The Shot & The Chaser

The Shot & The Chaser

The Shot & The Chaser is a weekly podcast where Nick, Matt, and Joey get together to watch 1 disturbing movie and follow it up with 1 socially acceptable movie and try to find the resemblences.

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July 16, 2025 94 mins

привет! While I was editing the episode and reveling over The Sacrifice I kept kicking myself for pairing Stalker with EoE as The Sacrifice would have been a much better pairing, but I digress. Welcome to our first ever Bond episode! Spoiler alert, the connection between these two moves is Russia. For our shot we transcended time and space with Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice. To chase this down we watched the 2nd (bes...

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TRIGGER WARNING: Happiness dives into some pretty shocking material so all 12 of you listening please be advised. On this week's episode, the fellas checked out the 1998 controversial masterpiece, Happiness. To chase down this bitter watch, we breached the David O Russell filmography with the mop movie, Joy! Matt is fed up with Kingdom Hearts, Nick forgot to watch movies, and Joey has converted us to baseball fans! Good luck and Go...

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What better way to hammer home that basketball season is over than by doing an entire basketball themed episode? I am in hell. On this week's episode, the gang watched Spike Lee's He Got Game. A film that solidifies that athletes do not make great actors. To chase this down, we finally got around to watching our official VFA and Gregg Turkington recommendation, Air Bud! Hoop time is over, back to our regularly scheduled programming...

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Do you want to meet a ghost? Or maybe keep up with basketball? jk basketball season is over on this podcast (choke Haliburton choke). On this week's terror filled episode, the boys checked out Kyoshi Kirosawa's Pulse and to chase it down we checked out the 2006 "classic" Stay Alive. Vinegar Syndrome, you know what to do. Nick watched all of the Final Destination movies, Matt gets Hannah to watch the Star Wars prequels, and Joey inv...

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It's a Joey pick episode! I wanna apologize right off the top because half of this episode is just me and Joey commentating on the active Knicks v Celtics game (spoiler alert Knicks won and Celtics season is over). When we aren't being a sports pod, we were reviewing Agnes Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 and then to chase this down we made the regrettable decision to watch Before Sunset. If that wasn't punishment enough we went ahead and ...

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Buzz buzz cinephiles! On today's episode, the fellas tackle one of the Nic Cage's most controversial films (not the bees) The Wicker Man. To chase this down, Matt endured The Bee Movie for the first time in his life and it did not go well! Joey expresses confidence in the Lakers, Nick compares the original and 2006 Wicker Man, and Matt is watching Planet Earth. Bees are dying at an alarming rate! The new episode is out now

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Welcome back! How's everyone enjoying the every other week format? Hope you like it because it's here to stay. This week, Nick made the boys endure an early Ozgood Perkins take on the classic Hansel and Gretel story. To chase this down, we all took Advil and watched Hoodwinked which aged like fine wine. Nick makes the fellas listen to a song that is definitely not sexual, Joey fills us in on what's going on in Basketball, and Matt ...

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WE ARE BACK! Sorry we went MIA, things got a little hectic here but (as previously stated) we are SO back. Returning from our temporary hiatus, we got to watch one of Denis Villeneuve's earlier hits, Incendies. To chase this down we watch the definitive covid movie, Ride the Eagle. Drinking Buddies fans rejoice! Nick launches himself into the Gundam universe, Joey defends a new movie genre, and Matt reminds us that David Lynch neve...

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We're kicking off the new schedule with quite a combo. For our shot, the boys finally checked out I Saw the Devil (we love you Old Boy) and to chase this down we checked out the famous On Cinema bit, Oh God starring George Burns. Which sparks the title debate. Which God are you worshipping? Matt tells us all about the block chain, Nick's fridge won't stop running, and Joey continues to make the best use of his Regal pass. We love R...

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JK thank god, but could you imagine? Oscar season is over and we are going over our thoughts and very important opinions on this year's turbulent award ceremony. It's controversial every year and this year was no different. From it's musical choice during the In Memoriam to the new record for longest acceptance speech in Oscar history, we discuss it all! So good to be done with Oscar season. The new episode is out now!

