Volume 1 – Fighting In The War Room
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REVIEW – Nightcrawlin’ for Nightcrawler
October 31, 2014 22:29 - 52 minutes - 38 MBWith Returning Guest Jordan Hoffman! This week The Guardian and New York Daily News film critic Jordan Hoffman joins David and Patches for a ride into the underbelly of movie podcasting. It’s not as glittery as it looks. Sometimes you’re ambulance chasing the latest DOA blockbusters. Sometimes you’re looking to get off on the sweet, […]
46 – Horror SPOOKTACULAR 2014!
October 28, 2014 16:07 - 54 minutes - 62.6 MBThe Mystery Of Missing Robinson This week, Katey, Patches, and David are at the whims of crazy horror, monster and dubstep-obsessed Da7e who wants to revisit American Horror Story in honor of their fourth anthology entry Freak Show and wants to dive deep into Hollywood’s portrayal of movie monsters from the golden age of the […]
REVIEW – The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (or Our Birdman Review)
October 24, 2014 18:00 - 30 minutes - 22.1 MBPlus John Wick, The Heart Machine and CITIZENFOUR This week, Patches and David wander in one continuous take around the animated, existentially empowered Birdman. The new comedy from 21 Grams and Biutiful director Alejandro González Iñárritu has a lot on its mind — or does it? — and the Fighting in the War Room guys suit […]
45 – The Curious Incident Of A True Crime Podcast In The Nighttime
October 22, 2014 05:10 - 43 minutes - 50.1 MBPlus Foreign Comedies That Are Still Funny This week, Katey, Patches, Da7e, Joanna and David discuss The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, a book about autism that Patches recently saw adapted into a Broadway play, then the gang each has a pick of a foreign language film that didn’t lose it’s comedy […]
REVIEW: Various Amounts of Fury Surrounding Fury
October 17, 2014 19:32 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBTankMan LaMoustache This week, David, Patches, and Katey strap into a Sherman tank to take on Fury, the latest from End of Watch director David Ayer. Starring Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, and Shia The Beef, Fury is a muscle-laden WWII movie with action and broship on its mind. Does it storm into battle or peter […]
44 – The NSA Will Love This Podcast About WWII Movies
October 14, 2014 19:43 - 50 minutes - 57.5 MBAnimation 2014: Such A Good Year? This week, Katey, Patches, Joanna and David delve into a conversation about NYFF’s documentary that’s all the buzz: Laura Poitras’ CITIZENFOUR. After everyone sinks their teeth in, David wants to talk about how good 2014 has been for animation since he saw The Book of Life. Finally in honor of Fury and […]
Review: St. Vincent and Whiplash
October 10, 2014 20:49 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBDRUMS! This week, Katey, Patches, and David rush and drag and rush and drag to find the right beat to drum for Whiplash, the Miles-led musical drama that wowed at festivals and finally hits theaters this week. Before they bang it out, Katey and Patches yell some drunken, Brooklyn-style profanity at St. Vincent, the latest […]
43 – “Somewhere Between a David and a Katey”
October 07, 2014 19:17 - 46 minutes - 53.5 MBThe Judge, Inherent Vice and Film as a way of Getting Butts into Theaters This week, Katey, Patches and David all got to see Inherent Vice and talk amongst themselves while Da7e bides his time until December when he gets to see it with the rest of you. Katey’s Tidbit questions if Robert Downey Jr […]
Review – Gone Girl
October 05, 2014 15:59 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBAnd All We Found Was This Trusty Diary This week, David, Patches and Katey dig into David Fincher’s newest airport novel adaptation, Gone Girl with Ben Affleck and Rosamond Pike. Oh, and Tyler Perry. Is it the deliciously elevated schlock David has been hinting at? Let’s find out! Take a listen, embed and/or download below; […]
42 – Backlash and Trash
