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Episode 140: Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves (2023) -- "Hobbit Lobby"

The quest of the Specht Brothers continues across the cinematic Sword Coast. Beguiled by brigands, beset by beasts, befouled by bewitchery a band of heroes go from streets of Neverwinter to the depths of the Underdark. There's dungeons AND dragons. What more could you want?

Episode 139: Dungeons & Dragons (2000) -- "Got Stuck, You Broke It"

This week the Specht Brothers embark on a quest. Much magic, monsters, mayhem, and mundanity will befoul your heroes as they roll the die and try avoid the scene chewing maw of Profi...Proofidd...Prolofi....Jeremy Irons!

Episode 138: Dune Part Two (2024) -- "What an Usul..."

"And it came to pass in the third pass at the Desert War that Muad'Dib lay alone in a cave. He lay as one dead, caught up in the revelation of the Water of Life, his being tranlated beyond the boundries of time by the poison that gives life. Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan al-Gaib might be tripping balls alone in a cave..."
-FROM "ARRAKIS: THE MOST REQUESTED HITS"
BY THE PRINCESS BUTTERCUP

A Very Reel2Rank 2024 Christmas Podanza!

It's that most wonderful time of the year! Gather 'round the fireplace and ye shall hear another tale of yuletide cheer and merry jeer!

Episode 137: Dune (2021) -- "The Right Pitch"

"Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called the "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. That thing is also really hard to spell..."
-FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB FOR DUMMIES"
BY THE PRINCESS SERUTAN

Episode 136: Dune (1984) -- "Squeeeeeezzzeee!!!"

"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. To begin your study of the life of Muad'Dib then, take care that you first place their adaptations in their time: released in the nineteenth year after publication, under Padishah Director David Lynch. Do not be decieved by the fact that it was a cult film for the first thirty-seven years of it's life. Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, was forever to be put on screen."
-FROM "MANUEL OF MUAD'DIB MOVIES"
BY THE PRINCESS SERUTAN

Episode 135: The Karate Kid (2010) -- "He Outruns the KGB..."

This week the cavalcade of Karate Kid movies reaches it's end with another new beginning. This is a re-bootening of the Karate Kid like you've never seen -- because he uses Kung-Fu! But that IP was just to sweet to pass up...

Episode 134: The Next Karate Kid (1994) -- "Dangerously Low on Bologna"

A new chapter, a new beginning, and a new Karate Kid. Ol' Miyagi is at it again as California's been left in the dust and Boston bound. There he does what he does best -- get involved in the martial arts hijinks of a disenfrachised youth. Never change Nariyoshi, never change...

Episode 133: The Karate Kid Part III (1989) -- "We're Going Dutch!"

The trilogy of Danielson waxes off as he returns to California to find his home demolished, his future uncertain, and his life in peril. Targeted by the best friend of the bad guy from the first time who has money to spend and Karate's Bad Boy Mike Barnes ready to bring the pain...

Episode 132: The Karate Kid Part II (1986) -- "Breathe and Slap"

The lengend continues to grow as the Karate Kid goes international. To Okinawa where he finds himself at the center between a fued of honor, saving a village, and mending a broken heart...