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DJK & TMC

Talking about movies that almost make the cut.

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61 - Weapons (+ Mario Bava Marathon) w/Nathan Lamoreau

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2025/09/10

Dave knows that Nathan enjoyed binge-watching these movies because he called it "torture." This is defined as "to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure," so he's fine! Let's run and pretend we're little airplanes:Cold Open: Colder Royalties MARIO BAVA MOVIE MARATHON! A BAY OF BLOOD Review Hack? Auteur? Both? Neither? BLACK SUNDAY Review LET THE CORPSES TAN Review DANGER: DIABOLIK Review Can Guns Fire Emeralds? (No) Influence on Batman Influence on Austin Powers Influence on The Beastie

01:27:15

60 - Superman (+ Post Oscars Speed Run)

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2025/08/07

We waited half a year to review the 2025 Academy Award nominees and winners just to prove that no one remembers them. But will anyone remember this conversation:Weapon X Fade In Reviewing Oscar Movies After The Oscars ANORA Review Inevitable A.I. Digression "Organic" Movies Writers and Professors Expediting Their Own Demise A.I. Traffics Only In The Past Cat Clocks Are Shrinking Ode To Big Bites In Movies BRUTALIST Review Forgot To Complain About Brody's Oscar Speech CONCLAVE Review Al Pacino Has

01:21:32

59 - The Monkey (+ Nosferatu)

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2025/03/03

We Actually Review a Movie that's Still in Theaters for Once. Be a Part of History! Digressions and Dead-Ends Include:Dave Randomly Stalks a Dude Buffalo Springfield = Snoopy & the Red Baron The Exorcist Broke Up Genesis? Wild Claims About Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel Record Sales It's "The Living Years" Not "The Living Thing" Surprising Band Dynamics NOSFERATU Review Jim Jarmusch = Master of Black and White POSSESSION Review Why Is There So Much Real Estate In Dracula? It's "Epistolary" Not

01:06:41

58 - Alien: Romulus

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2024/10/04

Dave and Tony Try to Record a Podcast in the Morning. Chaos* Ensues:The Last Gasp of Bachelor Art Dandelion = The Perfect Organism? ALIEN: ROMULUS Review Perfect Organisms Are Bland Actors Black Goo As Space Steroids To Tube Or Not To Tube HARBINGER DOWN Tubes Review How Many Times Can Dave Say "Tubes" The Jurassic Park Problem Tony Unironically Describes The Lost World Plot Two Mystery Mags Ode To Editing ALIENS Holds Up Solving That Weird "Arcturian" Line Bug Chasers In Space

01:32:59

57 - Every Phantasm Movie (+ Dune 2) w/Nathan Lamoreau

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2024/06/22

Run Without Rhythm Cuz Shit's About To Get Spicy:Harkonnen DJ DUNE 2 Review Black Hole Son Paul Was The Villain! (just kidding) Killing Your Toadies Is Spice Gas or Gold? THE KILLING STAR Review Warp Speed = End of Everything The Furby Paradox Hello, Dream Police? Lasers (or the "Start With That!" Problem) They Didn't Fight Twice Stalling So We Don't Have To Do The... ENTIRE PHANTASM PENTALOGY REVIEW Better Dream Logic Sure Plays A Mean Pinball Why Is PHANTASM a Dune Movie? Kill Me But Don't Make

01:14:18

56 - Pom Poko (+ Oscar Picks!)

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2024/03/09

The Oscars are Tomorrow and They're Watching Cartoons:The Land of Milk and Honey "Mid" Journeys KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD Review In Praise of Gibberish Lyrics Tony Released Three Novels At Once Once Cosplayin' vs. Genre-Hoppin' The Reinvention Trap Riders On The Norm POM POKO Review That's Nuts U.S. = Butts/Japan = Balls They Live! from the Alien POV Abandoning Expectations Loophole Culture Clash = The Clash? East Meets West = Feast Meets Guest New Old Music Recs OSCAR PICKS! DiCaprio

01:16:30

55 - Leave the World Behind (+ True Detective: Night...

