Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

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 leave. After talking about Heater Rivalry again because you wrote in about it, three of the hosts discuss Disneyland Handcrafted a new collection of documentary footage available on Disney […]

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 mentions Closure, I Want Your Sex, The Invite, The Shitheads, Rachel Lambert’s Carousel, Zi, Josephine and The History of Concrete (and didn’t seem to like too […]

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 there’s some good television out there! Da7e finally started Heated Rivalry (Katey has seen it all), and Katey tries to explain why this gay hockey show […]

“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 David’s video countdown by about a week, so we’re historically ahead of schedule. Below you will find this year’s format with timestamps for when we discuss a particular entry […]

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 MARTY SUPREME (in theaters! It’s also good!) and talk about Katey’s family time at Disney World and why her children will be amongst the first to stream […]

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 recommend you see this movie if you are worried about spoilers, because we freely talk about everything, including the end of the film. The […]

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 easy like hot chocolate, then they talk about Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery which is in some theaters and definitely on Netflix. There is a […]

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 Patches and Da7e to talk about how the sale of Warner Bros is going to change Hollywood. Then, Katey and David Heroically return to talk about […]

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 “bit” that we also discuss on this episode. If you want to buy a vinyl copy of SLOW XMAS 5 head to madebymutant.com You can also buy it digitally at […]

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 enforcement thugs. For a mini-segment, Patches is anticipating another AVATAR movie this year and is wondering if that kind of blockbuster motion-capture movie can be replicated after James Cameron is […]

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 (on Netflix now!). David also asks why we only seem to remake movies that were okay to begin with. Slight spoilers for Badlands and Frankenstein sprinkled […]

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 to have a conversation about fighting about movies in front of a live audience. We haven’t done that in over a decade! This week’s episode was recorded live, but […]

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 Top 100 Podcasts of All Time… For this edition of a FITWR Quarter Quell, each host brought a movie about a subject that actually scares them. Katey confronts her fear […]

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 next week’s Quarter Quell. For the first half of the show, David, Katey and Da7e announce FITWR’s next two weeks (Quarter Quell! Live Show in Denver!), read your reviews […]

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. First, Katey wants to talk about one of her favorite TV shows of the year, the five-part series Mr. Scorsese on Apple TV Plus. Then, Patches has […]

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 modern horror. Then, Patches and David got to meet the stars of K-Pop Demon Hunters in New York, did they earn more cred with their kids? Finally, Katey, David, […]

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 mostly positive on it. Then, we get a dispatch from Patches’ father who has seen The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Finally, […]

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 until next week. Katey, Patches, and Da7e get together this week to discuss seemingly nonsense that quickly boils over. First, we attempt to talk about one studio’s panic in the […]

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 Knight sequel Silksong before talking about Megadoc, the Megalopolis documentary with David. Then, Everyone talks about the VULTURE MOVIE LEAGUE and what they’re picking this year. Sign […]

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 breaking news that Paramount/Skydance is considering putting in a bid on Warner Bros. While the boys worry, Katey calls in with (her new fancy Tik Tok microphone that […]