September 30, 2014 20:44 - 45 minutes - 52 MBEmma Watson’s UN Speech, The Boxtrolls and “Airport Books” This week, Katey returns to find Da7e, Patches, Joanna and David still chillin, talking about things like Ello that she’ll never understand. Instead, the group all dives into Emma Watson’s speech about Feminism at the UN and the reaction to it, then they wonder if Laika’s […]
Review: Boxtrolls / The Equalizer
September 26, 2014 16:40 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBOne of these hosts was raised by trolls, and it’s exactly whom you expect. This week, David and Patches outfit themselves in the latest cardboard fashion and come up from their troll lair to review the latest from Laika animation, The Boxtrolls. And because they can’t help themselves, they touch on The Equalizer, an absolute […]
41 – Dr. Deadpool
September 23, 2014 23:16 - 40 minutes - 46.3 MBAnd Da7e Liked The Good Lie This week, Da7e, Patches, Joanna and David dig into what it means that Fox has decided to give Ryan Reynolds another shot at being a superhero and the internet comic fans what they want with a Deadpool movie in 2016. What does this have to do with superhero movies […]
Review – This Is Where I Leave You/The Maze Runner
September 19, 2014 18:33 - 37 minutes - 26.3 MBDavid and Patches from The Glade This week, David and Patches walk the puzzling pathways week’s wide releases, navigating through Shawn Levy’s Hollywoodized indie This Is Where I Leave You and the latest dysoptian YA adaptation, The Maze Runner. Does the September slump continue or is the upswing in full effect. That and answers to this week’s […]
40 – Live From A.O. Scott’s Lawn, It’s the Death of Adulthood
September 16, 2014 21:31 - 46 minutes - 53.6 MBOh, Say, Can You See? That They’re Talking About Kevin Smith Too? This week, Katey’s gone AWOL, so it’s up to returning champion Matt Patches to set the tone for the show. Patches wants to talk about A.O. Scott’s New York Times essay on the death of adulthood (LINK), then he wants to discuss The […]
PREVIEW – What’s On TV This Fall?
September 12, 2014 20:04 - 38 minutes - 43.8 MBTwo Women and a Guy Talk Boob Tube. He’s The Boob. This week, with David and Patches hogging all the good movies in Toronto, Katey Rich summons Da7e and Joanna to fill her in on what she needs to know about the Fall TV Season before she takes off on her honeymoon. Joanna is well […]
39 – M-O-O-N: That Spells TIFF 2014
September 09, 2014 17:32 - 48 minutes - 55.9 MBRandall Canadian Flagg This week, Patches and David have decamped to the Toronto International Film Festival and bring us a Segment 3 report through droopy, tired eyes. Back in the War Room, Katey, Joanna and Da7e discuss Katey’s revisiting Stephen King’s The Stand and it’s troubled road to a film adaptation. Also, each of the three […]
38 – A Subtly Enhanced Discussion Of Special Effects
September 02, 2014 20:14 - 55 minutes - 63.6 MBPlus David Ehrlich’s Summer Trivia Corner This week, David, Patches, Joanna and a returning Da7e have got that summertime sadness, oh-whoa-ho-ho-ho. Starting things off with a Lighting Round question about anticipated fall films, it’s a step back into the “worst summer since 1997” for the American Box Office. Are things really that bad? Then, David’s […]
REVIEW: God Help These Boys and Girls
August 29, 2014 20:42 - 44 minutes - 32 MBPlus Starred Up This week, Katey, David, Patches, and Joanna head down to indie territory to review two movies that divided: Starred Up, the prison drama starring up-and-comer Jack O’Connell and God Help the Girl, a whimsical musical from Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch. What do these movies get right and wrong about youth? […]
37 – Beasts, Springfield and Chris Prattle
August 26, 2014 22:08 - 51 minutes - 58.5 MBFind Your Not-So-Fantastic Beasts Here. This week, David, Patches, Katey and Joanna kick things off by anticipating Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, the fictional textbook from the Harry Potter series that is going to be spun off into it’s own movie…at least one more movie. Then, Joanna queries the hosts on what they’ve […]
36 – FITWR’s Flying Circus!
