Let's ride.

It's time for our annual Nicolas Cage movie bracket – but this time: we're going head to head. Instead of simply pitting movies against each other, this year each participant will pit their team against another in a best 2 of 3 contest.

Prepare for rivalries, heartbreak, and plenty of Cage. Up first: drafting and ranking our teams.

Our featured guests:

Carly Hayward, Erin Sheehan, & Jon Waugh

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It's the end of our Women Best Director Nominees season. Back to the 'ancient' days of 2008 when a woman (finally) won this dang award.

We'll be off the rest of February; see you in March for Cage Match!

content warning: discussions of the iraq war, the american military, war crimes, & the horrifying ways bombs and bodies intersect.

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We're back into our Women Best Director Nominee season and picking up with Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. Sometimes art really emotionally resonates and gets appropriately lauded by the industry, eh?

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We did it, we survived 2025! Let's look back at the films (& other media) we watched this past year and discuss our general thoughts on em. In a new(?) record, Dan has an existential crisis fueled by his own decisions within just 25 minutes.

Here's to getting through 2026 together ❤️

Here's the big list of everything we discuss:

MOVIES/TV!
The Brutalist
Meshes of the Afternoon
Wicked
The Fall
The Ugly Stepsister
Hell House LLC Lineage
825 Forest Road
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor
Best Wishes To All
V/H/S/Halloween
O Brother Where Art Thou
Sinners
Sinners and the Death of Black Art - F.D Signifier
The Conjuring: Last Rites
One Battle After Another
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
Screamboat

Shiver Me Timbers
Popeye The Slayer Man
Popeye’s Revenge
Severance
Only Murders in the Building
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Poker Face
I Think You Should Leave
What We Do in the Shadows
Captain America: Brave New World
Thunderbolts
Superman
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Death Rider in the House of Vampires
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Bring Her Back
28 Years Later
The Monkey
Keeper
Companion
Weapons
Heart Eyes
Until Dawn
FriendshipThe Chair Company
Clown in a Cornfield
K Pop Demon Hunters
Frankenstein
Wake Up, Dead Man
Clue
A Simple Wish
Final Destination Bloodlines
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Together
Good Boy
The Naked Gun (2025)
The Bear
Hacks
Peacemaker
Taskmaster
Breaking Bad
Arrested Development
Adolescence
Andor

GAMES!
Mario Kart World
Donkey Kong Bananza
Archipelago
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
Dynasty Warriors: Origins
The Seance Of Blake Manor
Ball x Pit
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles
Hades 2
Silent Hill f
Strange Antiquities
Powerwash Simulator 2
Civilization VII
Monster Hunter Wilds
Doom: The Dark Ages
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Elden Ring Nightreign
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Skate Story
Sol Cesto

BOOK!
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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Our season of women Best Director nominees continues with Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird. Let's go on a trip back to post-9/11 high school and all the drama, anxiety, and oddity it contained.

Hope you have a lovely holiday and get a chance to watch whatever films fit the bill for you (Die Hard or otherwise).

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Our tour through the women nominated for Best Director continues and this time we've got:

Legal drama!

Interpersonal Conflict!

A Gorgeously Subjective Camera!

Murder!?

Take a trip with us to the French Alps as we dig into the anatomy of this Anatomy Of A Fall.

content warnings: broad strokes discussions of suicide, parent/spouse death, pet endangerment, legal misogyny

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It's time for a new season! Our theme this time: Women Nominated for Best Director.

Up first, 2024's The Substance – a perfect Thanksgiving movie. Jump on in for grotesque body horror as we unpack the unrealistic beauty standards for women. #JusticeForMonstroElisasue

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It's sequel season so we've found, perhaps, the most sequel movie we could. A sequel to Alien(s) and Predator? Incredible stuff. Is it also a de-make of Prometheus? Maybe!

Happy 6 year anniversary to our silly little podcast here! Thanks for joining for any and all of this ridiculous ride that you have; we appreciate you.

We'll be back with our next proper season in a few weeks. Until then, Happy Halloween!

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