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Phil
Well folks, it's rare that I see movies that I'm really interested in these days.
Ben
But there are a bunch of previews
Phil
for movies coming out this year that actually looks awesome. We're gonna go through some of them today. Producer Phil will be joining me.
Ben
He's sort of the voice of the
Phil
divine in this particular video. First off, Spider man trailer. Now I gotta say, I'm not the biggest Spider man guy.
MJ
Shut up. Get out.
Phil
So we'll evaluate this trailer. I haven't seen this one yet. Here we go. I can't believe our first hit mit. Mj, Come on. Pretend like you're not the happiest you've ever been in your entire life.
Michael
I can't.
Woody
I knew it.
Peter Parker
Hi, my name is Peter Parker.
Phil
Okay, so we're starting off some weird angles.
Peter Parker
You don't remember me, but we used to know each other. Something bad was gonna happen. And the only way to stop at
Phil
the end of the last movie was to make everyone wiped everybody's memory. Basically you.
Peter Parker
Because I'm not just Peter Parker. I'm Spider Man.
Phil
The hell, Frank?
Woody
You just hit me with a van
MJ
quit your whip ring.
Buzz
Suit yourself.
Phil
Oh, he can't burn off. There he is. Mother. Go home.
Peter Parker
And sometimes Spider man has to do the hard thing. Even if it breaks Peter Parker's heart. What is happening to me?
Phil
Oh God.
Woody
Excuse me.
Lily
Dr.
Peter Parker
Banner, I need your help.
Buzz
What'd you say your name was?
Phil
Ah. Okay, there we go. Mark Ruffalo is awful.
Buzz
Enormously dangerous.
Narrator
Spiders have three life cycles.
Phil
When between cycles, it can leave the spider vulnerable to threats.
MJ
We are faced with a danger that we can't control. One we can't even see. Stay out of my way.
Phil
You losing it, kid. Okay, we got a new Doc Ock. Okay.
Narrator
Those spiders who make it through.
Phil
Okay, it's not Doc Ock, it's Scorpion. I'm wrong. Rebirth.
Michael
Nice flowers.
Peter Parker
Oh, they're a housewarming gift.
Michael
I'm mj.
Peter Parker
I'm just a neighbor from across the hall.
Phil
Friendly neighbor. Okay.
Ben
Meh.
Phil
I know producer Phil is very, very pumped about this. I. Listen, I'll be honest. The best Spider man remains. Tobey Maguire. I'm just gonna say it. I'm putting it out there that, like, I understand that Tom Holland Spider man is truer to the comics because he's younger. I get it. And, you know, it's supposed to be more kid friendly.
Ben
Yeah.
Phil
And I know he's quippy and all the rest of it.
Ben
I just.
Phil
My biggest problem with. With this particular iteration of Spider Man. I liked the last Spider Man a lot, by the way. And I like into the spider verse a lot. Watching the trailer, gotta say, like, it feels like the stakes are non existent. Like, unbelievably low stakes is what it feels like.
Ben
I'm not sure how you, frankly, top
Phil
the Spider man reunion in the last movie. So I have a hard time believing that they're gonna be able to do that here.
Guest
He might be morphing into a human spider. The third act of this movie. That's the big rumor now.
Ben
That's weird.
Phil
And that means that he and MJ are gonna have a very, very strange, you know, life going forward.
Guest
Out of five, how would you describe your excitement?
Ben
Three out of five.
Guest
Okay.
Phil
You know, like, I'm not saying it's the worst thing ever. It's not like I just watched a. A preview for Shape of Water or something, But it's also not a five out of five. Okay, it's time for Toy Story 5. So everybody thought that the series was basically over after Toy Story 3. And then they added on Toy Story 4, which I found enjoyable but unnecessary. And Now Toy Story 5. So let's find out what's going on with our boy.
Woody
Woody, you forky. To Kieran Beverly to be your beloved bride. Yay.
Buzz
Ah.
Woody
I now pronounce you husband and knife. Who poisoned the maid of honor?
Lily
Bonnie, there's a package for you.
Woody
Oh, thank you. Thank you.
Lily
Hi there. I'm Lilypat.
Woody
Let's extinction. Not again.
Phil
Okay, it's gonna be anti electronics for kids. I'm into it.
