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ADHD-DVDThe Naked Gun (2025), with Matt PollockThis week, we're back and we brought a friend, as we head back to the cinema for another In Theaters Now edition of the podcast, and bring returning favourite Matt Pollock (@mattysmovies4ever) along with us for the relaunch of a movie that was a childhood fave of both Justin and Matty, but is all new to Hayley, our resident Lonely Island obsessive... It's 2025's The Naked Gun, directed by Akiva Schaffer, written by Akiva Schaffer, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, and starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, CCH Pounder, and pod favourite Kevin Durand...
2025-08-171h 40ADHD-DVDSuperman (1978)This week, with the new DCU relaunched under the watchful eye of James Gunn, we take it all the way back to not just the dawn of DC Comics on the silver screen, but what is really the grand daddy of all superhero films period. It's 1978's Superman, directed by Richard Donner, and starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter and Valerie Perrine. It is the homework that countless films over the years have copied off of, and combine that with its vintage 70s special effects and a rather...
2025-07-191h 12ADHD-DVDMission: Impossible - The Final ReckoningThis week, we say goodbye to one of the greats, as a film franchise that has consistently brought the goods over the last three decades bids a fond farewell in what we trust is its last installment. Yes, it's 2025's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, Rolf Saxon, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Greg Tarzan Daniels, Shea Whigham, Hannah Waddingham, Katy O'Brian and Tramell Tillman. Two years after we did it the first time with Dead...
2025-05-311h 14ADHD-DVDDick TracyThis week, we're busting out the slammer and potentially wishing we were back in it depending on who you ask, as we team up with the canary-clad copper to take down a star-studded mob in a wildly stylish and outlandishly conceived blockbuster starring a charming old man incapable of doing action scenes, that's been seemingly buried in the Disney vault in the years since. It's 1990's Dick Tracy, directed and produced by Warren Beatty, and starring Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Mandy Patinkin, Dustin Hoffman, Seymour Cassel, William Forsythe, Charles Durning, Dick Van Dyke, Paul Sorvino, J...
2025-04-301h 11ADHD-DVDThe Royal TenenbaumsThis week, we're having a ball -- scrapping, yelling and mixing it up, loving every minute with this damn crew as we close out Gene HackMarch with a regal induction into the podcast canon. It's 2001's The Royal Tenenbaums, directed by Wes Anderson, co-written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, and starring Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover and the voice of Alec Baldwin. While Anderson launched himself to prominence with Rushmore, Tenenbaums marked the full-throated arrival of a confident new voice in American cinema, and arguably remains his...
2025-03-301h 16ADHD-DVDThe ConversationThis week, we're tearing up the baseboards and getting funky on the saxophone as Gene HackMarch rolls on with a Coppola classic surveillance thriller that he snuck in between Godfathers. It's 1974's The Conversation, written, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr and Robert Duvall. Needless to say, Hackman is terrific at the heart of an essential 70s paranoid thriller -- though is it really paranoia if you know your fears are true? His Harry Caul is a meticulous professional, a cunning and...
2025-03-251h 07ADHD-DVDCrimson TideThis week, Gene HackMarch continues with an outstanding acting showdown between two of the all-time greats of American screen acting, as our man Gene stands tete-a-tete with Denzel down in the briny deep with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. It's 1995's Crimson Tide, directed by Tony Scott, featuring script punch-up from Quentin Tarantino, and starring Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini, George Dzundza, Matt Craven, Danny Nucci, Steve Zahn and Daniel von Bargen. A naval submarine thriller of the highest order, it's the first of five collaborations between Tony Scott and Denzel Washington...
2025-03-161h 21ADHD-DVDHoosiersThis week, we kick off a March-long salute to the dearly departed king of American screen acting as Hackmonth begins with a classic of the inspirational sports genre, the story of a man who moves to Hicktown, Indiana and whips a bunch of farm boys into state champions. It's 1986's Hoosiers, directed by David Anspaugh and starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper. While the circumstances surrounding this theme month are unquestionably sad, it's still a treat to watch one of the all-time great screen presences cook in some of his most acclaimed roles, and there's no question...
2025-03-071h 23ADHD-DVDJerry MaguireThis week, help us help you show you the money, as we dive in to the world of sports agents and romance with a 90s rom-com classic starring a man who frankly completes us on this podcast. It's 1996's Jerry Maguire, written and directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kelly Preston, Bonnie Hunt, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Todd Louiso and Jonathan Lipnicki. A throwback to an era when Crowe actually made great films (or any films at all), this one's got plenty of charming and funny performances and almost more plot t...
2025-02-221h 20ADHD-DVDMoonstruckThis week, we can't help but fall victim to la bella luna as Feb2ary Is For Lovers continues with a classic rom-com about how it's impossible not to cheat if you're Italian. It's 1987's Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison, written by John Patrick Shanley, and starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Julie Bovasso and John Mahoney. The story of a young woman who accidentally falls in love with her fiancé's brother, the movie exudes charm at every turn -- so much so that this little rom-com took home three Oscars in '88, for C...
2025-02-151h 11ADHD-DVDL.A. StoryWe're celebrating 100 episodes this week by returning to not one but two recurring themes from nearly two years of the podcast: the filmography of Steve Martin and the belief that February belongs to romance -- two concepts that combine decently well with some magical realism in our movie of the week, an absurdist take on life and love in Los Angeles that still feels like a cutting send-up of the city more than 30 years later. It's 1991's L.A. Story, directed by Mick Jackson, written by Steve Martin, and starring Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah...
2025-02-071h 13ADHD-DVDOcean's Eleven (2001)This week, every good team needs a greaseman, and boy do we have one, as we're putting a team together to knock down three Vegas casinos in one night, in a movie that is just as clever and funny as it is slick and stylish. It's 2001's Ocean's Eleven, directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Ted Griffin, and starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin and Topher Grace. Soderbergh is clearly having a ball bringing this material to life...
2025-01-311h 17ADHD-DVDThe Peacemaker (1997)This week, we continue to collect members of the Ocean's gang like Infinity Stones, as we find Danny playing a convincing soldier and compelling leading man in a 90s geo-political thriller that feels like a total forgotbuster, despite starring two massive movie stars and launching DreamWorks as a studio. It's 1997's The Peacemaker, directed by Mimi Leder, and starring George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iureș, Aleksandr Baluev, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Holt McCallany, Goran Višnjić, and Michael Boatman. One of the Cloondog's early jumps from ER star to silverscreen leading man, this movie is also deeply tied to ER as a p...
2025-01-181h 14ADHD-DVDThe FugitiveThis week, look, we know you don't care, but we didn't kill our wife, okay?? We're heading out on the run with a hairy Harrison in search of the one-armed man, as we have a hell of a time with one the great dad thrillers of the 90s. It's 1993's The Fugitive, directed by Andrew Davis, and starring Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Jeroen Krabbé, Daniel Roebuck, L. Scott Caldwell, Tom Wood, Andreas Katsulas, Julianne Moore and Jane Lynch. Both a perpetual chase action movie as well as a taut conspiracy thriller, the movie is b...
2025-01-111h 12ADHD-DVDMr. 3000As J Mo rapidly approaches (or has perhaps already passed?) 3000 films watched all-time on Letterboxd, it felt fitting to kick off a new year with the story of another man who thought he'd hit the 3000 plateau only for it to be taken away from him on a technicality, as we try to whip ourselves back in to game-shape for 2025 by watching a sports comedy that's a little too light on laughs. It's 2004's Mr. 3000, directed by Charles Stone III, and starring Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Michael Rispoli, Dondré Whitfield, Paul Sorvino, Chris Noth, Keegan-Michael Key, Dane Cook and Tom A...
2025-01-041h 34ADHD-DVDNo Country For Old MenThis week, we're fixin' to do somethin' dumber than hell but we're gonna do it anyway, as we close out No-Theme-ber by circling back to the coin-flip best movie of 2007, a gravely serious and barbed-wire-taut neo-western crime thriller that the Coens still manage to sneak an enormous amount of low-key goofy comedy into. It's 2007's No Country For Old Men, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the book by Cormac McCarthy, and starring Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Beth Grant and Stephen Root...
2024-11-291h 33ADHD-DVDGladiatorThis week, as Gladiator II hits the theaters to repeat the same beats of its predecessor and prove that what we do in life truly does echo in eternity, we circle back to the original to cross a movie off of Hayley's list and get her hyped to see some hunks on the IMAX screen. It's 2000's Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Tommy Flanagan and Spencer Treat Clark. A somewhat controversial Best Picture winner at the time, it has remained one of Scott's...
2024-11-221h 19ADHD-DVDRoxanne (with Rachel Hadaway)This week, like the sand-people of Arrakis and Beetlejuice audiences before us, we're afraid of worms (worms!) as guest Rachel Hadaway (of Rachel's Chart Chat on The People Are The Enemy) goes for a steeply inclined stroll with us to breathe the mountain air in beautiful Nelson, Washington as circle back to the coziness of the Steve Martin rom-com. It's 1987's Roxanne, directed by Fred Schepisi, written by Steve Martin, and starring Martin opposite Daryl Hannah, Shelley Duvall, Rick Rossovich, John Kapelos, Fred Willard, Michael J. Pollard, Damon Wayans and of course Nelson, British Columbia, which almost played itself...
2024-11-091h 37ADHD-DVDNorth by Northwest (with Jackson McDonald)Games? Must we? This week we're leaving Spooktober behind us and kicking off No-Theme-ber with a bang, as King Bob frontman and Roxy Fever host Jackson McDonald returns with our second Hitchcock in just three weeks as he redeems himself by bringing a cross-country spy thriller to the table that set the template for summer thrills for everything that's come after it. Yes, it's 1959's North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau. A classic mistaken identity thriller, Hitchcock is recombining...
2024-11-022h 16ADHD-DVDThe BirdsThis week, Spooktober continues with what is widely regarded as one of the most frightening films of all time, as a British master of cinema scares turns his sights to the skies with an eco-horror story that dares to ask... what if birds were jerks? It's 1963's The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier, and starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Plechet and a young Veronica Cartwright. Time has not been the kindest to this old girl, as a number of sequences that shocked and frightened audiences back in...
2024-10-181h 19ADHD-DVDAbout TimeThis week, SepTIMEber concludes with another charming British time travel rom-com that segues into fam-dram territory before it reaches the finish line. It's 2013's About Time, written and directed by Richard Curtis, and starring Domhnall Gleason, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Lydia Wilson, Vanessa Kirby and an uncredited Richard E. Grant. It's once again the final Friday of the month, as even this theme month can not stop the inexorable march of time, and Hayley's got the keys to the vault this time around, as she's chosen to nominate a cozy comfort film that's come to...
2024-09-271h 11ADHD-DVDTime After TimeThis week, we're chasing Jack The Ripper through time from 19th century London to 1970s San Francisco and falling in love along the way as SepTIMEber continues with one of the goofier movies we've ever watched for the show. It's 1979's Time After Time, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen. It's a film J Mo torrented more than 15 years ago while searching for an MP3 of the Cyndi Lauper song of the same, it's a tenuous application of our podcast criteria but we'll allow it when the film is this...
2024-09-201h 27ADHD-DVDTimelineThis week, SepTIMEber continues as we head back to 14th century France to launch real fireballs out of real trebuchets alongside real Montreal LARPers in a rare misstep from a true master of the popcorn flick. It's 2003's Timeline, directed by Richard Donner, based on the book by Michael Crichton, and starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Neal McDonough, Ethan Embry, Matt Craven, Michael Sheen, Lambert Wilson, Marton Csokas and Rossif Sutherland. Two movies into this theme month and we already be down bad with Stockholm Syndrome, as the dire straits of...
2024-09-131h 39ADHD-DVDThe Time Machine (2002)This week we're watching our fiancée die in increasingly hilarious ways, as we kick off our time-travel theme month SepTIMEber with an early 2000s forgotbuster that's better left in the past. It's 2002's The Time Machine, directed by Simon Wells, written by John Logan, and starring Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Mark Addy, Samantha Mumba, Omero Mumba and Sienna Guillory. The story of a man driven mad by loss and the desire to change the past, it's a movie that was directed by H.G. Wells' great-grandson, a somewhat notable name in 90s animation tasked with making w...
2024-09-061h 18ADHD-DVDBoogie NightsThis week, people always tell us we look like Han Solo as we're closing out P.T.August with one of Anderson's many five-star masterpieces, this time a classic rise-and-fall Hollywood story set in California's other film industry. It's 1997's Boogie Nights, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Heather Graham, Don Cheadle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Thomas Jane, Luis Guzmán, Ricky Jay, Philip Baker Hall, Nina Hartley, Robert Downey Sr., and Alfred Molina. Despite a pervasive undercurrent of darkness and dread, this is an o...
