Podcasts by The Picture Show with Austin and Phil Rood
Phil and Austin Rood are a father and son who watch and discuss a lot of movies, so they decided to bring their discussions to the mic. Listen as they both bring movies to the table and their reactions and analyses to each other.
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Phil Goes To Camp- Last Day of Camp from 2023-11-17T06:04
Phil reviews the Friday the 13th series and how it has permanently changed his psyche
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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th(2009) from 2023-11-15T01:20:52
Phil watches the Friday the 13th remake tries to separate the greatness of Derek Mears from the perverted madness of the Michael Bay-iverse
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Phil Goes to Camp-Freddy vs Jason from 2023-11-13T05:26
It's just like that time Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth went on tour together because they were mad at Eddie Van Halen but they ended up hating each other even more
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Phil Goes to Camp-Jason X from 2023-11-11T01:18:09
Phil watches Jason murder Canadian... scientists(?) in... space because of course he does...
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112-Let's Review Season 7 from 2023-11-06T05:48
Leo, the podcast's producer, shows up to give some on-air pointers at how the show can improve and the guys immediately disregard them and keep Phil on the show...
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Phil Goes To Camp-Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday from 2023-11-04T22:20:56
Patterns are broken, up is down, left is right, monsters have families and hell is for deformed children who drowned at camp...
Phil watches Jason Goes To Hell
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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan from 2023-11-03T19:31:56
Phil takes a luxury cruise from his summer camp to Times Square and watches Friday the 13th Part VIII
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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood from 2023-10-31T12:24
Phil wishes his psychic powers had told him to avoid this movie.
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111-Let's Return to Derry (It Chapter Two) from 2023-10-30T05:26
Aus and Phil return to their Maine hometown to finish what they started a long time ago: Season 7 of their podcast. To do this, they watched 2019's It: Chapter Two and discuss how i...
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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives from 2023-10-29T02:38:59
Phil returns to the camp where it all began so he can talk about the 6th movie in the franchise and hopefully his nightmares can finally stop...
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Phil Goes To Camp- Friday the 13th (Part V): A New Beginning from 2023-10-28T14:56:30
Phil discusses Friday the 13th (Part V): A New Beginning
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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter from 2023-10-26T21:46:08
Phil continues commenting on the Friday the 13th movies and their ever-evolving naming convention with Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
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Phil Goes to Camp-Friday the 13th Part III from 2023-10-25T23:03:56
Phil heads to the lake to get high and have sex, but ends up in a nightmare scenario instead. Listen to this mini-episode as Phil shares his thoughts about Friday the 13th Part III
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110-Let's Float (It Chapter 1) from 2023-10-23T05:56
Austin and Phil go into the sewers of their city to try to find out what happened to their missing podcast episode. While down there, they ran across a copy of 2017's It Chapter One...
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The Walking Dead: Land of the Croissants (Austin's Thoughts) from 2023-10-18T12:00
Austin here, and after watching TWD: Dead City and now TWD: Daryl Dixon I had a lot of thoughts on the state of this franchise as a whole and where it's headed. Got on the mic by myself to talk to ...
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109-Let's Stand Up For Ourselves (The Black Phone) from 2023-10-16T05:17:24
This week, the guys take a break from their brutal playground fist fights against psychotic bullies to watch the horror movie The Black Phone. The guys talk about period pieces and nost...
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108-Let's Shine On (Doctor Sleep) from 2023-10-09T05:32
Looking to reset after last week's descent into madness with The Shining Phil and Austin (and Christy) sat down this week to watch the 2019 sequel Doctor Sleep. Aus and Phi...
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107-Let's Listen to Tony Next Time (The Shining) from 2023-10-01T18:16:22
In search of a quiet place to record podcasts, Austin and Phil have taken jobs as winter caretakers at a haunted ski lodge where they also have access to some kick ass DVDs, so they decided to w...
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106-Let's Have a Persecution Complex(Hacksaw Ridge) from 2023-09-25T17:43
This week, Aus and Phil walk into war with nothing but their podcast mic to protect them, but they take a break to watch Mel Gibson's 2016 return to the director's chair: Hacksaw Rid...
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105-Let's Start Dating Our Adversaries(Out of Sight) from 2023-09-19T00:12:49
This week the guys broke out of podcast jail and decided to lay low in scenic Detroit. While waiting for their last big score, they watched the 1998 film Out of Sight. Phil fanboys over...
