The Free Beacon years, then Patreon
The Sub-Beacon
The Patreon-era continuation with Sonny Bunch, Jonathan V. Last, and Victorino Matus — later Michael Warren — reviewing the movies.
360 episodes · Nov 2020 – Jul 2026
Best of
The Gang's Big WeekendThe all-timer with no movie at all: JVL's shell-shocked 1:45am "I've made a huge mistake" voice memo from a disastrous solo winter camp in Shenandoah, intercut with Sonny and Vic's parallel impulsive Vegas bender.'Break Point'The franchise's own turning point: Mike Warren is formally installed as permanent third chair (the "Ted McGinley hire") and revealed as the actual originator of the Substandard back at The Weekly Standard.'Barbie'Milestone episode 200 and the other half of Barbenheimer, where Sonny and Mike agree the comedy's jokes don't land while JVL alone raves, capped by his tongue-in-cheek "Bunch thesis" that box office makes Barbie the better movie.RIP, Rob ReinerA shaken, elegiac Princess Bride rewatch recorded days after Reiner's murder, where JVL reveals the film was literally his first date and the trio makes a moving case for Reiner as the basic-cable era's defining filmmaker.Stones and Used CarsJVL's graphic, profanity-laced account of a midnight kidney-stone attack and browbeating an ER doctor into an opioid script, one of the most vivid non-movie bits in the whole archive.'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Top Gun'A double-length event episode after a chaotic two-teaser buildup where all three hosts are smitten, crowned by Sonny's deadpan theory that Maverick died in the opening crash and the whole film is fighter-pilot purgatory.'Everything Everywhere All at Once'The A24 multiverse smash that floors Sonny and JVL, while a rattled Vic, undone by the film's nihilistic themes, announces on air that he's burned out and needs six months off movies.'Violent Night'Vic Matus's heckled farewell after six-plus years, a best-movie/worst-movie retrospective and emotional send-off for the original Sonny/JVL/Vic trio.'Plane'Guest hosts stage a mock hostile takeover and the whole thing derails into a gleeful improvised pitch for a sentient "butthole AI" Terminator uprising sparked by the Cats movie's digitally-erased anuses.'Rounders' BonusA full love-fest for the poker classic, hijacked early by JVL's giddy confession that he accidentally watched a 1966 Nazisploitation film instead.