We are re-watching films from our childhood to see if they live up! Our childhood was in the 80s-90s, but movie release dates can be outside of that window. In each episode we focus on one movie and will score whether it still lives up to us now that we're adults, and whether it would live up for kids today. It's all very scientific and professional.* *narrator voice* It's actually neither...
Teens confess their trauma because what else do they have to do on a Saturday. We wonder who we relate to now and how much bullying is acceptable to enjoy watching this classic 40 years later!Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and FacebookListen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channelVisit the Live UP podcast blog
We go on a classic 80s quest and try to unsee the Lord of the Rings parallels. Also on the agenda are trauma scenes (you know the one) and Amanda once again needing to explain the appeal of a sexy leading man to the resident lesbian of the podcast. Side note that we recorded this episode prior to Val Kilmer passing away. Rest in peace Madmartigan.Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and FacebookListen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channelVisit the Live UP podcast blog
The most memorable mismatched pair gets put to the nostalgia test and ONE of us was a little pearl clutchy about the premise. We present the case of whether our generation's love for Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger can overcome the cringe partsFollow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and FacebookListen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channelVisit the Live UP podcast blog
The 90s vibe is on point as we Party On through this episode. We remind ourselves of the wonders of cable access television and discuss how much of the humor still lands to our middle-age ears.Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and FacebookListen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channelVisit the Live UP podcast blog
We revisit the OG of neurotic New York romantic comedies and wonder whether ugly wagon wheel coffee tables and fake diner orgasms are still funny. We reference this muppet diner scene parody and oh my it's worth a watch. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
The annual tradition of Amanda making Jess watch unhinged Christmas movies she's never seen continues with another Rankin-Bass classic that makes us wish we were watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer instead. Our Christmas spirit may need a lift after seeing how whiny Santa can get. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
It was the best of Bill Murray, it was the worst of Bill Murray, it was the age of VCRs....nope, wrong Dickens novel. Happy holidays to all the cynics out there. We give to you another class warfare story full of nostalgia for at least one of us. Original script for Scrooged Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Amanda takes a field trip to a recording of legendary news quiz show Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and spills the tea on what the live audience gets to hear! Wait Wait episodes Amanda was present for: Eric Idle talks Elvis impersonations and the bright side of funerals & Their Thanksgiving weekend special episode Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
A generation's first experience with satire sure has a lot of d*ck jokes. We had a classy discussion over much our humor has or has not evolved 30+ years later. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Who DOESN'T want to put a creepy instagram filter on Christmas sometimes? Jess and Amanda see Jack through midlife eyes and perhaps relate a bit too much. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Amanda's middle school English class meets Francis Ford Coppola's interpretation of Bram Stoker's gothic classic. Yes we both have read the book and yes we had some notes for Mr. Coppola. This is our third 'After Dark' selection where we take a look at the movies we absolutely should not have been watching as kids. You know we had to do one of these for Halloween. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
We atone for our Live Up Pod sins in celebration of Yom Kippur. We list the movies we each regret tanking....and are perhaps defiant about the ones that totally deserved the rating we gave. Happy Yom Kippur everyone! Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Don't all tweens have to navigate their own personal labyrinths? We revisit the exquisite world of Jim Henson armed with metaphors and booze to discuss the ultimate 80s movie. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
The movie that birthed a franchise and cawabunga'd into our 90s hearts is also our most requested title. Does our love for human-like turtles and yoda-like rats feel as rad as it did when we were kids? Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
How much nostalgia has to live in our middle-aged hearts to be moved by a boomer with daddy issues listening to the voices in his head? Also, Jess and Amanda have a giant disagreement about what happens to Terrence Mann out in that cornfield. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