August 20, 2014 02:56 - 41 minutes - 47.8 MB“Hacks on Hacks on Hacks.” – listener review This week, David, Patches, Katey and Joanna discuss Terry Gilliam and Terry Gilliam movies, but that’s not all! Patches saw A Hard Day’s Night and he has questions. Important questions. For a mini-segment, all the hosts discuss great actors that never had a role that sold them […]
REVIEW – The One I Like OK, But Don’t Love
August 16, 2014 13:43 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBPlus The Giver and Expendables 3 This week, David, Joanna, Katey, and Patches retreat to a California vacation home to confront their true feelings over the buzzy Sundance hit The One I Love. After digging into the Mark Duplass/Elisabeth Moss dramedy, David gives The Giver his two cents and Patches comes out of shock to […]
35 – A Tribute to Robin Williams and Other Things That Matter a Little Less
August 12, 2014 16:19 - 56 minutes - 64.1 MB“Hacks on Hacks on Hacks.” – listener review This week, David, Patches, Katey and Joanna discuss Robin Williams, who passed away yesterday of an apparent suicide. It’s not all mourning though, with a tidbit from David on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel Seconds and the translation of graphic novels to film. Also a mini-segment about naked dating […]
REVIEW — The August Movie Smorgasbord
August 08, 2014 16:22 - 46 minutes - 33 MBBetter movies served chilled on a half-shell. This week, Katey, Patches, David, and Joanna Robinson heard the weekend’s rowdy flock of releases to find anything worth your while. On the table: What If?, the Daniel Radcliffe/Zoe Kazan rom-com that continues Goon director Michael Dowse’s hot streak; The Hundred-Foot Journey, a foodie drama from sentimentalist Lasse Hallström; Teenage Mutant Ninja […]
34 – Only Women Can Save Us!
August 05, 2014 21:03 - 50 minutes - 58.2 MBMen and women were created equal, but they are different. Especially when it comes to weight loss. Women face some unique challenges in getting the bathroom scale to budge. And these challenges are both medical and emotional in nature. So whether you're trying to lose 5 pounds or 50, it’s important to understand your […]
REVIEW – Is Guardians of the Galaxy The Marvel Movie You’ve Been Waiting For?
August 01, 2014 17:14 - 54 minutes - 38.4 MBThese Four A-Holes Saw The Movie This week, all four hosts have their usual battle about this summer’s crazy superhero offering from Marvel. Somehow everyone saw the movie and has enough opinions that no one does the whole review saying only “I Am Groot.” That’s right! It’s James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy and the whole […]
33 – If You Love Something…Demand A 5-Year Release Schedule?
July 29, 2014 22:02 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBPlus Comic-Con 2014 Wrap-Up and More Lucy This week, Katey, Da7e, Patches and David managed to all stay out of San Diego during Comic Con which puts us in the unenviable position of sorting out what was cool and what wasn’t purely out of the news that made it out on the internet. Then: David’s […]
REVIEW – A Weekend of Brains and Brawn
July 25, 2014 16:11 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBLucy and Hercules Sittin’ In A Tree This week, Katey and Patches amplify their own brain capacity by bringing Buzzfeed Film Critic Alison Willmore to discuss Lucy, the Scarlett Johansson-led pseudo-science action picture from writer-director-producer Luc Besson. It’s a little bit Taken, a little bit 2001, and reactions are all over the spectrum. From there, Katey and Alison segue […]
32 – Joke Rock: Weird Al or Dwayne Johnson?
