Police Academy
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We ... don't, but we're totally fine with him. It's POLICE ACADEMY, the series-launching 1984 megahit! What was the deal with this thing? Is it actually funny? Is Michael Winslow a comic treasure? (Yes.) This week's recommendations: Robin is on brand with endorsements of The Color of Money (1986) and Missing (1982)! Sean is on brand with endorsements of Candy...
54m Nov 23, 2020
54m
Sneakers
Our first-ever fan vote led to a mild upset, as SNEAKERS edged out early favorite A League of Their Own to take the crown! Robin is thrilled to have her selection on the table -- but will Kahmeela and Sean rain on her Redford parade? Plus, the last(?) word on Forces of Nature! This week's recommendations: Sean likes Let Him Go; Robin endorses The Witches; and Kahmeela found another NXIUM serie...
56m Nov 16, 2020
56m
The Firm
Brimley, Busey and brisket, it's 1993's hottest legal thriller, THE FIRM! Young and plucky Tom Cruise is in way over his head with a law firm / criminal enterprise containing a stunning array of white guy character actors; what will he do? (Succeed where he should have absolutely just mobbed up.) Plus, let's reveal what YOU chose for next week's episode! This week's recommendations: Watching b...
1hr 3m Nov 10, 2020
1hr 3m
Chronicle
It's a superhero movie with Michael B. Jordan! No, not that one. No, not Fantastic Four, either. The world's only prominent found-footage superhero movie, CHRONICLE, got great reviews on release. Eight years later ... eh. But stick around, because you (yes, you) are going to pick an upcoming episode -- after Robin and Sean fight it out over the nominees! Plus, recommendations! Sean likes the 2...
50m Nov 02, 2020
50m
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
All the Jason movies in cinema history, and we somehow landed on the worst one. After The Final Chapter was very much not the final chapter, Jason returned (in a manner of speaking) with 1985's parade of bad decisions, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning! Can it become the worst-ranked movie in show history? (Of course not. We watched TWO Transformers.) Plus: a partial endorsement of Honest Thief...
1hr 2m Oct 27, 2020
1hr 2m
The Witches of Eastwick
Brooms? Hats? Nope, these witches have tennis rackets and sharp '80s fashion! It's THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, the surprisingly raunchy and weird hit that features at least one perfect scene (the one where Cher dismantles Jack Nicholson). You'll never look at cherries the same way again! That is a warning!
1hr Oct 19, 2020
1hr
The Nun
It's the closest thing the Conjuring Universe has to an origin story and the second highest-grossing film in the series. Did anyone actually like it? Kinda! Maybe! It's The Nun, a simple tale of a Romanian count conjuring a demon that occasionally disguises itself as a creepy nun, but also needs to possess a real nun and ... yeah, we don't quite get it, either.
55m Oct 13, 2020
55m
Halloween II (1981)
You can't kill the boogeyman! No, seriously, it's been 42 years, you just can't stop Michael Myers, either on or off-screen. Special guest John Greenlee joins us to look at the first of many (many) Halloween sequels, as Michael makes his way to a curiously understaffed hospital for a later-that-night slasher!
57m Oct 05, 2020
57m
Staying Alive
Saturday Night Fever got a sequel ... kinda! STAYING ALIVE (the letter G is not an error, they actually added a letter to the name of the song) follows Tony to Broadway, as he fights for his chance to walk down Satan's Alley. Is it the worst sequel of all time? Is it yacht rock? Is Frank Stallone helpful? Listen and find out!
53m Sep 28, 2020
53m
Purple Rain
This is what it sounds like when doves cry. It's also what it sounds like when your hosts are absolutely overjoyed at the subject matter, as we get to talk Prince and the wonderful, paisley-soaked absurdity of Purple Rain for an hour. Dig if you will ... this episode. (You will.)
1hr Sep 21, 2020
1hr
The Time Machine
Can you trick a psychic person? What happened to Samantha Mumba? Why does Jeremy Irons do what he does? Is Guy Pearce good at acting? These questions and many more as we wrestle with the 2002 scifi romp THE TIME MACHINE! Also, our hearts have never been this warm after the movie draw!
1hr Sep 14, 2020
1hr
"10"
Let's double down on our "Sex in the '70s" streak with the bewilderingly beloved "10"! Does this translate at all to modern audiences? Is Dudley Moore actually charming? How many beads can you attach to just one head? These questions and more -- plus, a speechless (not in a good way) review of Tenet!
