You Made Me Watch

What other podcast could have episodes on Streets of Fire and My Neighbor Totoro?My Neighbor Totoro is the hit animated fairytale that almost didn't get made. It was a risky venture for Studio Gibli, but arguably it's the movie that made them an international powerhouse animation studio. Animation nerds love this movie. References to it have shown up in the Toy Story franchise and even Bob's Burgers. Will Allyson like My Neighbor Totoro as much as just about everyone else on the face of the planet?Of course she will! It's a movie about giant cat trolls!Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike thought Allyson was making him watch the Richard Linklater film Slacker, but instead they watch the college caper romantic comedy Slackers starring Devon Sawa. This is a who's who of actors who would go on to be comedy powerhouses from people like Rhetta to the Oscar winning duo of Nat Faxon and Jim Rasch. Let us know what you thought of Slackers.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Both Mike and Allyson's dad recommended Allyson watch the Terry Gilliam masterpiece The Fisher King. It stars Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, but the supporting cast is also truly amazing. Let us know what you thought of The Fisher King.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson womansplains "hiphop" to Mike while making him watch the interracial dance drama Save the Last Dance.Before she was teaming up with Jason Bourne, Julia Stiles was cutting rugs with Sean Patrick Thomas. Kerry Washington makes her big screen debut in 2001's Save the Last Dance. It's The Cutting Edge minus the ice. It's ballet plus hiphop. It's 90 minutes. Let us know what you thought of Save the Last Dance.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson....come out to watch Warriorrrs!Allyson! Come out to watch Warrrriors!ALLYSON! Come out to watch Warriors!Mike makes Allyson watch the Walter Hill cult classic The Warriors! This was a brutal look at the gangs of New York, but isn't to be confused with the Gangs of New York, which was also a brutal look at the gangs of New York, but in a different century. Right before bodegas, luxury lofts and hipster coffee houses took over the mean streets of New York there were the Grammercy Riffs, the Baseball Furies and of course the Warriors!Join our Facebook group and let us know what you thought of The Warriors!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson made Mike watch the 2001 mystery thriller Frailty starring Matthew McConaughey and the late great Bill Paxton. Writer Brent Hanley crafted a really sharp story that jumps back and forth decades. There's murder...lots of murder...or destroying demons, depending on how you look at it. Will Mike enjoy this nearly as much as his spooky wife does? Listen and find out!Join our Facebook group and let us know what you thought of Frailty.https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike and Allyson are back!After a long hiatus, the Bobbitts return to making each other watch a movie the other has never seen before. This week Mike makes Allyson watch Promising Young Woman.Before Saltburn, there was Promising Young Woman. Emerald Fennell's 2020 movie dissects the so-called "nice guy". It's one-part thriller, one-part revenge porn, and one-part romantic comedy. Those three parts make up one hell of a movie. It stars Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham, and features more knockout performances from people like Sam Richardson, Laverne Cox, Jennifer Coolidge and Alison Brie. This movie was horribly underrated, but hopefully the success of Saltburn means people will go back and check out this pretty phenomenal picture.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Let's be honest. Allyson isn't exactly on a winning streak when it comes to picking movies to make Mike watch. Will this one be any different?Where The Heart is got lost in the Star Wars hoopla even though it stars Queen Amidala herself Natalie Portman. It's the dramatic tale of a young pregnant lady abandoned at a Wal-Mart by the baby's father. Stuck in the middle of Oklahoma she's challenged with building a life for herself and her child.A character piece set in America's heartland? This definitely seems like a surefire hit for Mike's taste. Oh! Stockard Channing and Keith David are in it too? It's going to be hard for this one to fail.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

