246 | While You Were Sleeping (1995)

This episode will be the last of our daily releases for the month. From here to Christmas we’ll be going every other day. But we think we’ve saved the best for last. Not the best conversations necessarily. Those have all been great and so will these. But like Home Alone yesterday, these next few movies are some of Michael's favorite holiday films. True classics like While You Were Sleeping, which Michael talked about with his friend Erik Johnson.

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188 | Batman (1966), Season 4

Michael and Rob welcome Erik Johnson and Noel Thingvall to create a fourth season of the Adam West Batman series by crossing it over with other late-'60s TV shows. In addition to the new guest-characters, some of the stories also include new villains pulled from comics of the day and played by popular actors of the period. 

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116 | Mystery Movie Night: Mausers, Mutara, and Monsters

Erik asks Michael, Dave, and David to guess the secret connection between the James Bond classic From Russia with Love, "Space Seed" sequel Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Pixar's Monsters, Inc. 

If you haven't seen one or more of the movies, feel free to skip to the discussions of your choice:

00:01:49 - Review of From Russia with Love (1963)
00:21:55 - Review of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
00:42:40 - Review of Monsters, Inc. (2001)
01:05:59 - Guessing the Connection

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105 | Mystery Movie Night: Memories, Matchsticks, and Mountains

Evan asks Dave, David, Erik, and Michael to find the hidden connection (other than the fact that none of them are English-language films) between Solaris (1972), Le Dîner de Cons (1998), and Force Majeure (2014).

If you haven't seen one or more of the movies, feel free to skip to the discussions of your choice:

00:02:10 - Review of Solaris (1972)

00:16:12 - Review of Le Dîner de Cons (1998)

00:30:57 - Review of Force Majeure (2014)

00:51:24 - Guessing the Connection

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43 | Mystery Movie Night – Terror, Time Travel, and Teens

Dave asks David, Evan, Erik, and Michael to find the hidden connection between An American Werewolf in London, The Butterfly Effect, and X-Men: First Class. If you haven't seen one or more of the movies, feel free to skip to the discussions of your choice: 

00:02:16 - Review of An American Werewolf in London (1981)
00:14:22 - Review of The Butterfly Effect (2004) 

00:27:58 - Review of X-Men: First Class (2011) 

00:49:59 - Guessing the Connection

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37 | Mystery Movie Night – Monoliths, Mansions, and Makeovers

What secret connection do 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Being There (1979), and Clueless (1995) have in common? Erik Johnson asks Evan Hanson, Michael May, Dave Roof, and David May to find out. 

As always with Mystery Movie Night discussions, opinions and spoilers abound, so if you haven't seen a film and prefer not to listen to that part of the episode, here are the time stamps to help you skip to the parts you want to listen to: 

00:02:38 - Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 

00:23:25 - Review of Being There (1979) 

00:46:20 - Review of Clueless (1995) 

01:06:51 - Guessing the Connection

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30 | Mystery Movie Night: Planes, Puns, and Paramedics

The Mystery Movie Night podcast moves to AfterLUNCH! If you're new to the format, one of the panelists picks three movies with some sort of secret connection. Everyone watches the films and talks about them, then the other panelists try to guess the common element. In this inaugural AfterLUNCH episode, Evan Hanson picked Empire of the Sun (1987), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and Sacro Gra (2013). 

For listeners who haven't seen all the movies and want to avoid spoilers, here are the time stamps for each review, including the guessing part in case you want to skip straight to that: 

00:05:37 - Review of Empire of the Sun (1987) 

00:23:18 - Review of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 

00:36:32 - Review of Sacro Gra (2013) 

00:49:49 - Guessing the Connection

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17 | Fantastic Four Films

With Disney's recent announcement that there's a new Fantastic Four movie coming that will be part of the MCU, it's a great time to discover a lost podcast episode about the four FF films so far. From the no-longer-with-us Geek Fallout: The Comic Book Episodes, host Erik Johnson leads a discussion with Nerd Lunch/AfterLUNCH regulars Paxton Holley and Evan Hanson about Fantastic Four (2015), Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and The Fantastic Four (1994).

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