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2024/02/10

Topical Solutions:I'm Not Talking Over People, I Swear Introducing Matthew M. Bartlett's Town of Leeds Gateways to Abomination (and Self-Sufficiency) The Pros And Cons (and Cons) Of Positivity Review Down and Punch Up? LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND Review More Netflix Totally Not Made Up Stats Lack of Info = Suspense? Monsters Are Due On Maple Street > Trigger Effect > This Shit A.I. Screenplay? The New Symmetry Red Flag TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY (Episode 1) Review Who Framed Roger

02:03:53

54 - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (+...

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2024/01/01

We Belong In A Museum! Our Exhibits: Nathan Lamoreau: Doomsday DJ Expired Red Bull Memories Roulette Reverse Nightingale OWNING MAHONEY Review Joyless Gambling OLD DADS vs. NO HARD FEELINGS Godzilla Moving Too Much WHEN EVIL LURKS (What Are the Rules?) Copycat Attack James "Mid" Mangold Deep Dive: HEAVY Review IDENTITY Review LOGAN vs. THE WOLVERINE Review Tony's 5-Star Autopsy Pod Shout-Out Nathan's Auteur Troupe Theory The Guy With The Eye COP LAND (COPE LAND?) Review 3:10 TO YUMA

01:20:40

53 - Beau Is Afraid (+ The Fall of the House of...

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2023/11/29

It's A Family Affaaaaaair: Library Tables Inside Baseball BUCKCHERRY Reviews A Child Called "Shit" THE MIDNIGHT CLUB Episode 1 Review THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Review WEEDS Analogy The Elephantiasis In The Room "What's A Zoomer?" (Doors, Floors, And Walls) It's All Knocking The Devil Went Down To Blackmail Poe Is In The MCU BEAU IS AFRAID Review The Lighthouse Meets The Waterboy The Strange Thing About The Johnsons Meets Little Murders P.T. Anderson Meets David O. Russell Meets Darren

02:02:50

52 - Halloween Extravaganza (+ The Killer)

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2023/11/18

Halloween means candy, projectile vomiting, and watching 31 movies you've never seen before. It also means reviewing every single one of them. Also, David Fincher has a new movie! And it's the sort of thing he can do in his sleep. Is this good or bad? Find out. Highlights Include: Bonehead Lyrics Trick or Treat Shenanigans Gold-Plated McDonald's Coffee Stir Cliff Confessional Booth "The Monsters of Heaven" Review Tony's Big New Book Deal! Dave's Big New Book Deal! EXCLUSIVE: Tony Renamed Dave's

01:49:14

51 - Christine

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2023/09/30

A King-sized episode where, simply by never letting him get off the phone, Dave tries to convince Tony that Christine is the best Stephen King adaptation ever made. Just look at all this free content. The Winter of Our Dis-Contents: Attempts at Structure Hashtag Girl Dads E-Bike Perpetrator Round II Horror Hypetober WOUNDS Review The Alien Unease Hat Trick (Fire in the Sky/Communion/The Fourth Kind) Cronenburgers POSSESSOR Review Book Wrecks ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (book) Review Termites and

01:24:15

50 - The Flash (+ Evil Dead Rise & Asteroid City) w/...

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2023/08/22

You Can Expect: T-Mac: Glass Half Italian Shark Tooth Necklaces F/X Review Russell Mulcahy Lovefest Breaking Down "Can't Talk About It Yet" Tony McMillen Oeuvre New Music Corner (Still Listening To Asia In 2023) Berries & Brambles THE FLASH Review Do Kids Really Say "Beave"? EVIL DEAD RISE Review Curse Of The Double Reboot Are We Not Men, Trees? AlleHORRORical Horror © Me 2017 The Script Doctor Rises (Dead By... Dawn?) ASTEROID CITY Review Artifice Vs. ArtiFISH (What?) Wes Hates Wes To support

01:21:42

49 - Oppenheimer (+ Barbie) w/ Scott Adlerberg

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2023/08/05

Back after, what, two years?! Dave will continue to talk about movies with people in lieu of an actual social life. Tableau Of Contents: Scott's new novel The Screaming Child BARBIE Review Biting The Hand That Needs You First Zodiac Reference The Dirtiest Harry TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Review Norman Mailer Hat Trick Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast/My Return Reviews OPPENHEIMER Review John Landis Casting Oppenheimer = Amadeus Creativity = Destruction Oppenheimer = Marquis de Sade? QUILLS

02:17:54

48 - Empty Men (+ Endless Oscar Reviews and Predictions)

