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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We got our first look at the Halo remake, and it might officially mark the end of the console wars (RIP to arguments from 2003). Then we dive into our weekly recommendations:

🎥 Ready or Not (2019) – a horror-comedy full of blood, laughs, and rich-people comeuppance

🎤 Kneecap (2024) – the anarchic, fourth-wall-breaking biopic of the Irish rap trio you didn’t know you needed

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We talk about trying to get kids into video games, the robbery at the Louvre (we’re on the robbers’ side). This week’s recs: the horror-comedy Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project and the YouTube doc The Piss Saga by Derek Milton.

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Derek Milton "The Piss Saga" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5_uaLKpoRQ

Jake pitches a neon-soaked, action film based on Hotline Miami that, we dive back into The Ghost of Yotei, which continues to unfold like a gorgeous, bloody puzzle box.

Recs of the week:

🎤 Thief of Joy — Gianmarco Soresi’s latest stand-up special is sharp, fast, and full of millennial dread (now streaming free on his YouTube channel).

🎬 Friendship — Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd star in one of the strangest buddy comedies in recent memory. Available now on HBO Max.

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This week on Up Your Alley:

We kick things off with The Ghost of Yotei, a game we’re already calling one of the best of the year. Then we talk about our current front-runner for Best Picture: One Battle After Another — an emotional war epic that’s got everything.

Then it’s onto our official recs of the week:

🎶 Satis Factory by Mattiel

🎥 Fantastic Four: First Steps

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This week on Up Your Alley:

We kick things off with our first impressions of the early access launch of Skate before diving into the 10-year anniversary announcements from Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions (hint: he’s still the 🐐). Then we talk Drive-Away Dolls, the new solo film from Ethan Coen (yes, without Joel), and the Amazon Original Deep Cover.

🎮🎥🎬 As always, we spiral into tangents, conspiracy theories, and dumb jokes. It’s what we do.

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This week we’re asking the same thing everyone else is: what the hell is going on at Nintendo?Then it’s onto our weekly recommendations — including the Australian game show So You Wanna Win a Pen15 Pump? (yes, really) from the Grouse House YouTube Channel and it's round three of Podro Castal when we talk about Gladiator II

🎮 Nintendo Direct reactions

🇦🇺 Wild Aussie game shows

🏺 Pedro Pascal vs. The Colosseum

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