It’s almost Galentine’s Day and Valentine’s Day, so it’s the perfect time to hang out and watch a movie about love, loss, the power of friendship and Kevin Smith in a rare acting role that isn’t a cameo or self-referential, besides the jerseys. Andrew weighs in on recent releases Wolf Man, September 5, A Complete Unknown and Presence, whilst Johnny remembers the time he went and tried to fish, did he catch? Did he release? Did he ever go again (Spoiler on that last one, no). Somehow this becomes a checklist of connections that prove Madame Web was right all along.

302 - Catch And Release

The end is nigh, well actually it’s fully here for the first Spy Kids trilogy (the only full trilogy thus far). Johnny’s setting the game up to capture Andrew and make him suffer ThumbThumbs forever and ever. But before all that they have to discuss Marvel’s latest Fantastic Four movie, First Steps, and the London production of Sing Street on stage. Lots to play for, who will win and what will be left of them?
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314 - Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (In 2D)

Andrew runs his giant ego by making this month a celebration of his lineage, Jones Month, starting with the David Duchovny/Demi Moore capitalist satire, leading to talk of the old days of cinema, TV adaptations and product placement. Somehow there’s time to talk Dexter, Taskmaster New Zealand and the continuing adventures of Cliff Booth because like Chuck whose Life is told in a recent film, we contain multitudes.
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315 - The Joneses

August continues in that end-of-summer way as Andrew insists on making Jones Month a full-on thing, bringing a Gal Gadot-Jon Hamm Handsome Mann action comedy to the table to see if Johnny regrets not being born into the family Jones and not taking Andrew’s name when the podcast began like old traditions of yore. But before that finally the duo get down to talking the 2025 version of The Naked Gun, an unashamedly spoiler-heavy discussion of Zach Cregger’s Weapons, Freakier Friday and former-landlord Jim Broadbent’s horror icons - his mannequins.
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316 - Keeping Up With The Joneses

Fredtempber curses the cast with an imaginary friend making every situation worse, including Johnny and Andrew talking The Life Of Chuck, Eddington, Materialists, Nobody 2, Book Club: The Next Chapter, Long Story Short, the new Toxic Avenger and a Will Smith Concert! Plus trivia games, contemplations on Rik Mayall’s career and Carrie Fisher - A Legacy.
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317 - Drop Dead Fred

Our 350th film covered! (If you include bonuses and commentaries, and you should, we still watched all of those)
Fredtember ends with one of the most reviled, disgusted, discussed Razzie-winning films known to cinema. Tom Green’s creative-endeavour-to-career-ender Freddy Got Fingered, which includes a ‘fun’ Tom Green Quiz to drive Johnny insane, and Andrew offers multiple fun facts that melt Johnny’s poor brain. Plus discussion of Robert Redford’s passing, The Long Walk,  Spinal Tap 2, Downton Abbey 3, The Conjuring 4, Roger Deakins In Person and The Paper. Hoo boy this one’s an epic, and very silly indeed. Dada-esque if you will, and you should not.


318 - Freddy Got Fingered

Shocktober is here and it’s time to enter the town of Silent Hill with two folk who ain’t did never played a game before, really. But also talking about One Battle After Another, Hamilton on the big screen, The Simpsons Movie 2 announcement, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, The Lost Bus and Irish indie gem Girls & Boys.

319 - Silent Hill

Johnny Birthday! Happy Johnny Birthday!
Andrew found a Gerard Butler film on Johnny’s Letterboxd Like List and made that the film to celebrate with, building games of trivia and fun around Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Attacks On Washington and of course they CONSIDER Melissa Leo too.
Sync up 5 seconds into the film at podcast runtime 00:16:32
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BONUS - Olympus Has Fallen Commentary

Shocktober comes to a wet and wild end with the Canadian-posing-as-American teen slasher-but-not-at-all film-barely-actually-feature-length-according-to-Academy-regulations Aquaslash. To pad out the episode’s runtime in theme to the movie we divert to discuss The Smashing Machine, Tron: Ares, Him, I Swear, A House Of Dynamite and Good Boy. Happy Slashoween or something!
THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now!
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320 - AquaSlash

November, where nothing bad ever happened to a Kennedy, and we’re watching the strangely vast ensemble perform for Emilio Estevez in the build up to an event that would land us where we are now, I guess (among many many other things) and play a game of Casting Kennedys. Also, Johnny catches up on I Swear, there’s chatter about the Roofman, Bugonia, Shelby Oaks, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, The Mastermind and Johnny has specific thoughts, with slight spoilers, on the film Regretting You. What an ensemble we made ourselves, we are the Emilio Estevezes (Estevee?) of podcasting.
THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

321 - Bobby

Are You Movie Mad? Is the podcast that asks the most difficult question one man has ever faced. Cinephile Andrew Jones is perpetually flabbergasted that Johnny Ellis uses the online moniker 'Movie_Mad' yet at any given moment seems not to understand any movie references. Join Andrew as he journeys through a collection of films to educate Johnny and ask if Johnny is Mad about the movie he watched or remains Movie Mad.

302 - Catch And Release

Andrew & Johnny