Blazing Saddles
BLAZING SADDLES is widely seen as a comedy classic, and many people grew up with it — but one of our hosts is coming to it for the first time. How does Mel Brooks' western satire look in 2022? Recommendations! Kahmeela likes THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, Robin can't help falling in love with MOONFALL and Sean gives a shockingly lukewarm opinion on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY for some reason.
56m Jun 06, 2022
56m
American Gangster
My man! And also Russell Crowe. Denzel Washington led AMERICAN GANGSTER to a surprisingly big box-office haul for an R-rated, original movie. Will all the cool moments and chinchilla coats make up for the fact that this movie doesn't actually have a third act? In recommendations ... honestly, we mostly complain about FIRESTARTER and OLD. Sean liked DOWNTON ABBEY, anyway, and Robin is firmly on...
1hr 6m May 24, 2022
1hr 6m
Men in Black
Bounce with us, slide with us, etc., as we revisit one of the biggest summer blockbusters of the '90s! Sure, we all loved MEN IN BLACK when it hit theaters, but how does it hold up after a quarter-century, several mediocre sequels and ... let's just say recent events? One thing is for sure: D'Onofrio is the best. There's a lot of qualified opinions in this week's recommendations, so you'll hav...
1hr 1m May 10, 2022
1hr 1m
The Awakening
For 4,000 years, an evil mummy has waited! For 40 years, no one has bothered to watch this movie! Yet here we are, revisiting the 1980 Halloween-weekend (maybe) winner THE AWAKENING, where Charlton Heston ... doesn't ever really settle down on any particular course of action, vis a vis mummies. This week's recommendations: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE! Tony Hawk doc UNTIL THE WHEELS FALL ...
1hr 2m Apr 18, 2022
1hr 2m
Rex Manning Day Bonus: Empire Records
Happy Rex Manning Day, friends! EMPIRE RECORDS was ... absolutely not the number one movie in America, but on this day, we are throwing out the rules! Say no more, mon amour!
1hr 4m Apr 08, 2022
1hr 4m
Saving Private Ryan
It's a titan of '90s cinema with one of the most memorable, and harrowing, sequences of all time. Will we find things to complain about? Oh, we certainly will! On the other hand, it's a hell of a lot better than Black Hawk Down! Listen to us square off with the greatest generation (we're sorry)! And we recorded this before the Oscars, so you'll have to wait for our lukewarm Will Smith reactions...
1hr 9m Mar 28, 2022
1hr 9m
Black Hawk Down
Oh boy, this is a can of worms. So BLACK HAWK DOWN was a pretty massive hit, and it arrived at a ... sensitive time. Which ... you know what, just listen, we're not going to get into the geopolitics in the episode description. But, you know, great special effects and early-'00s hunks! So there's that! This week's recommendations: Robin recommends ROBIN ROBIN (seriously, look it up on Netflix)....
1hr 7m Mar 14, 2022
1hr 7m
The Land Before Time
It's the barely feature length cartoon that jerked more tears than every Nicholas Sparks movie combined! THE LAND BEFORE TIME traumatized and entertained (citation needed) a generation of VHS-capable millennials; is it any good, or was it mostly just a grim harbinger of inevitable death? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela has mixed feelings about SCREAM but very positive ones about TED LASS...
52m Feb 28, 2022
52m
Look Who's Talking
Bruce Willis is a sperm! Then, eventually, a baby! The whole time, he's Bruce Willis! Let's not dive too deep into the implications — except for the tawdry Hollywood story behind LOOK WHO'S TALKING, because we are definitely diving into that one. This light comedy was a smash hit in 1989; uhh, why? Plus, endorsements for JACKASS FOREVER, THE LAST DUEL and that one Netflix series that would get...
50m Feb 14, 2022
50m
The Fast and the Furious
Vroom! Punch! Beer! Butt rock! Yes, long before it became James Bond but with Dubstep, The Fast Saga began as THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. (Not Fast and Furious, that's a different movie.) When you take away all the supermagnets and space cars and Charlize Therons and just have some kids and some cars, is it still a high-octane thrill ride? Or is it limp and disappointing, like The Fast and the Fu...
