The Plotaholics Podcast: Movie Reviews

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Each week, authors Shane Wilson and Bryan Tann watch one movie before meeting for an informal and wide-ranging conversation inspired by that movie. Reminiscent of the nights spent debating your favorite films over drinks, The Plotaholics Podcast seeks to capture the organic, shared experience of life as consumers of popular culture. Long-time practitioners of pop culture discussion will understand this one thing: the best conversations rarely stay on topic. So, if you “have too much time on your hands,” or you care immensely for something even if it’s “just a movie,” this podcast is for you. Tune in each week as The Plotaholics begin with a film and let the conversation take them where it will.Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/tyjMeVReAD

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The World's End

Feb 28 2023 56 mins

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 a Pub Crawl that they failed to successfully complete twenty-three years prior. At that time, they discover

Hot Fuzz

Feb 21 2023 53 mins

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 because he's making them all look bad!Upon his arrival, Nicholas realizes the darkness of the gre

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Feb 15 2023 57 mins

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 Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and he’s head over heels!Unfortunately she comes with bagga

Forget Paris

Feb 06 2023 65 mins

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 the romance between an NBA referee and an American-born Parisian airline executiv

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Feb 01 2023 63 mins

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 failing business, a strained relationship with her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu),

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Jan 24 2023 62 mins

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 hope not) version of Nicholas Cage living in Hollywood. His career

Nope

Jan 17 2023 70 mins

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 Wincott, Brandon Perea, and the excellent Keith David, this film is the third full-lengt

Glass Onion

Jan 10 2023 63 mins

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 island of billionaire Miles Bron (played masterfully by Edward Norton)

Bullet Train

Jan 03 2023 60 mins

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 an all-star cast including Brad Pitt, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, J

Avatar (2009)

Dec 27 2022 76 mins

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 planet of Pandora to pilot his deceased twin brother’s genetically engineered body to blend in with the i