Movies in the action/adventure genre are usually pretty hit or miss. You don't get a home run like "John Wick" without a few strikeouts like "John Carter". Two action movie enthusiasts sift through the strikeouts of the genre and try to figure out what they did right, and where it all went wrong. We…
Claire Voigtlander & Anthony VanHook
If you ever wondered by a 16 year old girl from District 12 is a grown ass man's mortal enemy and worst fear -- it's not JUST because teenage girls are the coolest and strongest people on Earth, but also because 65 years ago he didn't like the way a woman he fell in love with (despite himself) had agency and made it everyone elses problem for decades to come. Join us to discuss how much of a loser Corio Snow is, and also hear us call Sejanus the wrong name for the entire episode (dyslexia strikes again, sorry fam)
Welcome back big shark enthusiasts!! Join your besties; Anthony, Claire, and My Twin Brother Jason Statham as we crawl out of the stomach of a gigantic prehistoric shark to chat The Meg, and The Meg 2: The Trench.
Grab your whip and punch a Nazi! We're talking Indiana Jones from Raiders to the Dial of Destiny.
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away... but not the one you're thinking of! This week we watching 65 -- the hot new release featuring Adam Driver, Adam Driver's shoulders, Adam Drivers legs, and three women who were barely given names! Join your best friends Claire and Anthony as we discuss this story of two unlikely friends risking it all to shoot a T-Rex in the face with a geyser!
Happy New Year friends!! We are starting the year off with a bang, and by that I mean we watched Avatar 2 so you don't have to! Save yourself 3 hours and 12 minutes, and listen to this episode to find out if James spent the last 10 years reflecting on colonialism and it's negative impact still affecting indiginous people to this day, or if he said 'nah fuck it, I think more white people in my films will be great'.
Howdy friends! Did you miss us? We missed you! This week we're watching The 355! What's that, you've never heard of it? It seems like no one has, which is why we are watching it tonight! Join us, friend of the pod Jessica Chastain, the most good looking man (Sebastian Stan), and a whole collection of other beautiful babes on this journey to stop a doomsday device (?).
While we may have experienced debilitating motion sickness during early aughties and couldn't play Halo to save our lives, we bought Paramount + so you wouldn't have to! We will be bringing you weekly recaps of every episode of Halo, Season 1. Join us in 2552 with our pal Master Chief for what is sure to be an adventure!
While we may have experienced debilitating motion sickness during early aughties and couldn't play Halo to save our lives, we bought Paramount + so you wouldn't have to! We will be bringing you weekly recaps of every episode of Halo, Season 1. Join us in 2552 with our pal Master Chief for what is sure to be an adventure!
While we may have experienced debilitating motion sickness during early aughties and couldn't play Halo to save our lives, we bought Paramount + so you wouldn't have to! We will be bringing you weekly recaps of every episode of Halo, Season 1. Join us in 2552 with our pal Master Chief for what is sure to be an adventure!
While we may have experienced debilitating motion sickness during early aughties and couldn't play Halo to save our lives, we bought Paramount + so you wouldn't have to! We will be bringing you weekly recaps of every episode of Halo, Season 1. Join us in 2552 with our pal Master Chief for what is sure to be an adventure!
Grab your eggs and fire up Netflix, we watched Netflix's biggest debut movie to date -- Red Notice! Featuring a star studded group of rival art thieves, ancient eggs, nazi gold, and apparently an Interpol officer trying to bring them all down!
Your friends and mine, Claire and Anthony, used their Labor Day weekend watching the Netflix original Sweet Girl. Not to be confused with Sweet Tooth, Sweet Girl takes you on a kick punching adventure about universal health care and a conspiracy that goes ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP!
10 movies, 20 years in the making, a pandemic delaying release, we are F9ally ready to start our engines and embark upon a journey that starts in a mine field and ends in space!! Han is back, Dom has a brother, and there are magnets?! Buckle up my friends, it's going to be a good one!
