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Do We Like Movies?Superman II (1980)In preparation for Jame Gunn's highly anticipated DCU reboot of the man of steel, we are going back to 1980 and watching the first Superman sequel ever. Mostly shot in parallel with the original before Richard Donner's exit, this movie is a continuation of the original and expands on the relationship between Superman and Lois lane while also giving us one of the best villains in this series, General Zod. Because of the chaotic nature of this production, two versions of this movie exist and we talk about them both. Javi watched the Theatrical, also known as the [Richard] Lester...2025-07-121h 22Do We Like Movies?A Goofy Movie (1995) [Re-Release]Re-releasing this 2020 episode since this movie turned 30 today.
In the 1990s, Disney was going through their Animation renaissance starting with 1989's The Little Mermaid, Included, Aladdin, The Lion King, and the Academy Award nominated Beauty and the Beast.
At the tail end of this period came the sequel to the early 90s cartoon Goof Troop, which follows Disney characters Goofy and Pete as they are navigating parenthood. In this movie, Goofy is afraid that he has grown too distant from his teenage son Max, and decides to take him away for the summer on a c...2025-04-0853 minDo We Like Movies?Batman Forever (1995) [Re-Release]In Memory of the late Val Kilmer we are re-releasing our hilarious 2020 review of this 1995 Batman movie with the Top 2 (and it's not 2) movie soundtrack of all time.
Lets start this party with a bang.
2025-04-031h 38Do We Like Movies?Selena (1997) [Re-Release]We have decided to re-release this 2021 episode since we have reached the 30 anniversary of this musical icon's tragic passing.
We reviewed the Jennifer Lopez star vehicle based on the life of Mexican-American pop icon Selena Quintanilla-Perez. This is a movie that is so prevalent in Hispanic American culture that it has colored much of how we view the late Tejano singer, and it a great snapshot of the struggle for first and second generation Americans to maintain connection with our heritage. Along with the review of this film, Angel gives some thoughts on the new N...2025-03-311h 25Do We Like Movies?The Exorcist: Believer (2023)The power of Christ (And David Gordon Green) has brought us back to the franchise based on the William Peter Blatty's groundbreaking novel and William Freidkin's horror masterpiece. 50 years after the original Exorcist, we follow the families of Angel and Kartherine, who experience both the disappearance and reappearance of their daughters after going missing for 3 days. When they have return it is clear that they have been brushed by something evil, and Angela's father turns to Chris McNeil to help return his daughter and her friend from what becomes a full on demonic possession.
2023-10-281h 14Do We Like Movies?Blindspotting (2018)The third movie in our Oakland Film Festival is this 2018 film directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada. We follow Colin who witnesses a black man being killed by a police officer on the last week of his probation. This incident leaves him shaken up and causes him to evaluate his life post incarceration and his relationship with his white childhood best friend Miles in an ever changing (due to gentrification) West Oakland.
2023-05-251h 20Do We Like Movies?Eyes Wide Shut (1999)Nothing says Christmas like Tom Cruise visiting a mysterious masked s*x party! Join us as we take a trip where the rainbow ends where we discuss the final film of Stanley Kubrick and Angel tries to explain why he like it so much.
2022-12-181h 31Do We Like Movies?Batman Begins (2005) Re-UploadThis episode was originally recorded in early 2019. After the first major DC Movie disaster that was Batman & Robin, the Dark Knight was truly dead on film. In 2003, the indie director of Memento, Christopher Nolan, embarked on the journey of bringing Batman's origin story on film for the first time.
Largely adapted from the Frank Miller graphic novel "Batman: Year One", this movie was one of the first "reboots" of the 00s and would leave a lasting imprint on the Comic Book movie genre that is still felt and imitated to this day. Join us as we review...2022-02-232h 01Do We Like Movies?22 Jump Street (2014)We're back doing the exact same thing we did last time. This week we are going into the extremely meta world of 22 Jump Street. Schmidt and Jenko find themselves going under cover as college students this time trying to find the supplier of a dangerous new drug called WyPhy.
2022-02-1255 minDo We Like Movies?21Jump Street (2012)Happy New year! We missed nearly the whole month of January but we are back for Year 4 of the show. In this episode we explain what we have been up to since our Spider-Man No Way Home episode, and we kick off two episodes covering the comedy reboot of 21 Jump Street starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.
2022-02-011h 00Do We Like Movies?Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)We are finally here. Maybe the most anticipated movie of the year and the one that finally got everyone back in theaters during a pandemic. This week we review the final chapter of the MCU version of Marvel's web-slinging hero. Please only listen to this podcast if you have already seen the film because we get into HEAVY spoilers.
