With Shahir vacationing in Metropolis, Matt enlists the power of his name squared and summons guest cohost Matthew "Nando" Kelly of @nandovmovies.bsky.social to help break down all the ways this new 2026 film worked / didn't work while feeling like a great film from 2014.

Sorry for the delayed ep this week. We are recording Supergirl in 1 hour, then it will be posted as soon as it's edited. It's NOT because we were drinking.

Discussing a filmmaker whose name is synonymous with film-making is daunting at best, but will knowing the truth about Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day set you free? Timecodes: Wedding and Knicks Debrief at 00:00 Disclosure Day Discussion at 16:48 Listener Emails at 01:07:40

Stand back because fabulous powers are about to be granted to us as we hold aloft our magic sword between our glorious legs! Skeletor4Prez and Shahir are about to discover the secrets of Castle Greyskull and Travis Knight's rap history as we discuss "Masters of the Universe"

Filmmaking is a time machine and we're going back to the late 1990s for Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron, that snuck up on Matt and Shahir in one of the most praised films of the year.

Be careful what you wish for because we're breaking the willow branch on Curry Barker's "Obsession" and following madly head over heels! youtu.be/i9kNX05c14U

Get over here as we get nice and toasty with Simon McQuoid's new contender in video game adaptations: Mortal Kombat 2! @designdelve.bsky.social from @secondwindgroup.com rejoins the pod and throws us a Friendship while we try to figure out if this really was a Flawless Victory!

Gird your loins because Matt, Jamie and Shahir are about to give a performance evaluation to one of fashion's most notorious bosses. Put on your best heels because The Devil Wears Prada 2 is sashaying down the runway with the return of Andy, Emily and Nigel in a post print journalistic quagmire!

It's time for another Soderbergh style heist, this time in the art world! We're joined by Blueprint Screenwriting group founder Timothy Michael Cooper who has a few succinct words about Ed Solomon's new screenplay for "The Christophers"

Shahir Daud and Matt Krol present The Only* Podcast About Movie's discussion of The Lee Cronin's Mummy! We wrap up some Egyptian mythology and try to figure out which parent is the most negligent In this kidnapping caper.

You're cordially invited to hear the happy couple (and Shahir) discuss Kristoffer Borgli's "The Drama"! All will be revealed as Matt, Jamie and Shahir wade through the murky waters of the most misleading marketed movie of the year (so far!)

We're ready to run, run, run back to Mr. Le Bail who has a whole new game for us to play... which looks a lot like the game of hide and seek we just played in 2019. Matt and Shahir discuss sequels and the dreaded and hotly debated word... unnecessary!

At Long last! Join us to countdown the best films of 2025 as well as dozens of other movies both our listeners and a metric ton of special guests were kind enough to remind us of. The TOPAM 2025 Awards aren't just the most important awards of the season, they're also the latest!

To what heights will you be Wuthered by Emerald Fennell's new quotation mark-wrapped adaptation of Emily Brontë's quintessential Gothic Novel? That run on sentence can only be answered by Matt and Jamie at 2:30am on Valentines Day (sober?) mere moments after having watched it for themselves.

Mics are HOT!

Just a reminder even if democracy dies in darkness, Izzy from Be Kind Rewind will always be here to illuminate Kleber Mendonça Filho's "The Secret Agent"! We navigate the Brazilian dictatorship, hairy legs and how to measure the temperature of boiling frogs. youtu.be/OWzsSRWgiJo

Telling a multi generational story of a Palestinian family starting in 1948, Cherien Dabis' "All That's Left Of You" briskly traverses history with a sense of quiet dignity, even in the face of brutal humiliation. This may be one of the best films of the year, so go out and see it if you can!

It's no accident that we're discussing Jafar Panahi's "It Was Just An Accident" with @thomasflight.nebula.tv This astounding act of political defiance both in front of and behind the camera has just been nominated for Best International Feature, so do whatever you got to do to see it now!

We had "No Other Choice" but to discuss Park Chan-wook's scathing take on pushing paper! Are we desperate enough to murder our contemporaries or will we fold like origami?

Keep your eye on the orange ball as we hurtle through Josh Safdie's first solo project Marty Supreme. We talk about the great American huckster in cinema, the cascading calamities of living in New York City and whether this really is Chalamet's best performance.

We blue ourselves for this third installment of James Cameron's Pandora odyssey "Avatar: Fire and Ash"! Can big Jim go the distance with a third Nav'i film or is it time to abandon ship?

Ham-heads rejoice! Because we're deep diving on the bard with Chloe Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's #Hamnet - We're also thrilled to be joined by legendary abolitionist @chandlerjdean.bsky.social to give us all his hot Shakespeare takes!

Robert Grainger (Joel Edgerton) is logging all of his memories in Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” and we’re here to sift through his highs and lows in this tender portrait of a 20th century man.

