Forever Movie Boys

James Cameron emerges from the jungles and oceans of Pandora, covered head to toe in raver body paint, and ready to teach us all a thing or two about blockbuster filmmaking and something called The Way of Water.  next week: Charley Varrick  

It's Burt Reynold's O'clock at the FMB studio and time for our hosts to check in with the late star. On the agenda this week is 1981's, The Cannonball Run - the big questions on the boy's lips after watching: Is this funny? Is this racist? Is this even a movie? next week: Sky-person James Cameron returns with Avatar: The Way of Water  

Get down on all fours, butt in the air, and gorge with us on Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous offering full of shocks, tenderness and absolutely barnstorming performances. The true capstone to this year's FMB maneater series is here! next week: The Cannonballl Run

It's open season on Man at the FMB and continuing our foray into the maneater genre is Lee Tamahori's ursine talkie thriller "The Edge". Talking points include: Scariest animal to get eaten by; clarifying family ties in the Matrix Trilogy, and Hopkins and Baldwin chewing through David Mamets dialogue like Bart the Bear chews through Harold Perrineau's stunt double.  next week: Alligator

This week, the taxidermied husks of the original Tsavo man-eaters take to the mic and dish out their thoughts on Stephen Hopkins' 1997 adaptation of the tale, "The Ghost and the Darkness". Talking points include Michael Douglas' huge ego, the salt content of human flesh, and the mystery of Val Kilmer's accent. next week the hunt continues with: The Edge 

This week it's just the Virgona Bros. trying to recapture the magic of that Green Zone episode by surviving Idris Elba's man v beast flick aptly titled: BEAST.  The brothers dish on the shoddy CGI, Idris' unwavering commitment to his craft, other creature features, and more! next week, the taste of human flesh has driven us to continue the hunt with The Ghost and The Darkness  

With every member of the FMB now caught up on Edgar Wright's latest, they finally get around to chatting about Last Night in Soho.  Feelings about the film are very mixed and Nick suddenly dips 45 minutes into the episode due to a technical issue, but hey - that Matt Smith's one Cool Ghoul huh? next week: A Bridge Too Far

Jordan Peele makes his return to the big screen with "JAWS" -- I mean "NOPE", and the FMB congregate after a first viewing to pick all the metal bits out of their teeth and chat about it.  Is NOPE a YUP? Or is it an EH? Maybe it's just a MAYBE? Tune in to find out. Next week: Last Night in Soho 

This week David Leitch introduces the FMB to all his Hollywood friends and shows us the kind of fun they have together. Regrettably (or thankfully, depending on who you ask), it doesn't seem like our hosts are feeling the vibe and proceed instead to list the myriad of ways in which this movie hurt them personally - all in Virtual Reality! next week: NOPE

Late drop this week FMBuffs, but the latest episode is here and it's a doozy.  In an effort to re-live their ill-fated never-released Naked Gun special the FMB try Weird Al's 'UHF' on for size and have perhaps the driest, most mirthless conversation about any piece of media with the word "comedy" attached to it.  enjoy! next week: Bullet Train

The FMB fight back tears choking on the pillar of smoke the Russo brothers generated after setting fire to 200 million dollars of Netflix subscriber money with their big, loud, hopelessly unoriginal franchise 'starter' The Gray Man. 

Our hosts bid adieu to a true legend of film and television, James Caan, with a somber viewing of Norman Jewison's Rollerball.  Each person grieves in their own personal way and in this case it manifests in our hosts with massive tangents into John Mctiernan's fledgling career, animator Richard Williams, and beating up on the Russo brothers (again). Sorry, Jim. We'll miss you. next week: The Gray Man

After last week's Drebin-esque technical bungle. The FMB return with a continuation of their discussion of the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker triumvirate's stab at 'straight' filmmaking: 1986's Ruthless People. The conversation has a particular wanderlust this episode as the boys manage to fill out their FMB bingo cards and still pay tribute to the late James Caan.   next week: Rollerball

This week the FMB risk both blindness and vertigo by exposing themselves to Baz Luhrmann's exhausted, bloated and spangled attempt at capturing the life of an exhausted, bloated and spangled superstar, Elvis Presley. next week: The Naked Gun series   

With Alex Garland's Men proving to be inaccessible to some of the FMB, the boys instead treat themselves to a primer for Baz Luhrmann's Elvis in the form of Don Coscarelli's own wacked out ode to The King: Bubba Ho-Tep. next week: ELVIS 

It's that time again. Universal Pictures has resurrected the genome of the Jurassic Park franchise and trotted out yet another shambling abomination. Luckily the FMB are on hand to deliver the coup de grace and put this thing out of its misery. next week: we said Men, but it might be something Elvis-related, who knows. 

Before subjecting themselves to the final (?) instalment of the Jurassic World franchise next week, the FMB retreat into the snug arms of the series' patriarch, Michael Crichton, with 1995's, bejeweled, beheaded, befuddling killer gorilla flick: Congo.  next week Jurassic World: Dominion 

Fighter Weapons School comes'a'knockin once more this week as our hosts, the world, and Tom Cruise all make their way back to Top Gun.  Joe Kosinski goes all-out in this gravity and trend defying nostalgic sequel that reminds us all how lucky we are that Tom Cruise has a death wish.  next week: Congo

This week, the top 100% of the FMB strap in, shoot for the stratosphere and court the Danger Zone in their discussion about Tony Scott's all-American, millitary recruitment drive classic: Top Gun.  next week: Top Gun: Maverick

This week our hosts brave sub-zero temperatures, bears with names, and ethnically obscure bandits as they discuss this grounded, charming tale from the edge of the world.  They also endured the abysmal 2007 remake of said film for the sake of the episode, but the less said about that experience the better.  next week: Top Gun