Everyone's A Critic

We've been going for a whole year and so obviously I had to celebrate by bringing back my very first guest - Ari Anantaputri! What movie do we talk about? It's a surprise!  Notes Subscribe to my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/yianniscove You can find all of Ari's work mentioned at https://arianeanindita.co/

Now You See Me 2 brings back the gang of magicians and Cassandra Hager joins me to defend it. We talk the overly complicated plot, what we think a third movie would bring, and Cassandra's love for Jesse Eisenberg!

Take a very low budget, the director of the Saw franchise, and Paris Hilton and you get Repo. Caitlin Liberati and I discuss the extreme gore, the operatic soundtrack, and offer our wildy different views of the movie!

With an incredible cast led by Will Smith that includes Martin Scorsese as a blowfish, I was always going to be on board for Shark Tale! Sahana Srinivasan joins me as we discuss their weird human features, the gangster plot, and the comparison to another fish movie of the time...

We're now beginning a Brendan Fraser renaissance but in 1994 he was just beginning. DC Pierson joins me to talk Airheads, a light comedy with some very dark moments. We discuss the stacked cast, Gen X, and just how good Fraser is in everything he does!

The original Legally Blonde is a beloved classic that has stood the test of time - its sequel less so! Irina Chlidze joins me as we talk about the uplifting message of the movie, Elle Woods being a fantastic role model, and a stacked cast of 4 Oscar winners!

Fifteen years before the Dark Universe series was DOA, there came another failed attempt at launching a monster series. Patrick Cotnoir joins me to discuss Van Helsing. We discuss the insane budget, the tiny vampire babies, and Patrick reads the greatest review ever written!

Whoopi Goldberg going undercover as a nun to save a failing school, and there's music? How could it go wrong! Aarushi Agni joins me to discuss the amazing cast, including Lauryn Hill, the incredible songs, and reveals she's never seen the original!

A rare movie musical that started this way before becoming a stage show, Newsies stars Christian Bale and a ragtag group of boys fighting to bring down a capitalist newspaper tycoon. Brooke Preston joins me to discuss the songs, the bad accents, and Bale's shame at having starred in it!

Often called one of the worst movies ever made, not only by critics but even by everyone invloved, Batman & Robin has now become something of a cult classic. Jordan Myrick (Talk Chef) and I discuss its camp qualities, the hilarious villains, and what Jordan discovered about herself after watching it the first time.

After Dirty Dancing, Patrick Swayze was unstoppable and so he made Road House - a movie that features next to no plot but makes up for it with a whole lot of action. Daniel Kibblesmith (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) joins me to discuss small town bouncers, crazy fights, and we also get a cameo from his wife, fellow fan Jennifer Wright!

You ain't seen Bad Boys 2? Christine Nangle (The Simpsons, The President Show) joins me to discuss the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence sequel. We talk about our views of cop movies in 2021, the insane action sequences, and when we first met in London! 

Give me a body-swap premise for a movie and I'm always in! So, I was very excited to talk about the Lindsay Lohan rom-com with Dana Donnelly! We discuss Lindsay's career ups and downs, child stars, and obviously McFly!

We enter the realm of Disney this week with Heavyweights - a movie about kids at a fat camp that gets overtaken by a fitness guru played by an overly-ripped Ben Stiller. Julia Claire (Reply Guys) joins me to talk about summer camps experiences, the 90s health craze, and much more!

A throwback to movies from the 40's starring George Clooney and directed by Steven Soderbergh should surely work and yet The Good German just doesn't. Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes, The George Lucas Talk Show) joins me and takes a unique approach to defending the movie that no guest has tried yet. If you know him at all you'll also be shocked by a movie he thinks is bad!

In the season finale of the podcast, Haley OC joins me to defend the cult stoner classic Super Troopers, from the Broken Lizard comedy team. We talk about why this is probably their best movie, Brian Cox elevating everything he is in, and why stoner comedies are so looked down on!

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witches in a rom-com? How could anyone not enjoy this movie? Lizzie Logan joins me to defend Practical Magic. We discuss the fantastic casting, the intensity of Nicole Kidman's acting, and our shared hate of two very big movies!

The day which comes around once every four years finally gets the representation it deserves. Ngoc Bui joins me to defend Leap Year, the Amy Adams rom-com about a woman who attempts to get to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on a leap day because apparently that's a tradition? We discuss, grand proposals, our very different views on the name Declan, and more!

Bangarang! With a choice that was very close to my heart, Stevie Martin joins the podcast to discuss Hook, a movie considered a classic by many 90s kids. We talk about the excellent casting, the amazingly memorable food fight with the Lost Boys, and how much Robin Williams was a part of our childhoods!

A sequel to one of the biggest movies of all time but with none of the original cast - what could go wrong? Marcia Belsky joins me to discuss Grease 2, a movie that did so badly on release that they scrapped plans for 3 more. Does every song sound the same? Why is everyone 40 years old? We get into these points and more!

Rowan Atkinson is a master of slapstick and satire from Mr Bean, to Blackadder, and in Johnny English he combines them to... a debatable outcome. Ania Magliano joins me to discuss the film and we learn about her nostalgia for it and her dislike of film-bros.

At the height of the millenium there were a series of movies that dealt with people trying to leave their comfortable office jobs in pursuit of happiness (wild these days) and The Beach approached it in the form of hedonism. Jordan Brookes joins me as we talk about cults, communes, and whether we would ever do something like this.

Famous for his movie twists, M. Night Shyamalan was once one of Hollywood's biggest filmmakers and then came Lady in the Water, a mythological style movie that makes zero sense and bombed after costing $70 million. Josh Gondelman comes on to try to defend and explain why despite flawed storytelling, it's a must watch!

In the 90's there was a bar in New York City where women would serve drinks and dance at the same time but this was no strip club, it was the Coyote Ugly. Hollywood decided to make a rom-com out of it and Charlie Dinkin is on the podcast to defend this "feminist masterpiece", that features cameos from Michael Bay and Johnny Knoxville, as well as an uncredited rewrite from Kevin Smith... yes that o...

At the height of Dakota Fanning's child-stardom and Brittany Murphy's rom-com phase came Uptown Girls, a movie that combined the two elements and had a newly broke socialite take on a nanny job for a child who behaves more grown up than she does. Georgia Shenk comes on to defend it and also repeatedly plugs the movie Sleeping With Other People for some reason!