The Shot & The Chaser

Philip K. Dick, Dostoevsky, Alex Jones. What do all of these things have in common? Apparently, insufferable people dream about them all the time! On this week’s episode in our Nolancentric series, the boys watch Richard Linklater’s college freshmen wet dream, Waking Life. To chase this down, we tackle the normies favorite Nolan film, Inception. Joey reviews Challengers, Nick begins his Bollywood phase, and Matt continues work on h...

Imagine, if you will, a world where all you can eat is corn, and your only hope for survival was Matthew McConaughey. Or, just maybe, you’re the size of an ant and you’re being tortured by aliens while psychedelic rock just ominously played in the background for eternity. Like the sound of either or both? Then you’re gonna enjoy the next episode in our Nolantastic (wow) saga! For the shot, the boys went to Regal and saw Interstella...

Good evening, basement dwellers! Welcome to the first multi-episode series in The Shot & The Chaser podcast history: The Nolan Gauntlet (just made that up). To kick it off, we are watching The Dark Knight as our shot, and to chase it down we are breaking back into Terrence Malick’s filmography with Days of Heaven. The boys marathon the extended cuts of The Lord of the Rings, Matt discovers more Nyad drama,  Joey’s love for Mali...

Quit daydreaming about listening to a myriad of better shows! You’re here and that’s all that matters. On this week’s episode, Joey gets the fellas to watch Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. To chase this down, we endured the 2013 blockbuster hit, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Nick deletes social media, Matt finishes his Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th binge, and Joey begins his Terrence Malick quest. Sw...

Real bummer here on the show this week. We just found out that anyone can be an artist? Tragic. On this week’s episode, the boys take on their first Orson Welles movie with F For Fake. To chase this down, we watch every Pacsun shopper’s favorite documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop. We really are not the same people we were an episode ago! Nick finishes his Evangelion cut, Joey needs a Criterion box set, and Matt will continue t...

Yes Twilight! A request in having Molly and Hannah back on the show was that the soundboard be aggressively utilized during this episode and I think we did a good job of that. On this week’s episode, Nick picked the 1990 lost Hungarian film Twilight (bless you Arbelos for the 4K restoration), and to chase this down, we all watched New Moon because we thought it would be funny, but there’s nothing funny about true love I guess. Nick...

Who is surprised? It’s the 2024 Oscar recap because our opinion on this award ceremony is top priority! The fellas cover the nominations, who predicted the most, and who did and did not deserve an Oscar! We’re looking directly into your soul Brad Booker and David Mullins the creators of War is Over. Boy, it’s good to be done with Academy Award movies, especially when you know it’s gonna be a Dune Part 2 2025 Oscar sweep. Listen to ...

How is your relationship with your father? On this week’s episode, the fellas dive into a movie that seemingly needs no introduction, Bicycle Thieves! To chase this down, we (unfortunately) sat through The Pursuit of Happyness. Infuriating that it’s spelled wrong and all for one half assed bit from the first few minutes of the movie, but we’ll save our comments for the show. The boys watched the Oscars, Nick saw Dune again, and did...

Where is your honor?! Matt cooked up quite the combo this week with David Lowery’s The Green Knight and Tim Burton’s feature debut, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. There are a lot more correlations than we had expected, but you’ll have to listen to find out. Additionally, the boys saw Dune Part 2 (multiple times) and have some spoiler free thoughts about it. The Oscars are just days away, our favorite Letterboxd user has short films on Yo...

Are you ready for the invasion? Or do you think they’re already here? On this week’s episode, the boys watch Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (god bless you king). To chase down this sci fi epic, Nick finally gets the fellas to watch what he considers the greatest piece of “found footage” media of all time, Cloverfield! Joey is about to finish the Oscar list, Nick puts on a tin foil hat, and Matt doesn’t completely obliterate Elemental! ...

Don’t skip around too much or you’ll wear out the tape! What a terrible joke, almost as bad as 3 grown men with a podcast! On this week's episode, the theme is VHS tapes and Matt chose for us to watch VHS as the shot, and Be Kind Rewind as the chaser. An anthology vs another anthology? It’s gonna be fun. The boys continue the Oscar watchlist, we discuss the spectrum of cinephila, and we should send all movie piraters to prison imme...

What are we gonna review today, cinema bros? Whatever we feel like reviewing, GOSH. In all seriousness, the boys are heading back into the chaotic mind of Harmony Korine for the shot this evening with Trash Humpers! To chase this down, we revisit every homeschool kids favorite movie, Napoleon Dynamite! The Oscar watch list continues, Matt steals chicken fingers, and will Joey hate Trash Humpers as much as Gummo? Only one way to fin...

We are all connected! We are continuing our PTA binge this month and diving deeper into the Criterion Collection with our shot and chaser this week. Our shot is PTA’s 3 hour cacophony of humanity in crisis, Magnolia. To chase this down, the boys go to hell and back trying to get their hands on Tampopo. We go over our thoughts on the 2024 Oscar nominations, Nick hates Radiohead, Matt makes us all hungry, and Joey isn’t seeing Tenet ...

WARNING: Playing our drinking game will have you blacked out by the end of the episode so please drink responsibly. On this week’s episode, the boys are joined by Roberto to discuss 2 movies about fighting AND the triumph of the human spirit (drink). For our shot, the boys became men with the 1976 Academy Award winner, Rocky. To chase this down, the men slightly returned to boy status with Jack Black’s underrated masterpiece, Nacho...

PTA is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and it’s not even a question. This is not our first PTA movie for the show and most definitely will not be the last, but for tonight’s shot the boys watched There Will Be Blood! You would think that Matt had seen this movie before, however, a misquote may convince you otherwise! To chase this down, Joey introduces the fellas to Kelly Reichert with Meek’s Cut Off, a movie that we cou...

We’re starting the new year with a crisis (Letterboxd is down). Forgive us, we’re not ourselves without our life support system (Letterboxd. Which is down). On the first episode of 2024, the fellas expose Joey to another David Lynch masterpiece, Blue Velvet. To chase this down, Nick pledges his life for Bob Clark’s most despised movie on Letterboxd (down), Rhinestone! The boys adjust their top 5 of 2023 after seeing Poor Things, Ni...

2023 has finally come to an end! Thank you for being with us through such a chaotic year for this planet. Contrary to popular belief, making a list of worst movies that came out is actually based and these lists should be celebrated. Joe Russo, it is okay to shit on a bad movie! With this firm stance in mind, join us as the fellas go over their honorable and dishonorable mentions of 2023 and their top 5 best and worst movies of 202...

Happy Holidays everybody! It’s our favorite time of the year! We get to spend time with our loved ones, dunk on horrible Christmas movies, eat our body weight in desserts, but most importantly we get to do our annual gift exchange! That’s the reason for the season, right? Before we give out our presents this year, The pod boys and their wives ranked the Grinch movies from best to worst and blows were nearly exchanged instead of gif...