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Episode 352 – I Don’t Want to Marry It

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This Week: Kevin trudges through the January releases by bemoaning more found footage nonsense with Devil’s Due. He also gives a nod to some better films this weekend, including Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Ride Along and The Nut Job, with the inclusion of a surprise guest reviewer. Of course, this is after he gives his thoughts on the Golden Globes, the awful Razzies and the Oscar nominations. Later, Kevin answers a listener email, talks box office, sounds off on some news that will probably get him in trouble and cracks the whip on the world-famous DVD Round-Up!


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Episode 351 – Beer Commercial Filmmaking

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This Week: Kevin gears up for one busy show, featuring news items about Michael Bay and Nicolas Cage (in which one of them wigs out… guess which one). He also takes a look at the new trailers for 22 Jump Street and Transcendence. Later in the show, he replies to listener questions and reviews the films Her, The Legend of Hercules and Lone Survivor. As the show winds down to a close, Kevin interviews Scott Mactavish and Dan Murphy from the documentary Murph: The Protector and rattles through box office and the world-famous DVD Round-Up!


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Episode 350 – Performance Art out of Insanity

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This Week: Kevin rings in the New Year by going through some cinematic resolutions. He then talks about some movie news regarding everything from Uncle Phil to Kevin Smith. Then, in a new segment called “Trailer Park,” he looks ahead to The Raid: Berandal and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Next, he rants about Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones and gives some love to Open Grave. As the show moves on, Kevin gives his picks for best and worst films of 2013 before heading into the box office segment and the world famous DVD Round-Up.


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Episode 349 – Straight-Up Murdered Frosty

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This Week: Shaking off the hangover of Christmas, Kevin opens the gifts that Hollywood has given us in the last week of the year. First, there’s some news about superhero casting and Justin Bieber retiring, which dovetails into a truncated preview of Bieber’s film Believe. Kevin quickly moves on to talk about something more intellectual: Doctor Who. Later, Kevin reviews 47 Ronin, Grudge Match, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Wolf of Wall Street. In the final segment, Kevin reviews the past box office numbers, offers scant DVD and Blu-ray recommendations, then dissects the morality of Frosty the Snowman.


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Episode 348 – The Big, Fat Christmas Special 2013

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This Week: It’s Christmastime in the Magical Studio in the Sky, and the Fat Guys team is giving the gift of movies. Well, they’re actually regifting movies from Hollywood to everyone else in America. They also talk about some recent awards news as well as a kerfuffle with actor/director/writer-wannabe Shia LaBeouf, before moving on to Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Walking with Dinosaurs, American Hustle and Saving Mr. Banks. Later in the show, they talk box office and DVDs before wishing a Merry Christmas to all.


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Episode 347 – Twerking

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This Week: The holidays are in full swing in the Magical Studio in the Sky! That means it’s time for big blockbuster films like The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as well as award films like Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. That also means that it’s time for the sure-to-be-terrible Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas. Before reviewing the films, Kevin and Kristin talk about some movie news that includes award nominations and Lucasfilm developments. Later, they give their box office predictions and wrangle the new releases in the DVD Round-Up!


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Episode 346 – A Damp Problem

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This Week: Kevin and Kristin start off the show with a somber discussion of the death of Paul Walker and talk about what it will mean to the Fast & Furious franchise. They also discuss his Fast & Furious co-star Gal Gadot being cast as Wonder Woman and whether that’s a good idea at all. Then, they move into this week’s reviews, which include Inside Llewyn Davis, Out of the Furnace and Nebraska. Later in the show, they answer a listener email before moving on to box office and the world-famous DVD Round-up!


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Episode 345 – Call Me Gator

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This Week: Kevin and Kristin get ready for Turkey Day and Kill-Your-Fellow-Shopper Day by looking at the oodles of new movies out in theaters this week. Most of them are family-themed musicals, like Oldboy, Philomena and Homefront. There’s also Black Nativity and Frozen to have some fun with as well. There is some development news that tramples Patrick Swayze’s grave as well as some idiotic Wall Street blundering in response to the unbridled success of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Finally, it’s a quick ride through box office news and the DVD Round-Up!


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Episode 344 – Knightness Falls

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This Week: Kevin and Kristin volunteer as tributes for the 75th Annual Award Movie Hunger Games. They battle to the death against movies such as The Christmas Candle, Kill Your Darlings and Delivery Man. They also talk about that belly-rumbling big sequel of the week. Later in the show, they share some crazy stories from movie theaters and breeze through the world famous DVD Round-Up by the end. Yee-haw!


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Episode 343 – Dream Crusher!

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This Week: Kevin and Kristin kick off a very busy show by talking about some movie-related news about gun violence and PG-13 movies. Then they move into the reviews of the amazingly whackadoodle Best Man Holiday. Things take a slow turn as they review Dallas Buyers Club and Charlie Countryman before launching into a segment that crushes every dream of Red State Gabe. (Poor Red State Gabe.) Finally, they chat about box office and Blu-rays before riding off into the sunset.


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Episode 342 – Make Love to Space

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This Week: Kevin and Kristin gracefully move into the bizarre mix of would-be award films and massive blockbusters. They talk some news, including some cool developments on the Marvel side of Disney as well as rude astronaut hecklers and the demise of Blockbuster Video. Then they move onto the reviews of Thor: The Dark World, About Time and 12 Years a Slave. Finally, they answer a listener email and move on to box office and DVD recommendations.


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Episode 341 – Stinky Purple Tube

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This Week: Kevin and Kristin get ready for the month of Thanksgiving by talking about some turkeys, in particularly the turkey of a film Free Birds. They also review Last Vegas, Ender’s Game the off-kilter Man of Tai Chi. News discussed includes new Star Wars shenanigans, John Belushi and a secret Marvel project. They also answer a listener question and recommend some DVDs (which are hopefully not all turkeys).


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Episode 340 – Slutty Pumpkin

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This Week: Kevin whines a lot about the end of October coming, which means the end of overdosing on horror movies. However, there is time to talk about Vincenzo Natali’s latest film, Haunter. Kristin and Kevin also talk about The Counselor, Bad Grandpa and the stranded grandpa in All Is Lost. There’s some movie news about an actor stealing a part from Kevin, as well as some has-been development deals. And, of course, there’s talk about slutty Halloween costumes for slutty people and slutty babies.


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Episode 339 – Enslaver!

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This Week: The Halloween month continues, and so does at least one horror movie release. Even though it wasn’t screened locally, Kevin and Kristin talk about the Carrie remake as well as the goofy prison movie Escape Plan with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Other films on the docket include The Fifth Estate, which they swear they didn’t stream off a pirate server, and Paradise which puts Julianne Hough’s acting ability against that of Russell Brand playing Kevin’s father. Then, it’s on to DVD recommendations and some bizarre news shenanigans involving Madonna, the real Captain Phillips and Charlie Hunnam opening a path to Kevin’s superstardom as a motion picture sex symbol.


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Episode 338 – Wookiee Mouse

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This Week: Kristin and Kevin continue with the Halloween banter and actually get a chance to talk about a horror movie again for October. But first, they take a look at the big movies Captain Phillips and Machete Kills. They also revisit All the Boys Love Mandy Lane from a press screening in 2007. There’s also a drive-by on the new Romeo and Juliet film, and Kevin expresses his desires for the movie to have more robots and monsters in it (along with his desire for Captain Phillips to be about Popeye). They also chew through some movie news (with a nod to a Star Wars story) and some DVD and Blu-ray recommendations.


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