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The Oscars are Tomorrow and They're Watching Cartoons: The Land of Milk and Honey "Mid" Journeys KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD Review In Praise of Gibberish Lyrics Tony Released Three Novels At Once Once Cosplayin' vs. Genre-Hoppin' The Reinvention Trap Riders On The Norm POM POKO Review That's Nuts U.S. = Butts/Japan = Balls  They Live! from the Alien POV Abandoning Expectations Loophole Culture Clash = The Clash? East Meets West = Feast Meets Guest New Old Music Recs OSCAR PICKS! DiCaprio Acts Super Dumb Wonderballs Lite Jodie Foster Talks Like Joe Pesci Now Dark Triad Test Results Anatomy of a Best Picture Dave Meant To Say Hollywood Shuffle Past Livezzzzz Bradley Cooper Should Only Play Pricks Ode To Movie Cheeseburgers

Topical Solutions: I'm Not Talking Over People, I Swear Introducing Matthew M. Bartlett's Town of Leeds Gateways to Abomination (and Self-Sufficiency) The Pros And Cons (and Cons) Of Positivity Review Down and Punch Up? LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND Review More Netflix Totally Not Made Up Stats Lack of Info = Suspense? Monsters Are Due On Maple Street > Trigger Effect > This Shit A.I. Screenplay? The New Symmetry Red Flag TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY (Episode 1) Review Who Framed Roger Reindeer? INSOMNIA Original/Remake Comparison 30 Days Of Day, I Mean Side-Stepping Plagiarism The True Detective Season Two That Wasn't Dark Star's Ending Swiped Bradbury's "Kaleidoscope" Fake Yellow King Quote = Literal Repairer Of Reputations? TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID Review THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR = It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Definitive True Detective Seasons Ranking Revisiting The Matrix Effect Dave's Theory Of Glorifying Incompetent TV Detectives Night Country = THE LAST WINTER In Praise of Kari Reis Preemptive Haunt

We Belong In A Museum: Poltergeist Mic Nathan Lamoreau: Doomsday DJ Expired Red Bull Memories Roulette Reverse Nightingale OWNING MAHONEY Review Joyless Gambling OLD DADS vs. NO HARD FEELINGS When Godzilla Moves Too Much WHEN EVIL LURKS (What Are the Rules?) Copycat Attack James "Mid" Mangold Deep Dive: HEAVY Review IDENTITY Review LOGAN vs. THE WOLVERINE Review Tony's 5-Star Autopsy Pod Shout-Out Nathan's Auteur Troupe Theory The Guy With The Eye COP LAND (COPE LAND?) Review 3:10 TO YUMA Review Mistreating Horses = Full Attention! Plugging Dave's Western PIG IRON The Definitive Indiana Jones Movies Ranking In Defense of CRYSTAL SKULL? Hey, Movies, Go Outside! In Defense of Willie?? Harrison Ford Problematic On-Screen Relationships Ranked Rogue Academic Battle Lindsay Ellis and Her Case for Nazi Buffoonery In Defense of Fleabag/Wombat Dr. Jones ≠ Mulder He learns to Believe... Again In Defense of Nuking the Fridge??? The Dial of Destiny = Last Crusade Redux De-aging Shrunk His Head Superpowers Include: Luck,

It's A Family Affaaaaaair: Library Tables Inside Baseball BUCKCHERRY Reviews A Child Called "Shit" THE MIDNIGHT CLUB Episode 1 Review THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Review WEEDS Analogy The Elephantiasis In The Room "What's A Zoomer?" (Doors, Floors, And Walls) It's All Knocking The Devil Went Down To Blackmail Poe Is In The MCU BEAU IS AFRAID Review The Lighthouse Meets The Waterboy The Strange Thing About The Johnsons Meets Little Murders P.T. Anderson Meets David O. Russell Meets Darren Aronofsky Meets... On Trial For His GUILT, Get It? No Control (aka Who's Driving That Boat) The Dangers Of Getting Everything You Want (Versus Everything You Need) The Importance Of Being Real (Not Meaning Something) The Tenderloin = Montreal? Joaquin Classic vs. Joaquin Mumblefuck De-Aged Actors Aren't Real Ari Aster Gets A Little Treat He Was CHASTE* Get It? (*chased) Director Recs Defending Defending Your Life The Telephone Is Ringing

Halloween means candy, projectile vomiting, and watching 31 movies you've never seen before. It also means reviewing every single one of them. Also, David Fincher has a new movie! And it's the sort of thing he can do in his sleep. Is this good or bad? Find out.  Highlights Include: Bonehead Lyrics Trick or Treat Shenanigans Gold-Plated McDonald's Coffee Stir Cliff Confessional Booth "The Monsters of Heaven" Review Tony's Big New Book Deal! Dave's Big New Book Deal! EXCLUSIVE: Tony Renamed Dave's Book (for real) Baby Juggling Interlude The Literary Echosystem ® Dead Media Careers Hot New Releases Demystified Prince's White Album THE KILLER Review Efficiency Porn Payback Callback The Assassin Grind Tilda Tipping Point Hooptober Failures 31 MOVIE REVIEWS!?! (at least) Anybody Can Break Anybody's Neck Decompression Shower: The Movie Bad Faith Genies The Ultimate Hallmark Film? Usher Too All Green Cops Are Bastards "Friction Ridge" Getting Smooth-Brained Mario Bava Recs Aliens = Possession The Golden Age of Shit M

