Episode 660: The 2024 Christmas Gifts (and our Lumps of Coal!)

For the 10th straight year, Mikey and d$ are giving away the Gifts of Christmas!  #XLessDrEarl has been joining the ep for many years now, and as Kaufman makes the Christmas Ep her home annually, so goes Garrison "Pride of Dahlonega" Ryfun with Christmas Gifts... and this year, we combine it with our annual Lumps of Coal ep!

So first, we highlight the lowlights of the year... films that didn't just quite resonate with us. Some from good directors, some with good scripts, and even some with great casts -- but movies that fell flat for one reason or another... and leave it to Dr. Earl to bring the big names to the list.

Then, after we bring the negative, we look at the positive, giving some great gifts all around -- to our fave actors, to our fave directors, even to studios to get them a little help.  Plus, a few movies seen on behalf of others... and the first tangible gift ever given in a Christmas Gifts episode!

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! 

DCMS Ep 656: Red Pod - The November ReFlicktions

In the latest Deuceecast Movie Show ep, the last of the scary movie season slips away, as the merry movie season begins to take hold for 2024!

Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl are back with another rousing batch of movies to be ReFlicked -- first, a quick sports update as all the teams win except for the teams that lose. Then jumping in with Mikey's "Smile 2", and continuing on with old monster movies, Albert Brooks relationship dramedy, and modern classic Sandler, along with brand new horror films on Netflix, a last dance of a symbiote, and of course, The Rock saves Christmas in Red One... and who actually liked it? 

We go over our assigned films, as well as assign more, plus the latest Top 5 of 2024.

• Smile 2 – for rental
• Frankenstein (1931) – Criterion
• Azrael – AMC+; Shudder
• Bride of Frankenstein – Criterion
• Mr. Deeds – rental
• Heretic – in theaters
• The Addams Family – Paramount+;
• Swing Vote – Amazon Prime;
• TimeCut – Netflix
• Conclave – in theaters
• Modern Romance – Amazon Prime
• The House with the Clock in its Walls – FX Now
• Monster House – for rental
• Synecdoche New York – Watch TCM
• The Best of Times - Amazon Prime; Tubi
• Venom: The Last Dance – in theaters
• Anora – in theaters
• Q & A – Hulu
• My Old Ass – Amazon Prime
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – in theaters
• What is a Woman – Daily Wire
• Red One – in theaters
• Brothers – Amazon Prime
• Hot Frosty – Netflix
• Woman of the Hour – Netflix
• Here – in theaters
• F is for Fake - MAX; Criterion Channel
• The Limey - Amazon Prime; Tubi
• The Boy and the Heron - MAX
• Blue Ruin - Amazon Prime; Tubi
  

Episode 638: HORIZON: A ReFlicktions Saga

 It's been two months since Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl reflected upon the flicks watched, so it's time to give another roundup of the newest, the oldest, and all the movies in the middle.

It's the latest Pixar tearjerker... a franchise that slaps... Nic Cage rolls up... music documentaries... movie documentaries... has-been actor documentaries... Yorgos is back... Eddie is back... Rocky the Rooster is back... Orlando Bloom is... sorta back?

Plus Mikey tries to give a minute by minute recap of Horizon in real time (but is stopped, thankfully)

The latest top five from each of the crew, plus movie assignments! 

Here is where to find the films discussed, at the time of recording: 

