0:00 – Hello, Portland is a winter wonderland
2:25 – iTunes review
3:40 – “The Bye Bye Man” review
13:30 – “Patriots Day” review
24:50 – “Live by Night” review
30:15 – “Paterson” review
38:25 – Bridget of Finland reports a moviegoing experience of note
41:25 – A call for questions for the “Ask Jeff & Eric Questions” segment, plus what’s on DVD this week (nothing great)
43:00 – Jeff talks about “Coin Heist,” Eric talks about “Underworld: Blood Wars”
47:30 – Recap, hey we’re going to do some shows from Sundance, good day
REVIEWS:
The Bye Bye Man: D+ 2/10
Patriots Day: C 4/10
Live by Night: C+ 7/10
Paterson: B 7/10
Category: Shows
Episode 342: ‘Silence,’ ‘Hidden Figures,’ ’20th Century Women’
0:00 – Hello, happy new year, we won’t re-read old iTunes reviews, Dogcat makes a cameo
1:35 – “Silence” review
16:20 – “Hidden Figures” review
25:15 – “20th Century Women” review
30:20 – Lots of movies trickling out right now, local newspapers, and DVD releases
35:10 – Recap and good day
REVIEWS:
Silence: B 5/10
Hidden Figures: B+ 8/10 (B.S.-approved!)
20th Century Women: B 8/10
Episode 341: Our 2016 top 10 lists
0:00 – Hey, it’s the end of the year, and what a year, amirite?
5:10 – Our top 10 lists
29:20 – Other movies we liked a lot
32:25 – How our respective Christmases went, children’s joy, a book about comedy, underwear
38:00 – Thank you and good day
Eric D. Snider’s top 10 list:
1 Arrival
2 Moonlight
3 La La Land
4 Green Room
5 Sing Street
6 The Witch
7 Pete’s Dragon
8 Manchester by the Sea
9 The Nice Guys
10 10 Cloverfield Lane
Jeff Bayer’s top 10 list:
1 Arrival
2 Green Room
3 Sing Street
4 Midnight Special
5 Fences
6 Lion
7 Moonlight
8 La La Land
9 The Lobster
10 The Nice Guys
Episode 340: ‘Passengers,’ ‘Why Him?,’ ‘Assassin’s Creed,’ ‘Fences,’ ‘A Monster Calls’
0:00 – Hello; if it’s just now “beginning” to look like Christmas you are late
2:50 – “Passengers” review
13:10 – “Why Him?” review
20:30 – “Assassin’s Creed” review
31:40 – “Fences” review
39:10 – “A Monster Calls” review
45:35 – This week’s DVDs include a last-minute gift for Dad
48:10 – Recap, happy holidays, and good day
REVIEWS:
Passengers: C- 5/10
Why Him?: B- 7/10
Assassin’s Creed: D 7/10
Fences B+ 9/10 (B.S.-approved!)
A Monster Calls: C+ 7/10
Episode 339: ‘Rogue One,’ ‘La La Land,’ ‘Collateral Beauty’
0:00 – Hi! We report on the Critics’ Choice Awards, where we accomplished two of the missions we set for ourselves last week
10:05 – “Rogue One” review
23:30 – “La La Land” review
33:45 – “Collateral Beauty” review
41:00 – This week’s DVDs, including another Critics’ Choice anecdote
45:00 – Recap, one last Critics’ Choice anecdote, and good day
REVIEWS:
Rogue One: B- 7/10
La La Land: A- 9/10 (B.S.-approved!)
Collateral Beauty: D 2/10
Episode 338: ‘Miss Sloane,’ ‘Office Christmas Party,’ ‘Lion,’ ‘Loving’
0:00 – Hello! We’re going to be at the Critics Choice Awards in L.A. this Sunday (airing live on A&E, if you want to watch)! We talk about what we will ask particular celebrities if they are there and we get a chance to talk to them
10:00 – “Miss Sloane” review
17:40 – More celebrities and the things we would say to them; a memory of an obscure Julia Louis-Dreyfus show; dancing monkeys
25:35 – “Office Christmas Party” review
32:30 – More celebrity conversation speculation; Michael Shannon’s hands
35:50 – “Lion” review
45:35 – “Loving” review
53:30 – This week’s DVDs, a little more celeb talk, recap, and good day
REVIEWS:
Miss Sloane: B+ 9/10 (B.S.-approved!)
