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Fuhgeddaboudit! The siblings go deep cover to talk DONNIE BRASCO, where Pacino's saddest-mob-guy-ever is totally not blind (shoutout SCENT OF A WOMAN). It's about loyalty, identity, and why cops can't actually become wise guys. Contains spoilers.  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings are finally talking MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FINAL RECKONING. Ethan Hunt is back (again), the stakes are higher (again), and yes—Tom Cruise still does his own stunts. Let's dive (get it?) into rogue AI, loyalty, and the fate of the IMF. Everything but frickin' Ilsa Fuast. Contains spoilers. This blurb will self-destruct unless you contact 818-835-0473 or orwhatevermovies@gmail.com. Thanks for listening, disavowed agents! www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab your notebooks and get ready to obsess over ciphers, suspects, and one terrifying phone call—this week, we're diving deep into David Fincher's chilling masterpiece: ZODIAC. Journalism, obsession, and Jake Gyllenhaal's puppy dog eyes. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening, amateur sleuths! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready for a Colombian cartel-grade wet willie in this week's discussion of Denis Villenuev's masterpiece, SICARIO. No worm riding, just bleak revenge. Contains spoilers! Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paddle up and join us for a wild ride down the Cahulawassee river as the sibs talk hairy nude photos, dueling banjos, and leg guts in this week's episode on DELIVERANCE. Contains spoilers! Thanks for listening! Drew was shot! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Saddle up and join us for a wild ride through Hill Valley, 1885, as the siblings break down the final chapter of the BTTF trilogy with BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III! To all the fans, happy 35 years! To all the Clara haters, come at us bro. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening, time travelers! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does this movie have in common with SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER? Want to know the best robot burns? Grab your shrimp toast and cavi-R and listen to this week's discussion on SHORT CIRCUIT! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does it mean? The siblings discuss this and more in their listener-requested discussion of Kafka's Orson Welles's THE TRIAL, also known as the pine cone jam of classic Cinema. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you know whose jugs are bigger than their neck? Who is a dancing machine and dancing to win? What it means to be a defective typewriter? These answers and more in this week's discussion on the classic, Wesley's #2 musical, GREASE. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you get THE chills when you think about MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS? Wes and Iris do because these characters speak the truth. Revisit the FOREST GUMP of music movies in this week's discussion, the culmination of TEACHER MONTH at OR WHATEVER MOVIES! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Joe Clark from LEAN ON ME Mr. Miyagi, Rocky, and Anton Chigurh all rolled into one? Relive Wesley's second favorite Morgan Freeman-goes-to-prison movie in this, the penultimate discussion of TEACHER MONTH. Because we all need someone to lean on, or whatever. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the height of Kids Are Idiots Month–also known as Teacher Month–here at OR WHATEVER MOVIES with DEAD POET'S SOCIETY, a movie, not about desk sets, but throwing desk sets and letting desk sets find their intended purposes. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the movie WHIPLASH your tempo? Do you hate JK Simmons because of Fletcher? Do you love musical iterative torture? It doesn't matter because you are going to listen to this second episode of TEACHER MONTH if you want to stay in Shaffer core. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings kick off TEACHER MONTH at OR WHATEVER MOVIES with a Danish flick that will shake you up, THE HUNT.  Who threw the rock through the window? Killed the dog? Took a shot? These questions and more in this week's discussion and www.orwhatevermovies.com! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out this week's discussion about a movie that–though not gorey, still–yucked Iris's yum, HERETIC.  In the gap between award's season and this OWM Teacher month, the sibling's discuss this PowerPoint from Hell. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the siblings close out awards season at OR WHATEVER MOVIES with a little low-budget, Academy Award-winning talkie where a lot is happening – A REAL PAIN, the only movie that Wesley watched twice. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether you have fond/fuzzy feelings about THE SUBSTANCE or you are put off by the gallons of deformed horror-butt, can we agree that THE SUBSTANCE is a movie that heck'n goes balls out? Check out the siblings' discussion on the Academy Award-nominated best film in this last awards-season episode at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is I'M STILL HERE a quiet and powerful or boring movie? It depends on if you're reading between the lines in this Academy Award-nominated Best Picture. Check out this week's discussion here and at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out this week's discussion on Academy Award-nominated Best Picture NICKEL BOYS also known as “Nickel Boys based on the novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, Which Forces Us to Examine Art in Moviemaking.” Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the siblings talk a serious, atypical Pope Movie, CONCLAVE, including finding the Super Pope and naming the cardinal hat. Check out the Academy Award-nominated best picture and then listen to their discussion here or on orwhatevermovies@gmail.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It may be a European thing, but Academy Award-nominated best picture THE BRUTALIST, directed by Brady “Jim Bob Jenkins” Corbet, is about Jewish Hungarians in America. Is Laszlo Toth a real guy? Or is this Lydia Tár all over again? Listen and find out. Contains spoilers. Thank you!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen as the siblings discuss the movie where a merry band of adventurers go on a quest to destroy a ring. No, not Fellowship of the Ring; it's ANORA! The screamy, low-budget Academy Awards dark horse that asks you to think twicely about Mikey Madison. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the Vaginoplastia song supposed to be funny? Is the story all in Zoe Saldaña's head? Does the Terminator weigh 800 pounds? Find out in this week's important discussion of EMILIA PÉREZ here and at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you turned NOSFERATU into a drinking game and then took a shot every time Willem Dafoe said, ‘cock crow,' you'd be so drunk. But in all seriousness, since this is supposed to be a serious horror movie, if you want to hear about how people bone each other to death, listen to the siblings' discussion here or at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This movie defies gravity. It is, as we know by now, very pop-you-hoo-ler. So, get on board the train to the Emerald City and check out the siblings' discussion of WICKED PART 1 here and 300+ more episodes at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Dylan is enough, folks. But if you want more, check out what the siblings have to say about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, including the second coming of Timothee Chalamet, Emmy-nominated Edward Norton, Long-Looks Elle, and a scene-stealing Boyd Holbrook at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get on up because it's BEAT STREET time at OR WHATEVER MOVIES. Ramon's and the Christmas spirit lives on at orwhatevermovies.com with this week's discussion on this 1984 dance-forward classic. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you watch MOANA 2 with below sea-level expectations and come “aue aue” not only surprised but pleased? Want to know what it means to be “conch-blocked”? These and more puns in this week's discussion at orwhatevermovies.com. Come-on-a-be Moanabes! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to the discussion that broke Iris's rating system. It's on Jason Reitman's highly anticipated SATURDAY NIGHT, a story based on the debut of Saturday Night Live and, possibly, Wesley's conception. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come aboard the S.S. Clint Eastwood for the siblings's discussion of JUROR #2 and Nicolas Hoult tour of the American justice system. Find out how Eastwood's next swan song is just a journey down the Rivers of Adventure at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Thanksgiving, the siblings are serving up GLADIATOR II with a side of white thigh meat. Find out how the emperors get a new groove, Paul Mescal gets Johnny Knoxvilled, and Eddie Munson gets gacked at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings are surfacing a Disney classic before diving into awards season with THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE! David Spade, Fluffy, Tom Jones–hello–and Sting. Find out if there's whole Island of Doctor Moreau-thing happening here or at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You knew that Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams went to the same college. But did you know that Wesley from Or Whatever Movies and Christopher Reeve did too? No? Check out the siblings' discussion on SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY for more inappropriate jokes and some heartfelt musings here or at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Looking for a Halloween season palette cleanser? The siblings are serving up their discussion on Apple Original Film FLY ME TO THE MOON. This rom com with a space backdrop is produced by the lovely Scarlett Johansson and stars Channing Tatum, who sports a most distasteful look. