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Browse episodes by movie title, episode air date or film year. Follow the colored tags and people names to find related episodes.

The Movies & episodes search opens on “Only Rewatchables”, the films that got their own episode. Switch to “All” to include every film the podcast has mentioned; the choice travels in the URL as coverage=with_episodes or coverage=all and combines with the search box, tags and sort. While a search runs, the previous results are cleared and a spinner shows until the new ones arrive. Links from a person or category page keep that person’s or category’s full film list.

People opens on everyone, so a search finds a movie star as readily as a host. The podcast's hosts and guests come first, ordered by how many episodes they appear in, with regular hosts (ten or more hosted episodes) highlighted, plus the show's lead producer, Craig Horlbeck (other production staff are not listed); film people and people mentioned in discussions follow by name. Narrow the list to “On the podcast”, “In the films” or “Mentioned in discussions”, or switch the sort to browse by name.

A movie page opens on its newest episode. The top shows that episode at a glance: up to four quick answers (such as Who Won the Movie and Roger Ebert’s stars), one or two featured discussions, and a few headlines, all chosen automatically from the episode’s own answers. Below, “The film” holds the director, links and cast, and “Everything from the episode” lists every category in the order the hosts reached it; open a row for the discussion, or filter to core, flex or segments. When a film has more than one episode, the buttons under the title switch between them.

Fun & Games holds two games made from the archive’s answers. Vaultle is one puzzle a day, the same for everyone: guess the movie from its category answers, revealed one at a time; a wrong guess or a skip shows the next clue. Each guess is listed in words by clue number: ✓ Solved, ✗ Wrong guess or ↷ Skipped, with · Not needed for clues a solved puzzle did not use, and the copied score shows them as ✅ ❌ ⏭️ ▫️. A shared Vaultle score unfolds as a card with the score and those marks as tiles, and a plain Vaultle link shows a card for today’s puzzle. Cruise or Hanks? asks you to guess the panel’s pick movie by movie until you miss. Each game ends with a score to copy or post; the link carries the score, never the answer, and opens on a “Can you beat it?” challenge. Your best streak and finished puzzles are remembered in your browser only.

Each episode separates film facts from podcast credits. Core categories, flex choices and segments show the extracted answers; expand a discussion to read more or listen from that point. Proposed categories are listed separately.

Top Ten List and Top Five List answers that name numbered picks are shown as a ranked list, one pick per line in the order the hosts gave them (a countdown stays a countdown). A pick shows its poster and links to the movie when it matches a film in the archive through a reviewed list reference, or by exact title (and year, when the answer or its reviewed reference gives one); other picks show a blank poster tile. Prose summaries of a list stay as text. Reviewed list answers number only the picks the hosts ranked, in spoken order. When a reviewed list cannot be numbered (the hosts named films without ranks, ranked only some of them, or tied), the published answer stays as the lead line and every film the list names follows in the order given, with its poster: a small dot stands in for a rank unless the hosts said one aloud, a pick naming several films shows each film once, withdrawn and hedged picks are left out, picks added afterwards follow under “Also mentioned”, and a second list the hosts gave follows under its own heading. Films from reviewed lists also appear among a movie’s recorded references once identified.

The audio player keeps playing as you browse. Ebert reviews use a four-star scale. IMDb, Letterboxd and JustWatch links open their available movie or search pages.

The Halloween listening guide under Guides opens on a video-store shelf with a tape for every film in the guide. Point at a tape, tap it, or move along the shelf with the arrow keys to pull it out: the counter below shows the episode’s air date, hosts, and the archive’s Who Won the Movie, Most Rewatchable Scene and Apex Mountain answers, with a link to the movie page. A film without an archive episode keeps its tape and links to the official episode instead. Further down, each pairing uses the same full-width category cards as the rest of the archive, with the movie poster inside each card; films without category cards keep a poster and coverage link. The mood picker filters the posters (not the shelf) and shuffles a three-night queue in the browser; nothing is saved.

The November heists and cons guide adds 20 films, including Heat, The Town and the 2003 Italian Job, with the same full-width category cards and posters. Use the same tape controls to browse, or choose a mood and “Surprise me” to build a three-night queue. The poster picker links to each film’s introduction; filtering leaves the full tape shelf available. Every film in the November and Halloween guides is in the archive. A movie can still lack a dedicated podcast episode; its coverage note explains that. Shelf verdicts and category cards contain spoilers.

A page for one category (for example Recasting Couch) opens on the category itself: its search is tucked into a “Search categories and discussions” row above the heading, which opens on a tap and stays open while a search or extra tag is active. Category and discussion pages carry a share control with a copy-link button, the device’s own share sheet where the browser has one, and links to post on X, Bluesky or Facebook; shared links unfold with a preview image. A shared movie link shows the poster with that episode’s headline and quick answers. A movie search narrowed to just one year, decade, genre or director (for example 1986 or the 1980s) becomes its own page in the same way: it opens on that choice and its movie count, with the search tucked into a “Search movies and episodes” row above, a share control, and a preview image of up to twelve of its posters around a band with its name.

The footer at the bottom of every archive page links to Guides, back to this Support page, and to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, and gives the archive’s contact email address.

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