324 - PUSHING TIN

And so Billy Bob Blanchettmas comes to its second and final film, the last ep of 2025 sees John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton as rival air traffic controllers seeking adrenaline rushes (and a side of cucking too). Ho ho ho?

There’s time before lift-off to talk Zootropolis 2, Wicked: For Good, Wake Up Dead Man, Oh. What. Fun., the Fortnite Kill Bill short, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t and Blue Moon.

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Andrew co-wrote a fan film (many years ago) that is finally starting to pop up. 007 Endgame

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323 - BANDITS

HAPPY BILLY BOB BLANCHETTMAS! It’s a month to celebrate 2 actors, together. Which this time means hey, we’re getting some Bruce too, robbing banks and exploring polyamory together. Throw in Andrew finally catching Johnny’s favourite film of 2025, Girls & Boys, plus more Pluribus talk, Jay Kelly chat, a look at Nuremberg and Keeper to boot. What a joy, what a wonderful time at the podcast house.

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Andrew co-wrote a fan film (many years ago) that is finally starting to pop up. 007 Endgame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6iFs6XBgNw

322 - VEGAS VACATION

It’s time to saddle up with the Griswold family once more before Thanksgiving (Wicked For Good release), this time headed to Vegas for the F1 race, and we’re chatting The Running Man, Predator: Badlands, Pluribus, Dragonfly and Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein as well let it ride and double down, bet the house and throw our craps.

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321 - BOBBY

November, where nothing bad ever happened to a Kennedy, and we’re watching the strangely vast ensemble perform for Emilio Estevez in the build up to an event that would land us where we are now, I guess (among many many other things) and play a game of Casting Kennedys. Also, Johnny catches up on I Swear, there’s chatter about the Roofman, Bugonia, Shelby Oaks, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, The Mastermind and Johnny has specific thoughts, with slight spoilers, on the film Regretting You. What an ensemble we made ourselves, we are the Emilio Estevezes (Estevee?) of podcasting.

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320 - AQUASLASH

Shocktober comes to a wet and wild end with the Canadian-posing-as-American teen slasher-but-not-at-all film-barely-actually-feature-length-according-to-Academy-regulations Aquaslash. To pad out the episode’s runtime in theme to the movie we divert to discuss The Smashing Machine, Tron: Ares, Him, I Swear, A House Of Dynamite and Good Boy. Happy Slashoween or something!

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BONUS - OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN COMMENTARY

Johnny Birthday! Happy Johnny Birthday!

Andrew found a Gerard Butler film on Johnny’s Letterboxd Like List and made that the film to celebrate with, building games of trivia and fun around Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Attacks On Washington and of course they CONSIDER Melissa Leo too.

Sync up 5 seconds into the film at podcast runtime 00:16:32

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319 - SILENT HILL

Shocktober is here and it’s time to enter the town of Silent Hill with two folk who ain’t did never played a game before, really. But also talking about One Battle After Another, Hamilton on the big screen, The Simpsons Movie 2 announcement, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, The Lost Bus and Irish indie gem Girls & Boys.

318 - FREDDY GOT FINGERED

Our 350th film covered! (If you include bonuses and commentaries, and you should, we still watched all of those)

Fredtember ends with one of the most reviled, disgusted, discussed Razzie-winning films known to cinema. Tom Green’s creative-endeavour-to-career-ender Freddy Got Fingered, which includes a ‘fun’ Tom Green Quiz to drive Johnny insane, and Andrew offers multiple fun facts that melt Johnny’s poor brain. Plus discussion of Robert Redford’s passing, The Long Walk,  Spinal Tap 2, Downton Abbey 3, The Conjuring 4, Roger Deakins In Person and The Paper. Hoo boy this one’s an epic, and very silly indeed. Dada-esque if you will, and you should not.

317 - DROP DEAD FRED

Fredtempber curses the cast with an imaginary friend making every situation worse, including Johnny and Andrew talking The Life Of Chuck, Eddington, Materialists, Nobody 2, Book Club: The Next Chapter, Long Story Short, the new Toxic Avenger and a Will Smith Concert! Plus trivia games, contemplations on Rik Mayall’s career and Carrie Fisher - A Legacy.

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316 - KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES

August continues in that end-of-summer way as Andrew insists on making Jones Month a full-on thing, bringing a Gal Gadot-Jon Hamm Handsome Mann action comedy to the table to see if Johnny regrets not being born into the family Jones and not taking Andrew’s name when the podcast began like old traditions of yore. But before that finally the duo get down to talking the 2025 version of The Naked Gun, an unashamedly spoiler-heavy discussion of Zach Cregger’s Weapons, Freakier Friday and former-landlord Jim Broadbent’s horror icons - his mannequins.

