After Lunch

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

416 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) 02/09/2026

416 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Michael, Rob, Pax, and Jacob gather one more time in Dartmoor to discuss the first Basil Rathbone Holmes film: 20th Century Fox's The Hound of the Baskervilles. Last month we talked about the Hammer version from 1959, so we do some compare/contrast to that as well as the Conan Doyle novel. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40030140

415 | After Dinner Lounge – Snowing the Blow 02/02/2026

415 | After Dinner Lounge – Snowing the Blow In the second half of this month's Lounge, Pax, Rob, and Michael discuss Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Rob and the Ramblin’ Man, our reading origin stories, our Star Wars homeworlds, and Ella McCay. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39946200

414 | After Dinner Lounge – Yeah It’s Not Scary Bro 01/26/2026

414 | After Dinner Lounge – Yeah It’s Not Scary Bro Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about a lot of things in this first half of this month's lounge: The Rise of Skywalker, Wonder Woman on TV and in comics, Stranger Things Season 5, Stephen King and Maurice Sendak’s Hansel and Gretel, and Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, for example. We also talk about our good friend (and frequent podcast guest) William Bruce West, who - we learned the day after recording this - recently suffered a stroke and is currently in the hospital. We hope and pray that he’s going to be okay, but in the meantime, there’s in progress for Will and his family as they start to navigate the uncertainty of what lies ahead for them. We hope that you'll consider donating. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39863835

413 | After Midnight – Carrie 01/23/2026

413 | After Midnight – Carrie Starting a new project for the new year where we read 12 Stephen King novels, Michael and Jess talk about all things Carrie. And not just the book, but also all the movies, and even the musical. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39774815

412 | Nerdstradamus 2026 01/19/2026

412 | Nerdstradamus 2026 Michael is joined by Pax, Kay, and Robert Zerbe to look back on the art and pop culture of 2025 and also to peek ahead at what's coming in 2026. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39770160

411 | The Fate of the Furious (2017) 01/12/2026

411 | The Fate of the Furious (2017) Michael, Rob, and Pax embrace their f8 as they talk about The Fate of the Furious, the first post-Brian movie in the series and the beginning of #JusticeForHan. Can we forgive Deckard Shaw for his crimes? And if we do, can we forgive ourselves? /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39684180

410 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) 01/09/2026

410 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) While Pax remains in London to close a different case, Jacob, Michael, and Rob hit the moor to talk about the Hammer adaptation of Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, André Morell as Watson, and Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39608055

409 | After Midnight – Courtney Crumrin & From Hell 01/05/2026

409 | After Midnight – Courtney Crumrin & From Hell Michael and Jess talk about the horror! We start with a little on The Menu and A Ghost Story for Christmas, then a little more on Ted Naifeh's first Courtney Crumrin volume, The Night Things, and then a lot on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell and Jack the Ripper in general. That finishes our 2025 of horror comics, so we also talk about our focus for 2026. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39600030

408 | After Dinner Lounge – Rise of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 12/29/2025

408 | After Dinner Lounge – Rise of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Better late than never, but Michael, Pax, and Rob finally complete last month's lounge with conversation about Christmas podcasts, werewolf movies, Universal Monsters comics, Hamnet, an update on Pax’s Young Guns signatures, and movies we’ve never seen on the big screen, but want to. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39543920

407 | This Christmas (2007) 12/22/2025

407 | This Christmas (2007) Merry Christmas, everyone! Preston A Whitmore II's This Christmas may not be a super popular holiday movie, but Michael thinks it's underrated and under-discussed, so he's invited William Bruce West and David May to watch and talk about it. The movie stars Loretta Devine, Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba, Regina King, Keith D Robinson, Mekhi Phifer, and others as members of a family coming together for the holidays after a few years apart and everyone has secrets. Shhh! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39488120

