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

Pete Wright, Ocean Murff, and Tommy Metz head up the Saturday Matinée for our penultimate episode of 2021. What’s on deck? Ocean and Tommy make an able plea that we all watch Succession and now’s just the right time during a season break. Along the way, we talk about the latest Vulture piece suggesting that HBOMax won the year with their day-date Warner Bros strategy, directors be damned.

The latest Potterverse entry trailer — Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledorehas dropped fresh with recasting and a distinctly Azkaban feel. Will it live up to the original series third ep?

Pete’s mad about retreads. Do we really need to know how you met your father?

We try to talk about Mike Flanagan, because Tom loves him. But it’s a pretty anemic effort. We get there… eventually.

Here’s Keanu Reaves and Carrie-Anne Moss talking about making The Matrix Awakens feature for Epic Games, and crapping on NFTs.

Trailers

• Pete’s Trailer: Everything, Everywhere All At Once
• Tommy’s Trailer: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
• Ocean’s Trailer: The Lost City

THE LIST!

It turns out, most Christmas movies are happy. This is our discovery upon inheriting the list topic The Saddest Christmas from last week’s hosts.

Pete’s List

1. Jack Frost
2. Fatman
3. Last Christmas

Tommy’s List

1. Edward Scissorhands
2. The Ice Storm
3. Jacob’s Ladder

Ocean’s List

1. Rocky IV • Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago: The Ultimate Director’s Cut
2. Batman Returns
3. Trading Places

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Is there a problem with ABC’s efforts to amp the nostalgia in “Live In Front of a Studio Audience”? You take the good, you take the bad, am I right?

Trailers this week surprise us all as Mandy gets her pick in first with Spidey, Kyle brings a trailer only our Brit friends will be able to watch, and Rob brings Ritchie and a prayer.

• Mandy’s Trailer: SPIDER-MAN: Into the Spider Verse 2
• Kyle’s Trailer: Last Train to Christmas
• Rob’s Trailer: Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre

THE LIST!

Action in the Snow! What does that mean, you ask? Great question! Might be funny. Might be horrific. Might be … you know … an acorn. Also, there is some strange Christmas Story antagonism in this segment. You have been warned.

Mandy’s List

1. Ice Age
2. A Christmas Story
3. Dumb and Dumber

Kyle’s List

1. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
2. Cliffhanger
3. The Long Kiss Goodnight

Rob’s List

1. Spies Like Us
2. Stripes
3. Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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Rob and Pete review the week with news, some confusing trailer selections, a not-so-mysterious game of Step-Up, and picks the celebrate over-indulgent performances in film.

In the News

The Expanse is coming back for season six on December 10 and, in what can only be called a true Belter Holiday Miracle, the ninth book was just released too! Tatum is back with Soderbergh and we have some ideas for titles. Red Notice is the most watched thing on the ‘Flix. Reviews of West Side Story are starting to come in and it turns out things are looking pretty darned good. Cara Delevingne is moving into the Building for Season 2. And, Rob delivers a special message to Kyle about Tom Holland.

Let’s Do Trailers

• Rob’s Trailer: And Just Like That…
• Pete’s Trailer: Reacher

THE LIST!

Over-the-Top Performances — bonus if it’s a western

Rob’s List

1. Waterworld
2. Speed
3. Super Mario Brothers

Pete’s List

1. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2. Django Unchained
3. The Hateful Eight

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It’s a big week. Yes, we’re watching some stuff. The Harder They Fall is on the watchlist, along with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Carnage, and Shang-Chi. Even Red Notice gets a shout-out.

But it’s really all about the Disney+ Marvel slate

Kyle does an able job of leading Ocean and Pete through the massive announcements from Marvel on their small-screen slate coming in 2022 and 2023. Moon Night. Zombies. Echo. Ironheart. Secret Invasion. Hawkeye. Agatha. She-Hulk. More, and more, and more.

Let’s Do Trailers

• Kyle’s Trailer: Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Ocean’s Trailer: Try Harder
• Pete’s Trailer: Pam & Tommy

THE LIST!

Movies with games that have complicated rules? Plenty of ways to approach this one, and it’s fair to say we have a bit of everything on the list.

