Joining D&D is Donnie’s brilliant partner, Dr. Marylin Winkle, to chime in about one of the most inspirational films ever made: The Dead Poet’s Society.

It’s Donnie’s favorite Halloween film, aptly named after the holiday and featuring one of most iconic serial killers in cinematic history. Yup. John Carpenter’s Halloween.

For our first entry for the Halloween month, Don chooses Jeepers Creepers, what Donnie calls a ‘horror deep cut,’ and we get into Donnie’s overwhelming love of the horror genre in general. Good creepy stuff, gang!

D&D spend an hour gushing over the brilliant Brian DePalma classic The Untouchables.

WALL-E, short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class, is the last robot left on Earth. He spends his days tidying up the planet, one piece of garbage at a time. But during 700 years, WALL-E has developed a personality, and he's more than a little lonely. Then he spots EVE (Elissa Knight), a sleek and shapely probe sent back to Earth on a scanning mission. Smitten WALL-E embarks on his greatest adventure yet when he follows EVE across the galaxy.

D&D jump into the deep waters of Speilberg’s megahit, the iconic Jaws, the most splashingly, bloody summer film ever made.

After a list of fun but lesser films, D&D tackle the iconic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It was Donnie’s first viewing and remains in Don’s Top Five of All Time.

Joining D&D is another D—David Himmel, co-host of The Literate ApeCast—who loves few things more than the Tom Cruise 1988 schlockfest Cocktail. The other D’s are maybe not completely in love with it but defer to Himmel in this conversation. Zoom recording with three overtalkers is a challenge as you’ll hear…

D&D were both in LA so Don went to Donnie’s house and they recorded themselves watching Barry Gordy’s The Last Dragon. This 1985 cultural mashup of kung fu, bad music, terrible fight choreography, and apparently Don’s entire 1980s wardrobe is something else.

The boys tackle the 1997 neo-noir L.A. Confidential with a ridiculously deep cast and take a few tangents including a walk-thru Donnie’s disgust and Don’s love of Dick Wolf.

In a complete gushfest over one of the iconic cheeseburgers of the 1980’s, D & D love 1989’s Road House. Seriously, these guys LOVE this movie!

Fresh off of two bleak but brilliant films in a row, D&D tackle a fan favorite, The Three Amigos.

Donnie picks Pascal Laugier’s 2009 French horror film Martyrs as if last episode’s discussion of Requiem for a Dream wasn’t dismal and bleak enough.

D&D tackle one of the most traumatic films ever made—Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream.

In deference to Donnie’s wonderful dad, the hosts take a look at Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece Psycho. With a decided refusal to discuss the remake and a mutual love of the Bernard Hermann score, this is a gush-fest of one of the most iconic films made in the twentieth century.

The two Dons dive into blaxploitation, Tarantino, and the most adult of QT’s films, 1997’s Jackie Brown starring Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert DeNiro, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton. Holy balls, what a cast!

The boys take on Ivan Reitman’s 1981 Army spoof Stripes. Remarkably they agree on almost everything as well as take a detour into Don’s gig as a Videostore Manager and Donnie’s love of Elmer Bernstein.

Once again, Don picks a beloved movie from days gone by, 1971’s Harold and Maude, which Donnie finds insufferable. Breaking down the very odd cult classic gets the boys into the weeds of what director Hal Ashby was actually getting at with this obscure film.

Donnie picks the 1959 Billy Wilder classic comedy Some Like It Hot with the caveat that anyone not completely enamored by it cannot be his friend. Luckily, Don likes it just fine.

This week, Hall picks Ridley Scott’s Alien and it turns into a fanboy excuse as both hosts dig this science fiction horror hybrid and especially the creation of a female hero who eschews all the stereotypes of women in peril so popular in Hollywood up to this film.