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's OR WHATEVER MOVIES's semi-annual group episode and our third witchy movie, PRACTICAL MAGIC. Join Wes, Iris, Kelly Rae, The Sneak, and Becca for a convivial time, including midnight margaritas and near death experiences. For more Halloween 2024 go to orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.comPRACTICAL MAGIC | Or Whatever Movies | 256 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Longlegs' Dale Ferdinand Kobble the most Nic Cage or is he unrecognizable? Is agent Lee Harker under Longleg's spell or isn't she? Is this a hokey, supernatural doll movie or is it something more? All these questions answered and more in this week's discussion of Osgood Perkin's LONGLEGS, part of Halloween 2024 at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every Halloween someone you know dresses up as THE CROW. Check out this week's episode for everything you need, including black electrical tape, emo guitar solos, and double-dying. Happy 30th Anniversary THE CROW! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's episode puts the horrible in horror with THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. The siblings discuss corpse art, wrench toast, and going ham in this, the biggest bummer in Texas history. Happy 50th Anniversary THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings kick off Halloween Month at Or Whatever Movies with the cult classic SHAUN OF THE DEAD, including a discussion of horrible stinks, the Bilbo cameo, and a happy ending for Di. Happy 20th Anniversary SHAUN OF THE DEAD! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris records from the Great Beyond in this week's episode of BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, where the siblings discuss Jenna Ortega's old soul, Justin Theroux' man-bun, and Tim Burton's freak flag. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ALIEN: ROMULUS | Or Whatever Movies | 250 In the Disneyfication ALIEN: ROMULUS, director Fede Alvarez sprinkles (pixie) dust all over this movie. Find out how Wesley is like an avocado in this week's Spooge Gauntlet and at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you get Paul Walter Hauser, Alfred Molina, and Ving Rhames to act in THE INSTIGATORS? Or how do you get Doug Liman to direct it? Run into them at the coffee shop or have your elder Hollywood statesman call in a favor. At least that's the theory in this week's episode on THE INSTIGATORS. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is PRETTY WOMAN a dangerous Hollywood fairytale? Or is it a romcom classic that corners like it's on rails? What is a Reverse Titanic? (Hint: it's not a kinky sex position.) Find out the answers to these questions and so much more in this week's discussion of movie favorite PRETTY WOMAN. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You got to give it to Kathy's boyfriend in Jeff Nichol's THE BIKERIDERS. He's the most soundly logical character, right? Or is it better to chop a bike, ride free, become a legend, and define an era? Find out more at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a Philosophical Favorite this week with the post-modern western HELL OR HIGH WATER, including big cutie Chris Pine, blurred lines, and Robbing Your Own Hood. Find out more at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings round out Philosophical Summer at OR WHATEVER MOVIES with Disney's YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA. In true Jerry Bruckheimer fashion, it features at least 55% naked male butt and salacious bikini-clad Daisy Ridley. Find out here and at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes gets philosophical about the most scientifically inaccurate movie ever made–summer favorite and disaster movie in one– ARMAGEDDON. What do the siblings define as cinematic success? Does ARMAGEDDON succeed? Find out here and at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The TWISTERS are the stars of this week's discussion of Lee Isaac Chung's summer blockbuster. Are natural disasters cool again? Is Daisy Edgar fully baked for the big time? Do you have Glen Powell fatigue? Find out here and at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to the siblings kibitz about how Jewish humor works in their 20-percent-brainer discussion on Albert Brooks's masterpiece DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, an official fan request of Sean Fenton and entry in Favorites Summer. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the deal with all the odd vehicle car chases? What happened to Eddie Murphy's laugh? Why can't the police stop plowing into each other? Find out how much BEVERLY HILLS COP-goodness comes through in AXEL F in this week's episode and orwhatevermovies@gmail.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is this Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn-starrer really just a testament to the talent of director Michael Sarnofski and creator John Krasinski? Grab a slice of pizza and a very special cat and listen to our discussion on A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, a worthy interruption of Favorites Summer at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices