What do you get when you watch and you eat? Dinner with a Movie is our favorite treat! You guessed it. We’re discussing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory after we eat tomato soup, roast beef, blueberry pie, and chocolate eggs. This romp through a psychopath’s factory is full of friendly deathtraps for naughty children. Because we’re good boys at DWAM, we can keep bringing you our golden-ticket podcast where everyone’s a winner and there’s no chance of any of us "unintentionally" falling into an incinerator. Doopa-dee-doo!

C’mon and have some cheese wrapped in salami and ice cream before we discuss C’mon C’mon. This voyage through mental health and parenting is guided by a kid with an old soul. Brandon isn’t bothered by Joaquin Phoenix and Jose isn’t bothered by Woody Norman so this movie is a pleasant surprise for Blake. Join us for another adventure, C’mon.

We kindly eat cheese pizza before discussing Be Kind Rewind. Jack Black and Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) lead a great team of friends making movies and creating a community. This episode takes us on a nostalgic journey of the not-so-distant past when we were making films and memories in college. We all find the film charming after we get past the confusing beginning and the emergence of Magnetic Jerry and his magnetized pee. Adding Alma to the mix rounds out the group and adds heart to the movie. Please be kind, rewind, and share us with your friends. Thank you for being part of our community.

In an attempt to bring you content with more substance, we eat roast chicken, shrimp, eggs, and Diet Coke before discussing The Substance. Is it a comedy or horror? Is it good or bad? Is it real or a dream? We have no idea, but we have a good time trying to figure out what is going on. Like the Diet Coke, Blake and Jose may have drunk some of the substance and Brandon is having none of it.

LOOK OUT! Your friendly neighborhood Dinnermen are at it again when we eat Cup of Noodles, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and Dr. Pepper before we discuss Spiderman (the Tobey Maguire one). This movie is a great watch if you aren’t paying too much attention to the strange relationships and underdeveloped characters. We agree that Willem Dafoe is wonderful as Norman Osborn and could possibly carry the film. Too bad Spiderman/Peter isn’t as well developed as Harry Osborn. As a whole, the film is an innovative superhero movie which makes it undeniably likeable in the end even though Peter isn’t.

We’re back in the Colosseum to eat bread, olive oil, grapes, and pomegranate before discussing Gladiator II (2024). Is this a better film than the original or a less effective carbon copy that no one needed? Lucius’s unwarranted change from revenge to forgiveness makes the film shallow while the inclusion of a Colosseum naval battle, even with sharks, makes it spectacular. Macrinus’s deception of the Emperors Timmy and Tommy and pulling their strings is a great addition that needed to be played up. There’s a better story here somewhere buried under the blood and dust.

We’re off on another pirate adventure this week when we eat crab, coconut water, melon, pineapple, and apple before discussing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006). The addition of Elizabeth thirsting for Jack’s pirate booty is out of character for a person who just had her wedding to Will Turner ruined. There may be too much silly sword-fighting in the film, but Bootstrap Bill and Davy Jones make this continuing story better. Now we’re off to go save Jack with help from a demon monkey and an old “friend?”

We were looking for a good dinner to have with a movie and stumbled upon kimchi gumbo and Searching (2018). Everyone becomes a suspect in this story full of twists, turns, and dead ends that have you on the edge of your seat up until the final reveal. John Cho and Debra Messing are brilliant. It’s a little cliché in places, but a suspenseful ride that’ll make you want to turn the car around and go back to the scene of the crime.