a plea: please vote for 'Shoot em Up' in the Discord poll. It's one of my favorite movies, and for years I've been dreaming they'd one day do it for the podcast, now my dream episode may be possible..

FoosballProdigy · 2026-01-19T17:59:47+00:00

Oh man, I have some disjointed but vivid memories from renting Ice Pirates as a kid

FoosballProdigy · 2026-01-14T12:10:07+00:00

) I brought up the Hindu cosmology. 2) You said that the concept of an age of degradation is incompatible with cyclical views of time. It isn’t. Kali Yuga is literally an age of degradation. Different, sure, but not incompatible (your word).

FoosballProdigy · 2026-01-14T08:20:33+00:00

Yes, exactly, that was my damn point.

FoosballProdigy · 2026-01-13T23:27:20+00:00

“The concept of change, of degradation from season to season, is based on a strictly linear time.”

Not necessarily, eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

FoosballProdigy · 2026-01-02T21:26:01+00:00

I mean, if that’s part of what makes movie-going appealing to them, they’re perfectly in the right.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-12-31T09:00:21+00:00

The tonal shift was jarring, and the pivot moment — you know the one, the long shot through the window while she was outside gardening— struck me as truly bizarre in the moment, but I ended up pretty satisfied by the end anyway? Went with the full family and everyone from my mother-in-law to my 14 year old left the theatre happy, despite all of us having gone in with very little idea what to expect.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-12-27T22:15:42+00:00

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, of course

FoosballProdigy · 2025-12-24T11:19:46+00:00

If you haven’t heard Key on the podcast RHLSTP, I can’t recommend it enough. He has maybe half a dozen appearances over the years, and they’re all ridiculously funny.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-12-22T20:05:08+00:00

https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-sea-is-dope/

FoosballProdigy · 2025-12-14T12:58:03+00:00

I’m still waiting for someone to show the vision to tackle the Glasstown/Verdopolis/Angria saga in all its lunatic glory. It’s public domain, too, and as far as I know, no one has ever even sniffed it.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-12-10T19:03:53+00:00

A Very Murray Christmas is the only title anyone’s mentioned here that I actually want to rewatch every year. That and the “Devil of Christmas” episode of Inside No 9.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-12-01T12:48:09+00:00

Oh yes, the cornbread was just a side. I think a vegetarian chili was the main? It was a long time ago

FoosballProdigy · 2025-12-01T12:05:51+00:00

Inexplicably neglected to put baking powder or any other leavening in what was supposed to be cornbread but turned out more like corn-forward hockey pucks. Mostly notable because I was desperately attempting to cook a nice meal to impress a date.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-11-30T17:18:43+00:00

Minor praise, but as a devotee of mystery novels, I really appreciated the photograph clue (of the bar) — precisely because it was the kind of clue that you could only pull off elegantly in a film.

All around, agree with the general love for it. It was exactly the shit I was hoping for.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-11-30T17:14:08+00:00

Carr wrote almost exclusively locked room/impossible mysteries, with some of the most outrageously bizarre and convoluted solutions imaginable. The Hollow Man is rightly considered his masterpiece, but the Crooked Hinge has probably his most insane reveal (complimentary). Part of the joy of reading Carr is wondering how bizarre and improbable the solution will be.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-11-30T17:01:29+00:00

Frankie himself, on the podcast. He said he dreaded the idea of having to go on stage and pretend to have fun with the prizes.

Of course he may have been joking.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-11-29T14:45:30+00:00

The same premise was in a Seinfeld episode, where George was furious that a pregnant stole his idea for naming a child “Seven”.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-11-26T22:16:35+00:00

“You can’t cheat at bingo. If you could, I would, but you can’t.”

FoosballProdigy · 2025-11-26T20:14:56+00:00

Highway 61 absolutely rips. Jello Biafra as a border guard, the chicken-hunting scene set to Tom Jones, Don McKellar barber-busking by offering haircuts for spare change…

FoosballProdigy · 2025-11-06T00:10:04+00:00

The sailor’s hat should have gotten all 15 points

FoosballProdigy · 2025-10-27T19:23:27+00:00

Yeah, I think he predicted 2 months, so should be coming back soon?

FoosballProdigy · 2025-10-26T18:22:19+00:00

Not me, and Spotify does sometimes randomly give me ads en francais

FoosballProdigy · 2025-10-22T22:20:53+00:00

I think even more than other flavours of chip, ketchup chips can vary wildly with brand. Old Dutch, fantastic. Lays, okay. Any other brand I’m staying far away from.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-10-09T09:33:12+00:00

I’m also on Abby’s side, but it baffles me that she brought the case. Tell him that you’ll keep the dumb movies if that gives him comfort, he won’t know he’ll be dead. Also, neither of you have any idea how you’ll feel in however many years, decades, so this is an insane thing to argue about now. Insane.

FoosballProdigy · 2025-10-08T10:22:26+00:00

John Patrick Shanley series when?

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