Trance

"Forgot My Bullets" - We’re the three people who went and saw Premium Rush. In our review, we praise the fun performances of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon, chat about the movie’s nonlinear story and stylistic flourishes, and have an episode-long debate about whether or not the movie feels like it was made 10 years ago. Naturally, all of this culminates in one of us scoring it a point shy of perfection.

"At Long Last" - In our review of The Avengers, we praise Joss Whedon’s handling of all the characters, disagree on whether or not Mark Ruffalo made a good Bruce Banner, and appreciate all the humor. But the laughter dies down when two of us get into the biggest fight in the show’s 62-episode history.

"Pretty Okay” - In our review of Olympus Has Fallen, we praise director Antoine Fuqua for populating the movie with good action scenes, but come away thinking that everything else was just OK. Also: We speculate what Aaron Eckhart did in our city, Fort Wayne, during the one week he lived here back in the late 1990s.

“Icky” - We praise Andrew Niccol’s sometimes competent direction, a committed performance by William Hurt, and the surprisingly effective score, but little else in our review of the latest Stephenie Meyer film adaption, The Host.

“Vanity Project” - In our review of After Earth, we share some thoughts on M. Night Shyamalan’s career, the hits and misses of the movie’s unusual costuming and production design, and all agree that this Smith family vanity project was a bad idea from the start.

“James McAvoy Must Suffer” - We were entranced by Danny Boyle’s latest movie, Trance. In our discussion, we praise Boyle as a filmmaker, try to pinpoint what movie(s) it reminded us of, remember what a great actor James McAvoy is, chat about how it’s much more than a crime movie, and engage in a spoiled-filled discussion toward the end about its twist ending.

“Zombies On A Plane” - We sink our teeth into World War Z and praise Brad Pitt’s heroic character, debate whether or not the zombies were depicted well and agree that the movie’s writers never came up with good solutions whenever they wrote themselves into corners. Also, we give out quick scores for This Is The End.

"Hippos Are Cool" - Kat Jovey from 3KB joins us to discuss Neill Blomkamp’s new movie, Elysium. While we enjoyed the dazzling production design and Sharlto Copley’s unhinged performance as Kruger, we all agree that the heavy-handedness of the story brings down the whole movie.

"U mad bro?" - Mike Espy from Welp, That Sucked fills in for Neal as we discuss Kick-Ass 2. We start off by agreeing that the movie isn’t as violent as it’s made out to be, lament that Jim Carrey didn’t have more screentime, praise the cast, delve into spoilers to discuss the movie’s last act, and finish by surprising Mike with the news that there was a post-credits scene. Also: An old friend rejoins the show.

"Giant Blue Member" - With all the talk about The Avengers, it’s easy to forget about the other superhero ensemble movie from a few years ago. In this episode, we revisit Zack Snyder’s Watchmen – a movie that Neal has long had a hate-love relationship with – and discuss the handling of all the characters, as well as the challenges it faced in trying to succeed as both an adaption and as a movie.