What Is A Movie?

Catch Match is back for a fifth go 'round. This year's match-up:

AVERAGE JOES v. THE SUPERNATURAL

Today we're diving into round 1 of the Supernatural bracket and pairing up:

1. Mom + Dad (75)  v.  4. Jiu Jitsu (27)

2. Drive Angry (47)  v.  3. Knowing (35)

Thanks, as always, to the illustrious Cage Connoisseurs joining us on this quest - Jon Waugh, Carly Hayward, and Erin Sheehan.

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Happy Valentines Day, ya big saps! We're diving into a nice lil Albert Brooks & Meryl Streep romcom to think about life, love, afterlife and life after love.

I can feel something inside me say, "I really don't think you're strong enough - no."

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Sorry for the delay on this one - we went to see Poor Things and it absolutely ruled. You can blame Mark Ruffalo's silly accent for the late upload of our silly podcast.

We're back with Inside Llewyn Davis! Join us as we take a look at its perspective on making art, poverty, selling your soul, & the gremlin-ness of John Goodman.

Content warning: discussions of abortion, drug abuse, poverty & unhoused populations.

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It's time for our annual year-end recap! Movies & TV galore. 

The big list of what we discuss at some point in no particular order because it's late and I'm tired xoxo :)

The Bear 
Shoresy
Letterkenny 
Poker Face 
Barry 
Reservation Dogs  
Sopranos 
The Curse 
Yellowjackets 
Gen V 
Abbott Elementary 
Cunk on Earth 
Invincible  
Only Murders  
Fargo  
I Think You Should Leave 
The Fall of The House of Usher 
When Evil Lurks 
VHS 85 
Brooklyn 45 
Puppet Master 1-5 
Hell House LLC Origins 
No One Can Save You 
The Stepfather 
Talk to Me 
Jacob's Ladder 
Pet Semetary 
Dead Alive 
The Nun 2 
Five Nights at Freddy's 
The Exorcist Believer 
Pearl 
Scream 6 
Evil Dead Rise 
Renfield 
M3GAN 
Knock at the Cabin 
Skinamarink 
The Outwaters 
The Pope's Exorcist 
Insidious: The Red Door 
The Boogeyman  
The Holdovers 
Confess, Fletch 
Oppenheimer 
Barbie 
Asteroid City 
Avatar 2 (slept through most on plane) 
A Haunting in Venice 
Infinity Pool 
John Wick 4 
Super Mario Bros 
Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse 
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 
Ant-man 3 
The Killer 
Romeo+Juliet 
Star Trek Discovery 
Gundam : The Witch from Mercury
House 
Our Flag Means Death
The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Only Murders in the Building
The Menu 
What We Do In The Shadows
Tragedy of Macbeth  
Ted Lasso
D&D Honor Among Thieves
Nimona 
Howl's Moving Castle 
Nausicaa: Of The Valley Of The Wind 
Joe Pera Talks With You
Arrival 
Doctor Who
Suspiria 
Jason X 

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Can you remember the tallest man you’ve ever seen?
Do you love to go a-wanderin’ beneath the clear blue sky?
Does Rashomon also remind you of Jonathan Frakes' fact-or-fiction questions?

Join us as we check out the reigning champ of conflicting narratives and discuss the meaning of life, morality, justice, and all that good stuff.

CW: discussions around rape, sexual assault, gendered violence

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(John Wick voice) Yeah, I'm thinking we're back - so let's watch a seasonally appropriate b-movie slasher! Join in as we feast on our thanksgiving dinner: Blood Rage. I'll tell ya one thing: it's not cranberry sauce.

Content warnings: discussions of institutionalization, wrongful imprisonment, alcohol abuse, suicide.

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Good news: the strikes are over! 
Neutral news: we're back!
Bad news: not soon enough for us to prepare a "normal" episode! 

We're once again digging into the bins of yesteryear to see what gems we can unearth and reminisce about. This time we're looking at 2007 and, for the heck of it, we've structured it as a draft. 

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Still on our 'screw you amptp' grind so we're talking about games and music from the great year of two thousand and three (and also tabletop roleplaying game philosophies because why not)!

Tune in for classic RPGs, edgy nu metal & the legacy of the legacy of kain. 

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Hey y'all hear about this WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike? Why is it so hard to just compensate people fairly for their labor? We'll never know (which is partly why we'll never be billionaires. Ethics! Wild stuff.).

In place of our usual programming, were going to turn our eyes to ~other media~; a list of what we cover is below.

Consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund to help support workers affected by the work stoppage. 

• Baldur's Gate 3
• Elden Ring (ergo Dark Souls, Bloodborne, et al.)
• Tears of the Kingdom
• Yakuza series
• Armored Core 6
• Starfield
• Kentucky Route Zero
• Disco Elysium
• Circe (Madeline Miller)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Becky Chambers)
• Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome (Garth Marenghi)
• Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book (Aukerman, et al.)
• The music of Kevin's teen years (aka Linkin Park & Metallica)

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We're back from our little summer hiatus and we're ready to Scream. Let's chat horror trends, deconstructionism, meta narratives, and messy opinions about messy media.

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We're celebrating the 4th of July the only way we know how - schlocky slasher movies. Get your Scream Queen Pageant Crown on and hop on in!

CW: suicidal ideation

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Get on the bus, we gotta go fast - it's time for Speed! We buckle up and scoot along with our good bud Keanu to talk about dumb action, trends in pop cinema, and whether you can still make a movie "like this" anymore. 

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Oh boy, it's Mummy time!

We dive into everyone's favorite bisexuality-fueled film and discuss CG, expensive hijinks, character tropes, colonialism, and more!

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Ayup, we gots The Lobster here. Grab a pot, some rubber bands, and dig in!

CW: discussions of suicide, animal abuse/death, torture, abusive relationships, sexual coercion

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It's time to take a trip to Skull Island, friends. Join us for a super-sized, action-packed, tangent-filled episode befitting that big ol' king of the apes. We muse on Jurassic Park, high/low brow art, shooting your shot, and the importance of coronas & family.

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BREAKING NEWS: we've gone and hopped in the news van to check out Nightcrawler (2014). We discuss creeps, nepotism, bizarre music, & more! 

cw: discussions of sexual abuse, gaslighting, white supremacy 

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The ghost of April Fools is still lingering so we're back with an All-Time Classic Pillar of Cinema: Troll 2. Grab your green food coloring and get in the van; we're takin a trip to Nilbog today.

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Cage Match rides into its annual finale as we crown our fourth champion - who will it be: Leaving Las Vegas or 8mm? Only time will tell...

But first, the winner of the losers!

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It's time for the semi-finals! Join us as we narrow our bracket down even further and declare our Daddy and Au2eur division champions. Our grueling competition is riding ever closer to its grand finale.

Joining Dan and Kevin and returning CageConnoiseurs: Erin, Jon, and Gerry.

Today's match-ups:

8mm v. Bringing Out the Dead
and
Pig v. Leaving Las Vegas

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Cage Match rides on as we continue the initial round of match-ups. It's round one of the Au2uer Division!

Joining Dan and Kevin are returning CageConnoiseurs: Erin, Jon, and Gerry.

Today's match-ups:

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans v. 8mm
and
Bringing Out the Dead v. Snake Eyes

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