This week, Dan and Dave, put their own contrarian spin on The Oscars, offering up awards in such categories as Least Deserving Best Picture, Worst Part of the Ceremony, If the Academy Really Cared About the Audience, and more.

Patrick and Alex dust off their Peter Pan complexes and hike up their tights for a return to Neverland with Steve Spielberg's Hook.

Outlander Mike Rubino returns to the game grid, joining Dave and Mac in discussing the highly unanticipated Oscars, Thor: God of Boring Movie Trailers, crime-fighting superheroes vs. gods and monsters, facial prosthesis, giant rabbits, and fictional families you would hate to be born into.

A sleep deprived Steve and a ready-for-action Jon take you through all the latest news that’s fit to print (or talk about on the internet), and pour one out for the recently deceased Bizarre Creations. Meanwhile, Jon plays a bit of Dragon Warrior/Quest VI on the DS, while spanking Galactus in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Steve spends some time with two critically lauded first person shooters, gushing all over Killzone 3 and enjoying himself a bit of Bulletstorm. We clue things up with thoughts on some developers who are no longer with us. Have a favorite Developer who’s since gone the way of Elvis?

This week, Clark spotlights another batch of new and recent releases, offering up selections from Drive Angry, The Eagle, In Treatment, The Social Network, The Tillman Story, and Beastly, plus new recordings of pieces from Kick-Ass and Clash of the Titans. In addition, the Liam Neeson thriller Unknown is reviewed. Enjoy!

In honor of President's Day, our contrarian a-hole tribunal -- Dave, Dan, and Mac -- undertake the near impossible task of defending two of science fiction cinema's most despised political despots: Emperor Palpatine and Ming the Merciless. Good luck with that, boys!

Patrick and Erika spend Valentine's Day discussing the current state of romantic comedies, choosing 10 (or more) worthwhile entries in the genre, and turning the podcast into a schmoopfest.

Knicks basketball interruptus forces Erich into the driver's seat, during which the boys talk Justified, middle-aged British gearheads, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, MTS3K XX, creepy kids, creepy corridors, and creepy relationships.

Steve is out this week with a severe case of the Fallouts, so instead we've got two gibbering monkeys who've managed to finagle their way onto the internets. Adam is saving mad ducats playing indie games on Steam, but which of these "Magickal" diversions possesses voodoo powerful enough to peel him away from World of Warcraft? Jon has embraced his inner twelve year old and has plunged a la Scrooge McDuck into a giant vat of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, but can the final product deliver on a decade of fighting game fanatic's prayers?

Kent and Michelle are back, and this time they're loaded for bear. What starts with a post Valentine's Day rant, slowly devolves into an analysis of French Canadian Beer, Grammy Awards surprises, and '80s music flashback, discovering new planets, and everything you wanted to know about Leopards but were afraid to ask. It's just another View from the Couch.