2024-08-301h 35ADHD-DVDPhantom ThreadP.T.August rolls on with the only PTA movie neither host had seen before embarking on this month-long odyssey, a 1950s period piece set in the London fashion world that seems on the outside like a stuffy Oscar drama but packs some hidden humour in its dramatic depths. It's 2017's Phantom Thread, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville. While most folks would might work their way through a filmography in chronological order, we've fallen into an accidental cosmic alignment as this feels more in line with The Master...
2024-08-091h 10ADHD-DVDThe MasterThis week, it's the first week of P.T.August as we're set to spend the next five Fridays indulging in the works of Paul Thomas Anderson, beginning with a Blu-ray J Mo's been carting around for 11 years now without having ever actually watched before now. It's 2012's The Master, written and directed by P.T. Anderson, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Rami Malek, Laura Dern, Jesse Plemons, Ambyr Childers and Kevin J. O'Connor. Watching it now, it feels like PTA was a good four years ahead of the culture in exploring the dynamics of...
2024-08-021h 14ADHD-DVDTWISTER (1996) / TWISTERS (2024), with Ashley OlsonThis week, it wouldn't be the final episode of July if we weren't talking about a huge new theatrical release, but we're doing it a bit differently this time around as for the very first time (officially anyway) we review two movies at the same time! July's canon consideration is 1996's Twister, directed by Jan de Bont and starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Lois Smith, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Todd Field, Joey Slotnick, Jeremy Davies and Zach Grenier, but we spend just as much if not more time discussing 2024's Twisters, directed Lee Isaac...
2024-07-261h 33ADHD-DVDReal SteelWe're teeing up next week's big return of the MCU with Deadpool & Wolverine by looking back at the first collaboration between director Shawn Levy and the Huge Jacked Man, a futuristic underdog sports movie about robot boxing. Yes it's 2011's Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Hope Davis, James Rebhorn and returning ADHD-DVD favourite Kevin Durand. While it's often described as Robot Rocky, it hues much closer to a Robot Over The Top. Based on a short story by Richard Matheson that was adapted into The Twilight Zone episode "Steel", produced by Spielberg and Zem...
2024-07-191h 22ADHD-DVDBeverly Hills CopThis week, after a 40th anniversary sequel went straight to Netflix, we're winding it back to a 23-year-old Eddie Murphy's breakout smash as a capital-M Movie Star. It's 1984's Beverly Hills Cop, directed by Martin Brest, and starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff, Jonathan Banks, Bronson Pinchot, and Paul Reiser. This one comes from J Mo's collection as it's a movie he's strangely never seen before, having been burned by other overhyped Murphy comedies of the 80s? Is this one worthy of the hype? We'll find out together, but if you've seen...
2024-07-121h 24ADHD-DVDJumperThis week, we're getting dragged by the anchor-cable into an ancient war between angry bureaucrats and aloof teleporters as we jump in to the 2008 forgotbuster Jumper, directed by Doug Liman, and starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Michael Rooker, Diane Lane, Kristen Stewart and AnnaSophia Robb. After a June full of five-star films, we intentionally picked a stinker this week -- though it's a movie J Mo thrifted out of genuine interest, as the talent both in front of and behind the camera is formidable to say the least, and the movie's barely-explored concept is...
2024-07-051h 24ADHD-DVDSpeed RacerThis week, we don't step behind the mic to be an audio driver... we do it because we're driven, as we go under the hood with the Wachowski sisters' much-maligned avant garde anticapitalist art film (for kids!), the 2008 anime adaptation Speed Racer, written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, and starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Roger Allam, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benno Fürmann and Richard Roundtree. Turned loose on kid-friendly fare after R-rated successes, the Wachowskis served up a visionary piece of art about what it means to be an artist, and the s...
2024-06-281h 43ADHD-DVDZodiacThis week, we're heading down to the basement with no regard for our own well-being as an impromptu theme emerges from our weeks-long run of perfect pictures and Masterpiece Month continues with 2007's Zodiac, directed by David Fincher, written by James Vanderbilt, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Chloë Sevigny, Elias Koteas, John Carroll Lynch, Brian Cox, Philip Baker Hall, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue and Charles Fleischer. It's very much a movie about obsession, the irresistable pull of a puzzle, and has a compelling case as Fincher's best movie. Watching it now, it's almost a...
2024-06-211h 30ADHD-DVDCasablancaThis week, it's the start of a beautiful friendship, as of all the gin joints in all the world, this movie had to walk into ours... Yes, Hayley is finally pulling one of the all-time greats down off the shelf as we watch 1942's Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Widely regarded as one of the most beloved films of all time, it will come as absolutely no surprise that we both adored it. A tragic romance set against a surprisingly...
2024-06-141h 17ADHD-DVDSorcerer (with Rory Dunn)This week, we discover fear pays poor wages as we're joined by comedian and good old Saskatchewan boy Rory Dunn for an unseen classic from his extensive physical media collection, about desperate men on a dangerous mission. It's 1977's Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin, and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri and Peter Capell. Gorgeously shot and backed by a synth score by Tangerine Dream, it's a white-knuckle thriller, as Friedkin follows up The Exorcist with a movie that feels just as tense and scary in an entirely different way. Plus, all three of us h...
2024-06-071h 27ADHD-DVDMad Max: Fury RoadThis week, put this podcast in your earholes and I will carry you to the gates of Valhalla myself, as we die historic inducting a new entry into the podcast canon. It's 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, written and directed by George Miller, and starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Zoe Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Riley Keough. It is pure spectacle action cinema, with terrific politics and a thinking brain buried beneath its non-stop chase sequences. Plus, Hayley's got a pair of theatrical field reports this week on Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, as well as...
2024-06-011h 40ADHD-DVDKingdom of the Planet of the Apes (with Sydney Beaudin & Ashley Olson)What a wonderful day! Hayley has made her way out west for an LCD Soundsystem concert, which means your intrepid hosts are in the same room recording live in person for the very first time, as we took our best gals to see 2024's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes on laser IMAX at the old SilverCity Coquitlam on a great trip through the many suburbs of Vancouver. And because they were in the room listening along during the recording anyway, J Mo and Haylz are joined on the mic by their respective life partners (platonic or otherwise...
2024-05-241h 15ADHD-DVDLife (2017)This week, as Ryan Reynolds rides into theatres with the big screen release of I.F., we wind it back a few years to another movie he's in that adds a couple extra letters to that pair: 2017's Life, directed by Morbius helmer Daniel Espinosa, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada and Ariyan Sanada. It's a space-set creature feature that aims to evoke Alien but doesn't quite hit those same classic heights. Is it still passable? Our hosts are split, as this unseen selection from Hayley's collection was a J Mo rewatch, and the movie...