We debate whether satire still lands 44 years later and if there is ever a good week to quit your vices. SURELY you will enjoy our takes. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Some phallic puppets go on a bender of human flesh as Jess and Amanda are divided over whether the B-movie vibes are still entertaining. Plus stick around for a very special 12-year old guest who tells us all to wash our mouths out with soap! Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Is this classic Disney road to marriage story still one jump ahead of the breadline? We weigh the memorable creep vibes from Jafar against the GOAT of sidekicks and one of the GOATs of Disney soundtracks. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
While recording our "Major League" episode we revisited our earliest baseball memories and the crushing feeling of a playoff loss. Jess also cackles just a little bit at Amanda's Red Sox trauma (because it's funny). Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Was Major League a series of "pitch perfect" sports montages, or about how acceptable it was to stalk your ex-girlfriend in the 1980s? We go juuuuust a bit outside the acceptable amount of baseball puns as we revisit this classic underdog team. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog
In this mid-stakes vampire movie a hot guy and a couple of Coreys run amok while we all secretly root for Kiefer Sutherland. Amanda also tries really hard to convince Jess why THE LOST BOYS is appealing to the ladies. This is our second 'After Dark' selection where we take a look at the movies we absolutely should not have been watching as kids. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel
Is this still the classic American immigration story or a cartoon in need of a better soundtrack? Unlike Fievel, we hit the high notes of this movie as well as the low. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel
Our adult mindsets are tested as we weigh our nostalgia for low-stakes werewolving against the eye-roll inducing 80s high school tropes. Amanda also dusts off her referee whistle to call some fouls against the sport of basketball while Jess imagines what the characters would be doing these days. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel
We put the most beloved movie archaeologist on a performance improvement plan. Did Indiana get more charming (maybe)? Or did Sean Connery do all our pearl clutching for us (also, maybe)? Also, listen to our earlier review of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Visit the Live Up Pod YouTube channel
We revisit the OG of time loops and debate whether Bill Murray reaches peak Bill Murray humor. And if you genuinely like rhinestones, French poetry and ugly 90s vests this episode may offend you. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Visit the Live Up Pod YouTube channel
We Yippee-Ki-Yay through this classic manly man story and wonder if it's also a secret romantic comedy. We also ask whether our favorite type-cast villain actor is as cool as we remember. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
We discuss our favorite endings (Miss Peacock!) and whether some Tim Curry chaos is enough to put this movie into Live Up territory. Stay listening at the end for a bonus chat about childhood games we shouldn't be playing anymore because old. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Visit the Live Up Pod YouTube channel
The annual tradition of Amanda making Jess watch unhinged Christmas movies she's never seen continues with this low rent Wizard of Oz. We are both amused and puzzled by how life-sized teddy bears and a complicated cookie economy somehow make their way into a Christmas movie. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Will our adult selves still delight in the shenanigans of Kevin McCallister? And just how much do our backs hurt by proxy at the injury count Harry and Marv rack up in this Christmas classic? Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Naughty foxes forget they're British in the quintessential Robin Hood movie of our childhoods. We debate whether Alan Rickman's mastery of villainy and Christian Slater's 90s style teen angst can overcome everyone else's American accent. See also a previous episode of the 1973 Disney classic Robin Hood. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
The movie that made serial killers intriguing for tweens in the 90s. Only now as adults are we picking up on the sneaky plot of a woman making her way in a man's world. The lady themes are subtle and go over a smooth as lotion from a basket. This is our first 'After Dark' selection where we take a look at the movies we absolutely should not have been watching as kids. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Do we really remember the original Ghostbusters from 1984 or have we let pop culture airbrush its cringier edges? Either way, we take you back to a time when a music professor could afford a corner penthouse apartment on Central Park West. Pay no mind to the demon living in the fridge... Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Who invited a pervy demon to our first encounter with death's beaurocracy? We found new things to appreciate about characters not named Beetlejuice and have some notes we're sure the producers of the sequel will take seriously... Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
We debate whether Pee-wee is still funny or is he now a punchable man-child giving us low-level creep vibes. And just how large is Marge inside our childhood nightmares? (hint: very) Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
This is the joyride through Chicago we wanted Ferris Bueller to be. As we rummage through this 1980s time capsule, we wonder whether urban hellscapes still resonate and why no one dared "fool" with the babysitter. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Visit the Live UP podcast blog
