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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are becoming depraved, hollow husks of our normal selves as we sell our souls to the financial devil in Oliver Stone’s film from 1987, Wall Street.

Bear with us for this one, because we hardly know half of what everyone’s talking about. We’re but humble podcasting fellows. Not the sort of fast-talking, free-wheeling Wall Street goons that would actually understand all the finer points of what’s going on between Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen.

To our credit, we’re not completely lost, but at times, enjoying and understanding this movie requires at least a Master’s degree in some sort of high finance. Heck, we have filmmaking degrees for crying out loud! What do we know about the trading floor, backroom deals, and cocaine-fueled ‘80s parties?

What we do know is great acting, and Michael Douglas delivers like nobody’s business with this one. Is it any surprise that he won an Oscar for his performance as the conniving and slimy Gordon Gekko? He elevates a film that would otherwise have had the thrill and pace of a middle-of-the-road documentary.

His seduction of Charlie Sheen’s character is so well-managed and ultimately so heartless that it’s clear why Sheen idolized the man. It’s also clear how he amassed as much power as he did.

In the end, though, what we witness with this film is a work of prescience. The events fictionalized in this movie may have taken place in the ‘80s, but they’re as relevant now as ever. Cast your mind back to the global financial troubles that we all endured in 2008. Look at what’s happening these days. While this film may have taken place decades ago, its warnings are as current as ever.

(Recorded on June 21, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Wall Street - IMDb

Wall Street trailer - YouTube

The Big Short - IMDb

Margot Robbie - IMDb

Charlie Sheen - IMDb

Michael Douglas - IMDb

The Lion King - IMDb

Martin Sheen - IMDb

The Price Is Right - IMDb

Unions at The Ringer and Gimlet Media announce their first contracts. - The New York Times

Eric Eddings on Twitter - Twitter

(This is a searing and important perspective from someone who worked at Gimlet before and during the time of their Bon Appétit debacle. He was given the short shrift and was devalued as an employee and a person. His story is absolutely worth a read and your time.)

You’ve Got Mail - IMDb

Love Actually - IMDb

Airplane! - IMDb

Casablanca - IMDb

Citizen Kane - IMDb

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - IMDb

Daryl Hannah - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are going to land this damn plane even if it kills us in the 1980 film by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, Airplane!

WARNING! If you don’t like hilarious puns of all sorts coming at you non-stop, then this is not the film for you. WARNING!

ANOTHER WARNING! If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t like the amazing puns that this film gives you, then I don’t think we can be friends. In fact, we may never want to even associate with you. Yes, that’s the sort of brilliance with which we regard this ‘80s masterpiece. ANOTHER WARNING!

Oh, you think that opening a film with an airplane flying through clouds to the Jaws theme isn’t funny and clever? Do you think that a man getting smacked in the face by his own boomeranged clothing is a bore? Do you think that an inflatable autopilot named Otto is scraping the depths of the comedic well?

I’ve got news for you, pal! You’re not the sort of person we want associating with this here fine podcast! We demand you never speak its name again. More Movies Please! is too good for you, and we’re going to stand by that for the rest of our lives. Indeed, we hope you get stuck in an abandoned taxi in the unloading zone at an airport for the rest of your life!

Or is it the loading zone? …It doesn’t matter one bit! You get the point!

Now, if you are the sort of person to enjoy the hilarious and harrowing antics of the passengers on board this ailing aircraft, then welcome home. We’re glad to have you here for this episode. Please enjoy our admiration for the hilarity of this film. It’s a good one.

(Recorded on June 21, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Airplane! - IMDb

Airplane! trailer - YouTube

Mel Brooks - IMDb

Spaceballs - IMDb

Jaws - IMDb

Saturday Night Fever - IMDb

Seppuku - Wikipedia

Robert Hays - IMDb

From Here to Eternity - IMDb

How unusual was the winter of 2010 world-wide? - KNMI

2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull - Wikipedia

Airplane II: The Sequel - IMDb

Tropic Thunder - IMDb

Tropic Thunder Opening Trailers - YouTube

Ben Stiller - IMDb

Jack Black - IMDb

Robert Downey Jr. - IMDb

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story - IMDb

Justin Long - IMDb

Monty Python - Wikipedia

Lloyd Bridges - IMDb

Leslie Nielsen - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are on our way to America where there are surely, definitely, um, maybe no cats in the 1986 film from Don Bluth, An American Tail.

