The Juiciest Bits

Hi everyone! For this final episode of our detective series (and the season), we're talking about Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, 1995), starring Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, and baby Don Cheadle. It's a hard-boiled neo-noir with a twist! That twist is that it's not about white people. Surprise! Also, full disclosure (which you'll also hea

This week, you're in for a treat: we're talking about The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934), a murder mystery starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, who for our money make the sexiest movie couple of the 20th Century, or maybe of all time. They're pretty sexy. They also have an adorable pup named Asta, which makes them even cooler. Anyway, in addition to being a murder mystery,

And we're back! We were on a slight hiatus for reasons, and now we're back slingin' eps and saying the occasional smart thing. Our latest theme is the detective film, and this week, we're talking about The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2016), starring Russell Crowe and pre-Ken Ryan Gosling. This is one of the funniest movies of recent memory and we have a great little dis

This week we're wrapping up our series on office movies with Corner Office (Joachim Back, 2022), a surreal dark comedy starring Jon Hamm and Danny Pudi. We talk about all manner of things, including Jon Hamm's excellent moustache and bangs and how interchangeable they are, and we compare this movie to the others in the series as well as to Apple TV series Severance, which i

Well, folks, we did it. We made an episode about 9 to 5 (Higgins, 1980), one of the greatest movies of [just before] our time. Ever heard of Dolly Parton? She's in this movie! Jane Fonda? She's in it, too! And, of course, Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman round out the cast magnificently. This movie makes fun of office work by depicting very realistic office conditions, rife

Just in time for spring, the time of year when hope abounds, we present to you our next theme: movies about soul-sucking office jobs (we would never do this to you if spring were not imminent). As such, this episode is about Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999), a movie that child Mandy thought was hilarious and that adult Mandy realizes is problematic (but also so quotable). But still,

In this, our final heist movie episode, we are talking about Fast Five, the fifth in the masterpiece franchise that is The Fast and the Furious. In this romp, Dom (Vin Diesel) and the gang find themselves in Brazil, where they drive right through a wall and hijack a bad guy's safe in a scientifically impossible (but cinematically awesome) way. In this episode, we talk about mor

Hello! This week, we're talking about a traditional heist movie: The Taking of Pelham 123, starring our king Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw (not to be confused with the 1998 made-for-tv movie starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Donnie Wahlberg, and Edward James Olmos, which is INCREDIBLY '90s; or the 2009 version with Denzel Washington and John Travolta, which I haven't see

And we're back! We've decided to begin 2024 with a series of good ol' fashioned (and perhaps some new-fashioned) heist movies, beginning of course with perhaps the silliest romp ever made, Con Air. Con Air stars Nicholas Cage as an Alabama soldier who is too powerful for regular laws and must be subjected to super laws when he nobly and selflessly* beats a man to death

Happy holidays, everyone! To finish up our Christmas series, we're talking about Tangerine, a film about Alexandra (Mya Taylor) and Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), two friends trying to navigate LA, sex work, and transphobia, and Razmik, an Armenian cab driver trying to escape his family. Oh, and it's all happening at Christmastime! This is our last episode before we take