Set in America just two years before The Civil War, Django Unchained starts with the titular slave Django (Jamie Foxx) being “bought” (through excessive violence and murder) by Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a former dentist turned bounty hunter who needs Django to identify a target from his former plantation. Following said bounty and a discussion about Django’s enslaved wife Broomhilda... 

We try a couple of new things this week, which leads to a few technological glitches and interruptions in the regular flow of the show. First, we try to call someone without testing things out, and secondly we take a few questions via Skype and Facebook. One works well, the other not so much. In the old days (when we had standards) Rafe might have let those technical gaffes bother him. Now he just... 

It feels like only yesterday that we moved out on our own, set up WidescreenWarrior.com, and shortly thereafter celebrated our 200th episode. Now it’s 100 episodes later… but the more things change, the more they stay the same. We deal with the technical troubles of adding a few more seats as we gather together the current iteration of the show along with the Queen of the Podcast to talk... 

In this comedic remake of the popular 1980s show of the same name, former high school nerd Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and former jock bully Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) have just graduated from the police academy and are prepared for badass excitement. Unfortunately, after a failed arrest attempt while on park duty, the two are assigned to an undercover job at the titular address where Captain Dickson... 

There’s a superstition in teaching about the effects of the full moon on students, and Rafe thinks that’s definitely something he saw this week, with the effects carrying into the show. The full staff of this episode talks about John Carter‘s loss to The Lorax at the box office, the surprisingly well-received upcoming 21 Jump Street, our early anticipation for The Hunger Games, and... 

Oh, Netflix. When will we finally have something good to say about you? It turns out, we have something good to say in this episode, although we have to get through the foolishness that is Reed Hastings before we get to it. We also offer up a review of Moneyball, discuss some favorite Emmy moments, talk a little bit about the new television season, and celebrate Jim Henson’s birthday. Wow –... 

There are two important pieces of context you need to know in order to understand my take on Moneyball. First, I am not a huge sports fan. Occasionally I pay attention to various sports, and when I do pay attention to baseball the Oakland Athletics, the team portrayed in Moneyball, are one of my favorite teams, but I’m what you would call a “dabbler” at best when it comes to sports. Secondly,... 

I’ve been holding off on watching the trailer for The Sitter. See, the advertising coming from the movie’s marketing team has branded the film as, “the filthiest R-Rated babysitting movie ever made.” That just doesn’t hold any appeal for me. I’m okay with a movie being R-rated, and I’m okay with a movie being filthy, but if that’s the film’s primary selling point then my expectation... 

This review requires a little bit of background. When How to Train Your Dragon came to theaters, I missed it. It wasn’t intentional – we did run a review by Nicole and I fully intended to see it in theaters after her high praise. As is usual, my schedule got out of hand and I missed it in theaters so I figured I would catch it when it came out on DVD and write up a DVD review of the movie.... 

The director of the Madagascar films, Tom McGrath, teams up with producer Ben Stiller and DreamWorks Animation – with Guillermo Del Toro as story consultant – to bring Megamind to the big screen. The animated superhero 3-D comedy features the voice talents of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, and Brad Pitt. The story, written by Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, follows...