Cannonball Run II (1984) is somehow even dumber, louder, and more gloriously unhinged than the first one — and here’s the shocker: we loved it even more. Neither of us had seen it before, and going in blind made the experience feel like discovering a secret stash of 80s chaos we didn’t know we needed.
If the first Cannonball Run felt like a celebrity road trip that accidentally became a movie, the sequel feels like the cast threw a party, forgot to stop filming, and then just re...
2026-01-15 06:13:17 +0000 UTC
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Episode 7 is the season’s most deliberate episode, and depending on what you want out of your penultimate chapter, that’s either a strength or the exact thing that’s going to irritate you. This is not a fireworks episode. This is a reckoning episode — characters finally stopping long enough to say the things they’ve been circling for years, even though the clock is screaming at them to move.
Structurally, it’s doing a lot of work. It pulls the scattered threads back together, re-forms the group, an...
2026-01-12 07:15:21 +0000 UTC
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The military threat finally feels real here, not just looming. The show leans into the procedural side of it — coordination, deployment, strategy — and while that grounds the danger, it also occasionally clashes with the more intimate Hawkins storytelling. You can feel the show straining a bit to balance “small-town supernatural horror” with “government-scale response.”
Hopper is one of the episode’s highlights. He’s not playing hero anymore; he’s playing chess while knowing he’s already down pieces. His decisions f...
2026-01-09 08:13:22 +0000 UTC
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🎄 A Little Christmas Note 🎄
This episode is free for everyone, because Christmas is about sharing the fun.
Whether you’re watching with family, hiding from family, or just killing time with us — we hope it brings you a few laughs.
From all of us here, Merry Christmas, and thanks for hanging out with our weird little corner of the internet. 🎁
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation isn’t just a holiday movie in this house—it’s a
2025-12-26 07:03:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone — we wanted to share a quick and heartfelt update.
Unfortunately, Tara’s stepdad Chip passed away today. After a long and difficult stretch, the family had to make the decision to remove him from life support, as there was nothing more that could be done. It’s been an incredibly heavy time, made even harder by the fact that this is all happening on Christmas Eve — a holiday that, for our families, has already carried more than its share of hospital rooms and hard moments over the years.
Friday’s Chr...
2025-12-25 04:46:17 +0000 UTC
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The Cannonball Run is not a movie so much as a cocaine-fueled celebrity road trip that accidentally got cameras pointed at it—and that’s exactly why it rules. There is no plot to speak of, no character arcs, and absolutely zero concern for things like logic or restraint. It’s just a parade of movie stars, race cars, bad accents, worse disguises, and jokes that land about 60% of the time… which is honestly a miracle given how loose this thing is.
Burt Reynolds is in full smirking, mustache-on-cr...
2025-12-22 08:37:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends ❤️
We wanted to give you a heads up before the new year about a small change coming to our Patreon pricing.
Starting in the new year:
No bait-and-switch, no funny business — just being straight with you.
Running this channel has quietly turned into almost a full-time job for Kevin (on top of the
2025-12-21 07:18:54 +0000 UTC
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Episode 4 is where the season stops circling its ideas and just detonates them. This is the episode that makes it clear the endgame isn’t about Eleven vs. Vecna anymore—it’s about control, vessels, and who the Upside Down was really grooming all along.
The military base infiltration immediately shifts the tone. Eleven and Hopper breaking into the hidden lab isn’t played like a cool action beat—it’s grim, paranoid, and ugly. This isn’t the government scrambling anymore; this is a system that’s been plan...
2025-12-19 04:23:31 +0000 UTC
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Stranger Things – Season 5, Episode 3
Episode 3 is where Season 5 finally stops feeling like it’s arranging chess pieces and starts actually playing the game. The episode leans into atmosphere and character tension more than spectacle, and that’s a smart move. The Upside Down feels less like a monster-of-the-week threat and more like a pressure system slowly crushing Hawkins from the inside. It’s quieter, but heavier.
A lot of this episode works because it trusts the audience. Scenes are allowed ...
2025-12-15 22:52:20 +0000 UTC
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Watching Episodes 3 and 4 back to back is where Season 5 really clicks into place. This is the stretch where the show stops setting the table and starts serving food. The mythology tightens, the character arcs deepen, and the sense that this thing is barreling toward an ending—one that’s going to hurt—becomes impossible to ignore.
Episode 3 leans heavily into momentum. The mystery threads that felt a little scattered early on begin to intersect in meaningful ways, and the Upside Down stops feeling like a background threa...
2025-12-15 18:40:22 +0000 UTC
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Episode 2 keeps the momentum going, but it also shows some of the seams a bit more than Episode 1. The emotional groundwork is still strong—this season clearly wants to pay off character arcs instead of just throwing monsters at the screen—but you can feel the writers juggling a lot of threads. Sometimes it works beautifully… sometimes it feels like they’re checking boxes to set up later payoffs.
