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Michael and Abe discuss Saving Private Ryan, and suggest some alternate titles.

1. Frame Rate: Saving Private Ryan

Abe and Michael discuss 1999's The Mummy, and learn of Brendan Fraser's untimely death (and resurrection).

2. Frame Rate: The Mummy (1999)

Abe and Michael spoil Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in every possible sense of the word.

5. Frame Rate: The Last Jedi

Movie hooligan David Bell joins Abe and Michael to discuss Joss Whedon's horror deconstruction classic and argue about what kind of blood evil gods like best.

18. Frame Rate: The Cabin in the Woods (Feat. David Bell)

The inimitable Robert Evans joins the team for some Gal-Q Talk. Kids call it Gal-Q now, get on that.

29. Frame Rate: Galaxy Quest (Feat. Robert Evans)

DOB stops by to unabashedly defend Mel Gibson's every choice, action and belief. Just kidding; we talk about Maverick.

63. Frame Rate: Maverick (Feat. Daniel O'Brien)

The Daily Zeitgang has us surrounded! They've demanded the release of Miles Gray, their second-rate co-chair, but we refuse to comply until he's bared his soul with us regarding a couple flicks. First up, perennial Christmas Coens/Zwigoff train wreck Bad Santa.

150. Frame Rate: Bad Santa (Feat. Miles Gray)

Colloquially referred to as "O Brother," this film is a panoply of tight spots, m'hair, and suitors what got prospects. Abe and Michael delve them all, and thankfully do not break into song at almost any point. Turturro. Clooney. Nelson. And thou.

154. The Coen Brothers Brothers: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Bridgett Greenberg, your Sound Leader, and her grubby minions Michael and Abe, FINALLY -- fucking FINALLY -- determine, once and for all, What Dinosaur Real Good. It's Ankylosaur, the one with a tail made of murder!

156. What Dinosaur Real Good? Ankylosaurus!

Hey, you remember that one Simpsons episode where Ruth Powers and Marge flee from Homer and Chief Wiggum across the desert? Wiggum tries to cook engine-block eggs? Well, hey, let's talk about the incredible Ridley Scott movie of which that was a parody! Maggie Mae joins to help us dive into a pretty kickass flick.

158. Frame Rate: Thelma & Louise (Feat. Maggie Mae Fish)

James Gandolfini, Frances McDormand, Tony Shalhoub, Billy Bob Thornton, and common house-dirt all collide in a way Heisenberg himself couldn't have predicted, but the Coens apparently can. Join Michael and Abe as they struggle to crack the code of this often-obtuse, but always interesting entry in the Coen canon.

164. The Coen Brothers Brothers: The Man Who Wasn't There

Teresa Lee has a love inside of her that makes her invincible and a light you can't even imagine, so we think you'd better say "that's that" and listen to our podcast before she comes over there and beats the Hell from you.

165. Frame Rate: Punch-Drunk Love (Feat. Teresa Lee)

"We three kings be stealin' the gold!" "You make Michael Jackson cut up his own face, my main man; you have the fucked up country." "David O. Russell is a lunatic asshole." TWO of those are indelible lines from Three Kings, one is just a fact. 

The Daily Zeitgeist's Miles Gray returns to revisit this George Clooney/Jamie Kennedy/Jim Gaffigan vehicle about assmaps the men who misuse them.

168. Frame Rate: Three Kings (Feat. Miles Gray)

Joel and Ethan force Catherine and George to channel Hepburn and Grant, all respectively. It's the Coens' most expensive film, and therefore the best, as any good divorce attorney will tell you. Join the madcap antics as Mike and Abe unpack one of the brothers' lighter offerings.

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170. The Coen Brothers Brothers: Intolerable Cruelty

The dream team of Fish, Swaim, and Epperson decode the dense, symbolist tome that is the "Weird" Al movie. And if they don't by noon tomorrow, the podcasting network will get sold to an evil old billionaire!!!!

171. Frame Rate: UHF (Feat. Maggie Mae Fish)

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The oft-maligned prelude to No Country, Joel and Ethan's grudging remake of the Alec Guinness/Peter Sellers comedy classic The Ladykillers is...wait for it...funnier than you think it is. Abe and Michael unpack it's undeniable flaws, learn a lot about the Coens in the process, and also highlight some truly hilarious Coen Moments you missed if you overlooked this one. 

J.K. Simmons as you've never seen him before, Tom Hanks as you've never seen him before, and Stephen Root exactly as you've seen him in every other Coen Brothers movie! What's not to kind of like?

Art by Michael Vincent Bramley.

Music by Abe Epperson.

176. The Coen Brothers Brothers: The Ladykillers

Call it, Friendo.

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187. The Coen Brothers Brothers: No Country For Old Men

Robert "Behind the Bastards" Evans returns to provide real-world expertise in the analysis of a very silly film about suicide bombers. That's right, it's Sharia Law and Lotsa Laffs with Abe, Mike, Rob, Omar, Barry, Faisal and Waj!

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191. Frame Rate: Four Lions (Feat. Robert Evans)

This month for our Patron-exclusive Beanus Content Module, Robert Evans joins Michael and Abers to answer your questions at a more moderate pace than last time. It's way more interesting than it has any right to be, and you helped us make it! Thanks.

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