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Influencers (2025)

Influencer, Kurtis David Harder’s 2022 sleeper, pulled off something trickier than it looks

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Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode: Follow Me, Boys! (1966) & Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995) – The sheepshank redemption

Brian and Dan kick off a new theme month: “Train Month”…

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Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode: Three More Sinbad Adventures (1963-77) (ft. Gavin McDowell) – Maroof’s greatest hits

Dan and Brian welcome back Gavin McDowell to pick up their discussion of one of Gavin and Brian’s childhood obsessions

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Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode: Death Becomes Her (1992) – Delightful whiplash

Dan and Brian continue their exploration of misuse of corpses by watching and discussing the proto-Substance satire by Robert Zemeckis

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Review

Influencer (2022)

It is uncommon to find a thriller from the 2020s that feels connected to the fundamentals of the genre as established by greats like Alfred Hitchcock

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Review

The Whisper Man (2026)

These days I am a practicing Unitarian Universalist, but I grew up Catholic, and on one retreat we learned a breathing mantra

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Review

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Robert Zemeckis has built a career as a premier techno-artist, almost always finding some groundbreaking visual effect to center his films around.

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Minions & Monsters (2026)

The Minions sub-franchise of Illumination’s flagship Despicable Me series is basically the Oops! All Berries of cinema.

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M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

M3GAN was one of the surprises of 2023, at least in terms of buzz and box office intake

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Review

Weekend at Bernie’s II (1993)

How do you make a sequel to a black comedy about a dead body posing as a living man?