We Wanna Watch

Our last movie of the fiscal year (and by that I mean it's been almost a year of the podcast!) is this week's Lane's Frame, The Great Escape (1963) directed by John Sturges. We have quite a few digressions in this episode about the banality of evil, depicting war in movies, and why the Nazi salutes in this movie seem so funky. Also, a brief intro about 2024's Look Back directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyam...

This week's Rick's Pick is a return to form for our show: a random movie he saw a viral clip of online. We watched Fitzcarraldo (1982) directed by Werner Herzog. Described by Ricky as "Herzog's Apocalypse Now" (despite Ricky having not seen Apocalypse Now nor any other Herzog movies), we talk about hubris, movies with troubled productions, and how this movie just hasn't aged very well. Plus: an ep...

Oh Yeah! This week's Fresh double feature Lane's Frames are a blatant excuse to talk about the music of Daft Punk; we watched Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003) directed by Leiji Matsumoto, Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Daisuke Nishio, and Hirotoshi Rissen AND Daft Punk's Alive 2007 Live Concert at Lollapalooza (2007), which has no director credits because it seems to have just be...

The final entry in our WE WANNA WAIL series (no for real this time) was chosen in a somewhat snap-decision to be Smile 2 (2024) directed by Parker Finn. As a carryover from the days of Kino 101 with Ricky, the first Smile movie holds a special place in our canon, so it only fits that we would scare the shit out of ourselves in theatres with the sequel. I feel like you can really hear how nervous w...

Surprise! WE WANNA WAIL ends (😏) with a special early Halloween drop for our discussion about The Exorcist (1973) directed by William Friedkin. Here's that e-boy content you ordered.

Much like the protagonist in the last 25 minutes of this movie, WE WANNA WAIL! This week is a very special Nick's Flick (or is it? watchers, get at us), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper. Does this movie live up to its blood-soaked reputation? We all know Ricky hates women, but does Nick hate women more? Is this episode too long? How many movies did I say to Ricky, "we'll...

We take a little breather during our WE WANNA WAIL series to watch this week's double feature of Rick's Picks, Monster House (2006) directed by Gil Kenan and ParaNorman (2012) directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler. We talk about stop motion animation, creepy old people, and how "Prenderghast" doesn't really give Slav. Plus: a little detour to talk about THE SUBSTANCE (2024) directed by Coralie Far...

WE WANNA WAIL continues as we enter the Forbidden Room with this week's Lane's Frame, Pulse (2001) directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. We talk about ghosts, existential dread, and how scary it would be to have some guy just pop up in our Discord call. Plus, are all the jokes online about people wanting to kill themselves desensitizing us to depictions of suicide in movies?

Continuing our WE WANNA WAIL miniseries ( not We Wanna Whale, mind you), this week's Rick's Pick was a thematic double feature: Perfect Blue (1997) directed by Satoshi Kon and Black Swan (2010) directed by Darren Aronofsky. While we compare these two films' visual and story similarities, we come to the conclusion that the similarities are far outweighed by the differences in characterization, visc...

This week's entry in our WE WANNA WAIL series features TWO Lane's Frames: both the original Psycho (1960) directed by Alfred Hitchcock AND the remake Psycho (1998) directed by Gus Van Sant. We talk about the original movie's influence, the gay subtext in both films, and the fascinating endeavor of remaking a beloved classic. I'm very punchy and looking for a fight with Ricky during this episode, l...

We're kicking off our WE WANNA WAIL miniseries with this week's Rick's Pick, Midsommar (2019) directed by Ricky's favorite director Ari Aster. Is this movie as scary as Hereditary? Does the boyfriend deserve it? How does white women loving true crime play into homestead-flavored racism? Plus: I sent Ricky a meme about calling all camera movement "panning" and now he wants to be an asshole about it...

