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| 5/31/26 | ![]() Case File: "Kang Fu" - Warriors of Virtue (1997)✨ | anti-drug presentationfantasy film+3 | — | Warriors of Virtue | Apache JunctionTao | Kang FuWarriors of Virtue+5 | — | 1h 23m 06s | |
| 5/10/26 | ![]() Case File: "Yoyohawk" - Prey (2022)✨ | film reviewscience fiction+3 | — | Movie GumshoesPrey+1 | Northern Great Plains | PreyPredator+5 | — | 1h 36m 32s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Case File: "The Grabber" - Black Phone (2022)✨ | supernatural horrorfilm analysis+3 | Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno | Blumhouse ProductionsUniversal Pictures+2 | Apache Junction | The Black Phonesupernatural horror+3 | — | 59m 10s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Case File: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)✨ | Dungeons & Dragonsfilm review+5 | — | Red WizardsDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | — | Dungeons & DragonsHonor Among Thieves+5 | — | 1h 21m 49s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Case File: "Graboids" - Tremors (1990)✨ | detective worktap dancing+4 | Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno | Movie GumshoesRon Underwood+1 | Lone Pine | TremorsGraboids+7 | — | 1h 47m 39s | |
| 3/9/26 | ![]() Case File: "Möbius Strip" - Lost Highway (1997)✨ | film analysissurrealism+4 | — | Lost Highway | — | Lost HighwayDavid Lynch+4 | — | 1h 07m 08s | |
| 3/2/26 | ![]() Case File: Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie (2026)✨ | film analysiscinematic investigation+3 | Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno | Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie | — | Nirvanna The Band The Show The Moviefilm investigation+3 | — | 1h 06m 11s | |
| 2/7/26 | ![]() Case File: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die! (2026)✨ | mysterydigital paranoia+3 | — | Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die! | — | mysteryGood Luck Have Fun Don’t Die!+3 | — | 1h 21m 09s | |
| 2/1/26 | ![]() Case File: "Artificial Justice" - Mercy (2026)✨ | AI justicedetective story+3 | — | ClippyMercy (2026) | Estonian | AIMercy 2026+5 | — | 1h 07m 44s | |
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Case File: "Furious George" - Primate (2026)✨ | film analysiscomedy+4 | Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno | Movie GumshoesPrimate | — | Furious GeorgePrimate+5 | — | 1h 08m 29s | |
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| 12/16/25 | ![]() Case File: "Lady Bug" - Bullet Train (2023) | In this week’s case file, the Movie Gumshoes investigate Bullet Train (2023), a slick, neon-splattered hit job starring Brad Pitt as a world-weary assassin who just wants a quiet shift. Detective Ballistic slams the brakes early, arguing Pitt, Hollywood royalty with an Oscar on the mantle has been reduced to punching tickets on a hyper-stylized popcorn express, a flashy cash-grab racing on charm instead of substance. Detective Sourdough, however, sees intent where Ballistic sees waste, insisting the movie knows exactly what it is: a fast, funny, self-aware genre riff that lets Pitt weaponize his charisma, comic timing, and battered-cool persona. As the train hurtles from station to station, the Gumshoes debate whether Bullet Train is evidence of creative derailment or proof that even a “fun” movie can earn a star’s badge, leaving the verdict somewhere between first-class entertainment and cinematic misdemeanor. | 49m 32s | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | ![]() Case File: "Bootleg" - Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022) | In this week’s case file, Jared and rookie detective Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno investigate Jeepers Creepers: Reborn, a movie so cursed it’s still trapped in an active crime scene. What starts as a routine reboot quickly turns into a legal nightmare involving an ongoing lawsuit between Myriad Pictures and Infinity Films over who actually owns the franchise, with both sides arguing over rights, contracts, and whether removing Victor Salva magically erased prior agreements. While the precinct’s top detective Santiago was officially assigned the case, Jared couldn’t resist swiping the file and claiming he cracked it first, forcing Jonathan to confront the real horror of Hollywood: intellectual property law that refuses to stay buried. | 38m 48s | ||||||
