Get Your Ass to March - The 2025 Kuato Awards

Welcome to another episode of Death Don’t Do Fiction, the AIPT Movies podcast! The podcast about the enduring legacy of our favorite movies! It’s March, so that means it’s time for our “Get Your Ass to March” series! Where we cover movies that relate to the planet Mars and/or the 1990 sci-fi classic, Total Recall! But that’s not all! Starting now with our 100th episode, every March we’re going to celebrate The Kuatos! Our annual award ceremony for our favorite movies of the year, both new and new to us!

Let them eat war! Mistaking onions for garlic! Cary Grant not wanting to be slightly killed! Extensive use of a Kiss song! Ellen Aim & The Attackers going nowhere fast! Reba McEntire covering the Bad Boys theme! Fictional pop stars! A great year for CGI apes! Margaret Qualley pumping it up! An imposingly-decomposing Nosferatu! A punk rock werewolf! Colorful meltings! Seatbelts with subtext! Sweaty Tim Curry! Reebok bug stompers! A Miami Vice stunt show jacket! The horror of Dennis Quaid eating in close ups! Demi Moore, Josh Hartnett, Aaron Pierre, Kieran Culkin, Nicholas Hoult, and a whole lot of Dan Stevens! Rebel Ridge, A Real Pain, The Fall Guy, Smile 2, Frankie Freako, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Trap, Furiosa, The Shadow Strays, Love Lies Bleeding, The Substance, Maxxxine, The Bikeriders, Dune 2, Terrifier 3, In A Violent Nature, Flow, I Saw the TV Glow, and The Wild Robot! All that and more with special guests Chrissy Kurpeski, Tony Sedani, and K-Tron!

In addition, Alex shares his spoiler-free thoughts on Jack Quaid’s action comedy Novocaine, the Steven Soderbergh spy thriller Black Bag, and the trippy space nightmare Ash!

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The Death Don’t Do Fiction podcast brings you the latest in movie news, reviews, and more! Hosted by supposed “industry vets,” Alex Harris, Tim Gardiner, and Matt Paul, the show gives you a peek behind the scenes from three filmmakers with oddly nonexistent filmographies. You can find Alex on Twitter, Bluesky, or Letterboxd @actionharris. Matt is a terrific artist that you can find on Instagram @no_wheres_ville. Chrissy Kurpeski can be found on Instagram @absolutelyicebox. Tony Sedani can be found on Instagram @tsedani. You can follow K-Tron’s Mystery Movie Madness podcast on Instagram @mysterymoviemadness or Twitter @MysteryMovieMad. Tim can’t be found on social media because he doesn’t exist. If you have any questions or suggestions for the Death Don’t Do Fiction crew, they can be reached at [e-mail], or you can find them on Twitter or Instagram @aiptmoviespod.

Theme song is “We Got it Goin On” by Cobra Man.