We Wanna Watch

How many times can Ricky joke about having too many notes? Tune in to find out on our episode for this week's Rick's Pick, Amadeus (1984) directed by Miloš Forman. We relish everything about this movie from the incredible performances, the set design, and, of course, the wigs. We also litigate having movies spoiled for us, our music listening habits, and Ricky's likeness to Cthulhu.

A lost pearl, shiny, In the sea feeling tiny, So very briny. Also, we watched Blow-Up (1966) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, for the keyword bots.

A movie that dares to ask the question, what if Mad Max were wet and also bad? This week's film off the Christopher Listopher is Waterworld (1995) directed by Kevin Reynolds, NOT Kevin Coster like the zeitgeist wants you to believe. We talk about eating ice cream on Monday mornings with your dad, how Jeff Goldblum is not sexy, and also the movie Waterworld (1995) directed by Kevin Reynolds NOT Kev...

Shoutout to Brussels. We keep it a little downbeat on this week's Rick's Pick, News from Home (1976) directed by Chantal Ackerman. A beautiful, melancholic movie, we're mostly *Drake voice** in our feelings about our relationships with our moms, what it means to be home, and how they just don't make silk-lined houndstooth beige tweed shackets like they used to. Also, lotta Zumba talk on this episo...

With nothing but a blueberry Truly and a dream, we hoot and holler over this week's cursed Lane's Frame, Beyond the Sea (2004) directed AND starring [the actor who played Hopper in A Bug's Life]. We get into that actor's career, the terrible decisions made in this movie, and what makes a bad biopic. Plus: can Ricky say "faggot"?

Rick's Pick this week is The Devil Wears Prada (VERY 2006) directed by David Frankel. We get into this movie's incredible performances, early 2000s beauty standards, and nightmare assistant jobs. Digressions include grey hair, dick inches, and face blindness. Also, there is a reveal about Ricky that is SO nonsensical and incongruous with everything we know about him that it will shake you to your...

Flop! Lane's regretful Frame this week is Animal House (1978) directed by [this tweet may violate rules against hateful conduct.]. We talk about frat culture, gross-out humor, and hooking up in cars with other people nearby. The gain on Ricky's mic is all fucked up in this episode. Who wants to take bets on how quickly he gets to the Todd episodes of Breaking Bad? I give it 10 days.

Part Lane's Frame, part blatant bait at listener engagement, part thirst watch: it's Civil War (2024) directed by Alex Garland. 🚨 We spoil the movie right away 🚨 in our discussion of its politics, the intensity of the action, and the sometimes-clumsy dialogue. Plus: movie theatre etiquette, eating on mic, and a lotta cat sounds.

After the Memories of Murder episode, we spent some time building out Ricky's Letterboxd, an exercise that led to an hour of Ricky saying, "I liked it!" with more and more of a babytalk voice each time. This is a jank ass episode with mic issues and minimal editing so you've been warned.

This week's Rick Pick, Memories of Murder (2003) directed by Bong Joon-ho, is the best movie we've covered that we never want to watch again. We talk about the movie's ever-changing tone, depiction of violence in movies, and our listeners' personal data >:) Note: Ricky's mic cuts out a couple times in this episode, which I tried to edit around, but none of y'all read these notes anyway so I put...

This week's Rick's Pick takes us back to 2004 for Michael Moore's inflammatory-yet-quaint documentary on the conservative machinations leading to the Iraq War, Fahrenheit 9/11. A movie that is somehow more fun to talk around than to talk about, we digress into Trump-era politics (ew), our opinion on 9/11 jokes (they're corny), and this movie's influence on YouTube documentarians (also ew and corny...

This week's episode is a...Bronco Henry Entry? Is that anything? For Liesl's Reel we watched The Power of the Dog (2021) directed by Jane Thee Campion. We get into the heady topics like being gay at Yale, Lane's throuple with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons <3, and whether we should give a synopsis of the movie in each episode (no). Ricky's cats are WILDING in the episode so beware of the meowi...

