We dodge dinos and reel in the good and the bad of recent 2026 movies, reviewing The End of Oak Street [SPOILERS], Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Rose of Nevada, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Coyote vs Acme, Mutiny, Motor City, Normal, Avatar Aang, The Rivals of Amziah King, Carolina Caroline, I Love Boosters, Kontinental '25, The Moment, I Want Your Sex, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, Stop! That! Train! and Finding Emily, plus a second pass at Blue Heron and The Furious.

Blindspot Swaps: The Grey (2011), The American Astronaut (2001)

CLASSICS CORNER (01:09): Being There (1979), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

SPOILERS only for The End of Oak Street

Outro is Safety Instructions, from the Stop! That! Train! OST

The bracket to determine the best movie of 1976 - joined by ⁠Zach⁠ and ⁠Brendan⁠ of ⁠The Movie Ladder , along with listener submissions naming their favorite. See the bracket of 21 movies ⁠here⁠.

The host/guests own 1976 rankings: Allix, Sammy, Brendan & Zach.

Mild SPOILERS for Carrie, Network, All The President's Men, The Tenant, Mr. Klein

With Nolan tackling one of the world's greatest adventures in The Odyssey, we enlist two guests, Mike Zimm a Homer scholar and our own Diogenes in Prof. Shai (@⁠⁠slyjester⁠⁠). We also DRAFT favorite sword & sandal movies plus share listener rankings of Nolan's 13 movies.

55 minutes in, we review other July 2026 movies: BLUE Heron, The INVITE, Minions & MONSTERS, TUNER, Mother MARY, Over Your DEAD Body, Girls Like GIRLS.

Blindspot Swap reviews Menashe (2017) and They Shoot Horses Don't They (1969) + Classics Corner.

SPOILERS only for The Odyssey (and briefly for Life of Pi!)

Outre is "Odyssey" from the soundtrack by Ludwig Göransson

The World Cup of Movies gets decided, as the movies representing the 16 final countries in the real soccer tourney compete for world cup movie glory. Lee Jutton (@leiladaisyj), film critic and archivist, joins us to decide the winner! See the bracket here.

42 minutes in, we turn to 2026 movies, reviewing DISCLOSURE DAY, Toy Story 5, BACKROOMS, Voicemails for Isabelle, THE FURIOUS, Over Your Dead Body, THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, and Power Ballad.

Plus we catchup on last month's Blindspot Swaps - Sing Street and Tangerine - and go deep into Hugh Jackman's facial routine.

SPOILERS ONLY for Disclosure Day (42:00-60:00)

See here our 2019 episode with Lee on movies about soccer and hockey!

OUTRE is We Dont Talk About Bruno from 2021's Encanto OST

We rip through some May movies - Mortal Kombat 2, Swapped, The Sheep Detectives, Is God Is, Hokum, Obsession - and [17:41] kickoff Stage 1 of the World Cup Movie Tournament, debating and deciding the 48 movies, each representing the countries in the real World Cup. Next episode is Stage 2, with 16 movies advancing into a BRACKET to win the 2026 World Cup Movie Tournament!

See here for a list of the 48 movies selected, and the 12 group winners, in the World Cup tourney.

Blindspot Swaps [01:02:50] reviews The Tale of The Princess Kaguya and The Last Temptation of Christ

NO SPOILERS except for the Christ movie!!

Cohost Sam recently joined The Movie Ladder Podcast episode on Match Point and This Century in Cinema episode on Oppenheimer

OUTRE is Matador (Red Flags) by Jayo (2025) from the Obsession OST

With cohost Allix own wedding approaching, ⁠Laura Royden⁠ joins for THE DRAMA plus 30 minutes in we draft the best wedding movies.

SPOILERS only for The Drama from 10:45

Outro is Elephant Love Medley from Moulin Rouge OST (2001) by Kidman, McGregor & Jaime Allen - EXCERPT used per right of cultural commentary, no rights violation!!

After the rousing success of our Apu Trilogy episode, our trilogist Prof. Chester (@slyjester) is back to discuss the romance, desire and anxieties of the two Oslo Trilogies by Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo August 31, The Worst Person in the World) and Dag Johan Haugerud (Sex, Dreams, Love).

Plus Classics Corner!

Outre: "Oslo in the Summertime" by of Montreal (2005) - NO LICENSE ISSUE AS ONLY A BRIEF EXCERPT

Project Hail Mary and The Bride! lead a March roundup, along with Hoppers, Heel, By Design, Undertone, Radu Jude's Dracula, Yes, Zach Cregger's Mars and Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Plus, Aaron Brooks (@incubrooks) of ⁠⁠⁠Why We Love Horror⁠⁠⁠⁠ returns (53:00) to share the movies that made him who he is in our latest MovieBio.

Also, Blindspot Swap™ reviews Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Four Lions, plus new swaps for next episode, as well as a Classics Corner.

Outre: Sandra Huller cover of Harry Styles' "Sign of the Times" (2026) - NO LICENSE ISSUE AS ONLY A BRIEF EXCERPT

2026 has some of the best Dumpuary movies in years but before we get to Bone Temple, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die and Nirvanna: The Band The Show The Movie, we take a last look at 2025, interviewing the director (Daniel Robbins), producer (Daniel Goldschmidt) and star (Zack Weiner) of the political comedy CITIZEN WEINER + handing out our 2025 movie awards.

Spoilers only for Citizen Weiner.

Check out Citizen Weiner on Tubi and Amazon

Our inaugural Beast Supporting Actor awards for 2025 went to Googoo the meerkat from Left-Handed Girl, and the Canadian Toller dogs from The Sparrow in the Chimney and Good Boy.

Outro is The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden, 1982, EXCERPT only, used for cultural commentary so no licensing concern, thank you for your attention to this matter! 

The bracket to determine the best movie of 2025 is here - after releasing the bracket in separate episodes, here you can tackle the ENTIRE (3 hour!) bracket!

Joined for each bracket section by guests including Zach Brooks, Laura Royden, Navi, Adam Cohen and Grace Leeder, as well as many clips ("I Dont Have A Reason!") from listeners naming their favorite of the year.

SPOILERS only near the end on the final 4 movies.

The 32 movie Bracket can be found ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Outro is from the soundtrack of the winner of the bracket, the best movie of 2025 according to TWBP!