Kyle’s List

1. War Games
2. Die Hard With A Vengeance
3. Labyrinth

Ocean’s List

1. The Game
2. Ender’s Game
3. Escape Room

Pete’s List

1. Cube
2. Circle
3. California Split

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Happy Birthday! Ok, not your birthday, unless your birthday is on November 11, and you just hit 10 years old. Cause WE did, just the other day! And now we’re going to wax a bit poetic about a history of talking about movies together.

A Sampling of the Original Crew

Pete Wright, Andy Nelson, Steve Sarmento, and Tommy Metz III join the crew this week to share a peek into the wayback machine. We talk about those first rocky Movies We Like episodes, the first Film Boards, and the community that has come up around this show. But don’t worry, it’s not all about the good ol’ days.

Steve brings news of this weekend’s launch of the IMAX aspect ration on select Marvel movies on Disney+. Twenty-six percent more pixels! We lost Dean Stockwell so we take a podcast knee in his memory. And the first Rust lawsuits are filed, shedding a little more light on the conditions that led to the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Four trailers this week run the table from horror to comedy to cowboys, and also the one Steve brought.

• Steve’s Trailer: *C’mon C’mon
• Steve’s Trailer: The Power of the Dog
• Pete’s Trailer: Silent Night
• Andy’s Trailer: 8-Bit Christmas

THE LIST!

It’s the list pick that couldn’t be stopped! Questionable accents has been picked twice before but never delivered… well, not until now. The twist: hosts had to demonstrate their picks in the appropriate accents.

Steve’s List

1. snatch.
2. The Highlander
3. The Dark Knight Rises

Tommy’s List

1. Django Unchained
2. Thirteen Days
3. Rounders

Pete’s List

1. Blood Diamond
2. Varsity Blues
3. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Andy’s List

1. The Dark Knight
2. X-Men
3. The Beguiled

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We know, this is the show you've all been waiting for. The Unicorn episode that lights up the night sky as Ocean Murff and Mandy Kaplan once again share a podcast stage to discover if there is, indeed, anything on which they agree.

Friends, this is that episodes.

What starts as a romp down Succession Lane, and Foundation Court takes us into a whole neighborhood of our trio's love of reality television.

• Steve’s Trailer: The Beach
• Mandy’s Trailer: The Unforgivable
• Ocean’s Trailer: House of Gucci

THE LIST!

This week the crew was tasked with coming up with a list of films featuring angelic visitations. No, that's not ghosts.

Steve's List

1. Wings of Desire
2. The Adjustment Bureau
3. A Life Less Ordinary

Mandy's List

1. Two of a Kind
2. Michael
3. Grease

Ocean's List

1. Dogma
2. Fallen
3. Heaven Can Wait

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Tommy Metz is back in the big chair this week with Rob Kubasko and Kyle Olson. Kicking off our weekend festivities, Rob leads a rousing celebration of the new DJI Ronin 4D. Seriously, it’s an amazing camera in if you’re at all excited about gear, this thing is bonkers.
Arcade 1up has a new cabinet that GenX gamers will likely appreciate: the T2: Judgment Day machine. Yes, it’s a classic arcade cabinet. But think about it this way. If you own it, NO QUARTERS.
Got $400+ to burn? Check out the Ghostbusters HasLab Plasma Series Spengler’s Proton Pack. Or, at least go look at it and realize that your family would have issues with you spending the money but leave the tab open in your browser, longingly checking it every few days, wondering what it would be like to call yourself a collector, changing your identity accordingly, and still coming to the same, sad, conclusion: $400 is crazy to pay for a proton pack that doesn’t actually include the Ghostbusters Plasma Series Spengler’s Neutrona Wand in the box.
Oh, and surprising everyone, Tom saw Dune… and liked it.
The team brings trailers that are, now surprising no one, on brand.

• Rob’s Trailer: Lightyear
• Kyle’s Trailer: Cowboy Bebop
• Tommy’s Trailer: The Card Counter

THE LIST!

The list this week comes courtesy of last week’s hosts, a celebration of movies including actors who are too old to be sincerely playing high school students.

Rob’s List

1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2. Sense and Sensability
3. Yentl

   Kyle’s List

4. Like Crazy & Breathe In
5. Mean Girls
6. Behind the Candelabra

   Pete’s List

7. Carrie & Grease
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Grease (again, but with Stockard Channing)

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Steve Sarmento is in the big chair this week with Mandy Kaplan and Pete Wright. It’s Dune weekend, so of course we’re talking about theaters, box office, and shooting big. There’s a Breakfast Club reboot brewing… just kidding, there isn’t, but we talk about it anyway.