406 | The Christmas Special Multiverse 12/15/2025

406 | The Christmas Special Multiverse Michael and Rob welcome Sue London and Michael DiGiovanni to come help build a cinematic multiverse out of our favorite Christmas specials. We've assigned each other a couple of specials each to crossover, then once we've revealed our mashups, we work together to create an Avengers-style feature combining all eight of the original ideas. It's nice, it's occasionally naughty, but most of all it's fun. Merry Christmas! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39404005

405 | Shower of Stars: A Christmas Carol (1954) 12/08/2025

405 | Shower of Stars: A Christmas Carol (1954) In the first part of a sort of crossover with the podcast, Mike Westfall joins Michael and Rob to talk about an unusual version of A Christmas Carol. From CBS's 1954 anthology variety show, Shower of Stars, it features Fredric March as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Marley, and bunch of questionable songs. And be sure to tune in next Sunday to for Part Two in which Michael and Rob will join Mike to discuss another musical Christmas Carol, 2004's A Christmas Carol: The Musical starring Kelsey Grammer, Jason Alexander, Jane Krakowski, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jesse L Martin, and Geraldine Chaplin. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39309275

404 | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 12/01/2025

404 | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Michael and Rob invite Jody Collins and Jacob Bean-Watson over to put up the Christmas decorations and talk about the Ernst Lubitsch classic, The Shop Around the Corner. The movie stars Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan. And it was of course the inspiration for You've Got Mail. We talk about all of those people and the other characters, as well as the remakes and just how much of a Christmas movie it even is. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39206430

403 | After Midnight – Hellboy & Nocturnals 11/28/2025

403 | After Midnight – Hellboy & Nocturnals Michael and Jess talk about lots of horror stuff including A Ghost Story for Christmas, Lost Boys, Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics, and Dan Brereton's Nocturnals. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39142715

402 | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) 11/24/2025

402 | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) Our Sherlock Holmes panel reconvenes as Pax, Jacob, Michael, and Rob talk about the Spielberg-produced '80s favorite (and self-admittedly non-canonical), Young Sherlock Holmes. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39136005

401 | After Dinner Lounge – Take Your Bologna and Shut Up! 11/21/2025

401 | After Dinner Lounge – Take Your Bologna and Shut Up! Michael, Pax, and Rob talk about lots of stuff including Silver Age Wonder Girl, Man-Wolf, Hell House by Richard Matheson, three Shirley Jackson novels, podcast apps, and Predator: Badlands. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39054470

400 | Unfinished Business 11/17/2025

400 | Unfinished Business To celebrate the 400th episode of After Lunch (give or take), Michael welcomes back the original Nerd Lunch crew - CT, Jeeg, and Pax - to wrap up some unfinished business from the Nerd Lunch days. In June 2019, Jeeg led the gang, including Michael in the Fourth Chair, in an Overs/Unders exercise to predict what might happen in the proposed Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum. Of course, we never got that movie. Or... we didn't until Deadpool & Wolverine came out last year. It's finally time to tally up the scores and see who is the Best Channing Tatum Gambit Movie Predictor of All Time. And stay tuned to the end for a rerun of the original episode in which we made our predictions. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39047320

399 | The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943) 11/10/2025

399 | The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943) Michael, Rob, and Pax continue their occasional look at pulp and superhero serials with The Adventures of Smilin' Jack. It's one of Michael's favorites, but will Rob and Pax feel the same way? Starring Tom Brown, Keye Luke, and Rose Hobart. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38963690

398 | Spaceships Sweet 16 11/03/2025

398 | Spaceships Sweet 16 Michael and Rob are joined by Ben Graham and new guest Nick Casbarro to talk about Nick's novel, , and then to determine the greatest spaceship of all time. And of course we determine that the only way we know how: by listing 16 of our favorites, putting them into tournament brackets, and voting on them until only one remains. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38875165

