A movie podcast of elimination rankings and deep dive reviews to determine what movies are worthy of preservation for all time, even beyond the end times!
Episodes
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
INSTANT REACTION: Plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, a college student returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them.
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
INSTANT REACTION: A fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.
Tuesday May 06, 2025
Tuesday May 06, 2025
EP 196: 2008’s Box Office Countdown (5–1) – Jokers, Jones, and ABBA (ft. Phoenix Clouden)
Episode Description:
Jason is joined by the ever unpredictable Phoenix Clouden (The Film Canon) to finish the epic climb through 2008’s biggest box office hits! This is the top 5 where caped crusaders, crystal skulls, pandas, demigods, and dancing queens battled for cinematic dominance.
It's a strange mix of gritty realism, nostalgic absurdity, and pop musical euphoria
Films Discussed:
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Mamma Mia! (5) – Meryl, ABBA, and summer dreams you can sorta almost sing along to.
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Hancock (4) – A drunken antihero gets a redemption arc, and the movie continues.
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Kung Fu Panda (3) – The animated surprise that kicks harder than anyone expects.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2) – Aliens? Fridges? And the first real internet backlash blockbuster.
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The Dark Knight (1) – Ledger’s Joker, Nolan’s vision, and the box office juggernaut that changed the game. But is it...good?
IN THIS EPISODE:
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Phoenix defends Kung Fu Panda as top-tier animation with real heart and craft.
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Jason revisits Hancock and some tone deaf creative choices.
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Can Mamma Mia! actually work as a movie?
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Was Crystal Skull ever really that bad, or just a victim of overhype?
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And does The Dark Knight still hold up as the superhero movie to beat?
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
EPISODE 195: 2008’s Box Office Countdown (10–6) – Iron, Espionage, Penguins, and Robots (ft. Robert Yaniz Jr. & DW Lundberg)
Episode Description:
The countdown continues! Jason is joined by returning guests Robert Yaniz Jr. and DW Lundberg to tackle the back half of 2008’s top-grossing movies—where talking animals, malfunctioning robots, and emotionally exhausted spies battled it out for box office supremacy.
This batch has it all: MCU beginnings, Pixar magic, Bond reboot blues, and a certain talking lion who just can't catch a break.
Films Discussed:
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (6) – The animals are back and... still trying to get home.
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Quantum of Solace (7) – Bond is brooding, brutal, and possibly bored.
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Iron Man (8) – The movie that launched a universe (and Robert Downey Jr. into legend).
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WALL·E (9) – A near-silent ode to love, loneliness, and environmental collapse.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (10) – Slightly darker, slightly edgier, but did anyone notice?
IN THIS EPISODE:
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Was Quantum of Solace an artistic casualty of the 2008 writers' strike?
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How Iron Man became a bigger gamble than anyone remembers.
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Why WALL·E might be Pixar’s boldest and most bittersweet gamble.
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Robert, DW, and Jason try to answer the eternal question: "Who actually watched Prince Caspian?"
From Armored Avengers to existential robots, the back half of 2008’s top 10 is more influential than you might think.
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
EPISODE 195: An American Original! – No apologies, no half-measures, all fire. (ft. Joe Buttice)
Episode Description:
This week, Jason is joined by Joe Buttice (Reel Spoilers) to lock and load a ranking of five films tied to the myth, the man, the cigar-smoking cinema warlord: John Milius. Whether writing frontier survival epics or directing operatic war fantasies, Milius brought a thunderous, unapologetic voice to American film.
Strap in for manifest destiny, surfboard theology, Cimmerian steel, and teenage guerrilla warfare.
Films Ranked:
- Jeremiah Johnson (1972, writer) – The loner as legend in a snow-covered survivalist western.\
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Dillinger (1973) – Milius’s directorial debut, mixing gangster cool with mythic Americana.
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Big Wednesday (1978) – A lyrical, wave-soaked ode to brotherhood and the end of an era.
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Conan the Barbarian (1982) – Barbarism, Nietzsche, and epic vengeance in the Hyborian Age.
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Red Dawn (1984) – Wolverines! Teenage insurgents defend America in a Cold War fever dream.
IN THIS EPISODE:
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Joe defends Red Dawn as both fantasy and prophecy
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Jason meditates on Big Wednesday as the most personal of war films
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The complicated politics, masculine myth-making, and the man behind the bombast