The streamers are trying to make us feel guilty about churning and returning but it turns out we’re doing it anyway. The bigger news this week is over at Netflix as the company deals with a walkout and controversy relating for its handling around the Dave Chapelle special.

Steve and Mandy Freaky Friday’d this week when it comes to trailers. No idea how it happened, but Mandy picked Cena.

• Mandy’s Trailer: Peacemaker
• Steve’s Trailer: The Lost Daughter
• Pete’s Trailer: Being the Ricardos

THE LIST!

This week’s list is all about movies in other movies. Whether we see a movie in production or characters watching a movie in the movie, it’s up for grabs this week.

Mandy’s List

1. The Last Exorcism
2. Singin’ in the Rain
3. For Your Consideration

Steve’s List

1. Hail, Caesar!
2. State and Main
3. The Last Shot

Pete’s List

1. Hooper
2. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
3. Last Action Hero

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Well what do you know? Kyle leads Rob and Pete through a discussion of Bones and Cougar Town, which leads to a big show for Rob. A big show.

We chat through a tease of Bond, a little Fandome, some Ted Lasso and Murder… there’s a lot up front before we get to trailers that break us, each in their own very special way.

• Rob’s Trailer: The Tender Bar
• Steve’s Trailer: Hawkeye
• Pete’s Trailer: Scream 5

THE LIST!

Movies about people employed as dancers? What could possibly go wrong!

Rob’s List

1. Step Up
2. Step Up 2: The Streets
3. Step Up 3D

Kyle’s List

1. Breakin’ Two: Electric Boogaloo
2. Hairspray
3. Strictly Ballroom

Pete’s List

1. Shall We Dance
2. Hustlers
3. Honey

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Rob Kubasko leads our entry into our third century with Mandy Fabian and the apparently-satisfying Kyle Olson.

Mandy's crushing on The Other Two, which is eerily similar-not-similar to Kyle's current fascination, Y: the Last Man. Rob is here to represent a walk through the CBS crime shows of the CBS television network.

Of the more serious news, ScarJo got paid. The Disney-Scarlett Johansson settlement should quiet the media battle as the two sides come to terms on compensation for Black Widow at its streaming/theatrical release earnings.

The BBC is preparing for what they're calling an "explosive" 20th Anniversary of Doctor Who in 2023: Russell T Davies — the producer at the wheel from 2005-2009 — will be coming back for the celebration episode and beyond.

And, near the end of the show, Kyle drops a gem in the form of a podcast: Batman: The Audio Adventures. It's an HBOMax thing, and they team there seems to think you can only get it if you're a subscriber. But then why did they release it as a podcast? We'll never know. But seriously, this cast is a who's who of comedy aces and Jeffry Wright under the cowl? Can't lose.

Let's Do Trailers

Rob's the only one who knows anything about Kurt Warner. Mandy's trailer proves that doesn't matter a bit because even if we don't love sports, we loves us some sports movies. Rob offers snark by way of Hollywood tropes and handsome Rob Lowe. And Kyle brings a trailer that he's actually picked before, but before you turn off the show, don't worry because they've changed it up enough that it appears the filmmakers were preparing for this week and tried to make it a new movie altogether.

• Mandy’s Trailer: American Underdog
• Rob’s Trailer: Attack of the Hollywood Clichés
• Kyle’s Trailer: The Harder They Fall

Games! Rob's Ultimate Movie Monster Show-Down Bracket

"Well, you make a compelling argument."

Rob brings an epic tour of movie monster history in a bracket that ends with a shocking Final Four Match-up between Draculas, Mummies, Frankensteins, and Werewolves.

THE LIST: Annoying Children

No, it's not a great week for the kids. It turns out our trio has strong feelings about the worst children in movies... even if those children weren't out to be the worst. Sometimes, they just can't help it.

Mandy’s List

1. Weird Science
2. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
3. The Toy

Kyle’s List

1. Jerry Maguire
2. Jurassic World
3. ⭐ Superman Returns

Rob’s List

1. Clifford
2. The Lost World
3. The Mummy Returns

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