It's Allyson's turn once again to pick the movie our dynamically betrothed duo will watch for the podcast. What on Earth will Mike think of the Natalie Portman starring independent slice of life comedy/drama Where The Heart Is? Well, one thing's for sure, even if he doesn't like it, he'd never abandon Allyson at a Wal-Mart.Allyson recommends the absolutely wonderful Canadian sketch comedy series Baroness Von Sketch Show.Mike recommends the surreal 60s Burt Lancaster starring fever dream of a movie about life or the American dream or maybe it's about machismo...who knows? It's called The Swimmer.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike makes Allyson watch the 1991 afterlife romantic comedy Defending Your Life. When Mike was a teenager, he found this to be a profoundly moving piece of cinema. Now that he's closer to the icy cold hand of the grim reaper readying his scythe to usher Mike to the other side, will this still be as gripping as it once was? What will Allyson think of this existential film that largely flew under the radar?Defending Your Life was written, directed and acted by Albert Brooks. It costars Meryl Streep, Rip Torn and Lee Grant. There's so much trivia about this, Mike doesn't even have time to mention that silent film star Maxine Elliott Hicks in a small role. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Death obsessed Mike has a rom-com about the afterlife for Allyson. Next week they're going to watch the critically acclaimed box office disappointment Defending Your Life.Allyson recommends the Jason Segel Apple TV + dramedy Shrinking.Mike recommends the weiner free video game reboot Saints Row.Then the show devolves into nipple talk and talking nipples!Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

1999 was a peculiar time for movies. It was a time when movies didn't exist solely because they were based on an existing IP. They existed because two bankable stars both had time in their schedule. How does the union of Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts hold up 24 years later when neither of them are still the box office darlings they once were? Can the great Richard Curtis write something tender that also happens to be a by the numbers rom-com surefire hit? Will Mike fall in love with Notting Hill like Allyson did at the impressionable age of 17?Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

It's Allyson's turn to pick a movie for the podcast. This week she plucks something from the Richard Curtis filmography knowing how much Mike loves Love, Actually and About Time. This time it's Notting Hill.Mike recommends the television series Our Flag Means Death and Allyson recommends Abbott Elementary. Yes. We have small children and are sleep deprived and outside of watching movies for the podcast, these days we have 30 minutes of television watching in us each night. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Our friends Meg and Gordon Widener...you know Gordon, we only mention how a young Oliver Platt looks like him literally every time we end up watching a movie featuring a young Oliver Platt...anyway...Meg and Gordon stop by and we make Allyson watch the Matthrew Lillard masterpiece Hackers!It's not necessarily a masterpiece, and Matthew Lillard is probably only fourth or fifth on the call sheet behind Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, and Fisher Stevens.Meg recommends Zetus Lepetus: A Mammoth Club Original Podcast.Gordon recommends the video game Like a Dragon: Ishin.Mike recommends the horror movie Men.Allyson recommends the Netflix docuseries Waco: American Apocalypse.Toddlers make noise in the background. 66 minutes of recording gets edited down to 39 minutes...which in all fairness was partially toddler noises and mostly Mike going on and on about how obsessed he is with the Alex Garland Movie "Men".Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Director Mike Nichols was part of the groundbreaking comedy duo Nichols & May alongside comedy legend Elaine May. Does that mean this 80s film championed as a feminist classic is in the right hands? Will Mike Nichols be the great white male hope in a movie ultimately about great white male hopes? Nah?Working Girl stars Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack and lots and lots of hairspray and shoulder pads.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Maybe there's a tower, somewhere up aboveFilled with shoulder pads and loveWhere dreams can fly hardBut until we can live in that imaginary worldWe'll work hard or die trying, girlMike is about to subject Allyson to not just Melanie Griffith's biggest hit of the 80s, but her only hit ever! It's Working Girl, directed by the comedy legend Mike Nichols. Will this empowering tale stand the test of time? Tune in next week and find out!Allyson recommends the Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal on Netflix.Mike recommends the NPR podcast Life Kit.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

