0:00 - We attempted free Zoom once. Never again. Also, I failed at exercising in the morning. I just can’t do it. Go ahead and make fun of me, unless you can’t either. 3:50 - REVIEW - “Thunderbolts” (2025). No spoilers yet! 21:00 - SPOILER TALK Begins. We discuss the characters more deeply, the ending, the post-credit scene, and the future of the M…

0:00 - We’re getting worse at doing the show (speaking for myself). Hey, let’s talk about Cobra Kai! 2:15 - REVIEW - “Cobra Kai” (Series Review). 25:06 - How long do you watch a show before it gets good/ how many episodes do you give it before you give up? https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-many-episodes-should-you-watch?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medi…

0:00 - RECOMMENDATION - “Sinners” (2025). 26:44 - We then discuss Ryan Coogler’s deal for this film, which some are claiming will end the studio system as we know it. We talk about what the deal was and what it may actually mean. ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner D…

0:00 - Meow Wolf, Pickle Boys, and Hats. Dustin and Kellan are over here essentially designing their own clothes. What the heck. Why didn’t I know about this? 7:18 - Why is my memory of “Doctor Sleep” so clouded? 9:10 - REVIEW - “The Electric State” (2025). ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produ…

0:00 - Intro. Skype is coming to an end, and so we have to learn new ways to make this show. Also, Slack is far better than Teams. Everything Sucks. 4:50 - Tomatoes. Eat them. 10:10 - REVIEW - “Anora” (2024). 25:22 - RECOMMENDATION - “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” (podcast). Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin We…

0:00 - It's time for Spring Cleaning, and Conner’s clothes no longer fit. What’s that about? 13:06 - This is the “Saturday Night” episode. 14:55 - REVIEW - “Saturday Night” (2024). 46:00 - We begin speaking about SNL as an institution, its role as a talent factory, and how best to continue the show. 53:10 - This section is more geared towards the s…

0:00 - A horrifying dream where Conner murdered his brother. 5:40 - RECOMMENDATION - “Grand Theft Hamlet” (2024). Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produ…

0:00 - The young people are beginning to notice Conner’s tattoos. Mixed results. 5:40 - RECOMMENDATION - “The Substance” (2024). — Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Du…

0:00 - Hello! Dustin and Conner discuss Dustin’s Bible miniseries idea. 6:23 - REVIEW - “The Wild Robot” (2024). Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produc…

This week, we’re reviewing “Longlegs” (2024). Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, QuickTime…

0:00 - “Poop” and “Pee”. 2:35 - REVIEW - “Juror #2” (2024) We discuss the film, but the larger discussion here is about the further devaluation of films and filmmakers by the streaming economy. Why wasn’t this given a wide release? It’s Clint Eastwood, for chrissake! Why do streaming services have to make money? Wouldn’t they be better utilized as …

0:00 - Dustin and Conner talk about how much Conner dreads Mardi Gras every year. 12:00 - REVIEW - “My Old Ass” (2024). Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon…

Today, Dustin reviews Season 1 of “Creature Commandos” (2024). We then launch into a discussion of James Gunn and Warner Bros. overall. Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music …

This week, Dustin reviews "The Penguin" (2024). — Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, Quick…

0:00 - Dustin and I take a minute to chat about the “SNL 50th Anniversary Special.” 8:07 - REVIEW - “Captain America: Brave New World”. No spoilers. But this film was a really really big missed opportunity. 32:12 - SPOILER TALK - We’re going to get specific about the movie, including storylines that we think could have been done much, much better. …

0:00 - Intro. Conner is newly obsessed with “Love is Blind”. Happy Valentine’s Day. We’re going to catch up on Marvel today, in preparation for the release “Captain America: Brave New World” this weekend. We’ll be planning to talk about that next week. 5:51 - REVIEW - “Agatha All Along” (2024) 21:43 - REVIEW - “What If” Season 3 (2024) 42:47 - We c…

Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, QuickTime, Adobe Audition, & Adobe Premiere Pro Special…

Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, QuickTime, Adobe Audition, & Adobe Premiere Pro Special…

Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, QuickTime, Adobe Audition, & Adobe Premiere Pro Special…

Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, QuickTime, Adobe Audition, & Adobe Premiere Pro Special…

Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, QuickTime, Adobe Audition, & Adobe Premiere Pro Special…

0:00 - Conner and Dustin return from the holidays with health update, because this is what we talk about now. Get ready for Dustin’s warnings against certain medications, Conner explaining how caffeine works, and . Neither of us are doctors. 21:00 - Welcome to the Mismarketing episode! Movies are among the many things that just don’t end up as adve…

Our review of Transformers One! --- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, QuickTime, Adobe Au…

0:00 - Ground Rules 4:23 - The Top Ten Films of 2004. 52:22 - Honorable Mentions. 1:31:06 - Dishonorable Mentions. Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Prod…

0:00 - Dustin is coming to us from his commute this week. We chat briefly about biopics as a genre. 3:00 - REVIEW - “A Complete Unknown” (2024). --- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon…

0:00 - REVIEW - "Smile 2" (2024). 15:00 - Spoilers begin. Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skyp…

0:00 - It's the 90s, man! 12:00 - Our review of “Wicked” (2024), featuring Amelia! Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit ⁠https://jconnor.substack.com/⁠ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner De…

No film reviews this week! Instead, we're going to do a detailed recounting of where we've been, which was: in our best friend's wedding! See you next week! Cheers! Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey…

0:00 - The Dishwasher Saga continues… 5:00 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “11.22.63” (2016). 23:40 - I wanted to discuss spoilers and differences between the book and the series with Dustin. ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Execu…