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It's been quite a journey, but we are at the homestretch of Oscar season! For this week's shot, the fellas got to check out Sing Sing, a profoundly under-loved nomination. To chase this down, most of us complete our animation nominations with Memoir of a Snail. The fellas go over some Oscar predictions, Emilia Perez remains hated, and who will complete the entire Oscar list this year? Our last episode before the Oscars is out now!

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Only one more Oscar episode after this! On this week's episode, the boys dive into one of the best international nominations with The Girl with the Needle which disturbed us a lot more than we were expecting from an Oscar nomination. To chase this down, we watched Pablo Larrain's Maria, the 3rd installment in his 'Lady in Heels' trilogy. Best cinematography nomination? Unfortunately. Nick's having the week from hell, Matt and his f...

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February 12, 2025 94 mins

If you thought we hated Emilia Perez last week BOY are you in for a treat today. A movie that really deserves your attention this Oscar season is our shot, Nickel Boys. To chase this down, we checked out the 2 time Oscar nominated animated film, Flow, a sad animal movie that Joey prefaced by saying "It's not sad." Emilia Perez is still terrible, Nick has a watch party, and Matt shares his thoughts on The Wild Robot. The new episode...

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It was A Real Pain having to watch Emilia Perez! After the nominations (awful) were announced we decided to take the next few weeks to knock out some of the heavy hitters for these years Academy Awards beginning with THE most controversial film Emilia Perez. A wildly racist AND transphobic hunk of  waste! To chase this down, we watched Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain which was neither racist nor transphobic! Huge W there. We go over ...

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It's Oscar szn baby! To kick things off, the boys took a day trip to the Alamo and witnessed The Brutalist in all it's glory. To chase this down, we checked out the Mubi doc Grand Theft Hamlet, a movie filmed entirely in GTA online. We go over our wonderful meals, the beauty of the intermission, and a basic movie theater etiquette review as some people (in an Alamo no less) have forgotten how sitting in a movie theater works. Being...

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Absolutely insane that the last David Lynch movie we watched together was Dune mere days before his death. We are very emotional about it, but listen to how chipper we are in this episode because next week the laughing stops. To chase down the sci fi epic, we watched a true Lynchian masterpiece, Spice World! Nick scolds Matt on his Kingdom Hearts play style, Joey begins his descent into Bob Dylan fandom, and Matt just loves to say ...

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Fellas, is it gay to love your homie and respect women? On this week's episode, the boys watch their first Mike Nichols movie together with Carnal Knowledge. To chase this down, we watched I Love You, Man and were all under the impression that Judd Apatow had something to do with this. Are we wrong for assuming that? Nick doesn't think Jack Nicholson has any sex appeal, Joey describes the perfect snow day, and Matt refuses to slap ...

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At long last, we have made our lists of the best movies of 2024 as well as some highly anticipated movies coming in 2025! We're excited to see what this year may bring and what movies we will endure. 2024 was a surprising year for movies to say the least, but what were some of your favorites? Don't worry listener, next week we are back to watching movies!

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There’s nowhere for you to run Joe Russo! Every year people have utter meltdowns about “worst of 2024” lists and we are here to tell you it’s totally normal and appropriate to dunk on a band movie and tonight we are gonna dunk on almost 30 unwatchable movies from this year! Matt somehow only came up with 9, Joey gets his heart broken by some of Matt’s bombastic choices, and Nick is back from the North Pole with hate in his heart. M...

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Nick was whisked away by Santa for a helping hand up at the North Pole, but luckily the big man himself decided to hang out on the pod this Christmas! For the shot this holiday season, we watched the Lifetime Taylor Swift Christmas movie, Christmas in the Spotlight. To chase this down, we watched the Hallmark "Taylor Swift" "Christmas" movie Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story. Both bad! We have our annual gift exchange, Santa r...

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