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Mega City One is a vast, violent metropolis where felons rule the streets. The only law lies with cops called "judges," who act as judge, jury and executioner, and Dredd (Karl Urban) is one of the city's most feared. One day, Dredd is partnered with Cassandra (Olivia Thirlby), a rookie with powerful psychic abilities. A report of a terrible crime sends Dredd and Cassandra to a dangerous area controlled by Ma-Ma (Lena Headey), a drug lord who will stop at nothing to protect her empire.

Release date

September 21, 2012 (USA)

Director

Pete Travis

Budget

45 million USD

Running time

1h 35m

Distributed by

Starz Entertainment

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Dueling gangs of clowns are pitted against each other in this outrageous dark comedy. Shakes, an alcoholic kid's party clown, finds himself framed for murder and must get off the sauce to clear his name.

Release date March 13, 1992 (USA)

Director Bobcat Goldthwait

MPAA rating R

Running time 1h 27m

Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Together, they explain how Peter Falk ties up all the loose ends in COLUMBO Season 4, Episode 1 (with Robert Conrad).

Get Elana's groovy mystery novel here:

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Lieutenant Columbo investigates fraud and murder involving a shady health club salesman.

Initial release

September 15, 1974

Show

Columbo

Director

Bernard L. Kowalski

Air date

September 15, 1974

Writer

Peter S. Fischer

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We talk about the creation of BASEketball, David's relationship with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the state of the modern comedy.

Be sure to check out David's podcast "Naked Comedy" when it comes out (very soon)!

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When slacker friends Joe Cooper (Trey Parker) and Doug Remer (Matt Stone) are challenged to a pickup basketball game against some jocks, they counter by proposing to play a game they learned called BASEketball, which combines basketball and baseball.

Release date: July 31, 1998 (USA)

Director: David Zucker

Starring: Trey Parker; Matt Stone; Yasmine Bleeth; Jenny McCarthy; Robert Vaughn; Ernest Borgnine; Dian Bachar

Screenplay: David Zucker, Robert LoCash, Lewis Friedman, Jeff Wright

MPAA rating: R

Distributed by: Universal Pictures

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Come with Pappy, Josh, Stevie and Film Dylan and you'll see be in a world of pure imagination.

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A sweet boy from a poor family dreams of finding one of five golden tickets hidden inside chocolate bar wrappers which will admit him to the eccentric and reclusive Willy Wonka's magical factory. One after another, tickets are discovered by ghastly children - but will the lad find the last remaining one and have all his dreams come true?

Release date

June 30, 1971 (USA)

Director

Mel Stuart

Story by

Roald Dahl

Adapted from

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Budget

3 million USD

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Pappy, Stevie, Josh and Kylo discuss Paul King's Wonka prequel/backstory film.

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Young and poor Willy Wonka arrives in Europe with dreams of becoming a famous chocolatier. However, a corrupt cartel of rival businessmen stands in his way.

Release date

December 15, 2023 (USA)

Director

Paul King

Story by

Roald Dahl, Paul King

Adapted from

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Running time

1h 56m

Budget

125 million USD

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Based on the beloved Roald Dahl tale, this comedic and fantastical film follows young Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) and his Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) as they join a small group of contest winners who get to tour the magical and mysterious factory of eccentric candy maker Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp). Aided by his diminutive Oompa Loompa workers (Deep Roy), Wonka has a hidden motivation for the tour, one that he will reveal only after the children in the group show their true colors.

Release date: July 10, 2005 (USA)

Director: Tim Burton

Story by: Roald Dahl

Budget: 150 million USD

Running time: 1h 55m

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In the distant future, the Earth is at war with a race of giant alien insects. Little is known about the Bugs except that they are intent on the eradication of all human life. But there was a time before the war... A Mobile Infantry travels to distant alien planets to take the war to the Bugs. They are a ruthless enemy with only one mission: Survival of their species no matter what the cost...

Release date: November 7, 1997 (USA)

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Sequel: Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

Story by: Robert A. Heinlein

Adapted from: Starship Troopers

Budget: 100 million USD

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Chandler and Rachel pig out on a neighbour's cheesecake that was mistakenly delivered to Chandler. They feel bad, but not quite guilty enough to refrain from eating a second one that has also been wrongly delivered.

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Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two young, attractive serial killers who become tabloid-TV darlings, thanks to a sensationalistic press led by Robert Downey Jr. The press reports the pair as they go on a 52 people killing spree. A controversial look at the way the media portrays criminals.

Release date: August 26, 1994 (USA)

Director: William Oliver Stone

Screenplay: William Oliver Stone, Richard Rutowski, David Veloz

Story by: Quentin Tarantino

Producers: Don Murphy, Jane Hamsher, Clayton Townsend

Running time: 1h 59m

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Two fallen angels who were ejected from paradise find themselves banned in Wisconsin. They are now headed for New Jersey where they find a loophole that can get them back into heaven. The only catch is that it will destroy humanity. A group bands together to stop them.

Release date: November 12, 1999 (USA)

Director: Kevin Smith

Screenplay: Kevin Smith

Running time: 2h 9m

Budget: 10 million USD

Distributed by: Lionsgate Films, Miramax, Starz Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Harvey Weinstein personally owned the rights to director Kevin Smith's film Dogma and effectively held it "hostage" for years, preventing its re-release or streaming due to legal issues and his control over assets, even dangling a sequel idea in a last-ditch call to Smith just before his public downfall, with Smith eventually regaining control as Weinstein's legal troubles mounted. 

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Ross unexpectedly finds himself looking after Ben, and decides to do something special for Christmas. Since all the Santa costumes have been rented out, Ross dons the best outfit left and entertains Ben as the holiday armadillo.

Show: Friends (1994)

Air date: December 14, 2000

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We hope all our listeners are enjoying the holiday season so far!

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Rachel is dating her assistant, Tag, but they must keep it a secret at work because of the company's anti-dating policy. Her friends warn her that the relationship will only cause her trouble, but just for fun, she becomes more brazen about it.

Show: Friends (1994)

Director: David Schwimmer

Written by: Wil Calhoun

Air date: December 7, 2000

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Thanks druidking.

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Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward (Corey Feldman) and Alan (Jamison Newlander), the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star (Jami Gertz) -- who turns out to be in thrall to David (Kiefer Sutherland), leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.

Release date: July 31, 1987 (USA)

Director: Joel Schumacher

Sequel: Lost Boys: The Tribe

Running time: 1h 38m

Story by: James Jeremias, Janice Fischer

MPAA rating: R

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When Monica's parents clear out her old room to install a gym, they unearth an old video of her and Rachel's first prom night. It's obvious from this that Ross is in love with Rachel and, having told him it will never happen, Rachel changes her mind. Elsewhere, Joey gives Chandler a hideous bracelet as a token of his friendship and is mortally offended to hear Chandler saying how terrible it is.

Show: Friends (1994)

Air date: February 1, 1996

Written by: Alexa Junge

Episode no: Season 2; Episode 14

Production code: 457310

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Thanks to Abigail, Bryan and Teddy for recommending this Spooky Spoiler!

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Respected medical lecturer Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) learns that he has inherited his infamous grandfather's estate in Transylvania. Arriving at the castle, Dr. Frankenstein soon begins to recreate his grandfather's experiments with the help of servants Igor (Marty Feldman), Inga (Teri Garr) and the fearsome Frau Blücher (Cloris Leachman). After he creates his own monster (Peter Boyle), new complications ensue with the arrival of the doctor's fiancée, Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn).

Release date: December 15, 1974 (USA)

Director: Mel Brooks

Story by: Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Mary Shelley

Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder

Producer: Michael Gruskoff

Running time: 1h 46m

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Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

Release date: September 8, 1960 (USA)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Story by: Robert Bloch

Screenplay: Joseph Stefano

Sequel: Psycho II

Adapted from: Psycho

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When a series of unexplained murders occurs in the normally quiet town of Tarker's Mill, the residents decide to hunt down the killer. However, many of these vigilantes end up dead, and those who don't are no closer to finding an assailant. But, when a young wheelchair-using boy named Marty (Corey H… MORE

Release date: October 11, 1985 (USA)

Director: Dan Attias

Story by: Stephen King

Adapted from: Cycle of the Werewolf

MPAA rating: R

Running time: 1h 35m

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When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Release date: August 8, 2025 (USA)

Director: Zach Cregger

MPAA rating: R

Screenplay: Zach Cregger

Running time: 2h 8m

Producers: Zach Cregger, Miri Yoon, Raphael Margules, Roy Lee, J. D. Lifshitz

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A magician claims an airtight alibi -- being sealed in a tank of water -- in the murder of a blackmailing associate.