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104-Let's Commit White Collar Crimes (Emily the Criminal) from 2023-09-11T05:06
This week Aus and Phil are telling terrible bossess to f@$k right off while swiping other people's credit cards and tasing the crap out of craigslist buyers... also, they watched Emily t...
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103-Let's Deal With Shifting Trends In Entertainment By Forming Genuine Friendships With Unlikely People (The Illusionist) from 2023-09-04T20:46:46
This week Aus and Phil travel to faraway lands in hopes of reviving their podcast careers with the help of their young optimistic (and kind of naive) new producer. They also watched the film
102-Let's Close Down the Beaches (Jaws) from 2023-08-28T05:47
This week Austin and Phil go fishing on a boat that, in all honesty, could probably stand to be a little bigger... they also watch Steven Spielberg's 1975 feature debut Jaws. The gu...
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101-Let's Get A Dog (101 Dalmations) from 2023-08-21T05:38
Austin and Phil uncover the evils of the fur industry and puppy mills by watching the Disney animated classic One Hundred and One Dalmations. They talk about eras of Disney movies, pion...
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100-Let's Talk About Fight Club Again (Fight Club) from 2023-08-14T05:21
The guys kick off their 7th season of the show with a milestone episode, Number 100! To celebrate, they go back to their roots to re-examine their very first movie 1999's Fight Club. Listen
99-Let's Celebrate 3 Years (3rd Anniversary, What We've Been Watching, Across the Spider-Verse) from 2023-07-10T05:59
Aus and Phil are on summer vacation between seasons, but they jumped on the mic to recognize their 3rd Anniversary as a podcast! They discuss some of the highlights of what they've been watc...
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Phil and David Talk About Barry: Season 4 Part 2 from 2023-06-16T16:33:35
David Luzader and Phil Rood take a look at the final episodes of HBO's Barry, discussing the fate of the characters, the ending, what it all meant, and the series as a whole.
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Phil and David Talk About Barry Season4-Part 1 from 2023-06-16T01:58:39
David Luzader and Phil Rood return to talk about one of their favorite shows, HBO's dark comedy Barry. They're discussing the first half of the final season on this episode.
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98-Let's Review Double Features (S6 Review) from 2023-05-22T01:42:26
This week, Phil and Austin look back on the individual movies and double features they watched over Season 6. They talk about their favorites, what didn't hit home with them as much, what ke...
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97-Let's Cause A Trainwreck (Super 8) from 2023-05-16T09:48:03
This week the Austin and Phil have no show notes due to the writers' strike (on which we are fully in support of the WGA)
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96-Let's Work With Animals (Nope) from 2023-05-01T05:07:51
This week, the guys bring the cats into the studio and learn the hard lessons about show business animals that they should have taken from Jordan Peele's 2022 film Nope. The guys an...
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95-Let's Meet the Family (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) from 2023-04-24T22:56:25
This week the guys hired stunt doubles to give their hot takes on the podcast then sat down to watch 2019's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Phil and Aus break down the movie by discu...
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94-Let's Make Talkies (Babylon) from 2023-04-16T23:15:42
TRIGGER WARNING- this week's conversation contains discussion of suicide as depicted in the film Babylon
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93-Let's Read (The Book Thief) from 2023-03-27T05:02:18
This week, Aus and Phil steal wi-fi from the Man so they can get their podcast uploaded in the name of fighting fascists and censorship... also they watched The Book Thief. The guys tal...
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92-Let's Scalp Some Nazis (Inglourious Basterds) from 2023-03-20T05:12:23
This week, Austin and Phil fight fascism with art and brutality by calling out incels, trolls, and hatemongers as the petulant man babies that they are... but aside from what they do in their ev...
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91-Let's Go On A Mission From God (The Blues Brothers) from 2023-03-13T17:34:01
Phil traded his car for a microphone so that he could record a podcast with Austin as soon as Aus was released from jail, so they got to work recording an episode whose monetization could save t...
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90-Let's Use Music To Drown Our Tinnitus (Baby Driver) from 2023-03-06T00:45:42
This week Austin and Phil hit the airwaves with a podcast hosting bill they can't afford and a show doc they don't have and they're looking for adventure... to talk about. Luckily they have just...
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89-Let's Forge Some Documents(Can You Ever Forgive Me) from 2023-02-27T05:30:57
This week Austin and Phil do some serious day drinking and hatch a plot to pay their hosting fees by selling podcasts with forged signatures of their hosts, but run into a roadblock when they ca...