For this week's Lane's Frame, we watched Othello (1951) directed by Orson Welles. A strange adaptation that reduces the usual 3-hour play to just 90 minutes, the movie gets mixed reactions from us; we appreciate its cinematography and ambitious vision, but struggle to get past its sloppiness, character-limiting choices, and, yes, the horrible racism. Also, we talk about Jujutsu Kaisen and Zumba, w...

This week is a Rick's Pick, and boy, was it ever! We watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) directed by Robert Zemeckis, a movie that Ricky had somehow never seen. This episode is replete with antics, shenanigans, and sound effects - but only to complement the movie, of course.

This week's Lane's Frame is Silkwood (1983) directed by Mike Nichols. It's a bit of a bummer episode, but we keep it fun and fancy free with diversions about Kurt Russell, forgotten Oscar movies, and our beloved Nintendo.

We finally get back around to this week's Rick's Pick, Barry Lyndon (1975) directed by Stanley Kubrick. To nobody's surprise, it doesn't compare favorably to Amadeus, but we still have a good time discussing its merits, including its painting-like shots, hilarious irony, and its timeless thematic elements . Also, what the fuck is lindy? Ricky go outside challenge. Thanks and much credit to NTRXMUS...

We wanna watch...but maybe not these movies! This week's choice of Lane's Fame is Boogie Nights (1997) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, whose name I said in this episode like Agent Smith for some reason. We talk about showy filmmaking, porn as an art form, and Julianne "My Mom" Moore. We also digress into Reddit celebrities for like, a LONG time.

Nevermind the Watchmen - who watches the watchers?! Someone certainly ought to! This week's Rick's Pick was Watchmen (2009) directed by Z*ck Sn*der. We get into this movie's style (dated), politics (DATED), and critiques of superheroes (also somehow dated!). Plus: Lane poisons squirrels.

This week's mess of a Lane's Frame is Longlegs (2024) directed by Oz Perkins. 🚨 WE SPOIL THE MOVIE RIGHT AWAY🚨 and talk about the film's hype campaign, strange tone, and story that seems to homage everything while retaining a unique visual style. Features a couple surprises along the way so hang in there for the shitty audio quality lol. Cuckoo!

This week's Rick's Pick, which he seems to actually not know the name of, is Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) directed by Ang Lee. We talk about this sensuous, sumptuous film's mastery of tone, humor, and emotion. Along the way, we meander into discussions about Italian ice, assessing acting performances in languages you don't speak, and the FUCKING squirrel that keeps eating out of my bird feeder.

This week's Lane's Frame is Kinds of Kindness (2024) directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Why are they covering a surreal allegory for the Holocaust from 1970s Poland? Are they stupid? This week's Rick's Pick is The Hourglass Sanatorium (1974) directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, a psychological horror-drama that left us creeped out and moved in a great way. We discuss anti-intellectualism and Ricky's extreme distaste for mannequins, wax figures, corpses, and all manner of human facsimile.

This week's Lane's Frame is a celebration of being a dramatic and indulgent little birthday boy: Henry V (1989) directed by Kenneth Branagh. We discuss our histories with Shakespeare, the cast of Harry Potter, and cool maps. Shockingly not a horny episode because I'm saving myself for Hamlet 🥰

We return to our anime roots with this week's Rick's Pick, the first three episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015). A lot less "Wow! Cool robot!" than expected, we talk about how cool (?) Char is, Crunchyroll's shoutout-worthiness, and the Glup Shitto phenomenon. Also, I'm calling it now, this is going to be one of our lowest-ranked episodes because of this massacre of an episode title,...

We are horrorpilled jumpscaremaxxing mommycels on this week's Lane's Frame, Hereditary (2018) directed by Ari Aster. This episode has been edited to smithereens and I don't even know what to put in the caption. I never wanted to be your mother?

This week's Lane's Frame, Sicario (2015) directed by Denis Villeneuve, totally DOGWALKS our previous movie from the same director. We get into depiction of violence in movies (again) and how many bags of popcorn Ricky hallucinated us eating together one time. Lotta truck sounds on my audio in the background this episode, balanced out with the pleasant sounds of birds chirping from Ricky's audio tr...