The Plotaholics Podcast: Movie Reviews

This week, the Plotaholics take a trip across the pond to Sanford Gloucestershire for 2007's buddy cop comedy Hot Fuzz starting Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. 

In this film, Pegg plays Constable Nicholas Angel. The best of the best who is so good that his superiors banish him to the country because he's making them all look bad!

Upon his arrival, Nicholas realizes the darkness of the greater good that's...

This week, the Plotaholics dip into the day of lovers with the, under appreciated at the time, cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is still reeling after his ex girlfriend dumped him. To the point that he’s “dating” a high school girl. Then he meets Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and he’s head over heels!

Unfortunately she comes with baggage in the form of her Seven Evil Exes.<...

It's February, which means it's the month of love! We're getting started with the 1995 romantic comedy Forget Paris starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger as Mickey and Ellen.

In this tale of love, travel, and basketball, a group of friends tells the newest member of their group the whirlwind tale of the romance between an NBA referee and an American-born Parisian airline executive and how a lost dead body...

The Plotaholics wind down on our month of the biggest films of 2022 with, what is probably according to the Academy, the hottest of the hot movies of the year. 

Everything Everywhere All At Once Evelyn Quan (played by the amazing Michelle Yeoh) is a married, middle-aged Chinese-American immigrant with a failing business, a strained relationship with her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu), a failing marriage with her fun-loving h...

The Plotaholics' are going strong this week as we continue to explore the films that came out in 2022. This week's episode is a CRIMINALLY UNDER THE RADAR BANGER!

This week we're talking about the Nicholas Cage film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. This film, costarring Padro Pascal, shows a fictionalized (we hope not) version of Nicholas Cage living in Hollywood. His career and relationship with his...

This week we take a second trip into the mind of the great Jordan Peele with 2022's Nope starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as siblings OJ and Em Haywood who discover on their horse ranch a strange, predatory presence. 

Costarring Steven Yeun (Glenn from The Walking Dead), the great Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, and the excellent Keith David, this film is the third full-length film from the former member of the...

January is going strong Plotaholics fans! This week we dive into one of our new favorite franchises' next entry in the 2022 Rian Johnson-written and directed murder/mystery Glass Onion.

Glass Onion sees the return of Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc, master detective, as he investigates a murder on the privately owned island of billionaire Miles Bron (played masterfully by Edward Norton). 

During the pandemic...

Happy 2023, Plotaholics!

We're changing up a little bit from previous years. The last few years we've done only 80s flicks in January. This time around, though, we're doing newer flicks that have come out over the last few months.

Our first foray is to Japan and the 2022 Action/Comedy Bullet Train with an all-star cast including Brad Pitt, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, and ma...

The final episode of 2022 is here, and we decided to end the year with the first film in the series of 2022’s most anticipated film. 

This week we watch the 2009's sci-fi epic, Avatar. 

This film stars Sam Wentworth as Jake Sully (or Jakesooly), a paralyzed Marine sent to the planet of Pandora to pilot his deceased twin brother’s genetically engineered body to blend in with the indigenous people.

Thi...

Happy Holidays, Plotaholics-holics! We complete this year's round of holiday festivity films with the 1990 holiday-comedy John Hughes classic Home Alone. 

Listen, after 30+ years you know who's in this film and what its about. So, in this episode we give our thoughts on this film, how horrible the McCallister family (Kevin included) are, and how amazing MacCulkin is. So sit back, relax and enjoy this latest episo...

This week, folks, we continue our holiday film block with the Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon holiday adventure Four Christmases. 

This holiday romcom with a costar list of the stars sees Brad, aka Orlando, and Kate, aka Cootie Kate, as a yuppie San Francisco couple unable to follow through with their planned Christmas plans and must spend four separate Christmas celebrations with their divorced parents and their families....

The Annual Plotaholics Holiday Block begins today! 

This week's yuletide content is 2005's Romantic Comedy 'Just Friends,' starring a pre-Deadpool Ryan Reynolds, and a post-Varsity Blues Amy Smart as Chris and Jamie. Chris was the obese best friend of Jamie who friend-zoned him eternally during graduation. Ten years later, Chris is forced back home and realizes that he has some unfinished emotional baggage toward...

All good things must come to an end, so it's also true with our month of comedic actors in dramatic roles. When good things come to an end, you have to go out with a bang, and we do! 

This week we watched Stranger Than Fiction the 2006 Will Farrell film that co-stars Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifa, and Dustin Hoffman. 

In this film we meet Harold Crick (Farrell) a cardboard boxed personality of a man that works f...

This week we continue our show block of dramatic films starring comedic actors.

Mr. Church is a 2016 film based on the short story “The Cook Who Came To Live With Us” by Susan McMartin.

Mr. Church tells the story of Charlie Brooks and her life with her family cook Mr. Church who is hired to cook for her and her dying mother after her mother’s lover dies. 

That’s…it. That’s the movie. That’s the tale. We’r...

This week we continue our Comedic Actors in Dramatic roles block with 2004's indie darling Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. 

This gem sees Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as Joel and Clementine (no jokes) who have suffered a painful breakup. Joel, heartbroken that Clementine doesn't recognize him, discovers that she had her memories of him erased. So he decides what's good for the goose is good for the gan...

This week we begin our 'Comedic Actors in Serious Roles' block of films. Trust us, this is a much better block than this sad excuse for a title gives!

This week, we're taking a look at (in our humble expert opinions) Adam Sander's best film. Period. 2007's Reign Over Me shows Adam Sandler as Charlie Fineman, a man suffering the traumatic loss of his family during the 9/11 Attacks. He's seen by...

The Plotaholics Listener's Choice Halloween was yet another entertaining and successful endeavor, and it's all because of YOU! 

This week, today, we are discussion YOUR pick. This got the highest vote tally! 2010's Insidious stars Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne as parents of a boy who is at risk of being possessed after he falls (literally) into a coma. Costarring the great Lin Shaye and Barbara Hershey, this is a film...

The Listener's Choice Halloween is going strong everyone! 

This week we visit a film that is four years in the making! Halloween 3: Season of the Witch is a MAJOR deviation from the Halloween franchise and is probably the most dramatic shift of a film franchise in film history. As its not only the only film in the series to NOT feature Michael Myers, but it's not even a slasher flick! 

In this film, a small-town doctor inve...

Listener's Choice is going strong! This week we take a trip to the anthology horror genre, and this trip was a great one. 

Tales From The Hood is a 1995 horror anthology by writer/director Rusty Cundieff (director of the Chapelle Show). These four chilling tales told by mortician Mr. Simms doesn't just frighten, but tackles social commentary such as police brutality, domestic violence, racism in politics, and str...