Show: Columbo

Director: Harvey Hart

Air date: February 29, 1976

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When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums or topping the Billboard charts, they're moonlighting as demon hunters to protect their fans from ever-present supernatural danger.

Release date: August 23, 2025 (USA)

Directors: Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans

MPAA rating: PG

Language: English

Running time: 1h 36m 

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Imbecilic best friends Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) stumble across a suitcase full of money left behind in Harry's car by Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly), who was on her way to the airport. The pair decide to go to Aspen, Colo., to return the money, unaware that it is connected to a kidnapping. As Harry and Lloyd -- who has fallen in love with Mary -- are pursued across the country by hired killers and police, they find both their friendship and their brains tested.

Release date: December 6, 1994 (USA)

Director: Peter Farrelly

Screenplay: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Bennett Yellin

Sequel: Dumb and Dumber To

Running time: 1h 46m

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A half-mortal, half-immortal is out to avenge his mother's death and rid the world of vampires. The modern-day technologically advanced vampires he is going after are in search of his special blood type needed to summon an evil god who plays a key role in their plan to execute the human race.

Release date: August 19, 1998 (USA)

Director: Stephen Norrington

Starring: Wesley Snipes; Stephen Dorff; Kris Kristofferson; N'Bushe Wright; Donal Logue

Running time: 1h 55m

Budget: 45 million USD

Distributed by: New Line Cinema

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If you didn't like it...well, that means you have a wooden spoon and a needle dick.

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After a down-on-his-luck basketball scout discovers an extraordinary player abroad, he brings the phenom back without his team's approval.

Release date: June 3, 2022 (USA)

Director: Jeremiah Zagar

Producers: Adam Sandler, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Joe Roth, Allen Covert, Joseph Vecsey, Zack Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum

Running time: 1h 57m

MPAA rating: R

Budget: 21 million USD

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Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) lands in jail, where manipulative Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) recruits him to advise the institution's team. This turns into a lead role quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against a team of prison guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds), Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt officials trying to fix the game against them.

Release date: May 27, 2005 (USA)

Director: Peter Segal

Budget: 90 million USD, 82 million USD

Adapted from: The Longest Yard

MPAA rating: PG-13

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing International

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Gatorade is better.

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Raised by his overprotective mother, Helen, Bobby Boucher Jr. is the water boy for a successful college football team coached by Red Beaulieu. When Beaulieu fires Bobby, he takes up the same position for a losing rival team, led by despairing Coach Klein. After witnessing Bobby beat up a player who teased him too much, Klein adds him to the roster as a linebacker. Soon, Klein's players are championship contenders.

Release date: November 6, 1998 (USA)

Director: Frank Coraci

Screenplay: Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy

Running time: 1h 30m

MPAA rating: PG-13

Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Touchstone Home Entertainment

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Gilmore returns to the sport of golf since his retirement after winning his first Tour Championship, to finance his daughter's ballet classes.

Initial release: July 25, 2025

Director: Kyle Newacheck

Starring: Adam Sandler; Julie Bowen; Christopher McDonald; Benny Safdie; Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio; Ben Stiller

MPAA rating: PG-13

Running time: 1h 54m (yes really)

Distributed by: Netflix

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All Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) has ever wanted is to be a professional hockey player. But he soon discovers he may actually have a talent for playing an entirely different sport: golf. When his grandmother (Frances Bay) learns she is about to lose her home, Happy joins a golf tournament to try and win enough money to buy it for her. With his powerful driving skills and foulmouthed attitude, Happy becomes an unlikely golf hero -- much to the chagrin of the well-mannered golf professionals.

Release date: February 16, 1996 (USA)

Director: Dennis Dugan

Starring: Adam Sandler; Christopher McDonald; Julie Bowen; Carl Weathers

Running time: 1h 33m

Box office: $41.4 million

Distributed by: Universal Pictures

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When Superman gets drawn into conflicts at home and abroad, his actions are questioned, giving tech billionaire Lex Luthor the opportunity to get the Man of Steel out of the way for good. Will intrepid reporter Lois Lane and Superman's four-legged companion, Krypto, be able to help him before it's too late?

Release date: July 11, 2025 (USA)

Director: James Gunn

Starring: David Corenswet; Rachel Brosnahan; Nicholas Hoult; Edi Gathegi; Anthony Carrigan; Nathan Fillion; Isabela Merced

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Lt. Columbo cannot resist the challenge of a perfect murder, a reliable alibi and a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a murderous mystery writer.

Initial release: September 15, 1971

Show: Columbo

Director: Steven Spielberg

Art director: Archie J. Bacon

Cinematography: Russell Metty

Editor: John Kaufman

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Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son HW to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainviews motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Release date: December 26, 2007 (USA)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Awards: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role · See more

Story by: Upton Sinclair

Adapted from: Oil!

Running time: 2h 38m

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On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out.

Release date: January 19, 1996 (USA)

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez

Sequel: From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

Budget: 19 million USD

Running time: 1h 48m

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For Coppola, this film was the direct, chronological follow-up to modern masterpiece Apocalypse Now. How much can it live up to that?

(Also "Chef" from Apocalypse now is the main character in this — will he finally take off that frizzly-lookin' army looking shit and start smoking that dope?!?)

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The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.

Release date: January 15, 1982 (New York)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro, Ronald Víctor García

Budget: 26 million USD

Running time: 1h 47m

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In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, "Apocalypse Now," his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based on her footage details the difficulties of the large production -- from weather-related delays in the Philippines to star Martin Sheen's heart attack while filming -- and it provides unprecedented behind-the-scenes clips of one of Hollywood's most-acclaimed films.

Release date: November 27, 1991 (USA)

Directors: Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper

Awards: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming - Directing · See more

Running time: 1h 37m

Producers: George Zaloom, Les Mayfield

Distributed by: Triton Pictures

Comedy

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The spoilers... the spoilers...

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In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.

Release date: August 15, 1979 (USA)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Running time: 2h 33m

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Join us as we journey into the heart of Pappy's darkness.

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In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.

Release date: August 15, 1979 (USA)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Running time: 2h 33m

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Join your favorite Soul-Podcasters as we talk about the classic 1998 DCOM movie Brink!

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Andy "Brink" Brinker (Erik von Detten) is the leader of a group of inline skaters who disapprove of corporate sponsorship, believing that skating should be done for fun rather than profit. But when Brink's family starts having financial problems, he's forced to compromise his principles and join a sponsored team led by the arrogant Val (Sam Horrigan). Not knowing his motivation, Brink's friends are stunned by the decision and collectively shun him until the truth comes out.

Initial release: August 29, 1998

Director: Greg Beeman

Running time: 1h 39m

Distributed by: Disney Channel, Disney–ABC Domestic Television

Production companies: Fake-Reel Films; Mandeville Films

Theme music composer: J. Peter Robinson

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With election day close at hand, Nelson Hayward finds himself in an extremely tight race for a Senate seat from California, but when a political campaign manager is murdered, Lt Columbo starts trailing the senatorial candidate and uncovers some nasty facts.

Show: Columbo

Initial release: November 4, 1973

Director: Boris Sagal

Air date: November 4, 1973

Director: Boris Sagal

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A Seuss-style descent into a mad spoilerman's delight.

Korey’s last in-person pod, and the Cat wore a grin,

Mike Myers went wild in prosthetic chaotic sin!

Pappy, Mikey, Brett also joined the fray—

One final romp before Kylo’s away.

In this live-action film based on the favorite children's tale, the trouble-making Cat in the Hat (Mike Myers) arrives at the home of bored young Sally Walden (Dakota Fanning) and her brother, Conrad (Spencer Breslin), while their mother (Kelly Preston) is out. The family's pet fish (Sean Hayes) objects to the Cat's presence, but that doesn't stop the hat-wearing giant feline from trying to have fun, no matter how much destruction is left in his wake.

Release date: November 21, 2003 (USA)

Director: Bo Welch

Distributed by: Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, United International Pictures, FilmFlex

Adapted from: The Cat in the Hat

Box office: $133.9 million

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A CIA agent is interned for failing a mission to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's wife and son.

