The Saturday Matinée • Movies, News, Games, and Lists!

Pete leads Tommy and Kyle on a journey of discovery... adventure... and learning a bit about themselves in the doing.

But first, we talk about Bones And All, Monster High the Movie and its odd similarity to Netflix's entry into the space, a quick review of Darby and the Dead, and toss in a dash of "what would you do if you were Henry Cavill today?"

From there, Skinamarink is in the trailer rundown, so look out for that. The Diabolical is on deck for games, and we have a Very Important Announcement about the future of this very show.

• Tommy’s Trailer: Skinamarink Trailer
• Kyle’s Trailer: Spider Man: Across the Spider-verse
• Pete’s Trailer: Infinity Pool

THE LIST!

Movies with Perfect Endings.

Tommy’s List

1. The Mist
2. The Others
3. The Game

Kyle’s List

1. The Lost Boys
2. Yojimbo
3. Series 7: The Contenders

Pete’s List

1. Whiplash
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. The Saturday Matinée

• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • 2022-12-17

Tommy leads Pete and Mandy through Cocaine Bear and Transformers, plus a game of What They In? and a list of moves with fun CG animals!

But first, we talk Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, The Peripheral on Amazon, news of casting for Neuromancer, reports that Avatar: Watertime Wet Blue People is doing pretty well, Brendan Fraser on CBS Sunday Morning, all so we can get right to talking about Cocaine Bear.

• Mandy’s Trailer: Cocaine Bear
• Tommy’s Trailer: The Last of Us
• Pete’s Trailer: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

THE LIST!

A parade of CG animals!

Mandy’s List

1. Timmy Failure
2. Bullet Train
3. Cocaine Bear

Tommy’s List

1. Life of Pi
2. Annihilation (Also go read the Southern Reach Trilogy)
3. Jurassic World

Pete’s List

1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
2. Noah
3. The Ring Two

• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • 2022-12-10

Kyle Olson leads the crew of Krissy Lenz and Pete Wright on a journey through holiday entertainment, a Quentin Tarantino first-time-teen-viewer watchlist, and a list of movies of superstar pair-ups that didn't fly.

But first, Krissy watched Spirited! on Apple TV+! Pete's still crowing about The Peripheral on Amazon Primeand Rings of Power on Amazon Prime. Kyle amplifies The Council of Elrond Podcast as a way to listen to Brits help us remember what's going on as we watch fake things throwing things at fake things.

• Kyle’s Trailer: Darby and the Dead
• Krissy’s Trailer: Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• Pete’s Trailer: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Bonus: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

THE LIST!

Superstar pair ups? Super-duds.

Kyle’s List

1. The Jungle Cruise
2. Avengers: Age of Ultron
3. The Devil's Own

Krissy’s List

1. The Lake House
2. The House
3. Shallow Hal

Pete’s List

1. Righteous Kill
2. Dirty Grandpa
3. Old Dogs

A few other pics...

Imaginary Words
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• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • 2022-12-03

Mandy Kaplan leads her march across the alps with Tommy Metz and Krissy Lenz on board. This week: trailers, a Game of Logs, and a list of films designed to give you hope.

First up, Tommy's finally watching Reboot on Hulu and likes it. Krissy is watching The Rock because you just can't get enough of the Rock as a tourist attraction. Mandy's in on White Lotus Season 2 on HBO, but is kind of distracted by The Vow, on HBO as well, also with a season 2.

Did you hear? Jason Blum and James Wan are talking about tying the knot as studios, making a powerful indie horror house.

• Mandy’s Trailer: The People We Hate at the Wedding
• Tommy’s Trailer: The Son
• Krissy’s Trailer: Guardians Holiday Special

THE LIST!

Scenes that give you hope.

Mandy's List

1. The Wiz
2. Singin in the Rain
3. Hairspray

Tommy’s List

1. Field of Dreams
2. Babe
3. Mr. Holland's Opus

Krissy’s List

1. Moana
2. Big Hero Six
3. Labyrinth

• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • 2022-11-19

Pete Wright heads up Kyle Olson and Tommy Metz for a chat through Saturdays and Matinées, the works of William Gibson, kitcheny and mystery trailers, The Diabolical, and lists of movies we'll never watch again.

Andor is over and Kyle has things to say, like, we're still trying to convince Tommy that he should actually watch it. In the mean time, Tommy has been watching Barbarian and is both completely convinced that the script was unsalable to studios while also being a fantastic finished film. Pete waxes lovingly about William Gibson's work as a lead-in to a conversation on Amazon's adaptation of The Peripheral, which is, so far, so good.

We've got a game of The Diabolical that has the gents doing... accents(?). But first up, Trailers!

• Tommy’s Trailer: 1-800-HOT-NITE
• Kyle’s Trailer: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Pete’s Trailer: High Heat

THE LIST!

Movies we've seen once and will never watch again.

Tommy’s List

1. Marley & Me
2. Salö
3. Uncut Gems

Kyle’s List

1. Black Hawk Down
2. The Rules of Attraction
3. Schindler's List

Pete’s List

1. 17 Filles
2. Kimi
3. Dear Evan Hansen

• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • 2022-11-12

Kyle Olson leads Ray DeLancey and Krissy Lenz on a tour through halloween haunts with Halloween Ends. Friday the 13th the Series is for real and going big.

• Krissy’s Trailer: M3GAN
• Ray’s Trailer: MK Ultra
• Kyle’s Trailer: Avatar: The Way of Water

THE LIST!

It's not scary, but does it make you anxious? Then it belongs on our list this week!