| 12/6/25 | ![]() Case File: "Staffanie" - Evil Dead Rise (2023) | The precinct is quiet, too quiet, until Captain storms into the bullpen holding a Blu-ray copy of Evil Dead Rise like it’s Exhibit A in a homicide trial. Turns out there’s a special event tonight: a father–daughter movie night. His kid wants to watch Evil Dead Rise (2023)… and the Captain, proud but deeply concerned, wants to know if the film is child appropriate.The Captain, never one to read a parental guide, slams the case onto Jared’s desk. And just like that, the Movie Gumshoes are dragged into one of their grisliest cases yet.Jared “Ballistic” Jackson already knows the score: Evil Dead Rise isn’t exactly a bedtime story. Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno, meanwhile, approaches the investigation with the wide-eyed optimism of a rookie who genuinely believes maybe a film with flesh-possessing demons could still be PG-13 if everyone behaves themselves.The detectives break down the cinematic crime scene:A reunion between two estranged sisters goes bloodily sideways, when flesh-possessing demons show up uninvited.Primal battles for survival, complete with the kind of gore that makes even jaded detectives look away from the bodycam footage.A nightmarish twist on family drama, where the deadites give “problem siblings” an entirely new meaning.Directed by Lee Cronin, running a lean, mean 1 hour 37 minutes, and earning that R rating with absolute enthusiasm.As Jared and Jonathan comb through the evidence, MPAA notes, scene breakdowns, forensic gore analysis, they prepare their briefing for the Captain. Jonathan tries, valiantly, to find even one child-friendly takeaway. He fails. Spectacularly.By the end, the Gumshoes must deliver the uncomfortable truth: this movie is many things, intense, inventive, stylishly brutal, but it is absolutely not appropriate for a child unless that child is secretly a 300-year-old demon.Case closed. For now.Because in the world of Movie Gumshoes, even movie night can turn into a full-blown investigation. | 51m 53s | ||||||
| 11/29/25 | ![]() Case File: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) | Chaos hits the precinct when the Captain finally takes his first vacation in twelve years, leaving behind an empty office, an unwatered ficus, and a mountain of overdue paperwork. But before the Gumshoes can enjoy a rare moment of peace, something far more sinister slinks out of the shadows: Dirty Deborah.Deborah the precinct archivist breaks into the captain’s office, swipes his entire wardrobe (including three identical short-sleeve dress shirts), and steals his badge. By the time the detectives discover her, she’s already strutting around the bullpen in Hardcastle’s clothes, barking orders, and claiming the captain personally put her “100% in charge, no take-backs.”She gathers the Movie Gumshoes, Detective Jared “Ballistic” Jackson and his overeager rookie partner Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno, and issues their new assignment: “Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny… or you’re all suspended!”Convinced the film holds “clues” about Hardcastle’s whereabouts (it does not), Deborah forces the detectives to dive into Indy’s final adventure. While Jared tries to keep the investigation grounded, Sourdough becomes obsessed with uncovering whether time travel is admissible in court, and Deborah keeps interrupting with questions like, “Can Harrison Ford legally punch Nazis without a permit?”As the Gumshoes break down the plot, dissect the action sequences, and debate whether the de-aging tech should be charged with impersonating a younger man, they begin to suspect Deborah’s real plan: distract them long enough for her to pawn the captain’s badge.In the end, the precinct is restored, order (mostly) returns, and Dirty Deborah flees out a bathroom window, leaving behind only a trail of sunflower seeds and a forged memo appointing her “Deputy Queen of Cinematic Operations.” | 1h 15m 39s | ||||||