This week we are watching 2016's instant classic Assassin's Creed, and discovering a lot about ourselves in the process, including a possible budding knife fetish?!?! Your fearless hosts, Claire and Anthony, and DOUBLE MICHEAL FASSBENDERS endeavor on another quest to determine if it's terrible, or if we love it!
It's been a rough week...month...year SO your boys, Claire and Anthony decided to watch a movie that was not terrible and we did love it! This week we shoved $20 in the direction of a VOD player and watch Bob Odenkirk achieve Daddy status in this murder-tastic thrill ride of a film!
In a world where an alien beep bop boops his way to Earth every 6 years to kick some martial artist ass, only one guy names Jake and a sleeveless hoodie can stop them! Join your girls Claire and Anthony on a harrowing adventure in discussion of Jiu Jitsu, plutonium, military regalia and more!
We're back for another rendition of "Why do we keep letting adult men write for teenage girls" we're looking at The New Mutants. Finally released after many trials and tribulations of the past 3 years, this movie is certainly not what anyone expected! Join us as we watch 5 Teens in a jail/hospital/church/pool/farm/school work out what can only be described as a barely describable plot to... stop... evil????
With the ambient glow of the freeway, and the blinding HUD of the Prius, your fearless hosts grabbed some snacks, a cozy blankie, and headed to their nearest Drive Ins to experience Monster Hunter!! Join Claire and Anthony on this little romp through dimensional portals with our girl Milla, a martial arts prankster, and whatever animal has taken up residence on Ron Pearlman's head.
The third and final installment of the prequel trilogy opens with Emo King Ani and Daddy-wan Kenobi attempting to prevent The Republic from falling... with questionable success but wonderful action sequences. As the Jedi Temple falls, and Order 66 is initiated, what will become of our dearest Obi-Ani duo!? Oh yeah...and Padme and some giant vases are there too.
We're back for Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones! Join our newly married hosts as they discuss what they loved and hated about Episode II. How do we feel nearly 20 years after the premiere of the film, well that's for us to know and you to find out (spoiler, we feel incredibly queer but this should be no surprise!)
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the twin suns of Tatooine, Claire and Anthony, ventured to review the Star Wars prequels with fresh eyes. Fresh off a binge of The Clone Wars animated series, your brave hosts dive into the trilogy to determine once and for all; is it Terrible, or do we love it?
Will Professor X ever stop making terrible decisions? Will boring men ever stop being fearful of powerful women Will Michael Fassbender's face be enough to save this film? Lets find out this week on It's Terrible, I love it!
Fast and Furious's terrible cousin is here with reckless abandon! In celebration of Claire and Jason Statham's upcoming birthday, we're watching 2008's Death Race! Police brutality and abuse of power, cool murder cars, Ian McShane's gorgeous hairline... what more can do ask for?
With Avatar: The Last Airbender (the anime) making it's way to Netflix, we decided to revisit a classic...and then give the movie a shot at redemption. Does the film have a Zuko style redemption arc, or does it continue to disappoint-- we will find out on this week's episode of It's Terrible, I Love It!
What 'Scary Movie' is to horror films, 'The 5th Wave' is to teen disaster films...but not on purpose. Two 'A-plots', child soldiers, and 30 year old dudes sleeping with teens; join us for another episode of It's Terrible, I Love It.
Vin Diesel can't be killed, there is a global pandemic on the horizon, and SO much has happened in the few weeks since we watched Bloodshot. I'm not saying I'm mad that this was the last movie I saw in theaters..but...
Today we bring you a special 2 for 1 deal where we review Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey. One so terrible it deserves to be locked up in Arkham, and one so truly, genuinely, wonderful it made Claire cry at least twice! Join us for a discussion on why men shouldn't be allowed to make movies for at least 1 year, why people should trust women, and how to depict trauma in a way that isn't overshadowed by sex appeal!
With the star power of Thor: Ragnarok and none of the charm, this week we are discussing Men in Black: International!
Buckle up my friends, you are in for a horrific ride that keeps getting worse! How? Why? Where? What? WHY?!?! are the questions we are here to answer today! Take an allergy pill, zip into a fuzzy spandex suit, and lets go!
