High Five: The Podcast

Movies capture the human experience and whether J likes it or not, crying is a part of the human experience. Still on the hunt for their co-host Q, our teary travelers Mia and J hunt for the Top 5 Tearjerker Movies of All Time. It gets pretty sad, but we're pretty happy about it. Grab those tissues and come along.

Hollywood seems determined to make us cry and take our money. Whether it's dying kids, or lost animals, or dying family, or dying pets, or dying dreams, they love to put us through the wringer. Is it the Pixar touch that gets you, or is it a touching mother-daughter relationship? Whatever your teary fancy, J and Mia talk about it in this episode!

Come fly with Mia, come and fly with J. On this very special episode, J and Mia are on a quest through the fantasy worlds of film and literature to find our missing Q. It’s a journey that requires friends and frenemies along the way, and not everyone may make it back!

Whether we’re stepping through wardrobes, being thrown by tornados, on journeys with jewelry, or simply traveling far, far away, we encounter whatever it is you desire. Grab your tickets and listen in as we discuss the best fantasy worlds of all time!

When it comes to the echelon of movies adapted from video games, it's hard to pick a top 5. Mainly, because there aren't 5 really great video games movies! But building an episode around all the BAD video game movies...now there's an idea! And that's just what we did. J, Mia, and Q get together to wade through the movie mires and finally decide on the Top 5 Worst Video Game Movies of All Time!

We all select our players, pick up mushrooms and coins along the way, and try to avoid whatever the hell is going on in the House of the Dead. Things get heated when J takes personal offense at a Michael Fassbender movie, and Q may just love one of the Mortal Kombat movies. And with her epic skills, it's more like The Legend of Chun-Mia. We watched all the bad video game adaptations so you didn't have to!

We made it! 200 episodes and counting. Who would have guessed? We mean, The Simpsons didn’t even make it to 200 episodes (don’t look that up). We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate 200 episodes than by joining in an apocalyptic group hug and ranking our Top 5 Movie Memories! This one gets emotional, Fivers.

On this very special episode, find out what experiences really created the movie-obsessed hosts you know and love. Which family members get to have sexy movie experiences with Mia? How many movies can J fit into one Summer? How did Q crash a showing of Beetlejuice? Find out the answers to these and so much more on our 200th episode!

Alan Tudyk. You know him and you love him, whether or not you know him and know you love him. Alan Tudyk is one of those character actors that is more than just the roles he plays. J, Mia, and Q have been collectively obsessed with Tudyk's tenacity for as long as we can remember, so on this episode, we're joining forces to Talk Tudyk and discover once and for all the Top 5 Alan Tudyk Performances of All Time!

We purposefully didn't stick to just movies on this one since Tudyk's talent transcends television, movies, cartoons, and online content. You may love him in Firefly just as much as you love him as Duke Weaselton in Zootopia. It's not up to us to judge. Oh, wait! Yes, it is! And we have a blast judging Alan Tudyk!

We've all heard the phrase "It's so weird it had to be true" but few have gone as far as J and Mia did when they recorded an entire episode about movies based on true stories! While Q was off teaching sign language to Komodo dragons in Barcelona, Mia and J tell each other stories...true stories, as they count down the Top 5 Movies Based on True Stories ever made! This is a podcast made for you if you get chills when a movie starts with "Based on a true story...".

While Mia and J wait for Q's list to be delivered by cybernetic carrier pigeon, they discuss how many liberties movies can take with stories before no longer being true stories and J regales Mia with his best impressions of Q. Pull up Wikipedia to fact check our true stories and don't miss this episode!

Join the High Five crew for a blast from Academy Awards past as this week we revisit their classic episode all about the most outrageous Oscar snubs...now remember this list was only as of 2016 so there have been plenty of egregious snubs since then (Chadwick Boseman anyone?) so hop into your time machine and journey with us to the past as we try and right some of the wrongs in film awards history.

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With the 2016 Oscars recently passed and our anxiety abating after a long-deserved DiCaprio victory, our minds turn to famous Oscar snubs. Was Crash truly a better film than Brokeback Mountain? Did Birdman deserve the Oscar over Boyhood? Where the hell is Tarantino's 158 Oscars (that we totally know he deserves.........totally).

This is the one where J & Q go through the Top Five Oscar Snubs of all time and deliberate between who truly deserved the golden statue and which films were all veneer overvalue. If you had a vote, would it be a winner or belong in the trash?

Also, you won't believe this episode's sponsors, from a professional doorjamb licker to the world's strangest massage parlor, and the guys get down and dirty playing the new game "7 Degrees of Actual Bacon." Don't miss it, because if you do, you'll be as sad as Leo watching other people fondle his Oscars.

Ala-Q-zam! Open saysa-MIa! Abraca-J-abra! Bring out your spell books and get ready to cast some laughs as the High Five gang gets their Hogwarts Letters and all fly off to conjure up the Top 5 Magic Movies of All Time list potion. Don't worry, we're talking real magic here, not a Jesse Eisenberg as far as the eye can see!

Join Q on his first magical journey into the land of Hayao Miyazaki. Drop into a dysfunctional British family with Mia. Get into a scruff with some witches with J. We're pulling out every spell we have this week to make it the most magical episode of the season!

Sometimes it just feels good to be Bad, and no one likes being bad more than the High Five crew and dastardly dudes/dudettes from the 1980s! The 80s was a decade of decadence. A foray into flamboyance. An era of entertaining evildoers! Okay, you get the idea, we're talking about 80s movies with great bad guys and ranking the Top 5 80s Movie Villains of all time!

From horror movie icons to the suave, vaguely European "corporate" villains, we talk through all genres and wicked types. Mia surprises! Q maniacally chuckles! J invades stranger's dreams! And all before breakfast. If you don't listen, we'll drop you off of a building.

We never thought we'd see the day where Zack Snyder's Justice League saw the light of day. No really, this type of thing has never happened before! High Five: The Podcast assembles the Mia, Q, and J League to find out if giving Zack Snyder $70 million and a lot of celebrities to play with was a good idea.

Whether or not you loved or hated Zack Snyder's Justice League, it isn't just a singular entity. This particular movie, even more so than other DC installments, exists as part of a trilogy of stories, so the gang dives into Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (theatrical and Ultimate edition cuts) as well to see how Zack Snyder's Justice League measures up!