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88-Let's Take Out Our Competition(I, Tonya) from 2023-02-20T05:00:21
The guys try a sport above their station in life this week as they take on discussions of cycles of abuse, class, and figure skating when they break down the 2017 sports biopic/crime story I...
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87-Let's Upgrade Our Ticket(Snowpiercer) from 2023-02-13T06:18:39
Aus and Phil try to work their way into a better class of podcasters by fighting their way to the top of the rankings and be among the podcasts full of greenhouses and sushi bars and raves... ev...
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86-Let's Steal Some Luggage from 2023-02-06T07:00:33
Aus and Phil show their support for mass transit and high speed rail by hopping on 2022's Bullet Train. The guys talk about the value of a movie knowing what it is, stunt performers tur...
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85-The Picture Show Hiatus Spectacular! from 2023-01-13T02:21:02
Aus and Phil check in with an update of what they've been up to and what they've been watching while on hiatus.
Season 6 of the Picture Show kicks off its season of double fea...
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84-The Picture Show Holiday Special (Klaus) from 2022-12-19T07:09:13
Aus and Phil celebrate the holidays with the 2019 animated holiday film Klaus. The guys talk about Christmas movies in general, what makes them good or bad, and try to figure out how th...
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84-Let's Review Season 5 from 2022-11-21T06:59:50
Austin and Phil look back at Season 5 and the highs and lows of this group of movies... they also sidetrack the conversation into discussions about the most Catholic movies, TENET, and ...
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83-Let's Build Our Soulmate(The Bride of Frankenstein) from 2022-11-14T01:50:45
This week, Austin and Phil climb out from under the wreckage of their Frankenstein review that they survived because of reasons that will never be explained. After randomly murdering so...
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82-Let's Be Survivalist Lunatics(10 Cloverfield Lane) from 2022-10-31T05:17:01
This week, Austin and Phil go to their underground bunker/recording studio to talk about alien attacks and this week's movie 10 Cloverfield Lane. The guys talk about cycles of mental il...
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81-Let's Lose Our Minds In Space(Pandorum) from 2022-10-23T13:30:13
This week, Aus and Phil are very groggy after waking from long naps. They poured some coffee and tried to wake up while watching a movie, 2009's Pandorum. The guys talk about the visual...
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80-Let's Drink and Teleport(The Fly) from 2022-10-17T00:27:30
This week, Aus and Phil break out their best Jeff Goldblum impressions and brace themselves for some good old fashioned Cronenberg body horror... they also watched the 1986 sci fi horror movie <...
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79-Let's Build a Monster(Frankenstein) from 2022-10-09T11:46:10
This week, Austin and Phil are coming to you from the new podcast studio they built in an old German windmill, where they watched the 1931 classic(?) Frankenstein. The guys talk about a...
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78-Let's Get Motion Sickness(Cloverfield) from 2022-09-26T05:05:21
This week, Austin and Phil's party to celebrate their 78th episode was interrupted by a monster from space who hurled the head of the Big John statue (local reference, sorry/ not sorry) at them ...
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77-Let's Stare at the Sun(Sunshine) from 2022-09-19T23:54:53
This week Austin and Phil are on a suicide mission to reboot the energy source that keeps them going... they're just making a pot of coffee... In the meantime, they're also finding time to watch...
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76-Let's Relocate(Interstellar) from 2022-09-12T05:17:24
Austin and Phil spent most of this week chasing drones through cornfields in an effort to... get a free drone. Anyway, when they were done with that, they sat down to watch this week's mov...
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Let's Offer An Apology (Not The Abyss) from 2022-09-05T19:17:40
In this episode, Phil explains the lack of episode
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75-Let's Wake A Friend(Passengers) from 2022-08-29T00:19
Austin and Phil discovered that they have space insomnia that makes them be awake while everyone else sleeps, so this week, they used that time to watch 2016's Passengers. The guys talk...
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74-Let's Resurrect Your Husband(Starman) from 2022-08-22T04:35:48
This week, Austin and Phil crashed their homemade spaceship in the woods and had to hijack the DNA of a neighborhood dead guy in order to watch their movie, which was 1984's Starman. Th...
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73-Let's Learn A New Language(Arrival) from 2022-08-15T04:38:55
This week Austin and Phil head to Montana to try to communicate with some strange visitors from a faraway land... Canadians. The guys take on Canadian director Denis Villeneuve's 2016 film A...
