The Captain's Log

Episode 310. We discuss the uncertainty of the F1 drivers championship going into the final grand prix of the season, and then get into our own show's "season finale" with the Rotten Tomatoes game! We predict the critics scores for 40 films premiering next year, and see how close our guesses were for the cinema of 2025. After being delayed multiple times, how was Kraven the Hunter received? Which family-friendly adventure and satirical horror movie both received a score of 93? What are our expectations for the tentpoles of 2026, some of which haven't even been officially titled yet? Will any movie include Lobo? How many distinct streets will be fought on in the new Street Fighter movie? Join us for the thrill of numbers!!!Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - The F1 corner (12:03) - Rotten Tomatoes movie predictions from this past year 2025 (52:23) - Housekeeping (57:10) - Predicting the Rotten Tomatoe scores for 2026's movies (02:16:13) - Bonus predictions (02:30:05) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 309. Is Louvre Detective going to be Teen Columbo's best friend or greatest enemy? What do you have to do to get a key to your city? Would you vote for a peanut over a human man? Could movie theaters drum up attendance by playing their movies in new weird colors? If you could schedule all of a year's sneezing into one day, would you? We also discuss night beef, big dumb action blockbusters like The Running Man and the Now You See Me franchise, the Miss Piggy movie, and Vegas, baby!!!!Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - Kyle's got a Karting helmet (05:30) - The Proclamation (08:29) - Keys to the city (12:11) - SLIFF (16:47) - The Cinema Corner (28:01) - Teen Columbo is real (34:34) - Housekeeping (43:28) - Maybe Melissa will like The Game Awards (46:28) - Could we teach a class on podcasting? (49:20) - Pop culture lightning round (54:50) - The F1 corner (59:55) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 308. We didn't intend this to be an episode where we make up movie pitches, but here we are. Kyle has an idea for the romantic comedy of the year starring heartthrob Wallace Shawn. Melissa has a Hollywood meta-thriller about an actor acting as his own dad. We talk about both Ripley's Believe It Or Not and the Talented Mr. Ripley, the biggest paintings we've ever seen, the end of Bugonia, the difference between miniseries and limited series, the difference between beach goth and coastal goth aesthetics, and asking strangers for their favorite Mark Ruffalo movie when you run out of normal small talk.Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - BREAKING: Kyle is a weirdo (01:48) - The biggest paintings (11:48) - The MUNY garage sale (20:12) - Where would your life have diverged? (25:47) - The Cinema Corner (01:04:49) - Housekeeping (01:09:28) - Could we teach a class on podcasting? (01:22:54) - Pop culture lightning round (01:38:58) - The F1 corner (01:49:47) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 307. Your ghost hosts A Warlock and Bob Chili from Chili's are here to turn past anecdotes into "scary" "stories." Drink your exclusive Mtn Dew: Void Suck flavor, and listen to tales of: TV characters asking for your help, genetic crossbreeding experiments to make new sports mascots, a post-apocalyptic world where the only apocalypse is that everyone who knows how to make Taco Bell went to live underground, goo city, a Kitchenaid dough hook for a hand, winning Terrible Immense Power in a raffle basket, aliens who don't understand Uranus jokes, and some real pitches for M&Ms: The Movie.Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - Welcome and banter (02:58) - How our Halloween tradition works (05:31) - Let the scary stories begin! (01:12:28) - A little bit of housekeeping (01:14:06) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode 306. What real pieces of media are so strange and obscure that when you try to describe them, it sounds like an internet urban legend that you've just made up? We bring you endless circles, a scarecrow vigilante, little mouth guys, a robot in a mountain, and offbrand edutainment CD-Roms. We also read the notes written in Kyle's old high school copy of The Great Gatsby, learn about St. Louis wedding pastas, discover the pops, and argue about the proper division of items in fundraiser raffle baskets.Click here to watch a video of this episode. (00:00) - Intro (00:04) - Real media that sounds like a creepypasta (00:30) - Circles (12:04) - The Scarecrow (21:38) - Mr. Boogedy and The Langoliers (26:29) - Gatsby is lonely (41:29) - The top secret CD (46:10) - Mort the Chicken (51:35) - Turn A. G Saviour. (01:01:55) - Cinema corner (01:10:41) - Dark Melissa returns (01:30:04) - Outro Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★