Release date: April 4, 1997 (USA)

Director: Tsui Hark

Budget: 30 million USD

Box office: $48.1 million

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing

Music by: Gary Chang

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A disposable employee is sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact.

Release date: March 7, 2025 (USA)

Director: Bong Joon Ho

Screenplay: Bong Joon Ho

Budget: $118 million

Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures

Adapted from: Mickey7

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GORE CORE!!!

Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) arrives at Port Royal in the Caribbean without a ship or crew. His timing is inopportune, however, because later that evening the town is besieged by a pirate ship. The pirates kidnap the governor's daughter, Elizabeth (Keira Knightley), who's in possession of a valuable coin that is linked to a curse that has transformed the pirates into the undead. A gallant blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) in love with Elizabeth allies with Sparrow in pursuit of the pirates.

Release date: July 9, 2003 (USA)

Director: Gore Verbinski

Budget: 140 million USD

Music composed by: Klaus Badelt, Geoff Zanelli

Awards: Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Liplock · See more

Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, FilmFlex

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Max is a reclusive mathematician who's built a super-computer that will not only provide him with the key to cracking the stock market, but may also reveal the true name of Jehovah; a discovery that could lead to the end of the world. His search however brings him to the attention of both Hassidic priests and Wall Street gurus.

Release date: July 10, 1998 (USA)

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Budget: 134,815 USD, 60,000 USD

Screenplay: Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette

Cinematography: Matthew Libatique

Distributed by: Starz Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment

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A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a paranoid nurse quickly catches onto his scheme, so he kills her. Lt. Columbo has a tough time figuring this one out.

Director:

Hy Averback

Writers:

Shirl HendryxRichard LevinsonWilliam Link

Stars:

Peter FalkLeonard NimoyAnne Francis

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Brilliant photographer Paul Galesko plans to murder his domineering wife Frances, and pin the crime on an ex-convict named Alvin Deschler. Galesko's plan is to make it look as though Alvin kidnapped his wife and killed her.

Columbo: Season 4 Episode 2

Air date: October 15, 1974

Director: Alf Kjellin

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

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The Columbo spree continues!

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A popular country western singer wants to get rid of his religiously zealous wife who's been using blackmail to control every aspect of his life. But a murder made to look like an airplane accident does not fool the wily Lt. Columbo.

Director

Nicholas Colasanto

Writers

David Rayfiel Stanley Ralph Ross Richard Levinson

Stars

Peter Falk Johnny CashIda Lupino

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Just one more thing —

... we're gonna do a few more of these.

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When a dapper wine connoisseur realizes that his thriving vineyard is under threat of being sold by his younger brother, he decides to remove his brother from the fray permanently.

Initial release: October 7, 1973

Show: Columbo

Director: Leo Penn

Air date: October 7, 1973

Director: Leo Penn

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In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot, and soon forms an unlikely friendship with him. When a paranoid government agent, Kent Mansley, becomes determined to destroy the robot, Hogarth and beatnik Dean McCoppin (Harry Connick Jr.) must do what they can to save the misunderstood machine.

Release date: July 31, 1999 (USA)

Director: Brad Bird

Adapted from: The Iron Man

Story by: Brad Bird, Ted Hughes

Production companies: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Brothers

Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date:

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A classmate introduces teenage Owen to a mysterious late-night TV show -- a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack.

Initial release: January 18, 2024

Director: Jane Schoenbrun

Distributed by: A24

Budget: $10 million

Cinematography: Eric K. Yue

Edited by: Sofi Marshall

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Moana journeys to the far seas of Oceania after receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors.

Release date: November 27, 2024 (USA)

Directors: Dana Ledoux Miller, Jason Hand, David Derrick Jr.

Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Box office: $914.1 million

Music by: Mark Mancina

Produced by: : Christina Chen; Yvett Merino;

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Just-paroled army ranger Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is headed back to his wife (Monica Potter), but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" with some of the worst criminals living. Along with Diamond Dog (Ving Rhames) and Baby-O (Mykelti Williamson), genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich) unleashes a violent escape plot in mid-flight. Secretly working with U.S. Marshall Vince Larkin (John Cusack), Poe tries to foil Grissom's plan.

Release date: June 6, 1997 (USA)

Director: Simon West

Music by: Mark Mancina; Trevor Rabin

Budget: 75 million USD

Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures, 20th Century Studios · See more

Box office: $224 million

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The story of Rebel spy Cassian Andor's formative years of the Rebellion and his difficult missions for the cause.

First episode date: September 21, 2022 (USA)

Program creator: Tony Gilroy

Composer: Nicholas Britell

Also known as: Star Wars: Andor; Andor: A Star Wars Story

Based on: Star Wars; by George Lucas

Budget: $270 million+

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When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a merger of man and insect. Initially, Brundle appears to have undergone a successful teleportation, but the fly's cells begin to take over his body. As he becomes increasingly fly-like, Brundle's girlfriend (Geena Davis) is horrified as the person she once loved deteriorates into a monster.

Release date: January 1, 1986 (USA)

Director: David Cronenberg

Story by: George Langelaan

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures

Adapted from: The Fly

Budget: $9–15 million

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Wes Craven re-invented and revitalised the slasher-horror genre with this modern horror classic, which manages to be funny, clever and scary, as a fright-masked knife maniac stalks high-school students in middle-class suburbia. Craven is happy to provide both tension and self-parody as the body count mounts - but the victims aren't always the ones you'd expect.

Release date: December 20, 1996 (USA)

Director: Wes Craven

Distributed by: Dimension Films

Box office: $173 million

Cinematography: Mark Irwin

Edited by: Patrick Lussier

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To the students at Harrington High, the principal and her posse of teachers have always been a little odd, but lately they've been behaving positively alien. Controlled by otherworldly parasites, the faculty try to infect students one by one. Cheerleader Delilah (Jordana Brewster), football player Stan (Shawn Hatosy), drug dealer Zeke (Josh Hartnett) and new girl Marybeth (Laura Harris) team up with some of their other classmates to fight back against the invaders.

Release date: November 12, 1998 (USA)

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Distributed by: Miramax, Dimension Films

Budget: $15 million

Music by: Marco Beltrami

Produced by: Elizabeth Avellán

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Astronaut Sam Bell's (Sam Rockwell) three-year shift at a lunar mine is finally coming to an end, and he's looking forward to his reunion with his wife (Dominique McElligott) and young daughter. Suddenly, Sam's health takes a drastic turn for the worse. He suffers painful headaches and hallucinations, and almost has a fatal accident. He meets what appears to be a younger version of himself, possibly a clone. With time running out, Sam must solve the mystery before the company crew arrives.

Release date: June 12, 2009 (USA)

Director: Duncan Jones

Distributed by: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Releasing International

Budget: $5 million

Cinematography: Gary Shaw

Edited by: Nicholas Gastor

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Brett, Pappy, Korey, and Josh review a spooooky Gaspar Noé classic: Climax!

When members of a dance troupe are lured to an empty school, drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night -- and find out who's responsible -- before it's too late.

Release date: March 1, 2019 (USA)

Director: Gaspar Noé

Screenplay: Gaspar Noé

Distributed by: Wild Bunch, O'Brother Distribution

Budget: $2.9 million

Cinematography: Benoît Debie

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A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

Release date: April 16, 1992 (Hong Kong)

Director: John Woo

Languages: English, Catalan, Cantonese

Budget: 4.5 million USD

Distributed by: The Weinstein Company, Golden Princess Film Production

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Following world war, London is a police state occupied by a fascist government, and a vigilante known only as V (Hugo Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressors of the world in which he now lives. When V saves a young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) from the secret police, he discovers an ally in his fight against England's oppressors.

Release date: March 17, 2006 (USA)

Director: James McTeigue

Story by: Alan Moore, David Loyd

Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures

Adapted from: V for Vendetta

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A young boy named Pietari (Onni Tommila) and his friend Juuso (Ilmari Järvenpää) think a secret mountain drilling project near their home in northern Finland has uncovered the tomb of Santa Claus. However, this a monstrous, evil Santa, much unlike the cheery St. Nick of legend. When Pietari's father… MORE

Release date: December 3, 2010 (USA)

Director: Jalmari Helander

Languages: English, French, Finnish

Box office: 4.015 million USD

Budget: 1.803 million EUR

Distributed by: FilmFlex, Scanbox Entertainment, Kinology

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Adam Webber (Brendan Fraser) has lived his entire life in confinement in a fallout shelter in Pasadena, Calif. When the Webber family's rations of food and supplies grow thin, Adam's eccentric father, Calvin (Christopher Walken), sends him on a dangerous restocking mission. When Adam emerges from the Webber family's subterranean refuge for the first time, he finds that rumors of a nuclear apocalypse were totally false -- and meets gorgeous Eve Rustikov (Alicia Silverstone).

