295 - Valentine's Day Special: Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale

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Significantly upping the ante from last year's pornographic Valentine's Day special (which reviewed 1972's Deep Throat), this year the show is taking on a much more modern porn movie. Including Diminisodes and the intros for classic episode re-releases, Sol has told Allen about this movie in detail several times now. But does Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale live up to the hype?

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Films covered in this episode:
Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 40%

288 - Oscars 2023: Part II

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Boobedy-boo, the Diminishing Returns boys are back with the other half of this year's Best Picture nominees at the Academy Awards. Will the Oscar go to The Banshees of Inisherin, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, Women Talking, Everything Everywhere All at Once (or one of the films from last episode)?

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Films covered in this episode:
The Banshees of Inisherin
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 80%

Elvis
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 54%

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 84%

Top Gun: Maverick
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 67%

Women Talking
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 55%

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 70%

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 80%

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 90%

The Sea Beast
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 40%

Turning Red
Allen: n/s
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 70%

287 - Oscars 2023

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It's the annual Diminishing Returns Oscars extravaganza -- and Calvin has seen a record number of this year's Best Picture nominees! Listen for the gang's thoughts on All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Fabelmans, Tar, Triangle of Sadness and more!

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Films covered in this episode:
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 67%

Avatar: The Way of Water
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 60%

The Fabelmans
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 57%

Tar
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 80%

Triangle of Sadness
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 70%

286 - Valentine's Day Special: Deep Throat

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We've finally done it. We've finally cut all pretenses and just covered an outright hardcore porn film for Valentine's Day. Hey, porn movies are still movies, guys.

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Films covered in this episode:
Deep Throat
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰
Sol: ½
Overall score: 30%

279 - Easter Special: God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (with Calvin Dyson)

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Guest: Calvin Dyson

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To get everyone into the Easter spirit, we're celebrating by watching a Patreon-selected bit of religious propaganda. This time, we're going back to the God's Not Dead franchise for the third entry in the series.

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Films covered in this episode:
God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ½
Sol: ½
Overall score: 24%

278 - Till Death Us Do Part (with The British Sitcom History Podcast)

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Guests: The British Sitcom History Podcast

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The British Sitcom History Podcast is back for round three! This time, we're taking on the two movie spin-offs of controversial '60s sitcom Till Death Us Do Part -- Till Death Us Do Part (1968) and The Alf Garnett Saga (1972).

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Films covered in this episode:
Till Death Us Do Part (1968)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Gareth: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 60%

The Alf Garnett Saga
Allen: ✰
Gareth: ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 37%

277 - Oscars 2022

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Be vewy quiet. We're hunting Oscars.

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Films covered in this episode:
Belfast
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 60%

CODA
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 65%

Don’t Look Up
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 65%

Drive My Car
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 65%

Dune
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 50%

King Richard
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 60%

Licorice Pizza
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 60%

Nightmare Alley (2021)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 65%

Nightmare Alley (1947)
Allen: ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 55%

The Power of the Dog
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 45%

West Side Story
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 65%

276 - Diminishing Returns Are Dead (with Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis and more)

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Guests: Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis, Calvin Dyson, Judey Bignell, Conor Murray, Grace Miller, Emily Slade, How Didn’t This Get Made? and Nicky Diss

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A seance brings a number of never-heard-before clips back from the dead, featuring Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis, Calvin Dyson, Judey Bignell, Conor Murray, Grace Miller, Emily Slade, Nicky Diss and Cubby R. Broccoli.

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