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Patreon Exclusive Episode: The Dark Backward (1991)

Hey everyone! Here's a bonus episode exclusively for our supporters on Patreon. We discuss the surreal black comedy fever dream that is The Dark Backward! Let us know your thoughts below.

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Early Access: Sidetracks - Monthly Movie Catch-up 9/22

Hey everyone! Here's early access to this month's movie catch-up. This time we discuss Elvis, Licorice Pizza, Confess Fletch, I Love My Dad, Barbarian, House of the Dragon, AND the first 10 minutes of Rob Zombie's The Munsters! Let us know if you had time to check out any of those movies and what...

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Early Access: Episode 24 - Frailty (2001)

Hey everyone! Hot off GarageBand, here's our new episode for you! This time we're talking about a movie that Ryan suggested that I had never seen: Frailty from 2001. This is one of those movies that we really recommend watching before listening to our discussion. You can find it on HBO Max curren...

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Early Access: Sidetracks - August Movie Catch-up 8/22

Hey everyone! Here's something we plan to do a little bit more regularly towards the end of each month, a chat about some of the movies we've been watching. On this episode we discuss Nope, Jurassic World: Dominion, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Everything Everywhere All At Once, as we...

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Patreon Exclusive: Sidetracks - Monty Python Movies

Hey everyone, here's the Patreon follow-up to Episode 23. On it we discuss the Monty Python films, including Holy Grail & Life of Brian as well as some of the movies they made independently of one another, like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride & Clockwise.

Thanks for your support! We still have...

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Early Access: Episode 23 - Fierce Creatures (1997)

Hey everyone! Here's early access to our new episode on 1997's Fierce Creatures! It was pretty hard to talk about this one without discussing A Fish Called Wanda so this episode is a little bit of a double-feature. 

Stay tuned for our Patreon follow-up episode and our August movie catc...

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August Updates!

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that we recorded our new episode on Fierce Creatures yesterday! We also did a Patreon follow-up episode on the Monty Python movies and some other John Cleese projects. Lastly we chatted about some of the movies we saw last month for a Sidetracks discussio...

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T-Shirts Now Available!

Hey everyone! We've gotten a few inquiries about podcast t-shirts, so we decided to officially launch a merch shop: https://hats-off-entertainment.creator-spring.com/

Additionally, we wanted to offer ...

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Early Access: Sidetracks - Silent Movies

Hey everyone! Here's early access to our new sidetracks. Following our discussion on Silent Movie (1976), we wanted to profile some more acclaimed silent movies, including Harold Lloyd's Safety Last (1923), Buster Keaton's The General (1926), Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931), and lastly The A...

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Patreon Exclusive Episode: Robin Hood - Men in Tights (1993)

Hey everyone, here's a bonus episode just for you! We discuss Mel Brooks' penultimate film, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and why we think the movie had such a bizarre impact on 90's kids. Even more bizarre though is how this movie came to be - it involves a dentist, Michael Jackson, scientology, and...

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Early Access: Episode 22 - Silent Movie (1976)

Hey Patrons, here's your early access to our newest episode on Mel Brooks' Silent Movie from 1976! Part 1 of a planned two-part retrospective on Mel's films, this episode deals with the early films of his career; The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, leading up to...

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Patreon Exclusive: Sidetracks - The Films of Sergio Leone

Hi all, sorry for the delay but here's this month's bonus episode! On it, we chat about the films (mainly Spaghetti Westerns) of director Sergio Leone, including; A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, A Fistful of Dynamite, Once Upon A Time in the West, an...

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Early Access: Sidetracks - Comedy Westerns

Hey Patrons! Here's early access to another episode. This time we sat down to talk about some of our favorite (and not so favorite) Comedy Western movies, including; The Kid Brother, Go West, My Little Chickadee, They Call Me Trinity/Trinity Is Still My Name, My Name Is Nobody, The Paleface, Cat ...

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Early Access: Episode 21 - A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

More like a million ways NOT to do a comedy movie, amirite folks? 

Thanks for bearing with us during our unexpected hiatus between episodes. We're so glad to be back with our discussion on A Million Ways to Die in the West - now available exclusively to you on Patreon! While we surpris...