Release date: February 12, 1999 (USA)

Director: Hugh Wilson

Distributed by: New Line Cinema

Box office: $40.3 million

Music by: Steve Dorff

Produced by: Hugh Wilson; Amanda Stern; Renny Harlin

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A young boy named Pietari (Onni Tommila) and his friend Juuso (Ilmari Järvenpää) think a secret mountain drilling project near their home in northern Finland has uncovered the tomb of Santa Claus. However, this a monstrous, evil Santa, much unlike the cheery St. Nick of legend. When Pietari's father… MORE

Release date: December 3, 2010 (USA)

Director: Jalmari Helander

Languages: English, French, Finnish

Box office: 4.015 million USD

Budget: 1.803 million EUR

Distributed by: FilmFlex, Scanbox Entertainment, Kinology

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Join the gang as we talk about Zilla, non-heat-seeking missles, and Siskel & Ebert. 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Kylo referenced Godzilla and Ultraman, but he should have said Jet Jaguar. He's very sorry.

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During a nuclear test, the French government inadvertently mutates a lizard nest; years later, a giant lizard makes its way to New York City. Dr. Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), an expert on the effects of radiation on animals, is sent by the U.S. government to study the beast. When the creature, dubbed "Godzilla" by news outlets, emerges, a massive battle with the military begins. To make matters worse, Niko discovers that Godzilla has laid a nest of 200 eggs, which are ready to hatch.

Release date: May 20, 1998 (USA)

Director: Roland Emmerich

Budget: 125 million USD

Box office: 379 million USD

Distributed by: TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures

Nickname: Zilla

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Is she a victim of miscommunication with Chandler or just simply a woman of "alley cat values?"

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Rachel schemes to get a handsome client to ask her on a date, while Chandler's jealousy causes problems with his girlfriend. Elsewhere, after losing a bet, Monica and Rachel must swap their apartment with Chandler and Joey's.

Show: Friends

Air date: January 29, 1998

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Mikey picked this movie & no one knows why.

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After the murders of his family and his partner, maverick cop Max (Mark Wahlberg) becomes hell-bent on revenge. Teamed with beautiful and deadly Russian mobster Mona Sax (Mila Kunis), Max journeys into a dark underworld to find the truth, but forces -- both worldly and supernatural -- align against him, determined to silence Max forever.

Release date: October 17, 2008 (USA)

Director: John Moore

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, FilmFlex

Adapted from: Max Payne

Budget: $35 million

Music by: Marco Beltrami; Buck Sanders

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Deadpool's peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from an existential threat.

Release date: July 26, 2024 (USA)

Director: Shawn Levy

Box office: $1.029 billion

Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Based on: Marvel Comics

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FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes an unexpected turn, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.

Release date: July 12, 2024 (USA)

Director: Oz Perkins

Distributed by: Neon

Budget: <$10 million

Cinematography: Andrés Arochi

Produced by: Dan Kagan; Brian Kavanaugh-Jones; Nicolas Cage; Dave Caplan; Chris Ferguson

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Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop battle to make her way home.

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Release date: May 24, 2024 (USA)

Director: George Miller

Box office: $171.4 million

Budget: 168 million USD

Sequel: Mad Max: Fury Road

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It's more FRIENDS & "Kathy Chronicles" from your boys!

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Phoebe undergoes an embryo implant procedure to become a surrogate mother for her brother (Giovanni Ribisi) and his wife (Debra Jo Rupp); Monica and Rachel wager their apartment in a trivia game against Chandler and Joey.

Show: Friends

Director: Kevin S. Bright

Air date: January 15, 1998

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Phoebe's brother (Giovanni Ribisi) asks her to carry a baby for him and his wife; Chandler gets lessons in love; Joey finds himself in a class struggle.

Show: Friends

Air date: January 8, 1998

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Ross struggles to maintain a long-distance relationship, Chandler's well-intended attempts to get Rachel a date seem to miss the mark, and Monica's plan to assert some authority at her new restaurant goes away.

Show: Friends

Air date: December 18, 1997

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Intellectual engineers Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan) build and sell error-checking technology with the help of their friends Robert (Casey Gooden) and Phillip (Anand Upadhyaya). But when Aaron and Abe accidentally invent what they think is a time machine, Abe builds a version capable of transporting a human and puts the device to the test. As the two friends obsess over their creation, they discover the dark consequences of their actions.

Release date: October 8, 2004 (USA)

Director: Shane Carruth

Screenplay: Shane Carruth

Box office: 841,926 USD

Budget: 7,000 USD

Distributed by: IFC Films, ThinkFilm

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The Godfather (1972) deep dive is over. Stevie brings us home.

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In the 1972 movie The Godfather, Don Michael Corleone says, "Today I settled all family business" to Carlo Rizzi while discussing the deaths of Barzini, Phillip Tattaglia, Moe Greene, Stracci, and Cuneo

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.

Release date: March 24, 1972 (USA)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, FilmFlex

Adapted from: The Godfather

Box office: $250–291 million

Edited by: William Reynolds; Peter Zinner

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.

Release date: March 24, 1972 (USA)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, FilmFlex

Adapted from: The Godfather

Box office: $250–291 million

Edited by: William Reynolds; Peter Zinner

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TIMESTAMPS 52:35-1:21:22

“You gonna kill all those guys?”

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.

Release date: March 24, 1972 (USA)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, FilmFlex

Adapted from: The Godfather

Box office: $250–291 million

Edited by: William Reynolds; Peter Zinner

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TIMESTAMPS 26:59-52:34.

“Im German-Irish”!

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.

Release date: March 24, 1972 (USA)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, FilmFlex

Adapted from: The Godfather

Box office: $250–291 million

Edited by: William Reynolds; Peter Zinner

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.

Release date: March 24, 1972 (USA)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, FilmFlex

Adapted from: The Godfather

Box office: $250–291 million

Edited by: William Reynolds; Peter Zinner

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The final episode from when the boys were together in Michigan

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Documentarian Trudie Styler takes animation fans behind the scenes of Disney's whimsical feature "The Emperor's New Groove." With her husband, renowned rock star Sting, serving as chief songwriter for the musical buddy comedy, Styler gains unparalleled access to the inner workings of Disney's legendary animation studios. With it, she reveals the winding road that takes a script called "Kingdom of the Sun" and transforms it into a critically acclaimed addition to the Disney collection.

Initial release: 2002

Directors: John-Paul Davidson, Trudie Styler

Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Music by: David Hartley

Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures; Xingu Films

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This is actually part 1 of a quick 2-part series feature the feature film, then the behind the scenes film!!

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Arrogant young Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama by his power-hungry advisor -- the devious diva Yzma. Stranded in the jungle, Kuzco's only chance to get back home and reclaim the high life rests with a good-hearted peasant named Pacha. Together, they must return Kuzco to the throne before Yzma tracks them down and finishes him off.

Release date: December 10, 2000 (USA)

Director: Mark Dindal

Sequel: Kronk's New Groove

Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Based on: Original story; by Roger Allers; Matthew Jacobs

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Baltimore-based friends and lovers, all in their 20s and 30s, try to navigate their way through the complexities of modern relationships. Beth (Jennifer Aniston) wants commitment from Neil (Ben Affleck), who sees nothing wrong with the status quo. Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) is tired of waiting by the phone, while Mary (Drew Barrymore) has a slew of supportive male friends, none of whom are straight. Meanwhile, Janine has trust issues with her husband, who can't trust himself around Anna.

Release date: February 6, 2009 (USA)

Director: Ken Kwapis

Distributed by: New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures

Adapted from: He's Just Not That Into You

Box office: $178.9 million

Music by: Cliff Eidelman

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Join us, as we continue covering a mid-series run on the classic TV series, Friends... (and as we stall for time as our upcoming Godfather series gets knitted together in the background.....)

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Monica upsets Phoebe by stopping the catering business before it has started, after she gets the head chef job at a restaurant where the staff all hate her. Rachel's boss is killed in a car accident before she can make Rachel a junior buyer.

