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The Pick: Universal Soldier

Roland Emmerich has blown up the White House (twice!), ravaged Earth (twice!), and unleashed a giant lizard on Manhattan (once, that we know of). But Universal Soldier is where his road to action movie immortality started, by making a movie about PTSD-laden super soldiers trying to blow up each other. This all intersects with Emmerich’s Midway hitting theaters today, as well as Terminator: Dark Fate currently underperforming at the box office. As we’ll discuss, it turns out Universal Soldier is a pretty big knock-off of Terminator 2, but also pulls from many other action blockbusters that reigned over the movie landscape in the ’80s and ’90s. Continue reading →

The Pick: Parasite

After a month of writing about people trapped in spooky houses with Shocktober, on this latest episode of The Pick we talk about the spookiest house of all.  A house that’s a byproduct of capitalism! Parasite has been regarded by many as a film that is best enjoyed if you know as little going into it as possible. So in this episode, we don’t even try to make it a non-spoiler review. This is an episode for those that have already seen Parasite, and hopefully one that helps any viewer appreciate its many twists and turns and little details. Continue reading →

The Pick: Goosebumps & Goosebumps 2

Instead of writing another Shocktober post, today I’m putting up our latest episode of The Pick. Keeping with this year’s Shocktober theme, we’re talking about one of the truly immortal horror franchises of the 2010s – Goosebumps! Ok, so maybe it’s less of a horror movie than a wacky comedy that aims to introduce kids to the beats of a horror movie. But either way, we get a lot of Jack Black talk in, both in regards to his weirdly entertaining performance in Goosebumps and the lack of him in Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween. Also, we manage to fit our ice-cold Joker takes into this jam-packed episode. Continue reading →

The Pick: Fight Club

The first rule of podcasts is… nevermind, you get it. We’re talking about Fight Club this week, in honor of both Brad Pitt starring in Ad Astra and in honor of the worst kinds of white males getting their due in the upcoming Joker. While talking about Fight Club, Colin, Sean, and John wrestle with their mixed feelings about the film and its impeccable filmmaking but chaotic storytelling. Also, we get into talking about the Fight Club video game, as I’m sure you’re all dying to hear about. Continue reading →

The Pick: Looney Tunes: Back In Action

Looks like it’s pick season, as we take a trip to Looney Tune Land while talking about the non-Space Jam sequel Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Well, actually we don’t go to Looney Tune Land so much as a cartoony version of our reality, which is rife with slapstick, self-awareness, and bizarre black-and-white cameos. This might be the most insane mishmash of a film we’ve talked about yet, which is saying something considering last week’s pick was It Chapter 2. So check it out, folks! Continue reading →

The Pick: It Chapter Two

This episode we’re making our first foray into reviewing a movie currently in theaters on The Pick, as we take a look at It Chapter 2. John shares with us not only his thoughts on the film in question, but also its relation to the book it’s based on, the 1990 made-for-TV adaptation, and the Stephen King-iverse in general. The movie is a bit of a long, semi-indulgent mess, so it seems only appropriate that this is our most epic episode of The Pick yet. Continue reading →