Join hosts Nick & Erin as they discuss a movie-of-the-week and then each pick a 2nd film to create a thematically spicy double bill. Their goal: to pair art with trash and vice versa. Because after all, one person's E.T.: The Extraterrestrial is another person's Mac & Me.
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It's a classic switcheroo scenario! Erin is taking over hosting duties this week for a banner episode on one of our favourites and one of the very best Star Trek films: GALAXY QUEST!
We're charting how the creative team found their perfect cast, including how Tim Allen learned what Acting was throughout the film, Sigourney Weaver's campaign to be part of the film, Alan Rickman's need to do comedy, and how Tony Shalhoub wound up playing a character with an Asian name. But how did the Star Trek cast feel about it? The answer may surprise you!
Come and share our appreciation of Canadian treasure Enrico Colantoni while we look at deleted scenes, alternate plots, and how to simulate 70's TV aesthetics.
We're also getting into our personal Galaxy Quests, the fandoms that have consumed us for better and worse, how we learned to recognize "bad" media, and 1999's mammoth cinema moment. Plus, Erin brings us the Straight Dope!
16 Feb 2026
135: One Battle After Another (2025) - Cursed Frankenstein Walk
This week we're feeling revolutionary as we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar darling, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER fom 2025!
We've officially come down with Oscars fever, so this week's episode does double duty as our coverage of the race itself. From OBAA's 13 nominations and SINNERS record-breaking 16, to the joys of ping pong in MARTY SUPREME and the massive snub of our beloved NO OTHER CHOICE, we're covering all of our thoughts on little gold men.
This film sees a lot of first-timers to the pod, so we're talking Leonardo Di Caprio's career, Benicio del Toro's beer, Chase Infiniti's fear, Sean Penn's sneer, and how Madonna's web connects them all. And of course we're going down a rabbit hole on Jonny Greenwood's score and the fascism of Nixon and Reagan evolving into the form found in this film.
Next time we're heading to the blood rave: join us in watching Wesley Snipes as BLADE (1998)!
26 Jan 2026
134: Conclave (2024) - Popes is Guys
Gar(t)bage is back with 2024's airport paperback papal political thriller, Edward Berger's CONCLAVE!
We're learning Ralph Fiennes' full name, revisiting 3rd Rock from the Sun, and decide that every character in this film is a Pope, before discussing Catholicism and the Absolute Mysteries, power structures and rotting institutions, and what it means to stand for something instead of against something.
Get ready to hear a lot about specificity becoming universality as we get into each pope's candidacy, the power of presenting alternatives in the face of certainty, and how much you have to screw up to have a sin named after you. And we're here to investigate: is John Lithgow's Father Tremblay Canadian?
We're getting heavily into the ending and varying interpretations, so be warned of heavy spoilers!
Next time, we're getting into Oscar talk with Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!
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