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Brazil with Andy Nelson
Episode 120
Andy Nelson has been sitting on this one. He's been talking about movies on The Next Reel since 2011, and when Mandy asked him to come back and pick …
20 hours ago
Stargate with Jonny Lee Jr. • Ancient Aliens, but More Fun
Episode 119
Until this week, Mandy Kaplan did not know the word "Stargate" existed. Not the 1994 movie, not the ten seasons of television that followed, not the …
1 week ago
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Matthew Fox
Episode 118
The whole premise of Make Me a Nerd is that Mandy has never seen the thing. Matthew Fox arrives to honor the late Tim Curry with a movie he has atten…
2 weeks ago
Werecats and Beignets: Scooby Doo on Zombie Island with Journie Ma-Johnson
Episode 117
In 1998, Hanna-Barbera handed a direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie to a crew of veterans and then, by all accounts, forgot to supervise them. The crew …
3 weeks ago
Super Sentai: The Spandex Empire Behind Power Rangers with Omari Miller
Episode 116
Mandy spent her son's Mighty Morphin years with one nagging question: why are the Power Rangers wearing their helmets in every single fight? She neve…
4 weeks ago
What If There Were Too Many Dogs? The Andy Griffith Show with Breaking Mayberry
Episode 115
Marty Schneider and Dan Ludwig, hosts of the podcast Breaking Mayberry, explain that they once built two rating scales for The Andy Griffith Show: an…
1 month ago
Fackam Hall with Justine Huxley
Episode 114
The British period drama is a genre built on restraint. Longing glances across drawing rooms. Inheritance law. A great many people declining, for six…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Smell Test: Parasite with Sherry Mandujano
Episode 113
Three times in the theater. Twenty-odd more at home. Six years of having thoughts about Parasite, and roughly four minutes total in which anyone has …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Formula 1 with Pete Wright: Everybody Wants Kimi
Episode 112
Mandy Kaplan came to this with three episodes of Drive to Survive and one other piece of racing knowledge, which is that she can recite Talladega Nig…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Pushing Daisies with Jessica Jimenez: Mandy Would Like a Cheese Box
Episode 111
Mandy has a real, non-joking anxiety about death. You'd think that's the sort of thing a person would mention to a friend before that friend assigns …
2 months ago