57m Jan 24, 2022
57m
Hardball
Keanu Reeves teaches some kids about baseball and character (not really), while those kids teach Keanu about life (also not really) in HARDBALL! This baseball (?) movie (?) went to number one at ... something of an odd moment; is it a hidden gem, or a rightly forgotten dud? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela is all in on ENCANTO. Robin's reigning Best Movie of 2021 is THE LOST DAUGHTER. Sea...
58m Jan 10, 2022
58m
Holiday Double Feature! Iron Man 3 & A Christmas Story
We're wrapping our yuletide observance into one double-feature episode with a Christmas-ish hit and a seasonal classic! First, Marvel's most eggnog-adjacent picture, IRON MAN 3, sends Tony Stark to a small-town Christmas (and a bunch of other places). Then, slap on a rabbit suit and try not to get soap poisoning, it's A CHRISTMAS STORY! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela is all wrapped up i...
1hr 5m Dec 21, 2021
1hr 5m
Monsters University
Monsters University, a movie absolutely no one remembers occurring, somehow made hundreds of millions of dollars. It did better than a bunch of Pixar movies people actually like (Coco AND Ratatouille)! So ... what's going on with this latter-day collegiate prequel? This week's recommendations: Sean and Robin both like POWER OF THE DOG, though predictably, Sean likes it more. Robin's all about ...
54m Dec 14, 2021
54m
100th Episode! (Feat. Ghost!)
It's our centennial! We've spent 100 episodes saying "what" and "really" about the box office champs of yesteryear, and it's all thanks to our patron saint: beloved character actor Tony Goldwyn. To thank him (please, someone let him know that we exist), we're taking a look back at his top-grossing movie, the megahit rom-com-spooky-dram, GHOST. Plus, in a very special 100th-episode airing of gri...
1hr 11m Dec 01, 2021
1hr 11m
Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones
A couple episodes ago, we wondered why we had never landed on a (main timeline) Star Wars movie. In a straight monkey's-paw situation, we landed on ATTACK OF THE CLONES! Whoops! Some people on the internet say this one is good; is that just some internet nonsense, or is there something redeeming about this marathon of CGI stew? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela is feeling good about THE HA...
57m Nov 16, 2021
57m
Texas Chainsaw 3D
It's the reboot of the Texas Chainsaw franchise! Wait, no it isn't, that was in 2003. It's the sequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre! No, not the good one from 1986. It's ... look, it's a movie with Leatherface that (we're pretty sure) occurs in Texas, what more do you want? In the year 2013, the franchise got another installment based largely on the promise of the chainsaw popping out of the s...
1hr 5m Oct 26, 2021
1hr 5m
Annabelle: Creation
Let's explore why a spooky doll is spooky! Besides the fact that it looks terrifying. And that whole business with the murders in the first movie. And, honestly, we're not gonna get into the origin story all that much. We're mostly gonna creep and spook and jump-scare all day in ANNABELLE: CREATION, one of the most well-received entries in the Conjuring Universe, a thing that we're still doing ...
56m Oct 19, 2021
56m
Urban Legends: Final Cut
Remember Urban Legend? (Jared Leto doesn't.) Well, it got a sequel! And somehow, that sequel was the number one movie in America! We interrogate the baffling URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT, a movie about film school made by filmmakers who have no idea what happens at film school. By the way, we say early on that we're not going to spoil the movie, then we immediately and repeatedly spoil the movie, s...
58m Oct 06, 2021
58m
The Martian
A short, short time from now, on a planet not that far away, Matt Damon made potatoes out of poop! And it got seven Oscar nominations! THE MARTIAN was a runaway hit, despite being neither scientifically inaccurate or sad (the two things that usually make space movies work). Will it hold up all these ... six-ish years later? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela gives a cool recommendation to C...
1hr Sep 22, 2021
1hr
Sahara
Robin got to pick a movie! And ... it's Sahara? She tells us why she loves this lovable scamp of an mid-aughts, McConaughey-ridden adventure flick — and, while Sean and Kahmeela can't quite match her enthusiasm, they can't be too grumpy about a movie this wacky! This week's recommendations: Sean's big on THE GREEN KNIGHT and CANDYMAN. Kahmeela endorses Netflix's UNTOLD series. And Robin likes ...