A King-sized episode where, simply by never letting him get off the phone, Dave tries to convince Tony that Christine is the best Stephen King adaptation ever made. Just look at all this free content. The Winter of Our Dis-Contents: Attempts at Structure Hashtag Girl Dads E-Bike Perpetrator Round II Horror Hypetober WOUNDS Review The Alien Unease Hat Trick (Fire in the Sky/Communion/The Fourth Kind) Cronenburgers POSSESSOR Review Book Wrecks ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (book) Review Termites and Whales Need Baths VERSION CONTROL Review GRAFFITI IN THE RUBBER ROOM Preview SWAMPLANDIA Sorta Review 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE Review TWISTED METAL Review Proto-Jackass Crank Calling Massive CHRISTINE Review!!! "You Have A Baby... In A Bar" Five Star Autopsy Is Christine Top Tier King? Dave's High School "Presentation" Best Worst Bullies Ever Stephen King Hates Greasers Script Doctors Trucks Vs. Maximum Overdrive Book Vs. Movie Stinky Pinky Vs. Killdozer Deleted Scenes (There's Gold In Them There Hills) Can You Shit Ang

You Can Expect: T-Mac: Glass Half Italian Shark Tooth Necklaces F/X Review Russell Mulcahy Lovefest Breaking Down "Can't Talk About It Yet" Tony McMillen Oeuvre New Music Corner (Still Listening To Asia In 2023) Berries & Brambles THE FLASH Review Do Kids Really Say "Beave"? EVIL DEAD RISE Review Curse Of The Double Reboot Are We Not Men, Trees? AlleHORRORical Horror © Me 2017 The Script Doctor Rises (Dead By... Dawn?) ASTEROID CITY Review Artifice Vs. ArtiFISH (What?)  Wes Hates Wes To support the hosts: Click HERE to buy Tony's comics before he gets famous Click HERE to buy Dave's new novel Head Cleaner

Back after, what, two years?! Dave will continue to talk about movies with people in lieu of an actual social life. Tableau Of Contents: Scott's new novel The Screaming Child BARBIE Review Biting The Hand That Needs You First Zodiac Reference The Dirtiest Harry TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Review Norman Mailer Hat Trick Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast/My Return Reviews OPPENHEIMER Review John Landis Casting Oppenheimer = Amadeus Creativity = Destruction Oppenheimer = Marquis de Sade? QUILLS Review Characterization Climax The Script Doctor Tackles Nolan's Triple Endings FAT MAN & LITTLE BOY Review The Demon Core Sexualizing Quantum Physics A BEAUTIFUL MIND Rebuke The Most Terrifying Line(s) In The Movie Nolan Wants You To Pee Right After The Bomb Scene In Soviet Russia The Room Imagines *You* Naked Adventures In College And Karate Mushroom Cloud Muffins

Musings Include: Mic Drop Name That Tune Knife Corner/Knife Drop Physical Media Love Writer Online Power Fantasies THE EMPTY MAN Review Three Alien Swipes Fuck ASMR Urban Legends Experiences PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Review Revenge > Shaming THE SOUND OF METAL Review Script Doctor! Musician Doomsday Clock at One Minute Till Midnight MANK Review Ghost Clang They Split the Oscar Vote! NOMADLAND (Leave No Trace) Review THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Review Tuesday's Frogs ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Review Sam Cooke Vs. Malcolm X Responsibility of the (Protest) Artist Best Opening Sequences   King Kong Loves Nü-Metal EVERYTHING ELSE Review

Aaaaaaand we're back, talking about the 2008 hit (?) MMA fight fest. We missed each other. Reunion Tour Set List: New Mic Adventures Tracksuit Corner (a.k.a. Slutty With Your Time) Xbox Corner Hot Wheels Voodoo NEVER BACK DOWN Review '80s Bullies Vs. Millennial Bullies Rise of Teen Fight Clubs, MMA, and Viral Videos Dipshit Rosetta Stone "Fuck that little dude!" Plague Corner Mask/Prepper Paradox Knife Corner The Australian "No"

Topics!   Viral Corner Ratio'd "But I'm Okay With That!" The Plume Crosstalk  EXCLUSIVE TENET REVIEW! Nolan as Conductor  Three Hours Feels like Six Minutes! Visual Information  Catching Bullets vs. Dodging Bullets Aurora Shooting Allegory?  Future Director's Cut? Post-Credit Scenes Analysis  The Cheap Seats vs. Box Seats Nolan Loves Masks Inception Mini-Re-Review Rich People "Dreams" vs. Pillow Hands Movies as Trailers? Dark Souls Review Water Jug Dudes The Healthy Intoxication of Failure  Innerspace Swole

Hey folks! We initially recorded this two years ago, though due to secret reasons we had to take the episode down. Now it's back for your listening enjoyment.   Topic list:   Devil's Triangle of Synopses The Wolf Whisperer HOLD THE DARK Review True Detective Connection The Alaskan Hello Hollywood Ownage  Manly Shit Checklist Grimdark and Grandpa's Deathbed The Red Wolf (green is not a primary color) True Detective or Fortune Cookie? The More Dangerous Friend, Guy Doing Violence Right Three Distinct Chokes Taylor Sheridan Triggers Osborne  Wind River/Hold the Dark Whitewashing  Windigo Mini-Review The Passive Protagonist  A Scoop of Pineapple (Express) Pizzolato Corner Is That My Sandwich In There??? Lehane Corner Worst Thing Jordan Ever Wrote TV Writing Constrictions  Hightown (P-Town) Sneak Peek Tough Guys Don't Dance Mini-Review Crash Cart

The Big Bad Cop Bash! The Return of Product Reviews Headphone Corner Ants in Our Pants Bad Cop Movies/Bad Cop Movement Old Enough to Remember Tasers To Protect and Serve Man: It's a Cookbook! Radio Raheem the Prophet  Osborne Dark Souls Training  Keaton Cop Rant The Policeman's Bawl  Jackass Paddy Wagon Italian Choices and Voices INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Review Freudian Corner Revolution Is in Our Blood Blood Simple Dead-End MASSIVE LIST OF GOOD BAD COP MOVIES

TOPIC LIST:   Positivity! Product Reviews Vitamin Corner Swamp Thing Workout VAST OF NIGHT Review Breaking Kayfabe CAPONE Review Choices and Voices Capone vs. Bronson Tom Hardy's Dog Penis Reverse Piracy  Dog Walk Test Fail   Like Removal Machine Keaton's Missing Girl Novel Massive Stephen Graham Jones Lovefest  DR. SLEEP Review Rios Drive-By Why Is Horror Green? More Like Dr. Swipe, amirite Sharing is Caring/Buy Our Shit

Topic List! Homeless Corner Bermuda Rectangle Construction Worker Hierarchy Osborne Song #1 EXTRACTION Review Mission Impossible: Fallout Mini-Review John Wick vs. Extraction Fun vs. Fraught More Netflix Shenanigans Movie Pool Mythbusting Facebook Corner Osborne Song #2 Joke Thieves Ford vs. Ferrari Mini-Review It's Not Real Meltdown Over a Meltdown! The Purge Dance Fractured Mini-Review

Hot Topics Include:   Soft Apocalypse™ Update Imperfect Produce The Irish Sell Out Failed Hunt Invoking Nine Eleven Osborne Gets Coronacancelled Bats Are Delicious  STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK Review Right-Wing Reservoir Dogs? Cop Hate Is The Rosetta Stone Big Spoiler Alert at 56:30 Is Depiction Endorsement?  UNDERWATER Review Underwater? More Like Underwear Amirite!   Return of the Male Gaze Loophole? Kristen Stewart Is The Rosetta Stone Cthulhu Bait And Switch Thirsty Loophole Stoker Awards Time Travel  Dave Doesn't Understand Poetry Hot Mic Incident   

TOPICS COVERED:   Apocalypse Workout Corner Small Press Success Stories Conspiracy Corner Are Viruses Alive? THE PLATFORM Review Dumb Dubbers Improving Movies With Fast Forward "You Can't Shit Up" THE HOLE Review Osborne Interlude Song THE HUNT Trailer Review THE HUNT Review The Movie-Before-The-Movie Mistake Fake Controversy  Hunger Games With A Political Skin It's Called A Hunting Blind, Dave It's Called "Ode To Billy Joe," Dave Bobbie Gentry Lovefest Us vs. Them vs. Us vs. Us Deplatformed By The Platform (aka The Scrunt) Black Town Car Rolls Up The Driveway Willing Pizzagate Into Existence Slipknot Is Safe

WORKOUT CORNER Dead Pools It's Not Cockfighting Virus Corner What Would Dunst Do? PREPPER CORNER What's in Dave's Bag? The Urban Prepper On Brand Till the End UNCUT GEMS Trailer review UNCUT GEMS review Circling the Drain movies: NIGHT AND THE CITY(s) review BAD LIEUTENANT(s) review THE GAMBLER(s) review The Psychology of Gamblers Adam Sandler review Chekhov's Goon Tale of Two Buttholes Eric Bogosian lovefest  My Birds  

In this episode, we cover: Rat Boys Gym Enemy Update COLOR OUT OF SPACE review Rubber Puppets Forever COLOUR OUT OF SPACE review Lost Soul Shout-Out Story Within Story Loophole OCCULT CORNER Osborne Casts a Spell DUNWICH HORROR review Holy Shit Osborne's Spell Brought a Skull to Keaton's Door in Real Time HELLIER review The Egg or the Egg Movies Catching Up with Cage HARDWARE review Grading on a Curve THE DAMNED THING review Lovecraft Adaptations Ranked DIE MONSTER DIE review

Back by popular demand, Rios! She helps us chop it up around this American Dirt thing.   And finally....... The top ten of the year. ALL YEARS.