Eleven’s material is solid, even if she’s mostly stuck in “haunted and overwhelmed” mode for now. Will continues to ...
2025-12-12 05:47:47 +0000 UTC
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The Ref (1994) is one of the great underappreciated holiday-black-comedy gems—mean, sharp, fast, and way funnier than it has any right to be. It’s basically Home Alone for adults if the Wet Bandit was Denis Leary and the McCallisters were a married couple on the brink of total psychological collapse.
Leary plays Gus, a cat burglar who takes a bickering husband and wife hostage on Christmas Eve and instantly regrets every life choice that led him there. And honestly, same. Because once
2025-12-08 05:51:28 +0000 UTC
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The Ref (1994) is one of the great underappreciated holiday-black-comedy gems—mean, sharp, fast, and way funnier than it has any right to be. It’s basically Home Alone for adults if the Wet Bandit was Denis Leary and the McCallisters were a married couple on the brink of total psychological collapse.
Leary plays Gus, a cat burglar who takes a bickering husband and wife hostage on Christmas Eve and instantly regrets every life choice that led him there. And honestly, same. Because once
2025-12-07 05:42:06 +0000 UTC
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Episode 2 keeps the momentum going, but it also shows some of the seams a bit more than Episode 1. The emotional groundwork is still strong—this season clearly wants to pay off character arcs instead of just throwing monsters at the screen—but you can feel the writers juggling a lot of threads. Sometimes it works beautifully… sometimes it feels like they’re checking boxes to set up later payoffs.
Eleven’s material is solid, even if she’s mostly stuck in “haunted and overwhelmed” mode for now. Will continues to ...
2025-12-06 04:45:29 +0000 UTC
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Right out of the gate, the episode makes it clear: this is not the “kids on bikes” era anymore. Everyone’s older, angrier, and walking around with the weight of Vecna’s cliffhanger still chewing at them. The emotional hangover from Season 4 is everywhere—especially with Eleven and Will. And speaking of Will… yes, they’re finally letting him talk like a human being with interiority instead of “the kid who gets kidnapped or twitches when the Mind Flayer sneezes.”
The vibes are classic Stranger Things bu...
2025-12-04 19:46:51 +0000 UTC
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Jingle All the Way (1996) is the cinematic equivalent of holiday shopping on December 24th—loud, frantic, mildly traumatic, and somehow still fun if you’re in the right headspace. Kevin is firmly in the “so bad it’s good” camp with this one, and honestly? That’s the correct way to watch it. Tara enjoyed it, but let’s be real—this is not cracking her top-tier Christmas rotation anytime soon.
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a dad desperately hunting for a Turbo Man action figure, tur...
2025-12-01 03:07:32 +0000 UTC
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Season 5 kicks off like the Duffers grabbed every dial on the control board and slammed them all the way to MAX, because Episode 1 wastes zero time reminding you why this show took over the world in the first place. It’s darker, bigger, and somehow way more emotional—like every character has been carrying four seasons of trauma and we’re finally watching the dam crack.
Right out of the gate, the episode makes it clear: this is not the “kids on bikes” era anymore. Everyone’s older, angrier, and walk...
2025-11-30 07:53:10 +0000 UTC
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Jingle All the Way (1996) is the cinematic equivalent of holiday shopping on December 24th—loud, frantic, mildly traumatic, and somehow still fun if you’re in the right headspace. Kevin is firmly in the “so bad it’s good” camp with this one, and honestly? That’s the correct way to watch it. Tara enjoyed it, but let’s be real—this is not cracking her top-tier Christmas rotation anytime soon.
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a dad desperately hunting for a Turbo Man action figure, tur...
2025-11-30 06:51:40 +0000 UTC
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**Hot Tub Time Machine** (2010) is the dumb-smart, raunchy-ridiculous comedy that absolutely should not work as well as it does—but somehow nails that perfect blend of nostalgia, chaos, and “are we really doing this?” energy. It’s a movie that knows exactly how stupid its premise is (a magical hot tub powered by Russian energy drink accidentally sends four idiots back to 1986) and just leans all the way in. You’ve got **John Cusack**, **Rob Corddry**, **Craig Robinson**, and **Clark Duke** as the world’s least-equipped time trav...
2025-11-29 01:17:48 +0000 UTC
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) is the dumb-smart, raunchy-ridiculous comedy that absolutely should not work as well as it does—but somehow nails that perfect blend of nostalgia, chaos, and “are we really doing this?” energy. It’s a movie that knows exactly how stupid its premise is (a magical hot tub powered by Russian energy drink accidentally sends four idiots back to 1986) and just leans all the way in.
You’ve got John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and...
2025-11-28 07:45:47 +0000 UTC
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Just wanted to take a second and thank every single one of our amazing Patrons for being here with us, supporting the chaos, the laughs, the screams, and the “Tara hasn’t seen WHAT?!” journey we’re all on together.
