Episode 19 - Smokin' Aces

A violent, primal cry against bureaucracy and the perils of adulthood, SMOKIN' ACES featured pulse-pounding action and a cast of will-be all-stars directed by a talented director on the rise. And somehow, it's second only to THE BOONDOCK SAINTS when it comes to people truly hating a movie that doesn't star Adam Sandler. Why? What happened? Michael, what happened??? Join Alex and Julio as they try to figure out what's wrong with you if you don't like this movie.

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Episode 18 - Three Kings

Why does David O'Russell hate America? What did our troops ever do to him? And why does he think war is so damn funny? Listen as Alex and Julio can barely contain their outrage while the clownish, incompetent and morally bankrupt team of George Clooney (Batman and Robin), Mark Whalberg (Fear), Ice Cube (Are we there yet) and Spike Jonze (Jackass) make a mockery out of American soldiers and the Iraq war in this surprisingly celebrated movie from the director who would eventually give us "Fat Bald Christian Bale" as his masterpiece. 

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Episode 17 - Take Me Home Tonight

You know all those crazy stories about the 80s? They are all true. Alex and Julio take a trip back in time courtesy of Topher Grace, Anna Faris and perennial scene-stealer Dan Fogler, to a decade when the music was always awesome, cocaine was the drug of choice, and social media didn't exist. You could actually lie to your old high school crush about where you worked and Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn wouldn't prove you wrong! You wanna know why it's at 28% on Rotten Tomatoes? Because Rotten Tomatoes doesn't like having fun. Or wind surfing.

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Episode 16.5 - Bonus! The Mission Impossible franchise

Preparing for the release of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Julio recently sat through a Mission Impossible marathon that made one thing clear: the beloved franchise is a joke and the black sheep in the series is the only movie worth watching. And Alex is all, "I know, man. That's why I stopped watching after MI:3".

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Episode 16 - Slumdog Millionaire

What happens when a white man makes an Indian movie? Why, it wins lots of Oscars, for starters. But then you get home, go to bed, start thinking about it... and it's kind of fucked up. Join Alex and Julio as they peel back Slumdog Millionaire's thin layer of charm and reveal a condescending look at India, Indians and Regis Philbin's legacy.

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Episode 15 - Elizabethtown

A young man dealing with failure and the loss of his father. A young woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Susan Sarandon tap-dancing. Paul Schneider playing Freebird. There was a time, before Aloha, before We Bought a Zoo, when Cameron Crowe could do no wrong. Join Alex and Julio as they celebrate his last masterpiece, an under-appreciated meditation on love, death and creepy cultish Southern families.

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Episode 14 - Million Dollar Baby

In late 2004, Clint Eastwood brutalized Hillary Swank both physically and psychologically on screen. He literally didn't stop until Swank asked him to kill her. And then the Academy showered them with awards because he's old and venerable and she was playing a spunky spirited girl and Morgan Freeman was doing the narration. Listen to Alex and Julio as they get in the ring to fight back against The Man With No Name and his particular brand of manipulative storytelling!

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Episode 13 - Silent Hill

There are a lot of terrifying things lurking in the underrated horror tour-de-force that is the SILENT HILL movie. The scariest, however, is how it forced society to confront our outdated ideas when it came to parenting. Join Alex and Julio as they huddle together in fear and dig deep into the greatest videogame adaptation of all time.

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Episode 12 - Taxi Driver

Ever wonder what happens when a deluded filmmaker with serious psychological issues tries to have his cake and eat it too?  Legendary comedy talent Robert DeNiro, back when he thought he could do drama, stars in Martin Scorsese's confused tale of a miserable Vietnam veteran leading a cool noirish life where he drives a cab, rescues the dames and gets to play with some sweet guns to prove that violence is not the way to go. Alex and Julio didn't buy it and neither should you!

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Episode 11 - Fantastic Four (2005)

There was a time when superhero movies were not defined by "kewl" special effects and convoluted plotting and bitter vigilantism. There was a time when character was at the forefront. Tim Story's Fantastic Four marked the end of an era, a last hurrah from relatable heroes who just wanted to have fun while doing the right thing. Join Alex and Julio as they eulogize a franchise that had the courage to be about family, not alien invasions (at least not until the second movie).

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