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sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Best Movies of 2024In our annual virtual get-together, the heaviest moviegoers of SportsAlcohol.com's roster discussed the movies on our collective Top 15 list for 2024, including but not limited to: Filming about architecture! Horrible bodies! Frawd marriages! Expressions of horniness! And many more. It's a long one but a good one; the episode also includes our outlier picks that only one person apiece voted for!2025-02-143h 05
sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Movies of 1984Belatedly venturing into a new decade for our summer flashback series, the SportsAlcohol.com crew looks back at the top 10 highest-grossing movies released in the summer of 1984! Recorded way back in the vintage summer of 2024, lost to time, and then recovered just in time for the tail-end of the year, this episode goes deep on mid-80s blockbusters featuring gremlins, ghosts, sports, spaceships, cops, breakdancers, and nerds (of course, there are always nerds on SportsAlcohol.com podcasts). So grab your proton packs, hold off on your electric boogaloos, and get ready to remember the summer movies of 1984!2024-12-282h 10
Authorized Novelizations PodcastHalloween by Curtis Richards (w/ Jesse Hassenger)It's our yearly Halloween episode and this year we chose...Halloween! We crack open Curtis Richard's (Richard Curtis') novelization of the Carpenter original, and he's making a lot of choices. They are not necessarily amazing ones, though. Jesse Hassenger continues to haunt the podcast.
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Follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/authorizedpod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/pro...2024-10-312h 13sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Summer Movies from 1994 (B-sides Edition)Ten years ago, we did our first 20-years-ago flashback podcast about summer movies. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of these 20th anniversaries, we decided to circle back to 1994 and talk about ten movies that were very much not the ten highest grossers of that summer, including nascent superheroes, mad bombers, beloved and obscure indies, and a couple of natural born killers. Join us for another and even more eclectic trip down memory lane!2024-09-071h 46
Authorized Novelizations PodcastPlanet of the Apes: The Fall by William T. Quick (w/ Jesse Hassenger)What happened to the crew of The Oberon when they crashed onto the Planet of the Apes? Well, it wasn't a Planet of the Apes yet, it was a planet of the BUGS.
We're joined this week by Jesse Hassenger to discuss the origins of Semos himself and the Ape/Human/BUG war. This book is nuts.
Jesse Hassenger returns to discuss hauntings, possessions, and the lowest resolution film we've ever watched for this show.
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sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Box Office Hits of 2004It's that time of year again: Time for the good people of SportsAlcohol.com to jump in their exclusively movie-related time machines and travel back 20 years for a look at the summer movies that were on top of the box office in 2004. Tom Cruise breaks bad! Hugh Jackman breaks worse! Michael Moore breaks records! Fox Searchlight puts out not one but two generational indie movies with their own individual backlashes! And who cares about Shrek when a new Riddick adventure is in the offing? These are the cultural events that Nathaniel, Jeremy, Jesse, and Marisa will be covering in...2024-08-062h 07
Authorized Novelizations PodcastShe Waits by Henry Clement (w/ Jesse Hassenger)It's the novelization of a TV movie from the 70s. All hail wheel.
Jesse Hassenger returns to discuss hauntings, possessions, and the lowest resolution film we've ever watched for this show.
