Two for Space Jam, Please

Episode 136 – Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (2024)

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The best movie about roommates / musical legends we've ever seen.

Episode 135 – Frankenstein (2025)

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. R...

Episode 134 – The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This one's got everything you'd ever want in a movie: pomegranates, swords, llamas, mountains, crocuses, fortune tellers, big hats, broken eggs, and b...

Episode 133 – Mountainhead (2025)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The world of Mountainhead is terrifying and absurd, much like our own.

Episode 132 – Bugonia (2025)

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if ... we're the aliens?

Episode 131 – One Battle After Another (2025)

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Top. Leo. Role. Of. All. Time. We loved this one, folks. Viva la revolución!

Episode 130 – Weapons (2025)

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The episode wherein we talk a hell of a lot about witches.

Episode 129 – The Big Short (2015)

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This entire episode is us shaking our fists at the sky. Turns out a 2015 movie about the 2008 recession is still sadly, painfully relevant.

Episode 128 – Friendship (2025)

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Demented things happen when men become friends.

Episode 127 – Showing Up (2023)

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We showed up for Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up and spent some time with a very glum sculptor and one injured bird

Episode 126 – Sinners (2025)

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sinners is a blood-soaked, music-drenched, powerful and mystifying horror-thriller. And there are two Michael B. Jordans! Two!!

Episode 125 – I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I know this might sound crazy. I don't want to alarm you. Do you remember a TV show we used to watch together? It was called ... The Pink Opaque.

Bonus Episode Unlocked: Micky 19 (Micky 17 Reconsidered)

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We got feedback. We reconsidered. That's how we do.

Episode 124 – Severance Season 2 (2025)

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We finished the Cold Harbor file. Please enter the room.

Episode 123 – Mickey 17 (2025)

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our feelings about this one: mixed. Our love for Bong Joon Ho: eternal. Also, we have a Patreon! It's fun over there. Check out patreon.com/twoforspa...

Episode 122 – Scavengers Reign (2023)

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tip of the day: If you find yourself stranded on a strange and mysterious planet, be very careful with any and all goo.

Episode 121 – Red Rocket (2021)

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s 2016 and the U.S. is one big washed-up porn star. Happy new year. Also, we have a Patreon! It’s fun over there. Check out patreon.com...

Episode 120 – Megalopolis (2024)

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Oh, Francis Ford Coppola. If only you could have failed better.

Episode 119 – Kneecap (2024)

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brits amach! (Brits out!)

Episode 118 – Anora (2024)

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So. Much. Yelling. In. Russian. We watched Sean Baker's heartrending, tragi-comic new film and then dug into the class conflict / representations of s...

Episode 117 – Neptune Frost

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist fever dream, replete with otherworldly poetry, song, color, drums, wise birds, wheel men, mystical hackers, dancing m...

Episode 116 – Thelma (2024)

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as we meet Thelma, 93, adorable grandma and certified badass. It's the action comedy we never knew we needed. Also, we have a Patreon! It's f...

Episode 115 – How To Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What counts as justified, rational action in a lethally warming world? Inquiring minds want to know.

Episode 114 – Janet Planet (2024)

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A review of Janet Planet calls it "not a movie to be explained," and so this episode is more of the pondering/wandering variety. It's summer. We're he...

Episode 113 – The Running Man (1987)

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cheryl's still working on her treatise, "A Unified Theory of Action Movies and Why They're Her Problematic Fave," but we get into some of its broader ...

Episode 112 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cheryl is seriously considering shaving her head. #TheMadMaxCinematicUniverse #ImperatorFuriosa #girlboss

Episode 111 – The Iron Claw (2023)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Muscles, muscles everywhere. In The Iron Claw, pro wrestling is the stuff of melodrama and inconceivable tragedy. Join us in the ring.

Episode 110 – Civil War (2024)

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wooboy. Buckle up, folks. This ain't going to be pretty.

Episode 109 – 3-Iron (2004)

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It started with a student story about phrogging. It ended with us watching a 20-year-old Korean movie that had us reflecting on class, small appliance...