| 11/22/25 | ![]() Case File: "The Skin Job" - Bugonia (2025) | In this episode of Movie Gumshoes, Jonathan storms into the precinct with breaking news: the owner of The Skin Job—Tortilla Flats’ most questionable strip club—has allegedly landed on the Epstein list, and the FBI needs them to detain him. Jared, sensing immediate danger, complications, and probably glitter, decides they need a training refresher on how to apprehend a high-profile suspect without getting sued, shot, or slimed by alien goo.Naturally, there’s only one cinematic case study that fits: Bugonia (2025), Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark, deranged black comedy remake of the Korean cult classic Save the Green Planet!.Jared assembles a full case file:The film’s two amateur abductors who are very sure their CEO target is a world-ending alienEmma Stone as the possibly extraterrestrial tech mogulJesse Plemons absolutely committing to “kidnapping with conviction”And a reminder that “proper suspect apprehension” and “Yorgos Lanthimos movie” rarely overlapAs they break down the film for tactical (and questionable) guidance, Jared and Jonathan attempt to extract real-world lessons on handling powerful people, reading red flags, and not accidentally starting a hostage crisis.By the time they finish, one thing is clear: They are absolutely not ready to detain a strip-club owner under federal suspicion. But they’re going to try anyway… and hijinks are inevitable. | 1h 12m 59s | ||||||
| 11/8/25 | ![]() Case File: "Ctrl+Alt+Del” - Tron: Ares (2025) | In this episode of Movie Gumshoes, the detectives dive into the neon world of Tron: Ares, which is the third film where Jared Leto stars as Ares, a program sent from the digital realm into the human world, directed by Joachim Rønning and filmed under the codename “Dust Bunny” in Vancouver. But while they investigate, Jonathan quietly battles his own crisis: his AI girlfriend, Synthia.exe, has left him, and he must accept that—like Ares, some things have to step into reality. As they discuss lightcycles, the legacy of Tron: Legacy, and the film’s themes of programs becoming human, Jared urges Jonathan to do the same: let go of digital love and try dating someone with a pulse. In a bittersweet moment, Jonathan deletes Ari-Elle, wiping their “shared memory,” and admits it’s time to leave the Grid behind. The case concludes not just with movie facts, but with Jonathan taking his first step back into the real world. | 1h 03m 50s | ||||||
| 11/3/25 | ![]() Case File: "Lovecraft" - Cast A Deadly Spell (1991) | The precinct is in chaos. Detective Santiago the precinct's top detective, legendary for solving three cold cases before his morning coffee, has vanished without a trace. The Captain calls in the only dimwitted duo reckless enough for the job: Detectives Jared “Ballistic” and Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno.The Captain delivers the bad news: Santiago has been spotted in the Junk wearing a velvet robe and chanting under the stars with the secretive Cthulhu sex cult known only as The Knight Stars in area. Word is he’s been completely brainwashed, body present, mind somewhere in the tentacles of madness.Knowing they’re out of their depth in eldritch erotica and ancient sea gods, the Captain orders the Gumshoes to do what they do best: movies. Specifically, every piece of pop culture featuring Cthulhu, cults, or detectives who smoked too much and saw things man wasn’t meant to see.Their first assignment? HBO’s forgotten gem “Cast a Deadly Spell” (1991). Private detective Harry Philip Lovecraft, (Fred Ward). The strange but affluent Amos Hacksaw (David Warner) trusts Lovecraft because of his distaste for magic, and he recruits the private eye to track down an ancient text. Harry's seemingly straightforward task becomes complicated when he realizes that the object of his mission contains curses that Hacksaw hopes to use for world domination.— it’s practically a training video for this case. | 1h 03m 24s | ||||||