1hr 2m Sep 07, 2020
1hr 2m
The Deep
You want more Jaws? Well this is kinda it! (More than half of the Jaws sequels, anyway.) Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte and a deliberately soggy Jacqueline Bissett star in THE DEEP, that other watery 70s adaptation of a Peter Benchley novel! Plus, is there finally a new Number One Movie in America?
57m Aug 31, 2020
57m
TMNT / Aliens
In between the Ninja Turtles movies you remember and the Ninja Turtles movies you hate, there's TMNT, the 2007 cartoon that looks like it was drawn and then bathed in grey soup! Plus, we do some gymnastics with our own rules to devote half of the episode to Aliens, where Ripley has traded an inconvenient cat for an equally inconvenient child!
56m Aug 24, 2020
56m
Deleted Scenes: Alien
Our rollicking recording session with Addi Twigg meant plenty of box office gold was left on the cutting room floor. Here's a quick collection of deleted scenes!
14m Aug 22, 2020
14m
Alien
Our second-ever guest host, the inimitable Addi Twigg, joins us and blesses us with a viewing of the horror classic Alien! A burst chest, a lost cat and confusingly small underpants in one of our most rollicking episodes yet!
1hr 13m Aug 18, 2020
1hr 13m
Transformers: Age of Extinction
It's our fiftieth episode, and this is what we have to watch? After last week? What did we do? Yes, in a statistically improbable development, we drew neighboring Transformers movies in back-to-back weeks. Does this one make sense? Will we get answers about the Merlin business from last week? Will familiarity with the franchise help to make this one more enjoyable? (Spoiler: No.)
1hr 7m Aug 10, 2020
1hr 7m
Transformers: The Last Knight
We could only avoid it for so long. This week, your hosts are all out of vetoes and can't help but tangle with a Transformers movie. Not just any punchy robot venture, either; the worst-reviewed of all! See if Mark Wahlberg can drag his robot friends into the bottom spot on our all-time rankings. And stick around for the next-episode draw, it's a doozy!
50m Aug 03, 2020
50m
CB4
It's our second encounter with a young Chris Rock (although he is way busier here than he was in Beverly Hills Cop 2). CB4 is a music industry satire lampooning the media frenzy around early-'90s gangster rap. 23 years later, is it a lost comedy gem or just kind of an oddity? Don't worry, none of us try to rap the recap!
55m Jul 27, 2020
55m
The Scorpion King
Come Scorp Out with us as we try to figure out why every decision leading to the production of the Scorpion King happened the way it did! Dwayne Johnson's starring debut is a sword and sandal stinker, but at least there's well-groomed people in historically inaccurate cosplay! Plus raves about movies new and very old in You Can't Handle the Truth!
1hr 2m Jul 20, 2020
1hr 2m
Beverly Hills Cop II
Duh DUN duh daDAH dun dah, duh DUN duh daDAH dun dah, DAH DUH DUN duh dun dadah DUN DUN! Except the second one. Axel Foley is back, for a movie that even the star calls mediocre! Will our hosts find more to love in Axel's second trip out west? Plus, breaking news: Hamilton is a quality piece of work!
57m Jul 13, 2020
57m
Fiddler on the Roof
Singing, dancing, comedy, tragedy and a guy named Lazer Wolf! Fiddler on the Roof topped the box office one to two times (probably), drawing droves to theaters for a long, sad yet immaculately presented epic on both ends of the 1970s. Which host will give Fiddler their highest score to date? Which host will really sink the average? All this and more! Tradition!
55m Jul 06, 2020
55m
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
No, not the original! Yeah, Yul Brynner is great, but can we interest you in Ethan Hawke playing a man named Goodnight Robicheaux? Vincent D'Onofrio as a constantly snacking bear-man? Denzel telling the whole damn movie what to do? It's the surprising remake of MAGNIFICENT SEVEN! Plus, our advice on whether or not it's safe to return to indoor cinemas (it ... it is not).
1hr 1m Jun 29, 2020
1hr 1m
Breakin'
Footloose? Dirty Dancing? Flashdance? Step aside! There's a new dance craze sweeping the nation, and it's BREAKIN'! (Do not call it "Street Jazz.") We investigate the cultural phenomenon-lite and wish we had more time with Turbo and Ozone! Plus, more on recent hits including Da 5 Bloods, Becky and Artemis Fowl!
