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Episode 43 – Spectre
Time to hotbox the lair as Jay and Cybill review “Spectre”. Does the costliest Bond film of all time live up to stunning Skyfall? Is Daniel Craig still sexy, suave Bond, James Bond? Will Christoph...
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Episode 44 – The Peanuts Movie
Jay and Cybill take a nostalgic trip back to childhood and review, The Peanuts Movie. 15 years after the comic strip ended, are Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Woodstock still relevant? Can a story where...
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Episode 45 – The Night Before
Holiday shenanigans are afoot in this holiday offering from Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie. Will Jay and/or Cybill be putting any coal in their stockings this year? Or, did the...
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Episode 46 – Spotlight
Jay and Cybill get out their notepads and ask a few hard questions as they review Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams in Spotlight. Is the early Oscar buzz warranted? Or, does someone need...
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Episode 47 – Krampus
Christmas comes early for Jay and Cybill as they attempt to survive a night with KRAMPUS (you better have read that with a thick German accent, if not, try again)! Trying to combine the holiday magic,...
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Episode 48 – Room
Room was easily one of the most powerful films we have seen this year. We are not going to even try to crack a few bad jokes here, you just need to listen to Episode 48 and then go check out this...
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Episode 49 – Mad Max: Fury Road
In a special bonus episode, Jay and Cybill slap on their face paint for an epic race through the post-apocalyptic desert with Tom Hardy in “Mad Max: Fury Road”. Does the movie live up to its Golden...
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Episode 50 – Creed
Jay and Cybill step into the ring with the latest installment in the Rocky franchise, Creed. Is Michael B. Jordan ready to take the spotlight? What does Sylvester Stallone do with an aging Rocky? More...
View ArticleEpisode 51 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Luke Skywalker is missing! So begins the title crawl of the latest Star Wars film, whisking us away on an interstellar adventure. Already a box office behemoth, smashing countless records in its wake,...
View ArticleEpisode 52 – The Big Short
Adam McKay’s “The Big Short” might be one of the most frightening films we have ever reviewed. Not only that, but between Christian Bale, Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling, it also might be one of the...
View ArticleEpisode 53 – The Revenant
Jay and Cybill pack their muskets full of smoke and head deep into the wilderness to experience Alejandro Iñárritu’s cinematic epic,”The Revenant”. Is this the film that finally wins Leonardo DiCaprio...
View ArticleEpisode 54 – The Hateful Eight
Another week, another Oscar-nominated trip into the deadly, mountain wilderness. This time we review the 8th film from auteur extraordinaire, Quentin Tarantino (He counts Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 as one...
View ArticleThe Smoking Screen’s 2016 Oscar Pool
Do you like movies? Do you like weed? If you answered yes to either question, you need to enter The Smoking Screen 2016 Oscar Pool. Kick-ass prizes and bragging rights are up for grabs! The best part?...
View ArticleEpisode 55 – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Michael Bay. The name conjures up a lot of mental images. Most of them feature incredibly loud explosions, giant robots and sweeping slow-motion shots. And now he is wading into the political quagmire...
View ArticleEpisode 56 – Kung Fu Panda 3
Not all heroes are created equal. Some are dumpling-eating panda bears. Will Jay and Cybill find inner peace as they review Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda 3? Does the combination of the incredible visuals...
View ArticleEpisode 57 – Hail, Ceasar!
Hail, Caesar! The Coen Brothers (Ethan & Joel) new film transports us back the final days of the studio system. Does this nostalgia piece go too far? Does the star-studded cast (Josh Brolin, George...
View ArticleEpisode 58 – Deadpool
Who doesn’t love a smart ass in a shiny red suit? Fresh off its record-breaking weekend, we take good hard look at Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool. Was it the R-rated comic adventure that superhero fans had...
View ArticleEpisode 59 – Zoolander – BONUS EPISODE
Its been 15 years since Derek Zoolander first walked down the cinematic catwalk into our lives. The original Zoolander, was panned and left for dead by most critics. It became an unexpected cult hit...
View ArticleEpisode 60 – Brooklyn
SPOILER-FREE! Rounding out our reviews of the Best Picture nominees, we take a melodramatic journey into the heart of Brooklyn. How delightful is the performance of Best Actress nominee, Saoirse Ronan?...
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20 Most Recent Best Picture Winners Ranked by Domestic Box Office
20 Most Recent Best Picture Winners Ranked by Domestic Box Office (Adjusted for Inflation) How do recent Best Picture winners stack up against each other in terms of their box office numbers (domestic,...
View ArticleEpisode 61 – The Witch: A New England Folktale
SPOILER-FREE! If you go into the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise (hint: it might be a witch). Good thing we like surprises. Cue creepy music. We set aside our fear and travel to 1630’s New...
View ArticleEpisode 62 – London Has Fallen
Did Olympus Has Fallen really need a sequel? Regardless, the creativity titled London Has Fallen has exploded on to screens. Explosions? Yes. Plot? America!! Could this possibly be the most distasteful...
View ArticleEpisode 63 – 10 Cloverfield Lane
End of the world or not, can you ever really trust a guy who builds a bunker under his farmhouse? That is the question that 10 Cloverfield Lane poses as it draws us into its suffocatingly dramatic web....
View ArticleEpisode 64 – Zootopia
SPOILER-FREE! There are few things as relaxing as a cute animated film about a group animals that can talk, wear clothes and have zany adventures. Disney’s Zootopia is not that film. What is it then?...
View ArticleEpisode 65 – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
SPOILER-FREE! They don’t get much bigger than this. The long-awaited and much discussed, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, exploded (rather loudly) onto screens this weekend. In the process it scored...