| 10/23/25 | ![]() Case File: "Press Start" - Cloak & Dagger (1985) | When a battered Atari cartridge turns up at the precinct labeled “Top Secret — Project Cloak & Dagger,” veteran detective Jared “Ballistic” Jackson and partner Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno are called in to decode it. What starts as a simple nostalgia trip soon spirals into a full-blown Cold-War mystery — complete with imaginary operatives, vanishing fathers, and a kid convinced he’s living inside a spy movie.As they dissect Cloak & Dagger’s strange blend of childhood fantasy and government paranoia, Jared suspects the film is really an allegory about the Reagan-era arms race and latchkey loneliness. Sourdough, however, is convinced it’s about trust — between father and son, agent and double agent, gamer and game. Their investigation leads from a dusty VHS rental case to a shadowy arcade in San Antonio, where they interrogate the ghost of Dabney Coleman’s dual roles like he’s their missing witness.Between analyzing the film’s heartfelt delusion and its surprisingly brutal finale, the detectives debate whether Cloak & Dagger was warning us about spycraft, screen time, or the blurred line between imagination and evidence.In the end, the case file reads: “Suspect: Reality itself. Motive: Escapism.” And as the closing reel spins, Jared mutters, “Maybe the real top-secret project was learning how to grow up.” | 1h 06m 53s | ||||||
| 10/9/25 | ![]() Case File: "Super-Size" - Roofman (2025) | A string of bizarre restaurant robberies leaves staff tied up like Sunday roast, Detectives Jared “Ballistic” Jackson and Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno stake out the Feedbag Restaurant to catch the elusive Tangler — a criminal with a flair for knots and perfect timing.But when Dirty Deborah joins the operation with her case files (and questionable expertise in ropework), tensions rise faster than fryer grease. After Jared realizes the case mirrors Roofman (2025), the trio decide to “take a quick break” for research — only to return and find the Tangler’s struck again, leaving nothing but rope burns and an empty safe.Now the Gumshoes must scramble to explain to their Captain why their big bust turned into a night at the movies. Is this the most tangled case yet… or just another knot they can’t untie? | 46m 06s | ||||||
| 10/4/25 | ![]() Case File: "Sniff Sense" - Good Boy (2025) | When the Movie Gumshoes set out to investigate Ben Leonberg’s haunted-house dog flick Good Boy (2025), things go sideways before the opening credits roll. Rookie Jonathan shows up with what he proudly claims is a new K-9 recruit named Ballistic—Jared’s old nickname from his wilder days. Trouble is, the “dog” turns out to be a rabid coyote swiped from behind the Feed Bag dumpster. Within minutes, Ballistic bolts, tears through downtown Junk, and bites a stripper outside the Skin Job.With chaos spreading and animal control nowhere in sight, Jared decides the best way to keep the rookie’s spirits up is to get back to the real case: dissecting Good Boy down at the Dinoplex. The two detectives hunker into sticky theater seats, joined by their favorite local informant, Dirty Deborah, who’s furious that the bar inside the theater didn’t even bother to card her.Between sips of flat gin and the distant sirens chasing the escaped coyote, the trio comb through Good Boy’s evidence—its dog’s-eye cinematography, its tragic loyalty, and the lingering question of what makes a “good boy” when the world goes bad. By the end of the night, they’ve got theories, a few laughs, and a live-animal warrant waiting for them back at HQ. | 55m 19s | ||||||
| 9/18/25 | ![]() Case File: "Dead End" - The Long Walk (2025) | In this hard-hitting case of Movie Gumshoes, Jared and rookie detective Jonathan lace up their boots to investigate The Long Walk (2025), Stephen King’s chilling dystopian tale brought to the screen by Francis Lawrence. The precinct archivist Dirty Deborah joins the case file, adding her broken moral compass to the mix. Together, the trio dissect the film’s oppressive atmosphere, Cooper Hoffman’s standout performance, and the devastating psychological toll of a contest where stopping means death. While Jared and Jonathan debate the pacing and adaptation choices, Deborah zeroes in on the fleeting humanity between the Walkers and the uneasy ethics of watching suffering for sport. Brutal, relentless, and thought-provoking, this episode asks: how far would you go when survival is the only prize? | 54m 15s | ||||||
