Kevin Coughlin

EARLY ACCESS ~ CANNONBALL 2 (YT EDIT)

Cannonball Run II (1984) is somehow even dumber, louder, and more gloriously unhinged than the first one — and here’s the shocker: we loved it even more. Neither of us had seen it before, and going in blind made the experience feel like discovering a secret stash of 80s chaos we didn’t know we needed.

If the first Cannonball Run fe...

EARLY ACCESS ~ STRANGER THINGS S5E7

Episode 7 is the season’s most deliberate episode, and depending on what you want out of your penultimate chapter, that’s either a strength or the exact thing that’s going to irritate you. This is not a fireworks episode. This is a reckoning episode — characters finally stopping long enough to say the things they’ve been circling for years, even though the cl...

EARLY ACCESS ~ S5E6 STRANGER THINGS

The military threat finally feels real here, not just looming. The show leans into the procedural side of it — coordination, deployment, strategy — and while that grounds the danger, it also occasionally clashes with the more intimate Hawkins storytelling. You can feel the show straining a bit to balance “small-town supernatural horror” with “government-scale response.”

Hopper...

CHRISTMAS VACATION ~ REWATCHALONG!

🎄 A Little Christmas Note 🎄
This episode is free for everyone, because Christmas is about sharing the fun.
Whether you’re watching with family, hiding from family, or just killing time with us — we hope it brings you a few laughs.
From all of us here, Merry Christmas, and thanks for hanging out with our weird little corner of...

Hey everyone — we wanted to share a quick and heartfelt update.

Hey everyone — we wanted to share a quick and heartfelt update.

Unfortunately, Tara’s stepdad Chip passed away today. After a long and difficult stretch, the family had to make the decision to remove him from life support, as there was nothing more that could be done. It’s been an incredibly heavy time, made even harder by the fact that this is all happening on Christmas Eve — a h...

EARLY ACCESS ~ THE CANNONBALL RUN (YT EDIT)

The Cannonball Run is not a movie so much as a cocaine-fueled celebrity road trip that accidentally got cameras pointed at it—and that’s exactly why it rules. There is no plot to speak of, no character arcs, and absolutely zero concern for things like logic or restraint. It’s just a parade of movie stars, race cars, bad accents, worse disguises, and jokes that land about ...

PRICES ARE GOING UP

Hey friends ❤️

We wanted to give you a heads up before the new year about a small change coming to our Patreon pricing.

Starting in the new year:

• $1 tier → $3

• $5 tier → $7

• $20 tier → stays exactly the same

No bait-and-switch, no funny business —...

EARLY ACCESS ~ STRANGER THINGS S5E4

Episode 4 is where the season stops circling its ideas and just detonates them. This is the episode that makes it clear the endgame isn’t about Eleven vs. Vecna anymore—it’s about control, vessels, and who the Upside Down was really grooming all along.

The military base infiltration immediately shifts the tone. Eleven and Hopper breaking into the hidden lab isn’t...

EARLY ACCESS ~ STRANGER THINGS S5E3

Stranger Things – Season 5, Episode 3

Episode 3 is where Season 5 finally stops feeling like it’s arranging chess pieces and starts actually playing the game. The episode leans into atmosphere and character tension more than spectacle, and that’s a smart move. The Upside Down feels less like a monster-of-the-week threat and more like a pressure system slowl...

STRANGER THINGS SEASON 5 EPISODES 3&4 FULL WATCHALONG

Watching Episodes 3 and 4 back to back is where Season 5 really clicks into place. This is the stretch where the show stops setting the table and starts serving food. The mythology tightens, the character arcs deepen, and the sense that this thing is barreling toward an ending—one that’s going to hurt—becomes impossible to ignore.

Episode 3 leans heavily into momentum. The ...

STRANGER THINGS S5E2 YT EDIT

Episode 2 keeps the momentum going, but it also shows some of the seams a bit more than Episode 1. The emotional groundwork is still strong—this season clearly wants to pay off character arcs instead of just throwing monsters at the screen—but you can feel the writers juggling a lot of threads. Sometimes it works beautifully… sometimes it feels like they’re checking boxes to se...

EARLY ACCESS ~ THE REF (YT EDIT)

The Ref (1994) is one of the great underappreciated holiday-black-comedy gems—mean, sharp, fast, and way funnier than it has any right to be. It’s basically Home Alone for adults if the Wet Bandit was Denis Leary and the McCallisters were a married couple on the brink of total psychological collapse.

Leary plays Gus, a cat burglar who takes a...

FULL WATCHALONG ~ THE REF

The Ref (1994) is one of the great underappreciated holiday-black-comedy gems—mean, sharp, fast, and way funnier than it has any right to be. It’s basically Home Alone for adults if the Wet Bandit was Denis Leary and the McCallisters were a married couple on the brink of total psychological collapse.

