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PODCAST

The Extra Buttery Podcast

Jason Chen and Robert Snow

Like the popcorn topping that inspired the name, The Extra Buttery Podcast is an often salty, but oh-so-appropriate addition to your movie, TV and pop culture experience. You"ll hear Jason and Robert discuss and quarrel over the latest casting news, project announcements, and trailers. You"ll hear reviews of films and TV shows both new and old, and maybe some special guests. Extra Buttery uploads monthly, so follow the show and let us know what you think!

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

01:00:22

Episode 98 - "It has no face. What's cute?!"...

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2021/09/27

In the 98th episode of the Extra Buttery podcast, Jason and Robert discuss Marvel's Asian-centric superhero film SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (1:55) and itsAsian-ness in white Hollywood, and why it still has its pitfalls when dealing with stereotypes. Robert then updates us with his TIFF adventures (22:40), including his top picks OUT OF SYNC (23:41) and FLEE (26:40), and bottom picks FRANCE (44:32) and the disappointing THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE (52:30). Theme music: "Downtown" by

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00:45:13

Extra Buttery Bonus - Episode 7 - Bernie (2011)

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2021/09/14

In the seventh episode of Jason and Robert Watch Old Movies, we pay a visit to BERNIE (2011), Richard Linklater's quirky comedy based on a true story starring Jack Black as a well-liked assistant funeral director who murders a crabby widow in a small Texas town. We discuss the film's use of both real-life and fictional interviews, a rare instance where Linklater doesn't effectively convey the passage of time and why it fell under the radar despite its A-list cast. Theme music: "Downtown" by

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00:58:32

Episode 97 - "Explosive tracker thingy? I like that...

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2021/08/17

In the 97th episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert open with a re-visit of CHRONICLE (2012) and its potential sequel with new female leads. With theatres opening up, it's time to get back on track and we're back to our healthy diet of new movies. We dispute the merits of THE SUICIDE SQUAD (4:10), debate the themes and ideas in Sir Gawain's journey in THE GREEN KNIGHT (31:05, spoilers at 42:33) and briefly discuss the social media-inspired ZOLA (48:38). Theme music: "Downtown" by

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00:45:20

Extra Buttery Bonus - Episode 6 - High Fidelity (2000)

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2021/08/03

In the sixth episode of Jason and Robert Watch Old Movies,we revisit HIGH FIDELITY, the romantic dramedy adapted from Nick Hornby's novel that made John Cusack a pop culture icon. In true Extra Buttery fashion, we branch off on all sorts of tangents, including director Stephen Frears' other works, the movie's similarities to Kevin Smith films, Jack Black's scene-stealing performance and how Cusack's main character goes from selfish man-child to maturing adult. Theme music: "Downtown" by Podington

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00:55:51

Episode 96 - "It's a big ball of worms." [Loki, The...

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2021/07/13

In the 96th episode of The Extra Buttery podcast, Jason and Robert open with Richard Donner’s death and how SUPERMAN made an impact on the modern superhero films. We then hop on the TemPad and enter the Marvel universe with a discussion about Disney+’s LOKI (4:15) and the mass confusion in plots that involve time travel, then stay in-house with Pixar’s LUCA (17:33) and why it lacks that Pixar magic. Skip ahead to THE TOMORROW WAR (29:41) for the meat of the episode, a sci-fi action film about how a

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00:42:00

Extra Buttery Bonus – Episode 5 – The Cell (2000)

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2021/06/21

In their fifth bonus episode, Robert and Jason revisit a terrifying movie from Jason's childhood: Tarsem Singh's psychological thriller THE CELL. Don't ask us why Jason was watching something this creepy at 12 years old! We start off by discussing Robert's previous disappointment with Tarsem's IMMORTALS, and then move into THE CELL's crazy but time-tested visual effects and the central performances from Jennifer Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Vince Vaughn. Should Tarsem get some Netflix or Amazon

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00:59:31

Episode 95 - "You always get the feeling you're...

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2021/06/07

In the 95th episode of The Extra Buttery Podcast, summer movie season is crawling back to life. We begin in the Montana wilderness with a new thriller from Taylor Sheridan, THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, starring Angelina Jolie (2:40). Then we retreat back into the house with THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (16:36), a long-delayed Hitchcock ripoff starring Amy Adams. Finally, we puzzle through our second Zack Snyder film of the year, ARMY OF THE DEAD (35:25), an apparent franchise-launcher of a zombie film with an

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00:44:37

Extra Buttery Bonus – Episode 4 – The Player (1992)

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2021/05/24

In the fourth episode of Jason and Robert Watch Old Movies, we take a deep dive into Robert Altman's THE PLAYER. Released in 1992 and nominated at the 65th Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, Tim Robbins stars as a hot shot movie exec who gets embroiled in a murder-mystery with a bitter screenwriter. We talk about how we stumbled upon this film (3:00), its light skewering of Hollywood (19:40) and our final thoughts (39:01). Theme music: "Downtown" by Podington

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00:58:06

Episode 94 - "Unsurprisingly, his story is the worst...

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2021/05/06

In the 94th episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert recap the Oscars (2:29) – Robert’s second favorite holiday of the year – before discussing Clueless Cole in MORTAL KOMBAT (19:06), the predictability of the new space thriller STOWAWAY (32:56), before finishing off with THE CAPTAIN FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (42:54), a TV series that’s equal parts action, comedy, drama, thriller and horror, but ends up kind of getting lost in the middle of nowhere despite its stern messaging about

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00:57:27

Extra Buttery Bonus – Episode 3 – The League of...