Office Christmas Party: C+ 7/10
Loving: B+ 6/10
Lion: B+ 9/10 (B.S.-approved!)
Episode 337: ‘Allied,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea,’ ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Jackie’
0:00 – Hello, there are so many movies in the next several weeks
2:30 – “Allied” review
11:50 – “Manchester by the Sea” review
18:40 – “Moonlight” review
27:50 – “Jackie” review
38:30 – The wide releases weren’t screened; this week’s new DVDs (“Ab Fab: The Movie,” “Don’t Breathe,” “Pete’s Dragon”); recap, and more musings, good day
REVIEWS:
Allied: B 7/10
Manchester by the Sea: B+ 8/10 (B.S.-approved!)
Moonlight: A 9/10 (B.S.-approved again!)
Jackie: A- 9/10 (What?? B.S.-approved!)
Episode 336: ‘Bad Santa 2,’ ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ ‘Rules Don’t Apply,’ ‘Moana’
0:00 – Hello, happy Thanksgiving, we hope there was no bloodshed, here is an iTunes review
5:20 – “Bad Santa 2” review
13:15 – “Nocturnal Animals” review
22:00 – “Rules Don’t Apply” review
28:00 – “Moana” review (Snider only)
34:30 – Here’s what’s on DVD now (“Finding Dory,” “Hands of Stone,” “Hell or High Water,” “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “Mechanic: Resurrection,” “War Dogs”), plus are there a million movies? There are probably a million movies
41:00 – Hey, What’d You Watch? (“Sausage Party,” “Bulworth,” “The Addams Family”), recap and good day
REVIEWS:
Bad Santa 2: C+ 6/10
Nocturnal Animals: B+ 8/10 (B.S.-approved!)
Rules Don’t Apply: C 4/10
Moana: B n/a
Episode 335: ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ ‘Bleed for This,’ ‘The Eagle Huntress,’ ‘The Edge of Seventeen’
0:00 – Hello, here are two iTunes reviews, one displeased
4:50 – “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” review
17:20 – “Bleed for This” review
22:30 – “The Eagle Huntress” review
27:50 – “The Edge of Seventeen” review (Snider only)
32:30 – Hey, What’d You Watch, featuring retroactively B.S.-approval, “Airplane!” with millennials, “Shut In,” “Almost Christmas”
43:30 – Recap and good day
REVIEWS:
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: C+ 5/10
Bleed for This: C 6/10
The Eagle Huntress: B+ 8/10 (B.S.-approved!)
The Edge of Seventeen: B+ n/a
Episode 334.5: ‘Arrival’
No show this week. Two of the three new movies weren’t screened for critics, and the one that was, “Arrival,” we already reviewed at Fantastic Fest. So here we are talking about it again for a few minutes, with the FF review tacked on at the end. Back next week with a real show.
Episode 334: ‘Doctor Strange,’ ‘Hacksaw Ridge’
0:00 – Hello, no iTunes review, and whose fault is that?
2:10 – “Doctor Strange” review
12:30 – Why Jeff didn’t see “Hacksaw Ridge” (it involves the Cubs, somehow)
15:20 – “Hacksaw Ridge” review (Snider only)
25:00 – An update on our oldest listener
27:10 – New DVDs this week: “Star Trek Beyond,” “Bad Moms,” “Nine Lives”
31:05 – What’d You Watch? (baseball, Eric’s parents’ visit, “The Fog,” “A Woman Under the Influence”)
35:40 – Recap and good day
REVIEWS:
Doctor Strange: B+ 8/10 (B.S.-approved!)
Hacksaw Ridge: B- n/a
Episode 333: ‘Inferno,’ ‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’
0:00 – Introduction, then we get right to it
1:50 – “Inferno” review
15:45 – “Ouija: Origin of Evil” review (Snider only)
21:25 – Halloween plans, and a trip back in time to the movies that were playing on Halloween 1995.