2024-05-181h 21ADHD-DVDWar for the Planet of the ApesThis week, as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes hits theatres, we prepare for war by finally watching Matt Reeves' capper to the trilogy that preceded it -- 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes, written and directed by Reeves, and starring Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Karin Konoval, Judy Greer and Toby Kebbel. It's a movie pulling heavily from a number of great war films of the past, notably The Great Escape and Apocalypse Now, with a pair of terrific lead performances and a number of outstanding action sequences. Our discussion really spans...
2024-05-101h 24ADHD-DVDDomino (2005)This week, we return to the fuzzy, high-contrast world of Tony Scott, as the late great Scott brother cranks his signature style to the max in service of a bored rich girl becoming a bounty hunter. It's 2005's Domino, directed by Tony Scott, written by Richard Kelly, and starring Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mo'Nique, Dabney Coleman, Dale Dickey, Lucy Liu and Christopher Walken. It's seemingly a staple of hot couch culture, and dropped in the middle of a very interesting run in Scott's career, but its failure may have scared him into only making movies...
2024-05-031h 24ADHD-DVDThe Mummy (1999)This week, no harm ever came from reading a book, and we test out if the same is true of watching a movie as we discuss 1999's The Mummy on the day it returns to theatres for a 25th anniversary re-release. The Mummy is written and directed by Stephen Sommers, and stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Patricia Velasquez, Oded Fehr, Kevin J. O'Connor and Erick Avari. Hayley has put this one up for canon consideration, as it is once again the last Friday of the month and we just might be adding another title to...
2024-04-261h 28ADHD-DVDAlong Came PollyThis week, we're back on the rom-com train with another selection from Hayley's collection, as we raise a blind ferret and get down with the scuba man. It's 2003's Along Came Polly, written and directed by John Hamburg, and starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, and Hank Azaria, along with countless other famous funny people who oddly aren't allowed to do anything funny in this film. It's one we come to out of appreciation for the late great PSH, and he gives an outstanding performance -- how much you love Mr. Hoffman may...
2024-04-191h 28ADHD-DVDThe PatriotThis week, we're taking up arms against the British and making moves on our dead wife's sister as we get downright independent with 2000's The Patriot, directed by Roland Emmerich, and starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson, Chris Cooper, Rene Auberjonois, Donal Logue, Adam Baldwin, Gregory Smith and a young Logan Lerman. Try as we might to tie into this week's release of Alex Garland's Civil War, this is a war epic about the War of Independence, and just like Independence Day, when America needed a rousing, slightly fascistic display of patriotism via action...
2024-04-121h 24ADHD-DVDThe Last SamuraiThis week we're back in Cruise control as we follow Tom to a mystical faraway land of blood and honour. It's 2003's The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Koyuki, William Atherton, Scott Wilson and Masato Harada. The movie's conception of the dawn of the Meiji Restoration is bafflingly nonsensical, but what it gets wrong about Japan in 1876 can be forgiven for what it gets right about America in 2003. It's a sweeping war epic from the director of Glory, starring Tom Cruise at the height...
2024-04-051h 27ADHD-DVDTENET (with Matt Pollock)This week it gets lonely at night, as we live in a twilight world and there are no friends at dusk. We welcome Matt Pollock (Matty's Movie Burner) back to the program on the final Friday of the month to induct a new entry into the podcast canon: 2020's Tenet, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Himesh Patel, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, Martin Donovan, Dimple Kapadia, and former NHL super-pest Sean Avery. One of the few major theatrical releases of the COVID era, it wa...
2024-03-292h 19ADHD-DVDTombstoneThis week we're headed to the desert in hopes the dry air will ease our sufferin'... and hell's coming with us, as we watch 1993's Tombstone, directed by George Cosmatos (or Kurt Russell, depending who you ask), and starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Dana Delany, Jason Priestley, Stephen Lang, Thomas Haden Church, Michael Rooker, Billy-Bob Thornton, Paul Ben-Victor, Billy Zane, John Corbett, Terry O'Quinn, and the voice of Robert Mitchum. It may not boast the bonafides behind the camera of a more prestige picture like Wyatt Earp, which came...
2024-03-221h 28ADHD-DVDThe Candidate (with John Cameron)We begin a new year of the show this week, and kick off the campaign by welcoming These Estates and Oiseaux musician and Briarpatch publisher John Cameron for an unseen selection from his collection, a prescient political satire that is now 52 years old but could release today with few alterations and still feel timely. It's 1972's The Candidate, directed by Michael Ritchie, and starring Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter, Allen Garfield, Karen Carlson and Michael Lerner. It's a comedy without any jokes that still manages to be fairly funny, at least when its bleak political outlook...
2024-03-151h 39ADHD-DVDTango & CashWe're celebrating one full year of being unlikely partners on the podcast beat by finally getting around to what we've been told is one of the all-time great buddy cop movies. Yes it's 1989's Tango & Cash, directed by a three-headed monster of directors on a deeply troubled production but overseen in post-production by Demolition Man editor Stuart Baird, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance, Teri Hatcher, Brion James, James Hong, Michael J. Pollard, Robert Z'Dar, Lewis Arquette, Eddie Bunker and Clint Howard. No sense sugar-coating it, she doesn't want it to be a secret: Hayley hated this...
2024-03-081h 32ADHD-DVDA Knight's TaleThis week, he will, he will rock you as we begin the first themeless month on the pod in quite a while with a movie that Hayley has seen north of 50 times and Justin has never seen before now. It's 2001's A Knight's Tale, written and directed by Brian Helgeland, and starring Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Laura Fraser and James Purefoy. It's the movie that firmly cemented Ledger as a movie star, as Helgeland crafts an underdog sports movie in the world of medieval jousting. Plus we've got theatrical field trips...
2024-03-021h 23ADHD-DVDSleeping With Other PeopleThis week we're wrapping up February Is For Lovers with another potential entry to the podcast canon, as we dip our toes into rom-com waters for the first time this month with a movie that very much aspires to be a modern take on classic Nora Ephron material: it's 2015's Sleeping With Other People, written and directed by Leslye Headland, and starring Alison Brie, Jason Sudeikis, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Jason Mantzoukas, Andrea Savage, Natasha Lyonne, Katherine Waterston, and Adam Brody. Does it succeed in its ambition to sit alongside When Harry Met Sally... in the ADHD-DVD pod pantheon...
