This week, we’re in Texas eatin’ up some down home-cookin’ of T-bone steaks, baked potatoes, green beans, corn on the cob, and iced tea before we discuss Hell or High Water. Chris Pine makes brooding sadness look good, but all agree that Ben Foster really steals the show in this bank-robbing tale. Nothing in this neo-western movie really tickles Jose’s fancy, but it gets two Yee-Haws from Blake and Brandon. So loud you’d think there were ten on us.

In this week’s special re-recorded edition of DWAM, we are in Las Vegas to eat some spaghetti with marinara and meatballs, and some even distributed blueberry muffins before we discuss Casino. Is this movie’s long introduction through exposition a hindrance or an asset? There’s a lot to say about Ace, Ginger, and Nicky, but we have to watch our mouths. There are still plenty of holes in the desert around Las Vegas and we wouldn’t want to be caught dead in one of those.

We’re off to Central America this week to eat Big Macs and fries before we discuss Spy Kids. Jose’s memory as a kid of having a film that depicts people that looked like him makes this movie nostalgically important. It’s a kid’s film and it doesn’t really have to be much more than that to be fun. Although there are some aspects of Floop’s Fooglies that are nightmare fuel, that’s only an easy criticism of a film that’s about the difficulty of keeping a family together. And, that’s a lot of that’s worth fighting for.

After the ultimate sword fight, we eat Roman stew, apples, figs, and plumbs before we discuss Gladiator. This is the ultimate dad movie with a lot of beefy macho men fighting to win the crowd and win their freedom. For a film production filled with all kinds of setbacks, it has a larger-than-life story that is far from Roman reality, yet universal in its scope. Who wouldn’t enjoy a film with the original Dumbledore in it?

We start off this week’s bit by eating salad, milk and cookies, and Haagen Dazs (post-show ice cream) then we discuss Man on the Moon. Was Andy Kaufman a comic genius or the father of all trolls? We’ll let you decide. We agree that method acting, while great to watch onscreen, may not be so good for the cast and crew you’re working with. All joking aside, we’ll leave you on this note, I’ve got to be meeeeeeee.

We catch the Train of Thought to eat pepperoni pizza with broccoli and caramel candy tears before we get in touch with our emotions and discuss Inside Out this week. We all need a little Bing Bong in our lives, but Jose lacks a Goofball Island. Of course, this is yet another Pixar movie that makes Blake and Brandon cry. Maybe there’s a connection between Goofball Island and crying?

We joust one another with our enormous lances before we eat turkey legs and brie tart and discuss A Knight’s Tale. It’s a medieval story full of brilliant scenes full of emotional depth that are abruptly ended by modern music. It has everything from sports to romance and it makes us long for the tang of Alan Tudyk’s tansy cakes with peppermint cream. Maybe we can change our stars and make that happen someday.

We put on our Dinner with a Movie explorer hats and celebrate Marmalade Day by eating orange marmalade sandwiches with tea before discussing Paddington. Is this a kid’s film about a bear that moves to London or a work of pro-immigration, anti-colonialism propaganda? Paddington is the cutest bear we know and we’d welcome him or Mr. Gruber into any of our homes any time. We can’t wait to go to darkest Peru and visit with Aunt Lucy in the next year or two.