• Inside Out 2 (in theaters)
• Bad Boys Ride or Die (in theaters)
• Please Don’t the Pleasure of Foggy Mountain
• Snack Shack (MGM+)
• Hit Man (Netflix)
• The Bikeriders (in theaters)
• Pencils vs Pixels (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
• Butchers Crossing (Hulu)
• Arcadium (Shudder; AMC+)
• A Quiet Place Day One (in theaters)
• MoviePass, Movie Crash (MAX)
• Trigger Warning (Netflix)
• Horizon: An American Saga (in theaters)
• Brats (Hulu)
• Drive Away Dolls (Peacock)
• Red Right Hand (Hulu)
• MaXXXine (in theater)
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (Netflix)
• Axel F (Netflix)
• Stop Making Sense (MAX)
• Madness in the Method (Amazon Prime; TubiTV; Tubi’s CracklePlex)
• I.S.S. (Showtime; Paramount+)
• Kinds of Kindness (in theaters)
• State and Main (Criterion Channel; TubiTV)
• Kill (in theaters)
• Seven Samurai (MAX; Criterion Channel)
• Fly Me to the Moon (in theaters)
• Longlegs (in theaters)
• The Blue Gardenia (Amazon Prime)
• Hang ‘Em High (Amazon Prime; AMC+)
• Margin Call (TubiTV)
• Three Muskateers (for rental)

Episode 633: My Favorite Summer... The Dramas

The second part of My Favorite Summer brings the drama this week -- as the Deucecast Movie Show crew gives their own list of the serious stories from the world of cinema.

Joining Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl is the co-host of the Good Day 4 a Movie Podcast, Jacob Roth, aka Roth from Wyoming, as they chit-chat and then play a round of a game not played in these here parts in a while -- The Ryan Phillippe Game returns for the first time since 2022.

Then, the Top Ten Fave Dramatic Films... everyone has their own description, as some movies may be more of a dramedy than a drama... or maybe it's listed under drama for one, but will be in another category for another.

Legendary films like The Godfather make a few lists, 90s capers like True Romance is discussed, a tragedy unfolds in one film, a fort is defending in another, and movies from as far back as 1966 are covered, all the way up to last year.

Episode 630: The 2024 Summer Movie Preview

Your long nightmare is over... as the Summer Movie Preview has returned!  Finally, Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl give the dish, the skinny, the 411 if you will, on many of the upcoming films over the next few months!  

With Anya Taylor-Joy set to ride the desert while Daisy Ridley swims the ocean, Will Smith Rides or Dies or Slaps, and Glen Powell has his big summer, and Harold Faltermeyer returns, and Dave Bautista goes soft... and Mikey not only Licks the Guest, but he also swoons over Costner... and much more!   

Plus, InternationEarl pays off!  The Good Doctor himself gives his rankings of the foreign films assigned to him.

And the first update of the Movie Auction held in Episode 614

Here is the list of movies mentioned (with the previews on the show itself)

May 24: Atlas (Netflix) Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga The Garfield Movie

May 31:

Young Woman and the Sea

June 7:

Hit Man (Netflix)

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

The Watchers

June 14:

Inside Out 2

June 21:

Kinds of Kindness

The Bikeriders

Thelma

June 28:

A Family Affair (Netflix)

A Quiet Place: Day One

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

July 3 (Wednesday):

Beverly Hills Cop: Alex F (Netflix)

Despicable Me 4

July 5:

MaXXXine

July 12:

Fly Me to the Moon

Longlegs

July 18 (Thursday):

My Spy the Eternal City (Amazon Prime)

July 19:

Twisters

July 26:

Deadpool & Wolverine

August 2:

Cuckoo

Harold and the Purple Crayon

August 9:

The Instigators (AppleTV+)

Borderlands

The Fire Inside

It Ends With Us

Trap

August 16:

The Union (Netflix)

Alien: Romulus

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

August 23:

Blink Twice

The Crow

August 30:

Reagan

They Listen

Episode 592: The Actor 1-2-3 Punch

Like sand through the hourglass, this is the Deuce of our Lives... because summer is whizzing by faster than you can name 14 straight Tom Hanks banger movies. #FanboySummer2023 rolls on as the latest loser winner guest joins the show -- returning Friend of the Show, Roth from Wyoming! 

Lots to get to on this show, including catching up with Roth and his latest ventures... then some birthday movies, including the incredible news that Seabiscuit is 20 years old!

A brand new game -- Everything Everywhere All At Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- makes its debut on the show, as the crew pairs up movie titles for points. 