2021-12-232h 02Do We Like Movies?The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)Right before we went to see Spider-Man: No Way Home we decided to watch and cover Andrew Garfield's final outing as the web slinging Marvel Super-Hero. In this movie that effectively killed this second franchise, we catch up with Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy as they try to balance their on and off again romance with saving the city and preparing for the future.
2021-12-191h 25Do We Like Movies?The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)In anticipation for No Way home we are looking back at the Amazing Spider-Man series to see if it’s any better or worse than we remember. Find out how we feel about this 2012 reboot now.
2021-12-121h 22Do We Like Movies?Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)This week we cover one of the latest MCU offerings. This film features the first leading Asian super hero in the Marvel movie cannon. Shang Chi (Now "Shawn") is a San Francisco parking Valet who is forced to return to his true home of Ta Lo, an enchanted realm filled with creatures of Chinese folklore, to save this place from the wrath of his vengeful father Wen Wu, the leader of the Ten Rings.
2021-12-071h 14Do We Like Movies?Eternals (2021)New movie week! Our second episode of this Marvel Movies month is the newest MCU offering based on the cosmic heroes, the Eternals.
2021-11-201h 15Do We Like Movies?The Avengers: Infinity War (2018)It's here. After nearly 3 years Angel is watching this movie once again to see if his extreme distaste for this movie back in 2018/2019 was warranted or not.
2021-11-151h 21Do We Like Movies?Halloween II (1981)Our final episode of the Halloween season is the original Halloween sequel. Released 3 years after the original, most of the original team has returned with a higher budget to pick up right when John Carpenter's original movie left off. We follow Michael Myers who has somehow survived being shot by Dr. Loomis. He travels through Haddonfield right as the news of the murders begins to spread making his way to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital where he is looking to finally kill Laurie Strode.
2021-10-311h 05Do We Like Movies?The Blair Witch Project (1999)In the late 90s, Horror Movies had become a trendy genre. Most of them were meta slasher movies with attractive TV teens in lead roles, none of them were particularly scary. In come Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's indie chiller about a group of 3 college students investigating the legend of The Blair Witch. The template for modern found footage horror films, this is a film that seemingly gets better over time with the countless theories about what actually occurs. Join us as we get lost in the woods and on the original website that made this the first real...2021-10-291h 09Do We Like Movies?Halloween Kills (2021)EVIL DIES TONIGHT! We finally cover another highly anticipated Blumhouse horror film that was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the follow up to David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel. In what is the second part of a trilogy that will end with next year's aptly titled Halloween Ends, we pick up right where the last film left off on Halloween Night 2018. Laurie Strode is in this film, but takes the backseat to the town of Haddonfield who has taken it upon themselves to get revenge against Michael Myers via Mob violence.
2021-10-251h 23Do We Like Movies?Girl on The Third Floor (2019)Our October movie series continues with this indie horror flick starring former Pro Wrestler Phill "CM Punk" Brooks in his acting debut. He stars as Don Koch, a new homeowner who has fled a spotty criminal past by moving out of the big city into the privacy of suburbia. The main problem is the house he has just bought and is repairing to move his pregnant wife into also has a sordid history.
2021-10-1858 minDo We Like Movies?Halloween (2018) Re-UploadIn anticipation of Halloween Kills this week, we have re-uploaded our Halloween (2018) review from January 2019 (Our THIRD episode!).
This film is a direct sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic by Director David Gordon Green and Writer Danny McBride.
2021-10-141h 55Do We Like Movies?Hellboy (2004)This week we cover Guillermo del Toro's 2004 adaptation of the Dark Horse Comic Book.
2021-10-131h 16Do We Like Movies?Manhunter (1986)This week we dive into one of the early films of Michael Mann. A bomb at the time of its release, this adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel "Red Dragon" featuring the introduction of Dr. Hannibal Lecter is now a cult classic. The film follows a retired FBI agent named Will Graham who returns to help capture a serial killer who murders entire families while trying to keep himself from losing his own mind.
2021-10-021h 18Do We Like Movies?Malignant (2021)Our first horror review of Spooky Season is here in the form of James Wan's latest film.
2021-09-271h 07Do We Like Movies?Ready Player One (2018)2021-09-171h 15Do We Like Movies?Candyman (2021) [FULL REVIEW]FULL REVIEW - It’s finally here! The highly anticipated Candyman remake from Jordan Peele and director Nia DaCosta. In this reboot/sequel we return to what remains of the Cabrini Green project to learn what the urban legend of Candyman means in the modern world.
