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Having enjoyed Widows, Andrew and Dave follow Viola Davis to one of the most notable of Netflix's original films: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the 2020 film adaptation of the hit play by August Wilson starring Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman. What do the podcast duo make of the critically acclaimed film? How delighted are they to see Glynn Turnman again? And just what is behind that door? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: To be fair, Andrew and Dave never had any groove in the first place, let alone get back.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Heading to Chicago, Andrew and Dave turn their attention to a film everyone seems to have missed in 2018: Steve McQueen's Widows, starring Viola Davis. What do the duo make of the little seem crime film? Why did audiences not turn up to see it in 2018? How many Doctor Who connections can Dave make? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: Great script + great actors + great direction = great film.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

While a technical issue destroyed the previous episode, Andrew and Dave boldly return to discuss Hunger, the feature directorial debut of Steve McQueen! Does one need to have a full understanding of the Troubles and the IRA in order to understand this historical prison drama? Just how stylistically confident is this film from a first time feature filmmaker? How the hell can a single static shot of 17 minutes in length be so engrossing? Tune in to find out!Next Episode: The 2018 crime drama that nobody saw, and shame on all of us for that being the case.Music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

In which Dave explains the technical failings that resulted in the loss of a (pretty darn good) discussion of Michael Winterbottom's JUDE (1996).Next Episode: McQueen and Fassbender! All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt. Sorry, folks!

Leaving a film inspired by a real life legal case behind them, Andrew and Dave instead turn their attention to a film based on a play which was inspired by a real life legal case in the form of M. Butterfly, the drama directed by David Cronenberg and written by David Henry Wang! What do the podcasting duo make of what is perhaps the most overlooked film in Cronenberg's career? Just why has this film been overlooked for so long? And which Magneto just so happens to be in the cast? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: Pretty sure this wasn't what Paul McCartney was singing about.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Having woken up after the nothing that was Mary Reilly, Andrew and Dave follow Glenn Close to much more interesting waters with Reversal of Fortune, the 1990 drama based on the non-fiction book by the complicated figure of Alan Dershowitz. Just what do the podcasting duo make of the Oscar winning film? Is it possible to untangle the film from the very real figures it is portraying? And just how great is it to see Ron Silver in something more substantial than Timecop? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: That Cronenberg film that almost no one remembers!All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Leaving Italy and Ripley's Game behind them, Andrew and Dave head to the UK and take in Mary Reilly, the infamous 1996 bomb starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich! What do the duo make of the slightly different (though perhaps not different enough) take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Can any of the American cast members agree on how they are going to approach accents in their performances? Does the film actually have anything to say about codependency? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: Nobody EVER shook Sunny.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

With James having ejected to safety before the rocket crashed back to Earth, Andrew and Dave find themselves in Italy and looking at Ripley's Game, Liliana Cavani's 2002 adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name. Will the podcasting duo enjoy the film, or will it be rejected when compared to the prior adaption of the book, The American Friend? Does it have anything to do with that other Tom Ripley film from 1999? Why does Barry Pepper come up so much? Will Andrew or Dave be able to find anything nice to say about Dougray Scott's work in the film? Tune in to find out!Next Episode: "Julia Roberts and John Malkovich in a horror film together? In no way does that sound like an extremely expensive bomb-to-be!"Al music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Ditching the Earth and Antitrust, Andrew and Dave pick up James Hrivnak to help them take a look director Brian de Palma's critical and commercial disaster, Mission to Mars, starring Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, and Connie Neilsen. Have the past twenty-two years been kind to the film? Just what are the hosts' respective opinions on Van Halen? And just what iritates Andrew this week? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: Art, murder, and Italy!All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

How does one make a film about antitrust law young, hip, and sexy? According to this week's film, don't talk about actual antitrust laws at all!Having been booted from the TARDIS, Andrew and Dave decide to check out Antitrust, the 2001 thriller starring Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Yee Jee Tso, and Tim Robbins. Why did this film bomb in 2001? Why does this film waste Richard Roundtree? What deeply problematic choices are made as part of the film's plot? Tune in and find out!Next Week: "What's that, Gary? You need me to step in as director? It's a space movie?!"All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Andrew and Dave travel through time and space (in as much as we all do) to take a look at the 1996 television movie, Doctor Who! What do Dave, a long time Whovian, and Andrew, a non-fan, make of the film? Why didn't this film result in the hoped for revival of the famed television program? And just how Canadian is this British-American coproduction? Tune in and find out!Next episode: "Hi, Microsoft text support? This is Tim Robbins. DON'T HANG UP!"All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

