Afterthoughts

On this episode of Recommend or Refute, Ryan bring his Marvel Movie of the Week™ with Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), John brings an ambling, amusing indie feature with Person to Person (2017), and Dixon revisits a classic and pivotal Jim Carrey film about the surveillance state and reality tv with The Truman Show (1998). Who's recommending what? Is anyone refuting? Is anyone abstaining? Guess you'll have to listen to find out.

On this episode of Afterthoughts, John brings Dixon and Ryan an overlooked, under-seen period piece romance/thriller with a southern drawl and a Texas attitude --it's Carolina Caroline (2026)!

Cars: They're just like us.  They eat.  They use the bathroom.  They have sex.  They raise children.  Are these anthropomorphized monstrosities born or manufactured?  Why do they never open their doors?  What's inside them?  Why do they consume gasoline through both their gas tanks and their mouths?  Buckle your seatbelt for a hilarious discussion of one of the most unhinged franchises in the history of motion pictures.  It's gonna be a bumpy ride.

On this episode of Recommend or Refute, John honors the fallen with a tribute watch of Event Horizon for the recently departed Sam Neil, Ryan stumbles upon the filmography of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead with Resolution (2012), and Dixon gives the masses want they want with his review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026).

AFTERTHOUGHTS ARE DOING THEIR PART, ARE YOU? Their part being the discussion of a film that was divisive at release, now seen as ever-prescient, action packed, and clearly tongue-in-cheek. Join the crew as they enlist to help fight the misconceptions against Paul Verhoeven's satirical adaptation of a military-strong sci-fi story. That's right, this episode we're talking about Starship Troopers (1997). Would you like to know more?