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David and Jeff discuss the finer points of watching movies with your spouse, think about the nature of cancellation with Outcome, and kick out the jams with School of Rock. Then they put a relationship to the test with The Drama.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: The Boys Season 5 and The Pitt 
Jeff - DLC 647 with Rebekah Valentine

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:59:30)
David - Outcome, Deadloch
Jeff - Taskmaster S21 Premiere, School of Rock

Featured Review (~01:30:13)    
The Drama

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David, Devindra, and Jeff take cover with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, look for a way out in Exit 8, and hit the lanes with Born to Bowl. Then they shoot for the stars with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Super Mario Galaxy Review
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: How Apple keeps redefining personal computing at 50 
Jeff - We Have Concerns The AI Social Network

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:17:23)
David - Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, War Machine, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat
Devindra - Exit 8, For All Mankind S5
Jeff - Born to Bowl, Exit 8

Featured Review (~01:09:20)    
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
SPOILERS (~01:35:32)

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David, Devindra, and Jeff navigate the criminal underworld with Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, audition for the role of a lifetime in Bait, and enter the ring for the second season of WWE: Unreal. Then they hatch a plot to play at the Rivoli with Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: Covering Invincible & The Pitt
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: Can Microsoft fix Windows 11 by dumping AI? 
Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:19:42)
David - Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
Devindra - Bait, Daredevil: Born Again S2, The Bad Guys 1 + 2
Jeff - Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, WWE: Unreal S2, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat

Featured Review (~01:07:28)    
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
SPOILERS (~01:25:22)

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David, Devindra, and Jeff go for broke in How to Make a Killing, brace for change with The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, and take to the seas with the Disney Fantasy Cruise. Then they take one last chance on our universe with Project Hail Mary.

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Weekly Plugs
David - The eXpat Files: It Was Just Not an Accident
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 mess
Jeff - Formative Media episode 2

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:06:15)
David - How to Make a Killing, Heel
Devindra - The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, Videoheaven, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Jeff - Disney Fantasy Cruise Ship, Phineas and Ferb

Featured Review (~01:14:00)    
Project Hail Mary
SPOILERS (~01:42:30)

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David and Devindra are joined this week by film critic Matt Goldberg to reflect on the winners and losers of the 2026 Academy Awards, unpack masculinity with Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, diagnose the 2026 reboot of Scrubs, and look back on some of the best picture winners of the past. Then they reckon with the combined power of Quentin Tarantino’s epic Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Check out Matt’s newsletter Commentary Track.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Matt Goldberg’s review of Project Hail Mary
Devindra - Engadget coverage of MacBook Neo and MacBook Pro M5 Max
Matt Goldberg - Interview with Lynne Littman and Jane Alexander for Testament

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:34:04)
David - Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, Neighbors
Devindra - Scrubs (2026), Father Mother Sister Brother, Blades of the Guardians
Matt Goldberg - Past Best Picture Winners: Cavalcade, Cimarron, A Man for All Seasons

Featured Review (~01:02:13)    
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

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David, Devindra, and Jeff explore the animal kingdom with Hoppers, cast a web with the MCU Spider-Man films, and head back to campus with Rooster. Then they check out Maggie Gyllenhaal's resurrection of the Frankenstein story with The Bride!.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: The Pitt + DTF St Louis
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on MacBook Neo + Anthropic vs. DOD with Spencer Ackerman
Jeff - Microplastics Aren’t a Big Deal

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:03:03)
David - Hoppers, Pillion, What Happened Was…
Devindra - Hoppers, MCU Spider-Men (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home), Kiff
Jeff - Rooster, DTF St. Louis

Featured Review (~00:50:57)    
The Bride!
SPOILERS (~01:16:45)

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David, Devindra, and Jeff get into the major development in the Warner Bros. takeover, dig deep with We Bury the Dead, scan the apps in DTF St. Louis, and tackle redemption with The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Then they take on the next generation of the Ghostface killer with Scream 7.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Scream VII is a moral and artistic failure
Devindra - Make Me Watch It: Scarlet
Jeff - Marvel Recap: Dr. Doom 

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:16:28)
David - We Bury the Dead, Taylor Tomlinson: Prodigal Daughter, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
Devindra - DTF St. Louis, Ghostbusters (All), Industry S4 Finale
Jeff - Steal, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins

Featured Review (~01:04:08)    
Scream 7
SPOILERS (~01:23:59)

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The Filmcast: After Dark is the bonus show where we talk about a variety of random topics that didn't make it into the main podcast.

In this episode, David, Devindra, and Jeff welcome Dan Trachtenberg back to the podcast to discuss Predator: Badlands, which is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu and available on Blu-Ray/4K. They discuss what it's like to tweak the movie studio logo at the beginning of the film, how they convinced the world Elle Fanning was a backpack, why the film is rated PG-13, and the tiny differences between a scene that works and a scene that doesn't. Please note this conversation has SPOILERS for Predator: Badlands.

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David, Devindra, and Jeff go for a swim with The Plague, go undercover with the 4K edition of Hard Boiled, and sharpen their weapons for Blades of the Guardians. Then they assemble an unlikely troupe to save the world from a dark future in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Does Anybody Want AI Entertainment? 
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on the RAMaggedon getting worse 
Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:17:26)
David - Hard Boiled 4K, Megadoc (Criterion)
Devindra - The Plague, Scarlet, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, On This Day…1776, Industry
Jeff - Blades of the Guardians, Nirvanna the Band the Show

Featured Review (~01:09:58)    
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
SPOILERS (~01:25:00)

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David, Devindra, and Jeff study up for a lesson in Crime 101, go undercover with the first three Spy Kids films, and head back in time for a meta journey with Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. Then they gird their loins for the period-piece romance of “Wuthering Heights”.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Dave Chen Travels: Nazare
Devindra - Excalibur on You’ve Never Seen What
Jeff - DLC Bookclub with Gary D Schmidt

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:28:57)
David - Crime 101, Shelter, Is This Thing On? 
Devindra - Spy Kids 1-3, Spirit Rangers, Hot Wheels Let's Race
Jeff - Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Steal

Featured Review (~01:18:55)    
“Wuthering Heights”
SPOILERS (~01:36:04)

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David, Devindra, and Jeff render judgement on an infant related Slashfilmcourt case, clean up a mess with The Housemaid, take their seats for the revival of The Muppet Show, and find their way home with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Then they solve a family mystery with The Wrecking Crew.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: Kim Renfro’s Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Recaps
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Moltbook, the social network for AI agents
Jeff - DLC 638 with Mike Futter

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:42:47)
David - The Housemaid, Dust Bunny
Devindra - The Muppet Show
Jeff - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Simpsons S37

Featured Review (~01:16:04)    
The Wrecking Crew
SPOILERS (~01:31:25)

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