2021-09-041h 17Do We Like Movies?Candyman (2021) - Instant Reaction mini-episodeSPOILER WARNING - finally here! The highly anticipated Candyman remake from Jordan Peele and director Nia DaCosta. In this reboot/sequel we return to what remains of the Cabrini Green project to learn what the urban legend of Candyman means in the modern world. While we plan to cover the film in a normal long form episode we wanted to share our immediate thoughts on this film leaving the theater. 2021-08-2715 minDo We Like Movies?Stand and Deliver (1988)This week we take a more serious look at an all time classic for us. Edward James Olmos stars as an East Los Angeles Math Teacher who changed the lives of it's largely Hispanic students by preparing them for the AP Calculous exam.
2021-08-201h 12Do We Like Movies?The Suicide Squad (2021)We're some kind of rebooted(?) Suicide Squad.... James Gunn comes in to salvage DC's attempt to adapt the beloved comic series that revolves around a gang of D list villains who are enlisted for Black Ops missions by the evil Amanda Waller and the US Government. Our villains are called to travel to the Central or South American island of Corto Maltese to instigate coup and recover data on a secret operation called Project Starfish.
2021-08-131h 33Do We Like Movies?Suicide Squad (2016)2021-08-051h 28Do We Like Movies?Fear Street (2021)Remember the 90s? Based on the works of R.L. Stine (The creator of the Goosebumps book series), this week we discuss Fear Street. This a trilogy of movies that combines elements of 70s-90s slasher films and modern supernatural horror. In this episode we discuss all three movies in the trilogy.
Fear Street: 1994
Fear Street: 1978
Fear Street: 1666
2021-07-301h 51Do We Like Movies?Annabelle: Creation (2017) / Annabelle Comes Home (2019)This week is a double feature! We wrap up our Conjuring Extended Universe mini series with a discussion on the surprisingly good Annabelle prequel, and finally discuss the reason this series exists: The Annabelle Movie who's plot synopsis sounds like a Disney Channel Original Halloween Movie.
2021-07-221h 21Do We Like Movies?Annabelle (2014)This week we start our Annabelle mini-series with the 2014 follow up to the original Conjuring movie. In this film we follow young parents John and Mia as they deal with all the stress of expected parenthood. As if that wasn't enough, John gifts Mia a haunted doll that will soon terrorize the new family.
2021-07-081h 08Do We Like Movies?In The Heights (2021)2021-07-011h 12Do We Like Movies?The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)This week we are chat about the latest chapter in The Conjuring Franchise. In this episode we talk a bit about the real Arne Cheyenne Johnson (aka "The Devil Made Me Do It") case and how it differs from the film. Please join us for our last epsidoe before our 2 week hiatus!
2021-06-101h 12Do We Like Movies?The Dark Knight (2008)For Episode 100 we review Christopher Nolan's Comic Book masterpiece that captures our Post 9/11 anxiety like no other film of the 00s. After his triumph over Ra's Al Guhl and The League of Shadows, Batman joins forces with Gotham City Police Lt. Jim Gordon, and District Attorney Harvey Dent to rid the city of organized crime once and for all. What they don't plan for is the ultimate wildcard, The Joker, played in an Academy Award winning final performance by Heath Ledger.
2021-06-032h 29Do We Like Movies?Jackie Brown (1997)We are back in Tarantino world! This week we review his 1997 film Jackie Brown, which takes the style of 70s Blacksploitation and mixes it with the novel "Rum Punch" by Elmore Leonard. When a flight attendant played by the legendary Pam Grier is caught trying to smuggle money into the United States from Mexico, she is left with two choices, either go to jail, or cooperate with ATF agents to catch her gun running boss played by Samuel L. Jackson. With the help of her love interest, a bail bondsman played by Robert Forester, Jackie decides that she is...2021-05-271h 40Do We Like Movies?The Lost Boys (1987)2021-05-211h 14Do We Like Movies?Dogma (1999)This week we are diving into Kevin Smith's incredibly hard to procure 1999 film, Dogma. This movie follows a woman who has become disillusioned with her religion, and is selected to help save existence from being destroyed by mischievous angels. This film features an all star 90s lineup that includes Jay and Silent Bob, Chris Rock, Selma Hayek, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon.
2021-05-141h 14Do We Like Movies?Mortal Kombat (2021)2021-05-011h 06Do We Like Movies?Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)Remember how the first movie in this series was successful because it adapted much of the cool stuff you liked from the Video game? Well that's all gone now. Get ready to "Batman & Robin" up Mortal Kombat and send this franchise into hiding for 2 decades.