Finally, Mikey, d$, #TwitterlessDrEarl, and Roth give their favorite 1-2-3 Punch for actors... that is, which actors had the best back to back to back hit films, from double doses of Harry Ford to tripling up on our fave Katie Holmes ex... which leads to Mikey's own theme for the episode, in memory of Garrison Ryfun, of course.

Stick around throughout the episode to hear about Roth's charitable work with RISE Foundation of Wyoming and how you can help! 

(Way too many movies to list their streaming sources - you can do your work this week)

 

Episode 579: Our Fave Movie Coaches

 

Sometimes the topics come to the guys easy, especially when they fit around the guest so perfectly -- hence, we finally discuss our Top Five Fave Movie Coaches, as we bring on a returning fave and now a head coach in his own right, Clay Shaver! 

Clay lets everyone know where he's been, and how he's now a high school basketball coach. 

Then, some birthday movies, letting the world know exactly how old movies like Scream 2, Cop & a Half, and Soylent Green are... and of course, Ladybugs. RIP Jonathan Brandis.

A rousing game of Denzel is up next, with a surprise winner in dominating fashion.

Then, the Top Five Movie Coaches -- naturally you'd think football, or just even any sport, but leave it to dear ol' Mikey to make it weird. Plus, great discussions on this generation's "Caddyshack"... Tom Hanks being a great drunk... Gene Hackman and Jack Nicholson are old... and what might be the best bowling movie not named The Big Lebowski... 

Plus Coach Shaver let's the audience know why "Lady" is not appreciated. 

And the movies discussed and where to find them:

 

• The Bad News Bears - for rental
• Caddyshack - HBO Max
• Chariots of Fire - for rental
• The Cutting Edge - Tubi's CracklePlex
• Dodgeball - HBO Max
• Hoosiers - Amazon Prime
• The Karate Kid - for rental
• Kick-Ass - for rental
• Kingpin - Amazon Prime; Paramount+
• Ladybugs - STARZ 
• A League of Their Own - Netflix
• Magnolia - for rental
• Major League - for rental
• McFarland USA - Disney+
• Miracle - Disney+
• The Natural - STARZ
• Necessary Roughness - for rental 
• The Replacements - HBO Max
• Revenge of the Nerds - Hulu
• The Way Back - Amazon Prime

Episode 577: Les Deucerables... The Western vs The Musical

Big plans ahead for the summer at The Deucecast Movie Show, so in an effort to continue the quest to find the greatest roles of all time... it's another Big Bracket Tourney.

This time, friend of the show Roth from Wyoming stops by with his own bracket, featuring two of his fave movie genres... on one side, the classic and modern westerns of the age, featuring the classic and modern roles in the tournament... Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Will Kane, Bill Mumy, The Man with No Name, Doc Holliday, all of the Wyatt Earps (the good one and the Costner one) and more.

On the other side, the classic and modern musical roles of the age -- Maria Von Trapp, Lil Orphan Annie (in a heated battle, by the way), Dorothy, Willy Wonka and more, many of which lead to a true "what makes a musical?" discussion.

And Mary Poppins gets her final shot at Big Bracket glory.

Episode 558: The November 90s

The holiday season is here, and we are one week out from our annual DeuceGiving episode, which kicks off two months of annual eps - from Christmas gifts to Kaufman's yearly seasonal offerings to Top Tens of Not the Year to Lumps of Coal and much more.

But that's later.

Today, we talk November... last year, around this time, we talked best November movies of the 2000s. This time, we take it back a decade and do the best of the 90s -- any film released from November 1 to November 30th in 1990... and 1991... and 1992.. and so on, up until 1999.

And to regale our 11th months gone by, Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl brings in a familiar face, one not seen in a bit -- Dave's Main Street Electrical Podcast co-star Jenn Novotny!  She joins the dudes to discuss their top fives.

