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Deep Dive

What the What and Who is Who in Mulholland Drive??

The guys take another listener recommendation and both watch Mulholland Drive for the first time.  We make neither heads nor tails of the movie, so we break down the whole thing, spoilers and all, looking for answers.  Jake confuses things more by adding new names to the characters, Dustin predicts a few things Jake didn’t…

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Akira: Or How Canada Remained Powerless and Still Saved the World

We have a very interesting experience this week as we watch our first Anime feature film to dissect on the podcast. We don’t do as much shouting and grunting as you might like, and we barely try to use correct pronunciation, but we have a really fun time anyway. This was also our first episode…

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Disaster in Pleasantville

Spoilers: We continue the joy of black and white movies from last week, as we bathe in nostalgic television from yesteryear. We completely fail to recognize the obvious transition from talking about a pleasant beer to a pleasant film. We critique the sex positions of fictional virgins. We also disagree with the writer and director…

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Waking Up to They Live

We’ve hacked into your podcast stream to warn you we have discovered some disturbing signals, quite by accident. This week our minds are opened by the 1988 John Carpenter cult classic “They Live.” We of course can’t avoid talking about how relevant it still is, how it works so well in the Sci-Fi/Horror genre, and…

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In a Love/Hate Relationship with The Twilight Saga

This week we tackle the most popular, complicated, and disturbing love story of our generation. We go through all five chapters in the Twilight Saga film franchise. We explore how it is possible that we enjoy these movies that are bad on several levels, and how these books and films, which impacted our culture immensely,…

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American Psycho Proves Why Movies are Better than Books

Is American Psycho the best page to screen adaptation ever? The guys explore that this week in a very adult and very gross conversation that is certainly not for the faint of heart. Dustin shares some very gory differences from the book, while Jake compares the movie to the sequel and somehow also brings Clueless…

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Psychoanalyzing Character Development in As Good as It Gets

This week we offer two different perspectives on the 1997 classic “As Good as It Gets” as Dustin has seen it many times since childhood and Jake saw it for the first time this week. We try to get to the bottom of how Melvin Udall, one of the worst people to center a movie…

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The Meaning of Life from Forrest Gump

Spoilers: This week we break down Forrest Gump, and much like life, find meaning in the really fun light parts and the really sad dark parts. We get deep into character psychology for Forrest, Jenny, and Lieutenant Dan and discover what makes them all so great. And we try really hard not to cry at…

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Marveling at the Infinity Saga: Part 2

This week we finish talking about Phase 3 of Marvel’s Infinity Saga. We have a lot of praise to give overall, but also share many unpopular opinions about several movies in the series. We recommend our favorite Independence Day movies to celebrate the 4th of July with, and Dustin goes on more than one rant…

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Marveling at the Infinity Saga: Part 1

Spoilers: This week we finally get around to breaking down the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what we love and hate about the MCU. In the first part of our first two-part episode, we talk about the first eleven movies in the Infinity Saga, Phase 1 and 2, from Iron Man through Avengers: Age of Ultron….

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