July 22, 2014 19:49 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBCan you smell what this podcast is cooking? This week, Patches wants to talk Joke Rock of a few different stripes. First, he pitches a conversation on Weird Al’s Mandatory Fun album to David, Da7e and Katey, then in segment 3 the group tries to decide if love for The Rock on screen is ultimately […]
REVIEW – ManBoyhood
July 18, 2014 16:13 - 29.7 MBPlus We FIRE+RESCUE and PURGE some I ORIGINS This week, David and Patches reminisce over the past, that time a few short weeks ago when they saw Boyhood. Director Richard Linklater’s film is causing a stir for its inventive structure, filming its characters one week at a time for over 12 years. But the film […]
Dental Review- ManBoyhood
July 18, 2014 16:13 - 42 minutes - 29.7 MBGood oral hygiene is necessary to keep teeth and gums healthy. It involves habits such as brushing twice a day and having regular dental checkups. However, oral health is about more than cavities and gum disease. Research has shown that there is an association between the health of a person’s mouth and their overall health. Experts consider […]
31 – Score Purge: Blockbuster Aural Anarchy
July 15, 2014 16:02 - 46 minutes - 53.4 MBClass Warfare For Your Eyes and Ears This week, Katey is in Los Angeles, so David, Da7e and Patches take the week to talk about class warfare on screen though mini-reviewing The Purge: Anarchy, recommend a movie that went underseen this year, then dive into the future of blockbuster movie scores, which all 3 agree […]
REVIEW – Apes V. Humans: Dawn of Justice
July 11, 2014 16:24 - 57 minutes - 40.3 MBThis week, one of us is a real Koba. It’s all monkey business this week, with Katey, David, Patches, and Dave taking on The Sequel to the Reboot of the Planet of the Apes. Andy Serkis returns as the performance captured primate Caeser, this time under the eye of Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In). […]
30 – A Horse Named Patches: Vanity Or Passion Project?
July 08, 2014 19:11 - 41 minutes - 24 MBPlus each hosts favorite movie of 2014 so far! This week, Katey, David, Da7e and Patches are thinking about the under-performing box office of 2014 and wonder how that’s going to change in the years to come or at least in the rest of this year. Katey wants to know what each person’s favorite movie […]
REVIEW – Does Tammy Or Echo Deliver Us To Evil?
July 04, 2014 22:33 - 48 minutes - 34.1 MBWith Special Guest Jordan Hoffman! This week, Patches recruits Daily News Critic Jordan Hoffman for a trio of movie reviews. First, the two jump in the backseat of the road trip comedy Tammy — one of the weirdest studio summer movies in recent memory. After that, Patches has a close encounter of the Earth to […]
29 – Korra’s Back and We’re Gonna Fix The Pop Culture
July 01, 2014 17:22 - 52 minutes - 48 MBPlus a listener voicemail about what we look for in trailers! This week, Katey, Da7e and Patches get together and Katey is Negroni-less. First up, The Legend of Korra is back on Nickelodeon earlier than everyone expected. Da7e explains why, Patches has a sad theory and Katey says she’d love to watch it but it […]
Trans4mers REVIEW: Robots in Disguise, Everything Else in Aggressively Plain Sight
June 27, 2014 17:29 - 42 minutes - 30.5 MBTHE AGE OF EXTINCTION IS UPON US (Vote Republican)! This week, Patches, Katey, and David roll out with their leader Optimus Prime for the fourth battle in Michael Bay’s mega-budgeted Transformers franchise. David went to bat for the previous installment, Dark of the Moon, but does he muster up the same energon for Age of Extinction? Did Patches and […]
28 – Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?
