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Cage Match rides into its annual finale as we crown our fourth champion - who will it be: Leaving Las Vegas or 8mm? Only time will tell...But first, the winner of the losers! Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

It's time for the semi-finals! Join us as we narrow our bracket down even further and declare our Daddy and Au2eur division champions. Our grueling competition is riding ever closer to its grand finale.Joining Dan and Kevin and returning CageConnoiseurs: Erin, Jon, and Gerry.Today's match-ups:8mm v. Bringing Out the DeadandPig v. Leaving Las Vegas Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

Cage Match rides on as we continue the initial round of match-ups. It's round one of the Au2uer Division!Joining Dan and Kevin are returning CageConnoiseurs: Erin, Jon, and Gerry.Today's match-ups:Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans v. 8mmandBringing Out the Dead v. Snake Eyes Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

March madness is here, and so is our Nicolas Cage tournament bracket. This year it's Auteur2 v. Daddy in a winner-takes-all battle for the Cage Crown. Joining Dan and Kevin are returning CageConnoiseurs: Erin, Jon, and Gerry.Today's episode: Round 1 of the Daddy Division:Pig v. OutcastandLeaving Las Vegas v. Kick Ass Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

We've got a fistful of dollars and a whole lot of facts about american family restaurant chains. How are these connected? Are they connected at all? You'll be shocked to find out.CW: racism/brownface, american exceptionalism, right wing politics/nationalism, gun violence, brief allusions to sexual assault Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

The corporate-funded American police state is a true nightmare. Anyways: here's Robocop!CW: discussions of police brutality, gun violence, sexual assault, rape, american exceptionalism Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

Dang, you aint never gonna see more birds than in this one, lemme tell you what. Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

Boy howdy, we made it to 2023. Time to look back and recap the shows 'n movies we watched in the last year.  Here's the list, generally in order of discussion: Severance Sandman Moon Knight Ms. Marvel She Hulk Our Flag Means Death Andor Peaky Blinders Only Murders in Building What We Do in the Shadows Over The Garden Wall Abbott Elementary Reservation Dogs White Lotus Under The Banner of Heaven Spider-Man: No Way Home Letterkenny Shoresy Cowboy Bebop/The Movie Mobile Suit Gundam Wing/Endless Waltz Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Revolutionary Girl Utena Everything Everywhere All At Once The Batman Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Knives Out Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me The Man Who Fell To Earth Moonage Daydream The Prestige The Hunger Jackass Forever The Bob's Burgers Movie Death on the Nile Murder on the Orient Express The Northman Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Thor: Love and Thunder Werewolf by Night Morbius Venom: Let There Be Carnage No Time To Die Batman & Robin Monty Python and the Holy Grail King Arthur: Legend of the Sword The Green Knight The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Police Story In The Mood For Love Nightmare Alley Encanto Dracula (’31)Kids in the Hall Rings of Power Scream (’22) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (’22) Halloween Ends Hellraiser (’22) Hellraiser (’87) Hellbound: Hellraiser II Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth Hellraiser IV: Bloodline Hellraiser: Inferno Hellraiser: Hellseeker Hellraiser: Deader Hellraiser: Hellworld Prey V/H/S/99 Terrifier 2 The Wailing The Black Phone Barbarian Watcher X Fresh NOPE Smile The Menu Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

We're gassed up and ready to go for our most Dan-filled episode yet. Don't be a creepo; it's Swiss Army Man time! CW: suicide, self-harm, dead bodies Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

Is Ryan Gosling's best role his performance in The Nice Guys? Quite possibly!  That, a brand-new Cinema Spectrum, fresh titles/accolades for Shane Black, and more in our latest episode! CW: discussions of sex work/pornography and gun violence Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

It's almost Hallovveen so vve're vvatching the vvitch. Some good and normal puritanical times ahead - come on down to spooky town! Trust us, it's delicious.CW:  infanticide, body mutilation, misogyny, animal death, murder  Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

It's Sequel Season! We're back for a whole new season of What Is A Movie and we're kicking it off with one of the most important and critically lauded sequels we could: Blade 2. (It's spookytimes and GDT rules, just go with it.)CW: blood, drug addiction, destroying fetuses Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

"Where's the dreams that I've been after?" is a question I'm not sure The Master can answer for us or for Metallica... But the movie can provide a two-hour study of two nasty little dudes. Check out our latest and final episode of this season!  Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

Hop in as we take a look at The Wedding Singer which (get this) takes place in the 80s!? Who knew! Crazy. To all the Julia Guglia's out there: this one's for you. Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

I don't have anything witty to say this week; Parasite rules, it set our brains on fire, movies are good.(PS Kevin edited out a bit where he said the house was "well scouted." That was A SET?! Incredible.) Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

Last call for childhood; all aboard The Pagemaster. Join us as we browse what this library has to offer: stunning animation (sometimes), alarmingly flat characters, 8 minutes of Christopher Lloyd, and more (barely)! Also, a dive into some of Mr. Lloyd's... questionable roles. Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

Ahoy mateys and avast ye scurvy dogs, it's time for some treasure! Muppet Treasure Island, to be precise. Tune in for some thoughts on Tim Curry, the Long John Silver's food chain, and all things piratical.  Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks; the Summer of Kevin's Lost Childhood continues with the Great American Pastime - romanticizing baseball. Tune in for a few thoughts about The Sandlot and lots of thoughts about everything wrong about modern baseball. Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

It's summertime: time to speedrun Kevin's missing childhood! First up, A Goofy Movie. Cheese whiz, possums, and Sasquatch; oh my. Now we're really seein' it eye to eye.CW: discussion of a parent-child abusive relationship Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com

It's judgement day again - this time it's in Bruges! Join us for ruminations on crime, catholic guilt, and our new segment Reihle Talk where we discuss the life and career of Richard Riehle (for some reason).CW: Discussions of suicide, murder (of adults and children), racism, fatphobia, & ableism (particularly around dwarfism). Find us on twitter @whatisamoviepod and shoot us and email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com