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- Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
563 – Elections Again, The Only Living Pickpocket In New York, Godzilla Minus Zero
This week, all four hosts reflect that we’ve been doing this through a bunch of American elections. David, Da7e, Patches, and Katey all reflect on the…
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562 – Wild Waits Week (Wildwood and Wild Horse Nine)
This week, all four hosts assemble, but during the daytime to attempt to record a podcast. First, David and Patches report back on the newest Laika stop motion…
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561 – Whalefall, Wicker, You Can See Everything
This week, three segments, three movies, three hosts. First up, Da7e saw Whalefall which is a movie that probably would have captured more of the adult…
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560 – The Social Reckoning, Kelly Clarkson Vs. Store, Love of Your Life
This week, everyone is back in the war room so Da7e can go on vacation this weekend. First, everyone politely let’s Da7e refer to his notes on why The…
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559 – Verity, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Digger
This week, Da7e was in a theater seeing Wild Horse Nine, but your other three hosts made it to the podcast despite being very sleepy! First, it’s time to…
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558 – Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Star Wars: Zero Company, Primetime
This week, David is the one who can’t make the podcast, so Katey and Patches tell Da7e about the new Mahershala Ali hitman movie Your Mother Your Mother…
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557 – Patches in Paris, TIFF Awards Season Questions, Resident Evil (2026)
This week, Da7e can’t make the podcast because of cinema, so your other three hosts convene to talk about the Zach Cregger horror-comedy that’s…
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FITWR Festival Season Chat 2026
Katey and David are home from TIFF with a not-numbered episode of the podcast where they discuss festival and family woes, getting screeners for festival…
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556 – Lanterns, Onslaught, and Coyote Vs. Acme
This week, the podcast has its four hosts again, at least for one segment on the first three episodes of HBO’s Lanterns. Then, after David has to run…
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555 – GTA VI Hype, Making the Bed, Furious on Hulu
This week, remaining podcast hosts Patches, Katey, and Da7e jump onto…Netflix…to watch…GTA VI….? What the hell was that? Then, Patches…
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554 – Tony, New X-Men Cast, The End of Oak Street
This week, we assure you David Ehrlich is returning to this podcast. In a return to some sort of format, you left reviews and sent e-mails but it still takes…
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553 – The Last House, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
This week, David can’t make it, but we have three hosts and three movies to review. First, Patches and Da7e dig into the Netflix sci-fi…
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552 – Spider-Man: Brand New Day
This week, whoops, there’s a new biggest movie in theaters and this one is setting records. Matt Patches and Katey Rich were unable to catch Spider-Man…
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551 – The Odyssey Review
This week, everyone is back in the War Room and not on vacation with multiple children and everyone has seen The Odyssey! We figured it was about time that we…
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550 – The 1976 50th Anniversary Quell
AKA NONE OF US ARE FIFTY YET BUT ALL THESE MOVIES ARE. It’s another Fighting in The War Room Quarter Quell! For this edition of a FITWR Quarter Quell…
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549 – A Bad Year For Console Gaming, Minions and Monsters, The Invite
This week, David can’t make it to the War Room, but is locked in with the rest of the hosts for next week’s QUARTER QUELL – 1976. On this…
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548 – Supergirl, CATS: The Jellicle Ball, Toy Story 5
This week, everyone is back in the War Room, but David is very tired. Somehow, Supergirl is out this weekend and no one besides Da7e was planning to see it, so…
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547 – The Death of Robin Hood, Patches didn’t see Disclosure Day, Disclosure Day
This week, all four hosts are back in the War Room (but still no guests). David, Da7e, and Katey discuss the new Hugh Jackman-starring The Death Of Robin Hood…
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546 – Getting Paid For Obsession, Ocarina of Time in 2026, Widow’s Bay
This week, it was David’s turn to be felled by solo-parenting, so Katey, Patches, and Da7e convene in the War Room. First, an Instagram post from the art…
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545 – 90s Summer, Backrooms Revisited, Pressure, I Love Boosters
This week, Patches was felled by solo-parenting, so Katey, David, and Da7e make it to the war room. Katey found a puzzling post on threads and Da7e and David…
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544 – Mandalorian and Grogu, Backrooms, What’s Wrong With American Dramas?