Woody
Okay, I want to talk to you, device.
Lily
Please call me Lily.
Woody
Me and the toys have been working all summer to try and get Bonnie to make friends. But then you had to ruin it. You're not even listening to me.
Lily
I'm always listening. See, now look here. Me and the toys have been working all summer. Now in Spanish.
Phil
Con hamelos.
Woody
What?
Phil
Yeah, I got dibs on behind the dresser.
Woody
Woody.
Buzz
Jesse.
Michael
Hello?
Woody
Is it as bad out there for toys as they say it is?
Buzz
We're finding more abandoned toys each day.
Woody
We're down. Tech's invaded our house, too.
Buzz
I don't know, Jesse. Toys are for play, but tech is for everything.
Woody
I'm losing Bonnie to this device.
Michael
You got a friend in me.
Ben
What are you doing here?
Buzz
Came here as fast as I could.
Ben
Why are you wearing a dress, Woody?
Buzz
It's called a poncho.
MJ
Forky.
Michael
Someone needs a brown marker.
Ben
Halt.
MJ
Who goes there?
Phil
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Buzz
I come in peace.
Phil
Okay, listen, I grew up with these movies. We all grew up with these movies.
Michael
What are you?
Phil
I was a teenager when the first one came out.
Buzz
What?
Ben
She thinks you're old because you're bald.
Lily
Woody, Bonnie needs help from someone, at least from the same century. So long, toys.
Narrator
We're gonna need backup.
Buzz
You got a friend.
Phil
Okay, again. I like that the. The electronics are bad. I like that.
Woody
Barney still needs us. Come on, Bullseye.
Buzz
Buzz, you stay here. I'm going with them. You don't think I can do it?
Woody
Yes.
Phil
No, I like the concept.
Ben
It's good.
Phil
It's good to see them fighting again.
Buzz
It sure is.
Phil
And again, like bringing back all the.
Ben
All the oldies.
Phil
That's great. I just hope that this film ends with a chastisement of the parents for being terrible for giving small children electronic devices for long periods of time. Is it necessary? No. But is it something that I will almost certainly watch? Yes. So four out of five on this one in terms of expectation.
Guest
Nice. It's directed by Andrew Stanton, who did Finding Nemo and Wally.
Phil
Okay, so at least they're bringing back the best of the best here over Pixar.
Ben
That's good.
Guest
Next up, let's do the Michael Jackson trailer.
Phil
Uh oh, here we go.
Michael
You're confident, you're strong, you're beautiful. You're the greatest of all time.
MJ
Let me tell you something. In this life, y' all are the winner for your loser. Y' all want to work in a steel mill like me for the rest of your days? No, sir.
Phil
Yeah.
MJ
Cause I sure as hell though y' all willing to fight for it.
Phil
Yes, sir.
MJ
I need to hear you a little louder. Y' all willing to fight for it?
Phil
Yes, sir.
Lily
Ready whenever you are, Michael.
Woody
Woo.
Phil
I know, Zachary.
Guest
You want to be the biggest star in the world.
Phil
That's a Miles Teller.
MJ
Okay, capitalize on Michael's success, because the Jackson family is the brand that's our Coca Cola. And we need to start selling. So I'm planning an international tour. This is just the beginning.
Michael
I need to think.
MJ
I told you what to think.
Michael
I love my family. I just want to do my own thing.
Phil
Uh oh.
Michael
Just have all these ideas in my head. Just gotta get them out.
Phil
Okay. Michael. Not a little boy anymore.
Woody
People always told me, be careful what you do, Michael.
Michael
I knew you were different the moment you were born. You have a very special light.
Phil
I wonder where this is going to go.
Michael
I believe in music. Could change the world when the. Spread love.
Phil
Okay, so, okay, so it is Bohemian Rhapsody, right? I mean, it's just the same movie. Basically nostalgia for. For Gen Xers magic. I mean, I assume that movie cost one bajillion dollars because you have to license all of Michael Jackson's music.
Guest
The rumor is that this is part one of two.
Phil
Ooh, part one of two. Well, I assume part two of two is the part where all the terrible things happen.
Guest
I don't know if it's confirmed, but they're being very coy about.
