High Five: The Podcast

It’s time to be prepared, you poor unfortunate souls, for the hellfire that is High a Five: The Podcast’s exploration of Disney Villains. J and Q pivot from talking about this week’s full Aladdin trailer release and our current feelings on Will Smith’s Genie into dissecting the rogues gallery of evil Disney characters to determine the Top 5 Most Villainous Disney Villains! Who should win the top prize? Is Maleficent the evilest of evil or does Ratigan take home the corrupt cup? Is Shere Khan the king of the jungle or will Ursula drag us all into the deep?

When we aren’t talking Disney, hear our opinions on Sorry to Bother You, Vox Lux, Isn’t It Romantic, and Captain Marvel. Some of our takes may surprise you. Trust us, this episode is a cavalcade of bad impressions, good singing, and classic Disney references. After all, Mother (and High Five) knows best.

Meanwhile, at High Five: The Podcast...

What are your favorite comic adaptations? Now, remove all Marvel and DC comics from your selections and what are you left with? If you don't still have a good list, we're here to help! Q and J dive into all the best non-Marvel and DC comic adaptations that you love, and some you may not even have known were comics, to create this week's definitive Top 5 list. Join J, Q, Scott Pilgrim, Jack the Ripper, Hit-Girl, and more as we join together to save the world!

There is a (High) Fifth dimension beyond that which is known to podcast-listening man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as bad impressions of Sylvester Stallone. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, between Cuarón and McG, and it lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of Q and J's Top 5 lists. This is the dimension of imagination. This is an area which we call...High Five: The Podcast's Episode on The Twilight Zone!

Sometimes we just like to talk, ya know? On this week's episode, J and Q don't come with a pre-planned topic and dive into industry news, upcoming movies, trailer talk, and more! You want 2019 Oscar talk? You got it! You want bad impressions? You got 'em! You want harrowing realizations of bad life choices and inflated podcast egos? You got 'em! We eventually get around to listing the Top 5 Movies that Should Have Been Nominated for an Oscar Best Picture in 2019, but trust us, the ride getting there is plenty of fun.

Also discussed in this episode: Batfleck's replacement, our thoughts on the Will Smith genie, more Aquaman talk, and more! Don't miss our first (of many) episodes where we pull out random grab bag topics and bestow our wisdom upon you. It's a blast!

When you're young, you believe there'll be many podcasts you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. Just like Julie Delpy, we know there are only a handful of Valentines Day podcasts about Rom-Coms you'll want to listen to, and we're happy that we had you at "Hello, this is High Five: the Podcast with Q and J." This episode is dedicated to the Top 5 Rom-Com Tropes because when you realize you want a Top 5 Rom-Com movie podcast, you want that podcast to start as soon as possible.

Nobody puts High Five in the corner, so we're being really honest about how we feel about Rom-Coms and one of us may even come to an epiphany. We're just a podcast, streaming in front of an audience, asking you guys to watch our new movie "Satan, Actually" and listen to our Top 5 lists. You make us want to be a better podcast, because to us, you are perfect.

As you wish.

They were ghosts the whole time. It's a head in the box. This episode is all about the Top 5 Most Spoilery Movies Trailers of all time. There you go, we've just spoiled the best parts of your favorite things, just like the trailers we'll be discussing in this all-new episode! Don't you hate when you go to a movie and you've seen all the best parts already in the online trailer? We hate that too, which is why we've dedicated an entire episode to shaming those movies that do that to hopefully teach the rest of Hollywood a lesson. We're looking at you, Terminator Salvation!

Join us as we talk about what makes a good trailer, what makes a bad trailer, and what our favorite toppings of oatmeal are. This episode is jam-packed with laughs, tears, pulled muscles, and (for some reason) threesomes with Matt Dillon. And you won't believe how it ends!

Some movies are doomed to fail. Some are known to be duds from the get-go, but yet there are some movies that studios have such high hopes for that they spend extraordinary amounts of money on them, only to have them turn into box office disasters. Those disasters always leave a blemish on a studio. Those disasters can even end an actor's career. Those disasters are what J and Q will be discussing on this episode.

In a rare move, the guys are pulling a complete flip flop on the episode and STARTING with the top 5 list (per box office losses) and then breaking down the movies one-by-one. Trust us, you've never spent this much time talking about turds outside of a doctor's office. We dive into everything from octopuses driving cars to Brad Pitt as a pirate. We may be talking bad movies, but it's definitely a good episode!

Each year from the amorphous blob that is Hollywood celebrity, a few new actors really put their mark on the scene and make a name for themselves. Think back to when you first saw Jennifer Lawrence or Morgan Freeman, or the first time you realized Harrison Ford and Meryl Streep were going to be Hollywood royalty. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of all the new actors, but on this Haley-requested episode, Q and J are narrowing down the freshest faces in recent years and give you the definitive list of Top 5 Hollywood Fresh Faces.

We talk about our favorite actors in recent years, whether it's Anya Taylor-Joy (Glass) or Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Black Panther, Widows), you know we're going to be giving you a lot of movies to watch. Also, Q breaks down his experience watching Aquaman for a second time and we hear what J thought of Anna and the Apocalypse. Don't miss out!

We're back and kicking off the 2019 season of High Five: The Podcast right! Don't call it a comeback...but you can definitely call it a comeback episode. After a brief hiatus, we are launching all-new episodes and fittingly start with the definitive list of the Top 5 Greatest Actor Career Comebacks of all time. It's time to talk about and celebrate those actors that left for a while and then came back stronger than ever...just like us!

Has Macaulay Culkin had enough of a career resurgence as of late to qualify? Can anyone beat out the Matthew McConaissance? Do Q and J still have what it takes to be your favorite podcast hosts? Find out all this and more on our very first show of the season and then strap in, because we're going to all new heights in 2019!

Don't tell us Halloween is over! It's true that Halloween Day was two days ago, but we're still living that spooky life and decided to go deep and give you all the definitive ranking of the Top 5 Halloween TV Specials of all time! Are you on team "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" or do you prefer "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"? Did you know that "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" started as a Canadian Halloween special? We've got a lot of horrifying tidbits to regale you with this time around, all you have to do is agree with us.

Halloween is such a special time of year that many of the TV specials we all grew up with have become standard viewing for this time of year, it's just a shame we can't watch them year-round. This has been a controversial topic in the past, so don't wait to have your opinion heard. Let us know which Halloween specials scared you the most so we can all be scaredy-cats together!