Where Generations X and Y intersect to discuss the movies from the not quite recent past
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Happy Monday, dear listeners. This week we watched "Pan's Labyrinth" from Guillermo del Toro. We talked about subtitles vs dubbing, the on-screen violence of war, and a little about "Hollow Man", which we watched last week and didn't have very much to say.
Happy Monday, everyone! This week we watched 2005's "Sin City," so you don't have to. We talked about needless narration, anthology films, and Frank Miller.
Happy Monday! This week we sat through 2005's Elektra, starring Jennifer Garner. We talk about The Defenders and Daredevil on Netflix, the works of Frank Miller, and what would have made this movie better; making it worse. Spoiler warning: We mention some minor spoilers about Netflix's "The Defenders". We encourage you to go watch that series before listening to this episode.
Welcome back, everyone! This week we watched 2007's "Stardust," starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Robert de Niro, and Michelle Pfeiffer. We talk about some bad British accents, our mutual disdain for Tim Burton, and make comparisons to The Princess Bride
Welcome back! This week we watched 1984's "The Karate Kid," with Ralph Machio, Pat Morita, and Elizabeth Shue. We talked about 80's film franchises; teen, sport, and bully movies; and cultural apropriation at length.
Happy Monday! This week we watched David Fincher's first feature, "Alien 3". We talk about for a while about the franchise, problems with making this film, various character archetypes, and Alien vs. Predator.
Welcome back. This week we watched 1990's Flatliners, with Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and Julia Roberts. We talked about Joel Schumacher, the forthcoming remake with Ellen Page, and attonement. Heather also offers some free CPR tips.
We're back, everyone! This week we watched 1999's The Mummy, with Brendan Fraiser and Rachel Weisz. We talk about humor in adventure movies, Dungeons and Dragons comparisons, comedy television origins of movies, and racial casting in modern Hollywood. If you have any question for Heather about something she loves or hates, let us know through email at dadmpod@gmail.com, or on twitter @DADMpod
Welcome back! This week we're talking about Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice". We started off talking about expressionism and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", and proceeded to talk about other Tim Burton movies, the virtues and inevitable problems of "weird" filmmakers, and using an alternate name for someone else.Â
Happy Monday, listeners! This week we watched Jonathan Demme's 1991 Academy Award winning "The Silence of the Lambs". We argue about guns in mental hospitals, other local podcasts about movies, and trans* representation failures in this movie, and a Revolting Cocks sample that originated in this movie. We'll see you next week!
Welcome to Monday, listeners! We watched the 1955 thriller "The Night of the Hunter," starring Robert Mitchum. We talked about Expressionism, pacing, the treatment of women characters, exploitative Christianity, and charismatic psychopathy. We'll see you next week!
Happy Monday, listeners! This week we watched Apt Pupil and All the President's Men. We go into why we watched two episodes this week, we talk about war criminals, dark family secrets, and memorials. We also talked about newsroom dramas, seeing familiar drinkable faces, and re-rating historically significant cinema. Sorry for the delay, we'll see you next week!
Happy Monday, listeners! This week we watched The Shining, from 1980. We talked about Shelley Duvall, Kubrick movies, and mental health and time travel. See you next week!
Happy Monday, listeners. This week we watched 1990's Misery. We pretty much phoned in this episode, there wasn't that much to talk about. Hope you enjoy the movie.
Happy Monday, listeners! This week we watched 1957's 12 Angry Men. We talked about the Criterion Collection, various subsequent legal dramas, and our expierences with jury duty.
Happy Monday, listeners! This week we watched M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense". We talk about New Kids on the Block, our first expierences seeing the movie, ghost stories vs. horror movies, and commentary on video cameras. See you next week!
Welcome back, listeners! This week we watched 2006's "Children of Men". We aslo recapped Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and disscussd plot mystique, violence, and a lack of Good Guys. We'll see you next week!
Happy Monday, friends! This week we watched Falling Down. We make come comparisons with Office Space, the market for dark comedies, and misspent youth in the suburbs.
Welcome back friends! This week we watched The Last Starfighter, from 1984. We talked about Wil Wheaton and Robert Preston movies, the tv show Friends, Cop Rock, and After School Specials.
Welcome to Monday, listeners! This week we watched Guy Richie's Snatch, from 2000. Topics of discussion include Richie's filmography, use of profanity in the United Kingdom vs. the United States, and comparisons with contemporary directors.
Happy Monday, friends! This week we saw Disney's 1991 animated Beauty and the Beast. We talked about comparisons to other Disney animated films, masculinity archetypes, and definitions of beauty.
Happy Monday, listeners! This week we were joined by three friends for 1999's Drop Dead Gorgeous. We talked about many things Minnesotan, furnature, broadcasting, and being 17. See you next Monday!
Happy Monday, listeners! This week we saw Richard Donner's Superman film from 1978. We talked about this film's pacing, Lois Lane as a damsel in distress trope, and Richard Donner and his body of work. We hope you enjoy our new release day, sent us an email at dadmpod@gmail.com
Happy Wednesday, everybody! We said goodbye to Bill Paxton today with Apollo 13. We also talked about Ron Howard movies, whether people identify characters or actors in movies, and there's another rant about how much someone hates James Cameron.