The Robin Williams classic Mrs. Doubtfire is deservingly well loved, yet somehow Mike managed to miss it completely. How hard is he going to kick himself for taking so long to watch one of the best films in the Williams' library and maybe one of the best films of the 1990s? It's no Pixels, but it may be the most important film Chris Columbus ever directed. Although, how cool would it be to find out that Pixels is also a mature essay on divorce disguised as a family film just like Mrs. Doubtfire is?Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Once again Allyson finds another beloved classic that Mike has somehow missed and/or avoided. She's going to make him watch the critically acclaimed Robin Williams film Mrs. Doubtfire.Will he love it as much as the rest of the world or will it be one of those situations where if you didn't experience it first run, you probably won't have a sweet spot in your heart for it. Tune in next week to find out!Mike recommends the surreal satire Sorry To Bother You.Allyson recommends the docuseries Trainwreck: Woodstock 99.If you have a movie you'd like us to watch, let us know!Join our Facebook group!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson is a giant animation nerd, so Mike is pretty sure she's going to enjoy this John DiMaggio produced documentary about off camera actors titled I Know That Voice.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike recommends the John DiMaggio documentary I Know That Voice, which provides an insider look at the world of voice actors.Allyson recommends the Netflix docuseries Flint Town about the hardships the city of Flint, Michigan endures.The Mike doubles up on his extracurricular recommendations by recommending the website and app Letterboxd through talking about their friend Johnny Mocny's excellent podcast We Are Movies. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Coinciding with the Oscars, Mike and Allyson go through the movies they were made to watch in the past year and pass out their own awards!Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Premiering in 2012, the same year as the HBO series Girls, it was difficult to not draw comparisons with Noah Baumbach's film Frances Ha. Heck, 11 years later it's still easy to connect the two. Both are about the post college lives of a female New Yorker trying to figure out her place in the world and in the lives of her kith and kin. It's easy to dismiss Frances Ha, particularly if you found Lena Dunham's character Hannah on Girls to be a bit grating. But I urge you to put your prejudices aside and give Frances Ha a chance. Greta Gerwig, who has since gone on to write and direct stunning films on her own, collaborated with Baumbach to create a flawed character, but one who is easy to root for. Frances is the antithesis of Hannah. She has an unstoppable forward momentum which ends up making for a really inspiring film. Shit, I'm a 50-year-old Midwesterner and this twenty something heroine inspired me to kick my forward momentum into a higher gear. If you want to let us know what you thought about Frances Ha, or you have a movie you think we should watch, let us know.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

For next week, Allyson recommends The Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig collaboration Frances Ha. It's a movie that's been in Mike's Netflix queue for sometime, so hopefully he'll enjoy it as much as Allyson does.Mike recommends the short lived Netflix series Brews Brothers.Allyson recommends the limited docuseries on Netflix called Worst Roommate Ever. It's true crime...of course!Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Inspired by the dirty St. Bernard scene in Beethoven, Mike makes Allyson watch the Stephen King adaptation of Cujo starring Dee Wallace Stone and a very young Danny Pintauro.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Hot off the heels of the stinking pile of dog poop that was Beethoven, Mike recommends a less upsetting movie about a St. Bernard. Next week Mike and Allyson are going to watch the 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's Cujo!Allyson recommends Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Mike recommends the 2016 film Other People, which should have gotten Molly Shannon and Oscar Nomination!Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson tests the bounds of her marriage to Mike by forcing him to watch Beethoven, a surprisingly dark kids movie.Can the always wonderful Bonnie Hunt be enough to save this movie from going to the back of the kennel and being put down?Is this the put upon dad role Charles Grodin was always meant to play?Is John Hughes a weirdo hack writer who just happened to get lucky a couple of times?Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson picks the next movie she's going to make Mike watch. It's the 1992 John Hughes scripted Beethoven.Mike recommends comedian Dave Ross' album "The Only Man Who Has Ever Had Sex". Allyson recommends The Unsolved Mysteries podcast.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Weird Science ties together so many movies that Mike and Allyson have watched on the podcast. Will it stand the test of time? Will it shine new light on the life of John Hughes? Will Allyson be offended?Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike is about to subject Allyson to a 1980's "classic" that may or may not stand the test of time. Next week they're going to watch Weird Science!Allyson recommends Taylor Tomlinson's new Netflix comedy special "Look at You".Mike recommends Neal Brennan's new Netflix comedy special "Blocks".Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

