The Fanboy and the Hater

Superman (2025)

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the 2025 live-action superhero movie Superman, written and directed by James Gunn as the first film in the rebooted DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
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Listen: Disclosure Day is a Terrible Movie

Mike and Jim discuss and debate (but mostly rant about) the 2026 science fiction film Disclosure Day. Despite being directed by Steven Spielberg and highlighted by the laudably fully committed acting of Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, and Eve Hewson, this was one of the most disappointing movies they have seen in a long time. 
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Spider-Noir

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the 2026 neo-noir superhero television series Spider-Noir based on the Marvel Comics character that most people know from the Spider-Man: Spider-Verse animated movies, including whether you should watch it in black-and-white or color, why the lead character is not named Peter Parker, the incredible cast lead by Nicolas Cage, why the detective story was better than the superhero story, and why, despite stumbling toward an underwhelming finale, it is an amazing (pun intended) and highly-recommended series.  
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Masters of the Universe

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the 2026 movie Masters of the Universe, the second live-action film adaptation of a Mattel toy line and animated television series from the 1980s, including their struggles with understanding who the intended audience is, its many shifting tones (serious, sentimental, silly, cartoon-ish, parody), and its occasionally too-adult humor, while also acknowledging its positives (visual effects, fight choreography) and the subtle changes that could have made the movie better. (Bonus feature: Mike performs the He-Man "I have the power!" shout, twice). 
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Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred (Video Game)

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the action role playing video game Diablo IV, which they both spend most of their gaming time playing. This episode focuses on its Lord of Hatred expansion that was released in late April 2026, which introduced a new campaign, two new character classes (Paladin and Warlock), an updated skill tree, a new talisman system for set items, a new Horadric Cube crafting system, and new war plans for endgame activities. 
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Diablo II: Resurrected (Video Game)

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the action role playing video game Diablo II: Resurrected, which is the 2021 remake of Diablo II (2000) and its expansion Lord of Destruction (2001) that they returned to recently because its February 2026 Reign of the Warlock expansion added the Warlock, the first new playable class in Diablo II in 25 years. 
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Mortal Kombat 2

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the 2026 movie Mortal Kombat 2, including a very brief overview of its video game and cinematic history, how it is an enjoyable improvement over the previous movie, some other successes but mostly failures of movie adaptations of video games, and how such adaptations should balance their movie and video game aspects.   
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Movie Previews Suck

Mike and Jim discuss and debate how much movie previews, in an understandable effort to peak your interest, often include too much detail, provide the entire narrative framework, speak many of its best lines, show many of its best scenes, and basically spoil it so much that it is not worth seeing the movie, which is fine if you were not planning to, but really annoying if you were looking forward to it.  
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Was Stranger Things Overrated?

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the Netflix television series Stranger Things, which concluded its 5-season, and nearly 10-year, run at the end of 2025. While they agree the phenomenal first season was why the show became a huge hit, they think the show become formulaic and repetitive as it progressed, had some weak storytelling arcs, and took some big narrative swings to conclude the series, ultimately leaving them wondering if it was overrated. 
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Project Hail Mary

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the 2026 movie Project Hail Mary, including how Mike almost fell asleep multiple times during it, Jim unnecessarily saw it in IMAX, Mike was disappointed by the limited actual science, Jim thought Grace should have died early and often, Mike was doing okay until Rocky showed up, Jim found the story to be formulaic and unsurprising, Mike believes all the hype is because people watched it emotionally instead of thoughtfully, and Jim explains (without having read it) the book was better than this solidly okay movie.
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Will the Force be with us?

On May the 4th, their first new episode in a long, long time, Mike and Jim discuss and debate the state of Star Wars screen canon (live-action and animated movies and television shows) related to the Force, including the transition from Lucas to Disney, Midi-chlorians, balancing the Force, the Mortis gods, Force Ghosts, and the Luke Skywalker problem with post-Return of the Jedi Force-related stories, as they ponder whether the Force will ever really be with us in Star Wars storytelling. 
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Mike and Jim discuss and debate the 2023 animated superhero film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. 
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Historical Reimaginings

Mike and Jim discuss and debate non-documentary movies and television shows that use fictionalized history in their storytelling, including possible historical events that could have inspired a myth or legend, exaggerated historical events for entertainment which could later become a myth or legend, and stories being told that are loosely based on historical events or time periods. 
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Precise Oaths (Book)

Jim is joined by special guest and author Paige E. Ewing to discuss her recently published book Precise Oaths. 
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Diablo (Video Game)

Mike, Jim, and returning guest host Brandon discuss the action role-playing video game series Diablo in the weeks and days leading up to the release of Diablo IV. 
The first part of this episode was recorded on the weekend of the final public beta for Diablo IV, and features Mike and Brandon playing the beta while discussing their history with the franchise, as gaming noob Jim asks basic questions about it.
The second part of this episode was recorded two weeks later (just a few days before the early release of Diablo IV) after Jim bought a PS5, borrowed Mike's copy of Diablo III and played it for 10 days. Here Mike goes into a little more detail about the franchise, compares and contrasts Diablo II and Diablo III, and helps Jim better understand what is coming in Diablo IV. 
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