Phil
I mean, if this is part one of two. So it's like this is the rise and then the fall is, you know, all the other stuff. So listen, I'm not a huge Michael Jackson fan. Not just because of the personal stuff, but because I'm just not enormous fan. I think that there are like three of his songs from his post Jackson 5 period that I really, really like. You know, this movie will make all sorts of money. There are a lot of people who have tons of nostalgia for Michael Jackson and his music. And so the performance looks good. I mean, the guy looks like Michael Jackson.
Guest
That's his nephew, Jafar Jackson Jr. First acting role.
Ben
Okay.
Phil
It's his nephew. Okay.
Ben
Wow.
Phil
I wonder if he can act. I mean, we'll find out, but Antoine
Guest
Fuqua is directing it.
Phil
I like Antoine Fuqua generally.
Michael
Yeah.
Phil
I mean, he's very hit or miss.
Ben
I'm not sure that the world needs
Phil
another music biopic about a personality that we already knew really well. And I feel like they're kind of
Ben
formulaic at this point.
Guest
If you had to pick this or Spider Man.
Phil
If I had to pick this for Spider man to like go out on a weekend, I'm gonna go to Spider Man.
Guest
Nice.
Phil
I mean, maybe make it two out of five for that.
Ben
Also, like, you have to feel a
Phil
little bit weird about, you know, like going in the treatment of Michael Jackson as unsullied hero.
Ben
I gotta feel a little weird. Like some stuff happened.
Phil
I just don't know a lot of adult grown males who are inviting small
Ben
children to sleep over at their house. Like, that's weird. You've seen the headlines.
Phil
You know the story.
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Phil
okay, what else we got?
Guest
Disclosure Day. Spielberg's new movie. Going back to the basics.
Phil
Yeah, this is a Spielberg movie about aliens, which is sort of his bread and butter.
Michael
What did you steal?
Ben
Secrets.
MJ
The data they paid me to protect.
Phil
Is this Josh o' Neill who's in every single movie now?
Guest
Josh o'. Connor.
Phil
Josh o'. Connor.
Ben
Yeah.
Phil
Josh o'.
Michael
Connor.
Phil
He's the Zenziah of male actors. Now. He's in every single movie. No.
Michael
Good morning, Kansas City. Let's take a look at today.
Phil
Okay. Emily Blunt. I. I'm. I'm a big Emily Blunt.
Lily
Stan, let's.
Phil
I think Emily Blunt is the best working actress today. Oh, well, that's not ideal.
Buzz
Do you understand what she's saying?
Michael
I hear it's gibberish. I can't understand it.
MJ
And I can.
Phil
What's happening to me?
MJ
People got starved for the truth.
Phil
I'm a part of it now.
MJ
I'm just sorry they made You a
Phil
part of it, too. Okay, so it's WikiLeaks meets aliens.
Guest
Yes.
Ben
Please have a seat.
Phil
Okay. We've got some Colin Firth going on here. Okay. And now it's Christmas and we're going to a house in the woods. Is an Arnia. Yeah. Okay. I'm interested.
Michael
Full disclosure to the whole world.
Ben
That truth will upend all established order across the.
Phil
The entire world. If you do this, there's no one doing it. Okay. So we got to.
Ben
It's like a crossing.
Phil
ET And Close Encounters kind of. Yep.
MJ
When the time is right, everything will become clear.
Phil
All right, listen, this is. Spielberg is one of the three greatest directors of all time. So, you know, I do think that it would be really, really funny. I will admit if when Emily Blunt started doing that, she just turned into Steve Carell from Bruce Almighty. I think it'll be really funny if she's like. Instead of her going like. Instead of that, it's just like. And then Joshua Goddard's like. I understand. Like, that would be funny. But. Okay, I have a question. What has David Cope ever written?
Guest
The best Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Buzz
Ooh.
Guest
He worked on the Jurassic park script.
Phil
Like the original?
Guest
Yeah.
Phil
Okay.
Guest
He worked on Jurassic World also. Not as good. Mission Impossible, the first one. The first Tom Cruise.
Phil
Mission Impossible.
Guest
The really bad Mummy remake with Tom Cruise.
Ben
Yeah.
Guest
It's really hit or miss.
Phil
It's super duper hit or miss. You can slather a $100 million budget all over a bad script, and it will still not be that good. You can take a tiny budget and put it on a great script, and
Ben
it will kick ass. We'll see how it is.
