As the Autobots make contact with the Maximals for the first time in this week's big theatrical release, we're getting in touch with extraterrestrials of a different sort this week with 1997's Contact.

This week as both the Spider-Verse and Clone High make their way back to screens big and small, we trace it back to Christopher Miller & Phil Lord's first animated feature: 2007's Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs.

The Demolition derby continues this week, as we go from a self-destructive Jake Gyllenhaal dramedy to something that is decidedly not that: an early 90s action slugfest with a thin veneer of reactionary satire, dreading the coming Liberalized future. It's 1993's DEMOLITION MAN.

Sometimes you need to break it all down to put it all back together, which is exactly what Hayley and Justin are thinking this week as they dissect 2015's Demolition.

This week, as Ben Affleck's latest directorial effort AIR drops on Amazon Prime, we're finally popping in a DVD J Mo's been hauling around for nearly 15 years now: 2007's Gone Baby Gone.

This week, it's tax time! We crunch the numbers and list a spare bedroom as a home office to boost our returns with the autism-as-a-superpower action thriller The Accountant.

This week, we're joined by a guest for the very first time, which is exciting! Unfortunately they have brought with them an unwatched DVD from their own collection which was excrutiating! JACKSON McDONALD (Roxy Fever) guides us back into bio-pics with a movie that at times feels like a made-for-TV Ray, 2009's Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.

This week, we're back with a belated 4/20 celebration, watching the movie who's own early 90s marketing campaign encouraged filmgoers to "watch it with a bud", Richard Linklater's 1993 high school classic DAZED AND CONFUSED.

We shift gears wildly from last week's animated family fun to a blood-soaked, neon-drenched revenge thriller, as we synch up with today's theatrical release of Renfield to discuss 2018's Mandy.

This week, it's Mel Gibson leading a pack of chickens out of a POW death camp in the British claymation classic, 2000's Chicken Run!

This week on the pod... the wrong kid died! Music Month closes out with one last bio-pic -- the music movie parody that renders all the serious attempts that follow it laughable in how closely they hew to the cartoonish comedy of this brilliant send-up. It's 2007's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Music Month continues with a classic comedy of the 80s, while Justin and Hayley struggle with how to talk about a movie that is clearly exceptionally crafted but just so happens to be directed by one the great bastards of cinema: Hayley's unproblematic fave, the child-murdering John Landis. While so many hit comedies of its day have not stood the test of time, does The Blues Brothers still hold up? Your intrepid hosts are eager to find out.

Justin and Hayley are back to review the film that spawned the entire idea for the podcast, a movie that had been collecting dust on J Mo's shelf for sixteen and a half years without ever having been watched: 2004's Ray.

It's the first episode! Hayley and Justin kick off Music Month on the pod with a movie that is sort of a bio-pic, sort of a meditation on the pointlessness of bio-pics in general, and a great excuse to get a ton of great bands together and record some wonderful covers of Bob Dylan's more obscure songs. It's 2007's I'm Not There.