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Ala-Q-zam! Open saysa-MIa! Abraca-J-abra! Bring out your spell books and get ready to cast some laughs as the High Five gang gets their Hogwarts Letters and all fly off to conjure up the Top 5 Magic Movies of All Time list potion. Don't worry, we're talking real magic here, not a Jesse Eisenberg as far as the eye can see! Join Q on his first magical journey into the land of Hayao Miyazaki. Drop into a dysfunctional British family with Mia. Get into a scruff with some witches with J. We're pulling out every spell we have this week to make it the most magical episode of the season!

Sometimes it just feels good to be Bad, and no one likes being bad more than the High Five crew and dastardly dudes/dudettes from the 1980s! The 80s was a decade of decadence. A foray into flamboyance. An era of entertaining evildoers! Okay, you get the idea, we're talking about 80s movies with great bad guys and ranking the Top 5 80s Movie Villains of all time! From horror movie icons to the suave, vaguely European "corporate" villains, we talk through all genres and wicked types. Mia surprises! Q maniacally chuckles! J invades stranger's dreams! And all before breakfast. If you don't listen, we'll drop you off of a building.

We never thought we'd see the day where Zack Snyder's Justice League saw the light of day. No really, this type of thing has never happened before! High Five: The Podcast assembles the Mia, Q, and J League to find out if giving Zack Snyder $70 million and a lot of celebrities to play with was a good idea. Whether or not you loved or hated Zack Snyder's Justice League, it isn't just a singular entity. This particular movie, even more so than other DC installments, exists as part of a trilogy of stories, so the gang dives into Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (theatrical and Ultimate edition cuts) as well to see how Zack Snyder's Justice League measures up!

Join Q, as he introduces you to one of the best new shows on the Project-Nerd podcast network. In this very special sneak peek episode things get unreal with a supercut of some of the weirdest "real, fake sponsors" of High Five episodes past.  Remember to subscribe to Project Unreal wherever you listen to podcasts!

It's been a pandemic of a year and if you're like most, you've spent a good portion of it indoors looking for something to stream online. We at High Five: The Podcast feel the same way and since we're your dedicated sherpas to the world of TV and film, we're dedicating TWO WHOLE EPISODES to the TV that is worth your time to binge. J, Mia, and Q are settling in for some brain-rotting fun to figure out the Top 5 Bingeworthy TV Shows of All Time! We learn a lot about each other and decide which Wonder Years characters we would all be. Trust us, there's a lot of TV out there to watch and you don't have the time to watch it all. That's where we come in. So strap in, log on, and starting binging on the best TV out there.

We're finally doing an episode about the films of Christopher Nolan. It's about time! And so are his movies! Zing! Do you know what it's also time for? It's about time that Q, J, and Mia invited their friend, comedian, and film lover, Cortney Warner to the show. Trust us, when Mia, J, Cortney, and Q get talking about Christopher Nolan, nothing can stop them! Are you more of an "old school" Nolan-head and love his films like Memento and The Prestige or do you gravitate backward through time towards his action movies like Inception or Tenet? Whatever your flavor, stop in and hang out with some nerd talking about Christopher Nolan movies!

Behind every strong hero is an even stronger, usually adopted or unnaturally put in harm's way, sidekick! These pop culture protectors are always playing second fiddle to their more super heroes, so Q, J, and Mia decided it was time to give Sidekicks the spotlight for a bit and figure out the Top 5 Sidekicks in Pop Culture! Most of them become heroes eventually themselves, so let's be nice! Whether you're donning brightly-colored spandex for stealth missions, or helping traverse jewelry to a volcano, sidekicks can many times be the single reason a mission fails or succeeds. The gang pretty much all want to be the Sidekick of the group and there may or may not be a fight to the death. You'll have to listen to find out!