Episode 108 – Dune: Part Two (2024)

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dune: Part Two was a Dud: Part Two. We have our reasons.

Episode 107 – The Zone of Interest (2023)

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This was (obviously) a heavy conversation. We covered the banality of evil, the ways we remember atrocity, familial protectionism, gradations of compl...

Episode 106 – Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The chilly, cerebral courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall dares to ask -- Is marriage itself a complex exercise in litigation? (Follow-up question: Do...

Episode 105 – Please Baby Please (2022)

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are kitchen appliances sexy? What does bisexual lighting mean in 2023? We're asking the tough questions, folks. Our instigator - Please Baby Please, a...

Episode 104 – May December

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the first minute of this episode, Joe called May December "a banger." Let me be clear - this movie is not "a banger." But it made us feel weird and...

Episode 102 – Aniara (2018)

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's time for a movie adapted from a long sci-fi poem written as a critical response to the United States' bombing of Hiroshima. Aniara means despair...

Episode 101 – Barbie (2023)

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Get in, losers. We're going to Barbie Land.

Episode 100 – Oppenheimer (2023)

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We didn’t expressly set out to do it, but we took a stance on Barbenheimer and watched Oppenheimer first. We had sooooo many things to say about...

Episode 99 – The Blackening (2023)

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're back and we watched The Blackening and had a lot of fun talking about why this horror-comedy / comedy-horror worked. Turns out -- you need good ...

Episode 98 – Leonor Will Never Die (2022)

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We get real loopy talking about the zany Filipino meta-action movie, Leonor Will Never Die, and somehow get on a tangent about our love for Star Trek ...

Episode 97 – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Roll for initiative and grab your arcane spells — we watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and we got all chaotic neutral with it...

Episode 96 – The Last of Us Season 1 (2023)

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Last of Us made us angry. Do with that what you will.

Episode 95 – White Noise (2022)

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's 1984 but it's also 2023 and we're afraid of dying and fumbling our way to survival and it's goofy and tender with an airborne toxic event still k...

Episode 94 – The Triangle of Sadness (2022)

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After a looooong hiatus, we're (finally!) back. And we missed you. We watched Triangle of Sadness, one of the more recent iterations of the increasing...

Episode 93 – The Menu (2022)

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We brought our appetites for the absurdist dark comedy that is The Menu - and we left satisfied!

Episode 92 – The Banshees of Inisherin

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Banshees of Inisherin asks of its audience - how many fingers would you cut off to get your former best friend to leave you alone??

Episode 91 – Barbarian (2022)

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for a brief stay at probably the worst Airbnb experience of all time. We grit our teeth (and sometimes closed our eyes) and watched Barbarian!

Episode 90 – Vesper (2022)

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vesper is viscous, gooey, slipshod, and visceral. Ferny plants shoot lethal, glowing pink darts that burrow into you and turn into insects. Scavenging...

Episode 89 – Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our biggest piece of advice if you're planning a hurricane party with your friends in a mansion for the weekend - Put. Away. The swords. We watched Bo...

Episode 88 – The Rehearsal (2022)

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal is bizarre, uncomfortable, emotional, surprising, and deeply, deeply weird. This show was HBO being cool with spending ...

Episode 87 – The Gray Man (2022)

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're coming at you from our neighbor to the north - Canada! We watched The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling (a Canadian!) as a CIA assassin ...

Episode 86 – Elvis (2022)

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Special episode alert! We've got two guests joining us -- New York State Assemblymember Jon Rivera, and Ethan Powers -- to review Baz Luhrmann's Elvi...

Episode 85 – Clockwatchers (1997)

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's 1997 and our queens Parker Posey, Toni Collete, and Lisa Kudrow are at the height of their powers playing temps trying to survive in a mind-numbi...

Episode 84 – The Bob’s Burgers Movie (is Not Maverick) (2022)

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode we joined the Bob's Burgers crew in their quest to pay one month of their business loan payment and solve a grisly murder. It's sweet...