We're defying gravity for a second time as we reach the Wicked conclusion to the most important question of this generation... what does the Wizard want?

There's no killing what can't be killed, which means the Predator franchise is back from the dead with the third Dan Trachtenberg helmed Yautja adventure, this time in the badlands of... New Zealand?

Yorgos Lanthimos returns to the pod as the most discussed* director on the show! We're ready to save the green planet with Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone in Bugonia.

It's alive and so are we as we deep dive into the creation of Guillermo Del Toro's newest ( & oldest) monster "Frankenstein". We're joined by gothic horror aficionado Jamie Walsh & are prompted by a wonderful listener about this annotated text, the relationship between Frankenstein and technology!

We're back on the grid and leaving behind a laser trail that'll determine the fate of Joachim Rønning's Tron: Ares! It's biodigital jazz man!

Matt and Shahir fell down a Watergate rabbit hole, and all the presidents horses and All The Presidents Men couldn't bring them back again! We revisit journalism procedurals, Robert Redford's sexy legacy and unrelated modern parallels to Nixon's scandals.

We’ve formed a coalition government with fellow kiwi and fantastic journalist @petergnz.bsky.social so we can effectively govern through one crisis after another with Michelle Walsh and Lindsay Utz’s chronicle of the tenure of NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern.

We're pausing our Fortnite playthrough to bring you this highly anticipated episode on Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another". PS: the password is "Semen Demon!"

He's back! Ready to watch some tapes with us on Justin Tipping's "Him". Jerah Milligan calls the play, while Matt and Shahir sit on the sidelines and google how to play football.

After a week of friendship, we're saying Sorry Baby for not seeing Eva Victor's directorial debut earlier!

Celebrate a decade of male friendship as Matt and Shahir say "I Love You Man" to Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in Andrew DeYoung's "Friendship"!

It's been a slow box office summer in the US, so we've got the perfect "Cure" from Kiyoshi Kurosawa in this wildcard episode!

We're finally circling back to 2023's Sing Sing from director Greg Kwedar and talking about the prison industrial complex, amateur theater and how adorable Coleman Domingo's marriage story is!

We know everything about #kpopdemonhunters and #kpop! Listen to the full episode here 👉 shorturl.at/g8klp

Sip some soda pop with us as we show you how it's done, done, done! KPop Demon Hunters is the movie of the summer and we've got thoughts, opinions and some new moves to discuss!

We're running at you like Naruto to discuss Zach Cregger's "Weapons" with special guest @designdelve.bsky.social From the cinematic influence of Magnolia to the internal logic of suburbia, we cover a lot of ground!

Surely they can't be serious about Liam Neeson and Pam Anderson replacing Leslie Nielson and Priscilla Presley in a world where electric car makers want to take over the world? Yes they are and don't call me Shirley.

Stretch out with us and Marvel's first family, The Fantastic Four who are finally space bound in the 37th Marvel Cinematic Universe film!

Welcome to Eddington circa 2020, a tranquil New Mexico town where COVID doesn't exist and social upheaval rarely happens. Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Pheonix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) are going to have a friendly debate over what Ari Aster is trying to say. art19.com/shows/the-on...

Matt and special guest host @lordbalvin.com hit the track to talk all things F1: The Movie. We discuss the return of the movie star film, the insanely cool camera tech needed to capture the speed, and how the real cinema was the friends we made along the way! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

The DC Studios debut film from @jamesgunn.bsky.social #superman is here! And joining Matt to discuss it is our super-friend Matthew Kelly AKA: @nandovmovies.bsky.social! Side note, how much they feed Krypto? We're watching him for the weekend youtu.be/rdGkDT1Wx8s

With Shahir out of town presumably researching dinosaurs, Matt and Jamie cue up the harmonica version of the JP theme song for this next entry in the legendary franchise. Does it capture the wonder of the Parks? Or are we left with a empty feeling Jurassic World? youtu.be/_XEmsZMXRmQ

Whether it's days, weeks or years, we're always ready to rage out and put boots on the ground to discuss Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's newest film! youtu.be/bX4-8jR5EGk

Love is in the air in Celine Song's "Materialists" which reunites our trio of intrepid film critic matchmakers lead by Izzy of BKRewind on YouTube to help us answer the ultimate cinematic dilemma: Pedro Pascal or Chris Evans? Or you know... like what is love really? youtu.be/_pHYx27pzLQ

"Get out" and "Sound of Metal" are the two best horror movies of the decade? @matthewkrol.nebula.tv @shahirdaud.bsky.social #podcast #film

You know what's cool about #predators? @matthewkrol.nebula.tv @shahirdaud.bsky.social

We here at TOPAM are trying something a little differently. Posting on on Youtube as well! Here is our chat about the latest kick ass big game space hunter film from @dantrachtenberg.bsky.social Predator: Killer of Killers youtu.be/o138X_6zrRs