This week's movie competes with The Room and New Years Evil for worst film in the history of this show. Enjoy!
2021-04-231h 11Do We Like Movies?Mortal Kombat (1996)*Throws hands in the air* IT HAS BEGUN
This week we watch the first of three feature films based on the 1990s fighting game. In this movie we follow the characters of Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, and Johnny Cage as they enter an interdimensional tournament to save the earth from the Emperor of Outworld and his minions led by the sorcerer Shan Tsung. 2021-04-161h 00Do We Like Movies?Mortal Kombat (1995)*Throws hands in the air* IT HAS BEGUN
This week we watch the first of three feature films based on the 1990s fighting game. In this movie we follow the characters of Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, and Johnny Cage as they enter an interdimensional tournament to save the earth from the Emperor of Outworld and his minions led by the sorcerer Shan Tsung.
2021-04-161h 00Do We Like Movies?Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)Big Monke fights Thicc Lizard.
2021-04-091h 04Do We Like Movies?Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)2021-03-242h 03Do We Like Movies?Cobra Kai (2018)Our Karate Kid series comes to an end with us discussing (MEGA SPOILERS) the first 3 season of the sequel series.
We follow the story of Johnny Lawrence, who was once the big guy on campus in High School, and ended up falling on hard times due in part to his alcoholism and also his loss to Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament. Johnny finds renewed purpose to help a bunch of social misfits defend themselves by bringing back Cobra Kai Karate thanks to the help of his neighbor Miguel Diaz. This causes many m...2021-03-181h 50Do We Like Movies?The Karate Kid (2010)This week we review The 2010 remake to The Karate(?) Kid. In this re-telling of the 1986 film, we follow Dre (Jaden Smith), a kid who is moving from Detroit with his mother to China. He is constantly bullied by the local kids, and with the help of his building's maintenance man/ Kung Foo teacher, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), he trains to fight them at a local tournament so that they may leave him alone. It's shocking how much of a REMAKE this movie is, but does it stack up to the original?
2021-03-111h 09Do We Like Movies?The Next Karate Kid (1994)A sequel so obscure that unless you watched it every week on the Disney Channel in the early 00s like Angel, you wouldn't even know it existed. Pat Morita's swan song in the Karate Kid franchise has him traveling to Boston, to visit the wife of his commander General from the 442nd.
While there he is introduced to her granddaughter Julie Pierce (played by a very young Hillary Swank). Julie is having a hard time dealing with the grief of losing her parents, and is starting to find herself in trouble at school. Mr. Miyagi takes her...2021-03-041h 17Do We Like Movies?The Karate Kid III (1989)It's like the first movie again, but worse..... Much worse. This week we are treated to the John Krease revenge movie featuring Daniel and Miyagi... Special appearance by a guy who looks like the world's most evil Porn director, Terry Silver.
The New Cobra Kai led by Terry Silver recruits Karate's Bad Boy, Mike Barns who can't stop, won't stop (*Harlem Shakes*) bullying Daniel LaRusso and threatening his life until he agrees to defend his All Valley Karate Tournament Championship. This features all the stuff you didn't want, a rapidly aging Ralph Macchio, Daniel/Miyagi relationship problems...2021-02-2554 minDo We Like Movies?The Karate Kid Part II (1986)Last week we watched Mr. Miyagi help Daniel rid himself of the Cobra Kai by winning the All Valley Karate Tournament. This week, Daniel returns the favor to his sensei, by traveling with him to Okinawa where Mr. Miyagi must go see his father, but also runs into his old archrival Sato, and his equally villainous nephew Chozen who begins to feud with Daniel.
2021-02-181h 11Do We Like Movies?The Karate Kid (1984)Part 1 of our Karate Kid review series! This week we take it back to 1984 where Daniel LaRusso, who has just moved to the Valley in LA fron New Jersey is learning to adjust to his new surrondings. He starts a romance with Ali Mills, but there is just one big problem.. Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny and his gang of Karate practicing bullies from the Cobra Kai dojo start attacking and bullying Daniel. His apartment building's maintenance man, Mr. Miyagi agrees to help Daniel by teaching him Karate so that he can defend himself, and ultimately defeat the Cobra Kais at...2021-02-111h 05Do We Like Movies?Get Out (2017)We finally discuss Jordan Peele's 2017 horror masterpiece. A film that Peele spend nearly a decade preparing to bring to the screen, his directorial debut brought Black Horror movies to the mainstream. A movie that feels as much as snapshot of the Black Lives Matter era as an homage to horror movies like Halloween, The Stepford Wives, and Rosemary's Baby. We follow our protagonist Chris as he goes to to an East Coast suburb to visit his girlfriend Rose's family. During this trip we quickly discover the disturbing secret of Rose, her family, and the other white people in this...2021-02-021h 21Do We Like Movies?The Stepford Wives (1975)We return to the world of famed novelist Ira Levine (Rosemary's Baby) to review the 1975 adaptation of his novel The Stepford Wives. This film follows New York City photographer Joanna Eberhart as she and her family relocate (at the behest of her husband Walter) to the suburb of Stepford. Idealized as a throwback to the bygone era of the 1950s before the Women's liberation movement, Joanna quickly discovers that the women in this town are not what they seem.
