Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
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Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
The Film and Pop-Culture Podcast
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529 – The Warner Bros Sale and Moderating Awards Conversations
This week, we have a bifurcated episode between pairs of hosts. Katey and David take main hosting duties with an intro and a listener e-mail, then the...
528 – Slow Xmas 5, Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc, Hamnet (w/ Ben Hosley!)
This week, we have replaced a still-absent David with Ben Hosley from the Blank Check podcast and producer/creator of the Slow Xmas music project or “...
527 – PTA vs. ICE, Who Will Make More Avatar?, Bugonia
This week, David is out but Katey is back in, even after spending a stressful week reorganizing her community to respond to the governments immigratio...
526 – Predator: Badlands, Why Don’t We Remake Bad Movies?, Frankenstein (2025)
This week, Katey had to be out to see movies, but the boys return to the virtual war room to talk about Predator: Badlands (in theaters now!) and Fran...
Live From The 48th Denver Film Festival
This week, Patches and Katey flew out to Denver to join Da7e, Denver Film Festival Artistic Director Matthew Campbell, and Denver Film Festival CEO Ke...
525 – The Movies About Subjects That Scare Us Quell
We didn’t say they were good movies. It’s another Fighting in The War Room Quarter Quell! But the FIRST one since being named one of TIME Magazine’s T...
524.8 – Black Phone 2 and Roofman
This week, Patches was tired and David hadn’t seen the movies, so Katey and Da7e DARE TO GO OFF FORMAT for this really-really-really last episode befo...
524.7 –
This week, Da7e was off seeing Black Phone 2 where Ethan Hawke stalks the snowbound dreams of Colorado teens, and the other co-hosts make fun of him f...
524.6 – Nightmare in Horror Films, K-Pop Demon BBQ, The Smashing Machine
This week, Patches and Da7e have been watching the old Nightmare on Elm Street sequels on HBO Max and Patches wonders if we’re missing something in mo...
524.5 – Alien: Earth, Rod Patches Reports From the Sphere, One Battle After Another
This week, everyone is back in the war room! The guys talk about Season 1 of Alien: Earth which has recently concluded on Hulu and it seems like they’...
524.4 – Disney’s Panic, Predators, The Aggression Dichotomy
This week, David’s solo-parenting attempt left him unable to podcast, so we decided to save our discussion of Alien: Earth and One Battle After Anothe...
524.3 – Silksong, MegaDoc, Vulture Movie Draft and Festival Reactions
This week, David’s coming in hot and is mad that Da7e saw HIM over doing this podcast. Katey listens as Patches and David inform her about the Hollow...
524.2 – The Long Walk, Katey’s Covered TIFF, Is Paramount Buying Warner Bros?
This week, Katey is still in Toronto, but the boys get together to talk about The Long Walk, this year’s third Stephen King movie, and discuss the bre...
524.1 – David Went To Telluride, Sophisticate Mini, Summer Movie Review
This week, Da7e has to go see a dumb demon movie to round out the summer, so Katey and David of FITWR’s Prestige coverage meet Matt Patches, he of ran...
524 – The Future of Star Trek, The Roses, Relay
This week, David has begun his festival run for the season so it’s up to Katey, Patches, and Da7e to hold down the podcast. First, the boys talk the f...
523 – Ne Zha II, K-Pop Demon Hunters in a theater, Highest 2 Lowest
This week, David is so busy he only wanted to be on the Spike Lee/Denzel segment, but before David joins us for a review of Highest 2 Lowest, it’s an...
522 – Taylor Swift The MCU, What is Vanity Fair Doing?, Weapons (Spoilers!)
This week, we’re having a great time laughing at movies, some of them comedies! First, Da7e inspired Patches to watch Universal’s DISASTROUS War of th...
521 – War of the Worlds (2025), Freakier Friday, The Naked Gun (2025)
This week, we’re having a great time laughing at movies, some of them comedies! First, Da7e inspired Patches to watch Universal’s DISASTROUS War of th...
520 – Happy Gilmore 2, Ryan Trahan, Fantastic Four: First Steps (SPOILER Discussion)
This week, being named one of TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST 100 PODCASTS OF ALL TIME has driven everyone into the War Room, from parent’s houses to Canadian ho...
