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On WGVH ep.158 hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI are back for some UNO HITTRES & SNL talk.

FIRST:  MATT and DANNO have UNO HITTRES, including: PACIFIC RIM UPRISING, ANNIHILATION, and THE STRANGERS 2: PREY AT NIGHT.

THEN: MATT flip-flopped on JUSTICE LEAGUE.  Shocked?!?!…you’re not shocked…

FINALLY: MATT and DANNO discuss SNL’s KYLE MOONEY 2017 film BRIGSBY BEAR, then discuss the current cast of SNL, the break-out films stars of SNL, and why the last several years worth of casts are probably better off just being on TV.

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On WGVH ep.157 hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI are back to talk movies & save the world. Not necessarily in that order.

FIRST:  MATT and DANNO break out the results of the first of their 2018 BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS challenge on BLACK PANTHER (which MATT also gives his take on), old KEVIN SMITH nearly died, and old DEVIN FARACI has wormed his way back onto the internet…and into MATT’s heart?

THEN: DANNO and MATT get politically active in WAYNE GALE GOES TO WASHINGTON.

FINALLY: MATT and DANNO discuss DUNCAN JONES criminally underrated MUTE, and RAFE SPALL the sublime THE RITUAL–both available on the ever-dankening NETFLIX.

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On WGVH ep.156 host DANNO KLONOWSKI is joined once again in person from across the pond by Host 004 ANDY LUNN to talk MINNESOTA! 

FIRST:  ANDY and DANNO recap the adventures they (and other members of the WGVH family) had while LUNN was here to explore this lovely land of ICE & SNOW: MINNESOTA.

THEN: DANNO and LUNN discuss some movies filmed in MINNESOTA (which DANNO showed the filming locations to ANDY), including: FARGO, UNTAMED HEART, JINGLE ALL THE WAY, DROP DEAD FRED and PURPLE RAIN.

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On WGVH ep.155 hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI are pissed. Royally Pissed.

FIRST:  MATT and DANNO once again–AGAIN!!!–have to discuss another pointless gun-related tragedy that took the lives of 17 people in Florida, including CHILDREN!  However, all this has done is instill in MATT he has chosen to do the right thing in our new segment MR. RISNES GOES TO WASHINGTON.

THEN: DANNO saw BLACK PANTHER (spoiler free).

FINALLY: MATT and DANNO discuss THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX, how JJ screwed over NETFLIX (and us all) with it, and have nothing but love for STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.

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On WGVH ep.154 hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI welcome in-studio for the first live & in person all the way from across the pond Host 004 ANDY LUNN!!!

FIRST:  MATT and DANNO are overjoyed to have long-time listener, co-host & all-around delightful bloake ANDY LUNN visit Minnesota from The Olde Blighty and join us in the podcast rec room!  MATT and ANDY met IRL for the first time earlier that day and recount their adventures (DANNO and ANDY have hung out 3 times previously in Foggy Olde Londontown).

THEN: ANDY, DANNO and MATT end up discussing ORSON WELLES, seeing MURDER, MY SWEET at the HEIGHTS THEATRE—the opening film of their “INTO THE SHADOWS–RKO NOIR” series–and why ABBOTT & COSTELLO/UNIVERSAL MONSTER team-ups are the worst.

FINALLY: MATT, ANDY & DANNO look ahead to the films of 2018 to discuss what they are looking forward to, what looks wretched, and what the hell happened to OTHO from BEETLEJUICE.

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On WGVH ep.153 hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI have an UNO HITTRE SPECTACULAR and discuss Hollywood’s forgotten one-time darlings.

FIRST:  MATT and DANNO have an UNO HITTRE SPECTACULAR on: The YEAR of DOUG JONES(es), THE SHAPE OF WATER, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, THE DISASTER ARTIST, that shithole TRUMP, award season politics, aging out of of aging directors, and MUCH MORE!

THEN: DANNO and MATT look at one-time Hollywood Darlings and ask WEREN’T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE A THING to: Ryan Phillipe, Tom Everett Scott, Eddie Furlong, Fairuza Balk, Josh Hartnett, Claire Forlani, Joey Lauren Adams, Tea Leoni, Lauren Holly, Justin Long, Mira Sorvino, Skeet Ulrich, Kevin Sorbo/Lucy Lawless, David Arquette, Patty Arquette, the other Arquette, Selma Blair, Jessica Simpson, Helen Hunt, Paul Reiser, Tom Green, and much more!

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Happy 2018! On WGVH ep.152 hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI take a look 20 years back at the wretched year in film that was 1998.

FIRST:  MATT revisited REVENANT and finally sees DUNKIRK on New Years Eve, then he and DANNO have a couple POP CULTURE RESOLUTIONS.

THEN: DANNO and MATT have a JOEL EDGERTON UNO HITTRE double-header: Netflix’s BRIGHT and IT COMES AT NIGHT.

FINALLY:  MATT and DANNO look back at what was probably the WORST YEAR IN FILM EVER: 199Ecch!!!

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On WGVH ep.151 hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI take a look back at the year we somehow survived that was 2017.

FIRST: DANNO and MATT have the only STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI review worth listening to.

THEN: MATT and DANNO briefly discuss the year that was, then have their TOP 10 WORST FILMS of 2017!

FINALLY:  DANNO and MATT have their TOP 10 BEST FILMS of 2017 (der), and MATT has some closing thoughts.

THANKS TO EVERYONE for listening! See you in 2018!

#Rip2017

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It took 5 years, but hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI welcome you all to the 150th episode of the WAYNE GALE VARIETY HOUR!!!

FIRST: DANNO and MATT have your JUSTICE LEAGUE AFTERMATH report and recount how MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 once again saved DANKSGIVING!

THEN: MATT needs to have YET ANOTHER TALK ABOUT FRANK MILLER on THE SPIRIT, SIN CITY 2 & THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS 3: THE MASTER RACE.  Oh, and CHARLES MANSON died.

FINALLY:  DANNO and MATT look back at the formative CARTOONS of the 1980’s that helped make us the Man-Children we are today!

THANKS TO EVERYONE who has listened in for the last 150 episodes!!!

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On a very special “Emergency Podcast”: WAYNE GALE VARIETY HOUR hosts MATT RISNES & DANNO KLONOWSKI see JUSTICE LEAGUE so you don’t have to.

…you’re going to see it anyway, aren’t you?

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