2021-02-0252 minDo We Like Movies?Parasite (2019)This week we finally review the Academy Award winner for Best Picture in 2019. As the most unusual 2020 Oscars are now approaching we wanted to review the most recent winner, which was directed by Bong Joon-ho. This dark comedy, became a world-wide phenomenon and it is likely due to the themes explored. Few films have so perfectly illustrated the ever-widening wealth gap in capitalist countries. This may be one of the best conversations we have ever had on the show.
2021-01-212h 01Do We Like Movies?Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)The 2018 sequel to Jurassic World takes a wild left turn as it recast's Bryce Dallas Howard's Claire Dearing as a Dinosaur Activist who is trying to rescue the Dinosaurs on Isla Nublar from an erupting volcano that threatens to destroy the island. She is doing this with the help of Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), and the original partner of John Hammond. Directed by J.A. Bayona who's best known for 2007's The Orphanage, this is perhaps the more horror-mood movie in this series. Join us this week and we visit the Fallen Kingdom.
2021-01-141h 18Do We Like Movies?Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)Sorry for the late upload for this episode. Our shit was on pause. This week in the spirit of the New Year we review the remake of the 1976 John Carpenter classic that revolves around a police sergeant who's job it has now become to protect a skeleton staff and rag tag group of inmates as they try to survive an attack by a police splinter group on New Years Eve at a Detroit police station.
2021-01-051h 07Do We Like Movies?Gremlins (1984)Part 2 of our Christmas Double Feature has us reviewing a film written by friend of the show Chris Columbus (lol) and Directed by Joe Dante. This is the wicked Christmas tale about a swarm of little green monsters who wreak havoc on the small town of Kingston Falls. This is also the film that became responsible for the PG-13 rating.
Thank you and Happy Holidays to all our listeners.
2020-12-2556 minDo We Like Movies?Home Alone (1990)Our friend Joey S who is a resident Home Alone fan, and Christmas movie lover joins us for Part 1 of our Double Feature where we review the 1990 John Hughes written film, starring Macaulay Culkin, and Directed by Chris Columbus.
2020-12-251h 13Do We Like Movies?The Cable Guy (1996)This week we’re watching the Ben Stiller directed dark comedy starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. While not nearly as popular as the rest of Jim Carrey’s 90s output, this movie has become a cult item in recent years and we look forward to diving in.
2020-11-231h 12Do We Like Movies?xXx: State of the Union (2005)Ready to watch Ice Cube as James Bond, being directed by Nick Fury, fighting the Green Goblin, and driving cars from the Fast and Furious Franchise in a film directed by the guy who did "Die Another Day"?
Darius Stone (Ice Cube) is an ex-Navy Seal who is serving a 20 year prison term. He is busted out of prison with the help of xXx program director Agustus Gibbens (Sam Jackson) who recruits him to join the secret agent squad. His mission?: Thwarting a coup on the US Presidency by Secretary of Defense George Deckert (Willem DeFoe).
2020-11-151h 24Do We Like Movies?Halloween Special: The Horror Sequels of 1989We wanted to do something different for Halloween this year. This episode came out of a loose discussion with a friend and listener of the show about Friday The 13th Part VII: Jason Takes Manhattan. It evolved into a discussion about how 1989 was the year that Friday The 13th 8, Nightmare on Elm St. 5, and Halloween 5 which were all released in the same year were the awful sequels in each franchise jumped the shark and killed the 80s Slasher.