1hr 1m Sep 13, 2021
1hr 1m
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
A year removed from our first showdown with these ... TURTLES, we revisit the first of the shelled superheroes' seven number-one hits. The original, foam-suited, grit-soaked, Feldman-voiced version of the iconic quartet is the most fondly remembered. Is it any good, though? Plus, in this week's recommendations: Kahmeela likes the Netflix animated flick VIVO. Robin was pleased to find that MEME...
59m Aug 31, 2021
59m
Enchanted
It's one of those classic New York stories: Boy meets girl, girl is a cartoon princess, various rodents get involved, there's a dragon. It's ENCHANTED, one of Disney's biggest live-action hits and a career highlight for perennial Oscar bridesmaid Amy Adams! With a sequel on the way, is this one a lovable lark or a best-forgotten mess?
1hr 3m Aug 17, 2021
1hr 3m
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
By some measures, it's the most successful movie of all time — and it was the Number One Movie in America for a record-setting 16 weeks! Returning guest Addi Twigg (@addiful) joins us and selects E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the timeless tale of a boy and his alien bestie. Will a combination of nostalgia and magical filmmaking impress our hosts? One all-time NOMIA record will be broken!
1hr 13m Aug 03, 2021
1hr 13m
With Honors
Brendan Fraser and his Harvard Pals learn life lessons from a wacky vagabond played by a reasonable facsimile of Joe Pesci! It's WITH HONORS, which is way more of a Madonna single than a movie but somehow won a sleepy 1994 weekend. Is this a hidden gem, or just a movie with young Brendan Fraser's butt in it? This week's recommendations include mixed reviews from F9, No Sudden Move and Fear Str...
56m Jul 14, 2021
56m
Footloose
Locate your Sunday shoes, put them on, then proceed to kick them off! We're investigating the (checks notes) TRUE STORY of a town where dancing is illegal and the wide-eyed young man who decided to dance his troubles away! (There's no way to make this plot sound good, sorry.) Two of three hosts are surprisingly unimpressed! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela makes a high-pitched "eh" about ...
59m Jun 28, 2021
59m
Fight Club
We want you to hit us as hard as you can! (Not really, we're very passive people.) Fight Club was just barely a NOMIA, but remains one of the most landmark films of the '90s! Will we still love it? Can we get past the legions of people who completely missed the point? Can it grab the show's highest rating yet? Listen and find out! This week's recommendations: Robin is ambivalent about Those Wh...
1hr 5m Jun 15, 2021
1hr 5m
Fire Down Below
Oh wow, it's Steven Seagal time. Are we prepared? Is anyone? Somewhat late in the mysterious, fabled Era of Seagal, the notorious kick-man took a trip down to Kentucky to try and find some jugs of green ooze, while romancing Marg Helgenberger and fixing Harry Dean Stanton's porch. Somehow, it's LESS straightforward than that! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela finds herself delighted by KIN...
52m Jun 07, 2021
52m
Hero
This podcast presents Quentin Tarantino presents Miramax presents HERO! Zhang Yimou's epic, eye-popping wuxia film was an Academy Award nominee ... and then a NOMIA two full years later. The rollout got weird. But it's still a near-classic full of beautiful fight sequences, intense color palettes and caligraphy! This week's recommendations: Sean talks about a bunch of stuff then quickly recomm...
51m May 24, 2021
51m
The Craft
It's another fan vote! After a neck-and-neck race, the '90s Hot Topic set won out with THE CRAFT! Can anyone on the panel be objective about this gift-wrapped parcel of our youth? Why would you steal from a witch store? Why so many snakes? These and more questions, as we record with perfect love and perfect trust! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela enjoyed THE OUT SIDE STORY, Robin was just...
54m May 11, 2021
54m
Freaky
Take a little Halloween, a little Scream, a whole lot of Jason Voorhees and most of Freaky Friday and you get ... a mid-pandemic number one movie in America! FREAKY climbed above the pile of 2020 theatrical releases (it was a small pile) to take the top spot for two weeks. It was ... pretty good? No one hates this! A refreshing episode! The recommendations are kind of all over the place this t...