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72-Let's Find Dave(2010: The Year We Make Contact) from 2022-08-08T04:27:50
Austin and Phil go into space as rivals, but quickly learn respect and comradery as they work together to find out what happened to HAL-9000, the Discovery, and the weird Space Baby from the end...
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71-Let's Find Our Absentee Space Dad (Ad Astra) from 2022-08-01T04:43:22
Aus and Phil kick off Season 5 by taking a road trip into deep space. Luckily, they found a podcast studio on Mars that they were able to utilize to share their thoughts about 2019's Ad Astr...
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70-Let's Celebrate Two Years from 2022-07-10T05:29:17
For two years, we've reviewed movies as "Father and Son... with a splash of gay", and today we celebrate two years of that dynamic. In this episode, we talk about what we've gotten from doing th...
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A Very Special Episode: Let's Talk With Corey Scott from 2022-06-17T18:16:50
Writer, podcaster, and genuinely great dude Corey Scott sits down with Phil to talk about their newly released collaboration Nictitate... but if you know these 2, you can already guess ...
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Phil and David Talk About Barry S3 Ep8 from 2022-06-14T13:57:39
This week Phil and David break down the Season 3 finale of HBO's Barry: starting now. We talk about the tragic ending to several character arcs as well as the tone of the entire season,...
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Phil and David Talk About Barry S3 Ep7 from 2022-06-07T17:50:07
David and Phil break down the 7th episode of the 3rd season of HBO's Barry. This week, we discuss the aftermath of Barry's dinner, Sally's downward spiral, Gene and Annie, and how the p...
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Phil and David Talk About Barry-S3 Ep6 from 2022-06-01T15:03:25
This week David and Phil talk about 710n the 6th episode of the 3rd season of HBO's Barry. We talk about the great balance between absurdity and darkness that this episod...
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Phil and David Talk About Barry pt2 from 2022-05-24T12:36:05
David and Phil get together again to talk about Barry. This week they cover episodes 4 & 5 of Season 3 and discuss the balance of darkness and comedy, the themes for forgiveness and co...
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69-Let's Review Season 4 from 2022-05-17T04:13:27
Austin and Phil bring their Fourth Season to a close by looking back at the baker's dozen of movies they've watched for the show. They talk about what they loved, what they very much didn'...
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Phil and David Talk About Barry from 2022-05-10T18:49:12
David Luzader from Hit Me One More Time and Phil got together to discuss the start of Season 3 of one of their favorite TV shows, HBO's Barry. Hear their thoughts on the ...
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68-Let's Grow Moustaches(Death on the Nile) from 2022-05-09T02:43:39
Austin and Phil were looking forward to some vacation time now that the season is coming to an end, but wouldn't you know it, someone ended up getting murdered... in a movie they watched. ...
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67-Let's Find A Dead Body(Stand By Me) from 2022-05-02T05:00
This week, Austin and Phil follow the train tracks into the woods chasing down rumors of a dead body. Along the way they confront truths about their lives and place in the podcasting lands...
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66-Let's Have A Baby(Juno) from 2022-04-25T05:00
Austin and Phil drink their weight in Sunny D and take pregnancy tests this week... they were both negative, but only one of the pair has negative things to say about this week's movie: 2007's <...
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65-Let's Go To Haiti(The Serpent and the Rainbow) from 2022-04-18T05:00
Austin and Phil forget everything they learned in their Ivy League anthropology courses and travel from the Amazon to Haiti befriending mystical jaguars and local chemists on the way... and also...
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64-Let's Make A Movie While Quarantined(The Bubble) from 2022-04-11T05:00
Despite the pandemic raging on across the globe, Austin and Phil put their own safety on the line in order to bring entertainment to the masses. It was the right thing to do. So they...
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63-Let's Look In Our Hearts(Miller's Crossing) from 2022-04-04T05:00
This week, Austin and Phil put on the fedoras and trenchcoats, pick up their tommy guns, and set out into the ultra violent gang war that is podcasting. They play both sides of the battle,...
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62-Let's Hope We Get Pardoned(Miracle in Cell No7) from 2022-03-28T02:12:10
This week, Austin and Phil ran into some legal issues that landed them in a Turkish military prison. Not to worry though, because their new friends on the cell block snuck in a VCR and a b...
