One, two

Krampus’s watching you

Three, four

Svartalfr at your door

Five, six

He’s got a switch of sticks

Seven, eight

You’re gonna end in chains

Nine, ten

Christmas’s at an end…

Cheer......... or fear?

This year, for our holiday special, Josh and Ryan are taking you to the dark side of the holidays, with a look at the 2015 riff on a classic piece of Eastern European folklore, Krampus.

Hoping for gingerbread cookies? They're here, but you're the one on the menu. Elf on a shelf? These elves brought their meathooks. Do you wanna build a snowman?! Careful it doesn't pull you into the underworld!

Or, maybe, this whole movie is a joking jab at every other Christmas classic out there, lampooning even the National Lampoons, skewering the claymation of yesteryear, and trodding upon the Hallmark outcomes that get hokier every year. It's the proverbial 'Dark Link' of the holiday movie universe. The balance to the holly jolly joy and saccharine sweet taste of too much candy and Christmas cinema. It's what the universe needs to stay spinning on its tenuous little spindle.

We'll let you decide.

Krampus was released in 2015 and stars Toni Collette, Adam Scott, David Koechner, and Allison Tolman.

From all of us here at The Cinemeh Podcast to you, our listeners, we wish you the sincerest of happy holidays, whatever you celebrate, as this year comes to a close. We value you as you an audience, and many of you, as treasured friends and family. Thanks for being with us for another year of mediocre movies, and here's to another in 2025.

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It’s ALL been building towards THIS! MAXIMUM EFFORT!

In our final installment of The CineMEH Podcast presents Marvel’s Deadpool movies as created by Fox, we are excited to bring you…

Deadpool and Wolverine!

Josh and Ryan go on a final extended rant about the the Marvel properties before Disney got them in their Mickey gloves, what the future of the multiverse is, and whether or not this was actually a good movie. Ryan thinks it was. Josh has other thoughts.

You’ll get to see Paul Rudd age! You’ll get to hear the cosmic wailing of an infinite number of parallel universes! You’ll get to smell the musty inside of a superhero mask ONE. MORE. TIME.

That’s not to say we won’t faithfully bring you future Marvel movies, or future past Marvel movies, or even future past future Deadpool Marvel movies. It just means that this particular venture down the Marvel multiverse has reached its inevitable conclusion and we’re both melancholy and thrilled.

Wanna experience a half dozen fights between two nigh-invincible slobberknockers who are competing to drop the ‘F’ bomb the most times?

This is the movie, the film experience, the cinematic masterpiece… and the podcast for YOU.

Deadpool and Wolverine was released in 2024 and stars HUGH MOTHERF***ING JACKMAN, the guy from Van Wilder, Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, and Steve Rogers.

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…Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel.

What’s better than ONE Marvel’s Deadpool movie?! Two Marvel’s Deadpool movies!

Please note that Marvel did not actually release the Deadpool movies, they are in fact Fox properties, but we’ll be damned if we do anything at all that raises the profile of THAT fallen empire.

Josh and Ryan are back in part two of our Marvel’s Deadpool series with the aptly titled… Deadpool 2!

Co-starring a guy you could be forgiven for mistaking as Thanos, a sarcastically charming performance turn by the star of Joker (that’s… that’s Zazie Beetz, y’all… our podcast note writer has a crush on her), and with appearances by a host of celebrities in C-Tier superhero roles, this gonzo second outing of the merc with a mouth is a rollickin’ halfway-decent time!

And since you don’t get to enjoy the brilliant Marvel’s Deadpool performance by our very own Josh, please know that he confidently delivered the entire episode’s remarks IN. A. DEADPOOL. MASK.

You ready? Time for Maximum Effort.

Deadpool 2 was released in 2018 and stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Josh Brolin, and Zazie Beetz.

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…Marvel, Marvel, Marvel

Guess what, sports fans, your two favorite hosts are back in your ear-holes! It’s Ryan and Captain Josh (what? what’s that? oh, sorry)— It’s Ryan and Josh back at it again! Only this time, they’re playing shamelessly, cynically, and inopportunely to the algorithm.

That’s right! Josh and Ryan are convinced if they just put ‘Marvel’ enough times in the show notes, more people will listen and they’ll finally get some of those sweet, sweet hair trimmer endorsements.