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315 - THE JONESES

Andrew runs his giant ego by making this month a celebration of his lineage, Jones Month, starting with the David Duchovny/Demi Moore capitalist satire, leading to talk of the old days of cinema, TV adaptations and product placement. Somehow there’s time to talk Dexter, Taskmaster New Zealand and the continuing adventures of Cliff Booth because like Chuck whose Life is told in a recent film, we contain multitudes.

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314 - SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER (IN 2D)

The end is nigh, well actually it’s fully here for the first Spy Kids trilogy (the only full trilogy thus far). Johnny’s setting the game up to capture Andrew and make him suffer ThumbThumbs forever and ever. But before all that they have to discuss Marvel’s latest Fantastic Four movie, First Steps, and the London production of Sing Street on stage. Lots to play for, who will win and what will be left of them?

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313 - SPY KIDS 2: THE ISLAND OF LOST DREAMS

Yes, we’re in sequel mode but that doesn’t mean just the film we’re watching, we’re also looking at the new Jurassic World and James Gunn’s new take on Superman, so you know there’s talk of Krypto abound. Johnny attempts to remember anything about the second Spy Kids movie and, in failing, discovers through watching whatever was even in The Island Of Lost Dreams (spoilers, it’s Steve Buscemi and CG animals).

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312 - SPY KIDS

Johnny is having a nostalgia month, taking Andrew through his Robert Rodriguez trilogy that feature Antonio Banderas, Cheech Marin and Danny Trejo, just decidedly less blood and guns than the El Mariachi trifecta. Andrew talks From The World Of John Wick Ballerina, Rachel Zegler on stage in Evita and Sondheim’s final work Here We Are at the National, high art and low blows, plus plenty of Cumming.

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311 - SWORDFISH

June’s strange theme of early-00s tech thrillers starring A-list Scientologists that also briefly feature William Mapother concludes with the Huge Act-Man/Halle Berry movie Swordfish, a film illegal to watch on anything other than a very ragged previously-rented VHS or scratched up DVD straight from the Blockbuster remainder sale. What delights will be discovered in the filmography of Skip Woods, the imdb page of Thomas Jefferson and the 2002 Critics Choice Award winners? And good god is there anything even in this film to grab on to?

No.

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310 - MINORITY REPORT

Everybody Runs, some simply run their mouth. We dive into Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning before jumping to Spielberg and Cruise’s first feature together, the sci-fi noir that has Tom Cruise calling Colin Farrell a twink. And other elements, but mainly that.

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309 - THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT

Well, we’ve run fast through the Frank Drebin cinematic experience before August’s big legasequel, and whilst finding time to talk Thunderbolts* and Final Destination: Bloodlines, we also take a trip to the 1994 Academy Awards, the box office of OJ Summer and Neil Jordan’s filmography. Everything the Police Squad franchise was meant to invoke.

308 - ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS

At some point Andrew heard Johnny say “I never saw Tim Hill’s 2007 live-action/animation hybrid Alvin And The Chipmunks” so this episode exists. Johnny discusses seeing Six and Drop, there’s a deep-dive into the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and someone says “Alviiiin” like there’s a paycheque waving offscreen.

BONUS - STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE COMMENTARY

It’s Andrew’s almost-birthday, we’re a day early so May The 4th Be With You and us talking over the classic George Lucas film about tariffs and taxation falling into fascism, he’s so smart!

Games, comedy, trivia, gungans. We talk all about the franchise and tie it in to Andrew’s new book The Ferryman Upon The Plains, a western saga about violence and generations of devastation through small acts. Order your copy now!

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Commentary begins from 5 seconds into the film at: 00:12:08

307 - AMERICAN MADE

Spoilers For Sinners In This Episode!

We’re still running with the gimmick of Tom Cruise Films That Aren’t Action Films During His Action Star Run theme, this time with Doug Liman’s true-life drama about Barry Seale, pilot for the TWA, the CIA, the Cartel and the White House, but who is the most corrupt? (It’s Reagan, it’s always Reagan)

Johnny has thoughts on the latest Doctor Who and thrusts it in, the two talk A Minecraft Movie now Andrew’s witnessed it, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, The Amateur and Warfare too, just a hodgepodge of cinematic discussion around the other forgotten Tom Cruise film from The Summer Of The Dark Universe.