Two Thumbs Down with Mike and Ryan

It’s time to put on your big boy pants and be a man! We bring back guest Matt Babb because he wanted to celebrate MANUARY with us by watching a Bruce Dennehy and Bruce Willis movie. We’re also talking Walter Hill, Bill Paxton, Joey Pantoliano, crazy action stunts, and how much we love movie guns that make people going flying off their feet

We love money! And movies about money! Or maybe not…find out in this week’s episode when we talk all things Rick Moranis, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, and so much more!

Let’s hit the slopes! We’re in the thick of winter so we’ve got a couple of ski comedies coming your way. We’re talking wet t-shirt contests, a guy named Lester the Molester, and inappropriate sex pests of 80’s comedies. We’re also talking what we thought of Steven Spielberg’s new Disclosure Day, the Coen Brothers, The Mastermind, and The Running Man

In our second year in review episode, we’re celebrating our favorites of 2025! Was it a great year? What genre reigned supreme? Where will we rank One Battle After Another? Sinners? RETURN TO OZ?! Listen and find out!

It’s time for our year in review episodes! In this episode, we’ve got lists for our stinkers of 2025. We’ve got the worst of lists of movies released in 2025 and what we had to review from Siskel and Ebert this year. Are we talking about The Smashing Machine? Eddington? LITTLE MONSTERS?! Listen and find out!

It’s the last Christmas episode of 2025 (maybe ever) and we’re bringing on special guest Ilana Winter to chat all things Jonathan Taylor Thomas! We talk All I Want For Christmas and I’ll Be Home For Christmas. There’s also discussions about Eddington, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Oh. What. Fun., and some HOT takes on Polar Express

We’ve got even MORE Christmas magic coming at you! This week the boys talk about the classic tale of Mickey’s Christmas Carol and the not-so-classic One Magic Christmas. There’s also some discussion about Disney, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Steenburgen, and one of the weirdest most depressing movies we’ve ever seen on the podcast

This is the third and FINAL mini Nutcracker episode and it’s much different than the others. The fellas are very surprised at this animated adaptation of the Tchaikovsky ballet and they also talk upcoming 2025 movies, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter O’Toole, Phyllis Diller, and one the best characters they’ve come across yet: PANTALOON

In this second Nutcracker mini episode, the guys discuss Macaulay Culkin’s role in this adaptation, the merits of child vs. adult actors, and the bane of Ryan’s existence: unnecessary narration

Since our old friends Siskel and Ebert reviewed 3, count em THREE, different Nutcracker movies, Mike and Ryan have decided to break them up into their own mini episodes! In this first one the boys discuss the movies they’ve watched that week, Maurice Sendak, and how dark this version of The Nutcracker is