Also, catching up with Upon a Star Jenn -- latest films she's seen, her newest podcasting venture, and just Amish life in general. 

Then, a new game called All Rotten Or Alright, as it's a mixed bag of Rotten and Fresh films from Novembers gone by, then a little Catch Up with Jenn, including her two existing podcasts and a new show upcoming, The Couples Code, which you can look for online soon.

Movies discussed and where to find them streaming:

• Aladdin (Disney+)
• The American President (HBO Max)
• Beauty & the Beast: The Good One (Disney+)
• Beauty & the Beast: The Hermione One (Disney+)
• The Bodyguard (HBO Max; Netflix)
• The Bone Collector (Peacock Premium)
• Dances with Wolves (HBO Max; MaxGO)
• Dogma (unavailable)
• Ernest Rides Again (Peacock Premium; TubiTV; Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle)
• Goldeneye (EPIX; Paramount+)
• Home Alone (Disney+) 
• Home Alone 2 (Disney+)
• Home Alone 3 (the one with the RC car) (Disney+)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (Amazon Prime; Disney+)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1994) (Disney+)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (STARZ)
• My Girl (Showtime)
• A Perfect World (Showtime)
• Robot Jox (TubiTV)
• The Santa Clause (Disney+)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (for rental)
• Toy Story (Disney+)
• Toy Story 2 (Disney+)
• Very Bad Things (for rental)
• The Waterboy (Amazon Prime)
• The World is Not Enough (for rental)

Episode 549: The Extended Editions

Still Beautiful. Still Gorgeous. Still Malick.

As Labor Day passes, so goes, for all intents and purposes, the #FanBoySummer which comes to a close with one final guest, one final top five as provided by those in the Discord.

Mikey, d$, and #TwitterlessDrEarl welcome back The Pride of Tifton Georgia, the Spawn of Ryfun, Lil G, Garrison to the show, and he brings to the table an extended alternate topic... that being Extended Editions and Directors Cuts of our Fave Films.

Several opinions come up on the Justice League and Zack Snyder's famed edition... the slapstick of Superman and the alternate cut... Mikey cheating... Garrison channeling Sergio Leone... watching films in TV series form... Terrence Malick stuff... Mikey's Star Trek convention discoveries... watching The Tuxedo... Peter Jackson's directors edition of the Lord of the Rings... aliens of the Abyss... and a movie that lasts over five hours...

Plus, d$ plays off DaveSplosion 2022!

These are the films discussed in the episode at the time of recording... no idea where all the extended editions are, but the originals are here, unless otherwise noted

• The Abyss - STARZ in wet
• Almost Famous - STARZ in Fever Dogs
• Amadeus - for rental
• Apocalypse Now Redux - Netflix
  
• Blade Runner - HBO Max
• City Hunter - TubiTV
• Game of Death - STARZ in Hi Ya; TubiTV
• H8ful Eight extended - Netflix
• The Highlander - Amazon Prime; HBO Max; Peacock
• Interceptor - Netflix
• Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair - HBO Max
• The New World - for rental
• Once Upon a Time in America - Netflix
• Payback - unavailable
• Police Story 2 - HBO Max
• Southern Comfort - TubiTV
• Superman II: The Donner Cut - for rental
• The Tree of Life - for rental
• The Tuxedo - for rental
• Until the End of the World - unavailable
• Waterworld - STARZ in wet
• Zack Synder's Justice League - HBO Max

Episode 532: The Baseball Movie Role Tourney

BATTER UP!  Baseball has begun, 30 games into the season, Dave's team, Baltimore, is already out of it, Mikey doesn't care because Dallas Cowboys play the foosball and not the baseball, and #TwitterlessDrEarl is out and about, saving lives, delivering babies and politicking.

So, we bring in Roth from Wyoming, co-host of Good Day for a Movie Podcast, and Deucecast Discorder Extraordinaire, to help figure out which one of these 32 incredible baseball roles head to the Big Bracket of Ep 600!

