I (Chris Cox) got nominated for best podcast host in the Austin Chronicle awards! Please vote for me here as well as for our friends and sometimes contributors in their own categories Richard Whittaker, John Gholson, Beau Paul, & Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman!

We're so proud of our latest miniseries show focusing on the action cinema of Hong Kong featuring Bey Logan and Ross O'Brien. Give it a listen!

The Dragon of Dojima is meeting up with some FAMILIAR FACES today on The Dojo as @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social and Jeff continue Kiryu Kazama's farewell tour in Part Two of Yakuza Kiwami 3 right here on RAGE SELECT! youtu.be/PFj1FX63epE

It's CRIME TIME for @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social and Jeff today on The Dojo as they join forces with KIRYU KAZAMA to check out the contentious remake of Yakuza Kiwami 3 right here on RAGE SELECT! youtu.be/S_YJ36c6YXc

Hey you musicians out there, don't forget that Sunday the Nomad is having its music gear swap meet! Bring your stuff you aren't gonna use anymore and trade it for stuff you will!

Jeff and @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social are getting lost in the ANIME SAUCE today on The Dojo as they try and make their way deeper into the strange and compelling world of CODE VEIN II right here on RAGE SELECT! youtu.be/0aNwG3t_fBw

It's time for more ANIME NONSENSE today on The Dojo as @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social and Jeff try and suss out WHAT THE ACUTAL CRAP is happening in Code Vein II right here on RAGE SELECT! youtu.be/CqSVrGVQfWI

We highly recommend fans of animation and film history check out the substack series being written by our friend and occasional contributor Richard Whittaker about the history of Disney animation! rmwhittaker.substack.com

This should be perma-death stuff. Don't shop at Target ever again, even if they reverse course in the future.

My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars: / Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform. / Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks. / Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.

Somebody better wrap The Dojo in a piece of cheese because @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social and Jeff are swallowing the BITTEREST OF PILLS as they check out the bizarre gameplay of SIDE EFFECTS right here on Rage Select! youtu.be/Fuep0fA5caU

You're saying, WHERE THE HECK CAN I SEE BLUE MOON, EVERYONE IS SAYING HOW GOOD IT IS. Well, the Austin Film Critics Association, is hosting a screening. Maybe the best actor performance of 2025 from Hawke and all-around great movie. shorturl.at/xYUkY

Rage Select is BACK and we're kicking off 2026 with a... meeehhh as @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social and Jeff engage in some good old fashioned JPRG complainin' with Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter right here on THE DOJO! youtu.be/sTUhzW2ILtU

Thank you Arrow Video. Still one of the most intense, disturbing, and blackly funny films I’ve ever seen. The ultimate confrontation of toxic capitalism and economic inequality for my money (lol) in cinema and an all-timer midnight movie. Tons of great new bonus features. A must-own.

Jeff's worst nightmares are COMING TRUE today on The Dojo as he and @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social Cox attempt to survive the eight legged creeps of HUNTSMAN right here on Rage Select! youtu.be/OlTpgg4z5SE

Jeff and @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social are SCARED TO DEATH... that nothing's going to happen here on The Dojo as they check out austere, empty world of ROUTINE right here on Rage Select! youtu.be/NrC0RooTf7I

Barring realizing that something awful actually happened to me a long time ago and it making me see demons tearing my life apart, I will be there. Hope to see you all there.

On this Mack Daddy of an episode, Brian is joined by @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social to take flight with FINAL DESTINATION! Also, Baby Junkfood (Zane) shares his thoughts on the whole franchise! RsKT to get on a Rocky Mountain high! #HalloweenSpirit #Aughtstober www.spreaker.com/episode/hall...

Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction. If we were a republic, I mean.

Join me tonight for the way to kick off the spooky season - watching two horror icons face off against each other on the screens at the Violet Crown Cinema! With hosts Eric and Wright and prizes for the crowd, this is not to be missed.

Screener Squad: Dead of Winter oneofus.net/2025/10/scre... #DeadOfWinter #EmmaThompson #JudyGreer #MovieReview #Podcast #ScreenerSquad #OneOfUs

Always great to review stuff with Martin Thomas and now we have the pleasure of his daughter Guinevere joining us as well as we talk about more Fantastic Fest stuff!