2024-02-231h 32ADHD-DVDBefore MidnightThis week, it's trouble in paradise as we conclude the Before trilogy and keep it on brand with a big blow-up argument. Yes, February Is For Lovers continues with 2013's Before Midnight, once again directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and written by all three. This final chapter keeps you guessing throughout on exactly what kind of movie it's going to be, and is of course lifted once more by two outstanding lead performances. It even earned Oscar gold for Linklater, Hawke and Delpy, who took home the Best Adapted Screenplay award in 2014. ...
2024-02-161h 29ADHD-DVDBefore Sunset (with Marc Staehling)This week, we continue to stroll through Europe as we're joined by traffic anchor, physical media archivist and Vancouver film criticism scion Marc Staehling for an unseen entry from his collection: 2004's Before Sunset, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, from a script by Linklater, Hawke and Delpy. Like the 1995 film it follows, the whole appeal is a stripped-down, naturalistic approach to onscreen romance, as Jesse and Celine reunite 9 years later for a movie that follows their catch-up conversation in real-time. It feels like checking in with old friends again, and we can't wait to...
2024-02-091h 19ADHD-DVDBefore SunriseThis week we're getting off the train on a whim to walk-and-talk our way through Vienna, as February Is For Lovers begins with 1995's Before Sunrise, directed by Richard Linklater, written by Linklater and Kim Krizan, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. It's a cozy little romance about a chance encounter that turns into one magical night of human connection. Simple stuff for sure, but a refreshing break for us here on the show to get to enjoy something of immense quality again, and spoiler alert: this is one of the greats. Beyond that, just a couple of...
2024-02-021h 17ADHD-DVDThe SaintThis week, we're closing out an unsuccessful hunt with a movie about a man with no name, no identity, no family, and no reason to really be too interested in him as the main character of a film. Yes, it's 1997's The Saint, directed once again by Phillip Noyce, and starring Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Henry Goodman, Alun Armstrong, Valeri Nikolaev, Charlotte Cornwell and Emily Mortimer. It's a movie that pairs up a man with no inner life and a woman with no self-esteem as our action-thriller romantic leads, and despite everything working against them in this...
2024-01-271h 23ADHD-DVDClear and Present DangerThis week we are experiencing some technical difficulties because Apple absolutely wrecked my audio set-up with an unnecessary OS update that doesn't seem to have made anything better. That's beside the point, but I did want to apologize off the hop. Anyway. The Hunt For The American James Bond continues both in our hearts and on the show, as we dip our toes into the chilly waters of Lake Jack Ryan one last time with 1994's Clear and Present Danger, directed once again by Phillip Noyce, based on the book by Tom Clancy, and starring Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe...
2024-01-201h 00ADHD-DVDPatriot GamesThis week as a schismatic sect is caught tunnelling underground in New York, we're dealing with a schismatic sect of the Irish variety, intent on burying themselves in pursuit killing of Jack Ryan. Yes, the hunt for the American James Bond continues with 1992's Patriot Games, directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Harrison Ford, Sean Bean, Anne Archer, Thora Birch, Patrick Bergin, Samuel L. Jackson, Polly Walker, James Earl Jones and Richard Harris. Yes Alec Baldwin has been turfed from the franchise, replaced by the man Paramount always wanted in the role from the start, and Ford does a...
2024-01-121h 08ADHD-DVDThe Hunt For Red OctoberThis week, the hunt is on as we kick off the new year with a spy thriller from the director of Die Hard. It's 1990's The Hunt For Red October, directed by John McTiernan, based on the book by Tom Clancy, and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Tim Curry, Courtney B. Vance, Stellan Skarsgard, Jeffrey Jones, Rick Ducommun and Fred Thompson. It's the first of a four-week January series that we're calling The Hunt For The American James Bond, as we go from last month's Mission: Impossible discussion to the broader effort...
2024-01-051h 16ADHD-DVDAssault on Precinct 13 (2005)For one last time in 2023, this week we ring out the old and ring in the new with a New Year's Eve-set dad-pandering actioner, the 2005 remake of John Carpenter's crime-horror classic Assault on Precinct 13, directed by Jean-Francois Richet, and starring Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Mario Bello, Drea de Matteo, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, Ja Rule and Kim Coates. I'll be straight up: the movie is not good. It's not horrible either, and definitely has a lot of strong elements, including compelling performances from our two leads. But its grey zone blandness makes it almost the perfect movie...
2023-12-301h 16ADHD-DVDSteel (with E.J. Feddes)MERRY SHAQMAS EVERYONE! We kick off a pod tradition with the First Annual Shaqmas Celebration on ADHD-DVD as returning guest and FED Talks host E.J. Feddes brings an unseen film from his collection with our man Shaquille in the lead role. It's 1997's Steel, written and directed by Kenneth Johnson, and starring Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall, Ray J, Steve Matilla, Kevin Grevioux, and John Hawkes. Shaq has a Superman tattoo so why not cast him as a hero that is explicitly tied to Superman, a character who does not appear and...
2023-12-221h 37ADHD-DVDMission: ImpossibleA DePalmber to ReMalmber reaches its thrilling conclusion as our intrepid director kicks off an action mega-franchise with an opening entry that's far more 'film' than 'flick' -- it's 1996's Mission: Impossible, directed by Brian DePalma, written by David Koepp and Robert Towne, and starring Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emilio Estevez and Rolf Saxon. This classic of the 90s now takes its rightful place in the ADHD-DVD canon. Somehow, perhaps in viewing it within the context of some of DePalma's broader work, both hosts enjoyed t...
2023-12-151h 23ADHD-DVDCarlito's WayThis week the dream don't come no closer by itself, as A DePalmber to ReMalmber continues with a movie that is in some ways a spiritual sequel to Scarface, and is in other ways laying out the formula for tension in the Mission: Impossible series that the director will kick off with his next project. It's 1993's Carlito's Way, directed by Brian DePalma, written by David Koepp, and starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Luis Guzman, Ingrid Rogers, James Rebhorn, Viggo Mortensen and John Ortiz. It's a movie with a far more personal core than...
2023-12-091h 22ADHD-DVDScarface (with J.D. Burke)This week we say hello to the little friend as A DePalmber to ReMalmber begins with 1983's Scarface, directed by Brian DePalma, written by Oliver Stone, and starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, F. Murray Abraham, Harris Yulin, Mark Margolis, and Richard Belzer. It's an opulent operatic journey to the American Dream, a slick and stylish directorial effort that truly proves subtlety is for cowards. It's an unseen from J Mo's collection that's been gathering dust for north of 17 years, and though a bout with COVID prevented him from joining us for the...
