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Movie Gumshoes

Tv & Film

Comedy

Frequency: 1 episode/15d. Total Eps: 36

Welcome to The Movie Gumshoes—Step into The Junk! A dusty little town where reality and myth overlap, and two detectives chase down the biggest cases in cinema.

In Movie Gumshoes, Jared and Jonathan (with the occasional visit from Dirty Deborah and Jason Stackman) investigate movies, digging through evidence of how they got made, who’s responsible, and whether the film deserves to be released to the public eye or redacted forever.

Every episode is an adventure, packed with real research, wild trivia, and detective-style banter that makes every case a ride.

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Case File "Super-Sized" - Roofman (2025)

Thursday, October 9, 2025 • Duration 47:52

hen a string of bizarre restaurant robberies leaves staff tied up like Sunday roast, Detectives Jared “Ballistic” Jackson and Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno stake out the Feedbag Restaurant to catch the elusive Tangler — a criminal with a flair for knots and bad timing.

But when Dirty Deborah joins the operation with her case files (and questionable expertise in ropework), tensions rise faster than fryer grease. After Jared realizes the case mirrors Roofman (2025), the trio decide to “take a quick break” for research — only to return and find the Tangler’s struck again, leaving nothing but rope burns and a mocking note.

Now the Gumshoes must scramble to explain to their Captain why their big bust turned into a night at the movies. Is this the most tangled case yet… or just another knot they can’t untie?

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Case File: "I Smell Dead People" - Good Boy (2025)

Saturday, October 4, 2025 • Duration 55:19

When the Movie Gumshoes set out to investigate Ben Leonberg’s haunted-house dog flick Good Boy (2025), things go sideways before the opening credits roll. Rookie Jonathan shows up with what he proudly claims is a new K-9 recruit named Ballistic—Jared’s old nickname from his wilder days. Trouble is, the “dog” turns out to be a rabid coyote swiped from behind the Feed Bag dumpster. Within minutes, Ballistic bolts, tears through downtown Junk, and bites a stripper outside the Skin Job.

With chaos spreading and animal control nowhere in sight, Jared decides the best way to keep the rookie’s spirits up is to get back to the real case: dissecting Good Boy down at the Dinoplex. The two detectives hunker into sticky theater seats, joined by their favorite local informant, Dirty Deborah, who’s furious that the bar inside the theater didn’t even bother to card her.

Between sips of flat gin and the distant sirens chasing the escaped coyote, the trio comb through Good Boy’s evidence—its dog’s-eye cinematography, its tragic loyalty, and the lingering question of what makes a “good boy” when the world goes bad. By the end of the night, they’ve got theories, a few laughs, and a live-animal warrant waiting for them back at HQ.

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Case File: "Dead End" - The Long Walk (2025)

Thursday, September 18, 2025 • Duration 54:15

In this hard-hitting case of Movie Gumshoes, Jared and rookie detective Jonathan lace up their boots to investigate The Long Walk (2025), Stephen King’s chilling dystopian tale brought to the screen by Francis Lawrence. The precinct archivist Dirty Deborah joins the case file, adding her broken moral compass to the mix. Together, the trio dissect the film’s oppressive atmosphere, Cooper Hoffman’s standout performance, and the devastating psychological toll of a contest where stopping means death. While Jared and Jonathan debate the pacing and adaptation choices, Deborah zeroes in on the fleeting humanity between the Walkers and the uneasy ethics of watching suffering for sport. Brutal, relentless, and thought-provoking, this episode asks: how far would you go when survival is the only prize?

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Case File: "Rap Sheet" - Hollywood Homicide (2003)

Friday, September 12, 2025 • Duration 43:44

Back at the precinct, Jonathan can’t help but strike up a conversation with the Captain. He explains that he sees himself and Jared like Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett in Hollywood Homicide—two detectives with double lives. “They’ve got homicide,” Jonathan says, “we’ve got movies. We clock out of real cases and moonlight as movie investigators. Same thing, just cooler jackets.”

The Captain humors him, but Jared isn’t buying the comparison. To prove a point, Jared dives into the history of Hollywood Homicide. What he finds makes the precinct corkboard creak under the weight of red string: the film was loosely inspired by the wave of high-profile hip hop murders in the 1990s. Jared lays it out in grim detail—Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, and a string of unsolved killings that defined a generation of rap. The glitzy buddy-cop comedy suddenly looks like a tone-deaf cash-in on real tragedies.

Jonathan still insists the movie has charm (“I mean, c’mon, Ford chases a suspect while on a cell phone call about real estate—classic!”), but Jared hates it. To him, it’s another Hollywood example of turning genuine pain into popcorn entertainment. The precinct is split: is Hollywood Homicide just harmless buddy-cop fluff, or a tasteless exploitation of unsolved murder cases?

As the detectives argue, one thing is clear—the Gumshoes can’t even investigate a movie without digging into the real crimes hiding underneath.

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Case File: "Sell Out" - The Toxic Avenger (2025)

Saturday, August 30, 2025 • Duration 01:05:05

Jonathan and Jared hit the Dinoplex theater to catch the pint-sized Toxic Avenger reboot. But before the mop-wielding mutant can even clean house on-screen, a disgruntled patron stands up mid-show. He tells the whole crowd they’re “better than this movie” and urges everyone to walk out, claiming it’s nothing but a waste of time.

