Johnny is seeking the life of cool within Cameron Crowe's extended comic drama, and Andrew actively tries to remind us all that we'll never, ever be cool. And that's ok.
022 - SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK
January settles in to a natural state of weird with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut. Listen as Johnny's head slowly melts and Andrew explains a whole tonne of the insanity within the masterful drama.
021 - JOHNNY'S MYSTERY FILM #1
Johnny gets to choose a film this time, and Andrew doesn't know anything about it. Will he want to know anything when the credits finally finish? Find out!
BONUS - COLLATERAL BEAUTY
As the year ends, Johnny and Andrew step in for an emergency in-cinema episode where they watch Will Smith be haunted by Helen Mirren as Death, and bad scripts as his career runs around in dwindling circles, with new film Collateral Beauty. Yay?
020 - 2016: A LOOK BACK
Well, it's finally over, but Andrew and Johnny celebrate the end of the worst year of all time by talking about the films of the show so far.
019 - CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL
Singing, violence, South Park. It's the Christmas episode and we're as vulgar and odd as anything. Merry holiday days!
018 - GREENBERG
Noah Baumbach wants people to just do nothing for a while, so we podcast that experience.
017 - SPIRITED AWAY
Hi, ow, Miyazaki! We discuss Shrek's adult adventures and how to pronounce Studio Ghibli, Johnny's never seen Spirited Away. Until now. He learns a lesson or two.
016 - A NEW YORK WINTER'S TALE
Andrew and Johnny turn to the cold heart of winter on the start of advent, and the story of 1900s thief, model ship sailor, horse dog rider and somehow 2014 Hugo Cabret enthusiast Peter Lake and his floppy hair in this masterpiece.
015 - CRANKSGIVING PART 2: CRANK HIGH VOLTAGE
Cranksgiving comes to a boil when the turkey comes home to roost, and by that I mean Jason Statham's shoving guns where the sun don't shine. Let's be thankful for badass cockney geezers.
014 - CRANK - CRANKSGIVING PART 1
Happy Cranksgiving, the most important holiday in any angry London action movie star's calendar. To celebrate, we're watching the first in the best franchise never finished. Next week? Yup, the sequel.
013 - COMMANDO
It IS a mall movie. There's a mall scene in it. It counts. Johnny watches it for the first time. Finally. A perfect way to distract us all from the realities of politics.
012 - MALLRATS
Mall Movies are November's bread and/or butter, and Mallrats is the ultimate mall movie. Because it is set in a mall. And has mall in the title. Facts.
011 - EVIL DEAD 2
Shocktober comes to an end with Sam Raimi's comic-horror, as examined by fan Andrew and naysayer Johnny. Whoever wins, you lose.
010 - THE JUNGLE BOOK
Deep in the jungles of India an evil tiger/master of the Outworld, Shao Kahn, has stolen the first half of this week's episode, leaving Andrew and Johnny to futz about in the middle of nature like two lost mancubs seeking a mate.
009 - BE KIND REWIND
Michel Gondry's sort-of-weird, sort-of-sweet movie-obsessed comedy is something Johnny's been wanting to see for ages. Will the Jack Black movie lead to great comedy? Mos Def. Will it lead to interesting podcasting? Mos Def. Will Johnny like the film? yasiin bey
008 - ADAPTATION
Who is Charlie Kaufman? Who is Donald Kaufman? Is anyone Donald Kaufman? Is Andrew Johnny? Is Johnny Andrew? Who gets to be Meryl Streep in the movie adaptation of this podcast?
007 - GRIZZLY MAN
The mystery movie you've been waiting for. What could it be? Oh, it's the episode title? Well, Johnny has not seen a Werner Herzog documentary and Andrew is mortified, that is cinematic importance. So get ready for jokes about horrible bear death. And not much else.
006 - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Johnny has never seen Little Shop Of Horrors. Andrew has only seen it once. They buy tickets to a 70mm showing and show off about it. And you get to listen to all their woeful singing and terrifying comedy. It's as painful as a visit to a modern day Steve Martin family comedy.
005 - WILD WILD WEST
The Willenium has been going for long enough to appreciate pre-Suicide Squad Will Smith and pre-Nine Lives Barry Sonnenfeld, and a shed-load of steampunk too. Throw in knighted thespian Sir Kenneth Branagh and wannabe knighted Kevin Kline, what's not to love, Andrew asks Johnny. What's not to love?
