Odds and Ends: We're firing controversial figures like Will Smith and hiring their AI counterparts, love live the new flesh! The final season of Succession just started, does it succeed expectations? That sounded better in my head. T.J. had a John Wick day, and he's thinking he's back. Feature Film: Quentin Tarantino's oft-overlooked sendup to obscure 70s action movies... No, not Pulp Fiction. No, not Reservoir Dogs. No, not Django Unchained. No, not Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. No, not The Ha...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 93
Odds and Ends: We ponder the horrors of what an AI-assisted Tumblr would bring to the world via deepfake shipping porn, as well as companies blackmailing us into buying Pringles. Feature Film: We talk about the Scorsese classic The Departed, as well as the movie it’s based on, Infernal Affairs. They’re movies about good guys and bad guys and wise guys. And not wise guys, because they don’t know how to spell. Next week’s movie: Jackie Brown (1997) You can join the conversation every Wednesday at ...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 92
Odds and Ends: T.J.’s got one last Oscar nominated movie to talk about, and it’s the worst one yet; we talk about the prestige zombie drama The Last of Us, that’s actually just okay to us because we’re cultured film guys who regularly watch prestige dramas, so it’s like whatever, really. Feature Film: Speaking of prestige dramas, Love on a Leash! One of the most bizarre movies we’ve had the pleasure of covering on the show, director Fen Tian’s magnum opus is something that really needs to be see...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 91
Odds and Ends: We’re joined this week by Jeremy Kaplowitz from The Hard Drive and Quorators ; we discuss the real way to play sports games; our post-chat rambles from newer prestige darlings to anime legend Satoshi Kon to a Youtube channel that made some darn good videos. Feature Film: Jeremy recommended The Lonely Island's first movie, Hot Rod! Though we talk about that just about as much as we talk about comedy stuff in general, like TLI and their other movie Popstar, Tim Robinson (naturally),...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 90
Odds and Ends: We do a quick tiering of our favorite Little Girl Biscuits; the global cabal is after Truther Teej and they’re going to brainwash him into liking RRR; Nick did a rewatch of the Kill Bill movies and continues his journey as M. Night’s biggest defender while talking about Knock at the Cabin Feature Film: We talk about “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” from one of our hometown legends Paul Schrader. A very arthouse take on the biopic genre that’s only partially as enigmatic as its s...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 89
Odds and Ends: We accidentally shill for Youtube, and Nick calls T.J. a shill again as he tries to do his very own solo pod-within-a-pod; it’s T.J.’s final Oscars update before the show, and things have not improved; we’ve went about two episode without talking about David Lynch, and Nick saw some of Twin peaks in a theater… so, y’know, we talk about David Lynch a lot. Feature Film: We try to make sense of Stop Making Sense, the Talking Heads concert film, considered by many to be the greatest c...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 88
Odds and Ends: T.J. continues his Oscars gauntlet with the unnecessarily long list of unnecessarily long movies, like the wet and wild Elvis, and the wet and wet Avatar sequel; Nick re-watched some old favorites again, this time being Fargo and Punch Drunk Love; Goldeneye finally got a re-release on the Switch, and we have some mixed feelings about it Feature Film: We’re feeling hungry for some Italian cuisine (and maybe a couple Italian daddies) as we discuss the 90s indie, Big Night. A dramedy...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 87
Odds and Ends: We reminisce over the lost days of the wild west of the internet, which one of us is more nostalgic for than the other; T.J. is on his Oscars binge, so he watched the new and old versions of All Quiet on the Western Front; We also discuss the newest HBO hit The Last of Us Feature Film: We revel in the Busanity of Quigley, a sort-of-but-not-really kind of Christian movie starring Gary Busey as probably a public service requirement after one too many DUIs. Allegedly? Sure, allegedly...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 86
Odds and Ends: Movie News Central is here as we talk about brand new movie stuff that’s not so brand new by the time this episode is released to the public, including our fancast for a Chris Chan biopic; Nick rewatched an old favorite, and another that gets us on a tangent on if Matthew McConaughey is actually hot; T.J. watched a couple related-only-in-theme existential experimental sci-fi movies, one of which is by show favorite Don Hertzfeldt Feature Film: We continue our (accidental) chronolo...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 85
Odds and Ends: We answer a (probably clickbait) Twitter prompt and talk about how Hayao Miyazaki is an OG hater; T.J. is CRTing all of your children with the real facts about MLK; Nick watched a movie from director Sidney Loomuht; also PUSS IN BOOTS PUSS IN BOOTS PUSS IN BOOTS Feature Film: Kurosawa’s back again, baby. This time, we’re discussing his action-adventure spectacle The Hidden Fortress, which was one of George Lucas’ main inspirations for Star Wars. Check it out for some good old Kuro...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 84
