The Screen Companion

Peanut butter and chocolate. Milk and cookies. Horror...and comedy? It began with Abbott, Costello, and Frankenstein's monster in the '40s. Since then, movies like Evil Dead 2 (1987), Braindead (1992), and Idle Hands (1999) have been running with the baton. So how did it evolve? Was it better thirty years ago, or is the genre mashup still kicking? Let's think about it over laughter and screams! Guest: Jon.

The Host's favorite show of all time, The Wire never had a bad episode. But what was the best season? It just so happens that both guys in this three part special agree that it's Season Two at the Docks. When HBO was killing it and Netflix was only mailing rentals, let's return to the early 2000s for some Baltimore street drama. Guest: Jon.

Cool customers driving down even colder streets, long shadows and harsh streetlamps their constant companions. The Driver and Thief. Let's look at anti-heroes hitting a high note in the late '70s and early '80s with crime dramas where the protagonist is a live-by-a-code professional surrounded by those that are compromised. Guest: Max.

In this second part that began in Dead Reckoning, let's jaw about Tom Cruise's eighth turn as master spy Ethan Hunt, in Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning. If this is the finale to a franchise whose first installment released way back in 1996, how did Cruise and director / writer Christopher McQuarrie do? Is it the sendoff we all wanted? Is it screaming for another round starring Cruise? Should you choose to listen, we'll get into it. Guest: Andrew.