Holy Terrors

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE... we'll love you 'til the day we die!

Welcome back for Part 2 of our favorite Christmas movies where we talk about the holiday staple and bona fide classic that is Frank Capra's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). This movie brings out all the feels in just about every scene, and we talk about just about every scene in this discussion! Hear us gush more about one of our favorite actors, Jimmy Stewart; the wonderful characters that populate this film; the moments and scenes that melt our hearts; and why it's okay to feel a little corny sometimes. Happy Holidays to all our friends, families, and listeners, and we seriously cannot thank you enough for listening to our little show! Thank you for a wonderful first year of Movies for Life and we hope you stick with us through 2022 as we have lots more great movies to talk about! 

Follow the hosts and show on Twitter:

Movies for Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

Happy Holidays, listeners! We're celebrating the season here at Movies for Life with a look at both of the hosts favorite Christmas movies! This discussion went on for quite a long time (like pretty much all of our discussions do) so we're going to break this episode up - look for Part 2 coming soon! But first, we're talking about Michele's favorite Christmas movie - the Bill Murray-starring comedy SCROOGED from 1988! H We gush about the cast (especially Karen Allen!), the laughs, and the heart of this unique take on the Dickens' story "A Christmas Carol." Yule love it!

Follow the hosts and show on Twitter:

Movies for Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

This month (December 27th to be exact) marks the one-year anniversary of Movies for Life!!! But because we have a couple other seasonal episodes planned for later in December, we're celebrating our milestone now with this wrap-up episode! Hear us talk about some of our favorite episodes and pairings of movies, as well as our favorite discoveries from the other person and our mutual favorite rewatch of a movie! You also hear about the movie discussion that never really happened and why, and just our overall feelings about the show and what we've learned from doing it! Thank you so much to everyone that has listened and supported us this year!!! We have a lot more in store for you for 2022 so we hope you'll stick around!

Follow the hosts and show on Twitter:

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

Movies for Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Now you see us, now you don't...

This episode marks the first in a new series on Movies for Life all about movies and their remakes! The more different the movies are, the better - and this first pairing of movies couldn't be more different! Almost 90 years apart, we're taking a look at the two iterations of THE INVISIBLE MAN from 1933 and 2020. The original James Whale film is of course a classic, with an interesting and often dark, humorous look at the human condition and the corruption of power, and also with special effects that still hold up to this day. Then we go even deeper into Leigh Whannell's modern update of the story, which features a tour de force performance from Elisabeth Moss. The terrifyingly real situation explored in the movie is sadly very relevant, and even more effective to the hosts because of personal connections. We hope you all enjoy this discussion, and look for more Remakes episodes coming in the future!

Follow the hosts and the podcast on Twitter:

Movies for Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

We have arrived at our final movie in our coverage of Brian and Michele's Forever Favorites, and it's a bona fide classic. Michele's #1 forever favorite movie is 1987's DIRTY DANCING. Listen as the two hosts get Swayze Crazy talking about all the things that make this pop culture phenomenon so much more meaningful and personal than what's on the surface. We love the characters and the music, but we also love the way we connect with the movie in terms of the evolution of the father-daughter relationship, as well as the true love and appreciation between the two main characters that we all know - Baby and Johnny. We hope you've enjoyed this journey through all of our Forever Favorites and that you have the time of your life with this final discussion (of course I had to say it).

Follow the hosts and the show on Twitter:

Movies For Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

All aboard Doris the tour bus as we hit the road with Stillwater and Cameron Crowe's shamelessly personal epic Almost Famous. We look at the film through the eyes of its major characters, especially William Miller, Russell Hammond, William's mother Elaine, and of course, the enigmatic and intriguing Penny Lane. We discuss the moments that move us, the lines that make us laugh, and the music that gets into our heads. All things that gets this movie under our skin and into our souls. 

Be sure to follow us on twitter:

Movies for Life Podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

It's just a bunch of hocus pocus!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, listeners! We hope you're having and continue to have a wonderful spooky season - and we hope you celebrate with us and our discussion of our favorite Halloween movies for kids! Both live-action Disney films, we starting first this week with Brian's pick of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES from 1983. Then it's time for a veritable Halloween tradition and classic with Michele's pick of 1993's HOCUS POCUS! Thank you all for listening!

Follow the hosts and podcast on Twitter:

Movies For Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

Happy Halloween season, Movies for Life listeners! This bonus episode of the show is both a celebration of the greatest holiday of the year with some spooky movie talk, and also a sort of bonus Forever Favorite discussion as well. CHILD'S PLAY is Michele's favorite horror movie of all time and really SHOULD have been on her FF list, but wasn't so we're talking about it here! And since CHILD'S PLAY 2 is Brian's favorite of the franchise, we're talking about that one too! Hear how Chucky is Michele's horror boy, how scary the original film actually is, how Kyle is an amazing final girl, and just how much we love both of these movies in general! Enjoy!

Follow the hosts and show on Twitter: 

Movies For Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

Things don't always go as planned, so we ended up discussing just one movie this week--Clint Eastwood's unsung 1993 masterpiece A Perfect World. We discuss the moving story as well as the incredible cast led by Kevin Costner, Laura Dern, and Clint Eastwood. We also discuss how much we love Bradley Whitford but hate the character he plays in this movie. So hop in your time machine, grab your Casper the Friendly Ghost costume, and get chased by an Airstream. It's sure to be a great time. Is that a threat? No, that's a fact.

Follow the hosts and the podcast on Twitter:

Movies For Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen

It's another episode on our favorite topic on Movies For Life - more Films About Filmmaking! This week we have two absolute gems to talk about, possibly deeper cuts, that are totally worth giving a look if you haven't seen them! First up from Michele is the surprisingly funny and twisty thriller whose plot centers around the making of a slasher film - we're talking MUTE WITNESS from 1995! Then, also from 1995, we dive into the hilarious yet poignant LIVING IN OBLIVION! This is a much more laid-back, fun chat than most of our episodes, so sit with us and we hope you have as great a time listening as we did recording!

Note: THELMA & LOUISE is teased at the end as being a movie coming up on the next episode. Unfortunately that didn't work out so we will only be talking about A PERFECT WORLD for that show.

Follow the hosts and show on Twitter:

Movies For Life podcast: @MovieLifePod

Brian Keiper: @BrianDKeiper

Michele Eggen: @micheleneggen