2023-12-011h 20ADHD-DVDGremlinsWe close out Dante's In Fer November with a movie that could not be better suited to Black Friday, an anti-capital, anti-consumerist screed with a sharp sense of humour that lands perfectly in that liminal space between Halloween and Christmas. It's 1984's Gremlins, directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus, and starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller, Judge Reinhold, Jonathan Banks, and featuring the voices of Howie Mandel and Frank Welker. Like Die Hard, it is perfect Christmas Eve alternative programming, but the movie is such a blast that you...
2023-11-241h 28ADHD-DVDInnerspaceThis week, we take a fantastic voyage inside Martin Short, as Dante's In Fer November continues with 1987's Innerspace, directed by Joe Dante and starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis, Robert Picardo, Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson and Dick Miller. It's a delightfully silly adventure movie that neither host had seen, as J Mo nabbed it on Blu-ray earlier this year based largely on the novelty of Short having a leading role in a big, broad action movie. And to be clear, he is outrageously good in this -- an odd glimpse into the leading...
2023-11-171h 19ADHD-DVDThe 'Burbs (with Matt Pollock)This week we're gawking at the weird freaks across the street, as we go from the urban hellscape of After Hours to Joe Dante's horror comedy about the monotonous terror of suburban living with 1989's The 'Burbs, directed by Dante, written by Dana Olsen, and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Rick Ducommun, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman, Henry Gibson and Dick Miller. It's the start of another director series as we'll be celebrating the works of Joe Dante over the next three weeks, in a theme month we're calling Dante's In Fer November! Kicking it off with us is a...
2023-11-101h 40ADHD-DVDAfter HoursThe calendar may have already flipped to November but Marty Month continues as we fittingly go into overtime with 1985's After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, Verna Bloom, John Heard, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. It's a rare straight-up comedy from Marty, an anxious nightmare of a movie that takes place on one wild night in the streets of New York City, and it's Justin's nomination to the ADHD-DVD canon to close out a month long celebration of Scorsese cinema. Other...
2023-11-031h 18ADHD-DVDGangs of New YorkMarty Month rolls on, as we move backwards in Scorsese's filmography to his first film with Leo, a revenge picture set in the mean streets of New York circa 1862. It's 2002's Gangs of New York, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Jay Cocks, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Henry Thomas, Stephen Graham and Eddie Marsan. It finds the director very much in an era where he seems to be gunning for the awards that have previously eluded him throughout his career, and to that end the movie...
2023-10-271h 29ADHD-DVDThe AviatorAs Killers of the Flower Moon hits theatres today, we're begging to see the blueprints this week, going back to another major Scorsese/DiCaprio collab as Marty Month continues with 2004's The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm and Adam Scott. It's an extremely polished prestige picture clearly aimed at cleaning up during awards season, though despite its obvious quality it still feels like the least essential of Scorsese and DiCaprio's collaborations -- perhaps a contributing factor to the...
2023-10-211h 18ADHD-DVDMean StreetsWe may be a bit late in getting Marty Month started, but we're diving in head long with Scorsese's breakthrough picture, and the first of many collaborations with his two leads as we finally sit down to watch 1973's Mean Streets, written and directed by Martin Scorsese, and starring Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Amy Robinson, Martin Proval, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova and Victor Argo. It's Scorsese's second full length feature, but the first that comes from a personal space, and features so many elements of the director's signature voice and style that would only become more refined in...
2023-10-161h 24ADHD-DVDWhen Harry Met Sally...This week we're having what she's having, as we wrap up the month with another entry into the ADHD-DVD canon. Hayley's got the keys to the vault this month and is using the first Fun Friday of the fall to induct an autumnal classic, the rom-com that paved the path for all others after it, 1989's When Harry Met Sally..., directed by Rob Reiner, written by Nora Ephron, and starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby. In addition to dissecting the film, we also talk about its slew of imitators and pick out a few more...
2023-09-291h 34ADHD-DVDThe Taking of Pelham 1 2 3This week, as GameStop enthusiasts go head-to-head with Wall Street interests in theatres with Craig Gillespie's Dumb Money, we're talking stock market manipulation of a different sort as we head underground with the 2009 remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, directed by Tony Scott, written by Brian Helgeland, and starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, James Gandolfini, Luis Guzman and returning ADHD-DVD favourite Aunjanue Ellis. This remake does not quite capture the magic of the 1974 original, which is an unquestionably great film, but it's not without its own strengths as well, hidden though they may be behind the late...
2023-09-221h 14ADHD-DVDSynecdoche, New York (with Josh Custodio)This week we're using a part to represent the whole and the whole to represent a part as Wrestling Brain's Josh Custodio joins us to go deep on the human condition with 2008's Synecdoche, New York, written and directed Charlie Kaufman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, Hope Davis and Dianne Wiest. Kaufman's directorial debut, coming hot on the heels of Eternal Sunshine, is at once an absurdist comedy and a devastating tragedy, with Hoffman giving what might be a career-best performance in a life that was full of great ones. Plus: losing...
2023-09-151h 48ADHD-DVDThe Brothers Bloom (with Max Johnson)This week we've lost the Muppets but are keeping the great caper as we're roped in to one last job with 2008's The Brothers Bloom, written and directed by Rian Johnson, and starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane, Maximilian Schell and Ricky Jay. And we're joined by Hayley's long-time friend Max Johnson (no relation) to talk a film that both Max and J Mo have owned for more than a decade without ever watching -- a lively con artist comedy with a well-earned gut punch of a finish. In addition to the...
2023-09-091h 35ADHD-DVDSingin' in the RainGood mornin'! Good mornin'! We talked the whole pod through... Yes, this week we've unintentionally crafted the perfect triple-bill, following up The Muppet Movie and Bowfinger with yet another showbiz comedy musical as we go puddle-splashing in our brightest yellow coats with 1952's Singin' in the Rain, co-directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, and starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell and Rita Moreno. If comedy is the genre that does not hold up with the age, this just might be the exception that proves the rule as the film is just as dazzling...
2023-09-011h 13ADHD-DVDBowfingerGot you, suckas! Steve Martin Month concludes with an underrated gem of a comedy that hates Hollywood but deeply loves The Movies, 1999's Bowfinger, directed by Frank Oz, written by Steve Martin, and starring Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Jamie Kennedy, Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Stamp. A movie producer at the end of his rope, Bobby Bowfinger's one last shot at Hollywood success goes up in smoke when action star Kit Ramsey won't agree to be in his movie -- so they make the movie anyway, starring Ramsey without his knowledge or consent. A classic comedy f...