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2021/04/24

Musings Include: Mic Drop Name That Tune Knife Corner (Knife Drop) Physical Media Love Online Power Fantasies THE EMPTY MAN Review Three Alien Swipes Fuck ASMR Urban Legends Experiences PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Review Revenge > Shaming THE SOUND OF METAL Review Script Doctor! Musician Doomsday Clock at One Minute Till Midnight MANK Review Ghost Clang They Split the Oscar Vote! NOMADLAND/LEAVE NO TRACE Reviews THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Review Tuesday's Frogs ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Review Sam Cooke Vs

01:34:47

47 - Never Back Down

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2021/03/18

Aaaaaaand we're back, talking about the 2008 (?) hit (?) slash lunkhead Mixed Martian Arts wish-fulfillment fest. We also missed each other. Reunion Tour Set List: New Mic Adventures Tracksuit Corner (a.k.a. Slutty With Your Time) Xbox Corner Hot Wheels Voodoo NEVER BACK DOWN Review '80s Bullies vs. Millennial Bullies Rise Of Teen Fight Clubs, MMA, and Viral Videos Dipshit Rosetta Stone "Fuck That Little Dude!" Plague Corner Mask/Prepper Paradox Knife Corner The Australian "No"

54:33

46 - Tenet

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2020/08/27

"Topics" is not a word that's the same forwards and backwards, but here they are anyway: Viral Corner Ratio'd "But I'm Okay with That!" The Plume Crosstalk Exclusive TENET Review! Nolan as Conductor Three Hours Feels Like Six Minutes! Visual Information Catching Bullets vs. Dodging Bullets Aurora Shooting Allegory? Future Director's Cut? Post-Credit Scenes Analysis The Cheap Seats vs. Box Seats Nolan Loves Masks INCEPTION Re-Review Rich People "Dreams" vs. Pillow Hands Movies as Trailers? DARK

01:34:25

45 - Hold the Dark (The Lost Episode) w/ Jordan Harper

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2020/08/10

We initially recorded this two years ago, though due to secret reasons we had to take the episode down. Now it's back for your listening enjoyment. Topic List: Devil's Triangle of Synopses The Wolf Whisperer HOLD THE DARK Review True Detective Connection The Alaskan Hello Hollywood Ownage Manly Shit Checklist Grimdark and Grandpa's Deathbed The Red Wolf (a.k.a. Green Is Not a Primary Color) True Detective or Fortune Cookie? The More Dangerous Friend, Guy Doing Violence Right Three Distinct

01:46:14

44 - Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

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2020/07/20

It's our Big Bad Cop Bash! Also: The Return of Product Reviews Headphone Corner Ants in Our Pants Bad Cop Movies/Bad Cop Movement Old Enough to Remember Tasers To Protect and Serve Man: It's a Cookbook! Radio Raheem the Prophet Osborne Dark Souls Training Keaton's Cop Rant Again More like the Policeman's Bawl, amirite? Jackass Paddy Wagon Italian Choices and Voices INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION Review Freudian Corner Revolution Is in Our Blood Blood Simple Dead-End Massive List of Good

01:19:23

43 - Vast of Night

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2020/06/24

Likely Topics List: Positivity! It's Our New Thing Product Reviews Vitamin Corner Swamp Thing Workout VAST OF NIGHT Review Breaking Kayfabe CAPONE Review Choices and Voices Capone vs. Bronson Tom Hardy's Dog Penis Reverse Piracy Dog Walk Test Fail Like Removal Machine Keaton's New Missing Girl Novel Massive Stephen Graham Jones Lovefest DR. SLEEP Review Rios Drive-By Why Is Horror Green? More Like Dr. Swipe, amirite? Sharing is Caring (a.k.a. Please Buy Our Shit)

01:46:40

42 - Extraction

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2020/05/06

Topics: Homeless Corner Bermuda Rectangle Construction Worker Hierarchy Osborne Song #1 EXTRACTION Review MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT Review John Wick vs. Extraction Fun vs. Fraught More Netflix Shenanigans Movie Pool Mythbusting Facebook Corner Osborne Song #2 Joke Thieves FORD Vs. FERRARI Review We're Not Real Meltdown Over a Meltdown! The Purge Dance FRACTURED Review

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