Shane Wilson and Bryan Tann
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Each week, authors Shane Wilson and Bryan Tann watch one movie before meeting for an informal and wide-ranging conversation inspired by that movie. Reminiscent of the nights spent debating your favorite films over drinks, The Plotaholics Podcast seeks to capture the organic, shared experience of life as consumers of popular culture. Long-time practitioners of pop culture discussion will understand this one thing: the best conversations rarely stay on topic. So, if you “have too much time on your hands,” or you care immensely for something even if it’s “just a movie,” this podcast is for you. Tune in each week as Th...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Shane Wilson and Brian Tan turn informal movie arguments into specific conversations about performance, visual craft and story logic.
Shane Wilson and Brian Tan treat movie reviewing as an argument that can keep changing shape. Their conversations move from immediate reactions into performances, cinematography, casting, story logic and the occasional disagreement, with enough humor to keep close reading from…
A silent Bullet Train cameo sends Shane and Brian into alternate casting; your movie night gets an encore.
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A Cage-and-Pascal hang with side tangents, pay-drama sniping, and real comic timing.
This is a loose, funny hang built around the hosts' Nick Cage and Pedro Pascal pairing, and that dynamic carries the best stretches. The island setup, Cage's reluctance, and the way his polite go-along energy turns into real chemistry give the discussion some shape without…
A loose, funny movie chat that mixes real appreciation with friendly derailments.
Plotaholics spends most of its time on the movie itself, with jokes, detours, and a few sharp pivots back to the main point. Shane Wilson and Brian Tan hit the film's strengths, especially the cinematography and Jordan Peele's control of the material, while also leaving room for…
A loose, funny Bullet Train hangout built on casting jokes and payoff beats.
Plotaholics treats Bullet Train as a quick, amused discussion of what gives the movie its lift: the timing, the casting, and Brad Pitt's self-aware wrong-guy energy.
A funny, wandering conversation that keeps testing the movie's weird logic.
Shane Wilson and Brian Tan keep the conversation loose and funny as they work through romance, unreliable memory, and movie logic that only really holds if everyone stops looking too hard.
A loose, funny Glass Onion chat that lets the cast arguments do the real work.
It opens on loose banter and fake-name riffs, then settles into a sharp look at Glass Onion's cast and what each performer brings. Dave Bautista gets especially strong praise for stretching past the action lane, and Leslie Odom Jr.
A loose, funny Hot Fuzz discussion that stays close to the jokes and the movie's cop-movie mechanics.
This episode is loose, joke-first, and mostly keeps its footing. It pays attention to the small comic beats, especially the wrong-person crime-scene bit and the sense that the town has something crooked running under the jokes.
A sharp sci-fi review that treats genre parody as the point.
Shane Wilson and Brian Tan spend most of the episode on genre subversion, treating the film as a playful sci-fi parody rather than a routine recap.
A loose, funny review that finds real feeling in the story's chaos.
Plotaholics turns a talk about fate, trauma, and family pain into a loose argument for why the story's absurdity still works. The hosts keep circling the same question: how can something this strange still feel emotionally true?
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Hosts Shane Wilson and Bryan Tann review the film Hot Fuzz, discussing its pacing, genre-blending, and performances by Simon Pegg and Timothy Dalton.
The Plotaholics Podcast: Movie Reviews shifts from its January 80s tradition to Bullet Train, with Shane Wilson and Brian Tan opening on Brad Pitt, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Sandra Bullock, and Michael Shannon.
Shane and Brian open with their familiar loose banter and a running joke about plot holes.
Shane Wilson and Brian Tan open with their usual goofy banter before settling on Scott Pilgrim vs.
Shane Wilson and Brian Tan open with their usual loose banter before settling into a review of Nope.
The hosts start loose.
Shane and Bryan review the 1995 romantic comedy 'Forget Paris,' starring Billy Crystal, discussing its strengths in humor and framing device but critiquing its plot holes and unreliable narration.
They open on fate, then slide into casting, taking aim at tired television and Hollywood LGBTQ+ tropes before circling back to how smart it feels to see Nick Offerman and Pedro Pascal playing against the usual easy labels.
Shane and Bryan review 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,' praising its clever structure, character performances, and Rian Johnson's direction.