Show: Friends

Air date: December 11, 1997

Season number: 4

Episode number: 9

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In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.

Release date: January 25, 1961 (USA)

Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske

Film series: One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Story by: Dodie Smith, Bill Peet

Box office: 303 million USD

Budget: 4 million USD

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The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas (Eric Schweig), his father Chingachgook (Russell Means), and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters (Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May) of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War.

Release date: September 25, 1992 (USA)

Director: Michael Mann

Story by: James Fenimore Cooper, Philip Dunne

Music composed by: Trevor Jones, Randy Edelman, Dougie MacLean, Ciaran Brennan

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures, Morgan Creek Entertainment

Adapted from: The Last of the Mohicans

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After civil engineer Arlo Pear (Richard Pryor) loses his job following a corporate merger, he must sell his house and move with his wife, Monica (Beverly Todd), and daughter, Casey (Stacey Dash), 2,000 miles from small-town New Jersey to Boise, Idaho. Unfortunately, the moving company -- led by slippery, fast-talking Perry (Robert LaSardo) -- has other ideas. When the movers go AWOL with the Pear family's belongings in the midst of the journey, Pear decides to take matters into his own hands.

Initial release: March 4, 1988

Director: Alan Metter

Box office: $10,815,378

Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures

Production company: Brooksfilms

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Fast-paced farce about an unlikely pair who go to extreme lengths to have a child. When an incompetent robber marries a policewoman, they discover that they are infertile. In order to appease his wife's longings for a child, the man steals one of a set of quintuplets, but mayhem ensues when the child's rich father sends a rabbit-shooting bounty hunter after the kidnapper.

Release date: March 13, 1987 (USA)

Director: Ethan Coen

Budget: 6 million USD, 5.5 million USD

Screenplay: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

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A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence. For what they saw, the band themselves become targets of violence from a gang of white-power skinheads, who want to eliminate all evidence of the crime.

Release date: April 15, 2016 (USA)

Director: Jeremy Saulnier

Screenplay: Jeremy Saulnier

Box office: 3.8 million USD

Distributed by: A24

Budget: $5 million

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Josh hosts Pappy, Stevie, Mikey, Brett and Kylo.

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After NBC picks up Jerry and George's sitcom, Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer are arrested for their callous indifference to a carjacking victim.

Show: Seinfeld

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A widowed farmer, with a brave but brutal military past, decides not to join up when the British arrive in 1776. However, when his son enlists and is later captured by the enemy, the former soldier must abandon his new-found pacifist principles in order to rescue his oldest child, and forms a regiment of Carolina patriots, whose guerrilla tactics prove pivotal to the US war effort.

Release date: June 27, 2000 (USA)

Director: Roland Emmerich

Box office: 215.3 million USD

Screenplay: Robert Rodat

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing

Setting: Berkeley County, South Carolina

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An apocalyptic threat to humanity arrives out of the clear blue sky with a series of violent, inexplicable deaths spreading across the country. The cause of the terrifying phenomenon remains unknown, prompting science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) and his colleague Julian (John Leguizamo) to try to elude the invisible killer in Pennsylvania's farmland. Soon it becomes clear that no one is safe.

Release date: June 10, 2008 (USA)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Screenplay: M. Night Shyamalan

Box office: 163.4 million USD

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

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The friends have a Thanksgiving meal together, Monica is reminded of Richard when she tries to kiss his son, and Joey frees Chandler from the box that he's being kept in to stop Kathy leaving him.

Show: Friends

Air date: November 20, 1997

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Chandler finally confesses to his feelings for Kathy just after she splits up with Joey, Ross rediscovers his hopeless musical skills on the keyboard which Phoebe alone appreciates, and Chandler buys new furniture for the apartment since the robbery left them with just the canoe, chick and duck.

Show: Friends

Air date: November 13, 1997

Season number: 4

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(We would take pen-clocks for bday or xmas gifts, btw.)

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Phoebe and Monica decide to go into business together after they cater a funeral where the widow tries not to pay, and Ross's date with the beautiful Cheryl goes awry when he kills a rat in her filthy apartment.

Show: Friends

Air date: November 6, 1997

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A sexy lingerie model and a successful software salesman go on a weekend getaway to a quaint northern California town.

Release date: February 27, 2010 (USA)

Director: James Nguyen

Budget: 10,000 USD (2009)

Editor: Kim Chow

Distributed by: Severin Films

Music by: Andrew Seger

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RIP Matthew Perry

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Chandler falls for Joey's new date, Ross discovers that the woman that he thinks he's dating actually thinks he's the babysitter, Rachel's new college boyfriend steals, and Phoebe tries to re-catch a cold to improve her singing voice.

Show: Friends

Air date: October 30, 1997

Season number: 4

Episode number: 5

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As a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence rages on, ex-special forces agent Joshua is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI. The Creator has developed a mysterious weapon that has the power to end the war and all of mankind. As Joshua and his team of elite operatives venture into enemy-occupied territory, they soon discover the world-ending weapon is actually an AI in the form of a young child.

Release date: September 29, 2023 (USA)

Director: Gareth Edwards

Budget: 80 million USD

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

Cinematography: Greig Fraser; Oren Soffer

Edited by: Hank Corwin; Joe Walker; Scott Morris

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Single mother Susan Carpenter works as a waitress alongside her feisty family friend Sheila. Taking care of everyone and everything in his own way is Susan's older son Henry. Protective of his brother and a tireless supporter of his often self-doubting mother, Henry blazes through the days like a comet. When Susan discovers that the family next door harbors a dark secret, she's surprised to learn that Henry has devised a plan to help the young daughter.

Initial release: June 14, 2017

Director: Colin Trevorrow

Distributed by: Focus Features

Budget: $10 million

Music by: Michael Giacchino

Produced by: Sidney Kimmel; Carla Hacken; Jenette Kahn; Adam Richman

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All the deaths — all the pranks.

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Hoping for a miraculous cure, John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer uses deranged and ingenious traps to turn the tables on the con artists.

Release date: September 29, 2023 (USA)

Director: Kevin Greutert

Distributed by: Lionsgate

Budget: $13 million

Music by: Charlie Clouser

Produced by: Mark Burg; Oren Koules

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Spooky M. Night / Mel Gibson / Joaquin Spoilers! is here to please!

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Everything that farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) assumed about the world is changed when he discovers a message - an intricate pattern of circles and lines - carved into his crops. As he investigates the unfolding mystery, what he finds will forever alter the lives of his brother (Joaquin Phoenix) and children (Rory Culkin), (Abigail Breslin). A unique story that explores the mysterious real-life phenomena of crop signs and the effects they have on one man and his family.

Release date: August 2, 2002 (USA)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Distributed by: Touchstone Pictures, MORE

Budget: $72 million

Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto

Music by: James Newton Howard

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When a washed-up actor returns to Belgium to find tranquillity, he finds himself involved in a bank robbery. Police believe him to be the perpetrator of the robbery, so he plays both roles of criminal to the police and hero to the hostages.

Release date: November 7, 2008 (USA)

Director: Mabrouk El Mechri

Executive producers: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Marc Fiszman, Patrick Quinet, Arlette Zylberberg, Fiszman Marc

Box office: 2.3 million USD

Distributed by: Gaumont, Peace Arch Entertainment

Music by: Gast Waltzing

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We all talk about our moms.

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From Ari Aster, director of Hereditary and Midsommar. From his darkest fears comes the greatest adventure.

Release date: April 14, 2023 (USA)

Director: Ari Aster

Budget: 35 million USD

Screenplay: Ari Aster

Distributed by: A24

Box office: $11.5 million

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Thanks, Jason!

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Prison, drugs and gang war touch three young men (Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt) in East Los Angeles from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Release date: April 16, 1993 (USA)

Director: Taylor Hackford

Box office: $4,496,583

Screenplay: Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jeremy Iacone, Floyd Mutrux

Distributed by: Hollywood Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Budget: $35 million

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While shooting a war film, the director attempts to liven up proceedings by dropping the principle actors into the middle of a real jungle, claiming he is going to capture their performance with hidden cameras. The hapless group including drug-addled comedy star Jeff Portnoy and po-faced method man Kirk Lazarus are completely unaware when a series of unfortunate events leads them into the middle of a real war zone.