Michael Bay + the undeniable charisma of Ryan Reynolds? What more could you want?! Join us for a chat about fast cars and hot ladies in this week's episode of It's Terrible, I Love It!
Come with us if you want to live! This week, we break down Terminator: Dark Fate and spend entirely too much time talking about every other Terminator movie and how perfect this franchise truly is. Will Dark Fate be a sleeper hit? Only robots from the future know!
This week we're watching Gemini Man! A film in which no less than 3 motorcycles are thrown into people's faces, no less than 7 different modes of transportation are used, and no less than 3 Will Smith's kick their own asses.
We're watching 2019's Gemini Man this week, but first Claire reminisces on a time gone by when a nice man would read her horoscope while mispronouncing all zodiac signs on the 7 am bus to work.
We went to see Joker so you didn't have to! Join Claire and Anthony to discuss why critics think they like this movie, performative activism, why it is infuriating that this will win an Oscar, and probably definitely incorrect information about 8Chan!
This week, we're watching A-X-L and talking crimes against the government, if robots have autonomy, and how motocross is still cool in 2018.
Get ready for the next episode of It's Terrible, I Love It! with this teaser treat! We're watching A-X-L and talking robot crimes. Lets get into it!
We're back for another episode, and this week we are torturing ourselves with The Mummy reboot of 2017. What this movie lacks in Brendan Fraser, is makes up for in...well... tune in to find out!
What is summer without a movie filled with fast cars, leather pants, and slo-mo fight scenes?! We're here to discuss Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw -- the summer movie we have waited our entire lives for. Buckle up, drink your eggs, and get ready for the ride of your life!
Tale as old as time; lord goes off to crusade, becomes BFFs with a prisoner, commits treason, then goes home to overthrow the government! Join Claire and Anthony as they discuss the twoest most unlikelyest friends and their quest for truth, freedom, and COINS!
This week we're talking about one of our favorite movies of the summer so far; Godzilla: King of the Monsters! Will this film recover from the flop of 2014's Godzilla? Will we get a satisfying amount of monster fights? We sat down with two Godzilla experts from The KaijuCast to talk Godzilla: King of the Monsters. We hear about what they like, what we all hated, and where we hope this franchise will go!
There is NOTHING terrible about the John Wick franchise (other than the *spoiler alert* puppy death). For our 10th episode, we wanted to do something special and CELEBRATE a few films that do it all perfectly, John Wick 1, 2, and 3. Join your hosts Anthony and Claire as they discuss their favorite parts of the trilogy including their preferred way of being murdered by Keanu himself.
This week we are joined by our friend Colin as we talk about a 1980's classic, The Golden Child. Is Eddie Murphy the unlikely hero for missing children? Or is he actually a total creep working for the Dark Lord? Let's find out!
This week on the pod, we're watching Max Steel! Not to be confused with Real Steel or Mad Max...will this movie WOW us as the action-packed title suggests? Let's find out!
Have you ever thought, I wish there were more movies based on video games that heavily feature turnips, boomerangs, and Burt Reynold's eyebrows? Well, you are in luck for this weeks episode of It's Terrible, I Love It! Join us on this adventure through In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale!
Anthony and Claire are at a cruising altitude of 36,000 feet for this weeks episode! On a flight to Japan, your fearless hosts watch Skyscraper and discuss it's brilliance, it's shortcomings, and how hot D.T.R.J. is with a silver beard. Disclaimer: there may be hints of a crying baby in the background, we are so sorry...but again... on a flight at 36,000 feet.
Something could go horribly wrong. Something already has! We're talking Replicas on this weeks episode of It's Terrible, I love it.
Does this 90's classic hold up? Or is it less than radical? Our friends Emily and Jordan join us to discuss this 1993 gem of a film, Surf Ninjas.
Let's take a look at Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from 2001. It can't be that bad, right? Our girl Angie's in it!
Is Mortal Engines as terrible as it looks? Let's find out!