Imagine leaving your home in a freezing part of Russia because of terrorizing cats, traveling all the way to America for a better, cat-free life, and you end up finding out that there are indeed cats there, too. Not just any regular cat, but crafty and conniving cats. Isn’t that how it always goes?

And mid-way through your perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, you lose your beloved mouse son to the raging sea. There’s seemingly no hope of saving him and now you’ve got to live a depressed life because your dear boy is gone.

All the while, you need to find a way to provide for your family in this new, huge, scary country. Everything is rife with uncertainty. You task yourself with doing anything you can to give your family that good ol’ “American Dream” that you hear so many people talking about. There are just so many opportunities in this new land! Anything would probably be better than where you came from, but you’re having to start from nothing. That’s always a scary situation.

In your heart, you know that all this would be better if you just had your dearly missed son.

Yeah, that’s An American Tail. While all this is happening, your son is mostly okay, but he’s also depressed and getting into such terrible trouble. He’s also wondering if he’ll ever get to see his family again as he’s running from murderous cats.

From the cover of this movie, you wouldn’t think that it’s such a harrowing tale of early American immigration and isolation, but you’d be wrong! Get ready for a deep, complex, and necessary history lesson. Oh, and it’s all told by mice.

(Recorded on June 14, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

An American Tail - IMDb

An American Tail trailer - YouTube

Mr. Magoo - Wikipedia

Mr. Bean - IMDb

Rat Race - IMDb

‘I was completely inside’: Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale off Provincetown - Cape Cod Times

The Great Mouse Detective - IMDb

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West - IMDb

Fantasia - IMDb

Up - IMDb

Christopher Plummer - IMDb

Ellis Island - Wikipedia

Steven Spielberg - IMDb

Capernaum - IMDb

Kristin Chenoweth - IMDb

Trojan Horse - Wikipedia

Avatar: The Last Airbender - IMDb

The Last Airbender - IMDb

M. Night Shyamalan - IMDb

The Lion King - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are falling for our first true loves… and then getting our hearts broken hard in the Cameron Crowe film from 1989, Say Anything.

If you didn’t want to be Lloyd Dobbler when you were just out of high school, then I’m just going to assume that you’re a liar, liar, pants on fire. Is he a little intense about life and work? Yeah, but then again, who wasn’t at that age? Who didn’t wax lyrical about the plight of the heart on its quest for love and acceptance?

Being the world’s worst poet is just a symptom of being young and seeing the world in a new and unadulterated way. You can’t help but put your entire self on the line when something captures your attention. It’s a fact of life that you’re going to run into a few immovable objects. If you don’t crash and burn a few times, then are you even really living life?

The hard part is when those immovable objects come in the form of unimpressed parents or spurned affections. That’s when things really hit the fan, as they say.

What’s a person to do when they fall in love with Diane Court, but her dad isn’t too fond of your lack of ambition and she’s about to jet off into her future? Well, most people might just give up and call it quits. Maybe they’d sleep around for a while. Perhaps travel across Europe, learning how to smoke cigarettes from French people, drink wine from Italians, and eat olives from Greeks. Lloyd isn’t most people, though.

He doesn’t give up on love. He keeps fighting for what he thinks is right. He does what he can to prove his worth. Does it sound like he can’t take a hint from Diane, in this case? Yeah, kind of. I mean, it’s almost fortunate for him that Diane’s dad was locked up in prison, otherwise she’d have no real reason to get back together with him. He wouldn’t be traveling to England with her. He’d end up looking desperate and verging on creepy.

But hey, things worked out for love. That makes for a great romance, right? Shame about her dad, though…

(Recorded on June 14, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Say Anything - IMDb

Say Anything trailer - YouTube

Cameron Crowe - IMDb

Elizabethtown - IMDb

John Mahoney - IMDb

John Cusack - IMDb

Ione Skye - IMDb

Ron Weasley - Wikipedia

Hermione Granger - Wikipedia

Jeremy Piven - IMDb

Entourage - IMDb

The Ice Storm - IMDb

Ang Lee - IMDb

Tobey Maguire - IMDb

Elijah Wood - IMDb

Philip Baker Hall - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are forcing ourselves to watch this month’s b-movie bonus episode, a 2019 travesty from Nick Corirossi called Deep Murder.