It's crazy to think that as recently as 2005 it was still considered a gamble to let Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris lead a movie, but New Line did that and struck gold! This helped launch both actors on their paths towards super stardom. Sure, the fat jokes won't land well with today's ultra sensitive audiences, but the concept of someone being stuck in the friendzone is so universal that this movie is a very funny comedic gem.Amy Smart is also really solid in this, as she is in everything. It's a shame she didn't get the career that Reynolds and Faris have gotten. Maybe it was her knack of bouncing back and forth between comedy and grit, but in my opinion that just goes to show what an incredibly talented artist she is.Chris Klein plays with his American Pie aw shucks expectations to create a really fun villain. And my MVP has to be Chris Marquette as the sex starved little brother from hell!Join our Facebook group and let us know what you thought of Just Friends, or tell us your woeful tale of being stuck in the friend zone.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Who doesn't love Ryan Reynolds? His first starring role was 2002's Van Wilder, a couple years later he has a scene stealing part in BladeTrinity, which arguably saves the movie. The following year he returns to romantic comedies and lead roles with Just Friends. Will this fat suit farce prove to be problematic? Did Ryan Reynolds' timing allow him to dodge the bullet of cancellation? Or will Just Friends end up being a cute and timeless holiday classic? Mike recommends the Movie Wars podcast, which you can find here - The Movie Wars Podcast | Movie vs. Movie | Movie Podcast.Allyson recommends the band The Decemberists, which you can find here.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Dennis stops by Christmas day to talk Finland's greatest Christmas horror export, the movie Rare Exports. Dennis is a huge horror fan. Will he be as delighted by this movie as Mike and Allyson? YULE has to listen to find out.Also, the three of us go on many, many tangents. In order to keep up you'll have to immerse yourself in the Attitude era of WWE wrestling history, the Canadian comedy export Letterkenny, as well as Mike's TRUTHCAST podcast.

In 1987 Shane Black changed the face of cinema by making action movies more than just testosterone fueled set pieces to showcase muscles and pyrotechnics. His screenplay debut Lethal Weapon blended humor, complicated characters with...well...muscles and pyrotechnics. Nine years later he got a chance to not only write Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, starring Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr, but to direct it as well. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang not only includes all the elements that makes a Shane Black film great, but it's also a biting commentary on Hollywood, the system that made Shane Black who he is.Mike is a well-documented lover of everything punk, and in his eyes, there are few writers out there as punk rock as Shane Black! Will Allyson enjoy this dip into Shane Black's filmography as much as Mike? She grew up on the Lethal Weapon franchise and really enjoyed a screening they did of his 2016 unlikely action paring The Nice Guys.Join our Facebook group to let us know what you think of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

We're officially in the Christmas season as I type this. We're well into the Christmas season as this releases though!Strangely, Die Hard is often debated as to whether it's a Christmas movie or not. The Christmasness of Die Hard always felt wedged in to me. In my mind, Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang clearly is a Christmas movie. More than that. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a Christmas Classic!Mike is eager to share this Robert Downey Jr./Val Kilmer action mystery buddy picture with Allyson, and optimistically thinks she'll love it as much as he does.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Jodie Foster considers this the second in an extremely personal trilogy of films she directed. Little Man Tate and The Beaver round out that trilogy. The always excellent Holly Hunt goes home to spend Thanksgiving with her very dysfunctional family. Robert Downey Jr. is insanely wonderful and wonderfully insane as her black sheep brother. Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning play the parents doing everything in their power to keep the family together and the holiday tradition alive. Cynthia Stevenson completes the family as the tightly wound oldest sister. The entire cast is extraordinary and the writing and directing is so sharp. It's like a Thanksgiving David Mamet cinematic feast!If you saw this underrated gem and enjoyed it too, let us know. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

We're a little late for Thanksgiving, but Allyson recommends what has a chance of becoming a Thanksgiving classic in the Bobbitt household. It's Jodie Foster's Sophomore directorial film, Home for the Holidays.Mike recommends comedian Nick Leydorf's album "Free Consultation". Follow Nick here!Allyson recommends Allie Brosh's book Hyperbole and a Half. Follow Allie online here!Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

1985 is the summer that kicked off the box office rivalry between action powerhouses Slyvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone had Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Arnold had the fun version of that movie, Commando!Commando costars Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, David Patrick Kelly, Bill Duke, and a very odd Dan Hedaya accent. This was a movie Mike loved to the point that a grease painted Arnold poster for this movie on his bedroom wall. To be fair, he also had an oily Stallone for First Blood Part 2 and a matchstick chomping Stallone Cobra on his walls too.Will Allyson embrace the cheesy 80s over the top action as much as Mike did?What do you think of Commando? Join our Facebook group and let us know!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

