We’re back from the big Virginia snowstorm and cold snap with stories of survival (indoors), digital rabbit holes, and the games that kept us sane while the world outside froze solid.

Then we get into a strange and wild ride through a dead man’s emails that are now public — and what they reveal is… something. From gaming to digital voyeurism, we cover it all.

This Week’s Recs:

🌍 Greenland (2020) – Now streaming with a sequel

🧟 28 Years Later (2025) – The franchise lives again

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We’re venturing beyond All Affleck April with Ben’s latest team-up with Matt Damon in The Rip — a gritty Netflix crime thriller that you should be constantly streaming at you home.

Then we dive back into Finnish mayhem with Sisu: Road to Revenge, the brutal, blood-soaked sequel to the film we loved a while back. It’s bigger, weirder, and somehow even more unkillable.

This Week’s Recs:

🔫 Sisu: Road to Revenge

🎥 The Rip (Netflix) – Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are at it again

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In this week’s episode of Up Your Alley:

🐶 We celebrate the dog that won an acting award and wonder what that actually means for Hollywood.

🎭 Then we unpack the age‑old question: What makes a movie a comedy vs. a drama?

🎮 Jake dives into reload‑sim shooters and explains why he’s hooked.

📺 And in our weekly recommendations:

• Counting the Trees in Skyrim — a thoughtful, whimsical deep dive video from Any Austin on YouTube

• Sorry, Baby (2025) — Eva Victor’s comedy‑drama debut film about a professor finding humor and humanity in trauma and healing 

👇 Let us know what movie genre mix confused you the most this year!

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2026 PreviewIt’s the one time a year we pretend to be organized. Jake and Taylor look ahead at all the TV shows, movies, and video games (allegedly) releasing in 2026. Here’s what we’re excited about, what’s getting delayed, and what’s going to flop spectacularly.

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This week, Jake has a surprise reviewMarty Supreme and Taylor dives deep into a newly discovered mystery hidden within Red Dead Redemption 2. Then it’s on to our recommendations for the week:

🪰 Bugonia – an artful horror short buzzing with dread

💎 Reflection of in a Dead Diamond – a hypnotic, film that breaks down the vintage spy genre

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This week on Up Your Alley, we unpack Jay Kelly — Noah Baumbach’s 2025 Netflix drama about a famous movie star (George Clooney) confronting his career choices and personal regrets on a European journey, with Adam Sandler as his loyal manager and a star‑studded cast along for the ride. We also recap The Game Awards, reactions, surprises, and big moments, and highlight the thoughtful gaming documentary Pixels to Pages: The Story of Electronic Gaming Monthly — a deep look at the rise and fall of a gaming institution. Then we talk Skate Story, the surreal indie game where you ride around as a skateboarding demon made of glass and haunt your own tricks.👇 Weekly Recs:🕹️ Skate Story — indie game weirdness you won’t forget📚 Pixels to Pages — EGM doc worth your time🎥 Jay Kelly — Netflix drama about fame, choices, and life’s costs🏆 The 2025 Game Awards — our recap and takeaways📩 Email us: [email protected]🎵 Theme music by Brother Bill: https://brotherbill.bandcamp.com#JayKelly #NoahBaumbach #NetflixMovies #GameAwards2025 #PixelsToPages #EGM #SkateStory #IndieGames #MoviePodcast #GamingPodcast #UpYourAlleyPodcast #GamingDocumentary #NetflixFilm

This week on Up Your Alley, we unpack Quentin Tarantino’s list of the best movies of the 21st century—and whether it’s brilliant, baffling, or both. We also dive into rumors of Warner Bros being sold (again) and the newly released Diddy documentary that’s raising eyebrows.

Then it’s time for weekly recs:

🎥 The Age of Disclosure — a sharp new documentary from Dan Farah that blends paranoia and insight.

🎶 WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story — if you missed this hilarious and oddly touching music biopic, you’re in for a treat.

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This week, Taylor’s played two of this year’s Game of the Year nominees and has thoughts. Then we torch Variety’s list of the “100 Greatest Comedies” for its baffling takes. After that, it’s onto the big monsters and gooey practical effects: we break down the hype around Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein coming to Netflix, and celebrate the glorious return of The Toxic Avenger in all its Troma-trashy brilliance.

This week’s recs:

• Movie: The Toxic Avenger (2023)

• Upcoming film: Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro

• Comedy roast target: Variety’s list

• Games: Two GoTY noms (no spoilers here!)

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This week we dive into the nominees for The Game Awards and call out a few snubs that had us raising our eyebrows. Then we dig through IGN’s newly released list of the 100 Greatest Nintendo Games of All Time and question some of their rankings. Finally, it’s recommendation time: Jake brings us a YouTube video from Mile Rossi’s Miniminuteman channel about the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and we head back to Gotham City with Absolute Batman and Absolute Batman Annual #1 for a comic book arc that hits hard.

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This week, we dive into:

• 🕹️ The latest delay for GTA 6 and what that means for fans

• 🤖 The AI controversy shaking up Arc Raiders

• 📺 Dropout hitting a million subscribers and why it matters

Then we hit you with our weekly recs:

• 🎬 Sisu — blood, gold, and brutal revenge in a no-nonsense package

• 💥 House of Dynamite — a Netflix original that’s just as explosive as it sounds

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