WE BOUGHT A MIC – Details, episodes & analysis

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is back with a new feature film, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. Hailed as the best movie of the year and one of the defining movies of the decade, can it possibly live up to the hype? Listen to find out!

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Emily Blunt star in THE SMASHING MACHINE a sports biopic about UFC fighter Mark Kerr from A24 and director Benny Safdie. Is The Rock's performance worthy of a coming Awards push for this role?Rebecca Ferguson and Idris Elba lead a large ensemble cast in Katherine Bigelow's new Netflix political thriller A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. How effective is this attempt at a nuclear war cautionary tale, and does it stick the landing?The Smashing Machine is now playing in theaters. A House of Dynamite is out in limited theaters on October 10th and streaming on Netflix October 24th.0:00 - The Smashing Machine8:21 - A House of Dynamite

Danny Seoane returns to the show for our annual mid-year check-in. It's a draft of our 25 favorite new releases of 2025. This is part one, stay tuned for part two!Timecodes:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 4:10 - Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show
• 9:54 - The Rehearsal S2
• 13:28 - Friendship
• 17:15 - Sinners
• 22:04 - The Pitt
• 31:42 - The Studio
• 40:00 - Great Grandpa - 'Patience, Moonbeam'
• 47:05 - Severance S2
• 52:11 - The Last of Us S2 (SPOILERS)
• 1:01:30 - Kyle M - 'The Real Me'
• 1:05:15 - Viagra Boys 'Viagr Aboys'
• 1:10:57 - The NBA Playoffs
• 1:21:40 - Andor S2
• 1:30:20 - 28 Years Later

Our seltzer friend Sean joins us on a wild run for President of the United States in Barry Levinson's 2006 reunion with Robin Williams, Man of the Year. Also stars Laura Linney, Christopher Walken, Lewis Black, and Jeff Goldblum. GUEST: Sean Patrick O'Brien (⁠@Sean_POBrien on Twitter⁠) 🔵🟢🟡🟢🔵 Visit our website at https://weboughtamic.net Follow WBAM on socials @weboughtamic

Professional actor Camila Calderon returns to the show to discuss our favorite TV and movie acting performances we have recently seen. We discuss Succession, Barry, Ted Lasso, Dungeons & Dragons, Super Mario, and much more. It's a wild and unhinged episode.

From A24, Joaquin Phoenix stars in writer/director Ari Aster's third feature film, Beau Is Afraid, a delusional odyssey of a paranoid man journeying home to see his mother.

Spoiler talk starts at 32:04 Visit our website at https://weboughtamic.net

We pack up the big WBAM tour bus and embark on a family vacation to the great outdoors. Stephen Baker joins us to discuss Robin Williams' return to family comedies, the 2006 movie RV. GUEST: Stephen Baker (⁠@stephenbaker8 on Twitter⁠) 🔵🟢🟡🟢🔵 Visit our website at https://weboughtamic.net Follow WBAM on socials @weboughtamic

Our fungi friend Javi Navarro returns to dive deep into season 1 of HBO's hit new show The Last of Us, based on the acclaimed video game. We discuss every episode, the excellent writing and performances, and how the story compares to that of the source material. Visit our website at https://weboughtamic.net

We're joined by our pal Ray to travel from Rivet Town to Robot City to learn about the ills of capitalism and labor exploitation in the 2005 animated kids' comedy Robots.

GUEST: Ray Rodriguez (@mangoemoji on Twitter)

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We travel to Alaska, where the sun doesn't set for half a year, to lose sleep and review Christopher Nolan's 2002 film Insomnia, starring Al Pacino, Hillary Swank, and Robin Williams. Plus, thoughts on John Wick Chapter 4 and Shazam 2.