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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 194 – The World’s End
Video Edition: Audio Edition: This week the Plotaholics discuss the 2013 Sci-Fi/Comedy The World’s End before saying their own goodbyes to the podcast they’ve spent the last four years working on. It was a good run, but all good things must come to an end. The film of the week sees five “friends” going on…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 193 – Hot Fuzz
Video Edition: Audio Edition: This week, the Plotaholics take a trip across the pond to Sanford Gloucestershire for 2007’s buddy cop comedy Hot Fuzz starting Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In this film, Pegg plays Constable Nicholas Angel. The best of the best who is so good that his superiors banish him to the country…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 192 – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Audio Edition: Video Edition: Watch here. This week, the Plotaholics dip into the day of lovers with the, under appreciated at the time, cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is still reeling after his ex girlfriend dumped him. To the point that he’s “dating” a high school girl. Then he meets…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 191 – Forget Paris
Video Edition: https://youtube.com/live/DXakI4n0d6s Audio Edition: It’s February, which means it’s the month of love! We’re getting started with the 1995 romantic comedy Forget Paris starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger as Mickey and Ellen. In this tale of love, travel, and basketball, a group of friends tells the newest member of their group the whirlwind tale of…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 190 – Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Video Edition: Audio Edition: The Plotaholics wind down on our month of the biggest films of 2022 with, what is probably according to the Academy, the hottest of the hot movies of the year. Everything Everywhere All At Once Evelyn Quan (played by the amazing Michelle Yeoh) is a married, middle-aged Chinese-American immigrant with a…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 189 – The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Video Edition: Audio Edition: The Plotaholics’ are going strong this week as we continue to explore the films that came out in 2022. This week’s episode is a CRIMINALLY UNDER THE RADAR BANGER! This week we’re talking about the Nicholas Cage film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. This film, costarring Padro Pascal, shows a fictionalized (we…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 188 – Nope
Video Edition: Audio Edition: This week we take a second trip into the mind of the great Jordan Peele with 2022’s Nope starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as siblings OJ and Em Haywood who discover on their horse ranch a strange, predatory presence. Costarring Steven Yeun (Glenn from The Walking Dead), the great Michael…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 187 – Glass Onion
Video Edition: Audio Edition: January is going strong Plotaholics fans! This week we dive into one of our new favorite franchises’ next entry in the 2022 Rian Johnson written and directed murder/mystery Glass Onion. Glass Onion sees the return of Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, master detective, as he investigates a murder on the privately owned…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 186 – Bullet Train
Video Edition: Audio Edition: Happy 2023, Plotaholics! We’re changing up a little bit from previous years. The last few years we’ve done only 80s flicks in January. This time around, though, we’re doing newer flicks that have come out over the last few months. Our first foray is to Japan and the 2022 Action/Comedy Bullet Train with…
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Plotaholics Podcast, Episode 185 – Avatar (2009)
Video Edition: Audio Edition: The final episode of 2022 is here, and we decided to end the year with the first film in the series of 2022’s most anticipated film. This week we watch the 2009’s sci-fi epic, Avatar. This film stars Sam Wentworth as Jake Sully (or Jakesooly), a paralyzed Marine sent to the…
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