Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

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FITWR Festival Season Chat 2026

Katey and David are home from TIFF with a not-numbered episode of the podcast where they discuss festival and family woes, getting screeners for festival movies versus se

Sep 17
45 min

556 – Lanterns, Onslaught, and Coyote Vs. Acme

This week, the podcast has its four hosts again, at least for one segment on the first three episodes of HBO’s Lanterns. Then, after David has to run, Da7e tries to expla

Sep 4
1 h 04 min

555 – GTA VI Hype, Making the Bed, Furious on Hulu

This week, remaining podcast hosts Patches, Katey, and Da7e jump onto…Netflix…to watch…GTA VI….? What the hell was that? Then, Patches and Da7e debate just how big this g

Aug 29
1 h 01 min

554 – Tony, New X-Men Cast, The End of Oak Street

This week, we assure you David Ehrlich is returning to this podcast. In a return to some sort of format, you left reviews and sent e-mails but it still takes Katey, Patch

Aug 21
1 h 08 min

553 – The Last House, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

This week, David can’t make it, but we have three hosts and three movies to review. First, Patches and Da7e dig into the Netflix sci-fi trapped-in-your-house movie The La

Aug 13
1 h 10 min

552 – Spider-Man: Brand New Day

This week, whoops, there’s a new biggest movie in theaters and this one is setting records. Matt Patches and Katey Rich were unable to catch Spider-Man: Brand New Day in

Aug 5
58 min

551 – The Odyssey Review

This week, everyone is back in the War Room and not on vacation with multiple children and everyone has seen The Odyssey! We figured it was about time that we devoted an

Jul 31
1 h 11 min

550 – The 1976 50th Anniversary Quell

AKA NONE OF US ARE FIFTY YET BUT ALL THESE MOVIES ARE. It’s another Fighting in The War Room Quarter Quell! For this edition of a FITWR Quarter Quell, each host picked a

Jul 17
1 h 23 min

549 – A Bad Year For Console Gaming, Minions and Monsters, The Invite

This week, David can’t make it to the War Room, but is locked in with the rest of the hosts for next week’s QUARTER QUELL – 1976. On this episode, Da7e has questions for

Jul 9
59 min

548 – Supergirl, CATS: The Jellicle Ball, Toy Story 5

This week, everyone is back in the War Room, but David is very tired. Somehow, Supergirl is out this weekend and no one besides Da7e was planning to see it, so Da7e took

Jun 26
1 h 21 min

547 – The Death of Robin Hood, Patches didn’t see Disclosure Day, Disclosure Day

This week, all four hosts are back in the War Room (but still no guests). David, Da7e, and Katey discuss the new Hugh Jackman-starring The Death Of Robin Hood which is vi

Jun 19
1 h 05 min

546 – Getting Paid For Obsession, Ocarina of Time in 2026, Widow’s Bay

This week, it was David’s turn to be felled by solo-parenting, so Katey, Patches, and Da7e convene in the War Room. First, an Instagram post from the art director of surp

Jun 11
1 h 09 min

545 – 90s Summer, Backrooms Revisited, Pressure, I Love Boosters

This week, Patches was felled by solo-parenting, so Katey, David, and Da7e make it to the war room. Katey found a puzzling post on threads and Da7e and David try to specu

Jun 3
1 h 03 min

544 – Mandalorian and Grogu, Backrooms, What’s Wrong With American Dramas?

This week, everyone is back in the war room and the numbered episodes resume! David, Patches, and Katey took the families to Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu, so the show

May 29
1 h 19 min

A Not Numbered Episode About Google, A New Theatrical Star Wars Movie, and the Cannes Film Festival

This week, Patches and Da7e convene in the War Room because Patches has A.I. concerns now that Google is giving into the bubble. Da7e saw Mandalorian and Grogu, and they

May 21
1 h 07 min

A Not Numbered Episode Where The Podcast Is Not Cancelled

This week, David and Katey have gone to Cannes, leaving Da7e and Patches in the War Room. The two manage not to cancel the show, but bookend it with the sad news that Cla

May 14
56 min

A Not Numbered Episode About The Devil Wears Prada 2, Teeth, and Grogu

This week, David is enjoying the new Kacey Musgraves album (Star-Crossed), which leads them into Jeff Bezos and the Met Gala. That is the push they need to get into talki

May 6
48 min

A Not Numbered Episode That Mentions Surf Dracula

This week, David is mysteriously absent, and somehow we’ve entered a difficult scheduling season. Katey is fresh off a flight from Los Angeles, and graciously joins Da7e

May 1
56 min

543 – Michaela Coel Week! – Mother Mary and The Christophers

This week, David, Katey, and Da7e unite in the War Room to talk about the two movies about art, sorta, that Michaela Coel is currently starring in. First, David and Da7e

Apr 23
53 min

542 – Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Pragmata, and The Pitt Season 2

This week, we had to wait for the embargo to be lifted on Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, and once everyone knows the podcast is actually going up on Thursday, we can’t stop refe

Apr 16
1 h 07 min

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The best discussions come out of disagreements about art and the rest of the world could take a lesson from these four on healthy debate without malice. Love the different perspectives, the humor, and the personal stories that give discussions a delightfully three dimensional feeling.

Dulcinea14tx · Sep 2026

Best podcast that eschews commercials to provide good vibes, great TV/film analysis & chatter. As a new father, I am learning to enjoy the parent talk, especially the sometimes normie Patches takes. Ehrlich, the best film critic without a paywall, still detesting audio quality is frustrating but at least he (usually) shows up. Katey outside of FYC/Awards mode is amazing and union-busting Condé is so backwards for cutting her loose. Dave *not* flexing his TV coverage bona fides (no HotD talk? No WarnerMount animation takes?) to play superproducer is as selfless as his legitimate takedowns of the Swedish Sp*t*fy anti-creator empire. Love this podcast! Could use more crossover guests but no pay-for-play is better than a glossy slate.

Please Quit Twitter · Aug 2026

Come for the media reviews, but stay for the toothpaste debates. Love this podcast because clearly nothing is off limits with this Fab Four of current media critiques. I’m with Katy, and you had me at Sensodyne. It’s a GREAT podcast!

benpost5 · Mar 2026

I came to FITWR to scratch my Da7e itch after having put off letting Trial By Content’s watch end (“we shall never see its like again”), (also, Thought Bubble is such a great anthropological exercise, how far we’ve come in 12ish years), so I knew one fourth of what I was getting into when I started listening at the beginning of 2026. I’ve been thoroughly entertained by the rest of the ensemble, enjoying Katey’s awards season knowledge, Patches’s optimism, and David Ehrlich’s hockey talk, book leave notwithstanding. I need to go back into the catalogue for other quarter quells because those are genuinely a treat. (Will not “My Dog Skip” those going forward). Even threatened punishment for not leaving a review in the form of mobile gaming discussion is engaging, and I am almost tempted to start Marvel Snap as a result. I won’t, but tempted. Keep up the great work, and thanks for making it easy to hop into the feed!

Trial By Content Hedge Knight · Mar 2026

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