This episode drops like David Patrick Kelly the day before Allyson's birthday!Mike abducts Allyson from LAX and takes her to the Sherman Oaks Galleria to prepare her for a 1980s action classic. Next week, they're watching Commando!Allyson recommends Derry Girls on Netflix...while Mike does a terrible Irish accent.Mike recommends good cries while listening to the Heavyweight podcast.Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson makes Mike watch the 1999 Kevin Bacon thriller Stir of Echoes. It's a creative ghost story based on the 1958 Richard Matheson novel of the same name. Unfortunately, the timing of this big screen adaptation likely got lost in the shadow of the hugely popular M Night Shyamalan hit The Sixth Sense. Still, Stir of Echoes has some great qualities, namely the outstanding supporting cast that includes the always wonderful Illeana Douglas and Kevin Dunn.If there's a thriller that you really enjoyed and think we might to, join our Facebook group and let us know!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson recommends a Kevin Bacon movie to watch next week that Mike knows absolutely nothing about. Join us to watch Stir of Echoes.Allyson recommends the Michelle McNamara true crime book I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Find out more about the late McNamara's incredible career here: True Crime DiaryMike recommends the UK hardcore punk duo Bob Vylan. Their music is available online, but check out their bandcamp page: Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life | Bob Vylan (bandcamp.com)Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatchFollow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next.Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtonsTheme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike and Allyson asked their friend Dennis Burdziak for something "fucked up" to watch for their Halloween episode. Dennis delivered with an absolutely trippy mindfuck of a heavy metal descent into madness starring Nicolas Cage. Mandy was written and directed by Panos Cosmatos. It not only serves as a bizarre love letter to all things dark and metal, but also the over-the-top action movies his father George Cosmatos directed like Stallone classics Cobra and First Blood Part 2. It would have been really cool if Cosmatos also directed Stallone in Over the Top.

Mike made a terrible mistake. This week he and Allyson watch the big screen adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, when in reality it was the Pirate Movie Mike meant for them to watch. Uh-oh! When life gives you lemons, make a murder podcast. Mike tries to salvage the episode by taking a deep dive into the complicated life and death of Penzance's Modern Major General George Rose. George Rose was a Broadway legend, but his murder in the Dominican Republic leaves him literally lost to history in an unmarked grave. At the center of the eccentric thespian's death is his 18-year-old adopted "son". Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Sharon Bobbitt joins Mike and Allyson for this special Halloween bonus episode of You Made Me Watch. Sharon, who I'll refer to as "my mom" here on out, read the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot when it first came out in the late 70s. She was disappointed by the made for television two-part event that premiered on CBS in 1979, but was eager to revisit it to see how it holds up. Mike has very vague recollections of it being terrifying, but he may be confusing those memories with the story his mom tells of reading the novel late at night while the kids were asleep, and Mike's dad was out of town. A storm crashed outside, and the electricity went out leaving my mom in the dark! If there's one take away from this, it's that David Soul is no Harrison Ford, but then again Han Solo and Chewbacca are no Starsky and Hutch!

Allyson and Mike are hopefully (and foolishly) optimistic about Mike's pick for a movie next week, the adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. Mike drinks Allyson's murder podcast Kool-Aid and recommends a Dateline podcast called https://www.nbcnews.com/killerrole (Killer Role). Allyson breaks her norm and recommends the amazingly hilarious comedy podcast https://www.planetant.com/homerphilia-1 (Homerphilia — Planet Ant). Mike and Allyson also highly endorse https://www.planetant.com/ (Planet Ant) Theater and actor/model human Quintin Hicks! Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson grew up on Steven Spielberg's sequel to Peter Pan and she absolutely adores it. Mike was already a cranky old man at 19 years old in 1991 when this was released, and he skipped it completely. It's another Robin Williams entry in the You Made Me Watch archives. Will Mike like this as much as Allyson and so many other people in their 30s, or will he side with Spielberg himself and give this one a hard pass? Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) to let us know what you thought of Hook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

