Steve and Dan suffer through basic training in preparation for battle against the Nazi's in George Clooney's latest directorial effort, The Monuments Men. We take a look back through Clooney's career as an actor and a director, finishing with our thoughts on his World War 2 film.

We lead off the podcast discussing the tragic loss of one of our greatest actors, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. We also ponder the news of Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Irons being cast in the Superman/Batman film, consider the lose-lose situation of Woody Allen versus Dylan Farrow and say goodbye to Jay Leno as he departs the Tonight Show.

In our What We Watched segment we offer up some opinions of 'Runner Runner', 'The Hunt', '20 Feet From Stardom' and 'Escape Plan'.