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Follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/authorizedpod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/authorizedpod.bsky.social Instagram: instagram.com/authorizedpod Follow us on lette...2024-07-251h 53sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Way Late)Some months ago, Nathaniel, Jesse, and Marisa got together to talk about the then-new movie Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Since then, everyone's lives got real busy and Jesse didn't carve out any time to edit it. But now that Godzilla and Kong have made their way to HBO Max and will presumably remain there in heavy rotation for months, we've decided to belatedly unleash our episode on what still remains one of the biggest movies of the year. As a special bonus, we have a segment featuring an eight-year-old talking about how much she loved the movie...2024-07-211h 15sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Oscar Special BONUS!In a follow-up to our recent Oscar special, the SportsAlcohol.com continues their discussion of the 96th Academy Award nominations, covering categories outside the big eight, which means nerdy discussion of music, animation, international features, cinematography, editing, and more!2024-03-0638 minsportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Oscar Special 2024The 2023-24 Oscar season has finally heading for the end, and the SportsAlcohol.com team has assembled to talk about our PREFERENCES, our PREDICTIONS, and our most treasured SNUBS in the top eight major categories! Place your bets, protect your faves, and listen up as we get our last build-ups and teardowns in on the films of 2023!2024-03-051h 23sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Best Movies of 2023We may be arriving a little late with our discussion of the 15 best movies of 2023, but we still beat the Oscars to air! In a long and enthusiastic discussion of our collective favorites, your pals at SportsAlcohol.com take turns waxing rhapsodic over an eclectic group of 2023 movies that we loved, including major auteurs, exciting debuts, special-effects blockbusters, and small-scale indies. It's one of our biggest episodes ever and full of great streaming suggestions!2024-02-193h 09sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Best Music of 2023After a three-year hiatus to get our heads right, the SportsAlcohol.com pop-music contingent is back to talk about new discoveries, legacy acts, favorite albums, and more as we go through 2023 in music, featuring Boygenius, Olivia Rodrigo, Caroline Polachek, The National, Belle & Sebastian, and... Joe Jackson?! Join Rob, Sara, Marisa, Jesse, and Jeremy as we try to make sense of our fractured and internet-addled music landscape!2024-02-092h 18sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Godzilla Minus OneLeapin' lizards! Everyone knows Godzilla is the King of All Monsters, but what this episode pre-supposes is... maybe he's also the King of All Media? With a new Toho Godzilla film in theaters, an American Godzilla movie coming in a few months, a Godzilla-related TV series streaming on Apple, and the big guy fighting the Justice League in the pages of DC Comics, Godzilla fans are, as they say, eating. After seeing Godzilla Minus One twice each, Jesse and lifelong Godzilla fan/expert Nathaniel sat down to talk about the overall state of the monster. 2024-01-051h 34sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast Labor Day Special: Air, Blackberry, Tetris, and Flamin' HotHappy Labor day from your pals at SportsAlcohol.com! We got you a podcast episode! Earlier this summer, Ben convened a small panel of labor experts (by which we mean Marisa, Jeremy, and Jesse) to talk about the bumper crop of movies about companies making products. Air, Blackberry, Flamin' Hot, and Tetris all came out within months of each other -- what gives? In this episode, led by a bona fide MBA, we talk about each movie, which ones (if any) appealed to us and why, and the greater meaning of this trend. (We recorded this episode before The...2023-09-041h 32sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Movies of 2003Our annual summer nostalgiafest and re-evaluation continues further into the 2000s, as Marisa, Jesse, Becca, Jeremy, and Ben go through the eye-popping 17-title list of movies that made over $100 million domestic back in the summer of 2003. Superheroes! Pirates! Car chases! Multiple cops on the edge! And... fish?! Take a stroll through the early-to-mid '00s with us and revisit the best and the dregs!2023-08-162h 18
Authorized Novelizations PodcastA Life Less Ordinary by John Hodge (w/ Jesse Hassenger)It's a classic premise- Boy gets fired, kidnaps the boss's daughter, but she's got the better kidnapping instincts, so they team up and fall in love. Also, there's angels.
Today on Authorized, we welcome Jesse Hassenger back to discuss the novelization of A Life Less Ordinary, penned by screenwriter John Hodge himself. It explains how heaven is actually a terrible place full of wealth disparity that makes the deceased envy the living. Among other insights!