View ArticleEpisode 66 – Eye in the Sky
SPOILER-FREE! There is little doubt we have become a high surveillance society. Hi NSA! However, in this Orwellian-nightmare, what is often overlooked (pun intended) are the moral and ethical questions...
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Episode 67 – Demolition
SPOILER-FREE! This is a tough one to describe. A somber meditation on the process of grieving? Not quite. A moody and atmospheric piece on the quest for self-identity? No. That’s not it either. A...
View ArticleEpisode 68 – The Jungle Book
SPOILER-FREE! Normally when a classic film is remade there is some concern. However, from the first trailer it seemed that Jon Favreau and Disney and had gotten The Jungle Book right. The real question...
View ArticleEpisode 69 – Keanu
We love cats. (The Kracken sends his regards. May 5th is his 21st Birthday!!!) Combine a pretty kitty with two gifted sketch comedians and it sounds like pure movie gold. Did Keegan-Michael Key and...
View ArticleEpisode 70 – Captain America: Civil War
We are in the midst of an avalanche of cinematic comic book adaptations. Kicking off this summer blockbuster season and hot on the heels of the much maligned Batman v. Superman, is Captain America:...
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Money Monster Boycott
Review or Boycott? The Tricky Politics of Money Monster When choosing which films to review on our show, it is usually a very simple process. We pick movies that people want to see, have already seen...
View ArticleEpisode 71 – Green Room
With our boycott of George Clooney’s Money Monster, we looked for something a little less anger inducing to review this week and settled upon Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room. What’s so bad about being...
View ArticleEpisode 72 – The Nice Guys
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe team up in Shane Black’s new 70s buddy comedy, The Nice Guys. Was this an inspired comedic pairing, like Clint Eastwood and the monkey in Any Which Way But Loose? Or, was...
View ArticleEpisode 73 – X-Men: Apocalypse
Another week, another super hero film. This time we journey once again into world of Charles Xavier (Professor X) and his school for the really, really, really gifted (X-Men). How does Bryan Singer’s...
View ArticleEpisode 74: Independence Day – Resurgence
We’re back…and so are those damned aliens! Twenty years after getting their asses kicked by a scrappy (and witty) group of human survivors, the aliens have returned with a really big and nasty ship....
View ArticleEpisode 74 – The Purge: Election Year
SPOILER-FREE! There are few franchises that get under our skin quite like James DeMonaco’s, The Purge. The combination of sadistic violence and mortal terror is once again on full display in the third...
View ArticleOur Conscience Will Not Allow It: An Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders
Our Conscience Will Not Allow It: An Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders Dear Bernie: We are both in a tight spot. In our shared quest to keep Donald Drumpf from winning the presidency, we understand...
View ArticleEpisode 76 – Swiss Army Man
We could write up some fancy pants sentences, but this one really come down to one question. Do you want to see Daniel Radcliffe playing a corpse for 85 minutes? If you answered in the affirmative,...
View ArticleEpisode 77 – Ghostbusters
We strap on our proton packs and review one of the most controversial films of the summer: Paul Feig’s all-female reboot of Ghostbusters. Even with an all-star cast of Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy,...
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Why Bernie Supporters Are Angry And You Should Be Too
Why Bernie supporters are angry and you should be too.4 takeaways at the end of the Democratic Primary Hi there! We are Bernie supporters. You may have heard a lot about us from the media and...
View ArticleEpisode 78 – Star Trek Beyond
Space. The final frontier. These are the rebooted voyages of the super sexy crew of the starship, Enterprise. With J.J. Abrams off busy playing with lightsabers, Justin Lin (of Fast and Furious fame)...
View ArticleEpisode 79 – The Secret life of Pets & Jason Bourne
SPOILER-FREE! We hit up the drive-in for the most ill-suited double feature of the summer: The Secret Life of Pets and Jason Bourne. WTF! Pets has been a huge moneymaker for Universal, raking in over...
View ArticleEpisode 80 – Now You See Me 2
Spoiler-Free! And for our final trick we will make this joint…..disappear! After a successful first installment, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Wood Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Caine and Morgan...
View ArticleEpisode 81 – Sausage Party
Spoiler-Free! We have been looking forward to this one for a while. The concept is utterly ridiculous. The sexual innuendo blatantly in your face. Crude and crass jokes abound. To top it off, its the...
View ArticleEpisode 82 – Train to Busan & Kobo and the Two-Strings
We saw these two extremely fascinating films recently and decided to pull a double-feature this week. What goes better together than a South Korean zombie film and a stop-action animated “kids”...
View ArticleEpisode 83 – Hell or High Water & Snowden
Spoiler-free! In episode 83, we take a detour into the dark and disturbing underbelly of the America psyche with two powerful films. David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water (Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Ben...
View ArticleEpisode 84 – Doctor Strange & Arrival
Spoiler-free! In episode 84, we review two of the most hotly anticipated films of the year. Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange combines one of the most popular actors in the world (Benedict...
View ArticleEpisode 85 – Allied & Hacksaw Ridge
SPOILER-FREE! In episode 85 we review a pair of films set during the Second World War. Allied certainly has the talent to be a great film. Helmed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forest Gump),...
View ArticleEpisode 86 – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Spoiler-Free! It was a dark time for the rebellion. With the Empire’s forces massing and threatening to bring destruction on a scale never seen before….but enough about President-Elect Trump. Gareth...
View ArticleEpisode 87 – La La Land
Spoiler-Free! Fresh off a record-breaking night at the Golden Globes, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land is shaping up to be an award season powerhouse. A successful musical is no easy feat. Were Emma Stone...
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