55m Jun 22, 2020
55m
Back to School
Why don't you call us sometime when you have no class? We revisit BACK TO SCHOOL, which we definitely did not realize was one of the biggest hits of the '80s, in all of its Oingo Boingo glory! Robin revisits her youth, Kahmeela considers Rodney, Sean is just glad there's no vampire.
57m Jun 15, 2020
57m
Horton Hears a Who!
If you had asked us before we drew the movie if there was a "Horton Hears a Who" movie adaptation, we probably would've said, "I don't think so? No? Maybe?" There is! It was not only a Number One Movie in America, but one of the top 10 films of 2008! More on surprising box-office kingmaker Dr. Seuss in this look back at Whoville!
50m Jun 08, 2020
50m
Toy Story 4
For some reason, you've STILL got a friend in Woody, Buzz, and plenty of new arrivals! Can't tell your Forkys from your Duke Cabooms without our thoughts, including a long diversion into the surprisingly endangered species that is the G-Rated movie! Journey with us into a surprisingly terrifying film!
59m Jun 01, 2020
59m
Underworld: Evolution
Non-YA vampires and werewolves! (Lycans or whatever, you know what we mean.) We have landed on a long-running film franchise that none of your hosts have any experience with. Will a new fandom be born? Or will everyone just say "Wait, what?" a whole lot?
53m May 26, 2020
53m
Glass
Unbreakable's secret trilogy comes to a soggy conclusion with GLASS, M. Night Shyamalan's return to disappointing people who have come to trust him! Will any of our panel rush to the defense of the cantankerous filmmaker? Should Sean start watching Tarantino movies again? Is Kahmeela correct when she says The Count from Sesame Street is still putting out bangers? Listen and find out!
59m May 18, 2020
59m
Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part 1
It's the most successful vampire pregnancy drama of all time! The penultimate chapter of the Twilight franchise is known as the weird one (and that's saying something). Will time, or the effects of Fifty Shades, redeem the Twilight series? (I mean, do you really think we liked this?)
56m May 11, 2020
56m
War for the Planet of the Apes
The most critically acclaimed of the nine Apes Planet flicks got some rapturous reviews, but will this crew of exhausted hosts agree? Is Caesar a moving cinematic icon or just a damn dirty ape? Plus a wide ranging You Can't Handle the Truth and more!
57m May 04, 2020
57m
The Fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones may not care who did or did not kill their wife, but we're pumped about drawing this '90s mega-hit! Was THE FUGITIVE the rightful summer blockbuster we think it is, or will we find objections? (No, you could not survive that fall.) Plus deep dives in You Can't Handle the Truth and more!
53m Apr 27, 2020
53m
Stigmata
After a random draw heavily influenced by Satan, STIGMATA is the topic for a perilously-close-to-Easter viewing! What's up with this uncut slice of '90s weird? Is this the least Pittsburgh of all allegedly Pittsburgh films? Patricia Arquette is cool, though, right? These questions and more!
52m Apr 20, 2020
52m
Teachers
It's the first movie we've drawn that NONE of our hosts had ever heard of! In the 1984 drama Teachers, it's up to Nick Nolte to save a struggling high school! Yes, that does seem like a long shot! Superfluous nudity, understated violence and more -- including an interview with Box Office Prophets editor David Mumpower about the future of the movie industry!
1hr 4m Apr 13, 2020
1hr 4m
Pain & Gain
We're talking about the Michael Bay heists-and-hoists caper PAIN & GAIN -- and it's a very special episode, since we actually chat with a co-star of the film! Keili Lefkovitz joins us to talk about her memorable appearance in the movie! Plus, more streaming recommendations for your current circumstances!
1hr 6m Apr 06, 2020
1hr 6m
Crimson Tide
We look back at CRIMSON TIDE, that staple of your uncle's VHS collection in the '90s! One of your hosts give this film a new high score -- who could it be? Plus, literally zero references to Alabama college football! Plenty of streaming selections for your quarantine, too!
49m Mar 30, 2020
49m
Antz
The most successful modern animation studios were tiny babies in the late 90s, and they went to war over the right to animate some bugs. Kahmeela, Sean and Robin (virtually) gather to try and figure out what the dang deal was with Antz, the first-ever release from Dreamworks Animation! Plus out early quarantine picks and more!
