Afterthoughts

Ryan's gone missing, but John and Dixon are holding down the fort with two new movies each. John discusses the latest Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman (2023), as well as Mike Flanagan's new Netf…

This episode could have been and should have been about an entirely different film; however, fate didn't permit the discussion of our initial pick. While the decision of what to watch and discuss was…

On this round of Recommend or Refute, we've got another eclectic sampling for your consideration. Dixon talks journalism and classic Hollywood with His Girl Friday (1940), John is #SorryNotSorry for …

In the second episode of our mini-spotlight series on anime cinema, the Afterthoughts crew is jumping from the fantastical fairytale world of Hayao Miyazaki. We're catching the next interstellar tran…

This week on Recommend or Refute, Ryan follows up on our Scott Pilgrim episode and dives into the new Netflix series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023), Dixon gets uncharacteristically nostalgic talking …

With the impending release of Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and The Heron (2023), we've decided to kick off a short series of anime film discussions to ready ourselves for the visual feast Studio Ghibli i…

We're talkin' about some shiny new movies this week. Ryan breaks down the latest and greatest comic book green screen extravaganza with The Marvels (2023), Dixon struggles to articulate the emotional…

Travel forward one hour, eight minutes, and fifteen seconds with the Afterthoughts crew as Dixon, Ryan, and John discuss Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes (2020). Aside from this film being a charming,…

Hot off the heels of Schlocktober and the Austin Film Festival, the Afterthoughts crew is bringing a balanced mix of recommends and refutes to the table. John talks the end of Schlocktober with Death…

This week we watched a nostalgic film for John and Ryan. We're fighting off our seven evil ex-podcasts as we break down Edgar Wright's visually bold adaptation of the graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs. …

Special guest Eric is back for a round of Recommend or Refute with the usual crew. As we ramp down from spooky season (and John makes the final push through Schlocktober), we've brought one last seas…

We're capping off Spooky Season with an in-depth discussion of the most upsetting new movie of the year, Martin Scorsese's ambitious epic about family, betrayal, and America's original sin, Killers o…

Join the Afterthoughts crew for another round of Recommend or Refute. On the third and final 2023 Spooky Season edition, John brings us another Schlocktober entry with the redundantly titled Rage of …

We're closing out Spooky Season with a fuckin' doozy, folks. Join us as we break down the beautifully horrifying acid trip that officially launched the Nicolas Cage Renaissance, Panos Cosmatos' uncom…

The spooky season continues with more terrifying recommendations and refutations! Join John as he tries to keep loose cannons Ryan and Dixon in line. How many movies are those two maverick renegades …

Enter the depths of Ingmar Bergman's dark, waking nightmares as we discuss his horror masterpiece Hour of the Wolf (1968), starring two of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver screen, Max von…

We're back at it again. John embarks upon the pointless annual journey he calls Schlocktober with the movie that started it all: John Landis' directorial debut Schlock (1973). Ryan tackles another ho…

It's Spooky Season and on this episode we rev up the horror factor with Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Does this horror darling deserve the acclaim and infamy, as well as the various disappointing f…

It's that time of the week when we recommend or refute things. Dixon fawns over the original live action Beauty and the Beast (1946) and compares it to the modern Disney versions.  John breaks down t…

This week we're talking about a love letter to 1970s blaxploitation cinema, Michael Jai White's Black Dynamite (2009).  Throw on your leather coat, strut down the street, and give the episode a liste…