Trilogy in Theory

We tell our listeners a dark fairy tale about MALEFICENT & THE HUNTSMAN in a LABYRINTH. We may be glossing over PAN and SNOW WHITE, but most fairy tales change with each telling. Do these modern fairy tale films succeed with the changes they have made?

We take a trip to the theater to see the X-MEN and join them in traveling back in time to talk PRIMER and LOOPER. And if you stick around for the end of the show, you will see that the War Machine vs. War Horse podcast timeline itself has been changed.

Handsome Jon Hamm inspires us in MILLION DOLLAR ARM (or at least Disney hopes so) to take a look at underdogs playing sports in THE ROOKIE and MIRACLE. And we make a solemn promise to our listeners that this is the last time we serve them up a deadly combination of cricket and hockey. We make no such assurances about future baseball talk.

It's The Big Damn Lizard Apocalypse on this week's episode, as we follow GODZILLA's path of destruction, leaving Jared with a broken heart, and then look at two previous big damn monster movies who do battle over this very podcast in CLOVERFIELD and PACIFIC RIM. Tressa Bowling, artist and designer of our very own podcast logo, joins us to take in the spectacle and tells us of a surprising monster from her own life, the beloved extra-terrestrial, E.T.

We spy on the new Seth Rogen comedy NEIGHBORS, and take a look closer out the cinema window at REAR WINDOW and AMERICAN BEAUTY. Also while we rest up and debate the marriage prospects of princesses in Monaco, we go to our guide to manhood and quote some COMMANDO scripture. It all makes sense in the end... kind of.

This week we discuss the chances of a Best Supporting Oscar for Paul Giamatti's portrayal of Rhino in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, and reboot our podcast with a look at two other franchise reboots in CASINO ROYALE and X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.

THE OTHER WOMAN comes between Machine and Horse as a battle with cheating tactics takes place on the show between CLOSER and MATCH POINT. We should warn you that this particular episode is an adult podcast, as sex and angry words happen... quite a bit actually, in the film CLOSER.

The crew of Warmachinehorse feels less intelligent having watched TRANSCENDENCE, and evolve into a real star child upon watching 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY and AI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. It's like a podcast fairy tale.

It's DRAFT DAY in the NFL for Kevin Costner, and that can mean only one thing for us... we review two baseball movies not starring Kevin Costner. MONEYBALL and TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE are on the clock. And keeping with War Machine vs. War Horse tradition, we watch Brad Pitt continue to be awesome, and discover the evil that is Matthew Lillard.

This week in film, loyalty amongst spies is put to the test, as is Brad Pitt's hair vs. an explosion (spoiler alert, Mr. Pitt wins). Matters such as these require a superhero and thankfully CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER is in theaters. But if that's not enough, we also take a look back at the movies SPY GAME and TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY. Join Josh Dotson, Michael Denniston, and Jared Dotson as they discuss the greatest debate in cinema (at least for this week).