three movies about trains and the bad things that can happen on and/or to them! Hey...ride it.

RUNAWAY TRAIN (1985, Andrei Konchalovsky)

MONEY TRAIN (1995, Joseph Ruben)

UNSTOPPABLE (2010, Tony Scott)

Honestly we just wanted to do these three because they all have shape titles, but they all ended up being weirdly similar! How do you square that?

CUBE (1997, Vincenzo Natali)

SPHERE (1998, Barry Levinson)

TRIANGLE (2009, Christopher Smith)

Well, it's Christmas Day AND it's Emalie's birthday, so you know its the perfect time to talk about three military courtroom dramas! We trust there will be no...objections?

A FEW GOOD MEN (1992, Rob Reiner)

COURAGE UNDER FIRE (1996, Edward Zwick)

HART'S WAR (2002, Gregory Hoblit)

Honestly we just wanted to do these three because they all have shape titles, but they all ended up being weirdly similar! How do you square that?

CUBE (1997, Vincenzo Natali)

SPHERE (1998, Barry Levinson)

TRIANGLE (2009, Christopher Smith)

Do you smell Bacon? That's right, perpetual bridesmaid Kevin Bacon finally gets his moment in the spotlight with his very own crispy, meaty episode!

SLEEPERS (1996, Barry Levinson)

DEATH SENTENCE (2007, James Wan)

COP CAR (2015, Jon Watts)

We discuss three movies that perfectly encapsulate the range of late career Robert DeNiro performances: still great, bored and kind of embarrassing! Little bit. Little bit embarrassing.

COP LAND (1997, James Mangold)

SHOWTIME (2002, Tom Dey)

HIDE AND SEEK (2005, John Polson)

Who should listen to our episode dedicated to young, live-wire Gary Oldman? EEEVVERYOOONEE!

CRIMINAL LAW (1988, Martin Campbell)

STATE OF GRACE (1990, Phil Joanau)

MURDER IN THE FIRST (1995, Marc Rocco)

For our final Spooky Season ep of 2024, we're talking about movies that hopped on the post-Scream bandwagon. Self aware riffs on the genre, where teens get slashed despite knowing what "tropes" are. What are you waiting for?!

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997, Jim Gillespie)

URBAN LEGEND (1998, Jamie Blanks)

CHERRY FALLS (1999, Geoffrey Wright)