Freddy's not in the movies anymore — he's in the real world, and he wants Heather Langenkamp to play Nancy one last time. So Many Scares jumps seven years and three sequels to Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), the meta one: the actors play themselves, Wes Craven is writing the…
Freddy's back — and this time the Elm Street kids aren't going down without a fight. We're covering A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) for week three of So Many Scares, the sequel that brought Wes Craven back to the story and course-corrected the franchise. This week…
Freddy's back — but he's not killing teenagers in their dreams anymore. He's possessing them. We're continuing our October So Many Scares series with A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), the sequel Wes Craven wanted nothing to do with. This week on So Many Sequels: a $3…
Tim Curry originated Dr. Frank-N-Furter on the London stage in 1973, made his film debut in The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 28 — and became everybody's devil. We're closing out our September tribute series with the most iconic cult movie ever made. This week on So Many Sequels: the…
Freddy Krueger haunts your dreams — and this October, he's haunting our podcast. We're kicking off a full month of A Nightmare on Elm Street movies with Wes Craven's 1984 original. This week on So Many Sequels: Garrett's Blockbuster-kid origin story with slashers, David's first-ever watch, a $1 million budget…
All three of us gave Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006) the exact same score — and none of us expected to like it this much. This week on So Many Sequels, we're talking the third film in the Bring It On franchise — the 2006 straight-to-DVD cheer-off starring…
9 to 5 is remembered as a groundbreaking comedy, but rewatching it today reveals a movie that casually pivots into kidnapping, false imprisonment, and accidental corpse theft. In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock revisit the 1980 classic. They discuss Dolly Parton’s flawless…
Some post-apocalyptic movies are about surviving the infected. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is about surviving Jack O'Connell and a cult named Jimmy. In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock review the second part of the new 28 Years Later trilogy. They…
Chris Hemsworth. Mark Ruffalo. Halle Berry. Barry Keoghan. A $90 million budget. And a box officea run that didn't come close to covering it. In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock kick off a streaming catch-up series with Crime 101 — the heist…
The Odyssey made $652 million in two weekends, and Christopher Nolan still found time to build a real Trojan horse, cast Travis Scott, and turn a Cyclops into a genuinely tragic figure. In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock close out Mythology Month…
In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock dig into Disney's 1997 Hercules for week three of Mythology Month — the extremely American, gospel-choir version of the Greek myth that somehow still works. In this episode: -The wild casting history behind Hades -Why the…
Troy took Homer's Iliad, cut the ten-year war down to three weeks, and removed every god from the story. Josh, Garrett, and David talk through whether that decision is why the 2004 epic still divides people twenty years later. In this episode of So Many Sequels, the hosts break down…
Josh, Garrett, and David open Mythology Month with the Coen Brothers' 2000 Depression-era riff on Homer, timed to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey hitting theaters July 17. They break down the film's loose (very loose) Homeric parallels, the Grammy-winning soundtrack that outsold the movie's own box office reputation, the Homer Stokes…
Spielberg called Disclosure Day the third chapter of a spiritual alien trilogy — after Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. That's not marketing. He means it. And watching the movie, you can feel it. Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock close out Spielberg in Space Month with…
Josh, Garrett, and David close out Spielberg in Space month with War of the Worlds — the one where the aliens finally turn hostile, Tom Cruise plays peak divorce-dad energy, and the hosts argue about whether the most unlikable protagonist in the Spielberg canon actually makes the movie work. Follow…
So Many Sequels continues our Spielberg in Space series ahead of Disclosure Day with a deep dive into E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In this episode we cover: -E.T.'s record-setting box office run — 28 consecutive weeks in the top 5 and a $2.2 billion worldwide total adjusted for inflation. -How E.T.…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out in December 1977, made $116 million in the US alone, and lost the box office crown for that year to exactly one movie: Star Wars. Not a bad second place. Josh, Garrett, and David kick off Spielberg in Space Month with Spielberg's…
Summer movie season is officially kicking off, and the box office is already throwing curveballs. This week, we dive into the numbers for The Mandalorian & Grogu, which defied early tracking worries to pull in a solid $81.9 million over the weekend. But the real story might be the horror-thriller…
Is Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window a tense cinematic masterpiece, or just a slow story about a nosy neighbor? We break down the 1954 thriller. In our final "Golden Oldies" episode, Josh, Garrett, and David tackle the iconic mystery Rear Window, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. While we marvel at…
By His Hand is a cult thriller road movie shot in Utah on a bootstrapped budget by three brothers who grew up in the LDS faith — and left it. Josh and David sat down with director Taylor Paur, co-writer Ethan Paur, and producer Connor Paur to talk about how…
In this episode of So Many Sequels, we continue Golden Oldies Month with John Ford’s 1940 adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath. Josh, Garrett and David discuss why this Dust Bowl-era classic still feels uncomfortably relevant today, from poverty and labor exploitation to Oklahoma history, capitalism, family survival and the…
The Odd Couple debuted in 1968, making $44 million on a tiny $1.2 million budget and eventually spawning a five-season TV show. But watching it today, the most shocking part might be the opening scene: our introduction to a comedy about mismatched roommates is Felix wandering the streets, genuinely trying…
Three of us saw Project Hail Mary separately. Different theaters, different formats, different weeks. Same reaction: this is the one. We talk about what makes Ryan Gosling's performance land, why Rocky might be the best new alien character in years, and whether a film that made $80M opening weekend and…
This month we're deep in our Best Writing series at the Oscars, and Do the Right Thing is Exhibit A that the Academy has always gotten some of this wrong. We dig into why the film's lack of a traditional protagonist might be exactly what got it snubbed, what Spike…