Comedy

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering The Gutter, directed by Yassir and Isaiah Lester, written by Yassir Lester, starring Shameik Moore, D’Arcy Carden, Paul Reiser, and Susan Sarandon. Together, they discuss whether or not bowling is, in fact, a “sport,” the video game Super Bowling, getting strikes, the […]

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering It’s What’s Inside, written and directed by Greg Jardin, starring Brittany O’Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood, Nina Bloomgarden, Alycia Debnam-Carrey, Reina Hardesty, Devon Terrell, David W. Thompson, and Madison Davenport. Together, they discuss the pros and cons of body swapping, the film’s […]

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re taking today off for the holiday, so enjoy this episode from the archives! We’ll have a new episode next week. Original description: This week we review 2004 comedy Soul Plane with Kevin Hart, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, and Sofia Vergara. Crude racial stereotyping, Islamophobia, baffling misogyny, and […]

This week, actor and writer Chuck Maa (Leverage: Redemption) joins Jon to cover Dìdi, written and directed by Sean Wang, starring Izaac Wang and Joan Chen. Together, they discuss never disrespecting their mothers, the movie’s critical reception, its performance at the box office, and much, much more! Listen to the […]

As a special holiday bonus, this week, Jerah and Jon are joined by actor O’Shea Jackson Jr. in advance of the release of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. Together, they dive deep on O’Shea’s roles in Straight Outta Compton, Ingrid Goes West, and Swagger, the surprising role Twitter played in […]

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering Red One, directed by Jake Kasdan, screenplay by Chris Morgan, story by Hiram Garcia, starring Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, and J.K. Simmons. Together, they discuss it being the holiday season, how few Christmas movies have Black leads, holiday films being […]

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering Gladiator II, directed by Ridley Scott, screenplay by David Scarpa, story by Peter Craig and David Scarpa, starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Lior Roz, Derek Jacobi, Connie Nielsen, and Denzel Washington. Together, they discuss ‘Sexiest Men Alive’ of […]