Read it and Weep

Read it and Weep is a good podcast about books, movies, and TV hosted by Alex Falcone. Each week, we discuss something from pop culture with an emphasis on blockbusters, failures, and nostalgia.

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is a well regarded book. But is the movie a travesty or the best that could be done with such complicated source material? We're here to find out!Sponsor Mark in Manhattan (thanks, Mark!) loved the book but wanted us to help make sense of the movie. We do our best for four people who haven't read it and we discover... that we're super confused. It's a mess, guys! Not awful, but such a mess.On the plus side you do get to play "Find Tom Hanks" which is always fun.

Read it and Weep is a good podcast about books, movies, and TV hosted by Alex Falcone. Each week, we discuss something from pop culture with an emphasis on blockbusters, failures, and nostalgia.

Are you a successful woman who has everything but a husband? Then we have a solution for you. Just join Christian Mingle and try really hard to be religious!Well, that might not quite work out because all the men on CM are constantly giving you pop quizzes on bible verses and making you perform improvised prayers in groups. Christian Mingle(r) -- Don't fuck with us!This low-budget straight-to-VOD release is bad and painful, but it never goes in quite the direction you expect, so that's kinda interesting.

Read it and Weep is a good podcast about books, movies, and TV hosted by Alex Falcone. Each week, we discuss something from pop culture with an emphasis on blockbusters, failures, and nostalgia.

1994 was, it's well established, the year of movies. This was not the best one.Charlie Sheen is Ditch Brodie, a rebellious skydiving instructor whose client just went early and didn't open her shoot. So he decides to become an amateur detective turned amateur spy turned action hero. Seems plausible.Besides the sexism not aging well, there are some fun moments. Plus we debut a new game "Name That Sandwich" and get a message from a special guest, Ezra's son Caleb who can't say "vanilla."

Read it and Weep is a good podcast about books, movies, and TV hosted by Alex Falcone. Each week, we discuss something from pop culture with an emphasis on blockbusters, failures, and nostalgia.

What does a girl want? Love? Happiness? To have fun? To be covered in little bits of ribbon? To be hugely disrespectful of another country's culture? To date Colin Firth? Well, that one's probably real, even though this movie takes that to a weird extreme by making Mr. Firth her dad.Amanda Bynes stars as a shitty American kid who seeks out her estranged father, the rich and handsome Lord Dashwood (Colin Firth). They hit it off and while she batters British culture with a billy club. Everything works out and Colin gets back together with Amanda's mom despite 17 years of growing apart.

Read it and Weep is a good podcast about books, movies, and TV hosted by Alex Falcone. Each week, we discuss something from pop culture with an emphasis on blockbusters, failures, and nostalgia.

Read it and Weep is a good podcast about books, movies, and TV hosted by Alex Falcone. Each week, we discuss something from pop culture with an emphasis on blockbusters, failures, and nostalgia.

For the second episode of Chris and Alex's spinoff giant mini podcast Time Travel Tomorrow (Today!), we discuss the low-budget film Primer which takes a nerdy, complicated look at time travel and how it affects people. It's fascinating.We also discuss competing news from the BBC and from our new favorite website, billionaire.com.Want to try to visualize the plot of Primer? Try one of these handy images.

Read it and Weep is a good podcast about books, movies, and TV hosted by Alex Falcone. Each week, we discuss something from pop culture with an emphasis on blockbusters, failures, and nostalgia.

In case you haven't seen it, Tiny House Hunters is just like regular House Hunters but smaller. A couple looks at three houses, they get a pizza and pick a house to buy, then the cameras go off and the couple gets a divorce.Making the houses tiny adds an extra layer of silliness because it's clear that half the couple doesn't want to give up everything great for an over-priced apartment without running water.Tiny houses are a lie anyway. If you want 600 square feet and no closets, we have that. It's called an apartment. Nobody needs an apartment without running water parked in Dave's backyard that costs $100k. It's like tapas. It's all fun and tiny and then you get the bill.

Thank you x 1,000,000 to everybody who submitted a sponsorship. We've used our trademarked non-transparent process to narrow down the applications to the 8ish winners and here they are. Including the return of Wet Month and the debut of dinosaur detective month (maybe).

Read it and Weep is a good podcast about books, movies, and TV hosted by Alex Falcone. Each week, we discuss something from pop culture with an emphasis on blockbusters, failures, and nostalgia.