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SUBMIT TOPICS FOR TOPIC TOURNAMENT 2025

This is the official post for submitting potential video topics for Topic Tournament 2025.Post your submission in a comment below.Limit one submission per person.Topics must be 10 words or less.SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED. NOTHING SUBMITTED AFTER THIS WILL BE CONSIDERED.

You Choose The Topic For Our Season Premiere Episode

Starting today (October 20) we're doing something we haven't done in years...letting the fans choose a video topic.Welcome to Topic Tournament 2025!Here's how this works:For the next three days, you can submit potential topics for future videos. Post your submissions in comments on THIS ...

Patrick Replies (PODCAST VERSION) – The Flying Episode

I'm sorry that in the audio version you won't get to see all my official Oasis apparel as well as the great mail at the end.

Patrick Replies – The Flying Episode

watch ad-free on NebulaA lot of flying talk in this one, as well as follow-ups about the wedding invitation, the Oasis concert, plus some incredible mail.

NEW EPISODE – Are Music Biopics Good Now?

Or watch it ad-free on NebulaIt was funny announcing this and posting the viewing guide and seeing so many people comment something along the lines of "NO THANKS MUSIC BIOPICS SUCK"Guys, I know, I literally made the "music biopics suck" video six years ago.The point of this is that a...

Nebula Release – Anatomy of a Legacy Sequel

Remember the Topic Tournament of 2023? Well, some of the ideas that didn't end up winning just stuck around and I kept thinking about them and now two years later, here we are, just making them anyway.This is a huge topic, so heads up...it's gonna be a 2-parter.

Next Episode Viewing Guide

We're about halfway through production on the next episode right now, coming very soon to Nebula, coming a little while after that to YouTube.If you watched to the end of the music biopics episode, you know this one is on legacy sequels. So if you want to prep for it and watch some movies we&#39...

Music Biopics Viewing Guide

First, an apology: I should have made this before the video released on Nebula. Sorry about that. Our intern, Emil, reminded me that we should get back to doing viewing guides when appropriate.So, a week ahead of the YouTube release, here's the music biopics viewing guide. If you only have time ...

Patrick Replies (PODCAST VERSION) – The Speed Racer Episode

For listening on your commute! Or while you're at work pretending to work but are actually just listening to podcasts and playing games instead

Patrick Replies – The Speed Racer Episode

or watch ad-free on NebulaThe catch-up continues as we get to our biggest video of the past two years. Sadly no physical mail this time but I DO get a facetime call from my mom in the middle of it!

NEW EPISODE – Digital De-Aging Is Changing Movies (For The Worse)

or watch it ad-free on NebulaI really wish we'd been able to digitally smooth the skin on my face for this one to make me look weird and really young, but sadly we just did not have the budget.

Nebula Release – Are Music Biopics Good Now?

I've been yelling about it to anyone who would listen for the entire year, so I figured it was finally time to make a video about Better Man, the insane, incredible monkey music biopic.It's not JUST about Better Man, it's really about the past 6 years of the genre and the different ways ...

Patrick Replies (PODCAST VERSION) – The Vitos & Post-Credits Scenes

In audio form! Sorry that you won't get to see all the fun mail at the end.

Patrick Replies – The Vitos & Post-Credits Scenes

or watch on Nebula with no adsWe're doubling up on this one! Replying to two videos in one!Since we're still months behind, it really didn't seem like many people would care that much about an entire video responding to comments about 2024 movies (plus I just didn't want to spend muc...

Patrick Replies (PODCAST VERSION) – The Sweaters Episode

I'm sorry but in audio version you'll just have to imagine the sweaters I'm wearing in this one

Patrick Replies – The Sweaters Episode

or watch with no ads on NebulaFinally the Patrick Replies episode you were all waiting for: sweaters (or jumpers as some of you call them, which we get into here)

NEW EPISODE – The Daniel Craig James Bond Era Is The Weirdest Franchise Ever

or watch it ad-free on NebulaI've been planning a Bond video since 2019. Originally my big idea was to call it "Learning Film History Through the James Bond Series," and it would be about how other than the first couple movies, the Bond franchise has never innovated, and instead just ref...

Nebula Release – Digital De-Aging Is Changing Movies (For The Worse)

After a bit of a delay because I was directing something for Nebula in July, we're back! With another "grumpy Patrick complains about modern movies" episode! but it's a fun one I promise.

Patrick Replies (PODCAST VERSION) – The Megacities Episode

now in audio form!

Patrick Replies – The Megacities Episode

or watch it on Nebula with no adsSlowly but surely we continue to try to catch up. Almost through 2024!

NEW EPISODE – Why Are Movies About Research So Addictive?

Documents movies!!!!This honestly might be my favorite video of the year so far. It was so much fun revisiting all these movies (and watching a few I hadn't seen), and it presented so many fun opportunities for the narrative stuff and the visual style.I have no idea how it's going to perform...

Nebula Release – The Daniel Craig James Bond Era Is The Weirdest Franchise Ever

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned at various points over the past five years that I had an idea for a James Bond video. I was actually planning to make it in May 2020 to time it to the originally-planned release of No Time to Die. And then that movie got delayed for obvious reasons and by the t...

NEW EPISODE – The Death of the TCM Wine Club

or watch it ad-free on NebulaThis is the most important video we've ever made.

Patrick Replies (PODCAST VERSION) – Train Movies Part 2

More train talk, now without that pesky video component (if you're wondering, I'm wearing a light blue oxford shirt in this one, not that exciting)

Patrick Replies – Train Movies Part 2

or watch with no ads on NebulaWho wants more train talk??????Like I say in the video, it would be really funny if this Q&A video got more views than the actual episode it's about (currently at 109k) so if you have famous friends with millions of followers, please ask them to share it.

NEW EPISODE – How To Spend One Week At The Cannes Film Festival

or watch with no ads on NebulaI went to the Cannes Film Festival again! And this year, I actually managed to make the entire video about it before the festival is over! I'm honestly amazed I pulled this off.It was a great time, I saw a bunch of good movies and drank a lot of wine a cappuccinos. ...

Patrick Replies (PODCAST VERSION) – The Trains Episode

Heads up if you only listen to this instead of watching you're missing a good sweater

NEW EPISODE – Cinema's Obsession With Human Flight

We went really, really deep on a really specific thing. Apologies in advance for all the stuff we had to leave out that people will inevitably complain about.Also I'm genuinely debating making that Hook video so please let me know if you think I should.

NEBULA RELEASE – Documents Movies

Hello from Cannes! At the festival again this year, just got back to my hotel from Mission: Impossible to finally release the episode. Finally someone is talking about the movies that really matter: mid-budget Hollywood thrillers about people reading lots and lots of documents. This one was a blast ...