Why Did We Watch This
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Why Did We Watch This
Like the Rat Pack, but with 100% more sarcasm and self-deprecation.
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102 حلقة
126 – The Mummy Returns
It’s our Halloween Spooktacular, baby, and nothing says the spooky season like a limp underbaked sequel to a blockbuster action / horror-adjacent bloc...
125.5 – Anatomy of a Young Adult Movie
What started off as a vague idea of making up a YA movie or book molted in discussion to become something else and sometimes that’s okay! Leigh, Brend...
125 – I Am Number Four
It’s back to school season, and what better way for us to reminisce about our distant high school memories than through the lens of a failed young adu...
124.5 – Fiction Flashbacks
Summer, alas, is over (even though it’ll still be like 80 degrees for a while but now with the added fun of 7:00 pm sunsets, such fun) and with it our...
124 – The Apple
Hey, hey, hey! BIM’s on the way! BIM’s the only way! BIM’s all the way! (?) Look, any way you may hear it, our Summer of Unhinged Musicals has reached...
123.5 – Something Like Summer Movies
What would summer be without summer movies to accompany it? Well, probably just insufferably hot. Thankfully, we have summer movies to distract us fro...
123 – Something Like Summer
The Summer of Unhinged Musicals continues with perhaps one of the most unhinged movies we have ever covered, period. For your pleasure (?), we present...
122.5 – Jukebox Musical Jumble
As the year rolls swelteringly along, so does our Summer of Unhinged Musicals, and what better way commemorate this year’s miniseries than with yet an...
122 – The Singing Detective
Another summer has begun, and with it, another miniseries. This year, we’re kicking off our Summer of Unhinged Musicals with a movie that… might be ar...
121.5 – Round Robin Recs
Look, sometimes it’s very hard to come up with discussion topics and sometimes people are feeling sick so sometimes mini episodes just end up being a...
121 – It Could Happen to You
Could it, though? Could it indeed happen to you? Well, yes, it could, if by “it” you mean “watching a mid-tier 90s romantic comedy that sort of holds...
120.5 – Culinary Crossover Conundrums
We’ve got a movie coming up next week that focuses pretty heavily on a diner, so why not do a food-centric mini episode accordingly? Except it’s not r...
120 – Addicted to Love
What do you get when America’s sweetheart teams up with Ferris Bueller for a comic revenge scheme against their exes and then end up falling for each...
119.5 – TV Repairfolks
Our television trilogy of terror miniseries comes to an end (for now, anyway) with this mini episode, in which we finally do what we’re been musing ab...
119 – The Box
Your television is a box. Your phone is a box. You listen to podcasts on it. You sit in your home, listening to Leigh, Brendan, and Chris discuss Rich...
118.5 – TV Sides
Our TV-themed mini episode trilogy spins merrily along as we shift from our favorite couples to our favorite supporting characters- characters who may...
118 – Who Is Cletis Tout?
It’s always an interesting choice when a movie’s title is a question- indeed, the unspoken contract entered into is “at some point, this question will...
117.5 – TV Twosomes
Valentine’s Day may be several days behind us, but we’ve never been too slavishly faithful to how calendars work before and dammit we’re not about to...
117 – Three to Tango
What better way to prepare for Valentine’s Day than by watching a romantic comedy that has aged like a fine milk? Join Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as th...
116.5 – The Mystery of the Cozy Mystery
Look, we’re all very tired and we don’t really have a good discussion topic in mind, so it’s a game! Just go with it and have fun! Chris gives us a li...
116 – The Magic Flute
Several years ago, a group of filmmakers gathered together to address a problem: kids today simply don’t want to go to the opera as much as their grea...
115.5 – The Closing of the Year VIII
It’s the end of December and per our usual custom, we are closing that year, baby! Please remember to indicate that you have closed your year by liste...
115 – The Polar Express
At long last, the prophecy has come true- we’re finally discussing that Christmas white whale, that rotten chestnut, that ho ho holy hell what a piece...
114.5 – Hallmark Christmas Movie Generator Game III
‘Tis the Christmas season (because Thanksgiving is boring and who cares, let’s just skip over that whole bit) and what better way to celebrate it than...
114 – The 13th Warrior
One must give credit to Michael Crichton, the man who created works of fiction that asked questions such as “what if Disneyland had dinosaurs” and “wh...
113.5 – Kevin Fantastical Degrees of Seven Bacon
A mini episode in which Leigh, Brendan, and Chris start out discussing original fantasy movies, then muse about why there are so few good original fan...
113 – A Haunting in Venice
October is back and so is our annual Halloween Spooktacular! We’ve previously dealt with a murder AND a death, so it only makes sense that a haunting...
112.5 – Reliable Rewatches (or: The Twin Demons of Capitalism and Nostalgia)
As we slowly crawl to the end of another excruciating year, the Hallo-Thanks-Mas holiday corridor creeps up along with it. As is often the case with t...
112 – Love’s Labour’s Lost
Rita Mae Brown’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. On an unrelated note, in this episode Leig...
111.5 – Maladapted from a Video Game
Remember a few weeks ago when the Borderlands movie came out and no one liked it and it flopped and we all agreed that there was no reason to talk abo...
111 – Van Helsing
Our Summer of Failed Franchises (mercifully?) comes to an end with perhaps the most flagrant franchise bait yet, Stephen Sommer's 2004 monster mash up...
110.5 – Trailer Trash Talk
Obviously we’ve got some general movie spoilers to contend with in this episode, so be forewarned! Stemming from a brief digression in our last episod...
110 – Artemis Fowl
Our summer miniseries of Failed Franchises continues unabated with a look at an adaptation of a pretty popular children’s book that stagnated for year...
109.5 – Problematic Faves
Whether it's a husky-voiced puppet master creeping on his unrequited love's daughter or a charming '60s romantic comedy that also happens to periodica...
109 – Lost in Space
It's humid and hot and wildly unpleasant to be outdoors, meaning that summer is thusly upon us and more importantly, that we're starting yet another m...
108.5 – New Media Resolutions (in Media Res)
Remember how back in January we made some resolutions for the new year involving media (movies, books, video games, television) of some kind? Well, we...
108 – Wish
What better way to celebrate 100 years of existence as an entertainment corporate entity than by making a film so crammed full of back-patting referen...
107.5 – Fall into the Age Gap
It's been a week or so since The Idea of You has premiered on Prime, and the world has not been the same since (or maybe it has, we do this stuff in a...
107 – The Portable Door
At long last, a movie that seeks to answer the age-old question, “what if doors were towels?” Listen in with Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as we go down u...
106.5 – ShadowLetterBoxing
It's a game! Look, we like things with less pressure, so games are fun for us to do. This time, we turn our slightly-drunken eyes to that beloved cine...