2:45 - “The Boy and the Heron” (2023). 28:18 - “Kinds of Kindness” (2024) and “The Favourite” (2018), and the simple idea that you are not obligated to watch or enjoy movies simply because critics praise them. ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.subs…

We’ve reached 500 episodes! Holy Crap! 6:38 - REVIEW - “Hooper” (1978). The timeless charm of Burt Reynolds, the absence of a true antagonist, and the good vibes of a good vibes industry. 36:33 - We talk briefly about “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, which I recently saw for the first time, and happens to deal significantly with the stunt industry.…

0:00 - A different kind of toilet brush… 5:40 - “Dinner in America” (2020). Dustin’s review. 33:41 - Conner’s additional thoughts, with some spoilers. ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dusti…

1:46 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - “Barry” (HBO). 9:56 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “The Blue Angels” (2024). 17:19 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Immaculate” (2024). ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, please tell your friends. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dem…

1:00 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - “It Comes At Night” (2018). 6:30 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - “It Follows” (2014). 14:10 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - “Lake Mungo” (2008). 23:00 - Then we just linger and goof around, as one does. ------- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If …

2:05 - STRONG RECOMMENDATION - “Sound of Metal” (2019). I give my thoughts on the film, then I replay Dustin’s original review, and then I ask him about it, as we discuss spoilers. 27:27 - Some musings about fan conventions. Our discussion begins with the recent news about the Hunt for Gollum film, before we transition into Dustin’s declaration tha…

0:00 - Conner regales Dustin on the fun and then horror of his son’s birthday weekend. 11:00 - Fish Tacos and Tony Hawk, and Skate Jam, the movie that never was. 21:35 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" (2024). 49:13 - We’re curious, but cautious about the upcoming Russo Brothers film, “The Electric State”, for Netf…

1:00 - We begin to talk about Pixar, but we quickly diverge into a tangent surrounding the new Australian “The Office” series.And apparently, there are quite a lot of international adaptations of that show. Sorry. 18:00 - Ok, we’re finally ready to talk about the situation at Pixar. https://www.ign.com/articles/inside-out-2-was-the-hit-pixar-needed…

Welcome to a gap in the schedule, everybody! A discussion about physical home media in 2024. Are studios rooting for home media to fail? Is it too much to ask for them to mimic the book publishing model of multiple editions of their product? Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we …

0:30 - Explaining the HooperCast “Lecture Series” concept. 3:00 - James Earl Jones has passed away. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/entertainment/james-earl-jones-death/index.html 8:53 - Linkin Park debuts their new lead vocalist and the Internet reacts….poorly… 22:15 - Should the estate of a deceased performer be allowed to give consent to use the …

Re-broadcast of Episode #419, The Novelist Screenwriter (The Gillian Flynn Episode) ---- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Du…

0:00 - “Anchorman” just stays in your brain, doesn’t it? “Anchorman 2” not so much… 3:55 - Repping Nintendo shirts tonight! You’re welcome, audio listeners! 5:30 - The awesome viral marketing for tonight’s film. 6:30 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Alien: Romulus” (2024). 29:22 - SPOILER DISCUSSION - “Alien: Romulus” (2024). Thanks for joining us! If…

0:00 - Vaguebook statuses. 2:36 - The wrong transition ever…into our topic. Which is long movie run times. When are they warranted? When are they unwelcome? Are there basic criteria that can determine each? YES, good people, there are! Join us to learn about it. Or don’t. It’s your life. And time is running out. ----- Thanks for joining us! If you …

0:00 - False memories, getting old, and the Pee Pee Scale. 4:00 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” (2024). 22:10 - NOT RECOMMENDED - “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” (2024). ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writ…

0:00 - Conner made it through summer with kids. 1:20 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Atlanta” - Spoiler-free recommendation of the entire series. 17:00 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - “Bosch: Legacy” Season 2. 23:00 - QUALIFIED RECOMMENDATION - “Batman: Caped Crusader”. 36:15 - OVERALL RECOMMENDATION - “My Adventures with Superman”. 52:25 - QUALIFIED RECO…

1:00 - REVIEW - “Deadpool and Wolverine” (2024) - We’ll begin with no spoilers.We speak at length about the tone that a Deadpool story does or does not require. 36:00 - Quick Update on Conner’s dishwasher. 37:40 - SPOILERS BEGIN. We discuss plot details, surprise casting, the ending, and more! 1:07 - We discuss the big Marvel news at ComicCon and h…

1:00 - RECOMMENDATION - “The Sandlot” (1993). 12:30 - RECOMMENDATION - “Rookie of the Year” (1993). 19:45 - RECOMMENDATION - “Angels in the Outfield” (1994). – Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----…

0:00 - Conner’s dishwasher has died. 4:10 - REVIEW - “Twisters” (2024). We first discuss the original “Twister” film. ---- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing, visit https://jconnor.substack.com/ ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey…

1:00 - RECOMMENDATION - “X-Men ‘97” (Season 1)(2024) 10:00 - RECOMMENDATION - “The Party’s Just Beginning” (2018) 22:12 - STILL GREAT - “The Revenant” (2015) 26:22 - STILL GREAT - “Her” (2013) 32:34 - “Knuckles” (Series)(2024) Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re…

0:00 - Intro for context and then “The Beekeeper” . 22:30 - “Deadpool 2”. 27:51 - “Godzilla Minus One”. 29:54 - “Minari”. 33:00 - “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”. 36:40 - “Panic Room”. 39:34 - “Brats”. Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. If you’re interested in my writing,…

0:00 - Intro for Context 1:25 - We begin this tangent with a discussion of what it’s like to introduce my kids to an uneven franchise like “Star Wars”. So this begins as a discussion about how we as movie lovers feel the need to preface films we show our kids with our strong opinions about quality. 8:00 - Gen Z doesn’t like any film that has any co…