SPEAKING HUMAN MOVIES & MARKETING PODCAST SERIES

Hail Mary Marketing

From trailers to taglines to TikToks, we assess every aspect of the marketing for “Project Hail Mary” to see if it’s ready for launch.

Monkey Movie Mount Rushmore

In honor of the release of Primate, we share some legendary cinematic simians that rewrote the rules of monkey business and had audiences going bananas.

The Criterion Closet

We open the door on Criterion’s physical media treasure trove to see what all the buzz is about.

Halloween Thunderdome

Eight iconic horror movie villains enter, but only one leaves. Who makes it out alive?

HIM Hype Scoreboard

We huddle up to dissect whether the marketing for the new movie HIM is a trick-play touchdown or a red zone fumble.

2025 Summer Movie Awards

Like a ballerina firing a naked gun, we take our first steps toward rebirth by saluting the dramatic conclusion of the summer movie season.

Best Action Movie One-Liners

Because action is best delivered with a perfectly timed quip, we unleash the deadliest, most explosive wisecracks in the history of cinema.

2025 Summer Movie Draft

Two jurassic supermen go full final reckoning, getting freakier and more fantastically fourward as they train dragons, dodge zombies, and try not to get M3GAN’d while drafting the summer’s biggest box office hits.

Sequels No One Asked For

Titanic 2? Bob Marley: One Love: Part Deux? We pitch ideas for film continuations no one saw coming.

Stu-Stu-Studio

We rank the major movie studios based on who has the most mojo right now.

Holiday Movie Trivia

From “It’s a Wonderful Life” to “Red One”, join us in testing our knowledge of classic Christmas flicks.

2024 Summer Movie Awards

It ends with us: We close out the blockbuster season by extending our longlegs to honor the movies that made us ride or die.

Working for a Living

In honor of Labor Day, we look at how movies show and sell us the agony and glory of work.

Eddie Murphy Ultimate Thunderdome

The legendary comedian and star of the new “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” faces off against various versions of himself throughout his career.

2024 Summer Movie Draft

Two despicable deadpool bad boys team up, get twistered and turned inside out, and let their furiosa fly me to the moon as they compete to predict the top movies at the summer box office.

Marky Mark at the Movies

From Renaissance Man to The Happening to Arthur the King, we break down our favorite Mark Walhberg movie moments.

Unforgettable Opening Credits

We spotlight movie title sequences that continue to kick around our hippocampuses long after the end credits have rolled.

Best Movie Posters of 2023

Over 400 new movies hit theaters or streaming this year. Only four made our list of favorite movie poster art.

2023 Summer Movie Awards

We look back on the summer movie season to see which movies turned out to be Barbies and which ones were just Kens.

Pick 3 Part 3s

Anyone can make a sequel, but a great threequel is a rare feat. We pay tribute to some part threes that took trilogies to triumphant new heights.

Non-Franchise Ford Fiesta

We all know Harrison Ford for playing iconic characters like Han Solo and Indiana Jones, but how does his career hold up without those franchise staples?

2023 Summer Movie Draft

It’s a dead reckoning when two rivals navigate mermaids, spider-verses, and transformers to predict the biggest box office hits of the summer movie season and meet their dial of destiny.

Bowling for Blockbusters

We watch every trailer that aired during Super Bowl 57 and rank them based on how much hype they produced.

2022 Summer Movie Awards

We honor the winners and losers of a rollercoaster movie season that delivered us everything from mavericks and minions to carnivores and crawdads.

August Movie Madness

Play along as we answer trivia questions about movies released in the month of August over the past 40 years.

2022 Summer Movie Draft

Two maverick podcasters must confront the ghosts of their past to complete a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice: predicting the box-office winners of a thin 2022 summer movie lineup.

Video Game Movie Mashups

From Super Mario Bros. to Uncharted, dozens of video games have tried jumping to the big screen. But would they be better in multiplayer mode?

Mockbusters

We’ve all been there: you go to rent “Transformers” and you accidentally rent “Transmorphers”. Welcome to the wonderful world of Mockbusters.

Big Trouble in Little China

35 years ago a movie hit theaters that wildly blended genres and delivered an iconic Kurt Russel performance. It crashed and burned at the box office… but it’s legend has lived on.

2021 Summer Movie Awards

We look back on lessons learned from a weird season at the box office and award the champion of our annual summer movie draft.

Best Bond Movie Titles

In honor of “No Time to Die” finally hitting theaters, we share our picks for top named films in the James Bond franchise.  

Summer Movie Rewind 2000: Gone in 60 Seconds

We look back at a movie over twenty years old and rewatch Nic Cage and Angelina Jolie heist a ton of cars in one high-octane night. The verdict? It might just be our favorite guilty pleasure

Ranking the Rock

He’s been making movies for 20 years. But how strong is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s film career?

2021 Summer Movie Draft

After a year without summer movies we’re back drafting our (suicide?) squads of summer movies we think will make the most bank at the U.S. box office.

The Suicide Squad Red Band Trailer

They’re dying to save the franchise. Can the marketing for The Suicide Squad (2021) make us forget the horrors of watching Suicide Squad (2016)? 

Fresh or Rotten

Many people rely on Rotten Tomatoes for their movie-watching decisions. But what does a Tomatometer score really mean? We conduct a test.

Nicolas Cage Match

He’s made more than a dozen movies in the past three years—most of them completely bonkers. But what if Nic Cage’s recent films had to fight each other to the death?

Private Watch Party

We talk about our personal experiences renting out movie theaters for private watch parties.

Toughest Box Office Turkeys

No, we’re not talking about the biggest birds to ever grace the big screen. We’re talking about movies that crashed and burned the hardest at the box office.

Scariest Movie Trailers

Sometimes you don’t even have to see the movie to scream. In honor of the Halloween season, we share our picks for the four most frightening movie trailers of all time.

Bill & Ted Face the Music

We travel through time with Bill & Ted’s latest adventure—sharing our excellent expectations before the movie, some radical reactions while watching, and our post-viewing takeaways on whether this trip was worth the 30-year wait.

Summer 2020 & 2021 Movie Predictions

With the short- and long-term future of summer movies currently hanging in the balance, we forecast whether the blockbuster season can return to its former glory.

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