We discuss the how we arrived at each sequel, how truly awful they all were, and where the franchises...2020-10-311h 42Do We Like Movies?I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)2020-10-271h 05Do We Like Movies?The Invisible Man(2020)2020-10-181h 34Do We Like Movies?The Exorcist III (1990)BONUS EPISODE for October! What do Angel and an infamous serial killer have in common? They are both fans of The Exorcist III. This supernatural police procedural is a direct follow up to 1973's The Exorcist and actually ignores Exorcist II: The Heretic. We pick up 15 years later and follow Lt. Kinderman from the original film as he tries to solve the case of the Gemini Killer, a fictional Zodiac-esque killer who is continuing a murder spree from several decades ago.... after he died in the electric chair.
2020-10-061h 10Do We Like Movies?#Alive (2020)This week we review a listener request. The 2020 direct to Netflix film that follows a young man who is a video game streamer experiencing the Zombie apocalypse in Korea while being required to self-isolate until he is potentially rescued.
2020-10-041h 15Do We Like Movies?Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)We return to the MCU to both prove Angel doesn't hate the MCU and to revisit 2014's Captain America sequel. This movie was part of a wave of post Avengers (2012) sequels and may be the best of them. a modern movie that is also a throwback to 70s espionage films, we movie follow Captain America uncovering a splinter group within S.H.I.E.L.D. with the help of Black Widow and Falcon. Join us for this week's episode!
2020-09-241h 27Do We Like Movies?Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)2020-09-1153 minDo We Like Movies?Paranormal Activity: The Marked OnesThis 5th film in the Paranormal Activity franchise went in the most interesting direction an established horror franchise has ever gone to.
We ditch the suburbs for a Chicano neighborhood in Oxnard, CA where Jesse Arista and his best friend Hector Estrella use the GoPro camera Jesse got for his High School graduation to chronicle Jesse's possession by a familiar demonic presence.
2020-09-031h 25Do We Like Movies?Baby Boy (2001)2020-08-261h 18Do We Like Movies?2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)2020-08-161h 20Do We Like Movies?Jurassic Park (1993)2020-08-111h 53Do We Like Movies?Demons (1985)This week we take a first dive into Italian horror with this 1985 classic directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by the great Dario Argento. This movie revolves around a group of people who have all been given free tickets to the screening of a mysterious horror movie. What they don't realize is that the movie they are watching, and subsequently the theater they are in are about to be overrun by a hoard of Demons.
2020-08-021h 04Do We Like Movies?Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)This week we reviewed the 1994 cult film about a teen cheerleader (Denise Richards) who's boyfriend (Paul Walker) is killed and then re-animated as an animatronic T-Rex. Yes that is the plot of this movie. From the director of Mac & Me. ENJOY! (Someone has to)
2020-07-2657 minDo We Like Movies?Rosemary's Baby (1968)This week we cover Roman Polanski's 1968 occult horror film that revolves around a young New York woman who has been selected to carry the son of Satan by an insidious coven.
2020-07-181h 50Do We Like Movies?Hereditary (2018)2020-07-121h 24Do We Like Movies?Moonlight (2016)Following the #OscarsSoWhite backlash that the Academy recieved after snubbing black actors and filmmakers in 2015, we demanded more diversity in film. In 2016, director Barry Jenkins responded by giving us a beautiful, and sobering look at the coming of age of Chiron, a young gay black man from Florida who has to deal with being the target of constant bullying in his hyper-masculine neighborhood, his father figure in the form of local drug dealer Juan, as well as his mother's battles with addiction. The film, based on the book "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue", chronicles his life in three...2020-06-271h 25Do We Like Movies?La Mission (2009)It is very rare when we get to review a movie that is so personal to us. This week in the spirit of Pride month we decided to focus on this independent Chicano film that revolves around an aging Cholo coming to terms with his son's homosexuality. There are several layers to this film that makes it personal to us, from the ethnicity of this almost completely non-white cast, to the city and neighborhood in which it's filmed. We actually even know people and friends of people who took part in the production of this movie as well.
2020-06-201h 44Do We Like Movies?Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)In the 1990s we were apparently ready for a grim comic book about anthropomorphic Turtles who practice martial arts to be adapted to film. Featuring impressive creature design from the legendary Jim Hensen studios, this movie follow our heroes as they team up with Action News reporter April O'Neal and sports themed vigilante Casey Jones to stop the Foot clan and their leader Shredder. Grab a slice of pizza and listen to Turtle Power to get in the mood for this movie.
***Disclaimer**** This is our first episode in 6 weeks and given the events of the world...2020-06-1455 minDo We Like Movies?Spider-Man 2 (2004) RoundtableThis episode is a bit of a sequel to one of the earlier reviews in Do We Like Movies? History. Our awesome friend and logo creator Danny joins the show along with our friendly neighborhood... he’s one of our only friends who knows Spider-Man, Jose. This week we cover Sam Raimi’s 2004 sequel to his 2002 Spider-Man film. This film is widely regarded among comic book fans as one of the best superhero sequels alongside Dark Knight.
