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Michael May, Rob Graham, and Friends discuss TV, movies, comics, games, and anything else they happen to think of.

332 | Elf (2003) 12/20/2024

332 | Elf (2003) With this episode, all of the Sleigh Bell Cinema archives are now included in the After Lunch feed. Michael and his wife Diane talk about Jon Favreau's hilarious and heart-warming modern classic, Elf starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, and Zooey Deschanel. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34544210

331 | Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) 12/19/2024

331 | Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) In this penultimate rerun of old Sleigh Bell Cinema episodes, Michael talks with Jeff Somogyi about the hilarious and underrated Ernest Saves Christmas. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34527730

330 | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) 12/18/2024

330 | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) In the second of this week's Sleigh Bell Cinema reruns, Michael and Dan Taylor talk about killer robots, polar bears, and Martian uprisings in Nicholas Webster's notorious Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34495205

329 | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 12/17/2024

329 | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) In this rerun from Michael's old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast, he talks with Mike Westfall about the 1947 classic Miracle on 34th Street starring Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, and Natalie Wood. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34477220

328 | The Curse of the Cat People (1944) 12/16/2024

328 | The Curse of the Cat People (1944) Michael and Rob welcome back Jacob Bean-Watson to discuss what's either a tangential Christmas movie or a Christmas ghost story, depending on your point of view. It's The Curse of the Cat People, Val Lewton's controversial follow-up to his noir horror film Cat People from a couple of years earlier. Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, and Elizabeth Russell return from the earlier movie, joined this time by child actor Ann Carter, Lewton-favorite Sir Lancelot, and Julia Dean. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34452910

327 | Office Christmas Party (2016) 12/09/2024

327 | Office Christmas Party (2016) Michael and Rob welcome David May back to the show to discuss this year's Holiday Spirit movie. For us, Holiday Spirit films are undeniably about Christmas, but without any fantastical or magical elements. And this one is Office Christmas Party starring Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, TJ Miller, Jennifer Aniston, and Kate McKinnon, while also featuring Courtney B Vance, Rob Corddry, Randall Park, Sam Richardson, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Jillian Bell, Vanessa Bayer, Karan Soni, and Jamie Chung. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34339635

326 | A Christmas Carol (1951) 12/02/2024

326 | A Christmas Carol (1951) In accordance with tradition, Mike Westfall from returns to help Michael and Rob kick off the Christmas season right with another Christmas Carol adaptation. This year, we're watching the classic 1951 version (titled Scrooge in the original British) starring Alastair Sim. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34212855

325 | After Dinner Lounge – Why Does After Lunch Hate America? 11/29/2024

325 | After Dinner Lounge – Why Does After Lunch Hate America? Rob, Michael, and Pax finish up this month's lounge talking about Agatha All Along, Seasons 4 and 5 of Fargo, lots of podcasts, a game in which Rob has Pax and Michael create new MCU characters, Tears for Fears' new concert film, and much much more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34129801

324 | After Dinner Lounge – Do Not Open. Ever. 11/25/2024

324 | After Dinner Lounge – Do Not Open. Ever. In the first half of this month's lounge, Rob, Michael, and Pax talk about movies for Native American Heritage Month, recent movies Heretic and Woman of the Hour, books like The Daughters of Block Island by Christa Carmen, What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher, The Devil You Know by KJ Parker, and ever so much more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/34121611

323 | Ultimate TV Themes Sweet 16 11/18/2024

323 | Ultimate TV Themes Sweet 16 After a few episodes determining the best TV themes from various genres, Michael and Rob are joined by Jacob and KC from to discuss the top four from each category and decide which is the Ultimate TV Theme Song of All Time. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33958187

322 | Fast & Furious (2009) 11/15/2024

322 | Fast & Furious (2009) Michael, Rob, and Pax watch the fourth Fast and Furious movie. It's a prequel to the third one, but it also starts putting the disparate first three movies together to move the series towards what it's going to become. It's crazy, it's exciting, but is it good? And what about its own prequel, Los Bandoleros, directed and co-written by Vin Diesel? /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33909297