This week, everyone is back in the war room and the numbered episodes resume! David, Patches, and Katey took the families to Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu…
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A Not Numbered Episode About Google, A New Theatrical Star Wars Movie, and the Cannes Film Festival
This week, Patches and Da7e convene in the War Room because Patches has A.I. concerns now that Google is giving into the bubble. Da7e saw Mandalorian and…
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A Not Numbered Episode Where The Podcast Is Not Cancelled
This week, David and Katey have gone to Cannes, leaving Da7e and Patches in the War Room. The two manage not to cancel the show, but bookend it with the sad…
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A Not Numbered Episode About The Devil Wears Prada 2, Teeth, and Grogu
This week, David is enjoying the new Kacey Musgraves album (Star-Crossed), which leads them into Jeff Bezos and the Met Gala. That is the push they need to get…
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A Not Numbered Episode That Mentions Surf Dracula
This week, David is mysteriously absent, and somehow we’ve entered a difficult scheduling season. Katey is fresh off a flight from Los Angeles, and…
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543 – Michaela Coel Week! – Mother Mary and The Christophers
This week, David, Katey, and Da7e unite in the War Room to talk about the two movies about art, sorta, that Michaela Coel is currently starring in. First…
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542 – Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Pragmata, and The Pitt Season 2
This week, we had to wait for the embargo to be lifted on Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, and once everyone knows the podcast is actually going up on Thursday…
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541 – The Drama, Drafthouse QR Code Madness, Patches Went To Disneyland
This week, David got suddenly ill, so Da7e has to explain The Drama (actually a comedy) to Katey and Patches which necessitates SAYING THE THING THE TRAILER…
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Kids in the Background (The Backrooms Trailer, Super Mario Galaxy)
This week, the hosts have to deal with Spring Break and the various trips for people not named David. Patches is absent entirely on the West Coast attending…
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540 – Sora is Dead, Toothpastes, Project Hail Mary
This week, OpenAI killed Sora 2 while Da7e wasn’t paying attention, so Katey, Patches, and David fill him in on the death of the copyright-violation…
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast539 – The A.I. Doc, The 98th Annual Academy Awards Reactions
This week, Da7e tells the other hosts about The AI Doc or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, a movie that is mostly vibes. Which is good because the other hosts…
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538 – The Bride!, undertone, Hoppers
This week, Da7e saw some movies, I guess. First, Da7e tries to sell David, Patches, and Katey on The Bride! which is the kind of big swings that should be…
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537 – A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Actor’s Awards, Paramount Buys Warner Bros
This week, everyone manages to make it back into the War Room, but also manage to not mention the very real war that started since last episode. Don’t…
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Subs, Doms, and Daniel Radcliffe
This week, a huge snow storm on the east coast shut down David’s access to the internet, breaking his Fighting In The War Room streak. Your other three…
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536 – Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, Mandalorian and Grogu Trailer, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model
CEASE AND DECEASE! This week, David continues his streak on what he insists is his fourth of seven consecutive weeks on the podcast, but Patches felt ill, so…
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535 – “Wuthering Heights” and the Heights of Cairn
This week, David continues his streak on what he insists is his third of seven consecutive weeks on the podcast, but Katey Rich had to be in Los Angeles for…
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534 – Disneyland Handcrafted, The Moment, The Perfect Neighbor
This week, David continues what he insists is his second of seven consecutive weeks on the podcast, and it turns out it’s because he’s on book…
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533 – Sundance Report 2026, Heated Rivalry Conclusion, The Secret Agent
This week, David begins what he claimed was seven consecutive weeks on the podcast by giving an overview of what he saw at the final Park City Sundance. He…
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A Chat with Katey and Da7e
This week, Katey and Da7e were the only hosts who could make it to the war room, so instead of doing a traditional episode, the two talk about how…
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Top Tens 2025
“Did that come out yet?” We’re back at it again, ranking our favorite movies of last year in one long podcast! This year, we even beat…
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532 – Disney World and IP, Train Dreams, Marty Supreme
This week, David is doing a Q&A about something, so Katey, Patches, and Da7e gather in the war room to review TRAIN DREAMS (on Netflix! It’s good!) and…
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531 – Avatar: Fire and Ash
This week, everyone is back in the War Room one more time in 2025 to talk about the third Avatar film from James Cameron – Avatar: Fire and Ash. We all…
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530 – Box Office 2025, Zootopia 2, Wake Up Dead Man
This week, David is… somewhere. Katey, Patches, and Da7e get together in the War Room to talk about the 2025 Box Office pre-Avatar, Zootopia 2 going down…
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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 they hand to…
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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…
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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 immigration…
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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 Frankenstein…
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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 Kevin Smith…
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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…
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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 before…
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524.7 – Mr. Scorsese, The Brady Bunch, Tron: Ares
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 for it…
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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…
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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’re…
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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 Another…
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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…
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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…
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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 random…
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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…
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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…
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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…