After Lunch

With Rob out of the country, Becky Tyler joins Michael and Pax in the lounge to talk about LiveJournal,The Phantom Menace,Gold Diggers of 1933,Lisa Frankenstein,Abigail,The First Omen,Late Night with the Devil,Immaculate, oldNerd Lunchepisodes, theFast and Furiousmovies, Jed MacKay’sMoon Knight, Remo Williams,God of Fireby Helen Steadman,The Princess Bride by William Goldman, PG Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, and more.

TheAfter Lunch Planet of the Apesmovie panel joins theAfter Lunch Planet of the ApesTV panel to talk about the all-newKingdom of the Planet of the Apes! Michael, Rob, Pax, and Jacob Bean-Watson welcome the new trilogy ofPlanet of the Apesfilms with this first entry directed by Wes Ball and starring Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Peter Macon, and Kevin Durand.

After four episodes determining our favorite villains from literature, comics, TV, and movies, Michael and Rob welcome Joanna fromBloody Popcorn and Pax to help decide the ultimate villain from all media types. Rather than nominate candidates, the panel works together to seed the Final Fours from each of the previous match-ups (episodes 132, 209, 263, and 275, if you like) into brackets. And then, as usual, we vote on them until we reach the ultimate champion.

Michael, Rob, and Karen dance into the fire and board the iceberg submarine to talk about Roger Moore's final performance as James Bond inA View to a Kill. Also starring Grace Jones, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, and Patrick Macnee.

After discussing the horrors of car repair and the newOmenprequel,The First Omen, Michael and Jess finally wrap up their exploration of the Universal monster movies. They talk about the last two mummy movies (both from 1944):The Mummy's GhostandThe Mummy's Curse.

Michael, Rob, and Pax discuss the wrap up to thePlanet of the Apesreboot trilogy.

Michael, Rob, and Pax talk about more Harry Palmer, Matt Helm, and Mannix,The Marvels and the state of the MCU, lots of podcasts, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, theMr and Mrs SmithTV series, Doctor Strange comics, John Byrne’s Superman, the Sherlock Holmes Expanded Universe,Predator Vs Wolverine, Jason Copland'sFull Tilt, and ever so much more.

Michael, Rob, and Pax are back in the Lounge to talk about generational differences, local pro wrestling events, Darth Vader, theGodzilla x Kongnovelization, Van Halen,Cinderella(2015),Bottoms(2023), the '70sAmazing Spider-ManTV series,MacGruber,Renegade Nell, Wilkie Collins,Road House(2024),Silo,Argylle (2024), and real estate.

Michael and Rob catch up with kaiju fans writer Corinna Bechko (currently ofThe Space Between) and David May about the new entry in Legendary's MonsterVerse series,Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.Godzilla vs. Kong's Adam Wingard returns to direct and brings along hisThe Guest star Dan Stevens to join returning MonsterVerse actors Kaylee Hottle, Rebecca Hall, and Brian Tyree Henry.

Michael and Rob welcome Shawn Robare and Jacob Bean-Watson to nominate 16 legendary movie villains, then match them against each other in a tournament to determine the greatest movie villain of all time.