321 | Die Another Day (2002) 11/11/2024

321 | Die Another Day (2002) Michael, Rob, and Karen finish the Brosnan Bond films with the most hated Bond film of them all. Or is it? It's Die Another Day co-starring Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens, a ton of references to earlier Bond films, and that song by Madonna. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33862672

320 | After Midnight – Vampire Movies 11/08/2024

320 | After Midnight – Vampire Movies Michael and Jess talk about a couple of vampire movies from Mike Mignola's list of favorite horror movies. After revisiting The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), which we'd both previously seen and disliked, we try Neil Jordan's Byzantium (2012), starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton, to see if we like it any better. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33766712

319 | After Dinner Lounge – The Title is a Warning 11/04/2024

319 | After Dinner Lounge – The Title is a Warning Pax, Rob, and Michael finish this month's lounge talking about Scream: The TV Series, Universal’s Dracula and Frankenstein movies, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, Friday the 13th with Gourley And Rust, The Witch (2015), Salem's Lot (2024), and more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33758567

318 | After Dinner Lounge – Do You Use Collapachop? 10/28/2024

318 | After Dinner Lounge – Do You Use Collapachop? Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about haunted apartments, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, layoffs, Holmes/Poirot, taking breaks from comics, Lone Women by Victor LaValle, Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson, and cetera. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33626202

317 | Witches Spooky 16 10/21/2024

317 | Witches Spooky 16 Michael and Rob welcome back Joanna from Bloody Popcorn and Becky Tyler to talk about our favorite pop culture witches. And of course also to put them into brackets and vote on them until we decide on the ultimate witch of all time. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33542717

316 | After Midnight – Ghost Stories 2 10/18/2024

316 | After Midnight – Ghost Stories 2 Michael and Jess continue watching Mike Mignola's 20 Horror Movies That He Can't Live Without. This time it's all ghost stories with The Innocents (1961), The Haunting (1963), and The Others (2001). If you especially like movies about ghosts, this makes a phantasmic follow up to Episode 286 where Michael, Jess, and their friend Darla discussed three other ghost movies: Poltergeist (1982), The Orphanage (2007), and The Woman in Black (2012). /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33495907

315 | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) 10/14/2024

315 | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) Michael, Rob, and Pax continue drifting the Fast and the Furious drift with the third drift: Tokyo Drift. It's time to drift goodbye to Brian and drift hello with Sean, Han, and Twinkie. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33432752

314 | The World Is Not Enough (1999) 10/07/2024

314 | The World Is Not Enough (1999) After a fun exercise in which they create their own one-off Bond films, Michael, Rob, and Karen discuss the tone, the villains, and the Christmas Jones of Pierce Brosnan's third Bond film (and Desmond Llewelyn's last), The World Is Not Enough. Also starring Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, and Robert Carlyle, and directed by Michael Apted. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33342952

313 | After Dinner Lounge – Khan-text 10/04/2024

313 | After Dinner Lounge – Khan-text Michael, Rob, and Pax talk about the Scream movies, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Agatha All Along, Sherlock Holmes live theater, Alien: Romulus, relistening to yourself on podcasts, Yellowjackets, Omen movies, and more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33254137

312 | After Dinner Lounge – Cool Jerk 09/30/2024

312 | After Dinner Lounge – Cool Jerk Michael, Rob, and Pax talk about rescuing princesses, refrigerator delivery, Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey, comfort media, Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout, Pax's revisiting early Nerd Lunch, Kill Creek by Scott Thomas, and so much more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33246192

311 | Drama and Miscellaneous TV Themes Sweet 16 09/23/2024

311 | Drama and Miscellaneous TV Themes Sweet 16 Michael and Rob welcome back Carlin Trammel from last week and also John Vanover to nominate and vote on TV themes from dramas or any other genres that didn't fall into one of the previous categories we've covered. It's an especially eclectic hodge podge of musical styles this episode (making it particularly difficult to vote) in our road to determine the greatest TV theme song of all time. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33153912