First up, the return of WORD UP! to the show -- discussions on Doctor Strange, on Netflix failings, and Top Gun Maverick prospects. Plus, some other random chitter chatter before the  tourney takes over.

Roth, Mikey, and d$ set out to determine the best modern day baseball role in movie history, with everything from Wild Thing to a double dose of Costner to Tony Danza and Tom Selleck and Bernie Mac and a few chicks even make the final line up. Great discussion, great film memories.

MOVIES DISCUSSED IN THIS EP:

• Angels in the Outfield
• The Babe
• Bad News Bears
• Brewster's Millions
• Bull Durham
• Cobb
• Eight Men Out
• Field of Dreams
• For Love of the Game
• 42
• Hardball
• League of Her Own
• Little Big League
• Major League
• Moneyball
• Mr Baseball
• Mr 3000
• The Natural
• The Pride of the Yankees
• The Rookie
• The Sandlot
• The Scout

 

Episode 519: The Character Crushes

Happy Valentine's Day from the Deucecast Movie Show!  To commemorate such a special day of love, Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl invite back to the show long time friend Hurricane Rhett!

The guys recall their fave characters they crushed on as they grew up, or even a few from recent day... 

Hurricane Rhett gives his latest movie watches... Dr Earl mentions Steak & Ale... scary scenes under a bridge... actresses vs characters... Mikey's 5A, B, C, D... to be weathered & leathered... the Huttslayer misnomer... 

Plus a quick review of Jackass Forever

A movie representing the crushes discussed... 

• Adventures in Babysitting (Disney+)
• The American President (for rental)
• BladeRunner 2049 (HBO Max)
• Broadcast News (HBO Max)
• Casablanca (HBO Max)
• Elizabethtown (Showtime) 
• The Empire Strike Back (Disney+)
• FanBoys (YouTube Free; rental)
• Jerry Maguire (rental) 
• Knives Out (rental)
• License To Drive (MaxGo; rental)
• Lucas (unavailable)
• Metropolitan (HBO Max) 
• The Parent Trap (Disney+)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (for rental)
• Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (TubiTV; for rental)
• ...say anything (HBO Max)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Netflix; Paramount+)
• V (TubiTV: AppleTV+)

Episode 512: Christmas Gifts 2021

If you listen to the episode, you may recognize the opening theme, the best time of the year, when the Deucecast Movie Show plays the official Christmas theme of the show.  It truly is a Marshmallow World.

Dave and Mikey, sans #TwitterlessDrEarl, are here once again to give out their annual Christmas gifts to the stars, and joining the show for the second time in the Christmas season, it's Spawn of Ryfun, Lil G himself Garrison Ryfun.

First up, a quick conversation on Spider-Man No Way Home, then a round of Box Office Mojo, looking at the biggest money makers of 2021...

Then the guys begin to give out the gifts!  Ridley Scott has a present to open, if he can take it without telling Garrison to F off... Bruce Willis finds out that some gifts are harder to receive than others... Garrison plays piecemaker between Hobbs and Dom... and Dave has a few films to dish out to the group.

Episode 506: Islands in the Streaming IX

If you listen to those sweet sounds of Dolly & Kenny at the opening of the show, you'll know what time it is... it's time for Mikey & Dave to give you all the movies you should be listening too!

#TwitterlessDrEarl is out saving the world and depressing tongues with a stick -- in the meantime, Mikey and Dave hold down the studio fort, looking across the streaming world and finding their picks for what you should be watching when you need a flick to delight the eyes and tingle the senses.

