150 episodes
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast Katey, Matt, Da7e and David
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4.7 • 886 Ratings
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Prolific film and culture critics Katey Rich, Matt Patches, Da7e Gonzales and David Ehrlich take on pop culture topics, film and TV reviews and interview very special guests in bi-weekly installments.
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453 – Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Justin Timberlake, Saltburn
This week, all four hosts finally get to talk about Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the Scott Pilgrim not-a-remake anime that is currently on Netflix, and they manage to do it without heavy spoilers (though they do talk about the premise of the series). Then, what’s up with Justin Timberlake? What happened there? Finally, all four hosts have seen Emerald Fennell’s newest Saltburn and try to process what that was.
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Da7e (@da7e) Patches (@misterpatches), and David (@davidehrlich) .
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Villain Prequel
2:43 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 453! Review!
8:02 – Tidbit – Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
28:12 – Mini-Segment – Justin Timberlake
41:36 – Segment 3 – Saltburn (Spoilers start at 54:59)
1:06:51 – Outro -
452 – Pandemic Check In Grab Bag!
This week, because of the American holiday week and the upcoming award season, your hosts all watched different things (or things they can’t talk about yet), so it’s the return of the PANDEMIC CHECK IN FORMAT! Each host talks about a thing (or things) they ingested this week in the pop culture sphere without spoiling (well, Katey does answer a very important question about the end of Trolls Band Together). The conversation includes bits on Blue Eye Samurai, You Are What You Watch by Walt Hickey, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Next Goal Wins, Wish, and Trolls Band Together! Then, your hosts move Scott Pilgrim Takes Off to next week’s episode so you have a chance to catch up!
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Da7e (@da7e) Patches (@misterpatches), and David (@davidehrlich) .
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Fiction in the Historical Pics
1:50 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 452! E-mails!
9:47 – Pandemic Check In
1:03:35 – Outro -
451 – What’s Up With Marvel?, The Coyote Vs. Acme Debacle, The Killer
This week, David Ehrlich is out seeing the rest of this years big movies, but the other three dive into the War Room with gusto. Thanks to The Marvels underperforming in the theaters and the season finale of Loki season 2 on Disney Plus, it’s finally time to ask: “What’s Up With Marvel?” Then, Warner Bros tried to scrap the basically-complete movie Coyote Vs. Acme only for Hollywood to rebel and get it put back up for auction. Finally, all three dive into the newest David Fincher movie (now on Netflix) The Killer.
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Da7e (@da7e) Patches (@misterpatches), and David (@davidehrlich) .
Please subscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear!
FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Villain Prequel
1:39 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 451! E-mail! Reviews!
14:57- Tidbit – What’s Up With Marvel?
37:56 – Mini-Segment – The Coyote Vs Acme Debacle
44:15- Segment 3 – The Killer
1:05:57 – Outro -
450 – The “Not For You On Paper” Quell
Making the hosts watch movies they wouldn’t like on paper
It’s another Fighting in The War Room Quarter Quell!
For this edition of a FITWR Quarter Quell, each host had a movie assigned to them by the three other hosts that “they wouldn’t like on paper” to investigate both how well we all know each other and if we can nudge friends into watching movies whose plot, genre, or themes seemed incongruous with other media they enjoy.
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich) Patches (@misterpatches), Da7e (@Da7e) and David (@davidehrlich).
Please subscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear!
Format
0:00 – Welcome and Intro
3:47 – Da7e – Dirty Harry (1971)
23:40 – David – Chopping Mall (1986)
45:24 – Katey – Millennium Actress (2001)
1:03:48 – Patches – Wonder (2017)
1:27:39 – Outro
Previous Quarter Quells:
* OpKino Classic: First Quarter Quell (August 26th 2011)
* OpKino Classic: The 2nd Quarter Quell (Feb. 22nd 2012)
* OpKino Classic: Storytelling Quarter Quell (Aug 10th 2012)
* OpKino Classic: Family Interview Full Quell (Feb 8th, 2013)
* FITWR 025 – The Filmmaking Quarter Quell (June 3rd, 2014)
* FITWR 050 – QQ2: Movies for the Moment (Dec. 2nd 2014)
* FITWR 075 – QQ3: Movies We Wanted To Be When We Grew Up.
* FITWR 100 – Significant Other Full Quell
* FITWR 125 – Movies We Want to Show (Our) Children
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449.5 – HBO and Gen Z, The Woman In Me by Britney Spears, When Evil Lurks
This week, we convinced Katey to watch When Evil Lurks on Shudder! Stay tuned until Segment 3 to see how one of the more extreme movies of the year went over. Before that, the gang questions what HBO has to offer for Gen Z (who is not watching television), and Katey and Da7e dig into the Britney Spears memoir!
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Da7e (@da7e) Patches (@misterpatches), and David (@davidehrlich) .
Please subscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear!
FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Entertainer Spouse
3:05- Intro – Welcome to Episode 449.5! E-mail! Reviews!
14:01- Tidbit – HBO and Gen Z
31:24 – Mini-Segment – The Woman In Me by Britney Spears
42:37- Segment 3 – When Evil Lurks
1:02:32 – Outro -
449 – Spider-Man 2 on the PS5, Siskel & Ebert Memories, Killers of the Flower Moon
This week, everyone’s back in the war room for a good old fashioned episode of weirdness. First, Da7e and David are hot off their absent week having both completed Spider-Man 2 on the Playstation and want to sing its praises. Then, in honor of the new book Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel and Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer, the group shares their Siskel & Ebert memories. Finally, Katey, David, and Da7e dig into Martin Scorsese’s latest flick: Killers of the Flower Moon.
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Da7e (@da7e) Patches (@misterpatches), and David (@davidehrlich) .
Please subscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear!
FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Animatronic Slasher
2:45- Intro – Welcome to Episode 449! E-mails! Reviews!
14:22- Tidbit – Spider-Man 2 on PS5
29:16 – Mini-Segment – Siskel & Ebert
43:09 – Segment 3 – Killers of the Flower Moon
1:07:18 – Outro
Customer Reviews
A fantastic show despite...
To whom it may concern, FITWR is the white whale of podcasts I've been obsessively seeking out since my first episode of Filmspotting back in the halcyonic, heady days of the early Obama administration.
Hearing the erudite Katy Rich on Little Gold Men, the curmudgeon with a heart of gold David Ehrlich on places like Film Comment, the always peppy and bubbly Dave Gonzalez on Screen Drafts and Trial By Combat, and Matt Patches from the Internet, I thought "What if we could bring together this group of remarkable individuals. To see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we need them to review the movies we never could."
It's called The Fighting In The War Room Initiative.
The only crack in the otherwise flawless Vibranium shield that is this podcast is is that David Ehrlich has made the baffling decision to not only record in Werner Herzogs Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, but also his lip smacking and addictive compulsive to pop Ricola lozenges mid-recording makes this listeners skin crawl.
Otherwise, no notes. Keep up the great work.
Damian S,
Pittsfield, Ma
Host of The Midnight Film Society Podcast
Women talking
“It looks like butt” the two male hosts kept insisting. How intelligent, how intellectual, height of sophistication!
The woman host tried to get a word in edgewise.
Indescribably bad.
New here
Gotta say, reading your reviews on the show is lame, love the show otherwise