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

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

The Film and Pop-Culture Podcast

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149 episodes
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Sep 25, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
524.4 – Disney’s Panic, Predators, The Aggression Dichotomy
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 ...
Sep 18, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
524.3 – Silksong, MegaDoc, Vulture Movie Draft and Festival Reactions
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,
Sep 12, 2025 · 59 min
524.2 – The Long Walk, Katey’s Covered TIFF, Is Paramount Buying Warner Bros?
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.
Sep 3, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
524.1 – David Went To Telluride, Sophisticate Mini, Summer Movie Review
This week, Da7e has to go see a dumb demon movie to round out the summer, so Katey and David of FITWR’s Prestige coverage meet Matt Patches, he of random prompts. First, David reports from this year’s Telluride Film Festival. Then,
Aug 29, 2025 · 59 min
524 – The Future of Star Trek, The Roses, Relay
This week, David has begun his festival run for the season so it’s up to Katey, Patches, and Da7e to hold down the podcast. First, the boys talk the future of Star Trek, a major priority for the new Paramount. Then,
Aug 22, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
523 – Ne Zha II, K-Pop Demon Hunters in a theater, Highest 2 Lowest
This week, David is so busy he only wanted to be on the Spike Lee/Denzel segment, but before David joins us for a review of Highest 2 Lowest, it’s an animation-palooza! First, Da7e and Katey both took in the highest grossing movie of the year Ne Zha II...
Aug 13, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
522 – Taylor Swift The MCU, What is Vanity Fair Doing?, Weapons (Spoilers!)
This week, we’re having a great time laughing at movies, some of them comedies! First, Da7e inspired Patches to watch Universal’s DISASTROUS War of the Worlds (on Prime Video) that might be one of the worst movies ever. Then,
Aug 7, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
521 – War of the Worlds (2025), Freakier Friday, The Naked Gun (2025)
This week, we’re having a great time laughing at movies, some of them comedies! First, Da7e inspired Patches to watch Universal’s DISASTROUS War of the Worlds (on Prime Video) that might be one of the worst movies ever. Then,
Jul 29, 2025 · 57 min
520 – Happy Gilmore 2, Ryan Trahan, Fantastic Four: First Steps (SPOILER Discussion)
This week, being named one of TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST 100 PODCASTS OF ALL TIME has driven everyone into the War Room, from parent’s houses to Canadian hotel rooms. This week, Katey got some of us to watch Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix. Then,
Jul 23, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min
519 – What’s Happening With Paramount, Donkey Kong Bonanza, Eddington
This week, Katey Rich has gone to the beach (hopefully not the Old beach), leaving the three guys in the War Room where they try to figure out if budget or politics rules at CBS/Paramount, Patches is having a lot of fun breaking everything in Donkey Ko...
Jul 15, 2025 · 1 hr 28 min
518 – K Pop Demon Hunters, Phineas and Ferb Returns, Superman (2025)
This week, David “suddenly” was on vacation (?), so Da7e, Patches, and Katey head into the War Room. Patches tries to sell the group on the very popular (and Patches says better-than-Superman) K-Pop Demon Hunters on Netflix.
Jul 10, 2025 · 1 hr 5 min
517 – Sorry, Baby, The Bear S4, Old Guard 2
This week, everyone is back in the War Room and Katey’s seen all the things. First, everyone finally takes on Sorry, Baby an indie debut that is rolling out across the nation this week. Then, Katey and Da7e were the only two who didn’t give up on Hulu’...
Jul 3, 2025 · 36 min
Two Daves Talk F1 and Jurassic World Rebirth
This week, Katey and Patches are off on vacation as Da7e and David Ehrlich convene on a Wednesday evening to talk about last weekend’s big box office win: F1 ® The Movie. Then they talk about this weekend’s upcoming box office win (if you believe the t...
Jun 25, 2025 · 1 hr 28 min
516 – Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Kids Review Elio, 28 Years Later
This week, Katey and Patches both had children who had seen Pixar’s Elio in theaters but were home sick, so as responsible parents, they were used for content – this week’s mini segment! Also, David Ehrlich has played more Death Stranding 2: On the Bea...
Jun 19, 2025 · 56 min
515 – Tom Cruise Honorary Oscar, How To Train Your Dragon (Remake), Materialists
This week, Da7e is out seeing movies, so Katey, Patches, and David slam together to talk about Tom Cruise getting an Honorary Academy Award this year, Katey’s kids kinda MEH’d the new How To Train Your Dragon, then Katey and David go at Materialists,
Jun 12, 2025 · 1 hr 5 min
514 – The Phoenician Scheme, Summer Game Fest ’25, The Life of Chuck
This week, Da7e and David get to weigh in on Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme (and are pretty nice to it, maybe?), then a very tired Patches reports back from this year’s Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles (the only thing happening in that city is Sum...
Jun 7, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min
513 – Predator: Killer of Killers, Mountainhead, From The World of John Wick: Ballerina
This week, let’s talk about some movies. NOW STREAMING on Hulu is the animated Predator: Killer of Killers, which Patches and David greatly enjoyed and tell Da7e and Katey about. Then, Katey got Da7e and Patches to watch Mountainhead on Max for the pod...
May 29, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
512 – The Rehearsal S2, Lilo & Stitch (2025), Fountain of Youth
This week, everyone is back in the war room, and you’d think we’d do a Cannes check-in as a movie and pop culture podcast, but you’d be wrong. First, the dudes talk about The Rehearsal season two on HBO with SPOILERS because if you know you were watchi...
May 22, 2025
511 – Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, Andor Season 2
This week, David is seeing movies in France so Da7e, Katey, and Patches got together to talk about Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning and Andor Season 2. One of which they really liked and the other they mostly did not like.
May 14, 2025 · 16 min
An Afternoon With Katey and Patches
Katey Rich and Matt Patches do their very best in the middle of the afternoon to talk about some stuff including being ready for the next Tom Cruise era (after one of them saw Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning),