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It's February, which means it's the month of love! We're getting started with the 1995 romantic comedy Forget Paris starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger as Mickey and Ellen.

In this tale of love, travel, and basketball, a group of friends tells the newest member of their group the whirlwind tale of the romance between an NBA referee and an American-born Parisian airline executive and how a lost dead body kickstarted a romance that spans almost a decade.

Costarring Julie Kavner, Joe Mantegna, Richard Masur, Cathy Moriarty, and a slew of mid-90s NBA stars, Forget Paris will have you laughing, scratching your head, and suspending disbelief!

Sit back, relax, and listen to the Plotaholics discuss Forget Paris!

The Plotaholics wind down on our month of the biggest films of 2022 with, what is probably according to the Academy, the hottest of the hot movies of the year. 

Everything Everywhere All At Once Evelyn Quan (played by the amazing Michelle Yeoh) is a married, middle-aged Chinese-American immigrant with a failing business, a strained relationship with her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu), a failing marriage with her fun-loving husband Waymond (played by the LEGENDARY Ke Huy Quan). 

While on their way to an IRS Audit with an "unsympathetic" agent (Jamie Lee Curtis), Evelyn is suddenly informed that she is just a small part of a multiversal war between a shadow organization and the ruthless Jobu Tupak. 

Listen to this episode at your own risk as there will be spoilers!

The Plotaholics' are going strong this week as we continue to explore the films that came out in 2022. This week's episode is a CRIMINALLY UNDER THE RADAR BANGER!

This week we're talking about the Nicholas Cage film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. This film, costarring Padro Pascal, shows a fictionalized (we hope not) version of Nicholas Cage living in Hollywood. His career and relationship with his daughter are following the path of his marriage...failing when he's offered $1 million dollars to appear at the birthday party of eccentric billionaire manchild Javi (Pascal). What Nicholas (and Nicky) don't realize is that the CIA is crashing the party. 

Featuring Tiffany Haddish, and Ike Barrinholtz in supporting roles, this hilarious meta-action comedy will leave you laughing, and leaving you hoping that the actors' on-screen personas are actually their real-life ones. 

SPOILER ALERT! If you have not watched this film yet you can stream it on Starz. Then come on back here and have a listen!

The first episode of Smith-Tember is here! In this 12th episode of the Plotaholics, Shane and Bryan breakdown the 1996 Summer Blockbuster that launched Will Smith into the stratosphere, oh yeah, we're talking about Independence Day!

A star-studded ensemble cast featuring greats such as Judd Hirsch, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Loggia, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, just to name a few, get ready for alien-punching, crop dusting, inspirational speech giving awesomeness!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Smith-Tember has begun!

Today we celebrate OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Take a trip with us to Preston, Idaho (or is it Ohio?) for a rambling and unfocused discussion of the fifteen-year-old cult classic, Napoleon Dynamite!

As Shane and Bryan prepare for the Smith-Tember, be sure to vote for Pedro because that will make you larger than life, and don’t forget your Rex-Kwon-Do lesson! Feed Tina as you attempt to throw a football over them mountains like you could back in '82!

It’s The Plotaholics! What do you think?!? Gosh!

This week, we have a bittersweet episode for you Plotaholics. We bring The Plotaholics Podcast's first event, The Summer of Cusack, to a close. We have seen some of the best of the great John Cusack, but now we see what is among the best of the best of: the 1989 classic Say Anything...

In Say Anything, John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler, an average student at best that's fallen in love with honor student, valedictorian, and Academic Fellowship winner Diane Court played by Ione Skye.

This Cameron Crowe-directed film contains one of the most iconic scenes in film history: Who hasn't seen John Cusack holding a boombox (very 80s) over his head at the break of dawn? What television show hasn't parodied the scene?

So get your boombox and head down to the Gas N' Sip with The Plotaholics as we offer you a storyteller's perspective on Say Anything. 

The Summer of Cusack rolls on with another Cusack classic. This week, Shane and Bryan are joined by Joe Compton of GoIndieNow to discuss Grosse Pointe Blank. Joe has an interesting story about reading a rough draft of the script before the movie was even made! 

The Summer of Cusack has begun! We begin with a personal favorite of Shane Wilson, High Fidelity.

In this 2000 Romantic Dramedy, John Cusack stars as Rob. A new/used record store owner with a strange quandary of employees that include a pre-Shallow Hal Jack Black. Rob and his girlfriend have broken up, and Rob goes on a road of self-discovery to figure out why his relationships end badly. 

The Plotaholics' Summer of Cusack couldn't have started any better than it has with this cult classic! Listen to Shane and Bryan as they dissect, laugh, entertain, and inform! This is just the beginning of a summer of awesomeness that can only be focused around 'Mr. The 80s' himself!

This week, The Plotaholics discuss the John Singleton classic, Boyz  N the Hood.

Synopsis: Boyz N the Hood follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects (IMDb).

Boyz N the Hood stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, Regina King, and Angela Bassett.

This week's episode gets especially raw and personal. We hope you find something to enjoy.

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