With their episode looking at the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie coming next week, Dave decides to get Andrew (and unfamiliar listeners) up to speed with just what the long running science fiction television program is all about! What's a Dalek? What does regeneration refer to? Is it as complex as it seems, or far, far simpler than it looks? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: I always dress for the occasion!  All music by Andrew Kannigiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Having loved pretty much every minute of Hail, Caesar! in the last episode, Andrew and Dave follow Josh Brolin to the far more frustrating Inherent Vice from director Paul Thomas Anderson. Does this adaptation of the 2009 Thomas Pynchon capture the feeling of the famed writer's work? If it does succeed in that regard, does that mean that it even works as a film? And just what is up with Dave's audio in this episode? Tune in to find out!Next Episode: THESE SHOES! They fit perfectly!All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Leaving yet another Highlander film behind them, Andrew and David return once again to the land of Joel and Ethan Coen with Hail, Caesar!, the 2016 comedy which looks at Hollywood in 1951. Just how well does a more recent Coen brothers film work when compared to their classic work of the 1990s? What scene is works so well that it could be a short film itself? Would that it were so simple? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: A down and out private detective has to navigate the changing times of 1970s L.A.. No, we're not looking at The Long Goodbye a second time.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Despite having numerous options after Con Air to watch some good films, Andrew and Dave instead dive for the third time into the ongoing train wreck of a franchise that is Highlander with Highlander: Endgame! Once again joined by James Hrivnak, the hosts try to make sense of all the ways in which Endgame goes wrong in its effort to transition the films from star Christopher Lambert to Adrian Paul, the star of Highlander: The Series.Next Episode: Just because you're a Hollywood fixer doesn't mean you can't be a family man!All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Having had their fill of wax museums, Andrew and Dave turn their attention to airplanes! To be more specific, they turn their attention to prisoner transport planes by taking a look at the high concept action film Con Air, starring Nicolas Cage and an army of noted character actors. What do the duo make of producer Jerry Bruckheimer's first post-Don Simpson film? Is Simon West a more tolerable director than Michael Bay? And how freaking great is Colm Meany? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: Oh God, a Highlander film.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt.

Having been kicked out of Dragonwyck, Andrew and Dave head to New York in the early 1900s to vist a house of wax! Actually, the duo are just watching and discussing 1953's House of Wax, the second of three film adaptations of an unpublished short story. Unlike the other two versions, the 1953 version has Vincent Price and Charles Bronson! Does the film, which marks Price's rise into being a horror icon, hold up? Why on Earth is there an intermission in a film that is less than ninety minutes in length? Just what can that carnival barker do with three paddle balls? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: Convicts and high concept action plots take to the skies!Music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Having survived the inconsequential 1933 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, Andrew and Dave turn their attention to writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1946 melodrama Dragonwyck, starring Gene "Not Lawrence" Tierney and Vincent Price! Just what do the podcasting duo make of the film and Walter Huston's sideburns? Does the film foreshadow Price's later horror film roles? Where can we get these placebos? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: This wax museum is pretty great. Aside from the murders, of course.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Leaving Hitchcock (and Montreal) behind them, Andrew and Dave head to 1933 to take a look at the often overlooked Paramount adaptation of Alice in Wonderland! What do the duo make of the star filled bomb? Why didn't the film connect with audiences in 1933? And is the source material really meaty enough to sustain the various forms of analysis that it has undergone over time? Tune in and find out!Next Episode: The name's Price. Vincent Price.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt

Once upon a time, Andrew and Dave promised Photo-Flo: Terror In the Smiles host Eric Jones they would make sure to have him on when they next covered a Hitchcock film. Now is the time they make good on that promise!This time out, the trio are taking a look at the 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film, I Confess, starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter. Not familiar with this one? There might just be a reason for that. Tune in as the hosts debate the film's failings and strengths, outline the particularly troubled development phase of the film, and try and remember which song by The Clash references Mr. Clift by name!Next Episode: Have you ever wanted to see a film with Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, and W.C. Fields where they are buried in makeup and costumes? No? Too bad.All music by Andrew Kannegiesser. Editing by Dave Babbitt