Check out Jesse's horror podcast, The New Flesh! : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...2023-08-102h 33sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Movies of 1993It's that time of year again, where the SportsAlcohol.com crew gets together and has a wide-ranging, semi-nostalgic, semi-modern discussion of the biggest summer movies of decades ago. This year, we're kicking off our pair of anniversary episodes with the 30-years-ago version, throwing it all the way back to the summer of 1993, where dinosaurs (of the special-effects variety) and dinosaurs (of the dad-movie variety) ruled the box office! Join Marisa, Sara, Jeremy, Jesse, Nathaniel, and Ben as we talk Ford, Stallone, Arnold, Goldblum, Dave, Hanks, Ryan, and Dennis (the Menace, that is).2023-08-042h 45sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Indiana JonesWith Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny now in theaters and wrapping up Indy's story for good, Marisa, Jesse, and Nathaniel decided to take a look at the whole Indiana Jones saga, starting with the new movie and working our way back through the other entries -- and some ancillary materials courtesy of Indy expert Nathaniel! Last Crusade is impugned and defended! Crystal Skull isn't hated! Temple of Doom is revered! Has the world gone topsy-turvy?! Listen and find out!2023-07-211h 27sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Best Movies of 20222022 is over, but have you caught up on all of the great movies it had to offer? Maybe not! Five SportsAlcohol.com regulars voted on their 20 collective favorites from 2022, and in this podcast we run through the upper reaches of the list to discuss what movies got to us last year, and why -- including both consensus favorites and outliers that only made one contributor's list! From Irish infighting to Spielbergian family dynamics to multiversal variants, there are streaming (and, in a few cases, still movie theater!) recommendations galore on this episode, from your pals Sara, Marisa, Jeremy, and...2023-02-152h 05sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Best Streaming Shows of 2022Taking a break from endless movie-watching, the good people at SportsAlcohol.com celebrate another overwhelming year of Peak TV with a Ben-led discussion of their favorite shows in various categories, including workplace, romance, sci-fi, animation, and more! If you're looking for an absolute slew of TV recommendations, and a handful of vicious takedowns, look no further!2023-02-092h 19sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Avatar 2 and the Films of James CameronWatch out for the cultural impact! Avatar: The Way of Water is finally in theaters -- in fact, it's topped the box office for seven weekends in a row, garnered a Best Picture nomination, and has made over $2 billion worldwide. In light of this stunning failure to attract any audiences or acclaim, your SportsAlcohol.com crew hopped in their submersible and did a deep dive on the films of James Cameron, in all their water-y, tech-y, earnest glory. The Avatars, the Terminators, the Aliens, the various boats and choppers... they're all here in this two-hour-plus extravaganza that is still...2023-01-312h 22sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Indie Movies of Summer 2022We got a little bit behind editing this one, we admit: Our annual round-up of a dozen-plus indie movies from the summer blockbuster season is dropping closer to the end of the year. But you know what? That works, because this marathon episode includes tons of recommendations that might get lost in the end-of-year awards-movie shuffle. Enjoy our enthusiasm over indie horror, indie whimsy, indie young-adults-figuring-stuff-out, and all the rest! Featuring Aubrey Plaza, Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Maika Monroe, Marcel the Shell, Jessie Buckley, and more!2022-12-152h 23sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Movies of 1992You thought the summer movie season was over?! Well, it is for 2022, but for 1992 it's beginning again! Join Nathaniel, Ben, Marisa, Jesse, Becca, and Jeremy as we revisit the top ten biggest summer hits from 30 years ago, featuring movies from Tom Cruise, Steve Martin, Mel Gibson, Eddie Murphy, Geena Davis, and Batman!2022-09-152h 48
Authorized Novelizations PodcastResident Evil: The Final Chapter by Tim Waggoner (w/ Jesse Hassenger and Tim Waggoner)It's time for the climactic fight in Washington D.C. to end it all, and...it's over. Is there any series that handles cliffhangers worse than this one?
Today we're joined by Jesse Hassenger from sportsalcohol.com and The New Flesh podcast to discuss Tim Waggoner's novelization of Resident Evil 6. And, who are we kidding, we discuss the entire film series while we're at it. Then, we're joined by the author Tim Waggoner himself to talk RE, novelizing movies, and the way these books can evolve along with script drafts.