It was once explained to me that what makes Tiger Woods such a good golfer isn't the fact that he's the best, but the fact that he's very consistent. That can be said for Steven Spielberg too. I can't think of any movie he's made that's bad. All of them are somewhere between great and really good. 1941 was a flop at the box office, but it's really no worse than any of the other cocaine fueled John Belushi movies of that era. It's a fine spoof. Hook is a movie Spielberg kicked around for about a decade before taking a stab at it. He isn't super proud of the results, but it's a movie that has touched Allyson as well as many, many people her age. Allyson, with great hesitation, recommends the https://www.swordandscale.com/ (Sword and Scale) podcast. Mike, true to form, recommends the all-female cast recording of https://www.she-is-risen.net/ (Jesus Christ Superstar). Then Allyson comes back and highly and confidently recommends http://www.bridgeteverett.net/ (Bridget Everett)'s HBO series Somebody Somewhere. Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Mike had a pretty good hunch Allyson was going to love this movie about a woman who just gets fed up with people being assholes all the time. I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is Jeremy Saulnier's main collaborator and best friend Macon Blair's dark comedy starring the always amazing Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood. Both are phenomenal and we can't wait to see them together in the next season of Yellowjackets on Showtime. Macon Blair put together a great cast including a completely unrecognizable Jane Levy for this one, and he must be doing something right because just about everyone in this is reteaming with him next year for his take on the Troma classic The Toxic Avenger. We simply cannot recommend this movie nearly enough! Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

I'm keeping the name of the next movie out of the title of the episodes going forward so you can find out the same time one of us does, which movie we're watching next week. Next week Mike makes Allyson watch writer/director/actor Macon Blair's 2017 Netflix original about a woman who just wants people to stop being assholes. Blair has said his film I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is the perfect companion piece to the Michael Douglas film Falling Down. Mike recommends a little-known television show called Better Call Saul. Perhaps you heard of it? It's a sequel/prequel to another cult classic called Breaking Bad. Allyson recommends a show that actually needs some attention, it's the true crime podcast https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/ (The Fall Line). It covers murders that have gotten little to no media attention because apparently attractive white women aren't the only people going around getting murdered these days. Please watch I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore and join us on our Facebook group for more conversation! Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Rob Reiner had a pet project that he waited almost a decade to have enough pull in Hollywood that he could get this made. He wanted to adapt his friend Alan Zwiebel's novel North, about an exceptional kid in search of new parents, into a major motion picture. In spite of its pretty stellar cast including Elijah Wood, Jon Lovitz and Bruce Willis, the movie flopped hard. Will Mike agree with both Siskel and Ebert that North is the worst movie of 1994, or will he side with Allyson and feel that North is a pretty charming and magical kid movie that the critics got wrong? Let us know what you thought of North or let us know which universally panned movie you stand behind. Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Next week Allyson makes Mike watch the notorious Rob Reiner flop North. Mike knows very little about this other than the fact that Elijah Woods stars and the ad campaign featured his character walking on a giant globe. Will Mike agree with all the critics that this was a huge disappointment, or will he find this surprisingly charming? Mike recommends people, especially those in America who may only know the song "Tubthumper" to check out Chumbawamba's back catalog. The album WYSIWYG is a great starting point in his opinion. Allsyon, to the surprise of absolutely no one, recommends the true crime podcast The Thing About Pam. It unwraps the multiple murders committed by the monstrous Pam Hupp. Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim

Allyson was made to watch the 1987 sci-fi action rom-com Cherry 2000. Will she have the same love/hate relationship with it that star Melanie Griffith has or will she want to ask Mike for a Pepsi while stranding him in the desert? Mike sings the praises of Tim Thomerson, an even better "every man" action hero than Bruce Willis! Steve De Jarnatt, who wrote the cult comedy classic Strange Brew, directed this. Will he bring enough self-aware silliness to make this one a worth rewatch? If you saw Cherry 2000, let us know what you thought! Join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch (Facebook group) for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song by Thomas Medelheim. https://www.fiverr.com/medelheim