519 – What’s Happening With Paramount, Donkey Kong Bonanza, Eddington
This week, Katey Rich has gone to the beach (hopefully not the Old beach), leaving the three guys in the War Room where they try to figure out if budg...
518 – K Pop Demon Hunters, Phineas and Ferb Returns, Superman (2025)
This week, David “suddenly” was on vacation (?), so Da7e, Patches, and Katey head into the War Room. Patches tries to sell the group on the very popul...
517 – Sorry, Baby, The Bear S4, Old Guard 2
This week, everyone is back in the War Room and Katey’s seen all the things. First, everyone finally takes on Sorry, Baby an indie debut that is rolli...
Two Daves Talk F1 and Jurassic World Rebirth
This week, Katey and Patches are off on vacation as Da7e and David Ehrlich convene on a Wednesday evening to talk about last weekend’s big box office...
516 – Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Kids Review Elio, 28 Years Later
This week, Katey and Patches both had children who had seen Pixar’s Elio in theaters but were home sick, so as responsible parents, they were used for...
515 – Tom Cruise Honorary Oscar, How To Train Your Dragon (Remake), Materialists
This week, Da7e is out seeing movies, so Katey, Patches, and David slam together to talk about Tom Cruise getting an Honorary Academy Award this year,...
514 – The Phoenician Scheme, Summer Game Fest ’25, The Life of Chuck
This week, Da7e and David get to weigh in on Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme (and are pretty nice to it, maybe?), then a very tired Patches repor...
513 – Predator: Killer of Killers, Mountainhead, From The World of John Wick: Ballerina
This week, let’s talk about some movies. NOW STREAMING on Hulu is the animated Predator: Killer of Killers, which Patches and David greatly enjoyed an...
512 – The Rehearsal S2, Lilo & Stitch (2025), Fountain of Youth
This week, everyone is back in the war room, and you’d think we’d do a Cannes check-in as a movie and pop culture podcast, but you’d be wrong. First,...
511 – Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, Andor Season 2
This week, David is seeing movies in France so Da7e, Katey, and Patches got together to talk about Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning and Andor S...
An Afternoon With Katey and Patches
Katey Rich and Matt Patches do their very best in the middle of the afternoon to talk about some stuff including being ready for the next Tom Cruise e...
510 – Trump’s “Film Tariffs,” Golden Globe for Podcasts, Thunderbolts*
This week, everyone’s in the war room to look towards the news. First, the President of the United States got on his Truth Social media platform and a...
509 – The Shrouds, More Minecraft Takes, Havoc and Stunts
This week, Da7e and David attempt to explain The Shrouds, the latest David Cronenberg film, which is great but complex. Then, Katey managed to see The...
508 – Steven Soderbergh is Sad, Changes in the Oscar Rules, Sinners
This week, everyone is back in the War Room. First, Patches shared and Guardian article about Steven Soderbergh bemoaning the state of current “movies...
507 – What We’re Watching, Weird Week of “Harry Potter” News, The Legend of Ochi
This week, it is only Katey and Da7e in the War Room but those two like structure and legacy so this is a full episode of Fighting In The War Room tha...
506- White Lotus S3, Katey’s Kids Review Minecraft, Can Video Game Movies Finally Be Blockbusters?
This week, everyone is back in the War Room! The group rebounds from the Manosphere by talking about White Lotus Season 3, which aired on HBO/through...
Patches and Da7e: Into the Manosphere
This week, David and Katey are out doing important family and movie business, but not Da7e and Matt Patches, who assemble in the War Room not to fight...
505 – Marvel’s Cast Reveal Chair-Stream, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Severance S2 Wrap-Up
This week, everyone is back in the War Room. First, Patches and Da7e try to explain Marvel’s Avengers Doomsday chair-centric live stream that happened...
504 – The Electric State, The Pirate (1948), Black Bag
This week, Patches is out at some game developer conference, so better time than ever for Katey, Da7e, and David to go hard on The Russo Bros’ Netflix...
503 – On Becoming an Guinea Fowl, Taking the Kids to Paddington 3, Mickey 17
This week, everyone’s in the war room and we kick it off by talking about On Becoming A Guinea Fowl, a Rungano Nyoni film that is slowly rolling out i...
502 – James Bond, Oscars Reactions, Paradise Season 1 (Spoilers!)
This week, everyone is back in the War Room to talk about The Academy Awards. First, Da7e and Patches take a James Bond argument from Bluesky and port...