Each Host Brings A Film That Influenced Who They Are This week, we’re changing up the format for our 75th Episode Quarter Quell Special! It’s our third Quell as Fighting in The War Room, and we’re getting all nostalgic again. Katey, Da7e, David

REVIEW – Inside Out

Jun 19th, 2015 51m 53s

Is Pixar really back? This week, Katey (Joy), Patches (Sadness), and David (Anger) navigate the mind of Pixar’s latest, Inside Out, to understand what makes it tick. Or just enjoy how lovely it is. Plus, a brief review of Me and Earl and the Dy

REVIEW – Jurassic World

Jun 12th, 2015 53m 27s

Awe? No. This week, Katey and Patches swap out Daves for a review of Colin Trevorrow’s new Jurassic Park movie, the fourth one, Jurassic World. Will the three hosts be able to look past the groundbreaking original and enjoy this action movie th

74 – Too Many Crowdfunds, Not Enough Effort

Jun 10th, 2015 41m 33s

And isn’t Jurassic Park the best? This week, Katey, Patches and David have sent Da7e to Jurassic World, so they soldier on without him. Cut off from the outside, Katey wants to discuss Sundance’s The Wolfpack and the boys help her out, a mini-s

73 – No Fighting in the Entourage

Jun 2nd, 2015 58m 34s

And which host is which Game of Thrones character? This week – Oh YEAH (Oh Yeah (oh yeah (ohyeah))) it’s an all dude ‘cast as Patches, Da7e and David are down a Katey. It’s appropriate that this is also the week an Entourage movie comes out, so

72 – Disaster Movies Kill Our Future

May 26th, 2015 55m 38s

And we round up Cannes so you don’t have to This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David want to take Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland bait and wonder if liking disaster cinema is feeding into a gross human part of all of us that is cynical and dying. Gra

REVIEW – Tomorrowland

May 24th, 2015 30m 10s

Touch the pin. This week, David, Katey, and Patches are deemed Minus Ultra, and banned from the parallel universe of Tomorrowland. So they settle for the movie version, directed by Brad Bird and written by Damon Lindelof. That and answers to ou

71 – Mad Men in Review

May 20th, 2015 1h 11m

And our favorite Mad Men quotes Audio Note: This week Katey had to phone it in, but does NOT phone it in. If you get our drift. This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David say goodbye to AMC’s Mad Men, a show we’ve spent almost a decade watchin

REVIEW – Mad Max: Fury Road

May 15th, 2015 39m 20s

Acca-pocalypse It’s a lovely, lovely day for a drive, listeners. This week Katey, Patches and David are joining the War Boys, the Doof Warrior, Immortan Joe, and of course Furiosa in a journey across the wasteland, as we review Mad Max: Fury

REVIEW – Avengers: Age of Ultron

May 1st, 2015 59m 26s

All four hosts review their seventh Marvel movie together in the regular fashion. It’s that time of the year again, folks: time for the newest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Avengers: Age of Ultron is a super-packed sequel sure t

69 – Long Takes, Big Stakes

Apr 29th, 2015 48m 24s

Plus Kirsten Wiig in Welcome to Me This week, Katey, Patches and David are down a Da7e. Patches takes the reigns and wants to talk about director Shara Piven’s Welcome to Me starring Kirsten Wiig before pummeling Katey and David with a round o

REVIEW – Age of Adaline

Apr 24th, 2015 22m 15s

With special guests Kate Erbland and Richard Lawson! This week Katey is thrilled to announce the Fighting in the War Room spinoff dedicated solely to Blake Lively, called Reserved for Preserve. Or she could also just be reviewing The Age of A

68 – If Star Wars Was Streaming, Why Go Anywhere Anymore?

Apr 22nd, 2015 51m 55s

And why the answer might be film festivals. This week, Katey, Da7e, David and Patches are coming off that week with the Star Wars trailer. OK, Patches isn’t watching any Star Wars publicity, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t everywhere. Katey, Pat

67 – We Talk About Superhero Movies Too Much

Apr 15th, 2015 50m 4s

And their villains are uninteresting This week, Katey, Da7e, and Patches are at the whims of THE EHRLICH, who thinks we talk about superhero movies too much online, on social media and in publications. He wants to discuss why and not so much th

REVIEW – Ex Machina

Apr 11th, 2015 42m 35s

With returning guest Jordan Hoffman! This week, Katey, David, and Patches summon Guardian and New York Daily News film critic Jordan Hoffman to conduct a Turing Test, to see they really have the brains for this sorta thing. The results are deba

66 – It’s ‘Always’ a Mad Mad Mad Men World

Apr 7th, 2015 51m 49s

And our wants for Game of Thrones This week, Katey, Da7e and THE EHRLICH are at the whims of astral dog Patches, who watched Steven Spielberg’s Always recently and wants to talk about this oft-forgotten entry in the Spielberg canon. After putti

REVIEW – Furious 7

Apr 4th, 2015 26m 14s

Vroom Vroom. Family. This week, Patches, Katey, and David ride or die into the latest installment of Vin Diesel’s bros-with-cars-and-guns franchise, Torque. Wait, no, Furious 7. We’re reviewing Furious 7. Plus reading your answers to this week’

REVIEW – Serena

Mar 28th, 2015 34m 21s

And some Get Hard This week Katey and Patches journey to the wild mountains of western North Carolina in search of timber fortunes, beautiful 1930s hairdos, and a falcon that lands on your wrist. Can they solve the mystery of how a movie starri

64 – Physical Media March Madness Goosebumps

Mar 25th, 2015 48m 17s

What do you keep and what goes to the loser’s bracket? This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David are reunited to talk about…Scholastic’s Goosebumps Bracket, rating the original RL Stine books. Da7e’s read most of them, but is wondering who this

Review – Gunman and Insurgent

Mar 21st, 2015 30m 35s

No Glass Can Stop Us This week, Katey and Patches shatter reality by entering a world where bullfighting is still legal in Barcelona. It’s a review double feature, a little Gunman here, a little Insurgent there. That, and answers to this week’s

63 – The St. Patrick’s March Madness Jinx

Mar 19th, 2015 44m 28s

What would a Garry Marshall St Patrick’s Day movie look like? This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e are down a David. Patches is inspired by his job’s TV Reboot Tournament and wants to know what TV shows we’d reboot (Da7e has the best answer), then a

Review – Cinderella

Mar 13th, 2015 26m 57s

Plus Run All Night This week, Katey and Patches close their eyes and wish to escape the hellish world they call home. They don’t, but their fairy godmother does arrive, to bippity boppity boop them into worthy patrons of Kenneth Branagh’s live-

62 – The Unbreakable Sunshine of a Ehrlich Mind

Mar 11th, 2015 49m 40s

Who You Gonna Call? This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e and David are all back. First up, a more personal story from David about his weekend with his girlfriend re-creating some moments from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but this segment h

61 – Visiting Grey Gardens

Mar 4th, 2015 39m 51s

Plus: David Goes to A Porn Festival This week, Katey, Da7e and David are down a Patches, so we’ll never know what Matt thinks about Grey Gardens, the 1979 documentary about a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale and the documentarians who

60 – Goodbye Parks And Recreation

Feb 24th, 2015 51m 28s

Plus: Oscar Reactions and BOOOOOOKS This week, Katey, Da7e and Patches are down a David, so we’ll never know just how pleased he was when Birdman took home the Best Picture Oscars. Patches and Katey have some words for the NPH-hosted telecast,