Hutch and Jason decide to watch a staple of the late 90’s and early 00’s, vampire action movies. Join them as they do a post-mortem on Blade (1998) and Underworld (2003).

Reel Trouble Podcast

Guns and Leather (and Vampires)

This week, our hosts Jason and Hutch watch some movies they don’t really understand, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) and Primer (2004), and eventually figure out how to time travel.

A Most Excellent Episode.

This week we have a special guest host as friend of the podcast Nasty Nate joins the show to share his Generation X wisdom on coming of age tales American Graffiti (1973) and Dazed and Confused (1993).

American Confusion

Our intrepid heroes are losing their minds during the quarantine and decided to watch two movies starring puppets. Team America: World Police (2004) and The Happytime Murders (2018).

Puppets: F**K YEAH!

Jason and Hutch take inspiration from Jason's installation of "Ode to a Worker in a Capitalistic Society" and stick it to the man with two subversive films from 1999, Office Space and Fight Club.

Quotent Quotables

Alternatively, this episode could easily be called the Cage-ass Chainsaw Massacre, as the chosen ones, Jason and Hutch, watch two bat-shit crazy Nicolas Cage films: Drive Angry (2011) and Mandy (2018).

Caged and Confused

Jason and Hutch, our chosen heroes, watch the two directorial debut films: Rian Johnson's Brick (2005) and Jordan Blady's Softness of Bodies (2018).

All in all, you're just another soft brick in the wall.

This episode Hutch and Jason watch The Shining (1980) and The Thing (1982) to examine a pair of movies where the setting acts as another character in the film. Also, the coronavirus takes its toll on the show by knocking a would be guest host out of the picture.

The Shiny Thing

This week the guys decide to kick back and watch some animated films that are set in the Land of the Rising Sun. Starting with anime classic Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) and then on to stop motion with Isle of Dogs (2018).

Kiki's Doglivery Service

Jason and Hutch take the red pill and dive into a fan theory: whether or not The Matrix (1999) and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) are sequels.

John Wick is Proto-Neo.

Hutch and Jason discuss whether or not Die Hard (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) are Christmas movies.

Nightmare at Nakatomi Plaza

Jason and Hutch visit the animal shelter and look at a couple of stray documentaries from 2018, Won't You Be My Neighbor? and Inland Sea. Cats abound, as do tears (all from Hutch) from discussing the life of our neighbor.

Mister Rogers talks about Cats.

Jason and Hutch don their rubber gloves and prepare to examine Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and Alejandro Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014). This could get messy.

*Use a Banana for scale*

Jason and Hutch watch some technical films with less dialogue, There Will Be Blood (2007) and The Shape of Water (2017).

Blood in the Water…(and fire in the sky?)

Jason and Hutch get spooky in this episode, watching the Halloween classic films, Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and the original Halloween (1978).

Who Babysits Satan’s Child?

Two dudes. Two movies per episode. Dissection, discussion, civil discourse, uncivil discourse, and trash talk.