Now back in their office, the Movie Gumshoes sift through the fallout. Between the walkout drama, the questionable legacy of the Toxic Avenger, and the tangled history of its production hell, Jared and Jonathan have to decide: is this radioactive reboot worth avenging… or was the loudmouth patron right all along?

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Case File: "Triggered" - Weapons (2025)

Saturday, August 23, 2025 • Duration 01:16:28

The precinct is in chaos after a bizarre night at the movies. Detectives Jared Jackson and rookie Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno were assigned to investigate the latest cinematic crime scene: Zach Cregger’s Weapons. But their field operation was sabotaged by none other than precinct archivist Dirty Deborah, who, instead of quietly enjoying the screening, orchestrated an impromptu orgy in Row G.

Amid spilled popcorn, shrieks, and audience members fleeing like extras in a B-horror flick, Jared and Jonathan struggled to keep their eyes on the screen and their notepads coherent. Every meaningful glance in Cregger’s labyrinthine film was punctuated by Deborah’s “side investigation.”

Now back in the precinct’s flickering-light interrogation room, the three unlikely collaborators debrief the case. Jared, insists the movie is a coded warning about America’s obsession with violence. Jonathan, ever eager and overeager, suspects it’s really a puzzle box about Josh Brolin's tight vest. And Deborah, between sips of contraband boxed wine, swears the movie is about desire, repression, and the blurred lines between love and annihilation.

As they sift through the evidence, scene by scene, line by line, the Gumshoes begin to realize that Weapons itself may be just a piece of a bigger cinematic conspiracy. Cregger’s film might not only be a horror anthology in disguise, but also a mirror to the chaos they just survived in the theater.

By the end of the night, popcorn butter stains the case file, the chalkboard is covered in arrows and red string, and Deborah has made herself far too comfortable in the precinct. But the detectives agree on one thing: whatever Zach Cregger is aiming at, his movie hits hard.

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Case File: "Forgotten Greatness" - Memory (2022)

Thursday, August 7, 2025 • Duration 58:05

This week on Movie Gumshoes, Jackson drags a skeptical Jonathan out of the precinct and into the theater to investigate Memory (2022), where Liam Neeson plays an aging assassin losing his grip — and not just on his targets. But the real mystery? Why would Martin Campbell, once the master behind GoldenEye, Casino Royale, and The Mask of Zorro, take the shot on what looks like a dollar-bin action flick?

As the detectives unravel the film’s tangled plot and Campbell’s curious career choices, they question whether Memory is just another throwaway thriller — or a cryptic message from a once-great director slipping into cinematic obscurity.

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Case File: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell” - The Thing (1982)

Sunday, June 29, 2025 • Duration 01:21:02

This week, the Movie Gumshoes go airborne—and off the rails—as they investigate John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). It all begins with a seductive helicopter drop-off by Dirty Deborah, whose flight credentials are as questionable as her metaphors.

After landing on the fog-choked summit of Superstition Mountain, Jonathan and Jared stumble upon a long-lost contact: Jason Stackman of Interpol, who may or may not be who he says he is. Together, they probe the film’s chilling themes—paranoia, isolation, and shape-shifting identity—while trying not to get assimilated by the mountain’s secrets (or Stackman’s weird energy).

With flamethrowers, film theory, and suspicious goo underfoot, the case spirals into something far stranger than fiction.

Trust no one. Not even the helicopter.

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Case File: “Go Deeper” - Butt Boy (2019)

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 • Duration 01:02:09

When the DA’s office hauls Jared and Jonathan into the hot seat for "misconduct involving poor taste and highly questionable movie selections," the Gumshoes are given one last shot to redeem themselves. Their assignment? Investigate the bizarre 2019 thriller-comedy Butt Boy a film where a mild-mannered IT man develops a highly unusual addiction: making objects (and eventually people) disappear… where the sun don’t shine.

As the Gumshoes sift through this absurdly deadpan noir, they’ll follow the trail of missing persons, shrinking objects, and increasingly uncomfortable metaphors. Is Butt Boy an oddly brilliant satire on addiction and compulsion, or just a film that shouldn’t exist? With their careers on the line and the DA breathing down their necks, Jared and Jonathan dive into the abyss (so to speak), determined to crack the case… and maybe their own dignity.

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Case File: "Kaiser So-Gay!" - The Usual Suspects (1995)

Monday, May 26, 2025 • Duration 51:21

The spotlight’s hot and the cuffs are cold. This week, Jonathan "Sourdough" Manno finds himself in the interrogation room—not for a movie review, but as the lead suspect in a scandal the District Attorney calls “gross misconduct of the cinematic variety.” While the DA grills Sourdough under flickering lights, Jared “Ballistic” Jackson pulls a fast one: launching into a full review of Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects in an effort to stall, distract, and disarm.

As Ballistic spins theories about myth, manipulation, and Kaiser Soze, Dirty Deborah slinks in with a plan of her own—one laced with perfume, legwork, and morally questionable motives to seduce the DA and buy the boys some time.

Will the case be cracked? Will the suspects become usual again? Or will this be the first time the Movie Gumshoes are too clever for their own alibi?

Lock the door, dim the lights, and cue the smoky saxophone—because this case file isn’t just cinematic... it’s suspicious.

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