58m May 03, 2021
58m
Bonus: Worst Oscars Ever
Just be glad Sean and Robin waited until the next morning to record this, their immediate post-ceremony phone call was mostly just enraged noises. It was an Oscars unlike any other! In that it was even more weird and disappointing than usual. Breaking down the fumbles and few glimmers of joy from an Oscar night we're looking forward to forgetting!
30m Apr 27, 2021
30m
Bonus: The Best Guide to the Weirdest Oscars
Who knows what to expect going into a most unusual Oscar night? No one! But Robin and Sean are probably closer than most. Listen in for a breakdown of all the nominated films, and fairly confident (mostly) predictions on what will win! Dominate the pool at your odd, virtual Oscar-night party!
1hr 20m Apr 22, 2021
1hr 20m
Apocalypto
This one is a lot. Mel Gibson (you know him, he's that angry guy) followed up his megahit about Jesus with a hyper-violent epic set in the waning days of the Mayan empire. Filmmakers loved it, critics were lukewarm, audiences ... well, listen to the show. Prepare for gore and tapir junk! Also: You get to choose another episode! We've got another movie draft on the show. Head to @number1moviepo...
57m Apr 12, 2021
57m
Bonus: The Cinema Strikes Back
Sean and Robin sit down to work through the big question of the moment: Who's ready to go back to a physical movie theater? What it'll take to bring us back to the box office, and what we want to see (both onscreen and off) when we get there.
38m Apr 08, 2021
38m
The Toy
An unpleasant rich kid wants to own Richard Pryor! We're not making that sound bad to make a point, that's the actual premise! THE TOY stole a weekend from the alien juggernaut of 1982, adding to a long list of Pryor's hits; were the scathing reviews that greeted it on release wrong? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela and Robin have made it to the dispiriting conclusion of ALLEN V FARROW, a...
41m Mar 29, 2021
41m
Bonus: Zack Snyder's Weird Flex
Sean and Robin both made it through Justice League! Y'know, mostly. Between them, they watched at least 6 1/2 combined hours of Zack Snyder's oddly square-shaped artistic vision. Now, they grab the mics like the Flash grabbing a passing a hot dog to try to figure out: Was all that worth it?
50m Mar 25, 2021
50m
Minisode: Oscars So Mank
It's a bonus episode, as Sean & Robin gather for the annual sleepy analysis of the Academy Award nominations! Will this be the year that the pleasant surprises outweigh the frustrating snubs? (Please note: That year will never come.) We talk Lakeith, Lindo, Leslie and Love & Monsters, plus a lot more!
1hr Mar 16, 2021
1hr
Coming to America
That's Coming TO America, not Coming TWO America. Though we cover them both in this past-and-present trip to Zamunda! The winner of our latest audience poll, Coming to America is absolutely having a cultural moment. How well does it hold up 33 years later, and how does it do when viewed back-to-back with its sequel? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela is gripped by ALLEN V FARROW. Robin has ...
1hr 1m Mar 15, 2021
1hr 1m
The Princess & The Frog
In an unexpected feat of timing, we've got Oprah and a troubled princess! THE PRINCESS & THE FROG, Disney's penultimate hand-drawn feature, has a lot going for it and just as much going against it. But hey, there's a great villain song and an alligator that wants to play the trumpet! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela recommends the Netflix series BEHIND HER EYES, and gives kind of a soft e...
58m Mar 09, 2021
58m
Hancock
Despite this movie utterly vanishing from our cultural memory, it was the fourth top-grossing movie of 2008! Lots of people went to see Will Smith drunk fly, redeem himself, and then deal with a whole second plot because the movie realized it wasn't long enough yet! This week's recommendations: Robin went on a tear and recommends Judas & The Black Messiah, Nomadland and Sound of Metal. (She's ...