Welcome back! This week we watched David Lynch's Lost Highway. Content warning, we talk a lot about sexual violence in this film as well as in Blue Velvet, so feel free to skip this one if you need to. See you next Wednesday!
Happy Wednesday, listeners! We watched 1993's Untamed Heart, starring Christian Slayter and Marisa Tomei. We talked about Minneapolis geography, sexual assault, Heather tells a television story, and Denis hates the DNA remix of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner
Welcome back everyone! This week we sorta said goodbye to John Hurt with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. We talked about why we picked this movie with John Hurt, how fandom gatekeeping is unhelpful, adolescent actors, and we drop the ball on coveri
Happy Wednesday, listeners! This week we skipped back to 1997 for the Nicolas Cage "classic" Con Air. We talked about cable program scheduling, diabetics on film, criminal proceedings involving active duty military personel, and Jerry Bruckheimer.
Welcome to 2017! We started this year with another comic book movie! This time we watched Sam Raimi's Spider Man 3. We talked about unnecessary origin stories, useless fight scenes, bad CGI, and a lot of other comic book movies. We'll see you next Wednesd
Happy holidays, listeners! This week we watched Scrooged with Bill Murray. We talked about various versions of A Christmas Carol, Muppet Fight Club, live television, and Carol Kane.
Welcome back everyone! This week we recorded with previous guest Matt Allex along with Megan Slawson and The Boy to watch 1991's Point Break. This one is a bit long, but we talked about Patrick Swayze, the shortcomings of the soundtrack, and things go quickly off the rails.
Welcome back listeners! This week we continued our Keanu Reeves marathon, accidentally, with The Devil's Advocate. Aside from Keanu, we talked about Al Pacino, the seeming lack of courtroom scenes, and hospital security protocols. Enjoy!
Hello friends! This week we watched A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Rider, and Robert Downey Jr. We talked about rotoscoping, Keanu Reeve's acting career, Richard Linklater, and drugs.
Happy Wednesday, listeners! This week we watched Being John Malkovich, with John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and, of course, John Malkovich. We talked about science fiction movies, The Skulls, Keanu Reeves, and Rob Reiner
Welcome back listeners! This week we watched V for Vendetta, from 2005. We discussed the current political climate, character changes in adaptions, the Wachowski's, and a little bit about Keanu Reeves.
Happy Wednesday, listeners! This week we saw 1997's Sling Blade. We talked about undeserved awards, boring and pointless movies, premeditated murder, and victim blaming.
Welcome back! This week we watched the classic horror The Exorcist. We talked about smoking on screen in the seventies, Max von Sydow, and a bit of horror movie theory.
Happy Wednesday, listeners! This week we watched 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring a bunch of teens stars. We talked about teen slasher films, winter drinks, white privlege, definitions of horror movies
Welcome back! Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula was on the menu for today. We talked about Francis Ford Coppola's filmography, unnecessary nudity, bad accents, and Doctor Who.
Welcome back, listeners! This week we watched 1994's Robert Redford film Quiz Show. We talk about ethics in role researching, other quiz show scandals, and milk. Also, there are spoilers for the Ghostbusters reboot, so see that if you haven't already.
Welcome back! This week we saw Lethal Weapon from 1988. We talked about inapprporiately sexy music, comparisons to the new television show, and children, for some reason. If you like the show, please give us a rating or review where ever you downloaded it
This week we watched Disney's Alice in Wonderland. We talked a bit about Disney movies, Young Frankenstein, the Muppets, and the Blues Brothers.
Welcome back, friends and listeners! This week we screened the 1984 David Lynch film Dune. We talked a lot about Star Wars, the problems with internal monologues, homophobia in the mid-80s, and making a fan-cut of the film.
Welcome back, friends! This week we sat through 1996's Mars Attacks!. We open with our farewell to Gene Wilder and explain why we just couldn't do him justice with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, then go on to discuss Tim Burton films, issues with large ensemble casts, and teenagers in the White House.
Welcome back, friends! We watched 2005's Fantastic Four movie this week. We talked at length about Doctor Doom, reading comics, and the assorted Marvel-property films and their ownership.
Sorry for the delay and welcome back! For this episode, we watched Michael Bay's 1998 train-wreck "Armageddon". We talked about the actors who though working with Bay was a nightmare, make some comparisons to James Cameron, and illuminate the origins of the DADM Drinking Game. Enjoy!
Welcome back, listeners! This week we watched What About Bob? from 1991. Topics of discussion include pop culture therapy techniques, the mindset differences between urban and suburban dwellers, Bill Murray, and our mutual lack of Steve Martin exposure.
Welcome back! This week we watched Good Will Hunting, and like most episodes, we hardly talked about the movie.
Welcome back! This week we saw The Boondock Saints. We talk about Boston, the Columbine shooting, and sexism in late-90s cinema. Enjoy!
Hello again! This week we watched 2010's The Town, like we promised during our episode for Alpha Dog. We talked about Ben Affleck as a director, Jeremy Renner's performance, and diversity and representation in cinematic Boston.
Sorry for the slight delay, it's been a busy week. This week we were joined by regular guest Maggie to watch Jim Cameron's Aliens. We talk about cats, too many cats; other Sigorney Weaver films; some of our least favorite filmmakers; Must See TV; and what we understand of Writers Guild of America rules. Enjoy and we'll see you next Wednesday!