310 | Action and Mystery TV Themes Sweet 16 09/16/2024

310 | Action and Mystery TV Themes Sweet 16 These TV themes Sweet 16s aren't getting any easier. This time, Michael and Rob are joined by Paxton Holley and Carlin Trammel to agonize over, nominate, and vote on our favorite opening themes from action and mystery shows. It may be an impossible mission, but we'll open a bottle of magnum and try to become the greatest American heroes as we reveal the unsolved mystery of the best action/mystery theme ever. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/33054997

309 | Rod La Rocque as The Shadow 09/13/2024

309 | Rod La Rocque as The Shadow Michael and Rob travel back to the late 1930s for the first screen adaptations of the pulp hero The Shadow. The Shadow Strikes (1937) and International Crime (1938) both star Rod La Rocque as the Shadow, or at least Lamont Cranston. Or Granston. We'll get into it. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/32966927

308 | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) 09/09/2024

308 | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) After largely agreeing about GoldenEye, Michael, Rob, and Karen are divided once again. We differ about the enjoyability of Tomorrow Never Dies, Pierce Brosnan's second turn as James Bond with Jonathan Pryce as an over-the-top villain, Michelle Yeoh as a butt-kicking rival agent, Teri Hatcher as the never-before-revealed love of Bond's life, and a heart-breaking tale of two theme songs. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/32957607

307 | After Dinner Lounge – Doctor Octavian 09/06/2024

307 | After Dinner Lounge – Doctor Octavian Michael, Rob, and Pax stay up late talking about The Alienist, Avenue 5, Presumed Innocent, Sugar, The Six Million Dollar Man, Batman: Caped Crusader, Cleopatra movies, The Cat from Outer Space, Zardoz, Murder on the Orient Express movies, the Time Bandits TV series, Mayor of Kingstown, Deadpool & Wolverine, Knox Goes Away, Under Paris, generation gaps, The Man from Atlantis, Sealab 2020, Borderlands, Jackpot!, Guitar Hero, and more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/32857147

306 | After Dinner Lounge – Relax Your Eyes 09/02/2024

306 | After Dinner Lounge – Relax Your Eyes After a quick conversation with Evan about ancient history, Michael, Rob, and Pax discuss Jedi gloves, Tomb Raider, Star Trek video games, salsa, Masterpiece by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, DC's Dark Knights of Steel event, a Ghostbusters oral history, Starter Villain by John Scalzi, Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak, Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ensign Flandry by Poul Anderson, The Space Between by Corinna Bechko and Danny Luckert, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, when to quit a book or TV series, and more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/32847792

305 | After Midnight – Black Sunday and The Witch 08/26/2024

305 | After Midnight – Black Sunday and The Witch Michael and Jess talk about a couple of Mike Mignola's favorite movies about witches: Black Sunday (1960) and The Witch (2015). Plus Spirit Halloween, Maxine Minx, remakes, and strangely enough: Tarzan. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/32726662

304 | Jetpack Tiger – A Rebuttal of Animation as a TV Themes Category 08/23/2024

304 | Jetpack Tiger – A Rebuttal of Animation as a TV Themes Category The Return of Jetpack Tiger! In response to our episode on the Cartoons and Kids TV Show Themes Sweet 16, Dashiell and Carlin Trammel critique the decision to include the medium of animation as a separate category that competes with live action genres like sitcoms and action shows. Should animated shows be included with live action shows of similar genres? /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/32650207

303 | Cartoons and Kids TV Show Themes Sweet 16 08/19/2024

303 | Cartoons and Kids TV Show Themes Sweet 16 Michael and Rob welcome Ben Graham, Kay, and Pax to talk about the greatest cartoon and kids show theme songs of all time. Only sixteen tunes can go in the brackets, but there are honorable mentions galore. Even so, we've undoubtedly left out some great ones, so let us know your favorites! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/32623197

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