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Pantheon Plus – Franchise Rankings: Rocky & Creed

In the month of August, Jerome and Brian are going to be ranking some of their favorite franchises. This week, it’s Rocky and Creed!

More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 8: MTMTE Issues 34-44

In which we discuss The Ethics of Withholding Medical Treatment, The Ethics of Killing Baby Robot Hitler, The Ethics of Charisma Parasites, The Ethics of Dated Sitcoms, and the Ethics of War (As Expressed Through Flowers)

Plus Ben tries to break Matt by mentioning too many characters from books we aren’t reading, and it works better than he could have imagined at the time!

Pantheon Plus – Franchise Rankings: Die Hard

In the month of August, Jerome and Brian are going to be ranking movies in some of their favorite franchises. This week, it’s Die Hard!

Marvel Mondays – Secret Invasion: Season Review

You may have noticed a distinct lack of episode-by-episode coverage of Secret Invasion on Marvel Mondays. Part of that is I’m pretty exhausted (more on that later in the year), and the other part is it quite frankly didn’t deserve it. This is unequivocally the worst show in the MCU to date.

Ranking the Nicole Holofcener Films

Nicole Holofcener specializes in empathetically capturing the loves in self-involved upper middle class whites stuck in a bubble and going through it. No one going today is able to explore stuff like that and make you it seem so true to life. Continue reading Ranking the Nicole Holofcener Films

More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 7: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Time to dust off one of our favourite debates on this podcast network: Is it worse to be Boring or Bad?

Michael Bay submits his evidence to the latest hearing, Age of Extinction, which literally has another movie tacked onto the back of it. Hard to believe a movie could be Bad OR Boring when it features Dinobots, Bounty Hunters and Stanley Tucci, but here we are!

Ranking the Greta Gerwig Films

Greta Gerwig is one of the most compelling and talented filmmakers in the world today. She will hopefully be making movies for a very long time. Continue reading Ranking the Greta Gerwig Films

Pantheon Plus – Brendan Fraser In the 90s: The Mummy

It’s the last week of Brendan Fraser Month and what better way to close it out then with a borderline classic, The Mummy from 1999.

Both Jerome and Brian are very enthusiastic about the film, despite its goofy plot and 90’s CGI. What happens when you mix Indiana Jones with Universal Horror? You get this.

More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 6: MTMTE Issues 17-33

Be not afraid of the huge number of issues covered in this episode, as a big chunk of it belongs to Dark Cybertron, the mostly irrelevant crossover event we break down in under 10 minutes.

On either side of that we discuss Huge Secrets about Magnus & Skids, Pharma’s horrifying antics, a mockery of a trial, the Lost Light’s new crew members, and the curious case of a vanishing starship.

Pantheon Plus – Brendan Fraser In the 90s: Gods and Monsters

Jerome and Brian are back with another 90’s Brendan Fraser flick that also features Universal Monsters in a non-Universal film. Funny how that works.

The film is Gods and Monsters from 1998 which had awards acclaim at the time. It’s a fictionalized account of the final days of famous director James Whale. Was it a “whale” of a time? Let’s find out.