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61-Let's Be Avenging Spirits(Lady Snowblood) from 2022-03-21T05:00
Austin and Phil travel to Japan to train to be fierce warriors. But before they roll themselves down a mountain in barrels, they took some time to watch 1973's Lady Snowblood for ...
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60-Let's Take This To Court(Marriage Story) from 2022-03-14T05:00
Austin and Phil are hiring lawyers and heading to court to decide who owns the majority of this podcast, but before they did that they watched the 2019 drama Marriage Story. The g...
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A Very VERY Special Episode-The Batman from 2022-03-12T21:05:03
Austin and Phil ventured out of the cave and into their local multiplex to see The Batman. They haven't had this much to say about a movie since last year's Dune, so they...
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59-Let's Believe Our Own Bulls#!t (Nightmare Alley) from 2022-03-07T03:22:50
Step right up, step right up! See the duo who have entertained tens of people across the globe as they attempt to deconstruct the most horrific carnival story since that time that Austin ate thr...
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58-Let's Cook With Fungus(Phantom Thread) from 2022-02-28T06:00
Austin and Phil learn the perfect recipe for slowing down this week from watching Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film Phantom Thread The guys talk about unlikable characters, dysfunc...
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57-Let's Take In A Stray(The Professional) from 2022-02-21T06:00
Austin and Phil get to know their neighbors this week when they take a look at the 1994 insanity fueled action crime drama with two names: (Leon:) The Professional. The guys discu...
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56-Let's Orchestrate a Coup(Once Upon a Time In Mexico) from 2021-12-20T06:00
Aus and Phil finish their trip to Mexico on a high note, by watching the 2003 film Once Upon A Time In Mexico. The final installment in the Mariachi Trilogy proves to be a great movie t...
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55-Let's Bring In A New Cast(Desperado) from 2021-12-13T06:00
Somewhere in a small border town, Austin and Phil are drinking cheap beer in dirty glasses as they talk about the biggest Mexican action movie they've ever seen: 1995's Desperado....
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54-Let's Find Our Guitar Case(El Mariachi) from 2021-12-06T06:00
This week, Phil and Austin head south of the border with just a few dollars and a guitar case full of puns as they kick off their last trilogy of the season with Robert Rodriguez's 1992 indie tr...
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53-Let's Come Out of Retirement(The Dark Knight Rises) from 2021-11-15T06:00
Austin and Phil return once more to Gotham City to take care of its newest threat: A million ideas with no follow-up at all. The guys talk about Old Batman, stock market heists, and ...
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The Midnight Writers from 2021-11-11T00:14:33
Earlier this year, Phil participated in the NYC Midnight Short Screenplay competition. He was invited to join fellow writers Derek and Keith ofListen
52-Let's Be Serious(The Dark Knight) from 2021-11-08T06:00
Aus and Phil talk about the 2008 comic book masterpiece "The Dark Knight" on this week's episode. They discuss Ledger's performance, the themes of being a vigilante and Holmes vs Gyllenhaa...
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51-Let's Be Theatrical Ninjas(Batman Begins) from 2021-11-01T11:32:22
Aus and Phil fake their deaths and run to the Himalayas where they planned to become crime-fighting ninjas... until they found a tv and a blu-ray of this week's movie. They watched Bat...
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50-Let's Take the Bus Instead(Train to Busan) from 2021-10-25T05:00
(Train to Busan review starts at 24:00)
Austin and Phil pat themselves on the back for reaching 50 episodes of the podcast before launching into a quick review of Halloween Kills Listen
Let's Hear From Our Listeners from 2021-10-22T05:00
We did this quick episode to address some of the feedback we've gotten about our coverage of the Evil Dead franchise. The incredible Corey Scott sends us a DM about the parallels ...
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49-Let's Shop SMart(Army of Darkness) from 2021-10-18T05:00
Aus and Phil finish off the Evil Dead trilogy with Army of Darkness. The guys talk about what does and doesn't work in this installment, Raimi's choices, and how the trilogy works...
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Let's Talk With J-F Dubeau from 2021-10-13T05:00
Another Very Special Episode of the Picture Show finds Austin and Phil sitting down to talk with author, artist, podcaster, and Canadian J-F Dubeau. The guys talk to J-F about his upcoming...
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48-Let's Try This Again(Evil Dead 2) from 2021-10-11T05:00
Austin and Phil return to the woods to hang out in a cabin and listen to a super bizarre book on tape while checking out the Sam Raimi sequel Evil Dead II. The guys talk about how...