Tim Waggoner interview at 1:46:00.
Check out Jesse's work here: https://a...2022-09-012h 37sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: SNL Season 47 Check-InEvery year, the SportsAlcohol.com crew of loyal Saturday Night Live viewers checks in to discuss a recent episode of the show and the season as a whole. For Season 47, we chose a late-season episode with host and musical guest Lizzo to assess the swollen 24-person cast and other changes as the show nears its 50th birthday.2022-04-241h 50sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Oscars 2022It's that time of year again, finally: the 94th Annual Academy Awards are here, and so are Marisa, Sara, Jesse, and Jeremy, to discuss their predictions and preferences in the top eight big categories. We make movies better.2022-03-191h 21sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Matrix Resurrections and the WachowskisWe here at SportsAlcohol dot com were pretty excited about the recent release of The Matrix Resurrections, the 18-years-later legacy sequel to the Wachowskis' Matrix trilogy, written and directed by Lana Wachowski sans her sister Lily. After watching the movie in IMAX theaters and/or HBO Max, Jesse, Marisa, Ben, Jeremy, and Nathaniel got together to talk about how the new movie fits in with the legendary original, the controversial trilogy, and the garden of delights that is the full Wachowski filmography. So we start with The Matrix and then get into our full collective ranking of the Wachowski...2022-01-232h 07sportsalcohol.com podcastGod Help the Girl b/w Streets of FireBen and Jesse resume their podcast-within-the-podcast miniseries where each selects a movie and they watch them both together and talk about it. This time, we've set aside our usual business and sci-fi in favor of two movies about rock and roll, sort of: Stuart Murdoch's God Help the Girl and Walter Hill's Streets of Fire.2021-07-0752 minsportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Best Movies of 2020, AgainUncertain over how the rest of the year would go, we made a podcast episode in August of 2020 about the best movies of the year. But hey, it turned out there were plenty more great movies to come! So here's our supplementary podcast covering our collective favorites (and oddball outliers) from the rest of 2020, including talk about Nomadland, Soul, Tenet, Sound of Metal, and more!2021-03-061h 38sportsalcohol.com podcastThe Films of Robert ZemeckisRobert Zemeckis put out one of the more disappointing sorta-big movies of 2020 with The Witches, so we convened a special career-spanning episode of the SportsAlcohol.com podcast to talk about his career in greater depth--both how the new movie falls short, and why we had high expectations for it to begin with. Join Marisa, Jesse, Nathaniel, and Jeremy as we talk about EVERY Zemeckis movie so far!2020-12-262h 19sportsalcohol.com podcastWhat Makes Us LaughLook, it's been a long sort-of quarantine for everyone, including your friends at SportsAlcohol.com, and we haven't all completed the projects we thought would be our silver linings for this extended period of inactivity. For example: Thinking we could all use some laughs during a pretty dark time, a bunch of us recorded a comedy-centric podcast about what makes us laugh, back in the spring, when it seemed like maybe we'd be dealing with a pandemic through the summer. Jesse's neglect in editing this long but fun-filled episode turned out to be prescient, as it's now almost six...2020-11-031h 48sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Mini-Podcast: Desperados on NetflixOur podcast doesn't often review single movies but sometimes something comes along and we just feel compelled to talk about it in full. We were so moved recently when Desperados, a movie starring SNL player Nasim Pedrad, appeared on Netflix seemingly without warning. So in this episode, Jesse talks to culture writer LaToya Ferguson about Desperados from a place of serious Nasim Pedrad and SNL fandom!2020-07-051h 05sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Mini-Podcast: Oscars 2020!On the heels of our Best Movies of 2019 podcast, the SportsAlcohol.com movie crew stuck around for a quick, loose discussion of this year's Academy Award nominations: who we were happy to see, who was SNUBBED, and who might emerge victorious on Oscar night.2020-02-0433 minsportsalcohol.com podcastBlack Christmas times three!For a special holiday episode (and a rare new-release movie review!), Jesse is joined by podcast expert and