Release date: August 13, 2008 (USA)

Director: Ben Stiller

Screenplay: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen

Nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, MORE

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures

Box office: $195.7 million

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Stevie hosts Pappy, Mikey, Josh, Brett and Nearly Platinum Allie in this early 90's epic.

Huge thanks to Brother Bryan. More to come!

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Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley (Kevin Costner) breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem (Morgan Freeman) and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John (Nick Brimble) and Will Scarlett (Christian Slater) to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.

Release date: June 14, 1991 (USA)

Director: Kevin Reynolds

Featured song: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You

Music composed by: Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen

Box office: $390.5 million

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After a particularly difficult job, hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) head to Belgium to hide out until things cool down. Ray hates the medieval city they land in, but Ken finds its beauty and peacefulness enchanting. Their experiences become increasingly surreal and possibly life-changing as they encounter tourists, locals, an American dwarf and a potential romance for Ray.

Release date: February 8, 2008 (USA)

Director: Martin McDonagh

Screenplay: Martin McDonagh

Budget: 15 million USD

Distributed by: Universal Pictures, Focus Features

Cinematography: Eigil Bryld

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And they told us to review this 1996 Charlie Sheen film.

As it was foretold, Pap hosts Stevie and Josh.

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After astronomer Zane Zaminski (Charlie Sheen) discovers a radio transmission that originated from space, he tells his boss, Phil (Ron Silver), who ignores him. Zane is promptly fired, and decides to investigate the signal himself. When he discovers a return radio transmission from Mexico, he goes to explore. There he meets climate scientist Ilana Green (Lindsay Crouse), who is studying anomalies in gases in the area. Zane soon makes a shocking finding that puts him in great danger.

Release date: May 31, 1996 (USA)

Director: David Twohy

Film series: The Arrival

Budget: 25 million USD

Distributed by: Lionsgate, Orion Pictures

Box office: $14 million

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— alrighty then!

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Legendary pet detective Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) returns for another adventure when he's coerced out of retirement while on a soul-searching retreat in the Himalayas. He must now retrieve an endangered white bat from a village located in Africa. The sacred animal was offered up as a wedding dowry from the Wachootoo prince to the Wachati princess, and, if Ace can't track down the culprit behind the kidnapping in time, civil war will break out between the two rival tribes.

Release date: November 10, 1995 (USA)

Director: Steve Oedekerk

Screenplay: Steve Oedekerk

Distributed by: Warner Bros.

Title: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Based on: Characters; by Jack Bernstein

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...wait, Pappy's mom?!

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A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. Based on the William Goldman novel "The Princess Bride" which earned its own loyal audience.

Release date: October 1, 1987 (USA)

Director: Rob Reiner

Story by: William Goldman

Screenplay: William Goldman

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lionsgate, Vestron Pictures

Adapted from: The Princess Bride

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WALL-E, short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class, is the last robot left on Earth. He spends his days tidying up the planet, one piece of garbage at a time. But during 700 years, WALL-E has developed a personality, and he's more than a little lonely. Then he spots EVE (Elissa Knight), a sleek and shapely probe sent back to Earth on a scanning mission. Smitten WALL-E embarks on his greatest adventure yet when he follows EVE across the galaxy.

Release date: June 27, 2008 (USA)

Director: Andrew Stanton

Story by: Andrew Stanton; Pete Docter

Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Box office: $532.5 million

Cinematography: Jeremy Lasky; Danielle Feinberg

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Ex-fireman Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) has a new job working security at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. Hoping to impress his kids, he's scored tickets to the Stanley Cup Finals, unaware that the place has been taken over by a group of terrorists. Ex-CIA agent Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe) is holding the vice president hostage in a press box and plans to blow up the building if he doesn't pay the ransom. But, when Darren learns of his scheme, he jumps into action to save the day.

Release date: December 22, 1995 (USA)

Director: Peter Hyams

Budget: 35 million USD

Distributed by: Universal Pictures

Box office: $64.4 million

Production company: Shattered Productions

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With the price on his head ever increasing, legendary hit man John Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Japan to Berlin.

Release date: March 24, 2023 (USA)

Director: Chad Stahelski

Box office: 432.4 million USD

Budget: 100 million USD

Distributed by: Lionsgate Films

Based on: Characters; by Derek Kolstad

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Scientist Karen Ross (Laura Linney) is sent by her father-in-law, mogul R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker), to the Congo to determine the whereabouts of his son's missing diamond-hunting team. Led by expert guide Kelly (Ernie Hudson), Ross and a mismatched search party -- including primatologist Dr. Peter Elliot (Dylan Walsh), treasure hunter Herkermer Homolka (Tim Curry) and a gorilla -- discover a danger far more sinister than anything they expected to find, even in the heart of the jungle.

Release date: June 9, 1995 (USA)

Director: Frank Marshall

Budget: 50 million USD

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures

Adapted from: Congo

Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy; Sam Mercer

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A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland, Ahmad ibn Fadlan (Antonio Banderas) finds himself in the company of Vikings. While the behavior of the Norsemen initially offends ibn Fadlan, the more cultured outsider grows to respect the tough, if uncouth, warriors. During their travels together, ibn Fadlan and the Vikings get word of an evil presence closing in, and they must fight the frightening and formidable force, which was previously thought to exist only in legend.

Release date: August 27, 1999 (USA)

Director: John McTiernan

Adapted from: Eaters of the Dead

Budget: 85 million USD

Box office: 61.7 million USD

Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Touchstone Pictures

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Another woman (Joan Chen) joins a future gladiator's (Rutger Hauer) band of "juggers" against fighters of the ruling elite.

Release date: February 23, 1990 (USA)

Director: David Webb Peoples

Screenplay: David Webb Peoples

Budget: 10 million AUD

Distributed by: New Line Cinema

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Afro Samurai is a Japanese seinen dōjinshi manga series written and illustrated by manga artist Takashi Okazaki. It was originally serialized irregularly in the avant-garde dōjinshi manga magazine Nou Nou Hau from November 1998 to September 2002.

Genres: Action fiction, Historical drama, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

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Studio: Gonzo

Demographic: Seinen

Directed by: Fuminori Kizaki

English network: AUS MTV, ABC2NA SpikeUK Adult Swim, Bravo

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Actors reunite for a special celebrating the 30th anniversary of the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" franchise; including David Yost, Walter E. Jones, Barbara Goodson, and others.

Initial release: April 19, 2023

Director: Charlie Haskell

First episode date: April 19, 2023 (USA)

Distributed by: Netflix

Producers: Simon Bennett; Hillary Zwick Turner

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Whiplash is a 2014 American independent psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, and Melissa Benoist.

Initial release: January 16, 2014

Director: Damien Chazelle

Nominations: Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

Awards: Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

Distributed by: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, Sony Pictures Classics, Universal Pictures International

Box office: $49 million

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Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) has always fantasized about traveling into outer space, but is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior "in-valid." He decides to fight his fate by purchasing the genes of Jerome Morrow (Jude Law), a laboratory-engineered "valid." He assumes Jerome's DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with Irene (Uma Thurman). An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer (Gore Vidal) complicates Vincent's plans.

Release date: October 24, 1997 (USA)

Director: Andrew Niccol

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing

Box office: $12.5 million (domestic only)

Budget: $36 million

Cinematography: Sławomir Idziak

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In this quartet of neo-noir tales, a mysterious salesman (Josh Hartnett) narrates a tragic story of co-dependency, while a musclebound vigilante (Mickey Rourke) tears his way through the criminal underworld in search of his lost love (Jaime King). In another part of the city, a grizzled cop (Bruce Willis) foils the ambitions of a child-killer (Nick Stahl), and an ex-prostitute (Brittany Murphy) evades her ex-pimp (Benicio del Toro) with the help of her new boyfriend, Dwight (Clive Owen).

Release date: April 1, 2005 (USA)

Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez

Story by: Frank Miller

Box office: 158.7 million USD

Distributed by: Miramax, Dimension Films, SPI International

Adapted from: Sin City, That Yellow Bastard, The Hard Goodbye

Comedy

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We love you, PK, man.

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Successful real-estate man Peter Klaven has it all: a great job, a beautiful home and a loving wife-to-be. Unfortunately, due to his devotion to both his work and fiancée Zooey, Peter has failed to make any friends. With his wedding fast approaching, the pressure is on to find a best man and so Peter embarks on several desperate attempts to find a best buddy.

