houtouts! We do the thank yous first on anniversary shows, at top of the show. First and foremost: Morgan Jeske, the reigning champion and our hero (top button forever), Nina Stone, Noel Witzke, Katie Witzke, Abhay Khosla, Michel Fiffe, David Brothers, Sloane Leong, Jared Lewis, Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, and Matt Seneca of our sister podcast Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, John Keogh, Ian MacEwan, Jeff Lester & Graeme McMillan of the Wait, What podcast, Chuck Forsman, Chris Ready, Marty Brown, Nate Patrin, Jason Michelitch, Marley Zarcone, Brandon Graham, James Stokoe, Sarah Horrocks & Katie Skelly of the Trash Twins podcast, Geoff Lapid, David Wolkin, Chris Ryan, John Carpenter, Johnnie To, Tom Cruise, Brian De Palma, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, The Punisher, Garth Ennis, Yuri Boyka, John Hyams, Michael Mann, Paul Verhoeven, David Fincher, the SECOND trailer for Quantum of Solace, our patron saint Tony Scott, Russel Crowe, Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, the little kid from The Omen, Event Horizon, Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, The Rock, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Our squad runs deep. To everyone who has ever supported or listened to the show, we thank you. We know we forgot people. Especially you, because we suck. 

There are no show notes because that would spoil the list. Dig in, sucker.

In our gift to you this holiday season, Morgan Jeske is back. He has made his preliminary best of the year list, and he has joined us to share it. Tucker and Sean will be doing a definitive best of 2014 episode with a countdown and everything the first or second week of the new year. People who made their list in November either have far more access than we do or are garbage people who act like whatever five things they sat in front of must have be the best of the year. I mean, what other conclusion could you make? It has a talking raccoon in it. 

Also discussed in this section: Dollhouse, Person of Interest, David Cronenberg, Dawn of the Dead, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Criminal Minds, The Prowler, Maniac, the senate report on CIA torture, 24, Person of Interest, Neuromancer, Terminator, The Wire, The Warriors, Daredevil, Transformers, Jag, Enemy, John Wick, Notting Hill, and Days of Thunder. 

0:36:19 - 0:41:31 -  The movie Morgan watched the most this year may have been The Hitcher (1986), directed by Robert Harmon, starring C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and RUTGER HAUER.

Also discussed in this section:Near Dark, Body Parts, Blue Steel, American Psycho, Night Breed, Hellraiser, and Under The Skin. 

0:41:32 - 0:49:12 - Morgan watched Birdman (2014), directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Innaratu, starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan, and Naomi Watts. 

Also discussed in this section: Austin Powers, The Passenger, The Incredible Hulk, Robert Downey Jr., Tobey Maguire, Christian Bale, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, Val Kilmer, Marvel comics movies, and American Idol.

0:49:13 - 0:58:10 - Morgan and Sean talk about similar film Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), directed by Olivier Assayas, starring Juliet Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloe Moretz.

Also discussed in this section: X-Men movies, Suicide Squad, Demonlover, Carlos, Apres Mai, Summer Hours, Biutiful, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, I Saw The Devil, David Fincher, Gravity, Peter Suchizitsky, Emmanuel Luzbeki, and Empire Strikes Back.

0:58:11 - 1:10:33 - Finally Sean watched The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2014), directed by Takashi Miike, starring Toma Ikuta. 

Also discussed in this section: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Sketchers commercials, Only God Forgives, early technicolor musicals, Full Metal Yakuza, Sukiyaki Western Django, Ace Attorney, Fu-doh, MPD Psycho, Ichi The Killer, Hara-Kiri, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sam Fuller, Steven Soderbergh, Guy Maddin, Joe Swanberg, Johnnie To, Fred Orland Reye, Ed Wood, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, and Will Ferrell.

Next Week: Best of 2014?

Our outro music this week: "Jet Jaguar Theme" from Godzilla Vs. Megalon. And our intro, as always is from Escape From New York. 

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Before we start this week, we're going to point you to another podcast. Former guest on this show (in the most recent Halloween special) Sarah Horrocks has joined up with Katie Skelly for The Trash Twins. In the first episode they discuss Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and Helter Skelter. If you like Travis Bickle on the Riviera, you will enjoy theirs, in fact if you don't like this show and want to hear something smarter, you will love theirs. It's as far away from two nerdy dudes talking about the same stuff as every other podcast as you could get. Sean is doing some editing on the show, but don't let that stop you. Please check it out. 

0:00:00 - 0:13:16 - Tucker saw Inherent Vice (2014), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring everyone you've ever liked in a movie. 

