Fear And Loathing In Cinema
This week, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta willingly wander into M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, which is a film so catastrophically misguided it briefly
July 7, 2026
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This week, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta willingly wander into M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, which is a film so catastrophically misguided it briefly
Whether you admire him, dislike him, or have long since made up your mind about the man himself, Ridiculous offers one conclusion that feels difficult
On Episode #195 of My Bloody Podcast, Bryan Kluger and Preston Barta return to this glorious blood-soaked relic to celebrate its nightmare-fuel vampire creatures, marvel
Fortunately for Hinchcliffe, no comedian gets more opportunities to refine his craft than someone who performs every single week before an audience that refuses to
On the latest episode of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, Bryan, Dan, and Preston do what every middle-aged movie podcaster eventually must do. They stare
There are movies people revisit because they reveal something new with age. There’s The Godfather. There’s Casablanca. Of course, there is There Will Be Blood.
What does it actually mean to be a film critic anymore? Not a content creator. Not a personality. And not someone who points a phone
On Episode #162 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, Bryan, Dan, and Chelsea strap themselves to the wings of the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot and
This week, for Episode #193, Bryan Kluger, Preston Barta, and Chelsea Nicole point their flashlights skyward toward Steven Spielberg’s 2005 alien panic attack, War of
On Episode #162 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema, Bryan, Dan, Preston, and Chelsea crack their eyelids open for Wide Awake, the charmingly odd little
Whatever the reason, What’s the Story, Wishbone? functions as both a celebration and a time machine. It reminds us of afternoons spent sprawled on living-room
Those ideas may sound quaint in 2026, which is precisely why they feel revolutionary. We live in an age addicted to cynicism. Catastrophe has become
For Episode #192, however, something unusual happens. They hated the movie.
Not in the performative internet sense, where outrage is monetized, and every disappointment is
And somewhere in the space between a science-fiction comedy and a Greek tragedy disguised as a cartoon, Futurama accomplished something extraordinary. It told a story
The Six Feet Under finale understands a truth that television rarely captures. It’s that every goodbye is really a thank-you. The Fishers gave us five
Naturally, Bryan, Preston, Dan, and Chelsea tackle the questions that Nolan either intentionally raised or accidentally unleashed upon humanity. What does Tenet actually mean? Why
When the credits rolled, I felt the same exhilaration I used to feel leaving action movies as a teenager. I was slightly exhausted, mildly deaf,
Because beneath the jokes, the catchphrases, the dance moves, and the brightly colored 1990s wardrobe, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air briefly transformed into something far
For Episode #191, Bryan and Preston sink their teeth into the glorious 2002 relic Queen of the Damned, the film that gave us Aaliyah as
And then came “Through the Looking Glass,” which is still one of television’s most devastating season finales. It’s a title borrowed from Through the Looking-Glass
In Episode #190, the pair descend into the deeply perspiring nightmare of Magic from 1978, a film in which Anthony Hopkins gives one of the
I still miss Eddie Guerrero, which is a ridiculous sentence in some ways because I never knew him. Most of us didn’t. But that is
The series often insisted that “all men must die,” but Hodor’s death carried an additional implication in that some people spend their entire lives unknowingly
On Episode #160 of the Fear and Loathing in Cinema podcast, Bryan, Preston, and Dan descend into the beautiful chaos of Reagan-era action mythology, unpacking
There is something almost spiritual about the way American men talk about ’80s action movies. If you mention Top Gun or Predator at a barbecue
That is what makes it so devastating. Homer Simpson, the patron saint of incompetence, gluttony, and half-baked schemes, finally experiences, for one silent minute, a
Which, in retrospect, makes the episode feel almost unbearably hopeful. Not because it insists humanity always wins out, but because it suggests humanity survives at
Episode #159 of Fear and Loathing in Cinema finds Bryan, Chelsea, Dan, and Preston wandering deep into the crimson sands of John Carter, Disney’s enormously
Watching Is God Is feels like being promised a handmade meal by a celebrated chef and instead receiving an expired Lunchable thrown directly at your
What made M*A*S*Hso extraordinary was its willingness to let comedy and tragedy occupy the same cramped tent together. One minute, somebody was wearing a dress
