Bill Murray had a run of hit comedies early in his career and now he is one of our top prestige actors. What is so compelling about Bill Murray? Blake and Dave are fans and discuss.

Tom Cruise may not be one of our favorite actors, but he has starred in some of our favorite movies. He has been a movie star for decades and just keeps making solid movies. Tom Cruise has worked with the greatest directors of the late 20th century and the early 21st. Including Stanley Kubrick! Arguably Hollywood’s greatest director ever. What is behind Tom Cruise’s successful carrier in movies? Blake and Dave discuss.

Blake and Dave discuss their favorite coming of age films such as Dazed and Confused, American Pie, Can’t Hardly Wait, Not Another Teen Movie, Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, Superbad, Cruel Intentions, Stand by Me and more. They reminisce about getting beer in Boston before they were 21 and Blake admits he’s only recently heard of Stand by Me and made sure to see it when somebody questioned his patriotism over the matter.

Dave just worked on Freaky Friday 2, the sequel to a body switch movie that was also a remake, so Blake and Dave take this opportunity to discuss how the body switch movie is practically its own genre of film and why this sort of story still endures.

In this first introductory episode, cohosts Blake Englert and David Shah discuss their love of the movies.