Also discussed in this section: The Wire, The Shield, Person of Interest, Max Payne, Speed Racer, Exodus, Passion of the Christ, Hostel 2, Martyrs, Come and See, The Gambler, San Andreas, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Timothy Olyphant, Boogie Nights, The Royal Tenenbaums, Welcome to Mooseport, King of Queens, Men in Black 3, Boardwalk Empire, Veep, Workaholics, There Will Be Blood, The Master, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Altman, and The Long Goodbye. 

0:13:17 - 0:20:39 - Tucker saw Foxcatcher (2014), directed by Bennet Miller, starring Steve Carrell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffallo. 

Also discussed in this section: Eddie Izzard, Up In the Air, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Moneyball.

0:20:40 - 0:27:43 - Sean watched Tusk (2014), directed by Kevin Smith, starring Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, and Johnny Depp. 

Also discussed in this section: Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Twin Peaks, Red State, Jan Michael Vincent, Dead Man, Crybaby, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Spoils of Babylon, Troll 2, Death Bed, Shocking Dark, and Passion Cove. 

0:27:44 - 0:39:53 - Both Tucker and Sean saw Nightcrawler (2014), directed by Dan Gilroy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, and Riz Ahmed. 

Also discussed in this section: Spider-Man 2, Four Lions, Lethal Weapon 3, The Bourne Legacy, the Terminator 5 trailer, Suicide Squad, Man of Steel, Batwing, Pain & Gain, Taxi Driver, and Paul Schrader. 

0:39:54 - 1:01:08 - And finally, both Tucker and Sean saw Fury (2014), directed by David Ayer, starring Brad Pitt, Michael Pena, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, and Shia Labouef. 

Also discussed in this section: Sabotage, Nymphomaniac, Transformers 3, Bill Cosby, Holes, Doris Day, Barry Pepper, Event Horizon, Armageddon, Garth Ennis, John Woo, Kelly's Heroes, Zero Dark Thirty, Blackhawk Down, Brotherhood, Jackie Brown, The Eric Andre Show, and Eric Andre on The Soup. 

Also discussed in this section: The Giver, Phillip Noyce, The Prisoner, Divergent, Jack Kirby, Scanners, Harry Potter, Twilight, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Big Hero 6, the Star Wars 7 trailer, Live Free or Die Hard, Spider-Man, Shane Black, Michael Bay, Tony Scott, JJ Abrams, Interstellar, Zero Dark Thirty. The People Vs. George Lucas, Willow, Radioland Murders, and Michael Mann.

0:25:59 - 0:41:55 - Chris watched the Samurai Trilogy (1954, 1955, 1956), directed by Hiroshi Iganaki, starring Toshiro Mifune. 

Also discussed in this section: Gone With The Wind, Ran, Throne of Blood, Sergio Leone, Hideo Gosha, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Lone Wolf and Cub, Samurai Champloo, John Ford, Vagabond, Fistful of Dollar, Magnificent Seven, The Bad Sleep Well, The Thing, The Wizard of Oz, and High and Low. 

0:41:55 - 0:48:46 - Sean and Chris watched Sword of Doom (1966), directed by Kihachi Okamoto, starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune

Also discussed in this section: Rebel Without A Cause, The Wild One, A Clockwork Orange, Akira Kurosawa, Scarface, Heat, and Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. 

0:48:47 - 1:01:58 - Sean and Chris watched Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983), directed by Kinji Fukasaku, starring Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba, and Minori Terada. 

Also discussed in this section: Message From Space, Yakuza Paper/Battles Without Honor Or Humanity, Battle Royale, Graveyard of Honor, Doberman Cop, Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin, The Street Fighter, Seijun Suzuki, Seven Samurai, Vampire Hunter D, Tsui Hark, Seven Swords, Detective Dee, John Woo, Green Snake, Zu Warriors, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Star Search. 

1:01:59 - 1:19:25 - To close out, Sean watched Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011), directed by Takashi Miike, starring Ichikawai Ebizo XI, Eita, and Hikari Mitsushima.  

Also discussed in this section: 13 Assassins, Shield of Straw, Kobayashi's original, Qui-Gon, Ingmar Bergman, Paul Verhoeven, and Michael Haneke. 

On this episode, Tucker and Sean get together to talk about THE REAL.

0:19:52 - 0:33:02 - Tucker watched Hunger Games 2 (2013), directed by Francis Lawrence, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the kid from Detention, Donald Sutherland, Jeffrey Wright, Amanda Plummer, Woody Harrelson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Jena Malone, and Stanley Tucci. 