Here is the list, and where they are streaming (at the time of the episode recording)

Action

Dave picks "Gunpowder Milkshake" on Netflix

Mikey picks "Army of Thieves" on Netflix

Drama
Dave picks "Let Him Go" on HBO Max
Mikey picks "Coda" on Apple+

Comedy

Dave picks "The Ringer" on Starz

Mikey picks "Queenpins" on Paramount+

Christmas
Dave picks "The Night they Saved Christmas" on TubiTV

Mikey picks "Ernest Saves Christmas" on Disney+

SciFi/Fantasy

Dave picks "Oxygen" on Netflix

Mikey picks "The Tomorrow War" on Amazon Prime

Documentary
Dave picks "Untold: Malice at the Palace" on Netflix

Mikey picks "kid90" on Hulu

Kids/Family
Dave picks "The Peanut Butter Falcon" on Hulu

Mikey picks "Yes Day" on Netflix

Animation
Dave picks "Frankenweenie" on Disney+
Mikey picks "My Little Pony: The New Generation" on Netflix

Chick Flicks
Dave picks "Tumbledown" on Amazon Prime
Mikey picks "The Cutting Edge" on Amazon Prime

Potent Potables

Dave picks "Willy's Wonderland" on Hulu

Mikey picks "Riders of Justice" on Hulu

Episode 497: The Tourney of American Treasures

The big 5-0-0 approaches, but there are still movie discussions to be had before then! On the 497th excursion into podcast mediocrity, Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl chat a bit, then get to Birthday Movies -- Sully is 5 years old! Wicker Park is 15 years old! And somehow the math is off, and The Shawshank Redemption is... 27 years old?

Then, we find the next movie role to make the Big Bracket... and it's a intertwined battle of two American treasures, one being K Costner and the other being M Keaton.

From Birdman to Johnny Dangerously to Eliot Ness to Roy McAvoy, some of our favorite movies and movie characters do battle, plus a great conversation on the legacy of Keaton's Batman, and Peak Whitney.

Episode 489: Top Summer Movies 2000 to 2004

The summer is half over, and the summer series is rounding the corner toward homestretch (that's a baseball metaphor for you folks out there). Mikey and Dave, again sans #TwitterlessDrEarl, take up the mantle of more summer cinema, this time the best from Memorial Day to Labor Day in 2000 to 2004, and the guys bring back Miss Independent himself Jeremy Burgess to the show.

After catching up with The Burgeler (new reality show premiered this Fall on ABC), they play a little 2000s themed Rotten Tomatoes game, with the possible first time mention of "Shark Tale" ever on the podcast (and maybe the first time since the early 2000s anyone has thought of it), then onto the Top Five.

Nic Cage and Costner both make random appearances, with Spielberg films about airports and pre-cognitions also show up. Plus, the lower of the Mission Impossibles, Jamie Foxx and his Collateral, the beginning of the super hero era, Harry Potter shows up, Nicole Kidman's classics, Jay and Silent Bob go after their MoFo movie check, and the Black Pearl.

And Dougray Scott. Or Doogray, as it may be.

Movies mentioned, and where they are streaming at the time of our recording:

• Collateral (2004) - for rental
• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) - Amazon Prime
• Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) - for rental
• Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - for rental
• Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - HBO Max
• Minority Report (2002) - Amazon Prime
• Mission: Impossible II (2000) - FX Now; Paramount+
• Open Range (2003) - Hulu
• The Others (2001) - for rental
• The Patriot (2000) - Netflix
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - Disney+
• Sexy Beast (2001) - for rental
• Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Starz
• The Terminal (2004) - Netflix; Amazon Prime; Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle
• 28 Days Later (2002) - Hulu; Paramount+ ; EPIX
• X-Men (2000) - for rental
• X2: X-Men United (2003) - Disney+

Episode 464: 2021 Surprise and Delights

The Deucecast Movie Show strives to be an escape and the guys do their best this week to shut out the world for an hour and give you some movie chatter... and this time, it's all about being surprised, delighted, or in some cases, both.

Movies that were thought to be a little silly, or movies approached with apprehension because "Surely, this movie can't be any good?" and yet, IT WAS! 

First up, some January Birthday Movies, giving you the five, ten, twenty more year anniversaries of films you've heard of... and some you haven't. Cause that The Way Back ain't got no Affleck in it.