2023-08-251h 30ADHD-DVDThe Muppet Movie (with Jackson McDonald)Waka waka! Steve Martin Month continues as this week we welcome Jackson McDonald (Roxy Fever, History Lesson: Part II) back to the program to discuss a pair of movies that are actually good, as we get movin' right along into 1979's The Muppet Movie, directed by James Frawley, and starring Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton, and a long list of cameo appearances including Edgar Bergen, Mel Brooks and of course, Steve Martin. While it's not officially the movie of the week, we also spend a great deal of time talking about 1981's The Great M...
2023-08-181h 57ADHD-DVDThe Lonely GuySteve Martin Month continues as this week we're heading down to the fern store and haggling over haircuts with 1984's The Lonely Guy, directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence and Robyn Douglas -- a much wackier movie than last week's entry, though one that can't quite tonally balance all of its ambitions, losing its comedic edge to a rather rote romance. Still, the movie is quite funny, with the majority of its laughs belonging to Grodin, who is right at home mining comedy gold out of the absolute worst person to...
2023-08-111h 17ADHD-DVDDead Men Don't Wear PlaidSteve Martin Month begins! As the comedy icon is set to return to the small screen early next week with Season 3 of Only Murders In The Building, we trace Steve Martin's love of crime comedy and detective noir all the way back to 1982's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, directed by Carl Reiner, written by Reiner and Martin, and starring Martin, Reiner, Rachel Ward, and a whole host of classic stars of the past including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake and Vincent Price, as footage from old noir films is edited into...
2023-08-041h 14ADHD-DVDMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part OneWhile we are usually trying to tie deep cuts from our physical collections into the topical release of the week around here, this week on the show we celebrate the release of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One by, well, watching and talking about it immediately upon its release, as it makes a direct line into the hallowed annals of the ADHD-DVD canon. It's the podcast's most anticipated movie of the summer, and we go nearly two hours breaking it at all down, so strap in for spoilerific discussion on 2023's M:I-DRP1, directed and co-written by Christopher...
2023-07-281h 58ADHD-DVDDunkirkThis week, as Christopher Nolan wades back into the calamitously tense territory of the war-time historical drama with Oppenheimer, which opens in theatres opposite Barbie today, we're flexing our eye-acting skills and setting sail for France on a one-way trip to cross off the only Nolan movie neither Justin nor Hayley have ever seen before: 2017's Dunkirk, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Mark Rylance, Barry Keoghan, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles, Jack Lowden, Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hardy. It's an incredible feat of filmmaking on the kind of scale that studios seem to be...
2023-07-211h 26ADHD-DVDDays of ThunderAs Ethan Hunt returns to theaters this week with another impossible mission, we celebrate the release of Dead Reckoning: Part 1 by going back to another repeat collaboration with a director Tom Cruise found great success with: 1990's Days of Thunder, directed by Tony Scott, and starring Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Michael Rooker, John C. Reilly and Cary Elwes -- the latter of whom is back playing an onscreen foil opposite Tom now 33 years later in the latest Mission. Not just a re-teaming of Top Gun's creative team, the movie often plays like a loose remake of the previous...
2023-07-141h 31ADHD-DVDThe Town (with EJ Feddes)This week we're putting this whole frickin' town in our rearview, as we make a return trip to Affleckville alongside the sweetest man in Michigan, FED Talks podcaster and all-around film fan EJ Feddes, who has brought an unseen selection from his own collection: 2010's The Town, directed, co-written and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper and Pete Postlethwaite in his final film role. Ben's follow-up to previous pod-fodder Gone Baby Gone, he's back on the Boston streets with a crime thriller often compared to Michael Mann's Heat -- a...
2023-07-071h 32ADHD-DVDThe RocketeerThis week, the Dial of Destiny is pointing Indiana Jones back into conflict with the Nazis, and Disney hopes toward a box office hit as well. If it comes and goes without much fanfare this weekend, it wouldn't be the first time the House of Mouse has struck out trying to recreate the thrills of matinee serial adventures from the 1930s, as this week we wind the clock all the way back to 1991 and watch The Rocketeer, directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, Paul Sorvino and Terry O'Quinn. The movie was...
2023-06-301h 19ADHD-DVDThe Fifth Element (with Jordan Bowman)This week we go fishing for belly stones and are flashing our moolti-pass as we're joined by podcaster and pro wrestling commentator Jordan Bowman (Trust The Process, At The Movies 10 Years Later, Nation Extreme Wrestling) for an unseen selection from his collection: 1997's The Fifth Element, written and directed by Luc Besson, and starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, and a great gaggle of "interesting looking" faces. Released to mixed reviews at the time, Besson's film was a box office hit praised for its bold visuals and production design. Jordan...
2023-06-231h 35ADHD-DVDThe Long Goodbye (with Travis Woloshyn)This week on the program, bust out the Courry Brand cat food and light up a cig because we're joined by actor, podcaster and Boom Pro Wrestling personality Travis Woloshyn for a selection out of his collection: Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), starring Elliot Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson and Jim Bouton, and featuring the very first acting role for a young Arnold Schwarzenegger. Based on the book by Raymond Chandler, Altman offers a uniquely comic and at the time derided take on Philip Marlowe and the noir genre that nevertheless went on to influence countless...
2023-06-161h 28ADHD-DVDContactAs the Autobots make contact with the Maximals for the first time in this week's big theatrical release, we're getting in touch with extraterrestrials of a different sort this week with 1997's Contact, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt and James Woods, based on the book by Carl Sagan. It's a pick out of Hayley's collection this week, scooped up on the cheap out of a discount bin at the mall. Plus: J Mo raves about Across The Spider-Verse, while Hayley is left fuming by the Ted Lasso finale. If y...
2023-06-091h 28ADHD-DVDCloudy With A Chance Of MeatballsThis week as both the Spider-Verse and Clone High make their way back to screens big and small, we trace it back to Christopher Miller & Phil Lord's first animated feature: 2007's Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, written and directed by Miller & Lord, starring Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Bruce Campbell and Andy Samberg, adapted from the 1978 children's book of the same name. It's a movie J Mo picked up on 3D Blu for dirt cheap out of a Shoppers Drug Mart bargain bin, and unsurprisingly given the creative team at the helm, it's a funny movie with...
2023-06-021h 10ADHD-DVDDemolition ManThe Demolition derby continues this week, as we go from a self-destructive Jake Gyllenhaal dramedy to something that is decidedly not that: an early 90s action slugfest with a thin veneer of reactionary satire, dreading the coming Liberalized future. It's 1993's DEMOLITION MAN, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock and Bob Gunton. We're lightly breaking the rules this week as this is a movie both hosts have sort of seen, but never given their full attention to. Is this a movie that warrants that full attention? Well... let's just say opinions are mixed on that one. ...
