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

Episodes

• 557 – Patches in Paris, TIFF Awards Season Questions, Resident Evil (2026)This week, Da7e can’t make the podcast because of cinema, so your other three hosts convene to talk about the Zach Cregger horror-comedy that’s gnawing on the American Box Office this week. But, before that, a check in with Matt Patches who has some thoughts about movies and nudes (separate topics) after coming home from […]

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• FITWR Festival Season Chat 2026Katey and David are home from TIFF with a not-numbered episode of the podcast where they discuss festival and family woes, getting screeners for festival movies versus seeing them in a theater, and the newest buzzy festival movies like The Debut,Elsinore, Possible Love, and Everytime. They also weigh in on Wild Horse Nine, Ink, and the strange, ongoing festival phenomenon of […]

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• 556 – Lanterns, Onslaught, and Coyote Vs. AcmeThis week, the podcast has its four hosts again, at least for one segment on the first three episodes of HBO’s Lanterns. Then, after David has to run, Da7e tries to explain the new movie Onslaught to Katey and Patches, then all three remaining hosts review Coyote Vs. Acme, a movie they actually got to […]

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• 555 – GTA VI Hype, Making the Bed, Furious on HuluThis week, remaining podcast hosts Patches, Katey, and Da7e jump onto…Netflix…to watch…GTA VI….? What the hell was that? Then, Patches and Da7e debate just how big this game is going to be come November. Then, Katey has a sophisticate question for us about our bed-making habits. Finally, Furious is a show on Hulu where Emmy […]

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• 554 – Tony, New X-Men Cast, The End of Oak StreetThis week, we assure you David Ehrlich is returning to this podcast. In a return to some sort of format, you left reviews and sent e-mails but it still takes Katey, Patches, and Da7e a good 20 minutes to get started this week. When they do, Katey and Da7e weigh in on the perfectly cromulent […]

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• 553 – The Last House, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp MiasmaThis week, David can’t make it, but we have three hosts and three movies to review. First, Patches and Da7e dig into the Netflix sci-fi trapped-in-your-house movie The Last House (Spoilers!). then, Patches and Da7e revive some Republic City Dispatch talk to discuss Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, a movie streaming on Paramount Plus. Then, […]

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• 552 – Spider-Man: Brand New DayThis week, whoops, there’s a new biggest movie in theaters and this one is setting records. Matt Patches and Katey Rich were unable to catch Spider-Man: Brand New Day in theaters, but Katey shows up to referee a discussion between Davids, one Ehrlich who did not like Brand New Day as much as one Da7e […]

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• 551 – The Odyssey ReviewThis week, everyone is back in the War Room and not on vacation with multiple children and everyone has seen The Odyssey! We figured it was about time that we devoted an episode of one of TIME Magazine’s Best Podcasts of All Time to this all-timer cinematic experience (that nevertheless has nitpicks our hosts will […]

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• 550 – The 1976 50th Anniversary QuellAKA NONE OF US ARE FIFTY YET BUT ALL THESE MOVIES ARE. It’s another Fighting in The War Room Quarter Quell! For this edition of a FITWR Quarter Quell, each host picked a movie that was released 50 years go in 1976 and was NOT one of the super popular ones (no Network, no Rocky). Katey […]

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• 549 – A Bad Year For Console Gaming, Minions and Monsters, The InviteThis week, David can’t make it to the War Room, but is locked in with the rest of the hosts for next week’s QUARTER QUELL – 1976. On this episode, Da7e has questions for Patches about the no-good-very-bad news for the console gaming industry over the past couple of weeks. Then, Katey reports on Minions […]

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