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Will and Sam do more glazing than a donut factory over James Cameron's action movie touchstone in which Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis show off the fun, quirky and romantic side of brazen misappropriation of government resources and shadowy institutions accountable to no one.

This week, the boys journey to pay their respects at the shrine of New Zealand's patron saint, Karl Urban, in his gritty dystopian action flick, Dredd. Included inside: slasher bars, crucial updates on how Sam's curry turned out, and so much glazing a donutsmith envies.

In honor of our 22nd episode, Slop Culture is proud to present its thorough critical analysis of one of the most profound entries into the most sacred wings of cinema's hallowed halls: 2 Fast 2 Furious. Enclosed within: how to run a zoo as a mafia front, drift racing in the Hague and whether you can or cannot legally make a car your wife.

And if you can...should you?

This week, Will and Sam take a look at Sylvester Stallone's Expendables 2, a thoughtful and nuanced study of the relationship between masculinity, intimacy and conflict. Also, Jason Statham dresses up like a priest and stabs a dude and says "I now pronounce you man and KNIFE" and it's totally sick, you've got to watch it, bro.

Today, Will and Sam take a look at one of Heath Ledger's last performances as a fairy tale-obsessed conman who gets asked to help Matt Damon beat up a horse that spits spiders in the action-fantasy-buddy-comedy-horror-action-comedy-thriller-fantasy-horror-action-action-buddy-buddy-comedy-fantasy movie, the Brothers Grimm.

In the name of international relations, the boys have a look at District B13, the only movie that dares to ask what if the Fast and the Furious franchise was about parkour instead of cars and was about saving the Eiffel Tower from nukes and also Vin Diesel is French and so is everyone else. 

Join the boys as they journey back in time to the primitive 1990's, where computers were magical and the only thing cooler than ninjas were the people who knew how to use them (the computers, not the ninjas). The People of Japan v. Macaulay Culkin, the masculine urge to be socially awkward, jetski escort services and more on today's episode about Hackers.

Will and Sam go digging for 80's gold in this action-heavy, logic-light that dares to dream of a world where ninjutsu-practicing individuals can lead long, full lives with meaningful contributions to international government and artistic heritage. Come for the shuriken, stay for the ninja Seinfeld pitch.

The boys celebrate the legendary career of Denzel Washington by watching a film in which he enjoys a soul-healing vacation to scenic Naples, Italy and connects deeply with the local culture in between scenes of overwhelmingly horrifying psychopathic violence. Plus--pitching Conan O'Brien as an action comedy star, harmful depictions of supernatural assassins and what's the proper amount of effort to put into saving someone from extraterrestrials. 

To celebrate America's fourth-favorite corporate holiday, the lads decide to flex their creative writing muscles by writing opposing erotic video game fanfiction to see whose chops for crafting stories of pixelated pounding is superior. There are only two rules: only the strong survive and if you laugh, you drink.

This week, the boys get into the works of Christian "Chrissy" Bale with a look at a movie that features the only martial art designed by geometry students and the only social dystopia designed by Reddit moderators. Also featured: Taye Diggs glazing, gamer Richard Gere and the only protein supplement that makes you red.

Will and Sam take a look at cinematic universes that never were in this Taran Egerton-led heist flick that dares to ask the question "what if someone did the Nolan Batman trilogy but it was not as good and also Batman had a gatling bow?" 

The boys watch a mid-90's martial arts masterpiece and appreciate a glimpse into Jackie Chan's vision of America--a beautiful and rabid frenzy of a country in which colorful gangs of dirtbike riders battle mullet-sporting, uzi-toting white men for supremacy over New York and hovercrafts are law.

Seann William Scott earns the second N in his name while Chow Yun Fat violates no less than seven out of ten tenets of the Bro Code while finding the time to engage in bouts of fighting surprisingly whimsical Nazis. 

The boys party hard in 2026 by flopping face-down in a big ol' pile of Michael Bay and snorting a line of Nic Cage. Why is Alcatraz a Zelda dungeon? What's Sean Connery's fursona? Is Dale Earnhardt the only one who can stop the Devil? All this and more on the first new episode of Slop Culture in 2026.

This week, the boys fill their goblets and drink deeply from the well of German auteur, Uwe Boll, and find that the taste reminds them fondly of foreign tax incentives, rubber orc suits and Ray Liotta's ghostly wizard juice.

In a new holiday tradition, the boys try to find a Christmas action movie that isn't Die Hard and settle on Tim Burton's relic from the pre-MCU era of superhero movies, Batman Returns--the only movie with the guts to call out the role of penguins in the military industrial complex.

Will and Sam follow the tradition of the Ancient Greeks and engage in some philosophy--is man's virtue an ephemeral and forever-shifting thing, as ceaseless as the Aegean, or is it simply that whoever has less body hair wins? Welcome to Zach Snyder's Frank Miller's 300.

This week, the boys take a look at Guy Ritchie's surprisingly compelling high fantasy mafia movie and then waste the entire time discussing horse stunts, the proper way to meet eels in bars and Jason Statham's burgeoning Chili's franchise.

The boys take a good, long look at John Woo's surprisingly artistic 90's icon in which John Travolta is a sad family man and Nic Cage is a lunatic criminal and then John Travolta is a lunatic family man and Nic Cage is a sad criminal. Join us for dual wielding pistols, sideways lunges and more white doves than a spring wedding. 

This episode, Will and Sam dive deep into the explosive passions of one of cinema's strongest lovers of debris with an unusual grudge against United States landmarks--Roland Emmerich and Will Smith protect earth from all but the coolest explosions in Independence Day.

This week, the boys take their first step into the hallowed halls of one of action cinema's founding fathers and do a lot of impressions of him making machine gun noises with his mouth. Join us as Sylvester Stallone singlehandedly shapes Southeast Asian military policy with a bandana, a bow and a lot of mumbling.

The boys dip a toe into the shiny and visceral pool that is Vin Diesel's artistic milieu with the Chronicles of Riddick, exploring that most profound form of artistic expression: the Original Character (do not steal).

NOTE: In this episode, Sam makes the OUTRAGEOUS claim that Glenn Close was in the film The Devil Wears Prada. While we at Slop Culture stand by our assertion that Glenn Close is a handsome and stern presence and an asset to any set, we must issue a correction and say it was Meryl Streep who was in The Devil Wears...

In their first episode, the boys talk about one of the early 2000's most hairless and glistening fantasy trash spectacles. If it has a camel in it, you're in for a good time.