June 24, 2014 17:16 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBPlus Patches’ Idea For A Mini-Segment Backfires When Everyone Kinda Likes Transformers More Than He Thought. This week, Katey, David, Da7e and Patches are thinking about today’s youth after Patches runs into a child who is most looking forward to The Hobbit Part 3 and Planes: Fire and Rescue this year. This cannot stand, thinks […]
REVIEW – Rover, Rover, Send Podcast Over
June 20, 2014 20:16 - 22 minutes - 15.9 MBAussie Accents On: “That’s Not A Dystopian Crime Drama, THIS IS…” This week, David and Patches embark on a post-apocalyptic road trip in search of David Michod’s Animal Kingdom follow-up, The Rover. Do they catch the Guy Pearce/Robert Pattinson star vehicle? Is it even catchable? That and your answers to this week’s lightning round question on musicals that should […]
27 – Games of Thrones, Premakes and Seattle Film Festivals
June 17, 2014 16:29 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBIncluding a Book-Spoiler Free Discussion of Game of Thrones, Season 4 This week, Katey, David, Da7e and Patches have peeped the TRANSFORMERS PREMAKE by Kevin B. Lee and want to talk about blockbuster filmmaking in the world economy (of course!). Then, David has a report from the Seattle International Film Festival that turns into a hearty […]
REVIEW – Sequel-Sequel Jump Street
June 13, 2014 19:38 - 32 minutes - 23.1 MBKatey Gets To Review The New Channing Tatum Movie. Katey, David, and Patches are going back to college!… where they spent most of their time watching movies and talking about them with friends. Huh. This week, the FITWR crew takes on 22 Jump Street, the sequel to Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s surprisingly functional comedy […]
26 – It’s Negroni Season and Everything’s Crazy
June 10, 2014 13:39 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBObvious Child, Father’s Day and Fantastic TV This week, Katey, Da7e and Patches get together while Katey has a Negroni to once again talk about television now that the Emmy Submission Season has ended and industry campaigning had begun. Mad Men. Hannibal, The Good Wife, Adventure Time and more shows gets nods of approval from […]
REVIEW: The Fault In The Edge Of Our Stars’ Tomorrow
June 06, 2014 17:30 - 40 minutes - 28.4 MBWith Nathaniel Rogers of The Film Experience! This week, David, Katey, and Patches relive the same review over and over and over again as they analyze Tom Cruise’s latest sci-fi blockbuster Edge of Tomorrow and YA phenomenon The Fault in Our Stars. Did Katey and Patches shed tears for Shailene Woodley’s cancer-stricken protagonist? Is Edge of Tomorrow travel backwards in time to […]
025 – The Filmmaking Quarter Quell
June 03, 2014 16:01 - 1 hour - 67 MBEach Host On When They Weren’t A Filmmaker This week, we’re changing up the format for our 25th Episode Quarter Quell Special! If you haven’t bopped over to FightingInTheWarRoom.com/XXV/ to watch short films from Da7e, Patches and David, queue that up now! Don’t start yet, though, because Katey kicks things off with the story […]
OpKino Classic: Family Interview Full Quell (Feb 8th, 2013)
June 02, 2014 14:34 - 1 hour - 32.3 MBGuess what? TOMORROW is our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell! What is a Quarter Quell? A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the […]
OpKino Classic: Storytelling Quarter Quell (Aug 10th 2012)
June 01, 2014 16:09 - 55 minutes - 32.4 MBGuess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell! What is a Quarter Quell? For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell features […]
OpKino Classic: The 2nd Quarter Quell (Feb. 22nd 2012)
May 31, 2014 14:57 - 1 hour - 33.2 MBGuess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell! What is a Quarter Quell? For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell features […]
Review: Maleficent Knows It’s True That Visions Are Seldom All They Seem
May 30, 2014 16:31 - 36 minutes - 26.2 MBWith Nathaniel Rogers of The Film Experience! This week, Katey, Patches, and Nathaniel Rogers of The Film Experience are cursed with the burden of watching another “dark and gritty” fairy tale movie. Or has the spell been broken by Disney’s Maleficent? Can Angelina Jolie deliver one true kiss of leading lady gravitas? This definitely isn’t the Sleeping Beauty you knew […]
OpKino Classic: First Quarter Quell (August 26th 2011)
May 29, 2014 15:21 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MBGuess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell! What is a Quarter Quell? For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell […]
024 – Movies And Music Are Silt In Your Life River
May 27, 2014 18:30 - 47 minutes - 38.7 MBPlus a mini-review of We Are The Best! This week, Katey, David, Da7e and Patches all bring two music recommendations to the table for a tidbit about 2014’s new music they’ve been listening to. Patches and David have high praise for the Swedish We Are The Best, then Patches wants to talk about movies that […]
Review: X-Men’s Dawn of Franchise Justice
May 23, 2014 13:20 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBThis podcast: EVERYONE DIES! This week, Katey, Da7e, and Patches have come to you from the past. This last Tuesday as a matter of fact, to let you know their thoughts on Bryan Singer’s return to the X-Men franchise he brought so much attention to: X-Men: Days of Future Past. They struggle to describe the […]