Tonight! I shall actually be there in my triumphant return to the real world after being at Fantastic Fest. Come out and see me, clink some glasses, have some pizza, and enjoy the heavy-metal horror that is Black Roses and the exquisite and deadly charms of the hostess Roxy Midnite! At Violet Crown!

Solid actioner from Indonesia but could have used less shaky-cam. With top-notch performers and choreographers, there's no reason to use it.

I adored this super-dark horror and you should really see it in the theater if supernatural stuff freaks you out like it does me. One of the best horror films of the year and coming out very soon.

J-Horror from the 90s that ends up more like Indonesian horror by the end. I liked it but it's not a must-see.

Surprisingly, this was my jam. Switches up a lot of the story to make it a Christmas Dexter with a 'chosen one' trope. I would watch a tv series continuation of this for sure. Plus, LOTS of Nazi killing.

This was not for me. At all. Pretty lame.

One of the other best films to play this years fest. What starts as a nerdy horror comedy ends up as a seriously frightening monkey's paw story where the protagonist is the moral antagonist and you root for the antagonist to come out okay (even though they are TERRIFYING and deserve awards)

Well this was tense. One of the best performances by Rose Byrne of her career. For moms who are beyond stressed out.

Killer shark, WWI soldiers on a Raft....good times.

One of the absolute best films to play Fantastic Fest this year. An Italian romantic family foodie dramedy mixed with an A+ (and I MEAN A+) Chinese action film that somehow works so well, it can only be described as EPIC.

Super-solid balls-to-the-wall sequel that is somehow even bloodier and hysterically implausible than the original.

I think this is a very good film. The fact that it's the first Anderson film I liked a lot since There Will Be Blood was nice, since I was expecting otherwise. I don't think it's the masterpiece that some are saying, I think he just wanted to make a fun film, and he succeeded.

Another Lanthimos film I dug. Surprised to see that Plemons is the best here (and the best in his career I would say) but everyone is good.

I dug most of this. Sam Rockwell is so good in it and the idea of doing a dystopian sci-fi satire the way they do is solid and quite funny. But it doesn't totally work.

We reviewed this film about Austin Public Access television in the 80s and 90s and of course, I had to invite my bud Martin Thomas and his daughter Guinevere Thomas to discuss the times. Because we used to be on a popular show on there, dontcha know.

Just a whiff. Some of the most ham-handed metaphorical horror stuff I've ever come across. It's a skip.

More like a big bunch of bullshit. I tend to LOVE magical realism romance films and this did not work for me at all. Some of my other critics were quite taken with it though. This is why I cannot trust anyone.

Always fun doing these home release shows with @gholson.bsky.social and we get to explain (again) why you should really go out of your way to watch a "Baby Assassins" movie.

I was both deeply amused and moved by this terrific film that had both such a great script and really inventive cinematography.

I was not sure this could be pulled off. It's a conversation film punctuated by occasional bloody deaths. But to our surprise, it's quite captivating.

This was totally my shizz. Both fun and super-dark. AND it has an awesome cat all the way through. Four stars.

John Gholson and I take on home releases in a mixed bag of stuff (except for The Stuff which I adore) and a reconsideration of the Connery Bond films from a new 4k set.

Get tickets to see the OneOfUs produced screening of The Frighteners as part of the Roxy Horror Picture Show series at the Violet Crown Cinema. Roxy Midnite will be on hand to introduce the film and give some prizes. September 3rd at 7pm!

People should go to jail for this.

Jeff and @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social are climbing the corporate ladder today on The Dojo using nothing but the power of INDISCRIMINATE VIOLENCE as they do their best to Stick It to the Stickman right here on RAGE SELECT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5ux...

The BLOCKHEADS ARE COMING today on The Dojo but not to worry, because @chriscoxcritic.bsky.social and Jeff are here to ricochet their way to VICTORY in Kill the Brickman right here on RAGE SELECT! youtu.be/5a1zA5fm-aU

With all the quirky small-town characters, but none (except Honey) with the sense that they have interesting inner lives, but only seem to exist to be quirky small-town characters. Like someone else tried to make a Coen brothers film but didn't understand how. And yet, it's by Ethan Coen. Not great.