58m Mar 01, 2021
58m
Meet the Fockers
Our second straight comedy sequel is MEET THE FOCKERS, the stunningly successful follow-up to the movie where Robert De Niro asked Ben Stiller about his nipples. Everyone and their mother (literally) went to see Barbara and the familiar Fockers back in 2004, but was it any good? (How many movies that rely on a swearing toddler are actually that good?) This week's recommendations: Kahmeela give...
1hr Feb 22, 2021
1hr
22 Jump Street
We're going back to Jump Street! (Even though we, as a podcast, never went there in the first place!) Let's take a look at the comedy sequel 22 Jump Street, discuss its weird proposed follow-ups and find ourselves pleasantly surprised that it's just straight-up funny throughout! This week's recommendations: Sean likes the award-nominated Shudder original La Llorana, and recommends revisiting t...
1hr 4m Feb 16, 2021
1hr 4m
Pretty in Pink
She may be PRETTY IN PINK, but both her suitors are real doofs. Robin represents the segment of the population that loved this movie growing up, while Kahmeela and Sean give it somewhat lower marks for being, y'know, kind of a mess. But hey, Harry Dean Stanton and Annie Potts are great! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela gives a cool recommendation to the SALT-N-PEPA movie and a big ol' shr...
56m Feb 08, 2021
56m
The Town
We'ah puttin' this whole friggin' tahn in ah-ur reah view! (That's about as close as you can type to a hilarious Boston accent.) Yes, Ben Affleck scored his first directorial hit with THE TOWN, a charming portrait of a humble Boston neighborhood where absolutely everyone robs a bank every day. This week's recommendations: Kahmeela jumps on board the ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI train. Sean liked THE DIG...
1hr 3m Feb 01, 2021
1hr 3m
Taken
We have a very particular set of skills! It's mostly tearing apart reality-breaking minutiae in popular movies! Liam Neeson's career unexpectedly changed after his twentysomething teenage daughter got TAKEN like four minutes after landing in Europe. Does this landmark of old guy punchy-punchy cinema actually land (like a throat punch), or was it just kind of the goof that worked? Plus, this we...
1hr 1m Jan 25, 2021
1hr 1m
Solo: A Star Wars Story
At last, we land on a Star Wars movie! Not the one anyone wanted us to land on, but who's counting? Everyone's favorite scoundrel gets an origin story with a troubled production history, as not-Harrison fills us in on far too many details about the young life of SOLO! This week's recommendations: Robin enjoyed LIKE A BOSS! Sean recommends ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI and gleefully revisited BIRDS OF PRE...
1hr 1m Jan 18, 2021
1hr 1m
The Bone Collector
Who's ready to collect some bones? (Not this killer, but that's neither here nor there.) Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie team up for a blatant Seven knockoff, as THE BONE COLLECTOR continues our surprising streak of movies with elaborate clues! Stick around for the moment where a giant cat invades the show! Plus, this week's recommendations: Kahmeela reminds you to watch KILLING EVE. Robi...
1hr 3m Jan 11, 2021
1hr 3m
National Treasure
We're gonna start the year off right: By stealing the Declaration of Independence! Wildly successful Indiana Jones knockoff NATIONAL TREASURE made Disney a lot of money and helped make Nicolas Cage the walking meme he is today. But is it, you know, any good? We'll find out, if we can get this ocular device to work! Plus, in recommendations: Sean and Robin split on WONDER WOMAN 1984, but fortun...
57m Jan 04, 2021
57m
Seven
2020 ends on a fittingly bleak note, as we talk about SEVEN, perhaps the most depressing film ever to top the box office! (For four whole weeks, yet!) Is the world worth fighting for? Does John Doe have the upper hand? What's in the box? We will try to keep our spirits up as we dive in to Kahmeela's hand-picked episode! This week's recommendations: Robin gives a rousing shrug to TENET; Sean ge...
58m Dec 29, 2020
58m
Home Alone
Think of our holiday special as a whole cheese pizza, just for you! We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Home Alone by revisiting the slapstick, heartwarming, bandit-murdering comedy classic! This movie was the Number One Movie in America for a staggering 12 consecutive weekends; was it worth all the grave bodily harm to Joe Pesci? Plus, Sean recommends something old (It's a Wonderful Life) an...
1hr Dec 22, 2020
1hr