Also discussed in this section: the other Hunger Gameses, Escape From New York, American Hustle, Winter's Bone, Mission Impossible 3, Orphan, Inherent Vice, True Lies, Transformers 4, Jaws, and Steven Soderbergh.

0:33:03 - 0:37:26 - Sean watched Blue Steel (1989), directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancey Brown, Louise Fletcher, Elizabeth Pena, Richard Jenkins, and Tom Sizemore. 

Also discussed in this section: K-19: The Widowmaker, Timecop, Michael Haneke, Beat Takeshi, Halloween 2. 

0:37:26 - 52:03 - Tucker saw Whiplash (2014), directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Miles Teller, JK Simmons, Paul Reiser, and April Grace. 

Also discussed in this section: Dumb & Dumber To, Magnolia, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, 30 for 30: Bad Boys, Listen Up Phillip, Impolex, The Comedy, Adam Wigard, Joe Swanberg, and Delocated. 

0:52:04 - 1:05:50 - Tucker watched Fargo (1996), directed by Joel & Ethan Coen, starring Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, Peter Stormare, and John Carrol Lynch 

Also discussed in this section: Resevoir Dogs, This Is A True Story, Fury, Aliens, The Simpsons, Foxcatcher, Evan Almighty, Noah, Warrior, Daniel Day Lewis, Deerhunter, and Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats. 

In a first time ever for this podcast, this episode was recorded with both hosts sitting in the same room. If the episode sounds like it was recorded in a cavern, we assure you it was recorded in the smallest hotel room Philadelphia had to offer. Anyway, two special episodes in row!

Holidays are the worst thing in our culture. Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years, Valentine's Day, Bastille Day - those holidays are for people who love their lives. Disgusting. But there's always the day Michael Myer's came home. On this holiest of holidays, we discuss the films of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Listen to previous year's Halloween specials: Episode 6: Horror movie special, Episode 51: John Carpenter special featuring 10 guests in 8 individuals segments.

This episode your hosts Truckasaurus Stone and Season of the Witzke are joined by Wet Donut In Aliens Jeske, Grave-vid Smothers, Satanic Horror-ocks, The (understandably) Unretrieved Cremains of John K.O., and Jared the Atomic Space Ape Lewis

The films discussed include: 

On this episode of America's Favorite Teenage Gangsters, Tucker and Sean discuss the following:

0:00:00 - 0:17:08 - Sean watched The Equalizer (2014), directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Denzel Washington, Martin Csokas, Chloe Moretz, Melissa Leo, Bill Pullman, and David Harbour. 

Also discussed in this section: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Independence Day, Man on Fire, Last Action Hero, Heat, The Wicker Man, The Equalizer tv show, Straw Dogs, While You Were Sleeping, Regarding Henry, Die Hard, the Steven Hawking trailer, Daniel Day Lewis, and Career Opportunities.

0:17:09 - 0:27:42 - Tucker watched While We're Young (2014), directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Horovitz, Amanda Seyfried, Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Charles Grodin, and Brady Corbett. 

Also discussed in this section: Girls, Interstellar, Frances Ha, Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale, Inside Llewyn Davis, Marilyn Monroe, and Hanna and Her Sisters. 

0:27:43 - 0:48:48 - Both of us watched Gone Girl (2014), directed by David Fincher, starring Tyler Perry, Ben Afleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Carrie Coon, Casey Wilson, Missi Pyle, Kim Dickens, and Patrick Fugit. 

Also discussed in this section: Michael Haneke, Alfred Hitchcock, Good Will Hunting, Dogma, The Town, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Panic Room, Se7en, Ben Affleck calling Bill Maher a racist, Mannix, Lolita, Joan Crawford, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Utopia, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Daniel Craig.  

0:48:49- 1:02:00 - Tucker went to see a series of film clips introduced and discussed by Paul Thomas Anderson. 

Also discussed in this section: Quentin Tarantino, Police Squad, Jackie Brown, Repo Man, North By Northwest, Blake Edwards, Alex Cox, Christopher Nolan, Clint Eastwood, Jeremy Renner vs. Bradley Cooper, Hackers, Dario Argento, Terrence Malick, and trailers for Black Hat, Inherent Vice, Tak3n, and American Sniper.

Here's the latest episode of the world's only movie podcast, Travis Bickle on the Riviera. With your hosts Morgan "Sir Paul McCartney " Jeske and Sean "Sirhan Sirhan" Witzke.