You all are the reason we get to keep making this goofy, heartfelt little show every week. Whether you’ve been here from the beginning or jumped in recently, we appreciate you more than you know.
We hope you have a safe, happy, food-coma-inducing Thanksgiving tomorrow. Be with the people you love, eat somethi...
2025-11-27 05:33:49 +0000 UTC
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Grumpier Old Men (1995) takes everything great about the first film—Lemmon, Matthau, insults sharp enough to draw blood—and cranks it up with even more absurdity and a little Mediterranean spice courtesy of Sophia Loren. If Grumpy Old Men was about two cranky neighbors feuding over ice-fishing and pride, the sequel is about two cranky neighbors realizing they’re somehow even more unhinged when romance is involved.
Lemmon and Matthau slip back into these roles like they never left. Their ...
2025-11-21 01:28:13 +0000 UTC
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Road House (1989) is already a fever dream of mullets, bar fights, philosophy, and denim-clad violence—but our episode for it might be the most ADHD thing we’ve ever put on the channel. And honestly? If you’re here for us, you’re gonna love every chaotic second. If you’re here for a calm, structured film analysis… uh… sorry in advance.
Patrick Swayze’s Dalton is still the king of coolers—yes, cooler, not bouncer—an enlightened bar-side monk with a ...
2025-11-17 18:00:35 +0000 UTC
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Grumpier Old Men (1995) takes everything great about the first film—Lemmon, Matthau, insults sharp enough to draw blood—and cranks it up with even more absurdity and a little Mediterranean spice courtesy of Sophia Loren. If Grumpy Old Men was about two cranky neighbors feuding over ice-fishing and pride, the sequel is about two cranky neighbors realizing they’re somehow even more unhinged when romance is involved.
Lemmon and Matthau slip back into these roles like they never left. Their ...
2025-11-16 23:48:36 +0000 UTC
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Road House (1989) is pure late-’80s testosterone therapy—the kind of movie where every line, explosion, and bar fight feels like it was written on a beer coaster. Directed by Rowdy Herrington (yes, really), it stars Patrick Swayze as Dalton, a zen bouncer with a philosophy degree who gets hired to clean up the rowdiest bar in Missouri: The Double Deuce.
This isn’t your average bar brawl movie—it’s kung fu Hemingway. Swayze glides through chaos like a ballet-...
2025-11-16 04:40:49 +0000 UTC
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Grumpy Old Men (1993) is proof that sometimes all you need for a great comedy is two legends with decades of chemistry and a script that lets them insult each other for 90 minutes straight. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau reunite as lifelong rivals and next-door neighbors in small-town Minnesota—two retired men whose days revolve around fishing, feuding, and finding new ways to get under each other’s skin.
Their long-running war gets kicked up a notch when Ann-Margret
2025-11-14 08:52:40 +0000 UTC
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Grumpy Old Men (1993) is proof that sometimes all you need for a great comedy is two legends with decades of chemistry and a script that lets them insult each other for 90 minutes straight. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau reunite as lifelong rivals and next-door neighbors in small-town Minnesota—two retired men whose days revolve around fishing, feuding, and finding new ways to get under each other’s skin.
Their long-running war gets kicked up a notch when Ann-Margret
2025-11-13 00:30:55 +0000 UTC
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Charlie’s Angels (2000) is the most gloriously over-the-top action-comedy of its era—an explosion of slow-motion hair flips, bad one-liners, and turn-of-the-millennium energy so potent it practically smells like Vanilla Body Spray and dial-up internet. Directed by McG (back when that name alone felt like a Mountain Dew flavor), it’s a glossy, campy reboot of the classic TV series that never takes itself too seriously—and that’s exactly why it works.
The Angels—Cameron Diaz, Drew Bar...
2025-11-09 06:21:55 +0000 UTC
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The Cable Guy (1996) is the dark comedy nobody knew they needed until it terrified them. It’s what happens when you take Jim Carrey—fresh off Ace Ventura and The Mask—and tell him to weaponize that manic energy. Directed by Ben Stiller, it’s part psychological thriller, part black comedy, and part social satire about loneliness in the age of constant connection (which, hilariously, came out before social media even existed).
Carrey plays Chip Douglas,...
2025-11-07 05:56:24 +0000 UTC
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Charlie’s Angels (2000) is the most gloriously over-the-top action-comedy of its era—an explosion of slow-motion hair flips, bad one-liners, and turn-of-the-millennium energy so potent it practically smells like Vanilla Body Spray and dial-up internet. Directed by McG (back when that name alone felt like a Mountain Dew flavor), it’s a glossy, campy reboot of the classic TV series that never takes itself too seriously—and that’s exactly why it works.
The Angels—Cameron Diaz, Drew Bar...
2025-11-05 06:13:21 +0000 UTC
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