Watching Crime 101. Mark Ruffalo should keep playing progressively more disheveled detectives until eventually his character is just a bunch of used coffee filters in a suit

Now watching: HOPPERS (2026)

New list! Hit me with any suggestions we may have forgotten boxd.it/Tb7HY

🦅 EPISODE 172 - TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE 🦅 I promise we didn’t plan this. But this week we’re going back to dissect the Iraq War-era satire from the South Park creators. It’s TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE time.

@blastzonepod.bsky.social add this to the docket for next January

🚑 EPISODE 171 - AMBULANCE 🚑 Join us for a scenic tour of Los Angeles from the back of the titular vehicle as we cover Michael Bay’s 2022 bomb AMBULANCE

I was terrified of apes for YEARS after my dad took me to see this movie (he was mauled to death by a gibbon in the AMC parking lot)

Now watching:

🤖EPISODE 170 - SHORT CIRCUIT 2 🤖 We’re going all the way back 1988 for one of the original cute movie robots. It’s SHORT CIRCUIT 2

if you need a temporary break from the ongoing horrors, the Blast Zone episode on One Battle After Another is such good company, listened to this and made a massive batch of corn green chile salsa, to accompany chile verde, and it helped

To me, he is perfect

Been meaning to watch Lord Of Illusions for ages, finally got to it because I'm playing catchup with @blastzonepod.bsky.social

Maybe we need to enunciate better

🧬 EPISODE 169 - ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 🧬 We’re wrapping up our 2025 retrospective with the likely front runner for best picture: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Dr. Kelson:

🚀EPISODE 168 - MICKEY 17🚀 We continue our look back at 2025 with an episode about Bong Joon Ho’s return to the big screen, it’s MICKEY 17

Marty Supreme? More like… more like One Paddle After Another

If you’ve ever wondered what we talk about when we’re not doing the pod

⚡️EPISODE 167 - THUNDERBOLTS* ⚡️ Antiheroes. Action. Asterisks. What more do you need? About another $100,000,000 in box office receipts to start. This week we’re covering 2025’s THUNDERBOLTS*

Every movie’s success should be measured in relation to The Accountant 2

deadline.com/2026/01/kate... We need this

😷 EPISODE 166 - EDDINGTON 😷 We’re back from the holiday break with our first Ari Aster movie, it’s 2025’s EDDINGTON

When you’re getting ready to record the Thunderbolts* pod

Big box office showdown this weekend. Biblical animated feature DAVID going up against Avatar: Fire and Ash. If only there was some kind of parable or old story we could compare it to.

Tired: "Die Hard is a Christmas movie" Wired: "The Green Knight is a Christmas movie"

Couldn’t remember who Clifton Collins Jr played on Justified but luckily Google was there to help

Really excited to check out Train Dreams but I wanted to read the book first

We're pretty sure, with respect, if there was some news about Buckaroo Banzai, we would've heard

👾EPISODE 165 - THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION 👾 We’re back with the extremely strange but also extremely charming 1980’s sci-fi comedy THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION

If you call your sequel The Accountant ² I’m expecting even more accounting than the original. But no. It’s just a bunch of people getting murdered

☢️ EPISODE 164 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ☢️ This week we’re doing our first Guy Ritchie movie! But probably not our last. It’s 2015’s stylish spy action comedy THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

Watching Black Phone 2. It’s ok but I’m not sold on The Grabber’s new catchphrase of “watch out, ima grab ya!”

Not to pit two kings against each other, but this guy should have gotten some of the attention Baby Yoda got

🪄 EPISODE 163 - LORD OF ILLUSIONS 🪄 We wrap up Blastober with the most frightening creatures we’ve seen yet: magicians. It’s Clive Barker’s third and final film, 1995’s LORD OF ILLUSIONS

I need them to make The Substance 2 but it’s just news coverage of the events from The Substance

Just learned Scoot McNairy’s real first name is John and this has rocked my world

Please be careful this Halloween. I found the beach that makes you old inside a chocolate bar

🪓 EPISODE 162 - FRAILTY 🪓 We’re going back the early 00s for an unsung cult classic in the psychological horror genre. It’s FRAILTY

👽 EPISODE 161 - ALIEN: COVENANT 👽 We venture into deep space as Blastober continues with another Ridley Scott movie. It’s ALIEN: COVENANT

🪱EPISODE 160 - A CURE FOR WELLNESS 🪱 We’re going back to 2017 for our 2nd Gore Verbinski movie in the Blast Zone, this time talking about the psychological gothic horror A CURE FOR WELLNESS

🚛 EPISODE 159 - JOY RIDE 🚛 Life is a highway- sometimes it’s full of psychos that just wanna rip your jaw off. We’re starting Blastober with 2001’s Paul Walker/Steve Zahn cult favorite JOY RIDE

💊 EPISODE 158 - GO 💊 Let’s go back to the relative calm of 1999 for one really interesting night. It’s GO time

J.E. Freeman in Go (1999) is Dennis Farina’s Waluigi

boxd.it/tt7G4 In honor of the premier of TASK tonight

🐱 EPISODE 157 - KEANU 🐱 Cute cats. Key and Peele. What could go wrong? Tune in to find out as we talk about 2016’s KEANU

Margaret knows what’s up

🍃 EPISODE 156 - SERENITY 🍃 Tackling one of the true cult classics this episode with 2005’s continuation of the Firefly mythos, SERENITY

You want me to give you space? The thing that almost killed Tom Hanks in Apollo 13?

There’s way too many streaming services. We need to streamline it somehow: - Bundle several streaming services into one package and you pay one price - You can upgrade this package by adding more premium services a la carte - Maybe it can come through some sort of cable idk