We go back to the OG of class warfare stories with Disney's 1973 classic interpretation. Is Robin Hood still a dashing fox who befriends rabbits, or does this movie amount to nothing more than an introduction to the concept of taxes? And don't miss Amanda's most epic fun fact as her closing thought, which certainly makes you look at our hero fox a wee bit differently. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
We debate how much gaslighting can ruin a good love story and whether perfect casting can keep this movie in every 80s kid's heart. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Two hosts enter, one host leaves. Our senses are obliterated as we revisit the dustiest leather-filled hellscape yet. We discuss whether the iconic Thunderdome and Tina Turner's epic role as auntie are thrilling enough to overlook all the nonsense. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Inspired by our viewing of Hook we went further back in time to Disney's Peter Pan from 1953 and discovered a whole lot you don't want your kids repeating on the playground. Also, we still love the Hook - Smee dynamic which may be the best part of this movie. Listen to the Hook episode for a full Live Up assessment of Indiana Jones. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Who knew a middle-aged man's redemption story disguised as a fairytale could be so divisive. Amanda and Jess struggle to find a middle ground save for wanting to grab a beer with Smee in Neverland. We also hear from a millennial listener making the case for Hook's appeal to all generations. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
We find out that an epic road trip with muppets must include 99 cent wine from Idaho and cameos from everyone working in 1970s Hollywood. Get out your movie scripts and follow the mayhem. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
We wrestle with our nostalgia over whether the coolest teenager of the 80s is still cool, and ask how much you need to know about landline phones for this movie to make sense. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
30+ years later, did we find something there that wasn't there before? We weigh Belle's Stockholm syndrome against the masterful soundtrack in our first foray into revisiting the Disney movies from our youth. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
In this bonus episode we try to find bits of charm in our least favorite Indiana Jones movie to date and Amanda must choose which fictional movie son of Harrison Ford is the worst. Also, we still love Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood and pray for her return in the next movie. Listen to the Raiders of the Lost Ark episode for a full Live Up assessment of Indiana Jones. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Is Indiana Jones still an iconic hero (yes), or the worst archaeologist ever (also, yes). In this episode, we debate our tolerance for all the murder and black market antiquity trade in the first installment of the Indiana Jones franchise. Visit the Live UP podcast blog. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
We dive deep into Tim Burton's suburban hellscape in 'Edward Scissorhands' (1990) and ask whether Edward agreeing to live with an Avon Lady is still delightful, epic chaos, or both. Get out your ambrosia salad tongs everyone! Visit the Live UP podcast blog. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
Does 'The Dark Crystal' (1982) still hold a hypnotic yet terrifying power over us 30+ years later or is it just a watered down 'Lord of the Rings'? We tackle this question and share why we think this muppet-less movie about genocide by Jim Henson can still hold a kid's attention. Trigger warning if the mere mention of garthim gives you nightmares. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog.
In this episode we discuss 'Coming To America' (1988) and realize we were all happily watching a rated R movie as 10-year olds and are better for it. Find out whether our collective early 90s Eddie Murphy phase has enough staying power to make 'Coming To America' live UP. Stay tuned at the end for a special guest appearance by co-host Jess Latterman's brother, who retroactively clutches his pearls over the R rating. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
Who can behave worse than the Addams family at a kid recital? In this bonus episode host Amanda Treat shares when she had a clown funeral crack up moment at her sister's band concert. It happens to the best behaved of us even without Wednesday and Pugsley shenanigans to make it weird. Listen to The Addams Family episode for a full Live Up assessment Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
In this episode we discuss 'The Addams Family' (1991) and ask whether host Amanda Treat is a real life Wednesday Adams, and whether the movie experience boils down to basking in the essence of Anjelica Huston as Morticia. Listen in to our very professional re-review* to find out whether the cast's powerhouse performances are enough to make 'The Addams Family' live UP. *not professional at all. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog
The most bulletproof theory of all-time on why Santa had to be real came from the mind of host Amanda Treat when she was six years old. Perhaps the reason why she loved 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' movie so much. Listen to the 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' episode to see if it Lived UP! Visit the Live UP podcast blog
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