Odds and Ends: We had a little bit of time left in this one, so T.J. and Ida talk about the newest Final Destination movie. Feature Film: Meri Kurisumasu! Ida and Peyton wouldn't leave the voice call until we talked about the second Battle Royale movie, so here we are. A sequel that is impressive only in how it manages to take the worst qualities from the first movie and leave out all the rest. It's insane how they could fuck up this badly. I was going to go in on some of the issues, but there's...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 43 min
Feature Film: Some of T.J.'s friends from a nerd ass weeb Battle Royale roleplay fan group he used to be in (real life - NOT CLICKBAIT) join the show to talk about the cult classic film itself. We get into the weeds on a lot of shit most people won't even have context for here. Even Nick! He said he had a good time though, so don't judge the rest of us on how bored he looks for 90% of our discussion. He told me himself, he said "yeah, that was fun." How could you not be enraptured hearing us tal...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 53 min
Odds and Ends: T.J. wants to play another game, a game about games (and movies); we both did our homework, so we're able to talk about both Common Side Effects and Sinners! Feature Film: We talk about the final film by director Yasujiro Ozu, An Autumn Afternoon. We struggle through our issues with differing cultural norms and the overall okayness of it as we try to figure out what exactly makes it such a beloved classic. Next week's movie: Battle Royale (2000) You can join the conversation Wedne...
May 28, 2025•1 hr 44 min
Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about an AI slop advertising campaign he's been subjected to; we almost talk about Sinners and we almost talk about Common Side Effects, but instead we just talk about the newest season of Black Mirror. Feature Film: We check in with David Byrne and Talking Heads again with their narrative feature, True Stories (some of which is based on true stories!). It's a chill hang and pseudo-musical type of thing. Next week's movie: An Autumn Afternoon (1962) You can join the con...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about [REDACTED], which has been his Roman empire as of late; we coincidentally have both been watching some spy movies, probably inspired by this week's feature film. Yeah, definitely. Feature Film: We cap off another dud month with a dip back into the Breeniverse! Just as mind-boggling as the previous Breen screener we covered, both intentionally and unintentionally. This is a good way to wrap up the month of bad, but good lord are we thankful to be moving on from thi...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about his A Minecraft Movie experiences, and a potentially very... unfortunate cleanup job he had to do; we go over the most recent season of The White Lotus Feature Film: We make an attempt to parse the (literally) unintelligible Axe 'Em, which despite only being able to understand like 5% of what was going on, we manage to wring out the most thorough discussion of a featured film this Dud month. I think we're just glad to not have to talk about another comedy slopfest...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Odds and Ends: In lieu of watching other movies, T.J. yells at clouds; since we're true gamerz, we talk about the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, even though we mostly talk about the Gamecube games Feature Film: We continue our dud month (which is also an accidental SNL month) with Adam Sandler's first movie, Going Overboard, even if he doesn't really want people talking about it. And for good reason, because it sucks ass. I don't have anything else to add. This is a bad movie. There, does that count?...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 45 min
Odds and Ends: We had a hard time coming up with an opening convo, so T.J. resorts to a classic starter; we both watched Mickey 17, the newest from director Bong; T.J. also watched Adolescence, like everyone else by this point. Feature Film: An insufferable comedy anthology movie with a very similar frame narrative to a different insufferable comedy anthology movie we covered on this show. We talk as much about the movie itself as we do more important questions. Namely, how and why was this made...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 44 min
Odds and Ends: We talk about Harmony Korine's new experiment in griefing via film; T.J. saw the newest Paddington movie, and a new adaptation (sort of) of Breaking Bad Feature Film: We kick off another Dud month with the infamous Norbit, featuring some of the most irritating characters ever put to the screen. Even though T.J. has some weird affinity for the detestable Rasputia, queen of whores. We veer off topic for a while here and discuss just how not very good SNL is. Next week's movie: Movie...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Odds and Ends: Our Oscars recap; we saw a gimmick movie; Nick questions T.J.'s Letterboxd top 4 Feature Film: We talk about our sorta St. Patrick's Day movie, Waking Ned Devine, another movie that feels like a fantasy world that in actuality is just a quaint UK town. It's a nice enough movie and all, but T.J. just wants to talk about the political and economic state of the world right now. Next week's movie: Norbit (2007) You can join the conversation Wednesdays at 7pm EST! Available in podcast ...