Henry and Will close out their first season with another singularly unimportant film—a Hollywood legend's mediocre Christmas heist picture! Starring a particularly punchable Ben Affleck, an impressively ripped Gary Sinese, and a far too good for this Charlize Theron, it's a festival of pointless jabbering that's still better than watching anything on Hallmark.

See y'all soon for Season 2!

Except, obviously, we won't see you. Podcasts just go into your ears.

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Today Henry and Will take on 200 Cigarettes, a 1999 piece of ensemble nostalgia fluff that is hard to find and, sadly, pretty hard to watch. Learn all about Will's turn of the century crushes and how Dave Chappelle has—big surprise—always been a transphobic prick. 

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Big Business is a movie, kind of, in which Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin shriek and mug and produce low-key hijinks in the DCOM mode. It also features surprisingly tender characterization of a gay couple and was exactly what Henry and Will needed this week. 

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In which Henry and Will discuss the futility of journalism, the beauty of pastiche, and Paul Newman's giant swinging, uh, clock.

Content warning! Contains frank discussion of suicide!

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According to the Hollywood establishment, Spotlight was the best film of 2015. We beg to differ! And differ we do!

Henry loathes this movie—Will thought it was fine—but we agree that a realistic depiction of journalism demands half-full Dunkin' cups on every desk and mustard stains on every shirt. Instead, Spotlight gives us triumphalism and speeches, Hallmark movie lighting and enough ugly khaki pants to outfit a convention of young Republicans. It's a movie that thinks it's smart and you're stupid. It's wrong on both counts.

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What do you get when you combine Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, and a few thousand gallons of melted wax? The 1953 3D classic House of Wax, a thoroughly unhinged movie that we love with our all the passion our waxen hearts can muster.

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Bong Joon-ho's 2019 Oscar-winning Black comedy is a classic upstairs-downstairs tale, with a famous violent twist. It's great, but do we love it? It's complicated. 

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Will and Henry dive headfirst into the world of 1970s disaster movies with the exquisite Charlton Heston and George Kennedy epic "Earthquake," a movie that manages to be beautiful and engaging without actually being, y'know, good.

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