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In Medias Res means stories that start in the middle of things, or even at the end. It is a very old narrative device created by the Ancient Greeks that many filmmakers have used to varying degrees of success. So naturally we thought that deserved a no-holds-barred, incredibly arbitrary Bracket Challenge Battle to the Death! Behold, our Top 8 movie picks fight it out until they are whittled down to the last film standing. Maybe there is a prize given? But really, aren’t we all winners here?

0:00 - Intros
5:55 - Fallout (Amazon)
12:30 - Ripley (Netflix)
16:10 - Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
25:20 - Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
33:00 - In Medias Res also rams
40:20 - In Medias Res - Best use Bracket
41:15 - Big Dumb Superhero Movies: Deadpool vs Iron Man
44:15 - The Christopher Nolan Mindfuck: The Prestige vs Memento
50:00 - Gen X Blood-soaked Fight To The Death: Reservoir Dogs vs Fight Club
55:10 - Oscar Darlings: Lawrence of Arabia vs Forrest Gump
1:01:20 - Semifinals
1:04:45 - Finals

Hard to believe that a Cold War satire about Mutually Assured Destruction through a nuclear holocaust could still pack a punch 60 years after its release. But that’s exactly what happened with Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant dark comedy, Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Starring Peter Sellers in a virtuoso 3-role performance as the titular insane scientist, a by-the-book RAF officer, and a milquetoast President, this one is arguably Kubrick’s best effort. Which sounds like a challenge for debate that we shall now have… NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM!

5:00 - Ricky Stanicky (2024)
12:30 - Dune Part Two (2024)
23:50 - Late Night with the Devil (trailer)
25:10 - Shipwreck videos found on YouTube
31:30 - Shogun (Max)
39:14 - Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964)

Episode 295 - Train to Busan

2016 was the middle of the zombie pandemic. “What?” I hear you say, despite that being impossible. “There was a zombie apocalypse?” There sure was - in theaters! And 2016 was right smack dab in the middle of a bunch of great zombie films. That year saw “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” and “The Girl with All the Gifts,” which were great in their own ways. However they pale in comparison to this genre-homage from South Korea, a sort of “Die Hard” on a train with zombies. Un-Die Hard? No, not Un-Die Hard. That is stupid. Skip that…

0:00 - Intros
6:20 - Dream Scenario (2024)
11:55 - Rick and Morty season 7
16:50 - Mr Robot
27:50 - Argylle (2024)
31:20 - Roadhouse (2024)
(36:44 - FSBUMP)
36:55 - Train To Busan (2016)

Before there was Nightmare on Elm Street, before there was Inception, there was Dreamscape! This under-the-radar sci-fi/action/thriller/romance from 1984 was a heady mix of genres, and while it was the first notable film to feature a storyline about people entering the dreams of others to help or harm, it has gone largely unnoticed in the last 40 years. But it beat Freddy and Christopher Nolan to the punch, which makes it a noteworthy thing to discuss. Starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max Von Sydow, Christopher Plummer and an analog stop-motion evil Snake Man with legs and arms (don’t ask), Dreamscape is an oddity that fell through the cracks. Let’s dust it off and see if Freud and Jung were right all along….

3:30 - The 80s Cruise(Sheena Easton, Wang Chung, Air Supply, Soft Cell, Midnight Star, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, My Posse In Effect)
26:20 - The Gentleman
28:40 - Swan Song (book)
33:00 - Dreamscape (1984)

Time again for yet another 80’s film retrospective! The year 1987 does not automatically spring to mind when one thinks of classic cinema. At first glance it is kind of meh, which is not surprising given that Three Men and a Baby was the top earner that year. But upon closer inspection, 1987 has a crap-ton of stealthily influential flicks buried within. Yup, 1987 is the year that gave us Evil Dead 2, RoboCop, Princess Bride, Lethal Weapon, The Untouchables, Withnail & I, Raising Arizona, River’s Edge, Predator, Spaceballs… this list goes on. We’re just as shocked as you are! So we’re giving props to a stealth year for stone-cold classics - 1987!

Example of Scared Ketchup’s The Trump Show: https://youtu.be/4syP4lA3Q0Y?si=cLHzjzoo-Nw_fAQX

4:30 - Scared Ketchup - The Trump Show
11:10 - State Of The Union Address
15:35 - Euphoria (Max)
22:05 - Elektra
25:50 - The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)
28:10 - Dempsey and Makepeace (1985)
34:00 - 1987 in movies

Ever seen a movie or show and thought, “Wow - they sure got that wrong!” It could have been good, but they missed the point. Or maybe you had a better point in mind. That’s the theme of this week’s show - why not remake these things that were almost good? As long as everything else gets remade every five years, here are some projects that decidedly deserve to be correctly done.

0:00 - Intros
4:30 - Dicks The Musical
12:12 - Northern Exposure
17:45 - Wild Isles
20:20 - Fargo (season 5)
28:40 - I Can’t Believe They Didn’t Remake This Already