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Let's Talk with Amy Frost from 2021-10-06T05:00
Join us for a very special episode as Austin and Phil sit down for a conversation with "hobby magpie" Amy Frost (aka @Daniora ). Amy tells the guys of her theatrical roots and how th...
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47-Let's Party Down(The Evil Dead) from 2021-10-04T03:49:07
Aus and Phil take a look at 1981's cult classic horror film The Evil Dead. The guys talk about the career of Sam Raimi and his Oldsmobile, indie film production value, and Fake Sh...
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46 Let's Finish What We Started (War for the Planet of the Apes) from 2021-09-27T05:00
Austin and Phil break down the final chapter of the Apes trilogy, review the series overall, and discuss what comes next for this Planet of Apes.
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45-Let's Say You Want a Revolution(Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) from 2021-09-20T05:00
Austin and Phil dive into the second of the Apes prequel trilogy with 2014's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The guys talk about building societies, compelling villains, ...
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44-Let's Adopt a Chimp(Rise of the PotA) from 2021-09-13T05:00
Austin and Phil kick off Season 3 by jumping into their first trilogy with Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The guys talk about the movie's relationship to the original Planet ...
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Season 3 Preview Extravaganza from 2021-08-16T22:45:18
Austin and Phil catch up on what they did over their summer break, discuss their plans for Season 3 of the podcast, and give probably their best acting performances ever as they do a dramatic re...
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43-Let's Review Season2 from 2021-07-12T01:14:54
Austin and Phil take a look back at the last 20 movies they watched for the show. It's a reflection of what they loved, didn't love, was new to them, or that they've changed their opinions...
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42-Let's Take Guitar Lessons(Kubo and the Two Strings) from 2021-07-05T05:00
This week, Aus and Phil find themselves exploring their family heritage and the secret origin of guitar strings by watching the 2016 animated adventure film Kubo and the Two Strings. &n...
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41-Let's Fend For Ourselves(A Series of Unfortunate Events) from 2021-06-28T05:00
Aus and Phil take travel to a nondescript time and place that's a little bit Victorian, a little bit steampunk, and very strange... 2004... they go to 2004 and revisit the Nickelodeon Studios fi...
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40-Let's Make a Drug Deal(True Romance) from 2021-06-21T05:00
This week, the guys kill a pimp to punish him for being a white guy with dreadlocks, steal his drugs and take off to California... then they watched a movie and talked about it for an insanely long...
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39-Let's Spiral Into Darkness(Inside) from 2021-06-14T05:00
Aus and Phil confined themselves to a single room for an hour and a half so they can create the most brilliant piece of art in years... it did not work. But they did manage to talk about a...
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38-Let's Try This Again(Tenet) from 2021-06-07T05:00
Phil and Austin go back a few days to when they watched Tenet for the first time to explore how they feel about it. They talk about the places they each found challenging with the...
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37-Let's Find a Reputable Daycare(Cargo) from 2021-05-24T05:00
This week, Phil searches for a proper movie to leave Austin in the care of as they track across a wasteland full of zombies and psychopaths while watching the 2017 Australian film Cargo...
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A Very Special Episode: Godzilla Vs Kong from 2021-05-17T05:00
This week, Aus and Phil and Millie Bobby Brown (okay not really) uncover a vast conspiracy using all their podcasting skills- and Godzilla is at the center of it all. Listen to hear our quick takes...
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36-Let's Meet the Neighbors(My Neighbor Totoro) from 2021-05-10T04:08:41
after figuring out which of their cats would make the best bus, Austin and Phil settle in for a discussion about Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 animated fantasy My Neighbor Totoro. The guys talk about the ...
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Not An Episode from 2021-05-03T05:00
Listen to this episode for an explanation of why there is no episode this week
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35-Let's Go Home(Gravity) from 2021-04-26T05:00
Aus and Phil are the sole survivors of a tidal wave of space garbage and they're struggling to get home. Phil keeps playing country music and cracking wise while Austin attempts to make pr...
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34-Let's Beat Our Chests(Kong: Skull Island) from 2021-04-19T05:00
Austin and Phil lead an expedition to a legendary island full of monsters and horrors the likes of which we've... seen a few times before in one form or another. But it doesn't matter, bec...
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33-Let's Stay Put(IO) from 2021-04-12T02:40:19
This week, Austin and Phil are the only people on Earth... who watched the movie IO. They settle in for a dark and depressing look at humanity, the better movies it pulled from, a...
