Mystery to Me

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Ambulance (2022) Apr 11, 2022

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Has the critical-darling, gone-too-soon, early-noughties television program Boomtown made its triumphant return? Did we just sit through Boomtown: The Motion Picture?

Ambulance is a 2022 action thriller film from director Michael Bay starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, Keir O'Donnell, Jackson White, Moses Ingram, and Colin Woodell.

Gyllenhaal and Abdul-Mateen play two adoptive brothers: a career criminal and a decorated Marine struggling to help support his sick wife, respectively. González is a brilliant but jaded EMT. White is a baby cop who gets wounded and kidnapped by the brothers, along with González, during a heist-gone-wrong. Together, we're all about to learn some life lessons about caring for people and doing the right thing.

Follow Áine and Kevin as they race through topics like this story's resemblance to an episode of Boomtown, action movie tropes, and Jake Gyllenhaal's wild-eyed performance.

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Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Apr 04, 2022

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Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 smash-hit buddy cop film starring Eddie Murphy, along with Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Paul Reiser, and Jonathan Banks.

Murphy plays Detective Axel Foley, a brilliant Detroit cop who must travel to Beverly Hills in order to avenge his murdered friend. Listen to Áine and Kevin quip about fish-out-of-water stories, Elvis movies, and the Beverly Hillbillies.

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Uncharted (2022) Mar 31, 2022

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Uncharted is a 2022 adventure film starring Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, with Sophia Ali, Tati Gabrielle, and Antonio Banderas. The story comes from the popular Uncharted video game franchise.

Holland plays bartender-slash-thief-slash-adventuer Nathan Drake, who confronts danger and mystery in a quest to find Ferdinand Magellan’s gold … and his long lost brother.

Listen to Áine and Kevin chart a conversational course that journeys to topics like video game movies, Pacman, Marty Ingels, and the importance of relaxation.

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Quincy M.E.: "Snake Eyes" (1977) Mar 28, 2022

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"Snake Eyes" is the premier of the second season of Quincy, M.E., a medical crime procedural.Jack Klugman stars as Dr. R. Quincy, M.E. Rounding out the cast are Buddy Hackett, John S. Ragin, Garry Walberg, Val Bisoglio, Robert Ito, Frank Converse, and Val Avery.

In this episode, Dr. Quincy ends up stuck tending to a burgeoning pandemic at the world's worst medical conference. But is our favorite medical examiner dealing with medical mayhem, or man-made murder?

Listen to Áine and Kevin examine medical topics like anesthesiology, pandemics, and healthy eating.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: "The Copper Beeches" (1985) Mar 21, 2022

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It's not hard, not far to reach, we can hitch a ride to the Copper Beeches.

"The Copper Beeches" is the premier of the second season of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a televised adaptation of a short story from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first aired on August 25, 1985, and stars Jeremy Brett as the famed detective, David Burke as his stalwart physician companion, as well as Joss Ackland, Lottie Ward, Patience Collier, Angela Browne, Peter Jonfield, Michael Loney, Rachel Ambler, Stewart Shimberg, and introducing Natasha Richardson.

In this episode, Holmes and Watson work to puzzle out a governess's strange encounter with a new employer. Listen to Áine and Kevin regale one another with topics like the worst Sherlock Holmes stories, sketchy hiring practices, and swimming.

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The Batman (2022) Mar 14, 2022

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Scampering serial killers, Batman!

The Batman is a gritty superhero film that premiered on March 1, 2022. Directed by Matt Reeves, this movie stars Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell.

Basically, Batman must team up with Catwoman to fight corruption in Gotham, as a Zodiac Killer-style Riddler murders victims with dumb puns. In terms of genre, it's bat-milk blend of superhero, noir, and thriller. Picture a guy in a tactical bat costume standing in the middle of a brutal crime scene, as forensic techs collect evidence. That's an actual scene in this movie. That's basically this entire movie, in essence.

Listen to Áine and Kevin defuse topics like the history of Batman, the troubling implications of superhero stories, and fictionalizing crime.

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Law & Order: "The Right Thing" (2022) Mar 07, 2022

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Talk about a wrong move.

This was supposed to be Law & Order's triumphant return, but it's bad enough to earn a contempt of court charge.

The first episode of Law & Order's twenty-first season, "The Right Thing" aired on February 24, 2022. The show stars a bunch of newcomers with some returning alumni, including Anthony Anderson, Jeffrey Donovan, Camryn Manheim, Hugh Dancy, Odelya Halevi, Sam Waterson, Alicia Coppola, Lisa Arrindell, and Jeannine Kaspar.

This mistrial of an episode follows the slaying of a Bill Cosby-esque entertainer. But the real murder victim is any sense of excitement that we had about this reboot. Listen to Áine and Kevin deliberate about Superboy, wolves, and writing sins.

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Jack Reacher (2012) Feb 28, 2022

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We're going into this review with just the clothes on our backs, and a toothbrush.

Jack Reacher is a 2012 thriller film featuring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Jai Courtney, Werner Herzog, and Robert Duvall.

Cruise stars as the titular Reacher, a male-fantasy-figure-slash-hobo, and the central character of Lee Child's wildly popular thriller series. In this film, the ex-Army Military Police investigator must team up with a defense attorney in order to dig into a baffling mass shooting. Was this the work of a deranged sniper? Or does a sinister conspiracy have the city of Pittsburgh in the crosshairs?

Listen to Áine and Kevin take aim at topics like Indiana, thriller tropes, and Grizzly Man.

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Death on the Nile (2022) Feb 21, 2022

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You know it's a bad flick when even a mustache has a gritty backstory ...

Death on the Nile is a 2022 film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh based on the 1937 novel by Agatha Christie. Branagh plays the famed detective Hercule Poirot, who ends up on a deadly Egyptian cruise with mysterious passengers played by Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Tom Bateman, Letitia Wright, Jennifer Saunders, Sophie Okonedo, and Emma Mackey.

Will the Belgian detective and his trusty, tragic mustache be able to sift through the clues and decipher the puzzle? Or will he be left as blinded as a man stuck in a sandstorm?

Listen to Áine and Kevin take aim at topics like the Indianapolis canal, honeymoons, and Gone Girl.

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Magnum, P.I.: "Did You See the Sun Rise?" (1982) Feb 14, 2022

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Ain't no sunshine when Mac's gone

Soviet plotting every day

Ain't no sunshine when Mac's gone.

Like when he sat down on a bomb

And got blown away

Talk about an explosive season premiere! "Did You See the Sun Rise?" is a dramatic, intense episode of Magnum, P.I. thataired on September 30, 1982, kicking off the Hawaii-based detective show's third season. It stars Tom Selleck, Roger E. Mosley, Jeff MacKay, John Hillerman, Larry Manetti, Lance LeGault, Jean Bruce Scott, and James Whitmore Jr.

In this episode, a vicious enemy from the Vietnam War comes back to literally haunt Magnum and his crew. So Áine and Kevin are on deck to let the sunshine in on Matlock, the military, and script-doctoring.

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