You know him. You love him. He's danced, sang, and clawed his way into our collective hearts, and on this episode, Mia, Q, and J want to do nothing but subsist on the movie candy that is Hugh Jackman! From his breakthrough performance as Wolverine to help establish superhero movies as a viable franchise type, to his live-action recording of Les Misérables, up to his career-defining turn wearing prosthetic testicles on his face! Is there nothing he can't do? We're going to find out when we rank the Top 5 Hugh Jackman Movies of All Time! It's not all talk about Hugh Jackman, though. We also talk about actors that aren't as good as Hugh Jackman and movies that are similar to The Prestige but didn't star Hugh Jackman. But ultimately, if you don't like Hugh Jackman or Hugh Jackman movies, this episode about Hugh Jackman may not be for Hugh.

Get ready because J, Mia, and Q get together to talk about the Top 5 Government Overthrow Movies in honor of all the morons who tried that in early 2021. Do people not watch movies? Coups are hard to pull off, which is made evident by how many movies there are about failed ones! In this episode, the gang dives into the headlines, but only momentarily, because it's way more fun to talk about Hunger Games, graphic novels, and cinema classics that show stories of governments toppling and fascist regimes getting their comeuppances. We also start a rally to #TakeBacktheLetterQ and all contemplate shaving our heads for the cause.

It's a debate as old as time, well, rather a debate as old as the early 90s when dueling video game systems competed in the market. Mia, our resident gamer, and her humble cohorts, J and Q, dive into a discussion that goes through every platform, every console, and damn near every SEGA iteration, to finally land our Top 5 Video Game Consoles of All Time list! Whether we're talking about Q's weird, irrational hatred of Mario, or J's obsession with little-known adventure games, you can bet that Mia is there to keep everyone in line. Find out which consoles blew our minds and which ones changed our lives on this episode of High Five: The Podcast!

Certain movies remind us what it's like to be a child. You have your Toy Stories and your American Tailses that always hold special places in our hearts, but then you have those other movies. The ones you only realize over time that, although you may have watched this as a child, it was only waiting like a sleeper cell for you to be an adult to reveal it's TRUE meanings. Q, Mia, and J look deep inside and confront their inner children and find the Top 5 Kids Movies That Are Secretly For Adults. This is deeper than cartoons that make poop jokes, we're looking for adult themes in movies with animated rabbits, robotic goliaths with human hearts, pretty much anything made by Pixar. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll call your parents and ask them for a movie night with your friends. Join us for this long-awaited sleepover!

No matter if you're starting a company with your college yuppie friends, or trying to stop mankind from slaughtering your people for their mutant powers, friendships are hard. In the happiest of movies, friendships endure, but some of the most compelling stories are actually about friendships falling apart. J, Mia, and Q climb aboard their friend-ship and hit the acquaintan-Seas to identify the Top 5 Friends Turned Enemies in movies. Along the way, our relationships are tested, assumptions are scrutinized, and we talk a lot about Jesus for some reason. There's magic, computers, pistols, backstabs, and mechanic bodysuits all in this one episode. What are you waiting for, grab your friends (soon to be enemies) and listen!

Welcome to both the beginning of a new year and the end of our 2020 HighFiveMas Spectacular! We're ending with a bang and sparkle as we look into the future to dream about the movies we can't wait to see in the new year. From 2020 delays to Marvel mysteries, Mia, J, and Q travel from the times of Arthur to the streets of New Jersey, all the way to the spice mines of deep space. All culminating in our Top 5 Most Anticipated Movies of 2021 lists! It's not all fun and games...well, yes it is, but we also delve into our thoughts on the upcoming Streaming/Theater Wars of 2021 and try to figure out what all the fuss was about when it came to Wonder Woman 1984. Start your new year off right - with your three best friends talking about a hopeful future!

No new episode this week, instead you get warm seasons greetings from Q and a little preview of what to expect from next week's brand new episode! See you on January 1st, 2021!