horror fan Becca, to talk about all three versions of BLACK CHRISTMAS: The 1974 original, the 2006 remake, and the new 2019 version in theaters now!2019-12-1357 minsportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Billboard Hits of 1999If there's one thing the editorial core of SportsAlcohol.com knows, it's not so much sports, or alcohol, but popular culture of the late 1990s. In what has now become an annual tradition, Rob, Jesse, and Marisa scour the Billboard Hot 100 for all of 1999 and discuss certain key selections (not specified ahead of time, but chosen on the fly by Marisa). Travel back to '99 with us and decide if you like girls who wear Abercrombie and Fitch!2019-04-291h 17
Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: High Flying BirdIn a sequel of sorts to our all-Soderbergh episode from 2017, and also our sportsiest episode ever by far, Rob, Ben, Marisa, and Jesse all discuss the new Steven Soderbergh film High Flying Bird, now streaming on Netflix! It's a brisk assessment of Soderbergh, labor relations, sports, Moneyball, iPhone cameras, and more!2019-03-0252 minCelebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Best Movies of 2018As Oscar season heads into its final weeks, why not take a break from litigating the Academy's dumb choices and spend some time listening to Nathaniel, Sara, Marisa, and Jesse talk about their favorites of the year? We've got Best Picture nominees, we've got stuff no one else ranked this guy, and we've got outliers! This engaging discussion of the best movies of 2018 has got. it. all.2019-01-311h 40Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Spider-Man Movies RankedThe seventh (!) Spider-Man movie of the past 20 years came out last month with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. To celebrate this occasion, the SportsAlcohol.com skeleton crew, including Spider-Man expert Rob, got together and did an impromptu group ranking of all Spider-Man and Spider-Man-adjacent movies, talking about each and every one! Maguire! Dunst! Franco! Garfield! Stone! Holland! Captain America! Doughy Peter Parker! Spider-Ham! We talk about 'em all on our brisk countdown! Some of our rankings may surprise and infuriate you!2019-01-091h 03Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Second ActThe new movie Second Act starring Jennifer Lopez is opening on December 21st! Jesse and Ben caught an early screening and discussed how it works as a non-rom-com, a zany business movie, and a Jennifer Lopez star vehicle. It's the latest in our mini-series where Ben talks about business movies. WARNING: There are SPOILERS for the movie Second Act around the halfway mark of this episode.2018-12-2031 minsportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Second ActThe new movie Second Act starring Jennifer Lopez is opening on December 21st! Jesse and Ben caught an early screening and discussed how it works as a non-rom-com, a zany business movie, and a Jennifer Lopez star vehicle. It's the latest in our mini-series where Ben talks about business movies. WARNING: There are SPOILERS for the movie Second Act around the halfway mark of this episode.2018-12-2031 minCelebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Creed II and the Rocky SeriesJesse and Nathaniel, the only two people you know who think Rocky V is better than Rocky IV, got together to discuss how the newest Rocky-ish movie, Creed II, stacks up against the original, as well as other Rocky sequels. Controversial takes abound! (See above RE: Rocky V.)2018-12-1756 minsportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Creed II and the Rocky SeriesJesse and Nathaniel, the only two people you know who think Rocky V is better than Rocky IV, got together to discuss how the newest Rocky-ish movie, Creed II, stacks up against the original, as well as other Rocky sequels. Controversial takes abound! (See above RE: Rocky V.)2018-12-1756 minCelebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Best Songs of the 2000sAfter pulling together 20-plus ballots from various writers and music fans to form our definitive list of the BEST SONGS OF THE 2000s, the SportsAlcohol.com podcast crew convened a small panel of those writers to talk about the list: what we thought of the final product, the songs we love and the songs we hate, as well as how we constructed our individual ballots. Join us for a sometimes-contentious, always entertaining look back at a decade of disparate pop music!2018-12-071h 12sportsalcohol.com podcastThe Best Songs