Odds and Ends: T.J. brings up a lawsuit against the new movie Together that he may have some personal ties to... well, almost, he could have maybe sort of had some ties, but he doesn't, but that'd be cool or interesting if he did; inspired by the recent and decent superhero movies, T.J. checked out Thunderbolts (with an asterisk because ooooo!), and thinks it's also decent, but a little less recent.

Feature Film: The legendary (to us) Godfrey Ho makes his official Duds debut with his most popular work, Undefeatable! Known as the master of z-grade cinema, Ho brings his regular directing chops of, I dunno, putting people in front of a camera and having them say stuff. He can do that, at least. At least this one is an original and he shot an entire movie this time.

Next week's movie: Synecdoche, New York (2008)

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Odds and Ends: T.J. shares some insider info about the newest woke movie, The Fantastic Four; T.J. talks about the newest iteration of Superman, while Nick talks about the newest iteration of The Last of Us; isn't it great just having continuous new iterations and adaptations and no original movies ever? Speaking of original movies...

Feature Film: La Haine? Is that French for Heat? This is an adaptation of Heat? It's not? Wait, so what is it, who are these characters I have to already know from previous stuff? Three people, one of them is kind of short, another has a blaster, is this Star Wars? We talk about Star Wars this week, about time!

Next week's movie: Undefeatable (1993)

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Odds and Ends: Josh is back again, and we discuss how our feature film this week led to us crossing paths. We watched one of those dumb Netflix docks, the one about the poop cruise called Poop Cruise, and we have some things to say.

Feature Film: The classic template detective movie is on the stand this week, though it's more of a template tailing perps and also a car chase movie. I don't have much to say about this one, honestly. I didn't in the episode, either, even though I still managed to talk a lot.

Next week's movie: La Haine (1995)

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Odds and Ends: This is sort of our anniversary episode! Meaning, it's near our anniversary and we did a trilogy, so you know, sort of. T.J. reworks song lyrics from his youth.

Feature Film: We're talking about the recently trilogized 28 Blanks Later series, Weeks and all. Sorry, warts and all. Same thing. We pulled Ida back in for another episode, too, as we seem to do with our guests we trick into coming on the show.

Next week's movie: The French Connection (1971)

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Odds and Ends: We had a little bit of time left in this one, so T.J. and Ida talk about the newest Final Destination movie.

Feature Film: Meri Kurisumasu! Ida and Peyton wouldn't leave the voice call until we talked about the second Battle Royale movie, so here we are. A sequel that is impressive only in how it manages to take the worst qualities from the first movie and leave out all the rest. It's insane how they could fuck up this badly. I was going to go in on some of the issues, but there's just too many, just listen to the episode. But it's got Riki Takeuchi in a cute rugby outfit, so it can't be that bad? Oh wait, it still is that bad? It's gotta be REALLY bad then, because look at that lil guy!

Next movie: 28 Days Later Trilogy (2002-2025)

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Feature Film: Some of T.J.'s friends from a nerd ass weeb Battle Royale roleplay fan group he used to be in (real life - NOT CLICKBAIT) join the show to talk about the cult classic film itself. We get into the weeds on a lot of shit most people won't even have context for here. Even Nick! He said he had a good time though, so don't judge the rest of us on how bored he looks for 90% of our discussion. He told me himself, he said "yeah, that was fun." How could you not be enraptured hearing us talk about the intricacies of fictional characters' crushes on each other from a Japanese novel from 30 years ago? I swear, he said it was fine.

Next week's movie: Battle Royale 2: Requiem (2003)

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Odds and Ends: T.J. wants to play another game, a game about games (and movies); we both did our homework, so we're able to talk about both Common Side Effects and Sinners!

Feature Film: We talk about the final film by director Yasujiro Ozu, An Autumn Afternoon. We struggle through our issues with differing cultural norms and the overall okayness of it as we try to figure out what exactly makes it such a beloved classic.

Next week's movie: Battle Royale (2000)

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Odds and Ends: T.J. talks about an AI slop advertising campaign he's been subjected to; we almost talk about Sinners and we almost talk about Common Side Effects, but instead we just talk about the newest season of Black Mirror.

Feature Film: We check in with David Byrne and Talking Heads again with their narrative feature, True Stories (some of which is based on true stories!). It's a chill hang and pseudo-musical type of thing.

Next week's movie: An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

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