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What the hell was wrong with this film? It’s a murder mystery porno without all the naked stuff? And it’s somehow both short and incredibly long (that’s what she said). And they got some recognizable names, but it’s still mostly a torturous, agonizing experience.

You know what? I’m so incensed by this damn movie that I refuse to talk about it anymore. Watch it if you want, but don’t blame us for your mistakes!

Was it brilliant or a blunder? Listen to the dang episode to find out.

That’s it. I’m done with the description for this freaking thing. Sean out!

(Recorded on May 24, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Deep Murder - IMDb

Deep Murder trailer - YouTube

The Room - IMDb

Jerry O’Connell - IMDb

Tommy Wiseau - IMDb

Sharknado - IMDb

Shaun of the Dead - IMDb

Christopher McDonald - IMDb

Snakes on a Plane - IMDb

M. Night Shyamalan - IMDb

Split - IMDb

Harry and Marv | Villains Wiki - Fandom

Home Alone - IMDb

Macaulay Culkin - IMDb

Joe Pesci - IMDb

The Irishman - IMDb

Goodfellas - IMDb

Say Anything - IMDb

Pumping Iron - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are once again joined by the fantastic Eimanne El Zein. This time, we’re trading in the absurd hilarity of The Room and getting into a deep conversation about a sobering 2018 film from Nadine Labaki, Capernaum.

Get ready for a tough film. You know us. We’re not going to sugarcoat things for you. This film is challenging, rough, and sad. Most of the film will feel like a grand and real tragedy, and in many ways it is. This is not a fantasy film; there are too many people living a grueling and desperate life like that of Zain. It’s happening right now as you listen to this episode.

I’ll let you know now, though—there’s some redemption at the end. There’s a glimmer of much-needed hope. Like finding a pool of water after being lost in the blazing desert for days, the ending is restorative.

To get there, you have to cross through a river of agonizing emotions. On the plus side, we’ve also got a wonderful guest to help us navigate those waters. At least there’s that.

We talk about it in the podcast, but it should be put into writing here. The performance that first-time actor, Zain Al Rafeea, give is astonishing. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. There’s an authenticity and rawness with which he imbues his character. It would be an astonishing feat for any actor, but when the person in question is a child? That brings on a new level of admiration. His performance is well worth the heaviness of this film.

There’s a lot to be troubled by with this story’s subject matter. Extreme poverty, lack of compassion, and neglect for human life are a lot to take. We all think it’s a necessary film, though. It’s all too easy to forget that our lives are probably better than we think they are. We lack the perspective we need to appreciate our lives to the fullest. This film can give that very necessary shot of perspective. It’s powerful and worth anyone’s time.

(Recorded on June 07, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Capernaum - IMDb

Capernaum trailer - YouTube

Nadine Labaki - IMDb

Lebanon - Wikipedia

Zain Al Rafeea - IMDb

Amy Saves Starship UK | Doctor Who - YouTube

Yordanos Shiferaw - IMDb

Alaa Chouchnieh - IMDb

Kawsar Al Haddad - IMDb

Fadi Yousef - IMDb

Cedra Izzam - IMDb

Boluwatife Treasure Bankole - IMDb

Shoplifters - IMDb

Parasite - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are maybe traveling back in time, but maybe not, but also probably definitely actually traveling back in time to save the lives of the people we love in the 2012 film from Colin Trevorrow, Safety Not Guaranteed.

Yeah, we’re definitely traveling back in time. Unless we’re not.

Was anyone else as surprised by the way this movie ended as we were? Sure, there’s still the question of what happened to Darius and Kenneth, but that shouldn’t be enough to yuck your yum, as they say. For my money, they rode off into the time-traveling sunset, lived happily ever after, had a wedding where the color theme was black, and had loads of weird babies. That’s just the sort of outcome I want to imagine. What can I say? I guess I’m a romantic at heart.

But yeah, who would have ever guessed that a film with as much saccharine quirk as this one would have an ending that would make us gasp out loud? Time travel—shouldn’t work, right? What evidence do we have that it’s a real thing that can happen? As far as I know, there’s exactly zero evidence to support it, hence the awed gasps we gave.

What are you going to do if you’re Kenneth, though? You’ve got a pair of possibly government agents hot on your tail and you’ve given yourself a mission to save someone’s life. There’s no other alternative but making a real, working time machine.