| 9/12/25 | ![]() Case File: "Rap Sheet" - Hollywood Homicide (2003) | Back at the precinct, Jonathan can’t help but strike up a conversation with the Captain. He explains that he sees himself and Jared like Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett in Hollywood Homicide—two detectives with double lives. “They’ve got homicide,” Jonathan says, “we’ve got movies. We clock out of real cases and moonlight as movie investigators. Same thing, just cooler jackets.”The Captain humors him, but Jared isn’t buying the comparison. To prove a point, Jared dives into the history of Hollywood Homicide. What he finds makes the precinct corkboard creak under the weight of red string: the film was loosely inspired by the wave of high-profile hip hop murders in the 1990s. Jared lays it out in grim detail—Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, and a string of unsolved killings that defined a generation of rap. The glitzy buddy-cop comedy suddenly looks like a tone-deaf cash-in on real tragedies.Jonathan still insists the movie has charm (“I mean, c’mon, Ford chases a suspect while on a cell phone call about real estate—classic!”), but Jared hates it. To him, it’s another Hollywood example of turning genuine pain into popcorn entertainment. The precinct is split: is Hollywood Homicide just harmless buddy-cop fluff, or a tasteless exploitation of unsolved murder cases?As the detectives argue, one thing is clear—the Gumshoes can’t even investigate a movie without digging into the real crimes hiding underneath. | 43m 44s | ||||||
| 8/30/25 | ![]() Case File: "Sell Out" - The Toxic Avenger (2025) | Jonathan and Jared hit the Dinoplex theater to catch the pint-sized Toxic Avenger reboot. But before the mop-wielding mutant can even clean house on-screen, a disgruntled patron stands up mid-show. He tells the whole crowd they’re “better than this movie” and urges everyone to walk out, claiming it’s nothing but a waste of time. Now back in their office, the Movie Gumshoes sift through the fallout. Between the walkout drama, the questionable legacy of the Toxic Avenger, and the tangled history of its production hell, Jared and Jonathan have to decide: is this radioactive reboot worth avenging… or was the loudmouth patron right all along? | 1h 05m 05s | ||||||
| 8/23/25 | ![]() Case File: "Triggered" - Weapons (2025) | The precinct is in chaos after a bizarre night at the movies. Detectives Jared Jackson and rookie Jonathan “Sourdough” Manno were assigned to investigate the latest cinematic crime scene: Zach Cregger’s Weapons. But their field operation was sabotaged by none other than precinct archivist Dirty Deborah, who, instead of quietly enjoying the screening, orchestrated an impromptu orgy in Row G.Amid spilled popcorn, shrieks, and audience members fleeing like extras in a B-horror flick, Jared and Jonathan struggled to keep their eyes on the screen and their notepads coherent. Every meaningful glance in Cregger’s labyrinthine film was punctuated by Deborah’s “side investigation.”Now back in the precinct’s flickering-light interrogation room, the three unlikely collaborators debrief the case. Jared, insists the movie is a coded warning about America’s obsession with violence. Jonathan, ever eager and overeager, suspects it’s really a puzzle box about Josh Brolin's tight vest. And Deborah, between sips of contraband boxed wine, swears the movie is about desire, repression, and the blurred lines between love and annihilation.As they sift through the evidence, scene by scene, line by line, the Gumshoes begin to realize that Weapons itself may be just a piece of a bigger cinematic conspiracy. Cregger’s film might not only be a horror anthology in disguise, but also a mirror to the chaos they just survived in the theater.By the end of the night, popcorn butter stains the case file, the chalkboard is covered in arrows and red string, and Deborah has made herself far too comfortable in the precinct. But the detectives agree on one thing: whatever Zach Cregger is aiming at, his movie hits hard. | 1h 16m 28s | ||||||
| 8/7/25 | ![]() Case File: "Alzheimer" - Memory (2022) | This week on Movie Gumshoes, Jackson drags a skeptical Jonathan out of the precinct and into the theater to investigate Memory (2022), where Liam Neeson plays an aging assassin losing his grip, and not just on his targets. But the real mystery? Why would Martin Campbell, once the master behind GoldenEye, Casino Royale, and The Mask of Zorro, take the shot on what looks like a dollar-bin action flick?As the detectives unravel the film’s tangled plot and Campbell’s curious career choices, they question whether Memory is just another throwaway thriller or a cryptic message from a once-great director slipping into cinematic obscurity. | 58m 05s | ||||||
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