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Welcome to The Movie Gumshoes! Step into The Junk! A dusty little town where reality and myth overlap, and two detectives chase down the biggest cases in cinema.In Movie Gumshoes, Jared and Jonathan (with the occasional visit from Dirty Deborah and Jason Stackman) investigate…
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Case File: "Diamond City" - Buddy (2026) (opens the original)
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Still serving out their probationary exile from the precinct, The Movie Gumshoes remain stuck manning the police impound lot, a punishment Jared and Jonathan have somehow interpreted as more of a loose suggestion than an actual job assignment. This week, they ditch their post long enough to sneak over to the DinoPlex for a screening of Buddy , the 2026 supernatural black-comedy horror film from director Casper Kelly. When they return, however, Dirty Deborah casually insists she went with them an
Case File: "AC/DC" - Maximum Overdrive (1986) (opens the original)
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It’s a dark and stormy night at the police impound yard. After getting kicked out of the precinct, The Movie Gumshoes , Jared and Jonathan have been reassigned to the graveyard shift at the department’s impound lot. Surrounded by wrecked cruisers, seized vehicles, and rows of twisted metal, they figure the worst thing they’ll have to survive tonight is boredom. Then, through the pouring rain, an unexpected visitor arrives. An Interpol special agent on a top-secret mission to stop an internationa
Case File: "Dice Man" - Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) (opens the original)
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Jared and Jonathan are assigned to the most thankless assignment at the precinct: impound duty. While inventorying the abandoned vehicles, they uncover a long-lost 1957 Ford Fairlane convertible. Inspired by their discovery and eager to ditch their responsibilities, the Gumshoes retreat to Jared’s dusty old stakeout van to watch The Adventures of Ford Fairlane , starring Andrew Dice Clay and directed by Renny Harlin. There’s just one problem: once the movie starts, they discover the van’s doors
Case File: "Stoic" - Motor City (2026) (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Movie Gumshoes , Jared arrives at the precinct eager to crack open a brand-new case file on the overlooked, dialogue-light crime thriller Motor City , convinced it's the perfect mystery for the detectives to investigate. Unfortunately, Jonathan has bigger plans, not for the movie, but for himself. Declaring that every great detective needs a secret crime-fighting identity, he unveils The Biting Bee , a masked vigilante dedicated to stinging crime wherever it hides. Before
Case File: "Red Flags" - Barbarian (2022) (opens the original)
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When a string of bizarre disappearances and grisly discoveries leads the Gumshoes to investigate the events of Barbarian , Detective Jonathan becomes convinced he's cracked the case after reading only half the file. Despite his endless list of red flags, terrible instincts, reckless confidence, and an uncanny ability to make every situation worse, the Captain inexplicably leaves him in command of the precinct while attending his daughter's wedding. Detective Jared Ballistic Jackson is furious. A
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