31:15 – New on DVD this week: “Captain Fantastic,” “Men & Chicken,” “Lights Out,” “Nerve”
34:50 – A few items of housekeeping, plus some TV talk, then good day
REVIEWS:
Inferno: C 4/10
Ouija: Origin of Evil: B+ n/a
Episode 332: ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back,’ ‘Keeping Up with the Joneses,’ ‘Certain Women’
0:00 – New theme song by Ken Kraylie! Check him out at Bandcamp and on YouTube
2:10 – “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” review
15:00 – “Keeping Up with the Joneses” review
21:10 – “Certain Women” review
31:30 – Discussion: how is movie-going different in other countries? What local differences are there in customs and behavior? We seek your input on this matter
37:50 – Eric saw “Kevin Hart: What Now?” and “Max Steel”
40:45 – New DVDs this week (“Independence Day: Resurgence,” “Cafe Society,” “The Good Neighbor”)
44:00 – Hey, What’d You Watch? (“Catch Me If You Can,” “Hook,” “Ghostbusters [2016]”), plus the new Christopher Guest movie “Mascots”
54:30 – Closure on Jeff’s dubious story about having seen “The Blair Witch Project” before anyone else, and then how he didn’t like “The Ring”
57:40 – Recap and good day
REVIEWS:
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: C 5/10
Keeping Up with the Joneses: C+ 5/10
Certain Women: B 4/10
Kevin Hart: What Now?: B- n/a
Max Steel: C n/a
Episode 331: ‘The Accountant,’ ‘Christine’
0:00 – Hello, the theme songs are back (for now)
2:30 – “The Accountant” review
10:40 – There are some other movies opening, but they weren’t screened
12:50 – “Christine” review
21:30 – Listener feedback we’ve gotten so far, our youngest listener, and some terrible remarks about old people
28:05 – New on DVD this week: “Ghostbusters,” “Ice Age: Collision Course,” “The Legend of Tarzan,” “The Infiltrator”
31:00 – The Cubs, for some reason
35:25 – Recap and good day
REVIEWS:
The Accountant: B 7/10
Christine: B+ 6/10
Episode 330: ‘The Girl on the Train,’ ‘The Birth of a Nation’
0:00 – Hello, we got haircuts, Jeff is trying a beard
4:10 – “The Girl on the Train” review
16:00 – We wonder who our youngest and oldest listeners are. Are they you?
17:15 – “The Birth of a Nation” review
26:20 – The baggage attached to “Birth of a Nation”
33:35 – We need your feedback on how to evolve the show into a more powerful juggernaut. Also, Eric might become an angry alcoholic husband to Dogcat.
38:15 – A few more tidbits from Fantastic Fest, including the Satanic Panic room
45:35 – Movies out on DVD/Blu-ray/iTunes/Redbox this week
49:20 – Recap, more blathering, good day
REVIEWS:
The Girl on the Train: C+ 5/10
The Birth of a Nation: B 7/10
Episode 329: Fantastic Fest, ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ ‘Queen of Katwe,’ ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,’ ‘American Honey’
0:00 – Hello, we’re at Fantastic Fest!