A little round of January Movie Rotten Tomatoes, with a Christian Slater triple play, and then the top five... the films that Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl watched and were happy to report were actually pretty good.

It's a fun episode, revisiting the good times in front of a screen of some sort... and the kickoff to the annual Year End Best Episodes! 

Episode 461: Christmas Movie Gifts 2020

If you listen to the episode, you may recognize the opening theme, the best time of the year, when the Deucecast Movie Show plays the official Christmas theme of the show.  It truly is a Marshmallow World.

Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl are here once again to give out their annual Christmas gifts to the stars, and joining the show for the first time in the Christmas season, it's Spawn of Ryfun, Lil G himself Garrison Ryfun.

First up, Birthday movies, with everything from Popeye to a previous Star War edition, then Garrison gives a little Christmas episode history of the Deucecast Movie Show (he has notes!)

Then the guys begin to give out the gifts!  Chris Nolan has a present to open.  The tiny town of New Albanwick has a gift. AMC will get something under the tree. And for the first time, someone in the group gives their gifts to the others during the Top Five itself.

Episode 450: Breakthroughs and Breakouts

The Deucecast guys round the corner and are less than a year's worth of episodes to the big 500... coming next September!  But until then, Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl have to give the world the four hundred and fiftieth episode!

Joining the show at the top is Miss Independent himself, Jeremy Burgess, to give the update first on "Jasper Mall", the 2020 documentary that is the favorite to win Best Doc at the 2021 Deucie Awards... then an update on fundraising for the new movie "Don't Die".

Then a new game, "You Never Forget Your First" with a look at the first roles of many of the biggest stars in Hollywood, plus Eric Roberts.

Then, the Top Five Best Breakthroughs in Film, including Earl's pretention... Burgess picking some new blood... an old flame for Mikey... a controversial pick from d$... and a riff on how popular "American Flyers" actually was. No, we know, you have never heard of it either.  

And finally, the movie selection for the annual MikeTober Horror Movie Revue! 

Episode 443: The August ReFlicktions Extravaganza

 It's been a summer of movies... and perhaps not much else, which means Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl have a massive amount to talk about in this month's ReFlicktions.  Over 40 films are talked about here, with discussions ranging from the careers of Daveed Diggs and Lin-Manuel Miranda to HBO not streaming properly to two of the worst films Mikey has seen in a long time, to Dave finishing his Elizabeth Olsen quest to why Viola Davis didn't like "The Help"

Here are the movies discussed, and where they are streaming:

Journey to the Center of the Earth (HBO Max)… Hamilton (Disney Plus)… The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Prime)… Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Hulu)… The First American (Prime)… Blindspotting (HBO Max)… Necessary Evil: Super Villains of DC Comics (HBO Max)… War for a New Nation (Prime)… The Jesus Rolls (for rental)… Palm Springs (Hulu)… The Kings Highway (Prime)… The Old Guard (Netflix)… MacBeth (Prime)… Wyatt Earp (HBO Max)… Vivarium (Hulu)… Wyatt Earp (HBO Max)… Inside Llewyn Davis (Prime)… Harriett (HBO Max)… Destination Wedding (Prime)… Tel Aviv on Fire (Prime)… The Help (Netflix)… Brooklyn’s Finest (Hulu)… Dune (Rewatch) (Hulu)… The Rental (for rental)… The Assistant (Hulu)… The Father of Invention (not streaming)… Guns Akimbo (Prime)… The Vast of Night (Prime)… The Painted Bird (for rental)… Train to Busan (Prime)… Watership Down (HBO Max)… The Black Hole (Disney+) (Rewatch)… Yellow Beard (Prime)… Valley Girls (Prime)… Alchemy (Prime)… More American Graffiti (Hulu; HBO Max)… All Things Must Pass (peacock)… Code 8 (Netflix)… Silent House (Hulu)…   My Spy (Prime)… American Pickle (HBO Max)… The Peanut Butter Falcon (Prime; Hulu)…