Krissy’s List

1. Misery
2. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
3. The Transformers: The Movie

Ray’s List

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Anne Frank: The Whole Story
3. Halloween II

Kyle’s List

1. The Descent
2. Open Water
3. Die Hard

What Else Do We Love Today?

• Royal Ocean Film Society
• The Murdaugh Murders Podcast
• Refind: Get Smarter Every Day

• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • 2022-11-05

Tommy Metz III leads Krissy Lenz and Mandy Kaplan on a matinée tour of movies and television magic that ends in a recast-a-thon of movies that definitely should be musicals.

But first, the watchlist. Tommy and Mandy finished The Patient and loved it. Smile is middling fare according to Krissy, but she's an island on who's seen it on the panel just yet. We have a significant detour around Don't Worry Darling which you might even classify as "gossip corner."

• Mandy’s Trailer: The White Lotus — Season 2
• Tommy’s Trailer: Next Exit
• Krissy’s Trailer: Poker Face

THE LIST!

This week the team brings a list of movies which really and truly should be adapted into musicals. But they have a twist! They were challenged not only to bring the movie, but to bring a principal cast member and the first song. Which, of course, they overdid. It's awesome.

Mandy’s List

1. Practical Magic - Zoe Kravitz & Zendaya - “How Do You Spell Sister?”
2. Steel Magnolia - "Drink Your Juice” - Jane Kracowzki, Taraji P. Henson, Melissa McCarthy
3. The Princess Bride - “Not Grandpa” - Zendaya & Harry Styles

Tommy’s List

1. Whiplash - JK Simmons & Miles Teller - “Cymbal Face”
2. Forrest Gump - “Chocolates and Shrimp” - Will Ferrell
3. Stand By Me - “Do You Want To See A Body” - Jacob Tremblay

Krissy’s List

1. The Shining - Jensen Ackles - “Welcome to the Overlook”
2. What We Do In The Shadows - Cast of Stranger THings - “So Much Blood!”
3. Labyrinth - Maya Hawke & Lady Gaga & Lil Nas Ex - “It’s not fair!”

• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • YYYY-MM-DD

The indomitable Kyle Olson leads Tommy Metz III and Pete Wright for a tour through franchises, trailers with numbers after them (mostly), and a game of pitches that leaves them in stitches!

But first, Tommy's new short Static is in full festival mode, so he isn't watching much other than other people's horrors. Pete's watching Andor pretty hard because it's fantastic, and we haven't talked enough about it on this show week to week.

It was a big franchise trailer week, though, so in light of Creed and John Wick successors, Kyle picked an indie doc. Not so on brand after all?

• Kyle’s Trailer: Claydream
• Tommy’s Trailer: John Wick Chapter 4
• Pete’s Trailer: Creed III

THE LIST!

This week's list brings you movies that are part of multiple-adaptation francises. Was it a book, opera, comic, or something else before it was a movie? Then it's fair game for this list.

Kyle’s List

1. Evil Dead
2. The Three Musketeers
3. Carrie

Tommy’s List

1. And Then There Were None
2. Hamlet
3. Intolerable Cruelty

Pete’s List

1. American Psycho
2. Rent
3. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Looking for a new podcast?

• Batman: The Audio Adventures
• Blockbuster
• Cautionary Tales

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Saturday Matinée • 2022-10-22

Mandy Kaplan leads a merry band of Krissy Lenz and Pete Wright on a journey through holiday musical magic, a game of titles, and a list of iconic movie character names!

We start with an ode to Angela Lansbury, whose death this week marks the end of an era for a Dame expert at pivoting her career with the times.

Mandy's still hate-watching stuff, but mostly it's just all football. Krissy checked out Hocus Pocus 2 and as a result, is now calling for a full Midleraissance. Pete is watching sexist and homophobic car TV from 20 years ago but MOSTLY wants to talk about the meta finale of season 1 of She-Hulk, which Mandy and Krissy have not seen. It's pretty one-sided, but hopefully, you listen and want to check it out yourself because it's pretty fun.

• Mandy’s Trailer: Spirited
• Krissy’s Trailer: Violent Night
• Pete’s Trailer: Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical

THE LIST!

This week's list is a celebration of great character names. What makes a name stick in your head? What makes it something you repeat? What makes the character enter the public consciousness?

Mandy’s List

1. Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory - Veruca Salt
2. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark - Indiana Jones
3. Happy Gilmore - Shooter McGavin

Krissy’s List

1. Three Amigos! - El Guapo
2. The Princess Bride - Inigo Montoya
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Ferris Bueller

Pete’s List

1. The Terminator - Sarah Connor
2. The Usual Suspects - Keyser Söze
3. The Silence of the Lambs - Hannibal Lecter

• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • 2022-10-15

The "Honorable" Tommy Metz III leads Mandy Kaplan and Krissy Lenz in week of chat, a game of Titles, and a list of films about sports... that they don't follow.

- Tommy’s Trailer: Knock at the Cabin

- Steve’s Trailer: Emily the Criminal

- Pete’s Trailer: The Estate

### THE LIST!

Favorite Sports Films featuring Sports You Don’t Follow. This one was a wide-open field for some on the panel this week. 

Tommy’s List

1. Tin Cup
2. I, Tonya
3. Field of Dreams

Krissy’s List

1. Rocky IV
2. The Sandlot
3. A Leage of Their Own

Mandy’s List

1. Bull Durham
2. Kingpin
3. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

• (00:00) - Welcome to Saturday Matinée • 2022-10-01