{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Faipt-movies.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fget-your-ass-to-march-the-2026-kuato-awards-Bf5MXt9i","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Get Your Ass to March - The 2026 Kuato Awards","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/be44cca5-0887-468b-a59e-2c3e352279ea/288bb5ee-63f2-41f9-9052-c9e4395c5aaf/3df-final-expanded.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Welcome to another episode of Death Don’t Do Fiction, the AIPT Movies podcast! The podcast about the enduring legacy of our favorite movies! March 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 it also means it’s time for Alex, Tim, and returning guests Chrissy Kurpeski and K-Tron to celebrate The Kuatos! Our annual award ceremony for our favorite movies of the year, both new and new to us! Favorite lines of the year! Favorite performances, special effects and death scenes! A special award called Chekhov's Kuato! The musical stylings of Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson in The Naked Gun! Leonardo DiCaprio making a frustrating phone call! Endlessly imaginative practical effects, an usual backpack, and brotherly hugs in Steven Kostanski's Deathstalker! Julia Garner's foul language and Aunt Gladys' final scene in Weapons! Unbelievable effects, Oona Chaplin, Stephen Lang, and a burger in Avatar: Fire and Ash! The amazing music, makeup effects, costume design, and cast in Sinners! Awkward Yautja humor and a unique musical score in Predator: Badlands! Allison Williams, a useful exoskeleton, and a supportive musical performance in M3GAN 2.0! KPop Demon Hunters, Ash, Primate, Beast of War, Heart Eyes, Superman, Companion, Happy Gilmore 2, V/H/S/Halloween, The Monkey, Ballerina, Havoc, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Final Destination Bloodlines, Black Bag, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Black Phone 2, A House of Dynamite, Bugonia, Wake Up Dead Man, and Nobody 2! Plus movies that were new to us like Lifeforce, Flow, Warriors of the Year 2072, The Substance, Spontaneous Combustion, R-Point, Day of the Animals, The Coffee Table, Razorback, Femme, and One Cut of the Dead! In addition, Tim and Chrissy share their spoiler-free thoughts on Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, K-Tron goes down a Hitchcock rabbit hole with Dial M for Murder and Rope, while Alex talks Ready or Not: Here I Come and the 35th anniversary re-release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze!"}