Release date: March 20, 2009 (USA)

Director: John Hamburg

Screenplay: John Hamburg, Larry Levin

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In the year 3000, there are no countries, no cities... Earth is a wasteland. And man is an endangered species. As the leader of the evil Psychlos, Terl and his race have taken over the world's natural resources and disregarded everyone and everything else. It's up to Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler, a brave human, to battle the Psychlos and restore normalcy to the world.

Release date: May 12, 2000 (USA)

Director: Roger Christian

Screenplay: J. David Shapiro, Corey Mandell

Budget: 73 million USD

Awards: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Worst Film

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Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across a post-outbreak America.

First episode date: January 15, 2023 (USA)

Original network: HBO

Production companies: The Mighty Mint; Word Games; PlayStation Productions; Naughty Dog; Sony Pictures Television

Based on: The Last of Us; by Naughty Dog

Genre: Post-apocalyptic; Drama; Thriller

Producers: Greg Spence; Cecil O'Connor

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Will they meet any barbarians?

Thanks, Vera.

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A young woman discovers the rental home she booked is already occupied by a stranger. Against her better judgment, she decides to spend the night but soon discovers there's a lot more to fear than just an unexpected house guest.

Release date: September 9, 2022 (USA)

Director: Zach Cregger

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

Box office: $45.4 million

Music by: Anna Drubich

Produced by: Arnon Milchan; Roy Lee; Raphael Margules; J.D. Lifshitz

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When the Event Horizon, a spacecraft that vanished years earlier, suddenly reappears, a team is dispatched to investigate the ship. Accompanied by the Event Horizon's creator, William Weir (Sam Neill), the crew of the Lewis and Clark, led by Capt. Miller (Laurence Fishburne), begins to explore the seemingly abandoned vessel. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors, and that the horrors that befell the Event Horizon's previous journey are still present.

Release date: August 15, 1997 (USA)

Director: Paul W. S. Anderson

Box office: 42 million USD

Casting director: Alex Wald

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, CIC Video, Golar Productions

Budget: $60 million

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In New York City in 1987, a handsome, young urban professional, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), lives a second life as a gruesome serial killer by night. The cast is filled by the detective (Willem Dafoe), the fiance (Reese Witherspoon), the mistress (Samantha Mathis), the coworker (Jared Leto), and the secretary (Chloë Sevigny). This is a biting, wry comedy examining the elements that make a man a monster.

Release date: April 14, 2000 (USA)

Director: Mary Harron

Adapted from: American Psycho

Box office: 34.3 million USD

Distributed by: Lionsgate, Lionsgate Films

Cinematography: Andrzej Sekuła

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Pappy hosts Stevie, Josh & Brett!

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A hapless but resilient tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) on the tough city streets. Upon learning that she and her grandmother are to be evicted from their home, the tramp undertakes a series of attempts to provide them with the money they need, all of which end in humiliating failure. But after a drunken millionaire (Harry Myers) lavishly rewards him for saving his life, the tramp can change the flower girl's life forever.

Release date: March 7, 1931 (USA)

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Music composed by: Charlie Chaplin, José Padilla, Alfred Newman, Arthur Johnston

Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin, Harry Crocker, Harry Carr, Harry Clive

Producer: Charlie Chaplin

Box office: 4.25 million USD (worldwide rentals)

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Thanks Sydney for the request!

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In the not-too-distant future, Earth's dying sun spells the end for humanity. In a last-ditch effort to save the planet, a crew of eight men and women ventures into space with a device that could revive the star. However, an accident, a grave mistake and a distress beacon from a long-lost spaceship throw the crew and its desperate mission into a tailspin.

Release date: July 20, 2007 (USA)

Director: Danny Boyle

Music composed by: John Murphy, Underworld

Screenplay: Alex Garland

Box office: 32 million USD

Budget: 40 million USD, 23 million USD

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FBI criminal profiler Will Graham (William L. Petersen) is called out of early retirement to assist on a serial murder case involving a killer known as the "Tooth Fairy" (Tom Noonan). Graham enlists the help of imprisoned serial killer -- and cannibal -- Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox), who is the reason Graham took an early retirement. Soon, Graham and the FBI are entangled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game between the Tooth Fairy, Lecktor and an interfering journalist (Stephen Lang).

Release date: August 15, 1986 (USA)

Director: Michael Mann

Cinematography: Dante Spinotti

Screenplay: Michael Mann

Story by: Thomas Harris

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Details about Eileen, Landcape with Invisible Hand, Scrapper, The Deepest Breath and Theater Camp inside!

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Dates: Jan 19, 2023 – Jan 29, 2023

Location: Park City, Utah

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The 2023 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to 29, 2023. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 7, 2022.

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Pappy and Kylo hang out. Brett does great research!

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The 20-year arms dealing career of Queens, N.Y., outcast Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) serves as a window onto the end of the Cold War and the emergence of worldwide terrorism. He finds himself reassuring his more ethically challenged younger brother, Vitaly (Jared Leto), while adeptly sidestepping the pursuit of federal agent Jack Lawrence (Ethan Hawke). The globetrotting arms dealer also pursues the woman of his dreams, supermodel Ava Fontaine (Bridget Moynahan).

Release date: September 16, 2005 (USA)

Director: Andrew Niccol

Screenplay: Andrew Niccol

Music composed by: Antonio Pinto

Box office: $72.6 million

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Lionsgate, Lionsgate Films

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Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.

Initial release: September 10, 2022

Director: Rian Johnson

Screenplay: Rian Johnson

Producers: Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman

Music composed by: Nathan Johnson

Costume design: Jenny Eagan

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Turns out the guest in the movie ain't so friendly btw.

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A string of mysterious deaths leads a teenager to become suspicious of a soldier (Dan Stevens) who showed up on her family's doorstep and claimed to be a friend of her dead brother.

Release date: September 17, 2014 (USA)

Director: Adam Wingard

Budget: 5 million USD

Distributed by: Picturehouse

Cinematography: Robby Baumgartner

Music by: Steve Moore

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When Mason (Ice-T), homeless and living on the streets of Seattle, hears about a job as a hunting guide for a group of wealthy clients, he gladly signs on and is taken to a cabin in the middle of a Pacific Northwest forest. There he meets psychiatrist Doc Hawkins (Gary Busey), oil baron John Griffin (John C. McGinley) and Wall Street investor Derek Wolfe (F. Murray Abraham). The next morning, however, Mason is awakened to learn that he's the prey the men will be hunting.

Release date: April 15, 1994 (USA)

Director: Ernest Dickerson

Budget: 7.4 million USD

Box office: 7.727 million USD

Distributed by: New Line Cinema

Music by: Stewart Copeland

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Jake Sully and Ney'tiri have formed a family and are doing everything to stay together. However, they must leave their home and explore the regions of Pandora. When an ancient threat resurfaces, Jake must fight a difficult war against the humans.

Release date: December 16, 2022 (USA)

Director: James Cameron

Budget: 250 million USD

Editors: James Cameron, Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, David Brenner

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

Cinematography: Russell Carpenter

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from wiki - Green with Evil is a five-parter and serves as the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first episodes of the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It features the debut of Tommy Oliver, who would eventually become the most experienced Ranger of all time.

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Join Brett, Pappy, Stevie, Mikey, Josh and Kylo as they journey into Middle Earth for this animated 1980 masterpiece!

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A Hobbit faces the powers of darkness as he tries to destroy the Ring of Doom. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's novels.

Release date: May 11, 1980 (USA)

Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.

Music composed by: Maury Laws

Film series: The Hobbit

Producers: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.

Adapted from: The Hobbit, The Return of the King

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Thank you, Becky, for the great request!

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In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in an accident, his life is made even worse when his strangely nostalgic uncle, Rico (Jon Gries), shows up to keep an eye on him. With no safe haven at home or at school, Napoleon befriends the new kid, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), a morose Hispanic boy who speaks little English. Together the two launch a campaign to run for class president.

Release date: June 11, 2004 (USA)

Director: Jared Hess

Budget: 400,000 USD

Box office: 46.1 million USD

Awards: Satellite Award for Best Original Score, MORE

Distributed by: Searchlight Pictures, Paramount Pictures Corporation

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Disguised as a human, a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) travels from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). Sent to protect Sarah is Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), who divulges the coming of Skynet, an artificial intelligence system that will spark a nuclear holocaust. Sarah is targeted because Skynet knows that her unborn son will lead the fight against them. With the virtually unstoppable Terminator in hot pursuit, she and Kyle attempt to escape.

