The Franchisees

Mar 30 2025 138 ep. 92 mins 1
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Two film-loving friends devour entire franchises, tracing their theatrical rise, direct-to-video-fall, and occasional redemption. Banter, bits, and bad impressions follow.

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For a Few Dollars More (1965) (with Max Bertram)

Mar 30 2025 75 mins  
The Man with No Name is back and this time his name is Manco and he has a friend Morty (played by Chief Van Cleef). They are in love and express that love by shooting each other's hats! FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE is the bigger, better, and richer sequel to last week's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. Your hosts are joined by a special guest, friend of the pod Max. Max rode into town on a pale hor

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Mar 23 2025 74 mins  
A man... of few words. A man... with a poncho. A man... with no name. Although perhaps he does have a name and it's Joe but that's not important. We're doing the Dollars Trilogy aka The Man With No Name Trilogy, a series of spaghetti westerns directed by master filmmaker Sergio Leone and starring the god Clint Eastwood. Before we talk about the film we also discuss what we've been

Lightyear (2022)

Mar 16 2025 67 mins  

Toy Story 4 (2019)

Mar 09 2025 76 mins  
This episode is dedicated to Forky. We're back with the fourth instalment of the TOY STORY franchise, the appropriately titled TOY STORY 4. 2019 was a lifetime ago, almost long enough to ask the question "does this movie hold up?" Yes, it's pretty good! Ben is a little "turnt up" in this episode so be warned! Join us next week for the cash-grab conclusion of the TOY STORY franchise

The Best Movies of 2024

Mar 02 2025 118 mins  
It's a wonderful night for Oscar, Oscar Oscar, who will win? You, the listeners... that's who wins. Because it's our annual Best Movies of the Year episode hooray yay hooray! Alex and Ben talk about the year in cinema 2024 and countdown their favourite movies from #20 to #1. Get ready to here about all your favourite films and maybe even a few you haven't discovered yet. We won't s

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Feb 23 2025 91 mins  
We're back with the beloved third entry in the TOY STORY franchise. Alex and Ben were very close to Andy's age when they first saw the film... needless to say, it hit them like a ton of bricks. Will this poignant and beautiful film still pull on their now-jaded heartstrings? At least one of them, yes! We also talk about Pixar's stellar run and eventual decline, the possible real-li

Toy Story 2 (1999) (with Valerie Keaton)

Feb 16 2025 96 mins  
1999 was a legendary, leeeggggendary year for cinema. And animation is cinema, no matter what those film snobs tell you! Please, please for the love of god accept that animation is cinema so that Guillermo del Toro can take a break. The subject this week is TOY STORY 2, what some consider one of the greatest sequels of all time. Is it true? Does it hold up? Is it on the same level

Toy Story (1995)

Feb 09 2025 75 mins  
It's our 30th Franchise! Wow, time sure does fly when you're having fun... and there's nothing more fun than toys. What if these toys had a story of their own? Well you're in luck. Back in 1995, future-disgraced animator John Lasseter and company invented computers and used those computers to invent animation resulting in the first animated feature length computer animated feature

Britannia Hospital (1983)

Feb 04 2025 89 mins  
The Mick Travis trilogy concludes in hilarious, sometimes baffling fashion. We also talk about EMILIA PÉREZ, HARD TRUTHS, "trade wars" and "juice lips" Join us next week for a new franchise: TOY STORY

O Lucky Man! (1973)///Oscar Nominations

Jan 26 2025 84 mins  
Mick Travis is back in O LUCKY MAN!, at least some version of Mick Travis. Join him on an epic journey through the hellish and bizarre landscape of 70s Britain. From coffee salesman to superstar, and many stops along the way. This is a sprawling state-of-the-nation film akin to SOUTHLAND TALES or maybe I'm just making that comparison to get you to watch it, it's hard to tell. We al