Odds and Ends: The ramifications of having a date night while your dogs are left at home; T.J. saw Puss in Boots! The… the first one, from like ten years ago. But we’ll get to the new one later; Nick is going through another classic tv show with 30 Rock; T.J. adds The Kid Detective to his list of movies he likes a lot because it fits a very specific niche genre he made up Feature Film: We talk about Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, a biopic about famed entrepreneur/inventor/filmmaker/etc. Howard H...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 83
Odds and Ends: We celebrate January 6th; Nick watched The Menu, yet another food-centric movie/show from the previous year; T.J. watched Zappa, which leads to a pretty lengthy discussion on the enigmatic man himself; Nick is making his way through the extended Lord of the Rings, and guess what? Hot take here: We think those are pretty good movies Feature Film: Disaster Movie is on the plate this week, and it is quite uhh… catastrophic? Cataclysmic? It’s bad. The culmination of the “(blank) Movie...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 82
Odds and Ends: It’s the most wonderful time of the year: candy hearts season; T.J. talks about Alice in Borderland, as well as his fondness for the “game of death” genre; Nick saw Damien Chazelle’s newest movie, Babylon, and according to the box office, he’s one of about 50 who did. Feature Film: Our third horror(ish) movie by a one-time director in a row (basically), we’re talking Carnival of Souls. An atmospheric low-budget psychological horror that may or may not be based on an old story we’r...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 81
Odds and Ends: One of us is better at keeping their old video games nice than the other, who believes in the karmic justice of lending things to friends and never getting them back; Nick watched The Santa Claus, and a Bob’s Burgers Christmas special… because it’s still definitely the Christmas season; he also saw Klaus, but T.J. does most of the talking about that one. Feature Film: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, a documentary that is at times frustrating, hilarious, and horrifying, bu...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 80
Odds and Ends: The newest Sight and Sound poll results just dropped, and we dive into the various controversies surrounding it, because people can’t just like the movies they wanna like; T.J. talks about the recent Netflix show 1899, but it’s really just an excuse to talk about an older show he likes a lot more; Nick talks about The White Lotus again, or maybe for the first time (definitely not, though); he also saw It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time, and we think it’s about as much of a C...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 79
Recorded at the beginning of 2022, here's a livestream we did covering all the 2021 movies we didn't cover on the show! So it's an old stream covering older stuff! But we're releasing it on Youtube and on our podcast sites for the first time, so... it's new? Or a bonus episode? But also neither of those things. Cool. Good for us. T.J. talks about some movies about truffle hunting animals and some music documentaries, amongst others. Nick talks about mostly a24 movies, as well as a couple movies ...
Jan 02, 2023•2 hr 36 min
Odds and Ends: We talk with our guest host Casey about our former eldritch college professor; Casey talks about the new All Quiet on the Western Front, and we weigh anti-war movies with “boomer coomers” on the other end of the stick; T.J. talks about the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special and Marvel Phase 4 in general Feature Film: We dive into the Ernest franchise for the first time with our monthly dud, Ernest Saves Christmas. Though, spoiler, it may or may not be dredged up from the dept...
Dec 29, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 78
Odds and Ends: It’s a cozy Christmas special with your hosts, as we chat about some good ol’ midwestern customs and tropes, T.J. offers up a few stocking stuffers, and Nick and T.J. both talk about some nice comfort shows they've been enjoying. It's a very chill hang this week, folks. Feature Film: We discuss the Muppet Christmas Carol, the end all be all Christmas Carol story (yeah, including the original), Christmas movies period, and maybe also Muppet movies? Even if you’ve heard the story a ...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 77
Odds and Ends: T.J. went to an art museum, and knows at least one period of Japanese history, so look out, nerds, there’s a new bitch in nerd town; T.J. also finally did get Pokemon Scarlet, and doesn't know what people are talking about; Nick saw a few movies of varying degrees of goodness Feature Film: We talk about The Hunt, from Thomas Vinterberg, and Nick has got beef with T.J. for making him watch this agonizingly uncomfortable movie. Pretty apt description! We talk about hunting, even tho...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 76
Odds and Ends: We prove our street cred by talking about putting together IKEA furniture and our thoughts on the Great British Baking Show season finale; T.J. wanted to talk about the new Pokemon, but settles for complaining about Wal-Mart instead; we talk about a random Youtube find called Possibly In Michigan, and why this old short film from the 80s is so fascinating to us. Feature Film: We take a look at the zany sci-fi cult classic The Fifth Element, directed by the uhm… questionable Luc Be...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Odds and Ends: Guest Jeremiah stops by to tell us about his new book, Hive; Nick talks about Goodfellas, and how it stacks up against other classics of the gangster genre; Jeremiah watched House of the Dragon, a favorite of our guests, apparently Feature Film: Courtesy of Jeremiah, we watched M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, an infamous adaptation of the beloved animated show of (mostly) the same name. A bizarre piece of cinema that loses everything that made the source material so speci...
