Nate, Adam, and film critic Dede Crimmins give their bite-sized reviews of Guillermo Del Toro’s new adaptation of Frankenstein (2025), as well as their thoughts on the year in horror movies so far.

Simpsons writer Dan Vebber walks us through his award-winning episode “Thanksgiving of Horror” and its parody of sci-fi horror masterpiece, Alien.

Film critic Norm Wilner joins the podcast to revisit I Know What You Did Last Summer and its parody in “Treehouse of Horror X."

We reorder AFI’s “100 Years… 100 Movies” list by how many times they were referenced on The Simpsons. Can we create a different canon of American film?

Adam and Nate debate the virtues of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours at 40. At least they can agree that “Bart Sells His Soul” is pretty much a perfect Simpsons episode.

Allie Goertz joins the podcast for the thrilling conclusion of “Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two” and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

In this bonus minisode, Nate and Adam give their bite-sized reviews of the recently released The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

For the release of Fantastic Four: First Steps, Nate and Adam revisit Roger Corman’s unreleased Fantastic Four (1994), and The Simpsons’ most Marvel-icious episode “I Am Furious (Yellow).”

With the 36th season of The Simpsons wrapped, we interview current showrunner Matt Selman about the season, its many movie parodies, and more.