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What better way to close out 2024 and welcome in 2025 than with a Season 2 Year In Review from your favorite podcast! Listen in as we think back on the films we viewed this past year, including the best, the worst, and the most surprising. We also find out where our dear listeners hail from and how our podcast audience is growing.
So put up your feet, pour some champagne, and let's toast to the close of a successful second season, as we boldly look forward, with some new ideas, to another year of the fantastical and exciting MRT podcast. And remember.... Chaos Reigns!

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Nothing says Christmas like serial killers! Karl closes out our “Within the Last Year” theme, our final theme of Season Two, with Longlegs, a film about an FBI agent who may be a smidge psychic and her investigation of the titular serial killer. We also discuss all things serial killer, including some notable ones in history, why the US leads the world in recorded serial killers, and why serial killers aren’t as prominent today as they have been in the past. Such a festive episode!

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This week, we continue our theme of “within the last (rolling) year” with 2023’s “Poor Things.” Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe, this movie certainly leaves an impression.
This is definitely our “MRT After Dark” episode as we discuss sex in film, public nudity and what not to watch with your parents. In the words of Dave Chapelle: Better not bring your kids!

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It's time for our last theme cycle of the year! Usually our themes are pretty broad and open to interpretation, allowing us to pick from the vast back-catalogue of movie history. For this round, we are restricting our picks to films released in the last year so we can all get a taste of modern cinema

Rising from the depths and bursting onto our screen this week is the 2023 film (it's a rolling 12 months...) Godzilla Minus One. Drawing heavily from the original 1954 film Gojira but not quite a remake or prequel, what we have here is a modern take on the monster movie that stays true to the earlier days with more focus on the human aspect and post-war Japan.

We also dive somewhat heavily into a discussion on modern cinema, a perceived decline in the industry, the horror renaissance, the diminishing power of the professional critic and our specific issues with modern film. There's also a top 10 fun facts about Godzilla so make sure to check that out.

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Karl closes out our “Memories From the Drive-In” theme by bringing the drive-in experience to the MRT studio! The MRT Crew reviews Drive-In Massacre, a 1976 film about two detectives investigating a series of sword murders at a local drive-in. We also discuss our favorite candy, and the most random things we’ve ever found where we least expected it. So come join us!*

*Theater management cannot be held responsible for the carnage and insanity this episode may cause.

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Greetings, my friends. Join us, won’t you, as we explore the strange and unusual life of filmmaker Ed Wood, in Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic of the same name. Starring Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Patricia Arquette, and Sarah Jessica Parker, this movie will take you into the weird world of Ed Wood during his “heyday” in the 1950s when he befriended aging actor Bela Lugosi and created some of the worst Z-movies known to man.
We also learn what a “Z-movie” is and explore what defines a cult classic. So grab your angora sweaters, ignore any and all criticisms (or even common sense and good taste) and listen in!

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Once upon a time the big screen wasn't just in a theater or in your living room but out under the wide open sky. Loading up the car, eating food, playing frisbee or baseball until the sun went down and everyone went back to their vehicles to watch whatever double feature was playing that night. These are memories from the drive-in and our theme for this round.

We delve into all things drive-in this episode and our feature this evening is The Blob, 1958's classic sci-fi horror starring Steve McQueen. Although not part of a double feature this time it still has all the campy appeal and a bit of nostalgia that brings us back to when the drive-in was the place to be for a date night or family outing.

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We close out our “Hugs & Kisses” theme with 1994’s Cemetery Man, starring Rupert Everett as a man who works in a cemetery in which the bodies rise from their graves within a week of being buried. It has been called “the finest erotic romantic existential black comedy zombie gorefest of our time” by Severin Films. What does it have to do with hugs and kisses? Give this week’s episode a listen to find out!

We also discuss whether we want to be buried when we die, Karl gives some burial statistics, we discuss some of our favorite zombie movies, and we talk about the difference between a remake and a re-adaptation.