This week's Lane's Frame is a doozy: Naked (1992) directed by Mike Leigh. We discuss scumbags, the depiction of violence in movies, and people who can't shut the fuck up. Digressions include an Oscar recap and what makes a good plane movie. Note : This movie contains a lot of sexual violence and we talk about it in this episode. Listener beware!

This week's Rick's Pick is 1988's The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! directed by David Zucker. What makes a good comedy? Does Ricky know who Priscilla Presley is? Can Liam Neeson fill Leslie Nielsen's (Christmas) shoes? Note: I tried to edit it out but you can definitely hear me filing my nails in the background at times. Sorry about that! It's no worse than Ricky banging on the t...

Ricky defines the term "bad faith" during our lengthy discussion of this week's Lane's Frame, The Last Airbender (2010) directed by M. Night Shyamalan. In between Ricky's very indulgent attempts at tearing down this movie, we get into whether an adaptation can offend its source material, the story behind the racist casting, and Ricky's secret career as a CinemaSins content creator.

This week's Rick's Pick is another great movie that's tough to say much about beyond, it's good! While discussing our second Hayao Miyazaki movie, 1984's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, we talk about Miyazaki's greater career, fandom, and whether anime is a mistake. Also, you can definitely hear the sounds of Christopher building a plane in the background during this record...just pretend it a...

This week's Lane's Frame leads to a wicked smaht discussion of Good Will Hunting (1997) directed by Gus van Sant. Digressions include 90s Oscar bait, Matt Damon's screen persona, and how men will emotionally burn out their girlfriends instead of going to therapy. Also I spent 20 minutes in an unrelated wikipedia rabbit hole this week reading about the autistic savant character in The Predator and...

Hey, it doesn't suck! This week's very special episode on Showgirls (1995) directed by Paul Verhoeven was recorded in person with glamorous friend of the show, Lucy. We get a little Lucy Goosey talking about camp, gummy bears, and whether having sex in water is actually worth it. We lost Lucy's audio file so unfortunately the audio is a little rough here, but nevertheless she persisted.

This week's Rick's Pick is Playtime (1967) directed by Jacques Tati, and this episode is a doozy. Who would've thought it would be hard to talk about Visual Gags: The Motion Picture? Despite the short episode runtime, we manage multiple long digressions about cartoons and Joe Rogan, even though I cut out literally 15 minutes of Ricky talking about Phineas and Ferb...?

Lane’s Frame this week was Yojimbo (1961) directed by a little fella called Akira Kurosawa. HEARD OF HIM?? Our hosts agree: this movie rocks; dudes rock; kimonos, which are hot, rock. Is the ronin in this movie Grinch-coded? Was Margot Robbie snubbed for Best Actress for her performance in Barbie? And how does Ricky feel about buccal fat removal?

It's another double feature this week with a dual Wachowski extravaganza. We chat this week about Rick's Pick, Cloud Atlas (2012) and Lane's Frame, Speed Racer (2008). This episode contains a revelation from Ricky about Cloud Atlas that is SO SHOCKING it will rock you to your core!! Or at the very least you'll put your head in your hands, idk.

We take every divergent path possible in discussing this week's Lane's Frame, The Trial (1962) directed by Orson Welles. Digressions include Ricky's movie poptimism, French feminism, and a short film that makes this episode a sneaky double feature.

In our first double feature episode of Rick's Pic(k)s, we compare two vastly different anime from the same franchise: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) directed by Hayao Miyazaki and Goemon's Blood Spray (2017) directed by Takeshi Koike. Ricky can't stop smacking his desk because he talks with his hands and Lane lives right next to an ambulance depot, so excuse the audial mess but at this point I th...

Ricky, known misogynist, just can't stop shitting on this week's Lane Frame, All That Heaven Allows (1955) directed by Douglas Sirk. This episode has a lot of bleeps in it because we're messy bitches who live for drama.

Ricky took a gamble on this week's Rick Pick, but it all worked out in the end with Roujin Z (1991) directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo and written by Katsuhiro Otomo (of Akira, as Lane is desperate to point out). Ricky takes the opportunity to flex his anime knowledge and we both express our cynicism toward the future of artificial intelligence. Also I'm not crazy for saying gamergate caused Trump to g...