Category Archives: Reeled In

This week, Noah and Chance order up the 1988 Tom Cruise vehicle “Cocktail.” Never seen it? Somehow we hadn’t either, despite the fact that it features one of the brashest, most encompassing Cruise performances ever. He plays a showman bartender who twirls bottles, gyrates to ’80s hits, parties with the clientele, competes poisonously with his […]

From the mind that brought you “Boyhood,” sit back and enjoy … “Brohood”? In this week’s mini-episode, Noah and Chance move in with the much-praised 2016 Richard Linklater film “Everybody Wants Some!!” Set in a Texas house of college baseball players in 1980, it’s easygoing, it examines every inch of a social group, and it’s […]

Our long summer continues with a mini-episode on the 2015 music biopic “Love & Mercy.” Chance and Noah are torn on this two-headed telling of the Brian Wilson story. One is a deep studio dive into Wilson’s orchestral pop genius and the other is an overcast, nearly unrelated custody drama.

At a certain point in life we all make that choice: Are we chasing tornados because they killed our dads or are we corporate posers who barely even listen to classic rock in pursuit of a cyclone? You have until the end of our mini-episode on 1996’s Twister to decide. Also discussed — oh, that’s too much Paxton, […]

Noah and Chance briefly considered the genre of sci-fi cowboy films before realizing our ill-fated manifest destiny: watching Wild Wild West on HBO and reconciling that decision as best we could. This mini-episode raises all sorts of questions. How do you pronounce “Kenneth Branagh”? How do you pronounce Kenneth Branagh pronouncing the nonsense words he says in this […]

In honor of Prince and the singular acting method of truly not caring that there’s a camera in your vicinity, Noah & Chance each watched “Purple Rain” for the first time. They discuss its “miraculous” existence, a comparison to “Lemonade” and how the 1984 film is a genuine artistic fantasy.

Noah and Chance were held up by sickness and travel in their plans for a steel-jaw-meets-iron-glove fight over Batman Vs. Superman. But they still squabble a bit. Noah calls from a parked car in Los Angeles to explain what he finds entertaining about the much-maligned superhero showdown. Chance is largely incredulous.

In the post-awards wasteland, Noah and Chance took shelter underground this week with “10 Cloverfield Lane.” A spirited conversation followed the bunker thriller and “Cloverfield” pseudo-sequel — about the state of popcorn filmmaking in 2016, how marketing creates suspense and what happens when you give John Goodman a real role.

Spurred forth by Brie Larson’s Oscar victory, Noah and Chance watched “Room” for this mini-episode. Worthy of both tears and cringes as it was, a debate ensued about whether adaptational problems from Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel are severe enough to derail this emotional study of trauma-sick mother and son.

Because they mostly like their suffering beautiful, Noah and Chance review “The Revenant” in this mini-episode. There’s talk of Emmanuel Lubezki’s gorgeous catastrophes, disagreements over whether Leo’s performance is interesting and comparisons to Alejandro Iñárritu’s previous outing. Plus, a friend of the program hops on for a segment we’re calling “The Kozal Proposal.”