Episode 83 – The Sleep Dealer (2008)

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Alex Rivera's 2008 sci-fi drama Sleep Dealer, people are plugged into a global computer network via nodes on their bodies, work involves controllin...

Episode 82 – The Humans (2021)

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hey, it's Joe. I'm not used to writing these episode recaps and, well, we watched the 2021 movie The Humans (based on the 2015 play) and it was, uh, f...

Episode 81 – Severance (2022)

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Once you get us started, we can talk about work until the cows come home, or until it's 5 o'clock and time to ride the brain-blending elevator down to...

Episode 80 – Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Everything Everywhere All at Once, we get a bedraggled, fed up, middle aged, Chinese immigrant wife and mom as our protagonist (played by the incom...

Episode 79 – Drive My Car (2021)

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car is a quiet, slow moving, tender movie that rewards patience and an attentive regard for the smallest moments. We digr...

Episode 78 – The Batman (2022)

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this house, we stan Robert Pattinson. Even when (especially when) he plays an angsty, brooding, eyeliner-wearing, journal-writing Bruce Wayne who p...

Episode 77 – Kimi (2022)

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes you're in the mood for a movie that's good-bad. Kimi is good-bad, with a shockingly simple storyline that has three bad guys killed by a nai...

Episode 76 – Bigbug (2022)

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We were a wee bit disappointed in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's newest film, Big Bug, which is maybe why we spent most of this conversation talking about the e...

Episode 75 – Nightmare Alley (2021)

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

t the U.S. is a carnival, everyone wants to be lied to, and Bradley Cooper is the perfect creep. Step right up!!

Episode 74 – Licorice Pizza (2020)

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mr. Paul Thomas Anderson is back, this time with an oddball love story that’s soaked in nostalgia, the 70s, and the screwy exuberance of being y...

Episode 73 – Don’t Look Up (2021)

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Years 2020-2021 must have really done a number on us because we found Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up kinda sweet (and dark and funny and incis...

HOLIDAY BONUS CONTENT

25 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Happy holidays!! Here's a li'l treat.

Episode 72 – Succession Season 3 (2021)

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

's a race to the bottom! After the season 3 finale of Succession, we talk psychosexual drama, morality mental exercises, critiques of the ruling clas...

Episode 71 – The Power of the Dog (2021)

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

played by Benedict Cumberbatch, roughly castrates a bull with a knife, then with his bare hands. This is maybe a representative scene for much of the ...

Episode 70 – The Pizzagate Massacre (2020)

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is The Pizzagate Massacre the best movie about the Trump era, as this Vice News article contends? We say....possibly?

Episode 69 – Squid Game (2021)

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Squid game, it turns out, is not a show about having a good time eating calamari, but a murderous series of increasingly violent competitions that ser...

Episode 68 – The French Dispatch (2021)

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

es Anderson's newest quirky romp, The French Dispatch. We were not fans at all.

Episode 67 – Dune (2021)

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dune. DUNE!! We've been waiting to watch this one and whoo boy, do we have things to say. We get deep into Denis Villeneuve's top-notch world-building...

Episode 66 – The Last Duel (2021)

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are very many bad hairstyles in Ridley Scott's The Last Duel. Our preliminary judgement puts Ben Affleck's bleached blonde number (in his role ...

Episode 65 – The Guilty (2021)

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The 2021 Jake Gyllenhaal vehicle The Guilty, about an LAPD officer demoted to 911 operator who attempts — entirely over the phone — to sa...

Episode 64 – Inside (2021)

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Inside is a discomforting and very funny field trip into the head of the comedian over the course of the pandemic. It's a musical comedy special (em...

Episode 63 – Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018)

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

an we leave it at that? [Editor: No.] Ok, well...the movie is a visually arresting, moody, evocative, quietly exhilarating, poetic-but-not-surreal dre...

Episode 62 – The Lighthouse (2019)

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til ye turn blue and bloated wit...

Episode 61 – The Chair (2021)

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

iven Joe's own experiences of late in English departments of higher education institutions. We found a lot to like and a lot to completely shit on. (P...

