Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Time Travel month concludes with my sister's mandated movie: Safety Not Guaranteed.  It's about a guy who built a time machine (or did he?) and the undercover reporter who will travel back in time with him (or will she?).  After all, safety is not guaranteed so they may just blow up (or will they?).  Join our past selves in the future and find out!

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

14:23 - Safety Not Guaranteed review

52:11 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's Time Travel month so we recorded this month's episodes in the past so you could watch them in the future!  We're kicking things off with my mandated movie, Happy Death Day, a film that asks: What if Groundhog Day but a slasher?  Sounds great!  But it's PG-13.

Uh-oh...

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

7:41 - Happy Death Day review

56:13 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're wrapping up "As Bad As We Remember?" month with Keleigh's mandated movie: Mars Attacks!  We saw this in the theater back when it came out and found it so tonally removed from what the marketing had promised that neither of us liked it.  Years later, knowing what the film's tone and sense of humor was, I found I appreciated it more but my sister hasn't seen it since that initial screening, nearly 30 years ago.  Will knowing what kind of movie she's in for change her opinion?  Only 37 ways to find out and one of them is listening to this podcast!

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

14:18 - Mars Attacks! review

59:31 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month we're revisiting movies we hated with a passion that burns hotter than the fire of a thousand suns to determine if they're As Bad As We Remember.

Today's mandated movie is Babe, a film so awful it has the dubious distinction of being the first movie I ever shut off half way through.  Yes, the talking pig movie.

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

13:33 - Babe review

57:46 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're wrapping up Originated On Stage month with my sister's mandated flick, Glengarry Glen Ross, a movie known for Alec Baldwin's "Always Be Closing" monologue that new viewers are surprised to find is his only scene in the movie!

Join us as we finally learn what the movie's title means!

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

11:21 - Glengarry Glen Ross review

56:30 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month, we're celebrating movies that Originated On Stage so I mandated we watch Cyrano, the umpteenth adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, a story about a man who is such a good friend, he'll sext your girlfriend in your stead.

Now that's a true bro!

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

18:18 - Cyrano review

53:56 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.

Where's the pomp? The circumstance? Did anyone think to tell Amazon?

0:00 - I sang on RafScrap's cover of "Be Prepared"! Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhtEkcbuMw

2:22 - Wait... the Nintendo Switch 2 comes out in less than two weeks?!!!

11:47 - Games aren't expensive enough, says totally real gamers who don't have a stake in game sales

30:34 - The history of Benny Bear

35:04 - After logging hundreds of hours over the past few months, some gamers have stopped playing Monster Hunter Wilds

47:11 - My thoughts on two recent Star Wars shows: Andor and Tales of the Underworld

56:42 - Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii may give you a bit too much freedom

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner.  It is in the public domain and free to use.  Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:59 PMaddictedtochaos​​Hello

7:01 PMAndrew Eisen​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhtE...

7:02 PMeathdemon​​enjoy switch 2 for those buying it

7:02 PMeathdemon​​will not be me

7:04 PMaddictedtochaos​​I’m trying to take a night off from work to go to the midnight release.

7:04 PMeathdemon​​bad nintendo fan you are, forgeting about the switch 2, for shame andrew

7:05 PMeathdemon​​ /s

7:05 PMeathdemon​​I mean there is nothing really to say tbh

7:07 PMcaleb723​​I might try to sneak a purchase for one but I'm not sure, I hadn't really committed to buying one day 1

7:07 PMLynndy Lee​​hello

7:08 PMeathdemon​​I dont play my switch one much, im a pc gamer for the most part, and kinda been that way since 2010

7:09 PMeathdemon​​ribit ribit, someone has bunny's on the brain lol

7:09 PMorii 💖​​Hiiiiii ^^, one question. When are you reacting to the winner of Eurovision 2025? By the way, there was a new winner last Saturday. 👀

7:09 PMaddictedtochaos​​Amazon can’t do preorders for Nintendo anything.

7:10 PMeathdemon​​nintendo and amazon has had a rocky relationship for sevral years

7:10 PMeathdemon​​I remember this all the way back in the 3ds lol

7:10 PMcaleb723​​I think Amazon used to sell and ship games ahead of street date maybe?

7:10 PMaddictedtochaos​​I think it is due to street date violations

7:11 PMaddictedtochaos​​You can’t even buy eShop currency on Amazon.

7:12 PMSheekago​​Yo Andrew

7:13 PMaddictedtochaos​​The Switch 1 pro controller is compatible. It just won’t wake the Switch 2 up from sleep mode.

7:13 PMSheekago​​I feel like anyone who claims games should cost more are trolls.

7:13 PMSheekago​​Or are somehow employed by gaming companies.

7:13 PMeathdemon​​basicly trying to self razationlize why nintendo charginge $80 not being a rip off lol

7:14 PMeathdemon​​just go gety expedition 33 for $50 lol

7:16 PMLynndy Lee​​yeah! looking forward to the "Be Prepared" BTS video ♥

7:18 PMcaleb723​​Oh wait, I think Amazon had that program a while back where you could preorder games for 10% off and I wonder if that was it

7:20 PMLynndy Lee​​for the price on video games these days and you don't even get to own a physical copy of it.

7:22 PMaddictedtochaos​​Yeah, I’m going to much more selective going forward on which games I’ll be buying.

7:24 PMaddictedtochaos​​My backlog will last me the rest of my life.

7:24 PMTartTooth​​Andrew, do you still follow your $50 rule from back in the day? Are you skipping Switch 2 for now?

7:25 PMSheekago​​Show and Tell time

7:25 PMeathdemon​​8just play thia year'as goty for only $50 lol. intreasting fact 3 of the four big games this year (split fiction,

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Ani-May month concludes with my sister's mandated movie: Grave of the Fireflies, an anime about a pair of young, sibling war orphans doing what they can to survive in war-ravaged Japan back in 1945.  No gravity-defying hairstyles.  No giant robots.  No tentacle monsters.  Just the hilarious misadventures of two innocent children slowly starving to death in squalor and misery.

It's an animated treat for the entire family!

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

10:32 - Grave of the Fireflies review

1:09:12 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's Ani-May, the month where we indulge in animated films from Japan!  Hey, did you see the one about the busty high school girls with the short skirts and gravity-defying, rainbow colored hair who save the world by piloting giant robots with the one male who's an insufferable loser but for some inexplicable reason his classmates, his homeroom teacher, his childhood friend, her mom, and his sister all want to jump his bones?  And there's a talking cat?

Yeah, I guess that doesn't narrow it down.  I should have been more specific.

Anyway, I mandated we watch something else.  A Silent Voice, is a about a guy who bullies a girl in grade school but feels bad about it and attempts to make amends years later.  Will she forgive him?  Should she forgive him?  Are there giant robots?

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

15:47 - A Silent Voice review

1:07:04 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're wrapping up Animal Attack month with Keleigh's mandate movie, The Birds, a title which leaves no doubt as to which animal is doing the attacking.

Ferrets.

0:00 - Trivial Trivia

19:53 - The Birds review

1:12:44 - Next episode's mandated movie

We'll be back in two weeks with another mandated movie.  If you'd like to watch it, click here to find where it's streaming or available to rent.

If you'd like to watch the video version of Movie Mandates, you can do so on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can listen to and audio-only version on iTunes.  New episodes of Movie Mandates drop on the first and third Wednesday of every month!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen and Keleigh Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner and is used with permission.  Movie Mandates logo and art by Lynndy Lee.