It's finale time, baby! Time to wrap up Cage Match 6 with the match of the century; but first, a losers bracket.The Main Event:Dream Scenario v. Longlegs.Featuring special guests Jon Waugh and Erin She...

Semi-finals time, baby.Dude Division:Longlegs v. ZandaleeDad Division:Dream Scenario v. The Weather ManFeaturing special guests Jon Waugh and Erin Sheehan<...

The 6th season of Cage Match continues! This time we're unpacking the incredible films contained within the Dude Bracket. The most-hated films of the year are discussed, winners and losers decided, and the coveted Cage Ma...

Oh lord, The Cage Match is back.Time for our annual March Madness Nicolas Cage bracket! For your listening pleasure, this year we've collected 8 films across two divisions: Dude Cage v. Dad Cage.Today: Dad Cage, Round O...

It's time to recap a Truly Bizarre Year! Join us as we reminisce the auxiliary media we experienced across the year. There are some true gems and some True Gems™️ in here.Behold, the Grand List of Media Discussed:Po...

Merry Nosferatu-mas!Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is finally here and so our Vampire Season has come to a close. Time to hang with some Swedish children, joyfully traipse through every vampire trope in the book, and unpack the trauma of bull...

We're goin back to two of our favorite boys - Nosferatu and Willem Dafoe!Join us as we re-imagine the filming of Nosferatu through the lens of the oddest German accents ever recorded. 

Happy Thanksgiving - hope y'all have a lovely dinner and don't have to suffer any vampires at your table.We've brought in our good friend and resident Rice scholar, Jon Waugh, to walk us through the magic of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's h...

Vamp Quest continues and we're fast forwarding all the way to the late 80s. Time to dive into a most beautiful and incredible house of cards - The Lost Boys. Schumacher, Sutherland, melodrama, and Coreys galore!For a fun dr...

We're back for a new - spooky - season. It's Vampire Season, baby.Kicking it off we're digging into the classic granddaddy of film vampires; Nosferatu. Cue the overture, it's time to suck some blood.Happy Halloween...

It's the finale of our Tour DeFoe! Our last stop: Florida. Hop on in, we're going to Disney and it's totally gonna break your heart.We chat about sad movies, childhood summertime, and rank our opinions on the whole Dafoe season....

We all live in a yellow submarine.(editor's note: it's pronounced anjelica 'hyoo-ston' but we say 'huss-ton' here. oops.)

GODSPEED, SPIDER-MAN!As we continue to barrel through our Tour Dafoe, we take a lil stop at 2002's Spider-Man. We got Tobey, hamfisted "romance," and appx. 40% Raimi. Thwip thwip, baby.And, get this - they say th...

The Summer Of Dafoe (or whatever we're calling this season) continues! Parables, sin, humanity, and superman - oh my!

We're back with a new season! This time we're competing in the Tour De Dafoe -  a dive into the prolific career of one Mr. Willem Dafoe. First up, it's 1986's Platoon and all the complicated feelings that a war movie can drum up.Is...

COME ON AND SLAM AND WELCOME TO THE JAM.We've arrived at the end of the New Season, let's celebrate in style. Tie those laces, get on the court, but don't you dare mention video games. It's Space Jam 2 time!

Warehouse? There house!

Join us on a bold New experiment as we dive into the middle of a series that Dan has previously seen none of. Hop on, spider-monkey, we're going back to 2009 and re-litigating the Team Edward v. Team Jacob debates of old.CW: discussions...

Our New Season continues! This time it's also secretly a Sequel Season and what better to take us there than our good friends Dick Miller and the Gremlins.Let's chat about sequels, Christopher Lee, the ol bait & switch, and the good...

It's high time for something New. Join us as we venture into a New season - nay, a New era - of What Is A Movie. Today we Escape from New York and chat about pulp, plisskin, politics, and the joys of well-e...

Sometimes you watch a movie that reminds you how cool cinema can be.CW: discussions of abortion & body dysmorphia

Happy april fool's time, here's another stinker of a film! Let's talk about the difficulty of adaptations, how something can be so close yet so far, and the horrors of CGI Appa.Yip yip!

It all comes down to this - the Cage Match V finals.Join us as we dig into our loser's bracket before diving into the main event:JOE v. DRIVE ANGRYThanks again to Jon, Carly, and Erin for joining Dan and I this year for our ...

We're in the semi-finals, y'all! Only two more match-ups stand between one of these films and the crowning achievement of their careers: winning Cage Match V.Today's combatants:AVERAGE JOES1. Joe (86)&...

...and we're onto the second half of our bracket. Today's match-up:AVERAGE JOES1. Joe (86)  v.  4. Bangkok Dangerous (9)2. Windtalkers (33)  v.  3. Between Worl...