The Fifth Element (1997)

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are back to encounter the undead legends of ancient Egypt. Stephen Sommers delivers a movie that doesn’t quite match up to its predecessor…but this one has The Rock! Whether you find this movie bad, hilarious, or hilariously bad, Jim and A.Ron are ...  Show more

A.Ron and Jim are back with another First Run Movie — Andy Weir returns with more optimistic, MacGyver-y sci-fi in Project Hail Mary. It worked for The Martian, but can lightning strike twice? You are being misled about renewable energy technology. Coal is Extremely Dumb Eridian ...  Show more

Paul Thomas Anderson gives us a trippy look into the porn industry in this dark comedy. From hilarious to heartbreaking, this movie will go places you don’t expect. Marky Mark and his manhood become stars, but stardom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. As these strange characters d ...  Show more

Jim and A.Ron cover another classic movie this week, with 1998's "The Mask of Zorro", starring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. This is one of the last classic Hollywood movies, where stunt men did incredible stunts seamlessly and it was a lot of fun. ...  Show more

We convene to share our top five murder mystery films and judge the category with ranging specificity (1:15). Then writer-director Rian Johnson joins to discuss ‘Knives Out’—the whodunnit vehicle featuring Chris Evans, Daniel Craig, and Ana de Armas—and how he landed on this film ...  Show more

Charles and Jo give their thoughts on Donald Glover’s new spy comedy/drama on Prime Video, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith,’ a reformulation of the iconic 2005 movie starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They talk about Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s previous involvement in the show, Glover’s identit ...  Show more