Movie Mandates

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  For the rest of the year, we're celebrating movies where The Sequel's Better.  This month we're watching my picks: BATTLE ROYALE and its sequel, BATTLE ROYALE II: REQUIEM.  Yes, the "dump a class of high schoolers on an island with a bunch of weapo...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're concluding Memorable Posters month with Keleigh's mandated film: APRIL FOOL'S DAY.  If you're old enough to have browsed the horror section of your local video store, you no doubt remember seeing this film's iconic box art staring you in the...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month we're watching movies with Memorable Posters so I mandated a movie I remember sitting on video store shelves when I was a kid: PORKY'S.  The classic poster depicts an eye peeping at a showering woman through a hole in the wall. What's th...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Seeing Double month concludes with Keleigh's mandated movie: LEGEND.  It's a movie about twin brothers whose actions were notable enough that decades later they made a movie about them called LEGEND. Unfortunately, their story took place in a count...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month on Movie Mandates we're Seeing Double, which is our too clever by half way of saying movies with twins.  Up first is my mandated movie: Goodnight Mommy.  The original Austrian one, not the American remake staring Naomi Watts.  Hmm, you k...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Black and White month concludes with Keleigh's pick, PERSEPOLIS, a movie that made the color drain from her face when it started in color.  But, it's only a few scenes; most of the movie is in black and white so it counts. But, at some point.  One...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month we're celebrating Black and White movies so I mandated we watch BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, a movie title that refers to a character that's in the film but not that important (the doctor's wife) and not the character everyone wants to see (th...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Dinosaurs month concludes with Keleigh's mandated movie: ONE OF OUR DINOSAURS IS MISSING!  A very not racist Disney movie from the 1975 fearing a large cast of Chinese characters played by white guys!  Except for that one dude way in the background...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's Dinosaurs month on Movie Mandates so I mandated we watch THE VALLEY OF GWANGI, a film about cowboys who find a purple dinosaur and capture it so they can donate it to science and benefit humanity with all that can be learned! Nah, just kidding...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're closing out The Streisand Effect with a movie that did not want people paying attention to it for the reason people were paying attention to it.  Due to workplace safety issues, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed with a prop...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month we're celebrating The Streisand Effect and we're kicking off the festivities with my mandated movie: Barbara Streisand's lauded throwback to the screwball comedies of the 40s, WHAT'S UP, DOC?  I'd heard this was a classic.  I'd heard thi...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're wrapping up Single Location month with Keleigh's mandated movie: The Lighthouse, a moody, black and white drama where Robert Pattinson beats the ever loving crap out of a seagull. I mean, other stuff does happen but come on, you know we're al...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month, we're watching movies that take place in a Single Location and up first is my mandated movie: Rope.  In this Hitchcock thriller, two guys murder a dude with a length of the titular rope, hide the body, then invite a bunch of people into...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're closing out Silent Movies month with Keleigh's mandated movie: METROPOLIS, a visually stunning film that shrugs and gestures in the general direction of important themes.  Capitalism!  Class structure!  Wealth inequality!  Workers' rights! Ac...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's Silent Movies month and I'm kicking things off with the Buster Keaton classic, THE GENERAL, a wacky adventure based on an amazing true story from the American Civil War that dares ask the question, "What if we changed things so the protagonist...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're wrapping up TV Movies month with Keleigh's mandated movie, Duel, the feature film debut of Steven Spielberg, which aired on ABC back in 1971, about a man terrorized by a semi-truck on the lonely highways of the California desert.  Is there a...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month, we're indulging in TV Movies and I've mandated BRIAN'S SONG, a docudrama that aired on ABC in the early 70s and, according to our father, is the only film to ever turn him into a sobbing mess.  Were we similarly moved by the friendship...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  February is Good Bad Guys month, a celebration of protagonists who aren't really the best people.  We're concluding this month's theme with Keleigh's mandated movie, MR. RIGHT, a film about a former hitman who leaves the life and makes amends for h...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  February is Good Bad Guys month, a time to celebrate the ubiquity of anti-heroes in our media.  We're kicking off the festivities with my mandated movie, BABY ASSASSINS.  Are they assassins who target babies or babies who are assassins?  Only 17 wa...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Parody month concludes with Keleigh's mandated movie: DON'T BE A MENACE TO SOUTH CENTRAL WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD.  Now, I know what you're thinking.  It was called "Menace II Society" so shouldn't the title be "Don't Be a Menace II So...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's parody month so I've mandated THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA, a sendup of no-budget, sci-fi schlock that permeated the 50s.  While it's true this movie is the same three jokes repeated over and over, those three jokes are really funny! 0:00 - Tr...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Happy Holidays month concludes with Eight Crazy Nights, Adam Sandler's laudable attempt to plug the Hanukkah-shaped gap in the holiday movie pantheon. Unfortunately, it's so bad I'd argue a marathon of Salo, Society, Audition, A Serbian Film, and b...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's December and we're celebrating holidays most happy with movies that are at least tangentially related to the holidays, if not necessarily happiness.  As such, my mandated movie is Better Watch Out, a home invasion movie where a babysitter and...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month we're mandating movies that, upon viewing, make you say, "What did I just watch?" and we're concluding with Terrence Malick's The Tree Of Life, a movie that... Um.  Well, you see...  Hmm.  It's got Brad Pitt in it?  And he's like, a guy....

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month we're mandating movies that, upon viewing, make you say, "What did I just watch?"  We're kicking it off with my mandated movie: House.  No, not the William Katt movie from 1985, though that's a fun one, we're talking the nearly inexplica...