Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering Scary Movie, directed by Michael Tiddes, written by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans, and Rick Alvarez, starring Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall. Together, they discuss the Scary Movie franchise’s nearly thirty years' worth of lore, how under-appreciated Anna Faris is, this episode being its own Scary Movie homage, how good th...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are joined by comedian and writer Skyler Higley (The Onion, The Oscars) to cover Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, written by Will Soodik, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lucite Maxwell. Together, they discuss their understanding of creepypasta, the film’s wild financial performance, what's actually going on with therapy, Reddit lore, the one-two h...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), written and directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, starring Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, and Ja’net Dubois. Together, they discuss just how many Scary Movies there are, the film’s Rotten Tomatoes score, some Wayans family history, and much, much more! Listen to the full episode on Patreon or Red Circle's Exclusive...

This week, Jon and Jerah are covering I Love Boosters, written and directed by Boots Riley, starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore. Together, they discuss allowing a certain level of shoplifting in retail jobs, being a little sleepy while seeing the film, which of the film's metaphors they liked, which of the film's metaphors they disl...

This week, James and Jerah are covering In the Blink of an Eye, directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Colby Day starring Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, and Daveed Diggs. Together, they discuss space, the billionaires trying to get there, Producer Skyler being banned from suggesting movies for the podcast to cover for a bit, the film’s oddball tone, what to talk about, Andrew Stanton’s indirect impact on Jerah’s li...

This week, James and Jon are joined by Carl Foreman, Jr. (JFL New Faces) to cover Swapped, directed by Nathan Greno, screenplay by John Whittington, Christian Magalhaes, and Robert Snow, story by John Whittington, Adam Karp, Christian Magalhaes, Robert Snow, and Nathan Greno, starring Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan, Cedric the Entertainer, and Justina Machado. Together, they discuss Juno Temple being from stuff, the n...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering Shadow Force (2025), directed by Joe Carnahan, written by Leon Chills and Joe Carnahan, starring Kerry Washington, Omar Sy, Mark Strong, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Cliff “Method Man” Smith. Together, they discuss the likelihood of there being some form of real shadow force out there, what they’re still doing in the cold open, what Seven Psychopaths actually is, wh...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering Michael, directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by John Logan, starring Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long, Juliano Valdi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Meyers, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo. Together, they discuss the film’s rough critical reception, its glowing audience reception, what’s going on with Bray’s mic…hael, and much, much more! Listen ...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering Thrash, written and directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, and Djimon Hounsou. Together, they discuss bull sharks, the film’s crisp runtime, why Thrash might've popped on Netflix its resemblance to Crawl, what does and does not happen in the film, how it broke Jerah, and much, much more! 

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This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are joined Yazmin Monet Watkins (Grand Crew, “Who All Gon’ Be There?”) to cover You, Me & Tuscany, directed by Kat Coiro, screenplay by Ryan Engle, story by Ryan Engle and Kristin N. Engle, starring Halle Bailey, Regé-Jean Page, Marco Calvani, and Aziza Scott. Together, they discuss Regé-Jean Page… possibly… being… too… hot…, the film's so-so ...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering The Drama, written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. Together, in a spoiler-heavy episode, they discuss how to discuss this particular film, Zendaya’s career to date, what the worst thing Bray ever did was, bad friends, just how great the cast filling out the smaller parts of the film were, hectic weddings, and much, much more! 

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This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are covering They Will Kill You, directed by Kirill Sokolov, written by Kirill Sokolov and Alex Litvak, starring Zazie Beetz, Myha’la, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, and Patricia Arquette. Together, they discuss sequel naming conventions, what goes on in the crossword world, Bray managing the bits this episode, where Zazie’s been, and much, much more! Listen to the full epi...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are getting back their unfinished discussion of The Burial (2023), directed by Maggie Betts, screenplay by Dough Wright and Maggie Betts, story by Doug Wright, based on “The Burial” by Jonathan Harr, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jurnee Smollett, Alan Ruck, Mamoudou Athie, Pamela Reed, and Bill Camp. Together, they cover their experiences with jury duty, their reluctance to fully...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon START covering The Burial (2023), directed by Maggie Betts, screenplay by Doug Wright and Maggie Betts, story by Doug Wright, based on “The Burial” by Jonathan Harr, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jurnee Smollett, Alan Ruck, Mamoudou Athie, Pamela Reed, and Bill Camp, before pivoting to recapping this year's Oscars ceremony. Together, they discuss The Burial being a good movie for...

This week, James, Jerah, and Jon are making their Oscars predictions in advance of the 98th Academy Awards ceremony. Together, they discuss what they expect to happen with the first ever Casting Oscar, where all the Oscars for comedic performances are, the head-to-head between Sinners and One Battle After Another, which shorts they dug, what they felt was snubbed, what Elio is doing in the mix, how many nominated films James caught...

This week, James and Jon are covering The Six Triple Eight (2024), written and directed by Tyler Perry, based on “Fighting a Two-Front War” by Kevin M. Hymel, starring Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Dean Norris, Sam Waterston, and Oprah Winfrey. Together, they discuss what they’d do on the admin side of war, Jerah being out sick, Bond songs' success rate at The Oscars, the music of Diane Warren, and much, much ...

This week, James, Jerah and Jon are covering Relationship Goals, directed by Linda Mendoza, written by Michael Elliot, Cory Tynan, and Laura Lekkos, starring Kelly Rowland, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Robin Thede, Annie Gonzalez, Dennis Haysbert, and Matt Walsh. Together, they discuss when they clocked that the film was based on a book, controversial pastors, being proud of marrying someone you met in high school, Jerah&r...

This week, James, Jerah and Jon are covering Goat, directed by Tyler Dillihay, screenplay by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley, story by Nicolas Curcio and Peter Chiarelli, starring Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Aaron Pierre, Nicola Coughlan, David Harbour, Nick Kroll, Jennifer Lewis, Patton Oswalt, Jelly Roll, Jennifer Hudson, Sherry Cola, Eduardo Franco, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, and Stephen Curry. Together, they discuss who ...

This week, James, Jerah and Jon are joined by writer and comedian Tim Barnes (Judge Travis, Maurice on Mars) to cover Loving (2016), written and directed by Jeff Nichols, starring Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, and Michael Shannon. Together, they discuss how this Black History Month hasn’t quite been feeling like Black History Month, Brian Cox’s work as the voice of McDonald’s, being surpris...