Episode 60 – Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

box, and in between includes sun-dried radishes, a shadow man in a basement, a high-speed chase through an apartment complex, and two murdered dogs. I...

Summer Break! / Culture Mixtape

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

we wanted to post a mini-episode to talk about a few cultural products we've been really into lately. Let us know about the things you've been enjoyi...

Episode 59 – Old (2021)

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We did something we haven't done in about fifteen years and watched an M. Night Shyamalan movie. Old follows a family on vacation at a posh tropical...

Episode 58 – The Green Knight (2021)

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"A Filmed Adaption of the Chivalric Romance by Anonymous," emblazoned across the screen in old-timey font, is how we're introduced to David Lowery's ...

Episode 57 – Space Jam: A New Legacy aka Two For Space Jam 2 Please

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The new Space Jam made us mad.

Episode 56 – The Atrocity Paradigm (2002)

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We decided to take a break from movies to talk about the heaviest of heavy subjects -- evil. Using Claudia Card's 2002 treatise, The Atrocity Paradig...

Episode 55 – Zola (2021)

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Ya'll want to hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out???????? It's kind of long but full of suspense." And so Zola begins. Bas...

Episode 54 – Reality Bites (1994)

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

eality fucking BITES. It did in 1994, and it does in 2021 (maybe? That's debatable). We took a stroll down memory lane to watch the definitive Gen X...

Episode 53 – Minari (2020)

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We drove an hour out of Buffalo to spend the weekend in Rochester. We walked, we ate, we gawked, we frolicked. We watched Minari, a tender portrait o...

Episode 52 – Norma Rae (1979)

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What if we all will have one moment in each of our lives that is the equivalent of Norma Rae standing on top of a table in the middle of a textile fac...

Episode 51 – Mare of Easttown (2021)

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Apparently on May 31, the evening of the final episode of Mare of Easttown, HBO Max’s servers crashed for several hours because the show’...

Episode 50 – Stowaway (2021)

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“The Cold Equations,” the 1954 science fiction story by Tom Godwin, was a genre-defining work that looked hard at the impersonal efficienc...

Episode 49 – Nomadland (2020)

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Minimalist chic, Instagrammable #vanlyfe, Nomadland is not. It’s also not a portrait of a struggling itinerant worker, or a larger story about...

Episode 48 – Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets And, Also, Some Bars We Remember

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets replicates the feeling of being in a crowded, boozy, pre-COVID dive bar so well that we were already dreading the next day...

Episode 47 – Godzilla vs. Kong

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was late and we were too tired to sleep so we watched Godzilla vs. Kong and it felt like walking into Earth’s hollow center where big thing...

Episode 46 – Good Time (2017)

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alternate, more accurate titles for Good Time: Extremely Stressful Time Nerve-Wracking Time On Edge Time Don’t-Watch-This-Alone Time Apparently...

Episode 45 – Caste (2020) (Book Club)

07 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We took a break from movies this week to discuss Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Rand...

Episode 44 – Malcolm & Marie (2021)

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Levinson’s 2021 Malcolm & Marie is a pandemic movie in that it’s about two people at home who fight, cry, and make mac & chees...

Episode 43 – Space Sweepers (2021)

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We were in the mood for something FUN for a change so we watched the 2021 Korean space action-adventure flick, Space Sweepers. It’s got sca...

Episode 42 – Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve been on a run of excellent movies and Harlan County, U.S.A. is no exception. This 1976 documentary about a yearlong strike of coal miner...

Episode 41 – Bacurau (2019)

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

All we have to say is WATCH THIS MOVIE! Actually, here’s a little more: Bacurau is one of the best movies we’ve seen in years. This 2019 ...

Episode 40 – First Cow (2019)

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow is a Western like no other, an immigrant story like no other, and a moving, funny, tragic tale of friendsh...

Episode 39 – They Live (1988)

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We took a sharp left turn and watched John Carpenter‘s 1988 action/sci-fi flick, They Live. The movie’s IMDB descripti...