If the meta joke hasn’t landed yet, this entry from Marvel may not be your taste, and Josh and Ryan sincerely recommend you review one of our other Marvel episodes. Like The Immortals. Or Daredevil. We’ve done a few Marvel episodes.

In our newest mini-series, your intrepid podcast mercs with mouths are bringing you the full arc of Wade Wilson’s storyline (as of the time of this recording in the year of our Cthulhu 2024) as we bring you a comprehensive and exhaustive breakdown of…

Deadpool.

Since we’ve already pinged the algorithm with enough Marvel mentions for this episode’s copy, we’ll let our review do the rest of the talking. Buckle up, friends— its gonna be a rip-roaring, curse-slinging, spider-man-rip-off-maskin’, Marvel-tastic good time.

There, got one more in.

Deadpool was released in 2016 stars Ryan Reynolds and do you really care who else?

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WE ARE THE CINEMEH PODCAST AND WE'RE HERE TO RAWK YOU!

It's episode 2 of our MidSummer Mini Marathon where Josh and Ryan take on some of each other's favorite movies! This week, we're dropping a quarter in the arcade machine, plugging in our duct-tape repaired bass, and packing our map of Toronto, because we're headed into the cult-classic territory of fine Canadian cinema with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World!

In a discussion about relationships, romance, and the time-honored tradition of having to defeat your current boo's former lovers in single combat in order to win their heart, host Josh's favorite film goes under the microscope. Does being vegan just make you better than other people? How large a hammer can you actually fit in a common purse? And which diminished sharp minor chord is the one that summons a green dragon?

Ever wondered what you get when you mix together a brew of indie rock, a heavy dose of Legend of Zelda references, several spoonfuls of cartoon violence and a dash of exceedingly creepy relationship behavior? You get Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Scot Pilgrim vs. the World was released in 2010 and stars Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin and the MCU.

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Have you lost that lovin' feeling for your two favorite podcast hosts this side of Fightertown, USA? Well take a ride on our mighty wings straight into the danger zone, because we've got the need to read....... a variety of trivia facts about our favorite movies.

Welcome CineMEH fans to the 2024 Mid Summer Mini Marathon! Josh and Ryan take a stab and deconstructing some of each other's favorite films as we while away the long hours of endless sunsets, heatwaves, and crippling FOMO-induced anxiety triggered by whether or not we should have joined that pickup volleyball game.

First on the docket, or rather on the dock of the bay, or rather rather on the deck of an aircraft carrier, is co-host Ryan's favorite movie: Top Gun. This week, we'll be exploring the ups and downs of this cineMEHtic MEHsterpiece for all its flaws, inaccuracies, abrupt tonal shifts and ill-explained plot devices. We've got the MiiG in our sights for this one, and no criticism is below the hard deck.

Top Gun was released in 1986 and stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt

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It's the season finale of Season 4 The CineMeh Podcast! And on hand to go out with style is our biggest episode of the season! A movie so tremendously long, it felt like it went on forever! So incredibly lengthy, it seemed to never end! A movie that felt like... an eternity?

It's Marvel's Eternals.

That's right! This week on CineMeh, Josh and Ryan are delving into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with one of its most recent, and yet puzzlingly most forgettable entries, Eternals. An ensemble showpiece with a star-studded cast, featuring appearances by Rob Stark, Lara Croft, and Frida, we muddle our way through this ponderous, confused, meandering 160-minute mess.

With discussion topics like "what were they thinking?" "who is the hero?" "who is the bad guy?" we really go in deep on this one. Only, not so much, because Marvel did such a poor job creating anything even resembling a functional movie with Eternals, Josh and Ryan are largely left asking pretty basic questions about this film. When you can't tell what sub-genre your sci-fi superhero epic is (a whoddunit? a morality tale? an apocalypse story?), you are really in for a rough ride.

After a perplexing mix of gray morality, truncated character development, head-scratching cosmic events, badly executed scope, and 40 miles of bad road, we think you'll agree... Marvel's Eternals might be one best forgotten about.

Marvel's Eternals was released in 2021 and stars (in no particular order because holy shit is this cast long) Gemma Chan, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, Ma Dong-seok, Bryan Tyree Henry, Barry Keoghan, Lauren Ridloff, Lia McHugh, and Richard Madden.

Am I forgetting anybody? Do you think that was enough people for your movie, Marvel?!

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