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• 36 Years Later, Does This Cold War Classic Hold Up? (The Hunt for Red October)

  October 25, 2026 · 1 hr 59 min

  John McTiernan directed Die Hard and Predator, and MonteCristo has now made this show cover three of his films. Richard Lewis, MonteCristo and Thorin close out the recently departed arc with The Hunt for Red October, and the episode opens…

• Here's Why You Can't Outgrow The Muppets (Muppet Treasure Island)

  October 18, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min

  Tim Curry said on the record, many times, that his favorite film to work on was not The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it was not Clue. It was Muppet Treasure Island. So in the Recently Departed arc, Richard Lewis, MonteCristo and Thorin…

• Is This Dolly Parton Film The WORST We've Ever Reviewed? (9 to 5)

  October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

  Dolly Parton's film debut made $100 million in 1980 and almost nobody has watched it since. Richard Lewis, MonteCristo and Thorin sit down with "9 to 5" as part of the Recently Departed Arc, and Thorin opens by calling it the worst film…

• The Best Lovecraft Movie Isn't Based on Lovecraft (In The Mouth of Madness)

  October 4, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

  John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness" is not based on a single H.P. Lovecraft story, and it may still be the best Lovecraft film ever made. Richard Lewis, MonteCristo and Thorin argue that a 1994 horror movie nobody funded for years…

• Nobody Understands Primer the First Time. That's the Point.

  September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

  Primer cost $7,000. Shane Carruth wrote it, directed it, produced it, starred in it, edited it and scored it, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and then more or less disappeared. Twenty years later it is still the most realistic time…

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