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  • You Can See Everything (2026): Nathan Fielder, Elizabeth Holmes & the Art of the Con
    Oct 20 2026

    Did Elizabeth Holmes con Nathan Fielder? Or did Nathan Fielder just make the best movie of 2026?

    This week, JD and Rachel go all in on You Can See Everything, the astonishing new A24 documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about the disgraced Theranos founder and her final days before prison.

    What begins as a surprisingly intimate portrait of Elizabeth Holmes quickly spirals into a bizarre, hilarious, and deeply unsettling examination of truth, manipulation, and the people who desperately want to believe their own bullshit.

    We debate whether Holmes is a world-class con artist or a woman being manipulated by the men in her life, unpack Billy Evans' increasingly strange behavior, marvel at Amanda Seyfried's involvement, and consider whether Fielder himself has become the latest victim of the con.

    Plus, those EYES. My God, those eyes.

    JD thinks this might be the best movie of the year. Rachel has questions. So many questions.

    Full spoilers! Watch the movie first, because you're going to want to talk about this one.

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    55 min
  • 2026 Carrie Mini-Series vs 1976 Carrie Movie: Did We Need Mike Flanagan’s Modern Take?
    Oct 15 2026

    SPOILER ALERT

    Jason and Rachel break down Mike Flanagan’s Carrie, the new modern reimagining of Stephen King’s classic horror story. Somehow we do eight hours of Carrie in under an hour.

    We get into how the series updates Carrie White for 2026, the role of social media and smartphones in modern bullying, why the expanded runtime makes the characters much more complicated, and how Summer’s performance stacks up against Sissy Spacek’s iconic version.

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    46 min
  • Dune 3 Hype, Avengers: Doomsday Dread & Widow’s Bay Obsession | Patreon Only
    Oct 10 2026

    How can the funniest people we know NOT love Widow’s Bay?!

    We need answers.

    Our Patreon-only Thumb War episode is here, and we’re laying down our thumbs to shoot the shit:

    Dune 3 hype vs. Avengers: Doomsday dread The movies and TV shows we can’t wait for—and the ones we’re already complaining about ️ Our entirely reasonable Matthew Rhys obsession Nathan Fielder, Elizabeth Holmes and celebrity felon roommates A mystery in our bed that probably should’ve stayed off the podcast

    Plus Billie Jean King, Rachel’s new pickleball job, and the usual loving disrespect.

    What movie or show are YOU hyped for—or absolutely dreading?

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    2 min
  • Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother: The Most Badass Dad Movie of the Year
    Oct 6 2026

    ️ Full spoilers throughout.

    Jason and Rachel review Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, Bassam Tariq’s wildly original action drama starring Mahershala Ali as a devout Muslim hitman struggling to protect his family after the death of his wife.

    Yes, this is an action movie involving assassins, swords, gangsters and gunfights.

    It is also very seriously about breast milk.

    We get into Mahershala Ali’s incredible performance, the movie’s depiction of Muslim faith and community, Ramadan, grief, fatherhood, John Cho’s frighteningly sincere religious extremist, Giancarlo Esposito, the fantastic child performances, and why the action feels much more dangerous than your average superhero movie.

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    34 min
  • Digger Review: Is Tom Cruise’s Box Office Bomb Actually Worth Watching?
    Oct 5 2026

    ️ MASSIVE SPOILERS throughout.

    Jason and Rachel review Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s bizarre, expensive and extremely polarizing new film starring Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman and a ridiculously stacked cast.

    And this is one you REALLY don’t want spoiled before seeing.

    We get into the movie’s massive twist, Tom Cruise disappearing under layers of makeup, the strange fake cat, the surreal Terry Gilliam/Wes Anderson-style production design, the climate apocalypse storyline, Jesse Plemons playing another billionaire, Riz Ahmed as the only sane person in the room, and why the movie eventually reveals itself to be something completely different from what the trailers suggest.

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    50 min
  • Primetime: The Most Uncomfortable Movie of the Year
    Sep 27 2026

    SPOILER ALERT

    Jason and Rachel review Primetime, Lance Oppenheim’s deeply uncomfortable fictionalized take on the world of To Catch a Predator, starring Robert Pattinson and Merritt Weaver.

    Rachel says she’d rather watch Saw than sit through this again — and somehow still gives the movie a thumbs up.

    We get into Robert Pattinson’s Chris Hansen-inspired character, the strange morality of predator-sting television, whether public humiliation actually solves anything, the gray areas the show refuses to acknowledge, and why the movie makes almost everyone involved feel compromised.

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    40 min
  • Resident Evil: Zach Cregger Made the Game I Remember
    Sep 22 2026

    SPOILER ALERT

    Jason and Rachel are joined by Hollywood Insider/Master of Macabre DanDanThePieMan to review Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil — a video game movie about what happens when a completely normal guy with no survival skills suddenly finds himself trapped inside a survival-horror nightmare.

    Jason talks about discovering the original Resident Evil on PlayStation in the ’90s and staying up until sunrise watching friends play, while the gang gets into why this movie works by capturing the feeling of playing a video game instead of simply recreating the game’s story.

    Plus: why Jason thinks this is a smarter way to adapt video games, why some Resident Evil fans are furious, the surprisingly dark ending, and our official ranking of Cregger’s three movies: Barbarian, Weapons, and Resident Evil.

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    1 ora e 4 min
  • The Uprising Review: Paul Greengrass Shook the Camera Until the Peasants Revolted
    Sep 16 2026

    SPOILER ALERT

    Jason and Rachel review The Uprising, Paul Greengrass’ Andrew Garfield historical rebellion movie that somehow becomes a Robin Hood origin story — a twist the marketing apparently decided to spoil before anyone got there.

    We get into the rough opening weekend, the confusing Robin Hood pivot, the lack of bows and arrows, Andrew Garfield as the Plowman, Jamie Bell as John Ball, the historically messy Peasants’ Revolt, Richard II going from simpering teen king to strategic despot overnight, and whether the movie’s modern political parallels are too blunt to ignore.

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    30 min