2:05 – “Deepwater Horizon” review
10:20 – “Queen of Katwe” review
14:05 – “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” review
21:05 – “American Honey” review
28:45 – “Arrival” review (not out till November; we’ll talk about it some more then)
36:10 – Rapid-fire Fantastic Fest reviews, as follows:
– “The Girl with All the Gifts”
– “Raw”
– “Buster’s Mal Heart”
– “Safe Neighborhood”
– “Red Turtle”
– “Split”
– “The Dwarves Must Be Crazy”
– “Toni Erdmann”
– “Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child”
– “A Dark Song”
– “Don’t Kill It”
– “They Call Me Jeeg Robot”
– “The Lure”
– “Playground”
– “Rats”
– “Elle”
– “Age of Shadows”
– “Down Under”
1:09:45 – Recap, farewell to Fantastic Fest, and good day
REVIEWS:
Deepwater Horizon: C+ 6/10
Queen of Katwe: C+ 6/10
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: B 7/10
American Honey: B+ 8/10
Arrival: A- 10/10
The Girl with All the Gifts: B+ 7/10
Raw: B+ 9/10
Buster’s Mal Heart: B- 5/10
Safe Neighborhood: B- 7/10
Red Turtle: n/a 5/10
Split: B n/a
The Dwarves Must Be Crazy: n/a 3/10
Toni Erdmann: B+ n/a
Science Fiction: n/a 5/10
A Dark Song: B n/a
Don’t Kill It: n/a 5/10
They Call Me Jeeg Robot: B n/a
The Lure: n/a 5/10
Playground: C- n/a
Rats: n/a 7/10
Elle: B+ n/a
Age of Shadows: n/a 8/10
Down Under: B+ n/a
Episode 328: ‘The Magnificent Seven,’ ‘Other People,’ ‘The Good Neighbor,’ ‘Mr. Church,’ ‘Operation Avalanche,’ ‘Max Rose,’ Fantastic Fest preview
0:00 – Hello, drinking, an iTunes review, a cute story about Dylan
4:10 – “The Magnificent Seven” review
14:30 – “Other People” review
26:30 – “The Good Neighbor” review
32:30 – “Mr. Church” review
39:35 – “Operation Avalanche” review
45:40 – “Max Rose” review (Bayer only)
48:40 – What we’re looking forward to seeing at Fantastic Fest
56:50 – What’s new on DVD this week
1:01:50 – Recap and good day
REVIEWS:
The Magnificent Seven: B+ 8/10 (B.S.-approved!)
Other People: B- 7/10
The Good Neighbor: B- 7/10
Mr. Church: C 5/10
Operation Avalanche: C+ 5/10
Max Rose: n/a 5/10
Episode 327: ‘Blair Witch,’ ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby,’ ‘The Hollars,’ ‘Snowden’
0:00 – Hello, cat barf, iTunes review
3:00 – Housekeeping items: renewed call for new theme songs; our Patreon campaign
6:10 – “Blair Witch” review
15:00 – “Bridget Jones’s Baby” review (Snider only)
25:25 – “The Hollars” review (Snider only)
30:35 – “Snowden” review (Snider only)
37:20 – QOTW (movies from 2001 that deserve sequels)
45:00 – We’re putting QOTW on hiatus, doing some other retooling
46:25 – Bayer’s report on being a Mormon for a week
55:05 – Recap, good day, and a delightful outtake
REVIEWS:
Blair Witch: B- 5/10
The Hollars: D+ n/a
Bridget Jones’s Baby: B- n/a
Snowden: C n/a
Episode 326: ‘Sully,’ Character Casserole
0:00 – Hello, Jeff’s on vacation, maybe you can drink out of a pelican?
3:15 – “Sully” review
15:45 – Some other movies that are opening that they didn’t show anyone
18:40 – QOTW (great scenes that are BOATS [based on a true story]), discussion of microwave vs. blender in terms of preferred method of death
26:20 – A round of Character Casserole
34:30 – Recap, maybe go watch a Gene Wilder movie, and good day
QOTW: In honor of “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” what other movie from 2001 deserves a sequel? (Here’s a list: 2001 films.)
REVIEWS:
Sully: C+ 7/10
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Episode 325: ‘Morgan,’ ‘The Light Between Oceans,’ ‘Complete Unknown’
0:00 – Greetings, an iTunes review, Jeff’s ears
4:15 – “Morgan” review
11:50 – “The Light Between Oceans” review
20:20 – “Complete Unknown” review
29:00 – Everyone’s favorite and least favorite movies of the summer
37:00 – Next week’s QOTW, and boats and BOATS, and a fave/least fave we forgot
41:10 – Recap and good day
QOTW: What are some great scenes that are BOATS (based on a true story)? (Bonus points if the BOATS scenes take place on boats.)
REVIEWS:
Morgan: C+ 6/10
The Light Between Oceans: B 8/10
Complete Unknown: B 7/10