of the 2000sAfter pulling together 20-plus ballots from various writers and music fans to form our definitive list of the BEST SONGS OF THE 2000s, the SportsAlcohol.com podcast crew convened a small panel of those writers to talk about the list: what we thought of the final product, the songs we love and the songs we hate, as well as how we constructed our individual ballots. Join us for a sometimes-contentious, always entertaining look back at a decade of disparate pop music!2018-12-071h 12Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, and the Wizarding WorldWith the release of the second Fantastic Beasts film, The Crimes of Grindelwald, now upon us, Marisa, Nathaniel, and Jesse got together to assess the state of the Wizarding World: Where this new series still holds promise, how it falls short, and what the hell is up with Eddie Redmayne. Accio takes!2018-11-1956 minCelebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Indie Movies of Summer 2018For the fourth year in a row, SportsAlcohol.com's movie crew of Jesse, Marisa, Sara, and Nathaniel got together for a long talk about the many indie movies that came out in May, June, July, and August of 2018. We hit over a dozen major titles, from Hereditary to Eighth Grade to BlackKklansman to Skate Kitchen to Sorry to Bother You to First Reformed and on and on and on! Get your rental suggestions for fall with this wide-ranging discussion!2018-09-061h 44sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Indie Movies of Summer 2018For the fourth year in a row, SportsAlcohol.com's movie crew of Jesse, Marisa, Sara, and Nathaniel got together for a long talk about the many indie movies that came out in May, June, July, and August of 2018. We hit over a dozen major titles, from Hereditary to Eighth Grade to BlackKklansman to Skate Kitchen to Sorry to Bother You to First Reformed and on and on and on! Get your rental suggestions for fall with this wide-ranging discussion!2018-09-061h 44Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Mission: Impossible FranchiseOne undisputed bright spot of this year's crop of summer movies was Mission: Impossible -- Fallout, the sixth (!) movie in the deathless Mission: Impossible franchise. After Nathaniel, Jesse, Marisa, and Jon all caught up with the latest mission, and watched/rewatched previous entries in the series, we all sat down to talk about Fallout, and how the series got where it is today. Come for the Fallout discussion, stay for the geeking out over MI 1 through 5, and stay even longer to hear what we think should go down in the inevitable MI7!2018-08-281h 44sportsalcohol.com podcastThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Mission: Impossible FranchiseOne undisputed bright spot of this year's crop of summer movies was Mission: Impossible -- Fallout, the sixth (!) movie in the deathless Mission: Impossible franchise. After Nathaniel, Jesse, Marisa, and Jon all caught up with the latest mission, and watched/rewatched previous entries in the series, we all sat down to talk about Fallout, and how the series got where it is today. Come for the Fallout discussion, stay for the geeking out over MI 1 through 5, and stay even longer to hear what we think should go down in the inevitable MI7!2018-08-281h 44Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Top Summer Movies of 1998It's that time of year again. In our longest running recurring episode, the SportsAlcohol.com crew takes a look back at the top-grossing movies of summer 1998, and recall what we thought then, what we think now, and where the hell we were in our lives when we first saw the American remake of Godzilla. Among others. Join Marisa, Rob, Nathaniel, Jesse, and Sabrina for a ruefully nostalgic and nostalgically rueful look back at blockbusters from 20 years ago.2018-07-251h 15Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Incredibles 2 and PixarIncredibles 2 is Pixar's 20th feature film, so this felt like a good point to talk about not just one of the most-anticipated sequels of the year but also all of the Pixar movies that preceded it. A supersized panel including Marisa, Jesse, Nathaniel, Ben, Jon, and Sara talk through our personal highlights and lowlights from the Pixar canon, including our reactions to Brad Bird's latest!2018-06-211h 51Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Ladies of Ocean's 8The Soderbergh-free but all-star Ocean's 8 is currently heisting away plenty of money at the box-office, so Sara, Marisa, and Jesse got together to talk about