WE WANNA WAIL continues with The Bad Seed (1956) directed by Mervyn LeRoy! This August's Auteur is a smash hit, and we talk at length about the amazing performances and impressive, serious handling of such intense subject matter for a 70 year-old movie. Digressions include Halloween candy, the three movies Ricky incorrectly watched, and our shoplifting-related mom trauma (mauma). Plus: a little game.

Congrats bro, you got the whole podcast wailing 😐 This week's Lane's Frame is Skinamarink (2022) directed by Kyle Edward Ball. We start with a looooong discussion about Ricky's formative horror movies before discussing our dissatisfaction with this movie's failed execution of its premise. Plus: banana.

WE WANNA WAIL continues this week with the currently in-theaters sports horror Him (2025) directed by Justin Tipping! Special guest Sy is here to talk through this goofy movie's inconsistent ideas, music video aesthetic, and performance by Marlon Wayans. Plus: TIM HEIDECKER?!

Bring in the perverts: WE WANNA WAIL is back! Our horror miniseries returns with our first Rick's Pick of the season, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) directed by Dario Argento. Lane hates this movie and Ricky says, "I liked it". Who knew?

A refreshing detour from the last few dour weeks of films, or a BLEH! movie that we just couldn't lock into? This week's Lane's Frame is about Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! from 2001. After a loooong opening about the new Conjuring movie (lol), we talk about this movie's fun performances, lackluster story, and ascension into the WWW canon of "immediately pre-9/11 culture". Plus: we reveal our first Rick's Pick for WE WANNA WAIL!

End music: Kalen's Corner/Nirvana's Nevermind but with the SM64 Soundfont

In another week of war films, this week's Rick's Pick is the Empire of the Sun (1987) directed by Steven Spielberg. What a weird ass movie! We talk about Christian Bale's performance, the strange fumbling of tone, and Spielberg's wider career. Slut-shamed on my OWN podcast.

what if there was a Deer Hunter (1978) directed by Michael Cimino

We're wrapping up Fullmetal August by covering the final three seasons of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood! Thanks to very special guest Priya, we somehow managed our longest episode ever. Oops.

It's Rebecca (1940) directed by Alfred Hitchcock! What else do you want? What? What did you say?

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Our minor detour from Fullmetal August takes us to Alfred August instead, starting with The Birds (1963) directed by, of course, Alfred Hitchcock. After a short jaunt through upcoming 2025 releases, we discuss this movie's moody atmosphere, animal handling, and whether birds are even all that scary. Like we talk a LOT about all the birds.

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