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Matthew J. Conrad & Frank James

Give It 5

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Short Answer: No!Slightly Longer Answer: We started a new show! Joining forces with Connor and Peter from Fix-a-Flick to create the Tuvix of podcasts: No Flicks Given. Frank has more in this mini-update, but we want to make sure you knew where
"Within these Santa films were bound the strength and will to bring holiday cheer around the world. But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Santa film was made..."We enjoyed (is that the right word?) our holiday-themed commentary for
One Shall Stand. Three Shall Fall.It's the thrilling conclusion to our Chris Kringle King of the Ring! To recap, all four of us are going head-to-head-to-head-to-head, each having chosen what we each deem to be the ultimate Santa Claus film dep
Four Santas enter. Only one leaves.Ho Ho H'oh no!  Happy Holidays everyone. The boys at Fix-a-Flick are once again back on to talk about what the Christmas season is all about: competition. All four of us are going head-to-head-to-head-to-head
"Do you expect me to talk?"Spooky Season is over, pumpkin spice has completely permeated the air, and the Holidays are just around the corner. You know what that means; it's time to give thanks to our favorite British spy. The name's Bond. Jame
FULL. SCREAM. AHEAD.The crescendo of this year's Halloween mini-series - Deep Rising, where a crew of mercenaries planning to hijack a cruise ship shows up to realize something got to the ship first: a gargantuan tentacled...thing? Idk, it's no
" What heads we were able to salvage from the Santos Morales were pretty decomposed, but they all were missing their hypothalamus... es."Let's talk about the kathoga in the room. For the first half of our NO FLICKS GIVEN series with Fix-a-Flick
The one night a year where we can pretend to be the scariest thing we think of. "Winds in the east... there's a mist comin' in... like somethin' is brewin'... and 'bout to begin..." This week, we take a look at an oft-forgotten, direct-to-video
No guest for this one (there's no one we can think of that we hate enough to make them watch this trash movie).Welcome to what is hopefully the last conversation ANYONE will have on the 2001 film Evolution, a bargain bin Ghostbusters rip-off th
A midwestern American in the 1300s does medieval battle against the slimiest of bearded slimeballs and his horrifying mom/witch.This week we revisit a forgotten blockbuster, the 2nd biggest movie of 1991 after Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Kevin
Things sure turned out different.In what way?Different.Our summer hours continue as we tackle one of its dog-day classics. For 40 years we've lived with the idea that it could be the best in the genre. Friend of the pod, baseball fan, (and memb
Manners. Maketh. Man.Just a little lax on our release schedule as things open up and weather gets warmer, but we're back with an...old? New. New classic. In a renaissance of comic book movies, this one did well, but didn't seem to percolate lik
Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel walk into a space station. I forget the rest of the joke, but the punchline involves a robot and cake.Ever heard of this one? Even Matt hadn't, and that's saying something. Our hosts have a lot of
Antonio Banderas accompanies some Norsemen to stop the attacks by a hellish pack of bloodthirsty invaders. Who lives? Who dies? Who tells their story? Probably Seamus Heaney at some point.We're back after our brief excursion to Starfleet to tal
Kirk, Spock, Doctor McCoy, and Ensign Ricky must broker peace between the Western Democracy Metaphor and the Eastern Bloc Soviet Metaphor. Hilarity ensues. Also murder.Happy (belated) First Contact Day! No guest this week, but we're covering no
We bring you our hot take on the 1997 forgotten mess "Shazam", starring Sinbad and Martin Short. Joining us once again is the one-and-only Patrick H. Willems (previously on our episode on The Shadow), who brought us a movie that certainly no on
Adventurer Rick O'Connell (and his family) race an immortal Egyptian mummy to be the one to destroy the Scorpion King, an insectoid WWE wrestler with Barbie Doll-textured skin hellbent on letting his pet dogs run wild.Joining Matt and Frank tod
Do you think there's a really angry way I could say I'm sorry?The 90s was a really weird time for everybody, but especially superhero movies. In between nipple-suit Batman and laryngitis Batman, we got Mystery Men. In the same tradition as Aust
New Year, Same Us. We're back for another season of Give it 5.Houston, we have a podcast. Desperate to save face in light of the embarrassment of admitting he had never seen Apollo 13 (go back and listen to our Backdraft episode), Frank brings
We're trying something new for this holiday season. Your No Flicks Given heroes are coming face-to-face with one of the worst,  my depressing Christmas movies in recent memory: One Magic Christmas. And this isn't a journey we can all take alone
Another No Flicks Given to make your holiday cheer soar! This time Fix-a-Flick's Connor comes to us with an impossible problem to solve: how do you make Die Hard 2 (Die Harder) good? Can it be done? Is it just a matter of more naked Tai Chi? Th
Julia Roberts fakes her death and hides in Iowa to escape a psychopathic mustache and the man attached to it.You can all blame Amanda for this one - a 90s marital thriller centered around Julia Roberts hot off the success of Pretty Woman. A mov
The president's got a girlfriend...We're back to help everybody get through this election day, I mean week, I mean month. Today we revisit Aaron Sorkin's The American President, the basis of what would become the West Wing and also a fantastic
Three kids chase the ghost of their friend through the history of Halloween...with some sort of soul-collector guide?It's the last of our No Flicks Given series of Halloween hidden gems. Last (but not least) we come to Peter's pick: 1993's 'The
A lonely and plain man finds an invitation  entitled "Murder Party", on the street. He makes his way to Brooklyn to attend the party, only to discover it is actually a trap set by a group of deranged art students.In our penultimate episode, the
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