Phil
I think Spielberg is unbelievably talented. The man's over is extraordinary. But that said, I could be really, really disappointed. Of all the movies that we have seen thus far, this one, I'm like four and a half out of five. Like, I would. I would see this one before I see Toy Story 5. It's a weekend. I get to pick one of the
Ben
two because the curiosity factor is super high.
Guest
All right, this is the film that's coming out the same day as Avengers. Doomsday.
Phil
Dunes Part 1 and 2 came out. I love both of them. I think Denis Villeneuve is unbelievably good at what he does. The world building is extraordinary. And now we are Getting Dune Part 3, which I believe is from Dune Messiah.
Guest
I think you'll see in the trailer, it goes past Dune Messiah and the Children of Dune.
Phil
So Here we go.
Michael
We have a girl. What will we name her?
Ben
How'd she get here?
Phil
From Spider Man.
Buzz
Her name should be Gnema. She would need to be strong like her mother. What if it's a boy?
Michael
I would name him little. So he would have the wisdom of his grandfather,
Phil
Timothy Chalamet. By the way, Offset was like playing ping pong this whole time. True story for Marty. Supreme. Man Villanue Webb makes images, man. He really does. Okay, you got Florence Pugh, a Robert Pattinson appearance. Okay.
Buzz
I'm doing the best I can to protect my family. How did father do it?
Michael
Your father never started.
Phil
And of course, Rebecca Ferguson, who is wonderful in everything. Okay, so to be fair, I know where the story ends because I've read the books.
Buzz
But. I'm not afraid to die. But I must not die yet.
Phil
Yeah, man, that's my jam. There it is. Okay. Yeah, I thought. I thought that was Jason Momoa in there.
Ben
Didn't get killed in movie one.
Guest
You don't remember from Messiah.
Phil
It's not really Duncan, remember? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. It's been a long time since I've read these books. I remember where it ends, but I do not remember some of the moves in between.
Guest
Well, it's very different because Johnny and Paul are together for all of Messiah and obviously they're not in this movie. So I don't know what's going to happen there.
Phil
That is also true. Yeah, I'm. That's. That's a five out of five. I will be seeing that opening weekend. Villeneuve is so good. He's really, really, really good. Obviously, Nolan's Odyssey is coming out this year also, and that's like a six out of five, because anything that Christopher Nolan makes is a six out of five for me. So in order of the films that I'm interested to see that have not yet come out of the ones that we just watched, Dune comes in number one, disclosure date number two, Toy Story 5, number three, Spider man number four. And I didn't even remember what the last one was.
Guest
The Michael Jackson movie.
Phil
Michael Jackson number five. That's how little I care about that movie. I'm just not into it. So there are my rankings. Leave your rankings below and then we'll
Ben
see how I did.
Phil
Whether my expectations were met or whether I was sadly disappointed.
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Episode: Ben Shapiro vs. 2026 Movie Trailers
Date: March 28, 2026
Host: Ben Shapiro (with Producer Phil and guests)
Theme: Ben Shapiro and panel dissect the biggest 2026 movie trailers, swapping opinions, quips, and cultural commentary on blockbusters from superhero sequels to biopics and auteur sci-fi.
This episode shifts focus from politics to pop culture as Ben and Producer Phil (with guests) react to and review an array of hotly anticipated 2026 movie trailers, offering “brutal” honesty, snappy critiques, personal rankings, and plenty of dry banter. The films span superhero tentpoles, beloved animation franchises, biopics, and heady sci-fi from Hollywood’s biggest directors.
(22:06–22:15)
Ben and Phil keep the discussion brisk and loaded with cultural references, nostalgia nods, and dry humor. Ben’s critiques balance blunt conservatism with geek-culture knowledge, while Phil provides more pop-savvy, sometimes self-deprecating commentary. The mood is analytical but approachable, with a focus on entertainment value rather than ideological parsing.
This episode delivers quick-hit, honest appraisals of the year’s splashiest trailers, ranking them by personal anticipation and dissecting trends such as biopic fatigue, IP exhaustion, and the enduring pull of directors like Spielberg, Villeneuve, and Nolan. Listeners get an insightful, occasionally biting, but always engaging set of takes—useful whether you’re deciding what to pre-order tickets for, or just want to keep up with pop culture buzz.