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Odds and Ends: A documentary about Prince gets shut down for trying to be interesting; Nick watched the new movie Companion, and T.J. watched the slightly-less new show Scavengers Reign Feature Film: We check out another movie by Marty and local guy Paul, about the guy from Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. There's a lot of dumb controversies around this movie, just ignore them and enjoy the movie. Next week's movie: Waking Ned Devine (1998) You can join the conversation Wednesdays at 7pm EST! Availa...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Odds and Ends: There's a LOT of Oscar drama happening, and probably even more since we recorded this; T.J. saw the epicly badass and so cool Flight Risk, while Nick finally checked out Hundreds of Beavers Feature Film: We watch another movie from the time where they thought it was a good idea to make children's movies as ugly as possible. The Cat isn't even the worst part, have you seen the Things? Have you seen Spencer Breslin? This movie is so not good that we have a Smash Mouth tangent for a ...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Odds and Ends: We are super jazzed about the present day, yessiree; We recap some of our 2024 first watches highs and lows Feature Film: Tarsem Singh's epic The Fall, shot over 4 years in 28 different countries, is one of those "you gotta see it to believe it" type movies. So hopefully you watched it, because this is a podcast! Wocka wocka! Unless you're watching the video version, then ignore this. Maybe close your eyes for this episode, please. I need to preserve this joke, I can't think of an...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Odds and Ends: We share our thoughts on the Golden Globes and what they mean for the rest of awards season, as well as touch on a particular fun... thing about the director of one of the big winners. We also both saw the new Nosferatu, so we talk about that. That's kind of the thing with this show, if you didn't know by now. Feature Film: The UK cult classic Withnail and I, an earlier slacker comedy style movie. Features lots of gross-adjacent stuff and miserable-adjacent locales, yet somehow st...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Odds and Ends: T.J. presents a pretty grim conspiracy theory; we finally watch some Christmas (adjacent) movies, just in time for, well, January Feature Film: We check in with Paul Schrader again to see how he's doing. He's doing fine, thanks. He just always makes movies about these lonely and despondent guys, so I'm a little concerned. He says he's okay, but I don't know him that well so he could just be faking. Also, I've never actually met or spoken to him before, so actually, wait, who was t...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Odds and Ends: Why not honor the end of the year by having another discussion about AI and physical media preservation? We also talk about Hot Frosty, and other not-actually-that-bad Hallmark-esque Christmas movies. There's not a lot. Feature Film: We try to discern the baffling Christmas TV special that is clearly vying for holiday classic status, but uhh... isn't that. Headed by an all-star voice cast and one of the ugliest animation styles you will ever see, this is at least not one you'll fo...
Dec 26, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Odds and Ends: January might not be a dump month next year? Nick read a new book by one of his favorite authors and has something to say about it; We watched a bunch of new movies! Look at us! Feature Film: We return to India (or more specifically, Japan) yet again to watch another Takashi Miike movie. This time, the very unique Happiness of the Katakuris, a musical of the strangest sort, with zombies and claymation galore. Next week's movie: Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa You can join ...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 44 min
Odds and Ends: We try to prepare for a very special music festival coming to our hometown; Nick finally played Metroid Dread, which means T.J. can blather on about inane bullshit for 30 minutes. So what's new? Feature Film: The rom-com classic (and potential Fall vibes classic?) When Harry Met Sally (with three dots at the end), a charming lil thing about some charming lil people. Next week's movie: The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) You can join the conversation Wednesdays at 7pm EST! Availa...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Odds and Ends: While this episode is after Halloween, us recording it weren't, so we're still talking about horror movies. Namely the very recent Trap, the opposite of very recent Nostferatu, and T.J. talks about some of the VHS movies. Feature Film: We talk about a forgotten Fincher, The Game. Well, I wouldn't say it's "forgotten," really, but compared to the rest of his movies, it's the forgotten one, don't you think? Like, Alien 3 is a more well-known movie because of it being attached to tha...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Odds and Ends: The Uzumaki show is all wrapped up, as is another spooky season. Also, T.J.'s computer took a dump so there's no video for almost all of this (except movie clips). Feature Film: Nick recommended a double dud to close out our horror month, the first and last movies in the Sleepaway Camp series! Both classics in... a certain way, one of which we deliberate over its dud status. If you like the shortest shorts and a bunch of child death like we do, these are the movies for you. Next w...