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Our First BluRay Giveaway!

EDIT: This giveaway is NOW CLOSED! The winner will be messaged shortly! Thanks for participating and stay tuned for more in the future.

Hey everyone, thanks again for your continued patience during our unexpected hiatus. We are finally sitting down to record today and as a thank you, we wan...

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Attack of the Westerns

Hey everyone, here’s the full list of films we plan on referencing for our upcoming episode(s) on Westerns. Ryan watched all of these in prep for this episode — 40 in total! A few of them I suggested, but most were ones he watched on his own. Any of you have favorites on this list? Let us kno...

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Recording Update!

Hey everyone! Joe here. Just wanted to again apologize for the delay in episodes. Scheduling issues have just been preventing us from recording. I just got back from a trip to LA, which I’ll be talking more about on the podcast! Fortunately, we have finally lined up a time to record and we are ...

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April Updates

Hey everyone! Sorry it's been so long in between updates/shows. We each got unexpectedly busy with other projects this month, but we are planning to record next week. We're going to finally do our episode on "A Million Ways to Die in the West" which will probably end up being more a discussion on...

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Patreon Exclusive: Sidetracks - Brain Donors (1992) & The Marx Brothers

Hey everyone, here's our second follow-up to our episode on Problem Child 1 & 2. We wanted to talk about the film that Dennis Dugan directed after Problem Child - Brain Donors. It's a loose remake/tribute to "A Night at the Opera" and the films of The Marx Brothers. We also chat a little bit ...

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Patreon Exclusive: Sidetracks - The Films of Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski

Hey everyone, here's a bonus episode that follows our episode on Problem Child 1 & 2. On this discussion we chat about the other film written by  Problem Child screenwriters Scott & Larry (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, Dolemite Is My Name) leading up to a look...

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Problem Child - The Best of Jack Warden as Big Ben

As promised, here's our compilation of Jack Warden's best lines in Problem Child 1 & 2!

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Early Access: Episode 20 - Problem Child & Problem Child 2

Hey everyone, thanks for bearing with us in the delay on this episode. It was a huge undertaking to watch and talk about these two movies. We surprisingly had a lot to say on them both, including dissecting the films of the cast and crew that preceded and followed these two movies. Beyond that, w...

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We had a lot to say about Problem Child…

The raw, unedited audio file for just our discussion on Problem Child 1 & 2 came to over 3 hours. Working on cutting it together now. Stay tuned.

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Bonus Discussion: Sheetz vs. Wawa

Hey guys! Here's a quick digression that I cut out of our latest episode for timing purposes, but felt was worthy enough to share with you on Patreon. Ryan and I got into the heated debate affecting all Pennsylvanians, the convenience store war of Sheetz and Wawa. Which do you prefer?

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Sidetracks - 2021 Rewind

Hey Patrons! Here's our recap of all of the movies we spotlighted in 2021. Was there a movie that you discovered thanks to one of our discussions? We've love to hear about it! 

Happy New Year!

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Patreon Exclusive: The Ghostbusters Franchise, Club Paradise, and Teasing Future Episodes

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Episode 19 - The Ice Harvest (2005)

Hey Patrons, here's our newly released episode 19! On it we discuss the criminally underrated "The Ice Harvest", which was really just a fun excuse for us to talk in-depth about the films of Harold Ramis. As this is a Christmas-themed movie, we didn't have a chance to give you early access for th...

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Script to Screen: Quick Change (1990) by Howard Franklin

Hey Patrons, here's something interesting I recently unearthed in the recesses of an old hard drive - the 2nd revision draft of the Bill Murray-helmed 'Quick Change'.  I believe our discussion on this movie may have been our first episode of 2021. Regardless, it's a movie we're both pretty f...

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Patreon Exclusive: The Godfather Part III

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Early Access: Episode 18 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Hey Patrons! Here's our newly recorded episode on 1992's Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. That was a lot of apostrophes. Ryan and I sit down to talk more in-depth about the career & wine of director Francis Ford Coppola and the events that led him to adapt Dracula in the early 90...

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