2023-05-261h 18ADHD-DVDDemolitionSometimes you need to break it all down to put it all back together, which is exactly what Hayley and Justin are thinking this week as they dissect 2015's Demolition, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis -- a Blu-ray disc that J-Mo scooped up on a whim out of the Shoppers Drug Mart discount bin a few years ago not long after watching the 2014 JMV joint Wild. It's a bit of an odd-ball movie and its reputation is less than stellar, but both hosts find a lot to like in this e...
2023-05-191h 32ADHD-DVDGone Baby GoneThis week, as Ben Affleck's latest directorial effort AIR drops on Amazon Prime, we're finally popping in a DVD J Mo's been hauling around for nearly 15 years now: 2007's Gone Baby Gone, Affleck's debut in the director's chair -- from a script he co-wrote as well -- starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Amy Ryan, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman. Based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, coming hot off the heels of the critical success of Mystic River, Affleck's first film is morally ambiguous, thought provoking and emotionally evocative, and we had a nice time discussing its many strengths...
2023-05-121h 27ADHD-DVDThe AccountantThis week, it's tax time! We crunch the numbers and list a spare bedroom as a home office to boost our returns with the autism-as-a-superpower action thriller The Accountant (2016), directed by Gavin O'Connor, starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons and Jon Bernthal, along with a murderer's row of character actors in a movie that plays on American cable TV all the time. This is a big time Dumb Guy Movie, and your intrepid hosts have mixed opinions on how much it worked for them, but it makes for lively discussion in our longest show to date.
2023-05-051h 41ADHD-DVDGifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (with Jackson McDonald)This week, we're joined by a guest for the very first time, which is exciting! Unfortunately they have brought with them an unwatched DVD from their own collection which was excrutiating! JACKSON McDONALD (Roxy Fever) guides us back into bio-pics with a movie that at times feels like a made-for-TV Ray, 2009's Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, and Aunjanue Ellis. It's a movie Jackson believes found its way onto his shelf via his father-in-law, and it's not something we recommend anyone watch before listening along. You can hear more of...
2023-04-281h 33ADHD-DVDDazed and ConfusedThis week, we're back with a belated 4/20 celebration, watching the movie who's own early 90s marketing campaign encouraged filmgoers to "watch it with a bud", Richard Linklater's 1993 high school classic DAZED AND CONFUSED. This one is a Hayley Hasn't Seen, despite the fact she's owned it for roughly 13 years without ever popping it in the player, and perhaps the movie's stoner reputation scared her away as someone who does not partake. But before we can get into a certified five-star classic, we must take the opportunity to gush about another film some are saying that could also...
2023-04-211h 18ADHD-DVDMandyWe shift gears wildly from last week's animated family fun to a blood-soaked, neon-drenched revenge thriller, as we synch up with today's theatrical release of Renfield to discuss 2018's Mandy, written and directed by Panos Cosmatos, starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache. It's a movie very much of a pattern for Cage alongside Pig, A Color Out of Space and even Drive Angry. Plus J Mo has field reports on trips to the theatre to see Creed III and 65, while Hayley makes the case for Scream as brunette culture. Thank you Eastman Presser for our...
2023-04-141h 22ADHD-DVDChicken RunThis week, it's Mel Gibson leading a pack of chickens out of a POW death camp in the British claymation classic, 2000's Chicken Run! That's right, Music Month is over, though discussion does return to music bio-pics before the show is over. Plus: Having just seen Knock At The Cabin, Hayley and Justin get into it about the Shyamalan revival, with The Visit, Old and Knock arguably making him a must-see director again. And J Mo froths at the mouth recalling being held captive on an airplane by a Hugh Grant movie with a premise so boring...
2023-04-071h 15ADHD-DVDWalk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryThis week on the pod... the wrong kid died! Music Month closes out with one last bio-pic -- the music movie parody that renders all the serious attempts that follow it laughable in how closely they hew to the cartoonish comedy of this brilliant send-up. It's 2007's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, directed by Jake Kasdan, co-written by Kasdan and Judd Apatow, and starring John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer and Kristen Wiig. It's the perfect capstone for the first month of the podcast, a movie that Hayley has never seen and Justin has watched countless times. ...
2023-03-311h 33ADHD-DVDThe Blues BrothersMusic Month continues with a classic comedy of the 80s, while Justin and Hayley struggle with how to talk about a movie that is clearly exceptionally crafted but just so happens to be directed by one the great bastards of cinema: Hayley's unproblematic fave, the child-murdering John Landis. While so many hit comedies of its day have not stood the test of time, does The Blues Brothers still hold up? Your intrepid hosts are eager to find out. PLUS: Recorded in the immediate aftermath of last year's spooky season, we discuss the many works of James Wan...
2023-03-241h 31ADHD-DVDRayJustin and Hayley are back to review the film that spawned the entire idea for the podcast, a movie that had been collecting dust on J Mo's shelf for sixteen and a half years without ever having been watched: 2004's Ray, written and directed by Taylor Hackford, and starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington and Regina King, for which Foxx won the Academy Award for Best Actor. After starting the show last week with an unconventional music bio-pic, Music Month continues this time around with a movie that wallows in convention to such an extent it is often flirting with...
2023-03-171h 04ADHD-DVDI'm Not ThereIt's the first episode! Hayley and Justin kick off Music Month on the pod with a movie that is sort of a bio-pic, sort of a meditation on the pointlessness of bio-pics in general, and a great excuse to get a ton of great bands together and record some wonderful covers of Bob Dylan's more obscure songs. Yes it's 2007's I'm Not There, the only movie that both of your intrepid hosts had each added to their collections without ever watching. We do our best to summarize a rather unsummarizable film, pick our Best Bobs, and fantasy-cast which actors...
2023-03-101h 20
ADHD-DVDWelcome to ADHD-DVDNEW SHOW OVER HERE. Yes that's right, we're putting out a trailer just to have something on the feed so that people can already be subscribed when real episodes start to drop. It's a movie podcast about watching the DVDs and Blu-rays we own, and in some cases have owned for decades now without ever actually sitting down and pressing play. Every week Justin and Hayley sit down to watch something that's been collecting dust on one of their respective shelves, review the movie, and dish on whatever they're currently hyper-fixated on. FULL EPISODES COMING VERY SOON.
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