After having defeated the Green Goblin 2 years earlier, we meet a Peter Parker trying to juggle being a crime fighting super...2020-04-291h 22Do We Like Movies?Birds of Prey (2019)2020-04-071h 17Do We Like Movies?Drive (2011)For Angel this is Mandela Effect: The Movie. You'll find out why when you listen!
A cult favorite from 2011, Drive tells the story of a Hollywood stunt driver (Ryan Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway driver for robberies. Our main character spends most of the film romancing a woman and her son while her husband (In an early unfortunate Latin gangster turn from the great Oscar Isaac) is in prison. The film combines elements from TV crime drama like The Sopranos with a bizarre video game aesthetic from Grand Theft Auto, the LA of Michael Mann's Heat...2020-03-291h 08Do We Like Movies?Social Isolation MoviesHey Everyone,
Well we're here, The Apocalypse (Hopefully not tho). We figured since we're all self-isolating for at least a month, it would make sense for both of your hosts have picked out 5 films each that deal with Isolation and social distancing. Check out this week's episode for a little fun banter and check out some of the films we are covering in this episode.. We are bound to mention some you've never heard of before.
PSA: Lets stay inside, and keep practicing Social Distancing to help flatten the curve and slow the spread of...2020-03-211h 05Do We Like Movies?Candyman (1992)Bee our victim.. (Get it?!)
This week we decided to jump on the hype of last week's trailer release for the Candyman sequel/remake and review the 1992 Bernard Rose/Clive Barker classic starring horror icon Tony Todd.
The film revolves around the character of Helen Lyle who along with her best friend/colleague Bernadette Walsh are researching the urban legend of the Candyman who is known to haunt the now-defunct Cabrini-Green Projects in Chicago.
Shockingly progressive in some ways, while cringe-inducingly exploitative in others, this 90s horror classic proves that it is worth...2020-03-091h 19Do We Like Movies?Episode 50: Unpopular Opinons**DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded by mistake using the wrong microphone and the audio quality is degraded.**
No one is more shocked by us reaching 50 Episodes than... Us.
We wanted to do something special and break from the regular format of the show. Each of us put together a list of 5 movies where they are either not highly regarded, hated, or liked for different reasons than you would imagine and explained why you should watch it. Please join us for this special episode and thank you for keeping us motivated to continue churning out new...2020-03-021h 03Do We Like Movies?The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)The Roger Moore Era,
This is the one era of Bond that neither of your hosts is too familiar with. That said, we were ready to turn the page on Sean Connery after Diamonds Are Forever's awful phoned in performance.
The Iconography of Bond is on full display here with a Car that turns into a submarine, and famed metal mouthed Bond henchmen, Jaws. This story follows Bond as he teams up with a beautiful Soviet Agent known as Triple X (GET IT?! It's SEX) to save the world from the megalomaniacal evil villain, Stromberg. 2020-02-2348 minDo We Like Movies?Diamonds Are Forever (1971)Following the mixed response to On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the producers of the Bond series attempted a hard course correction, by dumping George Lazenby for the ever aging Sean Connery.
Despite featuring maybe the greatest theme song by Shirley Bassey which most millennials remember because it was sampled by Kanye West in the 00s, this may be one of the worst enteries in the entire series.
Much like an old Pro Wrestler making a return for a WrestleMania payday, Connery was way past his prime, and this series way past its relevance in the 1970...2020-02-1956 minDo We Like Movies?Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)2020-02-081h 27Do We Like Movies?On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)This never happened to the other fellow...
In 1969, James Bond experienced one of the earliest soft reboots in film history. This 1969 film takes many risks, chief among them being the replacement of film icon Sean Connery with a chocolate commercial actor by the name of George Lazenby.
He is unique in that he is the only actor in this series that plays James Bond only once. This film also features Tracy, the Bond girl who would infamously be the woman who finally ties down 007. Don't be fooled by her distinction as a Bond Girl, she...2020-02-011h 03Do We Like Movies?Joker (2019)2020-01-261h 42Do We Like Movies?Goldfinger (1964)Do expect us to watch?
