"You podcast the podcasts that need podcasting" - Phil celebrates the career of Rob Reiner as he takes 1995's The American President Off the Shelf this week. Dave claims this could be Phil's best movie to date and was emotionally moved from the writing and performances. Phil watched it prior to the horrendous news of Reiner's death and once after and it only appreciated in emotional value. A great script, great performances and great direction made it a nice safe space to be despite the news of the world. An added bonus is how much it reflects The West Wing.

What beats Lava? My Podcast...I hope" - Dave starts the year off with a toast as he takes 1997's Volcano Off the Shelf this week. Surprisingly, Phil doesn't hate it and for the most enjoys the action sequences despite some questionable effects here and there but overall appreciates the disaster genre of the late 90's. Dave isn't that convinced it's a good movie but is always happy to watch Tommy Lee Jones take charge and get it done.

Our yearly look back at the movies we did in 2025 where we hand out "Shelfies" in categories such as best comedy, best soundtrack, Phil's worst movie(lots to chose from) and much much more!!

Re Released for the Christmas season. Phil still likes it. Dave still doesn't but they both agree Bob Newhart was great!

"Podcast is all around us, it's everywhere we go" - It's the ultimate romantic comedy as Phil takes 2003's "Love, Actually" off the shelf. Dave has only seen clips over the years and was under the impression this was romantic, comedy and a Christmas classic, he is very underwhelmed and questions if it manages to be any of those three. Phil enjoys it a little more than Dave and finds that some of the storylines are beautiful, funny and sweet though he too has to admit that a few storylines should be excised and remembers loving it when it was first released but has had diminishing returns since.

This is a Re-Release of a pretty terrible movie and not a great episode actually. Why Re-release? just to show you how far we've come. Come back next week and enjoy a brand new episode where Phil and Dave butt heads on a movie some have deemed a classic. Happy Holidays!

"You keep podcasting on the Devil's door long enough, sooner or later someone is going to answer you" - We visit the mean streets of Detroit as Dave takes 2005's Four Brothers off the shelf this week. Phil has never seen this movie before and can not find many redeeming things to comment on. The cast is full of people on the rise but the movie fails to do anything interesting with them. Dave remembers this being a go-to movie for years and years and is happy to revisit it. Mark Wahlberg's energy is a little much to take but a fun plot and good banter between the brothers take it up a notch.

"Sometimes people just need to podcast." - We celebrate Wordfest as Phil takes 2000's Wonder Boys off the shelf this week. Dave confirms that he has never seen it before and finds it lands in his 6-7. Phil recalls seeing this movie a few times in 2000, being so enamoured of it that he immediately bought the book and couldn't wait to see it again. It's been a while but he finds it still holds up and is a light breeze of a movie.