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Why Did We Watch This
Like the Rat Pack, but with 100% more sarcasm and self-deprecation.
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275 episodes
137.5 – bbnomini
Oops! We had an actual mini episode, but then due to technical issues, it was lost. So, uh, sorry. Try to imagine adaptations of games that we’d pitch...
137 – Battleship
Our Summer of Games draws to its inevitable conclusion with Peter Berg’s 2012 megaflop Battleship, a movie that somehow manages to be less engaging th...
136.5 – Silent Hill
We wrap up our Summer of Games: The Good Ones series with 2006’s Silent Hill, an adaptation of parts of the classic video game franchise directed by t...
136 – Dungeons & Dragons
Ah, the bad one! Our Summer of Games sinks to a new low with 2000’s Dungeons & Dragons, a cheap, misbegotten adaptation of the classic role-playing ga...
135.5 – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Ah, the good one! Continuing our Summer of Games where we devote a mini episode to a movie based on a game that actually worked out, we’re watching an...
135 – Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
As summer finally technically begins, our summer miniseries follow suit, and what better way to kick off our Summer of Games than with a video game ad...
134.5 – Werewolves Within
Summer has started, and with it one of customary themed mini-series! As the sun mercilessly beats down on humanity, Leigh, Brendan, and Chris retreat...
134 – Simply Irresistible
In the year of our Lord 2026, it feels like not only are we getting fewer romcoms, we’re getting far fewer insanely unhinged romcoms. Enter 1999’s Sim...
133.5 – Haven’t Seen It III: The Search for Suitable Movies
Hey look, this game we played twice before is back! That’s right, it’s Haven’t Seen It, where one (or more) of us tries to describe the plot of a movi...
133 – Winchester
The only thing that can make an unseasonably chilly April even more unsettling is throwing Helen Mirren and a CGI mansion full of grumpy ghosts into i...
132.5 – Part of That World (More So)
What better time to completely disassociate and imagine you’re in a whole other world than right now? Leigh, Brendan, and Chris return to a variation...
132 – Don’t Worry Darling
Hey darling. Are you worried? Well don’t! Unless you’re Leigh, Brendan, and Chris, because we’re rightfully worried about sitting through Olivia Wilde...
131.5 – Unsung and Underappreciated
For our latest mini episode, we turn our attention to media that we think is unfairly ignored or maligned. Be it something so indie or low-budget that...
131 – The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
If there’s a lesson that adapting books to movies has taught us time and time again, it’s that it’s hard! Sometimes what works effectively in a novel...
130.5 – Sabrina (1954) v. Sabrina (1995)
Sometimes we have a lot of thoughts about a movie that’s simply not bad enough to consider as part of our regular podcast. And sometimes we have a lot...
130 – Chances Are
With Valentine’s Day less than two weeks away (we regret to inform you it is now too late to maneuver reservations at any decent restaurant), Leigh, B...
129.5 – Character All-Stars Draft
It’s time for another mini episode and with another mini episode comes another game… sort of! Instead of an actual game, we’re doing a draft of our to...
129 – The Island
We’re ringing in 2026 with a bit of the ol’ Bayhem- specifically, 2005’s The Island, directed by explosion auteur Michael Bay and starring two Ewan Mc...
128.5 – The Closing of the Year IX
The year is nearly over! It’s closing up shop! Slam it shut, baby! Close that year! As is our wont, we recap the year and talk about the best and the...
128 – Happiest Season
It’s Holiday Spectacular time, and what better way to celebrate than by watching a movie that was… mostly well received? Leigh, Brendan, and Chris’s r...
127.5 – Eat It or Beat It
It’s late November aka prime “let’s circle back to this after the holidays” season and what better way to both blow off responsibility and get ready f...
127 – Volunteers
Return to the distant year of 1985 which will in turn return you to the distant year of 1962 with a forgotten comedy that finally dares to take the pi...
126.5 – Hallmark Halloween Havoc
It’s Halloweek, and since we already blew our scary podcastical load on The Mummy Returns last week for the spookiest of all holidays (next to Arbor D...
126 – The Mummy Returns
It’s our Halloween Spooktacular, baby, and nothing says the spooky season like a limp underbaked sequel to a blockbuster action / horror-adjacent bloc...
125.5 – Anatomy of a Young Adult Movie
What started off as a vague idea of making up a YA movie or book molted in discussion to become something else and sometimes that’s okay! Leigh, Brend...
125 – I Am Number Four
It’s back to school season, and what better way for us to reminisce about our distant high school memories than through the lens of a failed young adu...
124.5 – Fiction Flashbacks
Summer, alas, is over (even though it’ll still be like 80 degrees for a while but now with the added fun of 7:00 pm sunsets, such fun) and with it our...
124 – The Apple
Hey, hey, hey! BIM’s on the way! BIM’s the only way! BIM’s all the way! (?) Look, any way you may hear it, our Summer of Unhinged Musicals has reached...
123.5 – Something Like Summer Movies
What would summer be without summer movies to accompany it? Well, probably just insufferably hot. Thankfully, we have summer movies to distract us fro...
123 – Something Like Summer
The Summer of Unhinged Musicals continues with perhaps one of the most unhinged movies we have ever covered, period. For your pleasure (?), we present...
122.5 – Jukebox Musical Jumble
As the year rolls swelteringly along, so does our Summer of Unhinged Musicals, and what better way commemorate this year’s miniseries than with yet an...
122 – The Singing Detective
Another summer has begun, and with it, another miniseries. This year, we’re kicking off our Summer of Unhinged Musicals with a movie that… might be ar...
121.5 – Round Robin Recs
Look, sometimes it’s very hard to come up with discussion topics and sometimes people are feeling sick so sometimes mini episodes just end up being a...
121 – It Could Happen to You
Could it, though? Could it indeed happen to you? Well, yes, it could, if by “it” you mean “watching a mid-tier 90s romantic comedy that sort of holds...
120.5 – Culinary Crossover Conundrums
We’ve got a movie coming up next week that focuses pretty heavily on a diner, so why not do a food-centric mini episode accordingly? Except it’s not r...
120 – Addicted to Love
What do you get when America’s sweetheart teams up with Ferris Bueller for a comic revenge scheme against their exes and then end up falling for each...
119.5 – TV Repairfolks
Our television trilogy of terror miniseries comes to an end (for now, anyway) with this mini episode, in which we finally do what we’re been musing ab...
119 – The Box
Your television is a box. Your phone is a box. You listen to podcasts on it. You sit in your home, listening to Leigh, Brendan, and Chris discuss Rich...
118.5 – TV Sides
Our TV-themed mini episode trilogy spins merrily along as we shift from our favorite couples to our favorite supporting characters- characters who may...
118 – Who Is Cletis Tout?
It’s always an interesting choice when a movie’s title is a question- indeed, the unspoken contract entered into is “at some point, this question will...