Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

"Join us!" as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of this stone cold classic. Sam Raimi's 1981 masterpiece The Evil Dead is somehow both the funniest horror movie ever made and also one of the most dis…

Echoes and mirrors and callbacks – oh my! We’ve got a new Gandalf the Grey and a new Gandalf the White in this chapter, as the mysteriously well-informed Ghân-buri-Ghân appears and Théoden undergoes …

TLDR: This comic shows artists who sell their creations to corporations bound and gagged in the seventh circle of Hell as the characters they created (Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, the Hulk, Wonder W…

Pippin just might have overtaken Sam as the MVP of Lord of the Rings. He’s certainly braver and more badass than Merry or Frodo now – this chapter sees him literally run into fire and revive hope for…

Ooh what a strange break from Lord of the Rings! Not really, political intrigue is the back bone of every world-building story, regardless of drama - one of the most frequent Game of Thrones director…

Merry is our new POV character and Tolkien is marinating us in metaphors! Join Cam and Maggie for a romp through Middle-earth geopolitics and callbacks and echoes but still no Bill the Pony. Our lead…

Join Cam and Maggie for a gleeful discussion of James Wan's Malignant. Spoiler alert for the whole episode - don't worry if you don't read the descriptions, we say it at the beginning of the episode.…

What a chapter title! Who is the Grey Company – is it the new, lean and mean fellowship led by Aragorn or is it the parade of metaphorical ghosts and literal corpses that now follows our heroes? Join…

Back to the books! Join Cam and Maggie for their first foray into Gondor, as Pippin takes the reigns of story and Gandalf the White becomes just as much of a disappointment as his predecessor. Oh and…

Join Cam and Maggie for a discussion of David Bruckner's unnerving, masterful new horror film, The Night House. So many of our Lord of the Rings discussions have centered around echoes and twisted ca…

Discussion of The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers [Extended Edition] in Glorious 4K!

Join Cam and Maggie dive into the second half of Peter Jackson’s glorious Two Towers adaptation and find a whole…

Join Cam and Maggie for a technicolor exploration of David Lowery’s spectacular new film, The Green Knight. You know how much we adore A24 folkloric horror and this movie is quite honestly the bee’s …

Discussion of The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers [Extended Edition] in Glorious 4K! 

Join Cam and Maggie for an hour of Aragon worship and Théoden hate, in equal measure. The first disc of Two Tow…

Join Cam and Maggie for a discussion of the fantastic new Netflix anime film, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. Spoiler alert (and there are spoilers throughout the episode) – we loved this movie. …

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter Ten

Join Cam and Maggie for the grand finale of The Two Towers! Viking King Samwise finally gets his day in the sun, and we couldn’t be happier. Cam h…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter Nine

Join Cam and Maggie as they do their best to talk about a big spider for an hour without actually thinking about them. The concept of “grey magic…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter Eight

Join Cam and Maggie for a chapter full of character-driven horror and a role-reversal villain introduction like we’ve never seen. Maggie reaches…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter Seven

Join Cam and Maggie for a spooky, echo-laden chapter of Daddy Tolkien’s sci-fi epic, Fantastic Beasts and In the Darkness Bind Them. We’re in a …

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter Six

Join Cam and Maggie for Frodo’s Big Day Out. This is a very busy chapter for our favorite Ring-bearer – he commits to Gollum, (possibly) changes h…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter Five

* Video of Andy Serkis performing his new versions of the LOTR audiobooks (coming out this September): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sez-kWSsHr…