Yep, you read that right. I’m saying that the real reason we don’t have fully functioning time travel devices is that we’re not motivated enough to make it happen. We haven’t put in the requisite blood, sweat, and tears. If only we could get off our butts and invent the most life-changing technology in the history of all humanity. Damn Millennials with their laziness and whining! Why don’t you pull yourself up by your bootstraps or some other impossible, nonsensical platitude?

Until that day finally happens, I guess we’re stuck with this fun gem of a movie. It’s got a lot going for it. There’s a definite charm to its fairly low-stakes story. You’d have to try very hard not to fall in love with it. If you don’t, though, you can rest assured that I’ll be traveling back in time to help convince you otherwise. You know, when I can get around to making my dang time travel machine.

(Recorded on May 24, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Safety Not Guaranteed - IMDb

Safety Not Guaranteed trailer - YouTube

Office Space - IMDb

How I Met Your Mother - IMDb

Turducken - Wikipedia

(The hell is this monstrosity? Humanity, you’ve gone too far with this mess!)

Waiting… - IMDb

Ryan Reynolds - IMDb

Luis Guzmán - IMDb

Aubrey Plaza - IMDb

Mark Duplass - IMDb

Jake Johnson - IMDb

Karan Soni - IMDb

Deadpool - IMDb

Archer - IMDb

Garden State - IMDb

Shrek - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are discovering that we’re actually highly trained super-duper killer spies. Except we’ve lost our memories and can’t recall our brutal pasts. Also, we’re hanging out with Samuel L. Jackson. Whaaaaaaaattt?! Yep, it’s the 1996 film from Renny Harlin, The Long Kiss Goodnight.

I think I dig this whole sleeper agent/memory loss sub-genre of action films. There’s something so mysterious about a normal, probably meek-looking person who could be your next-door neighbor suddenly transforming into a badass killing machine intent on exacting revenge. Yeah, you do not want to get in their way. They’re now on a mission, and that mission is to kill every dang fool who wronged them in the past.

And just last week they baked you a whole tray of snickerdoodle cookies. Who would have ever guessed?

I guess that explains why everyone is so into weirdo murder mystery podcasts these days. I don’t get it, so I guess they’re just not for me. On the other hand, why are there so many people interested in listening to gruesome stories about people being murdered? And not just one episode. No, instead there are entire podcast shows dedicated to the terrible subject. Entire swaths of the Discovery network of channels are devoted to that stuff. What’s the appeal there?

Perhaps I’ll never know. I mean, I don’t want to make myself feel crazy anxious all the time or have nightmares. No, thank you. Instead, we should all just be happy to watch a pretty campy Geena Davis-Samuel L. Jackson film from the ‘90s. Doesn’t that sentence alone take you back to a time when all action movies had infinite bullets, insane explosions, and a soundtrack that makes you wonder if synthesizers were the only instruments available back then?

The only travesty about this film is the fact that Geena Davis’s career took a bit of a hit after the one-two underperforming punch of Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight. It’s Geena freaking Davis. She’s excellent. I mean, we all saw Thelma & Louise, right? She should have been, and should still be, an international superstar. Okay, she’s not hurting for work, but I would love to see a McConaughey-style renaissance for her. A Davis-sance, if you will. Friends, let’s make it happen! Geena Davis for season four of True Detective!

(Recorded on April 19, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

The Long Kiss Goodnight - IMDb

The Long Kiss Goodnight trailer - YouTube

Audio Hijack - Rogue Amoeba

Stance Socks

Socks - MeUndies

(C’mon, Stance and MeUndies! You sponsor everyone else. Why not us? We like money!)

Lilo & Stitch - IMDb

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - IMDb

Samuel L. Jackson - IMDb

Geena Davis - IMDb

Renny Harlin - IMDb

Lethal Weapon 4 - IMDb

Memento - IMDb

Jingle All the Way - IMDb

Lethal Weapon - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are trekking through Central America soon after aliens—yes, freaking aliens—have inhabited Earth in the 2010 film from Gareth Edwards, Monsters.

Add this one to the list of sci-fi films that are content with not bludgeoning you over the head with their action, effects, or questionable performances. Do you know what the cast and crew of this film said to the prospect of making a film like that? “Ah, hell nah!”