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32-Let's Hustle(Kung Fu Hustle) from 2021-04-05T05:00
Aus and Phil take a trip to 1940s Shanghai for some martial arts shenanigans with Stephen Chow's 2004 comedy action film Kung Fu Hustle. They talk about the brilliant crossroads b...
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31-Let's Get the Hell Out of Here(Dunkirk) from 2021-03-29T03:31:28
Austin and Phil sit down this week for Christopher Nolan's 2017 war film Dunkirk. They talk about Nolan's bizarre timeline, why we never learned about this historical event, and discuss what chara...
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30-Let's Continue to Bend(Legend of Korra Book 3) from 2021-03-22T05:00
Austin and Phil go back to the world of benders and explore the third season of The Legend of Korra. They talk about the season as a sort of reboot, the next level of animation fo...
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29-Let's Find Salvation(Road to Perdition) from 2021-03-15T05:00
Austin and Phil examine their father-son relationship as they hit the road and run for their lives... no, they're not dodging mob assassins or seeking vengeance for their murdered family, they'r...
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28-Let's Build a Spaceship(The Astronaut Farmer) from 2021-03-08T03:41:52
Austin and Phil hunker down in the studio and build the impossible: a podcast about the film The Astronaut Farmer. The guys talk about the bizarre tone of this movie, the cl...
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27-Let's Confront Our Emotions(Where the Wild Things Are) from 2021-03-01T06:00
Austin and Phil take a trip to the center of their psyches this week by watching 2009's Where the Wild Things Are. They break down the deep emotional and artistic meanings behind ...
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26-Let's Be More Outgoing(Eighth Grade) from 2021-02-22T06:00
This week Austin and Phil watched Bo Burnham's 2017 comedy drama/exploration of adolescence Eighth Grade. The guys discuss the timelessness of the film, what it is saying about th...
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25-Let's Go To Sunday School(The Book of Eli) from 2021-02-15T06:00
Austin and Phil hit the road to salvation this week as they dig into the 2010 post-apocalyptic film The Book of Eli. The guys get off in the weeds about religion and spirituality ...
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24-Let's Consider All The Evidence(12 Angry Men) from 2021-02-08T06:00
Austin and Phil sequester themselves to a tiny room in the back of Stately Rood Manor where they discuss the minutia of what they have just been presented with... in this case, it's the 1957 cou...
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23-Let's Go To Fire Fest(The Hidden Fortress) from 2021-02-01T06:00
The guys hit the road this week and break down the 1958 samurai adventure film The Hidden Fortress. They talk about the impressive scope of this movie, the influence it had on Geo...
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22-Let's Jazz(Soul) from 2021-01-25T06:00
Austin and Phil kick off Season 2 by watching Soul, which leads them to explore life, death, the afterlife, jazz, perspective, and the possibility that Pixar is manipulating us all... Listen
TPS Life Day Special! (The Mandalorian S2) from 2020-12-27T21:34:34
***SPOILER ALERT FOR THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 2**** Austin and Phil celebrate the holiday season by leaning into the Star Wars Universe to talk about Life Day, Disney's handling of IP, and the second...
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21-Let's Review(Season 1 Recap) from 2020-12-07T06:00
Austin and Phil take a look at what they've reviewed over the past 20 episodes and pick out their best, worst, and most surprising movies as well as looking at the benefits this show has brought...
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20-Let's Be Smart Shoppers(Moneyball) from 2020-11-16T06:00
Aus and Phil dive into the world of pro sports, numbers and stats, Zen Buddhism, and stepdads as they get into a discussion of 2011's Moneyball. It's a fun discussion that goes al...
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19-Let's Have Austin Talk About Austen(Emma.) from 2020-11-09T06:00
The guys don their finest uncomfortable clothing and their tallest hats and announce themselves at the finest estates of Victorian England as they talk about the 2020 adaptation of Jane Austen's...
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18-Let's Keep Bending(Korra Book 2) from 2020-11-02T06:00
Austin and Phil take a trip to the Spirit World in an attempt to find enlightenment... but they just ended up watching an anticlimactic TV season instead. The guys clash over the quality o...
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17-Let's Play A Game(Ready Or Not) from 2020-10-26T05:00
Austin and Phil open the magic card box to find out what movie they're going to watch and discover that it's 2019's Ready Or Not. The guys try to do a deep dive on the film but qu...