397 | Halloween Spook-a-Lympics 10/31/2025

397 | Halloween Spook-a-Lympics Michael and Rob are joined by Joanna from Bloody Popcorn and Shawn Robare to create teams of horror-themed athletes and terrifying events for them to compete in. Who will win the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals? The Hex Pistols? Scare-istocracy? The Grisly Grahams? The Hellboy Hooies? Pick your favorite team and root them on! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38855605

396 | After Dinner Lounge – Do You Think They’re Cool Hip People? 10/27/2025

396 | After Dinner Lounge – Do You Think They’re Cool Hip People? Rob, Michael, and Pax finish up this month's Lounge talking about The Oracle Year by Charles Soule, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Superman comics, Batman: Resurrection by John Jackson Miller, Zach Cregger's Weapons, KPop Demon Hunters, and more! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38780255

395 | Predator (1987) 10/23/2025

395 | Predator (1987) Michael, Rob, and Pax continue their occasional series covering the Predator movies by talking about the original film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, and the introduction of one of the coolest-looking monsters in cinema history. And stay tuned after our conversation for a special rerun of Pax's by Paul Monette. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38639895

394 | After Dinner Lounge – Caw! 10/20/2025

394 | After Dinner Lounge – Caw! It's Lounging Time again as Rob, Michael, and Pax talk about whatever's on their mind, including French Silk pie, Wonder Woman's daughter, and different ways to use the Pop Culture Eraser. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38631760

393 | After Midnight – Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars & 30 Days of Night 10/17/2025

393 | After Midnight – Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars & 30 Days of Night Michael and Jess talk about Halloween and other spooky things, including the comics Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars and 30 Days of Night. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38556065

392 | Murder by Decree (1979) 10/13/2025

392 | Murder by Decree (1979) Rob, Pax, Jacob, and Michael reconvene our Sherlock Holmes panel to talk about lots of Holmes stuff, including Murder by Decree starring Christopher Plummer and James Mason as Holmes and Watson on the trail of Jack the Ripper. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38550820

391 | Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) 10/06/2025

391 | Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) Michael, Rob, and Pax go back into the Fast and Furious timeline to watch Better Luck Tomorrow, an early Justin Lin film that both he and actor Sung Kang have retroactively declared to be the first appearance of Han from the Fast and Furious series. It's a crime movie, it's a high school movie... it's a Fast and Furious movie? We talk about how well it works in all three of those categories. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38466565

390 | Who Would Win? with Tyler Mane 10/03/2025

390 | Who Would Win? with Tyler Mane Michael, Rob, and Pax welcome very special guest, Tyler Mane (X-Men, Rob Zombie's Halloween) to resurrect an old topic from After Lunch's early days. We each nominate fighters, locations, and complications and discuss Who Would Win? Of course Sabretooth vs Michael Myers comes up, but there are many more epic battles to talk about and argue over. Be sure to check out Tyler's new graphic novel, , co-written with Christopher Priest. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38436315

389 | Fixing Kolchak: The Night Stalker 09/29/2025

389 | Fixing Kolchak: The Night Stalker Kolchak: The Night Stalker started as a couple of TV movies, but when it became a TV series it struggled and only lasted 20 episodes, finally becoming a cult classic thanks to late night reruns. Michael, Rob, and guests DeAndre and Sophie discuss how they would tweak the series to be even better than it was. And also about what they love and wouldn't want to change. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38377840

388 | After Midnight – Heathentown & Plunge 09/26/2025

388 | After Midnight – Heathentown & Plunge This is the part of the show where Michael and Jess talk about horror, including this month the graphic novels Heathentown by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman and Plunge by Joe Hill and Stuart Immonen. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38299545

387 | Sherlock Holmes (1922) 09/22/2025

387 | Sherlock Holmes (1922) For this month's Sherlock Holmes movie, Michael, Rob, Pax, and Jacob go way back to the silent era for Sherlock Holmes starring John Barrymore as Holmes, Roland Young as Watson, and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty. It's also William Powell's first movie and features Reginald Denny in a small, but important role. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38292330

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