Dec 01, 2022•55 min•Ep. 74
Odds and Ends: T.J. and guest Evan debate over which Clone Wars show is better while Nick tries his best to look interested; we talk about spooky shows What We Do in the Shadows and Cabinet of Curiosities; Evan talks about A DIFFERENT PODCAST called the Magnus Archives, but who cares; we determine the validity of fan theories with the utmost importance Feature Film: We discuss the I-guess-not-really-a-movie-but-I-don't-care Over the Garden Wall, an animated miniseries of autumnal goodness. Or gl...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 73
Odds and Ends: Look, I know we talk over each other a lot normally, but this time it wasn’t our fault; we talk stealth games and how they’re, well, not for us, exactly; Nick read the newest installment of one of his favorite book series and gives a horror classic a rewatch; T.J. saw a few new horror flicks and finished the Hellraiser franchise; can you tell that we recorded this in October? Feature Film: We take a look at The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, based on the autobiographical book of t...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 72
Odds and Ends: Call us Nick Hollywood and Prue Teej and let us teach you how to make incredibly unhealthy soups; T.J. watched a lot of stuff, and we talk about them all, including revisiting Nope and Bodies Bodies Bodies, as well as The Black Phone and descending further into the Hellraiser franchise. Feature film: We discuss the debut feature film from Paul Thomas Anderson, Hard Eight. It’s got a stoic Philip Baker Hall, a baby-faced-but-not John C. Reilly, a likable Gwenyth Paltrow, and a show...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 71
Odds and Ends: We’re joined again by Connor and for the first time by Chapo Trap House’s Chris Wade; The Try Guys try adultery (we recorded this a while ago, don’t make fun of us); Chris watched the elf show and the dragon show, and together they make: show Feature film: Hey hey, it’s The Monkee’s one and only movie: Head! A recommendation from guest Chris, it’s a psychedelic 60’s comedy farce romp parody… thing. Definitely a movie for sure. A movie with The Monkees! Next week’s movie: Hard Eigh...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 70
Odds and Ends: Episode 69 is here, baby, in all its, uhh… spookiness; Connor’s back again (hi, Connor), and he raves about Genndy Tarkovsky’s Primal; Nick thinks Creepshow is a… neat…show; T.J. watched the new Hellraiser and the old Carnival of Souls, both are movies Feature film: The sexy horrific dud of the show this week is another rage Cager - Vampire’s Kiss! Featuring a career-best Cage (at least in T.J.’s eyes), this is a dud like none other. Much like the ethereal nature of a premium Cage...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 69
Odds and Ends: T.J. watched The Terror again, and it’s uhh, it’s good, you should watch it; T.J. and Nick saw Barbarian, and it’s uhh, it’s good, you should watch it; we talk about the Super Mario trailer and the multiple Pinocchio movies released this year and uhh, no good, full stop. Feature film: Our friend Chris brought us a Tubi dubi of horror, so we’re talking about both The Descent and Magnetic Rose, the latter of which is a short that’s part of the anthology film Memories (which we touch...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 68
Odds and Ends: Recorder tangerine-belt T.J. is back with another banger; Internet Historian’s newest video “Man in Cave” is more history than internet, but roped T.J. in all the same; Vince Gilligan has a new show in the works, but to our chagrin it looks less Breaking Bad and more Battle Creek (which can never be a good thing if you know that place); Community’s long-awaited movie is coming, so we mostly just talk about Donald Glover (and T.J.’s personal beef with him, and also Nick’s personal ...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 67
Odds and Ends: Wolverine is back… but it’s for Deadpool… and it’s not even the one from Trinity War, so who cares; T.J. finally watched Halloween Kills in preparation for Halloween Ends in a couple weeks, and it was… a movie, kind of; Nick watched a couple 80s classics for the first time and guess what? He talks about them! On THIS podcast! Feature film: The first of our October spookfest is a T.J. recommendation, Park Chan-wook’s Thirst! A Korean vampire thriller drama thing, starring Tom Hanks...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 66
Odds and Ends: We celebrate the Brennaissance; T.J. watched Spirited Away again and guess what? It’s a good movie! We also talk other Ghibli movies and their magical scores; Nick saw Galaxy Quest in theaters… and it is also a very good movie, but please shut up, audience Feature film: We delve into our very first Uwe Boll experience, and please don’t make us do it again. We get blubi-balled again and do the thing we always do when talking about really shit movies: talk about anything else. This ...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 65
