Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast · Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Top Tens 2025

January 14, 2026·2 hr 41 min·7 clips

2025 was dire—so bad that a thousand-point year is evidence of how far we've fallen.

The episode opens with the annual oddity of talking about 2025 while broadcasting in 2026, and the hosts lean into that mismatch right away. They treat the date gap as part of the bit and move into how the year felt, including the idea that making a top-ten list for 2025 says something about how much happened and how hard it was to narrow things down. The panel’s chemistry is immediate and familiar. They trade interrupts, corrections, and callbacks the way a long-running group does when nobody is trying to sound polished. The conversation keeps circling back to the same cluster of films. Titles like One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Sinners, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, Begonia, It Was Just an Accident, 28 Years Later, Eddington, Weapons, Companion, Predators, Sorry Baby, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, and The Testament of Anne Lee all surface across the lists. The overlap matters as much as the order. You can hear where the group converges, where it splits, and which titles refuse to leave the conversation no matter who is talking. The episode also makes room for enthusiasm that feels specific rather than generic. Praise lands on the acting, the writing, and the way certain movies make a big swing or carry emotional weight. When someone makes a case, the others push back instead of letting the praise sit untouched. That keeps the rankings from feeling ceremonial. It turns them into an argument about taste, mood, and memory. The opening stretch includes the kind of real-life context and off-mic chaos that tends to leak into this show, which helps explain why the episode sounds lived-in instead of packaged. Even when the hosts wander, they keep coming back to the films. The result is a top-ten episode that feels less like a list and more like a compressed year of watching, arguing, and deciding what actually lasted. By the end, the lists are not identical, but the shared map of 2025 is clear enough to hear. The episode closes on the familiar satisfaction of having sorted the year into a handful of titles and then immediately disagreeing about the order.

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A lively year-end movie roundtable that captures which 2025 films mattered most.

Fighting in the War Room lands as a top 10 episode for 2025, shaped by a lively year-end movie debate that values personality as much as ranking.

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