Watch This Tonight

What director Liam O’Donnell has done with the Skyline movie franchise (Skyline, Beyond Skyline, Skylines) to my knowledge is - seriously - unprecedented in film history. This is a franchise where the first film was financially successful but was not well received by critics or audiences and Liam and his team somehow managed to make 2 excellent sequels well received by critics and audiences and now Liam is making a fourth film. If you have any interest in filmmaking, movies with Iko Uwais, Frank Grillo movies, sci-fi movies, special effects, or behind the scenes, I strongly encourage you to listen to this episode.

Liam also has his own podcast, Action For Everyone.

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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If you're looking for funny things to watch on Amazon Prime, look no further than Jury Duty. It's technically on Freevee, Amazon's free-ad-supported channel, so even if you don't have Amazon Prime you can still watch it for free. This might be the best funny TV show on Amazon Prime I've seen, certainly in 2023. The premise is so unique and insane, it seems like it must be faked or manipulated in some way. A juror agrees to participate in a documentary about jury duty, but unbeknowst to him all his fellow jurors are actors. Requiring a Stanley Kubrick / Andy Kaufman / NASA moon landing level of coordination behind the scenes, this is basically like if your life was a sitcom and you didn't know it. Featuring James Marsden as himself (it makes sense when you watch) - this is a real gem and I'm excited to highlight it for you. I burned through the entire season in 3 days.

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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A seemingly gimmicky high-concept premise is surprisingly substantive in The Big Door Prize, another winning, charming, extremely watchable show from Apple+. Chris O'Dowd continues his run as film and TV's most underrated leading man, in a series that is thought-provoking and funny in equal measure.

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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Mister Police, you could have saved her. I gave you all the clues. The Snowman is based on a hit novel, produced by Martin Scorsese, directed by esteemed director Tomas Alfredson, and stars Michael Fasbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer, Toby Jones, Chloe Sevigney and JK Simmons. Is it possible a film with such an extraordinary assembly of talent could not be good? This is a Netflix roulette episode, where I pick a random film on Netflix and watch it. At the time of recording, this was the #1 movie on Netflix. Is it worth watching? I give my honest opinion. For better or worse, this episode is a first in the history of Watch This Tonight.

Did you watch The Snowman? What did you think?

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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Alliteration excitement for the return of Barry, one of my favorite television series ever at this point, now fully off the grid narratively, pushing past a conventional ending into uncharted territory. If you've seen Episodes 1 & 2 of Season 4 (don't listen until you do), do you have a prediction for where the series will end? I include in this episode my own ideal ending, but I'd love to hear your predictions.

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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George Clooney contemplated suicide, writer-director Stephen Gaghan was kidnapped, and Harrison Ford almost played "Bob". Warner Brothers gave the film Syriana an unlimited research budget, and the resulting script netted one of the best casts of an adult drama in film history (George Clooney, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Tom McCarthy, Max Minghella, Alexander Siddig, Tim Blake Nelson, William Hurt, and Mark Strong). Yet Syriana did not turn a profit in its theatrical release, and audiences were mixed on it. Why? This movie is incredible, and I did a deep dive into it for this episode. We didn't know how good we had it back in 2005.

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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Everyone and their brother has demanded I watch Beef... and you were all right. Beef is incredibly engaging, really taps into some uncomfortable but I would argue universal truths about life, and is anchored by career performances from Ali Wong, Steven Yeun, and a murderer's row of stellar character actors in supporting roles. It is very hard to stop watching this show once you start. A perfect example of the best we can get from streaming, this is a peak TV positive outcome, a universally relatable show that is very binge-able. Big win for Netflix.

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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Can we all admit that The Night Agent is the great guilty pleasure TV series of 2023? This is an end of season discussion of Season 1 of The Night Agent (Netflix), including all the weird, silly, strange elements of the show that I would argue are actually the secret sauce that kept me watching. I’m joined in this episode by longtime listener, first time co-host, James Jefferson (aka Brother of Doom). We walk through the Vice President ready to throw his daughter under any and all busses, how in this show no one recognizes a voice if it’s on a phone, if Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan) is a great ride-or-die girlfriend, surprise twins, Gabriel Basso's effective lead performance amidst the chaos, and the "America, f**k yeah" of it all by the end. This might be the most fun episode of the podcast to date.

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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Anna Kendrick stars in the ultimate your friend's boyfriend sucks movie - a psychological drama where almost everything is implied, suggested, inferred, until the end. Wisely paced at a slim 80 something minutes, this is a compelling character study, with great performances from Anna, Charlie Carrick, Wunmi Mosaku, and Kaniehtiio Horn. Very much in the tradition of tense character dramas like The Good Girl with Jennifer Aniston or Tully with Charlize Theron, performance pieces about people that feel totally real.

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Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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Podcasting from the road, I decided to highlight three great road trip movies for you. Road trip movies are a great way to give direction to a plot, create opportunities for buddy stories, and function as a metaphor for life. In the case of one of my picks, they are also a great opportunity for Tom Hardy to prove he doesn't always need to work in a virtuoso-mumbling performance. As always, I tried to balance better-known films and obscure picks you might not have seen. What are your favorite road trip movies? Reach out and let me know.

Come back to Watch This Tonight as your podcast for the best film recommendations. Please leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts if you're enjoying the show, and mention a movie or TV show you want me to cover (and I will). Subscribe for future episodes.

Reach out to us @BenamorDan (Twitter), watch_this_tonight (Instagram) or @watchthistonightpodcast (TikTok).

Watch This Tonight is a movie recommendation podcast and TV recommendation podcast, produced by Voyage Media. You can find other Voyage Media podcasts at voyagemedia.fm

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