Leary plays Gus, a cat burglar who takes a...

FULL WATCHALONG ~ STRANGER THINGS S5E2

Episode 2 keeps the momentum going, but it also shows some of the seams a bit more than Episode 1. The emotional groundwork is still strong—this season clearly wants to pay off character arcs instead of just throwing monsters at the screen—but you can feel the writers juggling a lot of threads. Sometimes it works beautifully… sometimes it feels like they’re checking boxes to se...

EARLY ACCESS ~ STRANGER THINGS S5E1

Right out of the gate, the episode makes it clear: this is not the “kids on bikes” era anymore. Everyone’s older, angrier, and walking around with the weight of Vecna’s cliffhanger still chewing at them. The emotional hangover from Season 4 is everywhere—especially with Eleven and Will. And speaking of Will… yes, they’re finally letting him talk like a human being with in...

EARLY ACCESS ~ JINGLE ALL THE WAY (YT EDIT)

Jingle All the Way (1996) is the cinematic equivalent of holiday shopping on December 24th—loud, frantic, mildly traumatic, and somehow still fun if you’re in the right headspace. Kevin is firmly in the “so bad it’s good” camp with this one, and honestly? That’s the correct way to watch it. Tara enjoyed it, but let’s be real—this is not cracking her top...

FULL WATCHALONG ~ STRANGER THINGS S5E1

Season 5 kicks off like the Duffers grabbed every dial on the control board and slammed them all the way to MAX, because Episode 1 wastes zero time reminding you why this show took over the world in the first place. It’s darker, bigger, and somehow way more emotional—like every character has been carrying four seasons of trauma and we’re finally watching the dam ...

FULL WATCHALONG ~ JINGLE ALL THE WAY

Jingle All the Way (1996) is the cinematic equivalent of holiday shopping on December 24th—loud, frantic, mildly traumatic, and somehow still fun if you’re in the right headspace. Kevin is firmly in the “so bad it’s good” camp with this one, and honestly? That’s the correct way to watch it. Tara enjoyed it, but let’s be real—this is not cracking her top...

EARLY ACCESS ~ HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

**Hot Tub Time Machine** (2010) is the dumb-smart, raunchy-ridiculous comedy that absolutely should not work as well as it does—but somehow nails that perfect blend of nostalgia, chaos, and “are we really doing this?” energy. It’s a movie that knows exactly how stupid its premise is (a magical hot tub powered by Russian energy drink accidentally sends four idiots back to 1986) and just ...

FULL WATCHALONG ~ HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) is the dumb-smart, raunchy-ridiculous comedy that absolutely should not work as well as it does—but somehow nails that perfect blend of nostalgia, chaos, and “are we really doing this?” energy. It’s a movie that knows exactly how stupid its premise is (a magical hot tub powered by Russian energy drink accidentally sends four idiots back to 19...

🦃 HAPPY (ALMOST) TURKEY DAY, TEAM TARA! 🦃

Just wanted to take a second and thank every single one of our amazing Patrons for being here with us, supporting the chaos, the laughs, the screams, and the “Tara hasn’t seen WHAT?!” journey we’re all on together.

You all are the reason we get to keep making this goofy, heartfelt little show every week. Whether you’ve been here from the beginning or jumped in recently, we appre...

EARLY ACCESS ~ GRUMPIER OLD MEN

Grumpier Old Men (1995) takes everything great about the first film—Lemmon, Matthau, insults sharp enough to draw blood—and cranks it up with even more absurdity and a little Mediterranean spice courtesy of Sophia Loren. If Grumpy Old Men was about two cranky neighbors feuding over ice-fishing and pride, the sequel is about two cranky neighbors rea...

EARLY ACCESS ~ ROAD HOUSE

Road House (1989) is already a fever dream of mullets, bar fights, philosophy, and denim-clad violence—but our episode for it might be the most ADHD thing we’ve ever put on the channel. And honestly? If you’re here for us, you’re gonna love every chaotic second. If you’re here for a calm, structured film analysis… uh… sorry in advance. 2025-11-17 18:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post

FULL WATCHALONG ~ GRUMPIER OLD MEN

Grumpier Old Men (1995) takes everything great about the first film—Lemmon, Matthau, insults sharp enough to draw blood—and cranks it up with even more absurdity and a little Mediterranean spice courtesy of Sophia Loren. If Grumpy Old Men was about two cranky neighbors feuding over ice-fishing and pride, the sequel is about two cranky neighbors rea...

FULL WATCHALONG ~ ROAD HOUSE

Road House (1989) is pure late-’80s testosterone therapy—the kind of movie where every line, explosion, and bar fight feels like it was written on a beer coaster. Directed by Rowdy Herrington (yes, really), it stars Patrick Swayze as Dalton, a zen bouncer with a philosophy degree who gets hired to clean up the rowdiest bar in Missouri: ...