Release date: October 26, 1984 (USA)

Director: James Cameron

Writer: James Cameron

Sequel: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Music composed by: Brad Fiedel, Tané McClure, Joe Dolce

Awards: Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

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The boys are live in Josh's kitchen and they JUST curled up, grabbed a couple glassed of hot milk and watched Catwoman.

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TIP: This is a good one to listen to, even if you haven't seen the movie lol!

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"Catwoman" is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips (Halle Berry), a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever.

Release date: July 19, 2004 (USA)

Director: Pitof

Screenplay: John Rogers, John Brancato, Michael Ferris

Box office: 82.1 million USD

Nominations: Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress, BET Award for Best Actress

Music composed by: Klaus Badelt

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The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

Release date: October 13, 1993 (USA)

Director: Henry Selick

Screenplay: Caroline Thompson

Box office: 91.5 million USD

Budget: 18 million USD, 24 million USD

Art director: Deane Taylor

"Contributor: Tim Burton"

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Pappy and Josh talk about the dark side of basketball after having binged the Whistleblower podcast!

All the gory details of the referee lifestyle are here.

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In 2007, NBA referee Tim Donaghy was arrested for betting on games he officiated. It was the biggest scandal in American sports history, but it quickly faded from the headlines. Why? Because everyone in this scandal has something to hide. This isn't a story about basketball - it's a story about money, and a conspiracy that spans far beyond one referee. Sports journalist Tim Livingston takes you inside his eight-year odyssey to find the truth at the heart of the scandal.

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Stay after the movie for special trivia that's unlike any other!

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In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, leads his badly outnumbered warriors against the massive Persian army. Though certain death awaits the Spartans, their sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against their common enemy.

Release date: March 9, 2007 (USA)

Director: Zack Snyder

Box office: 456.1 million USD

Adapted from: 300

Nominations: MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Villain, MORE

Sequel: 300: Rise of an Empire

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Dawn (Jess Weixler) is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey (Hale Appleman), nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.

Release date: January 18, 2008 (USA)

Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein

Budget: 2 million USD

Distributed by: The Weinstein Company, FilmFlex, Roadside Attractions

Edited by: Joe Landauer

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Mikey, Pappy, Josh, Stevie, and Brett review the (not) Tom Hardy spooky classic Upgrade!

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure -- an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility -- skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

Release date: June 1, 2018 (USA)

Director: Leigh Whannell

Production companies: Blumhouse Productions, VicScreen, Goalpost Pictures

Box office: 17 million USD

Budget: 3 million USD

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Struggling musician Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) is better-known as the boyfriend of TV star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). After she unceremoniously dumps him, he feels lost and alone but makes a last-ditch bid to get over it by going to Hawaii. However, she and her new boyfriend (Russell Brand) are there in the same hotel.

Release date: April 2008 (USA)

Director: Nicholas Stoller

Screenplay: Jason Segel

Nominations: Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy, MORE

Art directors: Scott Meehan, Alicia Maccarone, Bill Matthews

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On the lush alien world of Pandora live the Na'vi, beings who appear primitive but are highly evolved. Because the planet's environment is poisonous, human/Na'vi hybrids, called Avatars, must link to human minds to allow for free movement on Pandora. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paralyzed former Marine, becomes mobile again through one such Avatar and falls in love with a Na'vi woman (Zoe Saldana). As a bond with her grows, he is drawn into a battle for the survival of her world.

Release date: December 18, 2009 (USA)

Director: James Cameron

Box office: 2.878 billion USD

Budget: 237 million USD (2009)

Sequel: Avatar: The Way of Water

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As you begin, or rather, finish listening to this podcast remember...we all lie to ourselves to be happy.

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Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Release date: March 16, 2001 (USA)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Adapted from: Memento Mori

Cinematography: Wally Pfister

Production companies: Newmarket Films, Summit Entertainment, MORE

Box office: 40 million USD

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Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz, and produced by Antoine Fuqua, who initially conceived the film. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle by Kōtarō Isaka.

Release date: August 5, 2022 (USA)

Director: David Leitch

Distributed by: Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing

Adapted from: Bullet Train

Box office: $175.9 million

Cinematography: Jonathan Sela

Release date:

5 September 2022

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Pull our fingers.

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Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian action thriller film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The screenplay, based on P. D. James' 1992 novel The Children of Men, was credited to five writers, with Clive Owen making uncredited contributions. Wikipedia

Release date: December 25, 2006 (USA)

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Screenplay: Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, David Arata

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Good Time is a 2017 American crime thriller film directed by Josh and Benny Safdie and written by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. It stars Robert Pattinson as a robber who tries to free his mentally disabled brother, played by Benny Safdie, all while eluding his own capture.

Release date: August 11, 2017 (USA)

Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Starring: Robert Pattinson; Benny Safdie; Buddy Duress; Taliah Lennice Webster; Barkhad Abdi; Jennifer Jason Leigh

Box office: $3.2 million

Music by: Oneohtrix Point Never

Distributed by: A24

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Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy adventure film directed by Joe Johnston from a screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor, and Jim Strain. Loosely based on Chris Van Allsburg's picture book of the same name, the film is the first installment of the Jumanji franchise.

Release date: December 15, 1995 (USA)

Director: Joe Johnston

Starring: Robin Williams; Bonnie Hunt; Kirsten Dunst; Jonathan Hyde; David Alan Grier

Box office: $262.8 million

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A skilled Comanche warrior protects her tribe from a highly evolved alien predator that hunts humans for sport, fighting against wilderness, dangerous colonisers and this mysterious creature to keep her people safe.

Initial release: August 5, 2022

Director: Dan Trachtenberg

Distributed by: Hulu

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A fashion photographer (Andie MacDowell) bonds with her mentally impaired sister (Rosie O'Donnell) after their father dies suddenly.

Initial release: May 1, 2005

Music composed by: Stewart Copeland

Producer: Sherri Saito

Cinematography: Anthony B. Richmond

Executive producers: Rosie O'Donnell, Larry Sanitsky

Screenplay: Rachel Simon, Joyce Eliason

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This episode goes all the way back to the 1959 comic and we also discuss Freeze's first TV appearance (on Adam West's 1967 TV Batman).

Switch over to our patreon.com/spoilerspodcast site to hear the second half of the episode where we talk about Mr. Freeze's origin's within the Night of Owls comic series, as well as the award winning HEART OF ICE episode from the 90's Batman: The Animated Series.

Could FREEAE be the next villain to face ROBERT PATTINSON'S Batman?

Maybe...and if so, we want you to be prepared!

Trust us, this is the coolest podcast around.

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Brett hosts Pappy, Mikey, Josh and Kylo Korey.

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Mark (Elijah Wood), a young boy who loses his mother, must stay with his extended family while his father is away on business. Mark becomes acquainted with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin). However, the extent of Henry's depravity becomes clear when Mark sees him kill a neighbor's dog and intentionally create a traffic pileup on the highway. After a supposed mishap on an icy pond with Henry's sister Connie (Quinn Culkin), Mark tries to reveal Henry's crimes before it's too late.

Release date: September 24, 1993 (USA)

Director: Joseph Ruben

Starring: Macaulay Culkin; Elijah Wood; Wendy Crewson; David Morse; Jacqueline Brookes

Box office: $60.6 million

Distributed by: 20th Century Studios

Music by: Elmer Bernstein

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John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The problem is that he can't remember whether he committed the murders or not. For one brief moment, he is convinced that he has gone completely mad. Murdoch seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. As he edges closer to solving the mystery, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of ominous beings collectively known as the Strangers.

Release date: February 27, 1998 (USA)

Director: Alex Proyas

Starring: Rufus Sewell; Kiefer Sutherland; Jennifer Connelly; Richard O'Brien; Ian Richardson; William Hurt

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Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.

Release date: June 10, 2022 (USA)

Director: Colin Trevorrow

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The Jedi Master contends with the consequences of his greatest defeat -- the downfall and corruption of his one-time friend and apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.

First episode date: May 27, 2022

Starring: Ewan McGregor

Directed by: Deborah Chow

Production company: Lucasfilm

Producers: Thomas Hayslip; Katterli Frauenfelder

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The Jedi Master contends with the consequences of his greatest defeat -- the downfall and corruption of his one-time friend and apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.

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