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16-Let's Start Over(Midsommar) from 2020-10-19T05:00
This week Austin and Phil travel to the magical kingdom of mushrooms... and bears. They're watching and talking about the 2019 horror film Midsommar and getting totally freaked ou...
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SPECIAL EPISODE-The Amazing Screw-On Head from 2020-10-17T18:43:37
Austin and Phil got together to talk about The Amazing Screw-On Head. They discuss the TV pilot and the comic it was adapted from, it's possible place in the Mignola-verse, and ho...
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15-Let's Sell Our Souls For Butter(the Witch) from 2020-10-12T05:00
Phil and Austin head into the wilderness, paying close attention not to wander into the haunted woods too far, or to antagonize their billy goat as they take a look at the 2015 horror fairytale ...
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14-Let's Get Out (Get Out) from 2020-10-05T05:00
Austin and Phil step into the Halloween season with the 2017 suspense-horror movie Get Out. They talk about the great cast, Jordan Peele as a filmmaker, and discuss the many layer...
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13-Let's Do Our Own Stunts(Haywire) from 2020-09-28T05:00
Austin and Phil square off for a fistfight of epic proportions over whether or not Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film Haywire is a great spy movie or not. They dispute acting styles, c...
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Banned Books Week from 2020-09-27T20:46:17
Amy Rood is a library nerd, a smart person, Phil's sister, and Austin's aunt, and she joins us today to talk about Banned Books Week. They talk about specific books that are frequently cha...
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12-Let's Kick Hitler in the Ball(Jojo Rabbit) from 2020-09-21T05:00
Austin and Phil look at fascism, redemption, and a million points in between as they take a look at the 2019 Taika Waititi film Jojo Rabbit. The Roods talk about what they liked a...
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11-Let's Chase Static(The Vast of Night) from 2020-09-14T05:00
This week, Austin and Phil talk about the 2019 Amazon Original film The Vast of Night. They become champions for this movie with a small budget, large ideas, as they talk about co...
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10-Let's Bend More Stuff(Legend of Korra S1) from 2020-09-07T05:00
Phil and Aus follow up their Avatar fandom by diving into the first season of The Legend of Korra. Find out who the big fan is and who's being a curmudgeon about it (spoiler: ...
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09-Let's Trip Balls (2001: A Space Odyssey) from 2020-08-30T17:48:46
Austin and Phil look at the 1968 philosophical sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's a wild ride through a complex look at humanity, so the guys gave themselves an extra long ep...
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08-Let's Live Forever(The Old Guard) from 2020-08-24T14:13:11
Austin and Phil take a look at the 2020 Netflix original movie The Old Guard this week and one of them is not very happy about it (guess which one). They discuss what was right and what was wrong ...
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07-Let's Dance(Ex Machina) from 2020-08-17T04:00
What is real? What is simulated? Why does Nathan so fixated on robot genitalia? Austin and Phil set out to answer these and other existential questions that are posed by the 2014 film ...
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06-Let's Avenge Our Parents (True Grit) from 2020-08-10T02:13:18
Austin and Phil hit the trail this week. They encounter thieves, an old man in a bear skin, and animal abusing kids at a store, all while discussing the Coen Brothers 2010 western True...
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05-Let's Break Our Family Curse (Logan Lucky) from 2020-08-03T03:23:59
Austin and Phil take a look at the comedic heist film Logan Lucky this week in an attempt to figure out if robbing a major sporting arena could end their money woes. They also loo...
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04-Let's Bend Stuff (Avatar the Last Airbender) from 2020-07-27T02:21:48
It's a special TV edition of the show this week. Austin and Phil jump on their flying bison and fly to the studio at the Northern Air Temple to talk about one of the great fantasy stories ...
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03-Let's Go To The Manor(the Hunt) from 2020-07-20T11:14:34
Austin and Phil get political on this one... or do they...? Just kidding, they do... kind of. Basically, they are the movie they're discussing, which is 2020's The Hunt star...
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02-Let's Be the Revolution (V For Vendetta) from 2020-07-13T22:20:35
Austin and Phil get stoked for this movie... until they realize it's more relevant than ever. They break down stylistic choices, fawn over the cast, sing the praises of the Wachowskis no m...
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01-Let's Talk About Fight Club (Fight Club) from 2020-07-10T19:18:43
Phil introduces Austin to a new kind of support group that helps him regain control of their lives by not talking about what they're doing also beating the crap out of every other person in the ...
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