Wait it's not the ghost of Christmas "presents"!? It's Christmas "present"? Ohhhhhhhhhh... Well, let's be honest, 2020 was a bit of a weird year. Okay, okay, it was crap! Everyone was fighting with each other, no one could leave the house, everyone felt sick, and all we wanted to do was take a 12-month nap. So, pretty much, 2020 was exactly like our family holiday gatherings! The whole gang is gathering this week to talk about the year 2020, our Christmas stories of old, and finally ranking the Top 5 Christmas Gone Wrong Movies of all time! From zombies and monsters invading towns to sociopaths and Griswolds, we're counting down all the movies that show just how wrong a Christmas can go. Where is Santa? Why is Krampus here? Who is singing?!?! Get yourself tied to a chair and don't eat after midnight, these are all the ways Christmas can go up in flames. So, come on out to the coast, we'll have a few laughs....and a Christmas podcast!

Ho, Ho, Ho! It's that time of year again, HighFiveMas, and that means the joy of holiday movies and awkward pop culture references! Our three Hos, J, Q, and Mia, are taking the hand of that creepy ghost kid and heading into the past to relive and rank our Top 5 Christmas Movies from Childhood! You don't want to miss which movies made the biggest impacts on us as youngsters, and you definitely don't want to miss when we all travel back in time live on-air and mess with our pasts and futures!!! That doesn't happen, but we have edited that sad song from Muppets Christmas Carol back into the episode. Get those tissues (and wrapping paper) ready!

December is upon us and the happiest time of the year has officially begun: The transition of Donald Trump out of the White House! But seriously, the Yule Time and holiday season has dropped in full force, so whether you're celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chaunauka, Festivus, or anything else Mia, J and Q want to join you in feeling good by listing the Top 5 Feel-Good Movies of All Time! These are the movies that you watch whenever you see them on TV. The movies you watch when you're upset and want to feel better. The movies you reference and everyone groans every time! Let's get this holiday season off on the right foot by making each other feel good all month long!

As Thanksgiving comes to a close and we peacefully transition into the happiest time of the year, Q, Mia, and J thought it would be appropriate to talk about a movie studio that always makes us feel joyous: Pixar. This year, Pixar is giving us a Christmas present in the form of Soul on Dec. 25, so we thought, what better time to survey the CGI landscape and see what kind of competition Soul has to live up to (pun intended)? That's right! There's no better way than making a list of the Top 5 Pixar Movies so far! We dive deep into Riley's head and travel up, up, and away with an old man and a wilderness explorer. We head to space and to the land of the dead, all while being pretty super about it and getting in bed by bedtime. Can Soul live up to the Pixar movies of old? There's only one way to find out!

From the web-slinging streets of Marvel New York City, through dimensional portals to the streets of DC's Gotham, Central City, and Metropolis, the gang is breaking bad and spending time with the worst of the DC rogues galleries. Once we're through, we'll know which Top 5 DC Villains Need Their Own Movie! Along the way, Mia will make some enemies, J will experience a horrendous origin event, and Q will seek vengeance on those that wronged him (or something). Did you ever think a movie about a living lump of clay could be interesting? What about an eco-drama about dangerous plants that isn't The Happening? Maybe you're more on the road for an alien hitman splatter adventure. Whatever your DC poison, we'll have sampled it by the end of this episode. Come! Drink!

Spider-Men, Spider-Women, doing whatever Spider-People can! The multiverses are colliding and Mia, J, and Q are donning their spandex and joining the spider-ranks, so team up with Spider-Gwen (Mia), Miles Morales (Q), and Spider-Ham (J) as they merge animation styles and movie tastes to talk about the Top 5 Spider-Man Movies of all time! The entire rogues' gallery is coming out to stop us, but listen, Bud, we've got radioactive blood and we're here to list! Outside of spider-talk, the gang dives into comics in general and why Mia can't choose only one option for a list placement. There are totally not fake commercials, weird games, terrible impressions, and even more goodies on Patreon, so if you think you can escape our spidey-senses, you've got another thing coming!