Movie Schmovie

The guys get lost in some liminal spaces and wonder what they did to deserve it as they break down Steve’s Required Viewing Pick, Exit 8, and discuss A24’s eerie and immersive Backrooms. If they ever make it out of there they can chat a little more about Star Wars before calling it a show.

Ron, Steve, and John take the scenic route to Rom-Com town with You, Me, and Tuscany, Ron’s Required Viewing pick. Then Ron talks about whether he loves I Love Boosters (he doesn’t), and John weighs in on The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars movie in seven years. Is this the way? (Mayyyybe.)

The guys are the judges, juries and executioners of 2012’s bargain budget sci-fi action flick Dredd, featuring a laid-back but deadly Karl Urban as a dystopian super-cop. Then they try to sneak up on a few brand new genre efforts, including the impactful revenge saga Is God Is, the spook house thrills of Hokum, and the full-on emotional ick of Obsession. It’s a packed episode and you want it NOW!

Steve’s Required Viewing pick is Undertone, a new horror movie that uses audio as the prime source of scares (and which has already become a huge indie hit). In addition to that discussion, John takes a look at the two-episode premiere of Widow’s Bay, a comedy/horror hybrid that just debuted on Apple TV Plus. The show is rounded out with a few other recent watches and some off-the-cuff reactions to the trailer for Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil reboot.

Ronald’s ear infection led us to bump our chat about Undertone, Steve’s very audio-focused Required Viewing pick, to next week’s show, so we had room for a little trailer roundup and a discussion of the re-release plan for Endgame later this year. Then it’s on to Ronald’s thoughts about Michael, the divisive new biopic of the King of Pop, and a few other things the guys have seen lately.

The guys don’t have as much to cover in this episode, so you get bonus intro banter! Then it’s on to a little movie business news before jumping into the water with Ronald’s Required Viewing pick, Netflix’s new shark attack B-movie, Thrash.

This week, the guys sink their teeth into Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), then bounce from Project Hail Mary to The Super Mario Galaxy Movie with their usual graceful lack of restraint. Along the way, they also check in on the final season of The Boys and Hulu’s two new comedies - Pizza Movie and Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. Moody vampires, outer space, superheroes, time travel, and pizza: just another totally normal episode!

Every now and then the episode title itself is such a thing of descriptive beauty, it’s a shame to elaborate in paragraph form. But indeed, this dose of Schmovie includes discussion of Luc Besson’s Dracula, this year’s Oscar ceremony, the second season of Jury Duty, and… MORE.

The guys sign up for duty with Night Patrol, a tale that dares to ask the question if being undead bloodsuckers actually makes corrupt, racist cops any worse; then they cover a bit of recent entertainment news before sharing brief thoughts about two new-ish releases: Scream 7 and Netflix’s War Machine. 

Ron, Steve, and John discuss Robert Townsend’s trailblazing indie classic, Hollywood Shuffle, break down the incident at the BAFTAs, and do an old-fashioned Schmovie round robin with some upcoming 2026 movie picks.