Andrew stocks up on snacks and takes Johnny through the suburbs with best friends Steve Carell Squirrel and Nick Nolte Bear. They read Netflix top 10s, 2006 video game award nominations and hide from the aftermath of something that happened 2 weeks ago that shall go undiscussed forever if you live in cinemaland instead.
266 - TITAN A.E.
Well, look, we’re embarrassed. We were certain that covering Roar instead of Raw was a one-off, and we were gonna watch the Palme D’or winning Titane this week, but… Disney+ didn’t have it, I was misled, and so we watch Don Bluth’s mega-flop 2D-3D hybrid space animation. In our defense, it has a gender-fluid lead, a bunch of crazy people together believing this person to be someone they aren’t and a prologue with childhood trauma, so it’s basically the same film as Titane, ok?
261 - THE IRON GIANT
Vin Diesel returns to the podcast to talk guns and ships, and so the balance shifts. Johnny prepares for a holiday by watching a modern childrens’ classic, Andrew coming back from holidays trying to remember film information, and also a nice tangent on Space Jam, because it’s always gonna be a part of us now.
223 - SOUL
The new Pixar pic brings the joys of death, existential dread and meaninglessness to children! Johnny has waited to watch this for the podcast, but Andrew has taken a trip through the soul already, what will be the end result, and will anything matter after all of this? Happy 2021!
218 - BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA
We’re Judging December, and what better way to begin than with the misadventures of two 90s slacker Gen-X proxies and their semi-star-studded feature adventure? Johnny isn’t big on what little of the characters he has seen, but Andrew is insistent that Siskel and Ebert’s Two Thumbs Up written on the DVD cover carries more importance than his friend’s opinion.
216 - MONSTERS VS ALIENS
It’s time to forget the world and its many strange moments these last months, indulging in a Kiefer Sutherland/Reese Witherspoon/Rainn Wilson animated movie that Johnny has wanted to see for a long time. Yes it’s a very slight piece of Dreamworks Animation, but stay for the Invisible Man tangent, the examination of spin-offs and casting, and a little touch of monster-naming-and-power-having fun that only two very broken brains could let go on for so long.
114 - MARY & MAX
Andrew brings up a film that genuinely makes him cry in an effort to turn Johnny into a sniveling mess, Johnny is prepared for a weird, creepy, Tim Burton style movie instead.
101 - BEE MOVIE
The internet’s favourite meme becomes an episode, where Johnny contemplates how a human/insect romance could sustain and Andrew pitches various spin-offs, including Tree Movie with Chris Pine and… Willow Smith.
099 - CORALINE 3D
Johnny freaks out about button eyes, whilst Andrew wonders if there’s anything he’d want that’d be worth sewing his own shut. PG horror films and Laika’s output also get thrown in the mix over the course of the show. And anticipation for episode 100.