42m Mar 23, 2020
42m
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
One Hufflepuff and two Slytherins gather to evaluate how well noted goofy boomer J.K. Rowling navigated her Wizarding World away from Hogwarts! The first NOMIA reckoning with this mega-franchise talks Nifflers, Bowtruckles and ... severely concerning side characters. Plus Robin's recent HBO adventures, Sean recommends a TV series for once in his life, Kahmeela's finest 60-Second Recap yet and m...
59m Mar 16, 2020
59m
The Hangover Part II
Worst veto ever! A cruel twist of fate left our hosts with THE HANGOVER PART II, and things start out grumpy. Not to worry, though; by the time they're waxing poetic about breakfast sandwiches and BIRDS OF PREY in general, positivity returns to the studio.
48m Mar 02, 2020
48m
The LEGO Movie
The best feature-length commercial ever made gets a mostly fond look back — or, in Kahmeela's case, a first look — as we visit with Unikitty, President Business and all the rest of our LEGO Movie creations. Plus, Taylor Swift and virtual reality (separately) on You Can't Handle the Truth and we have an exciting cardboard visitor! Is Everything Awesome? Until we draw the next movie, anyway!
57m Feb 17, 2020
57m
Bonus Episode: Oscars Roundtable
Your hosts were in three different places on Oscar night. One was at a fancy party! One was at an NBA game! One was asleep on a couch! This didn't stop them from piecing together a running commentary via voice memos, however. Listen to live-to-tape reactions and more!
13m Feb 11, 2020
13m
Michael
This movie is not the one with the Eric Clapton song! That's the oddly similar Phenomenon! MICHAEL is the one where John Travolta is a chain-smoking angel on Earth to ... help ... a dog, we guess? Listen as we try to figure this zaniness out! Plus an Oscar preview, our new Bingo segment and more!
1hr 4m Feb 03, 2020
1hr 4m
Speed
Pop quiz, hotshot! You've got one of the most beloved action flicks of the '90s staring you down, and you've gotta do a podcast about it. What do you do? ... You do the podcast is what you do. Let's talk Keanu, Sandy B, the Tuneman and all the rest — plus an honest review of Cats (really) — and a confusing movie draw!
56m Jan 15, 2020
56m
Maximum Risk
The NOMIA crew kicks off 2020 with Jean Claude Van Damme's hog-splitting action doodad, Maximum Risk! There are just so many questions about this movie, from the hotel volcano to the underpants towels. Plus, Kahmeela is here to rehabilitate the image of Joker! And a very exciting draw for our next film lands on a favorite!
54m Jan 02, 2020
54m
Bonus Episode: The Best of 2019
It's our first bonus episode! Robin leads a Factsy look at 2019's biggest box office hits, everyone counts down their top movies of the year and we crunch the numbers to find our favorite Number One Movies in America from a year of podcasting!
43m Dec 24, 2019
43m
While You Were Sleeping / Scrooged
It's a ho-ho-holiday double feature! We're binging Christmas movies with the yuletide romcom While You Were Sleeping and the '80s favorite Scrooged — which one will get our Santa Stamp of Approval? Plus, the gang has seen more new movies than you can shake an Irishman at! And the first new movie of 2020 will be a real ... well, just listen.
59m Dec 18, 2019
59m
Finding Dory
Time for some Disney Plus! (Ploos?) The team gives their first impression of our new streaming motherlode, including the episode's focus: The stunningly successful Pixar hit, Finding Dory. A loaded YCHTT segment covers The Irishman, Doctor Sleep and more!
51m Dec 02, 2019
51m
School of Rock
NOMIA welcomes our first-ever guest, auction winner Dan Hadfield, who selected a comedy favorite for us to talk about! Which one of the panel will be grumpy enough to sleep on SCHOOL OF ROCK? And how do we end up in a big musical number, kinda? Listen and find out!
59m Nov 15, 2019
59m
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
We volunteer as tribute! Wait, wrong movie. An awkwardly divided half-movie provides an opportunity for Sean, Kahmeela and Robin to ALL reveal themselves as Hunger Games stans. Plus, find out what our be-our-guest auction winner selected as his movie of choice!
56m Nov 01, 2019
56m
Spooky Special: Child's Play (1988)
Chucky is here! Another '80s horror icon joins the Number One Movie in America roster — and the whole gang is pretty darn impressed! Plus picks for the most rewatchable Halloween movies, a muted reaction to the Spider-Man news and much more!
50m Oct 15, 2019
50m