Breaking down X-Men: First Class - the rare movie I like a lot more while not ACTIVELY watching it!
We rank the Mission: Impossible movies from bottom to top. Is [redacted] at #2 too much subjectivity? Or am I secretly right?
We break down the most anticipated movie of Q1: 'Mickey 17'! Robert Pattinson is a FORCE of nature... but how good is this movie? Plus: Quick thoughts on Fassbender's latest warrior monk outing in 'Black Bag' and the unsurprisingly devastating 'My Dead Friend Zoe'. Stick around for Bj's thoughts on going to the eye doctor.
We break down our picks for this year's Oscars while adding a few awards of our own. Which was the Genre of the Year: Musical, Horror, or Monkeys?
A lot of people are revisiting their "Worst of MCU" lists. Can you guess why?
Is this the WORST film adaptation of a great video game until Borderlands?
This is the time of year when: a) Oscar-nominated films the masses haven't seen are released wide, b) Bad movies are dumped in the desert, and c) Low-budget, low-faith movies are released by hopeful studios trying to grab what they can - sometimes to startlingly GOOD results. Which of Companion, Presence, One of Them Days, Flight Risk, or Love Me will be remembered by the end of 2025?
Jake bets twenty thousand (definitely real) dollars on the upcoming Oscars. Basically... just a chance to talk about last week's nominations.
We break down the third of the original X-Men trilogy, a movie which proves not EVERYTHING gets better with age.
We break down the best films of the year. And seriously - "Survive till 2025?" 2024 was a GREAT year in movies... unless you compare it to last year.
We break down one of the early GOATs of the superhero film world, featuring new characters like Nightcrawler and Lady Deathstrike. When will they get Cyclops right?
We break down 'Gladiator II' (1:48) and explain why it's fine to fall short of iconic films; then unpack Eastwood's 'Juror #2' and the topic of justice; then dive into a handful of spoilers between the two films (13:30)
We crank through a few Oscar-hopefuls: The instant icon 'Anora' (2:30), the mesmerizing 'Emilia Perez' (5:20), the universally beloved 'Conclave' (9:20), and Jesse Eisenberg's heart-scrunching 'A Real Pain.' Then, we tackle a few movies we missed in the last few weeks (15:15): 'Venom: The Last Dance,' 'Here,' 'Elevation,' and 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.' Finally, we release our current, off-the-cuff Oscars predictions '20:00.'
Jake & Ricky break down the ICONIC movie that changed cinema forever. PLUS does Batman Returns actually suck?
Wolfs and My Old Ass - two movies about people doing things.
Killer's Game - the box office dud - versus the Nashville Film Festival big winner Black Sea.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Beekeeper, Lisa Frankenstein & our favorite movies we forgot to cover.....plus a few BAD ones we missed.
0:34 Fly Me to the Moon breakdown; 7:19 official review; 9:15 Twisters; 13:38 official review; 15:02 spoiler time
0:56 Kinds of Kindness breakdown; 8:12 Kinds of Kindness rating; 10:05 Maxxxine breakdown; 16:15 Maxxxine rating; 17:55 spoilers