Well, they probably didn’t actually use those exact words, but watch this film and you’ll see that the sentiment is the same. This is one of those thinking person sorts of science fiction films. Take your Close Encounters, your Space Odysseys, your Aliens, both one and kind of two. Stack Monsters up next to those and it’s going to feel right at home. Seriously, I think this one can more than live up to the legacy of those other films.

It employs a very Jaws-like approach: because of its small budget, the filmmakers decide not to show you the titular creatures until the very end. They keep the suspense ratcheted up to a maximum. You’ll wonder just what the hell these people are terrified of and you’ll feel their tension because you have no idea either. And then… Pow! They dazzle you with floating squid creatures from the stars!

It’s an impressive feat to make a film that’s mostly a road trip movie between a pair of people and turn that trope on its head. In fact, it also turns the typical monster movie tropes on their heads, too. We spend most of our time with these two people as they just travel, and it’s captivating.

The actors give performances worth noticing. They take what could have been an underwhelming film—because let’s face it, you really don’t see much of the creatures—and they elevate it with their presence. The director punches way above his weight and does excellent work with the budget he’s procured for the film.

I’d call this a subtle, sleeper sci-fi film. It’s subtle. Stick with it to the end because there’s a lot of surprising developments and emotional storytelling that’ll make you glad you did.

(Recorded on May 17, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

Monsters - IMDb

Monsters trailer - YouTube

Don’t Breathe - IMDb

Cloverfield - IMDb

10 Cloverfield Lane - IMDb

The Cloverfield Paradox - IMDb

Starship Troopers - IMDb

Dead Rising - Wikipedia

Alien - IMDb

Jaws - IMDb

Gareth Edwards - IMDb

Whitney Able - IMDb

Scoot McNairy - IMDb

War of the Worlds - IMDb

Christopher Guest - IMDb

Best in Show - IMDb

Killing Them Softly - IMDb

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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are joined by the wonderful Tara Town (of TikTok fame!) on a heartfelt trip down memory lane as we discuss the 1995 film from Kevin Lima, A Goofy Movie.

Do you remember the family road trips of old? The ones that were kind of sprung on you while you were just trying to live your life? I mean, come on, parents. Who did you think we were, some sort of person who likes zipping away to remote and dusty locales without a moment’s notice, all in the name of family bonding or some parental nonsense like that?

We had friends we wanted to hang out with! Arcade games we wanted to spend your money on! Knees to scuff and mysterious places to discover and loiter about during the day! We were convinced that spending what we thought were the best years of our lives riding around in our old family sedan with our butthead siblings was the worst thing that ever happened to us!

Suffice it to say, I completely understand what Max was going through in this film. All the kid wanted was to have a relaxing summer vacation with his best pal, P.J., and maybe get to know his crush a little better. Maybe sneak a kiss or two with her, you never know. That is, until Goofy—freaking Goofy!—comes along and throws a monkey wrench into those plans. All this turmoil and anguish just because Max happens to go to a school led by a sadistic maniac of a principal.

Seriously, who threatens the electric chair when talking about a child’s future? That man was unhinged and should not have been let anywhere near children.

Damn it if Goofy isn’t just the most endearing whatever-the-heck-a-Goofy-is, though. Show me someone who’s immune to his endearing, loving, and yeah, I’ll say it, just pain goofy charms and I’ll show you a person with a cold, empty cavern where their heart should be. You can’t help but be won over by him. Is he a little intense? Yeah, and what parent isn’t? He loves his kid and that’s admirable as hell.

This is a blast of a film, even after all these years. If you’re looking for a nostalgia trip, this one is the best place to start.

(Recorded on May 17, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

A Goofy Movie - IMDb

A Goofy Movie trailer - YouTube

Clubhouse

(If you know someone who can invite you to Clubhouse, then you too can have cool conversations with neat people.)

Saw - IMDb

The Shrimp Tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch Saga, Explained - Time

A Goofy Movie - Rotten Tomatoes

r/blunderyears - reddit

Pauly Shore - IMDb

The Princess Bride - IMDb

Wallace Shawn - IMDb

Disney’s Goof Troop - IMDb

Daniel Ross - IMDb

DuckTales - IMDb

David Tennant - IMDb

Tevin Campbell - IMDb

Little Caesar’s Pizza Pizza Compilation - YouTube

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