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Odds and Ends: We talk about the big sack boys, I mean the Detroit Lions, and how they've got such great sacks; Nick watched and older spooky flick, and T.J. watched a bunch of new ones Feature Film: Once again we chat about a Japanese horror, though the horror in this one is almost just in name only. From a trio of anime legends, we get... a live-action movie! That is impossible to find a decent version of! Maybe anywhere! It seems pretty unknown! But it's neat! Next week's movie: Sleepaway Cam...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Odds and Ends: It's been a couple weeks, so it's time for another conversation about AI, but we also talk about the dead internet theory (and dead Steak and Shakes); Nick revisits a favorite from his youth; T.J. is otaku'd-up and talks about two more Japanese movies Feature Film: Nick's horror recommendation is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure,a sort of horror, sort of detective movie about, well, killings and stuff, but also... there's a lot of this that went over our heads. But we think we got it. So l...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Odds and Ends: Nick unknowingly invokes a curse that we try to use for good, but might backfire accidentally; Even though we're still putting off our Uzumaki talk, we still do a little Junji Ito dive; Nick watched a Tim Burton movie that's not Beetlejuice, and T.J. thinks you should give the alternate version of Alien 3 a try (no, really) Feature Film: A Japanese horror classic about weird people with blackened teeth and fattened gullets from the food they take from the poor, and also some ghost...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 34 min
Odds and Ends: Spooky season is upon us , which means that Brat summer is over, but not for T.J.; Our cats have some valuable input Feature Film: Our horrorspondent Chris returns for yet another double feature with two more movies in the found footage and analog horror realms, the cult classic Lake Mungo and the recent hit Late Night with the Devil! Both provide very different experiences, yet have an odd connecting thread. Next week's movie: Kwaidan (1965) You can join the conversation every We...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 41 min
Odds and Ends: T.J. needs to eat sometimes, so he mukbangs (does a mukbang? is mukbanging?) during this episode, sorry about that; the Beetlejuice sequel is pretty good, and gave T.J. an idea for a better usage of deepfake AI tech in movies Feature Film: We discuss the oddity of Leonard Part 6, a Bill Cosby movie that has been reviled long before, well, recentish events. But we maybe don't think it's actually as atrocious as it's made out to be, maybe? It's not, like, good or anything, but it's ...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 41 min
Odds and Ends: Luke from the Least Important Things podcast returns; We discuss the recent few entries in the Alien franchise Feature Film: Luke recommended another Crichton Classic/Crap (take your pick) with the Antonio Banderas-led The 13th Warrior. It is definitely one of those things that is a movie, that is for sure. At least if the movie isn't great, you can look at Antonio in his peak BandEra. Next week's movie: Leonard Part 6 (1987) You can join the conversation every Wednesday at 7pm ES...
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 158
Odds and Ends: T.J.'s back from another Gen Con with another screening of one of our short films; David Lynch is sick, and also sick; We like HBO shows so much that we'll start calling it Max if they ask really nicely Feature Film: We discuss a Kiwi comedy classic, What We Do in the Shadows, by a couple of the guys who worked on Flight of the Conchords. It's a mockumentary comedy-horror that has been very inspirational to our own videos and comedy styles. It's also just a very funny movie. Next ...
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 157
Odds and Ends: We answer a viewer question (that viewer is me) about what movie titles bother us; also, our beloved sidepod The Boys Will Be The Boys is back in town... which really just means we talked about the newest season of The Boys Feature Film: We talk about a couple classics of the silent era from one of the giants, Sherlock Jr. and The General. T.J. used the excuse of it being the 100-year anniversary of the former, but really, he just wanted to talk about these and Buster Keaton on th...
Aug 14, 2024•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 156
Odds and Ends: Twisters saves movies, and T.J. thinks it's just a nice movie; Nick saw Longlegs, which is less nice; T.J. also gives a shoutout to The Watchers, which has all the Shyamalan trademarks, for better and for worse Feature Film: We're talking about the IFD oddity Space Thunder Kids, a hodgepodge anime thing that's actually eight other anime movies that are in themselves kind of rip-offs of other anime, and also there's like a dozen of these. How is that possible? No, really, how is th...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 155
Odds and Ends: Robert Towne's Oscar-nominated dog; we're old and it's been a few minutes, so we talk about how cool things were before current year; we also finished some cool games and Josh asks for some of our best video game recommendations Feature Film: We discuss the original adaptation of the literary classic, Lord of the Flies. It's our favorite subject to talk about - kids being killed! The twist here is that it's kids doing the killing as well. Speaking of, maybe Piggy deserved it? He w...
Jul 17, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 154