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2021/04/27

In the third episode of Jason and Robert Watch Old Movies, we head back to the beginnings of the superhero era with the smash box office miss, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. An ill-fated project from inception, a grumpy Sean Connery (in his last film ever) stars in a dieselpunk superhero flick directed by Stephen Norrington (also his last film), based on an adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s graphic novel about a team of superhero fictional characters in Victorian England who are

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01:09:09

Episode 93 - Zack Snyder's Justice League [ft. Peter...

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2021/04/13

In the 93rdepisode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert open with a brief discussion about some casting news with Disney+’s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series before taking a deep dive into ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE (3:40). After discussing our initial thoughts, we talk about pivotal inclusion of The Flash and Cyborg’s backstories and stylistic differences between Snyder and the-man-who-replaced-Snyder until we are joined by a friend of the show, Peter Henderson, where it gets all kinds of

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00:55:14

Episode 92 - "I'm surprised Sound of Metal got so...

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2021/04/02

In the 92nd episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert share their thoughts on the WANDAVISION finale and Scarlet Witch's grieving process (4:13) before diving into the Oscar nominations, including the inclusion of Thomas Vinterberg and SOUND OF METAL, two films we thought would get overlooked. The meat of the episode(16:16) begins with a brief chat about our biggest surprises before moving on to each of the individual categories. Theme music: "Downtown" by Podington Bear. [CC BY-NC

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00:52:00

Extra Buttery Bonus - Episode 2 - Gattaca (1997)

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2021/03/30

It’s our second bonus episode, part of our new series where Robert and Jason go back over older titles one of us has never seen before. This time we get into GATTACA (1997), starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. We go over Jason’s attempts to get Robert to watch (3:54), and catch everyone up on how Andrew Niccol burst on the scene with his directorial debut (5:56). We discuss how the movie may have predicted the rise of Elon Musk and SpaceX (12:18), as well as whether you can classify the movie as

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00:58:31

Episode 91 - "I went 5 out of 5 on Letterboxd."...

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2021/03/12

In the 91st episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Jason and Robert discuss Lee Isaac Chung’s MINARI (7:40), about a Korean family trying to carve out their own little space in America, and Shaka King’s JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (35:17), about Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. How did these films tackle racism and prejudice? What do they tell us about America? Skip to the end if you want to hear how they stack up against the competition (48:33). Theme music: "Downtown" by

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00:40:52

Extra Buttery Bonus - Episode 1 - True Lies (1994)

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2021/02/26

In the first-ever episode of Jason and Robert Watch Old Movies (title TBD), we tackle the hard truth about Ahhh-nold’s TRUE LIES: it’s a really fun action movie. A $300-million hit, it was supposed to spawn a sequel (14:53), only to get shelved after 9/11 irrevocably changed the action movie landscape. We continue with our most ridiculous moments (21:27), the best lines (26:47), what the upcoming CBS show could bring (29:54) and deliver our final thoughts (35:25). Next bonus episode: GATTACA. Theme

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00:59:23

Episode 90 - "No filmmaker could possibly get this...

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2021/02/12

In the 90th episode of the Extra Buttery podcast, Jason and Robert begin with an extended discussion on the recent SAG nominations, why no one cares about the Golden Globes (hint: they get it wrong all the time) and why the Oscars have an obsession with representing international films even though they’re often poorly understood or overlooked by the voting body of – you guessed it – predominantly white Americans. We talk about why TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 is this year’s safe pick (8:02) before

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00:59:38

Episode 89 - "You're not gonna be happy with me."...

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2021/01/24

In the 89th episode of the Extra Buttery podcast, Jason and Robert discuss the first two episodes of WandaVision, which asks more questions than it answers, before jumping into our Top 10 films of the year (so far). Our lists are subject to change as we await new releases, but check our discussion starting (4:46) before running down the full list (45:10). The episode ends with some extra butter -- films that we disliked or hated or bored us out of our minds (48:54). We will discuss and publish our

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01:11:05

Episode 88 - “None of it made any sense. It was all...

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2021/01/05

Happy New Year! In the 88th episode of the Extra Buttery podcast, Jason and Robert wrap up 2020 with the holiday releases. Unfortunately, most of it came with capital-D Disappointment and a side of unbuttered popcorn. We begin by questioning the decision to include L__ S______ in the season finale of The Mandalorian (2:08, Wookiepedia time: 11:44) before moving onto even more curious screenwriting decisions in Wonder Woman 1984 (19:18). George Clooney made another snoozer in The Midnight Sky

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01:03:22

Episode 87 - Theatres are NOT dead! [Mank, Sound of...

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2020/12/15

We’re back! In the 87th episode of the Extra Buttery podcast, Jason and Robert open up with their expectations for Spider-Man 3 (or is it 8?) given the recent castings, which swings the discussion to Warner Bros.’ decision to release WONDER WOMAN 1984 in theatres and on streaming services at the same time (5:45). Want to skip straight to the good stuff? It’s a STAR WARS extravaganza with THE MANDALORIAN (19:55, spoiler heavy) right off the top (jet pack?) and Robert’s Wookiepedia story time (27:22)

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00:56:46

Episode 86 - "I'm attracted to Margaret Thatcher...

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2020/11/20

“YADDLE MAKES ANOTHER APPEARANCE!” In the 86th episode of the Extra Buttery podcast, Jason and Robert discuss RONIN and 47 RONIN (loosely connected) … then, yup, it’s a tangent as Robert drones on about his custom (!) tweed jacket. The episode officially begins with a lengthy discussion about romantic crime drama QUEEN & SLIM (7:40, *spoilers* between 18:19-19:52), and Chapters 10 and 11 of THE MANDALORIAN (21:46). Wookiepedia Robert takes over (26:30) and talks at length about Bo-Katan, the

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