No, Mr. Bond. We expect you to die. We kick off our James Bond series with the third film in the James Bond cannon. It revolves around 007 trying to save the world from the criminal mastermind who plans to radiate all the gold in Ft. Knox so that it loses its value. The movie is as wild as that last sentence. Join us as we get in the Aston Martin and do battle with the Austrian villain with an affinity for gold, and his henchmen with the weaponized hat for this week’s...2020-01-151h 01Do We Like Movies?RoboCop (1987)Dead or alive you’re coming with us.
Our first new episode of 2020 takes us back to a dystopian 80s future of this Paul Verhoven masterpiece. We follow Alex Murphy, a New Detroit police officer who is murdered and them gets turned to a cybernetic super cop.
While appearing shallow on the outside this film actually explores themes of capitalism, wealth disparities, violence and gentrification.
2020-01-101h 19Do We Like Movies?New Years Evil (1980)We are EEEEEVILLLLLLL!
To close out our first year of the show, we are covering one of the lesser remembered holiday horror films from the 80s that came after the massive success of Halloween (1978).
In this film, an LA DJ/Party Show host(?) is hosting a big New Year's Eve punk concert while also receiving phone calls from a serial killer who announces he will commit a murder at midnight in all the US time zones.
Shorter in length than our usual episodes, but hopefully just as entertaining. Thanks for following the podcast...2020-01-0146 min
Do We Like Movies?Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)At long last after nearly 9 months of reviewing Star Wars movies we have arrived at The Rise of Skywalker. The JJ Abrams directed concluding chapter of this saga is tasked with "correcting" all the mistakes of The Last Jedi, while also bringing the entire Star Wars main series to a close.
After much speculation as to who Rey's parents are, wondering how Emperor Palpatine figured into the story (since he's super mega dead) and what will come of Finn and Poe's friendship (which all us cool fans wanted to blossom into a relationship), we finally have our q...2019-12-281h 31Do We Like Movies?Black Christmas (1974)In 1974, director Bob Clarke’s Black Christmas was officially the first Holiday horror film. The film follows a group of women in a sorority house who are being stalked by a prank calling psychopath who is hiding in their attic.
Join us as we try to parse through this tone shifting Horror classic.
2019-12-131h 00Do We Like Movies?Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)Ah listeners, missed you we have.
In 2017 director Rian Johnson was tasked with following up JJ Abrams highly successful revival of the Star Wars franchise under Disney. The second film in this trilogy has sharply divided critics and movie goers (and the hosts of the show).
One of us makes the case for why this film is great while the other makes the case for why is among the worst in the series. Which side do you land on for this debate on The Last Jedi?
2019-12-061h 46Do We Like Movies?Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)There has been an awakening...
in 2013 after Disney cashed out to buy LucasFilm, we got the announcement that Star Wars was really Back.
After decades of speculation, the House of Mouse finally delivered a sequel to Return of the Jedi meant to pick up the story of the Skywalker saga.
This film introduced us to our new heroes Finn, Poe, and Rey, and showed how they fit into this overarching epic. Please join us as we review The Force Awakens.
2019-11-221h 19Do We Like Movies?The Exorcist (1973)Hope you wore a clean pair of undapants
In 1973 director William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty unleashes the scariest movie of all time on an unsuspecting world.
Join us as we wrap up our Halloween film festival nice and late with the pea soup spitting, mother slapping, flawless monster making classic.
2019-11-081h 23Do We Like Movies?IT Follows (2014)Long tracking shots of a non-distinct suburb, strong 80s synth score, and a young group of teenagers feeling a killing machine.
In 2014, David Robert Mitchell delivered a great throwback to 80s slasher films, and helped usher in the new wave of elevated horror at the same time. This film follows Jay, a young adult woman who is being pursued by an evil entity who is passed and stalks people after sexually intercourse.
join us as we follow IT Follows.
2019-10-301h 10Do We Like Movies?The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)This podcast was inspired by a true story...
Not really. But this week we dive into Tobe Hooper’s bizarre 1974 proto-slasher that follows a group of young hippie adults on a road trip in rural Texas as they encounter the evil, murderous Sawyer family. This film also features the debut of famous movie monster, Leatherface.
2019-10-2557 minDo We Like Movies?The Empire Strikes Back (1980)Best one in the Series?
If you ask Angel it is. Empire sits in rare company with Films like Aliens, The Godfather Part II, Bride of Frankenstein, Terminator 2 and The Dark Knight as film sequels that are considered better than the Original. While Javi disagrees, it's easy to argue its merit as a high watermark in this franchise.
Between the iconic AT-ATs, The Imperial March Darth Vader theme, and the shocking twist that no millennial or Gen-Z viewers don't already know going in, and the introduction of Yoda, this movie expands the already captivating world o...2019-08-261h 27