the movie, how it measures up to the previous Ocean's films, and how it fits into the film careers of the many actresses involved: Sandra Bullock! Anne Hathaway! Cate Blanchett! Sarah Paulson! And more!2018-06-121h 02Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Riverdale Season 2The founders of SportsAlcohol.com have stuck with Riverdale through an overlong rollercoaster of a second season and we have THOUGHTS about it: about the Black Hood, about the mafia's foothold in Riverdale, about just how stupid Archie is supposed to be, about the darkness inside Betty, about Veronica's real age, and about Jughead's mysterious double. We discuss all that and more in this full-season examination of why the hell we are still watching Riverdale!2018-05-2347 minCelebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Steven Spielberg, Part 2In the second part of our comprehensive discussion of Steven Spielberg's career, we talk about Spielberg movies we recently saw for the first time, picks for overrated and underrated Spielberg projects, and make some varying cases for the Indiana Jones sequels.2018-04-131h 30Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Steven Spielberg Part 1 - Ready Player OneWhether you're a fan of Steven Spielberg or not, his work looms large and moonlike over the cinematic landscape. On the occasion of his new movie Ready Player One (his fourth in the span of 2.5 years!), we got together to talk about both his newest foray into the world of sci-fi and his career as a whole. This wide-ranging discussion has been split into two episodes; this one, the first, covers Ready Player One as well as some of his trademarks as a filmmaker.2018-04-1151 minCelebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: They Might Be GiantsIn conjunction with the release of the new They Might Be Giants album I Like Fun and our list of the best They Might Be Giants songs of all time, TMBG superfans Jesse and Marisa were joined by fellow TMBG superfans Alan Scherstuhl and Karen Han for an in-depth discussion of this cultishly beloved indie rock band. We talk about how we got into the band, how the new record stacks up, and our listmaking methodology, among many other TMBG-centric topics. A must for any and all equally obsessive TMBG fans!2018-03-211h 33Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: The Career of Paul Thomas AndersonWith Phantom Thread performing surprisingly well in the recent Oscar nominations, we figured it was about time to go back and talk about the full eight-film oeuvre of writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. PTA fans Marisa, Sara, Jesse, Jon, and Nathaniel discuss every phase of his career, our personal favorites, and what he might do next.2018-03-011h 21Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: Oscar Predictions 2018!We don't have any inside dope on who's gonna win the Oscars this year, but that hasn't stopped Marisa, Jesse, Nathaniel, Sara, and Jon from chatting about who might win in the big six categories, plus, of course, our personal favorites. Who's delighted by Denzel's surprise nomination? Who's rooting for Willem Dafoe? Who's surprised to love Meryl Streep's obligatory nom? Who loves Lady Bird? (Well, to that last one: All of us.) Listen and then somehow win your Oscar pool!2018-02-2351 minCelebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com MiniPodcast: Michael J. Fox Double FeatureIn the third of our business/sci-fi double feature series, Ben and Jesse are joined by Nathaniel for a post-viewing discussion of 1987's The Secret of My Success, a business movie suggested by Ben (which Jesse and Nathaniel had not seen) and Mars Attacks!, a sci-fi movie suggested by Jesse and beloved by Nathaniel (and which Ben had not seen). Both movies feature Michael J. Fox, at opposite ends of his big-screen career. Join us as we hash out whether we were foolish to have missed these Fox movies for so long!2018-02-2037 minCelebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 2. by AESThe SportsAlcohol.com Podcast: SNL Check-in 2018A lot of the editorial core at SportsAlcohol.com watches Saturday Night Live every week, so we like to periodically sit down and check in to see how the season is progressing. This year's edition covers our favorite new cast members (what's up Heidi Gardner!), how the show's political humor is working (watch out, Alec Baldwin!), and our favorite weird sketches that nobody (sometimes including other members of our panel) seemed to like.2018-02-041h 16