Two Thumbs Down with Mike and Ryan

It’s superhero week on the podcast! We bring back pal and superstar of The Pitt (for one scene) Mark Schroeder to talk The Meteor Man and Batman & Robin. We also talk all things Batman, The Drama with current Batman Robert Pattinson, and we rank our favorite Batman movies!

Let’s learn how to commit murder together! This week’s episode is all black comedies about killing someone else! First is Throw Momma From The Train, starring Billy Crystal in Danny DeVito’s directorial debut. Then it’s Dan Ackroyd, Jack Lemmon, and Lily Tomlin in Getting Away With Murder, a movie so difficult to find you have to hear it to believe how the fellas were able to watch it!

This week, the boys bring on Lexi Amoriello (@movierecsbylex) and discuss two movies of women taking back the power! First is Shirley Valentine, a British theater adaptation filled to the brim with bit after bit. Then it’s onto Party Girl, a Parker Posey led trip through New York’s chic underground. They also talk Ryan Gosling, Project Hail Mary, Forbidden Fruits, and so much more!

New episode of more people on the run! This time the boys talk about Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane (HAGRID!) as nuns and Nick Nolte and Martin Short as bank robbers. Find out which actor is throwing a million mph fastball in one of these movies along with some Oscar talk, Hamnet talk, Conan O’Brien talk, and so much more!

Stay inside and listen to Two Thumbs Down! This week the guys have a stuck-in-the-house double feature with one of the movies being a hidden gem and the other being a hidden turd! Stay tuned to find out what they about that, Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Bride!, Los Angeles vacationers, and more!

The boys are on the lam! Or just watching movies about it. This episode is all about nerdy actors turning into their dark side in Anthony Michael Hall and Patrick Dempsey. The guys are also talking Siouxsie Sioux, some intense movie deaths and stunts, and a big tangent to talk about The Beatles’ Get Back documentary bringing back beautiful memories of band practice

This week, it’s all about our tribute to Robert Duval in our own two thumbs down way. We’re reviewing the ONLY two Robert Duval movies on the list in Convicts and The Scarlet Letter. We’re talking our favorite Duval movies, along with a whole lotta Terminator talk and, somehow, a big Sydney Sweeney chunk

Enough about romance, it’s time to get rich! This week the guys are talking some money movies in Outrageous Fortune and Million Dollar Mystery. They’re talking Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin, and even Terminator, Baz Luhrmann, and Moulin Rogue!

It’s our last episode of love! To close out February we’re bring back Christina Laskay to the studio and talking about 80’s and 90’s defining movies with St Elmo’s Fire and Reality Bites. We talk about Ethan Hawke, Winona Rider, the giant cast of St Elmo’s Fire, and if Primate (2026) is a romance movie

Are you feeing romantic yet? Well the fellas aren’t done! This week they bring back ultra friend Lauren Hamlett to lighten the mood to talk some romantic COMEDIES. They also talk about the great Catherine O’Hara, George Clooney, Michelle Pfeiffer, Disneyland, and some Sam Raimi!

The guys are jumping full steam into romance flicks this week. It’s all romance period dramas, starting with the story of Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and the vacation that spawned Frankenstein. Then they move over to North Carolina with Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis in an Appalachian drama about rival mountain families. They’re also talking Chris Columbus, Lloyd Bridges, THE BORG, a...

Are we feeling romantic? It’s the month of love so the boys are diving into all things romance! Well sort of, this episode is all about the oft-forgotten ACTION ROMANCE genre. They’re talking Goldie Hawn, Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, 90’s Xanax, and a MONKEY WITH A GUN

It’s time to put on your big boy pants and be a man! We bring back guest Matt Babb because he wanted to celebrate MANUARY with us by watching a Bruce Dennehy and Bruce Willis movie. We’re also talking Walter Hill, Bill Paxton, Joey Pantoliano, crazy action stunts, and how much we love movie guns that make people going flying off their feet

We love money! And movies about money! Or maybe not…find out in this week’s episode when we talk all things Rick Moranis, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, and so much more!

Let’s hit the slopes! We’re in the thick of winter so we’ve got a couple of ski comedies coming your way. We’re talking wet t-shirt contests, a guy named Lester the Molester, and inappropriate sex pests of 80’s comedies. We’re also talking what we thought of Steven Spielberg’s new Disclosure Day, the Coen Brothers, The Mastermind, and The Running Man

In our second year in review episode, we’re celebrating our favorites of 2025! Was it a great year? What genre reigned supreme? Where will we rank One Battle After Another? Sinners? RETURN TO OZ?! Listen and find out!

It’s time for our year in review episodes! In this episode, we’ve got lists for our stinkers of 2025. We’ve got the worst of lists of movies released in 2025 and what we had to review from Siskel and Ebert this year. Are we talking about The Smashing Machine? Eddington? LITTLE MONSTERS?! Listen and find out!

It’s the last Christmas episode of 2025 (maybe ever) and we’re bringing on special guest Ilana Winter to chat all things Jonathan Taylor Thomas! We talk All I Want For Christmas and I’ll Be Home For Christmas. There’s also discussions about Eddington, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Oh. What. Fun., and some HOT takes on Polar Express

We’ve got even MORE Christmas magic coming at you! This week the boys talk about the classic tale of Mickey’s Christmas Carol and the not-so-classic One Magic Christmas. There’s also some discussion about Disney, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Steenburgen, and one of the weirdest most depressing movies we’ve ever seen on the podcast

This is the third and FINAL mini Nutcracker episode and it’s much different than the others. The fellas are very surprised at this animated adaptation of the Tchaikovsky ballet and they also talk upcoming 2025 movies, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter O’Toole, Phyllis Diller, and one the best characters they’ve come across yet: PANTALOON

In this second Nutcracker mini episode, the guys discuss Macaulay Culkin’s role in this adaptation, the merits of child vs. adult actors, and the bane of Ryan’s existence: unnecessary narration

Since our old friends Siskel and Ebert reviewed 3, count em THREE, different Nutcracker movies, Mike and Ryan have decided to break them up into their own mini episodes! In this first one the boys discuss the movies they’ve watched that week, Maurice Sendak, and how dark this version of The Nutcracker is

We’re covering two comedy JUGGERNAUTS in this episode: Chris Farley and Pauly Shore! Listen as we discuss Son In Law, Black Sheep, staples of 90’s comedy, which movie Ryan thought was one of the best movies he’s reviewed so far, and which comedian Mike has never had the pleasure of watching perform

It’s NFL season! Well it’s been football season for a while, but the boys are on it this week with two football classics (are they classics?): Wildcats and Little Giants. They also get into some Frankenstein and Guillermo Del Toro talk, some football talk, LL Cool J’s football rap, and one of the best comedic performances we’ve seen on the podcast yet!

This week is all about our QUEEN. Diane Keaton. We discuss her filmography and her only two movies on this list: Look Who’s Talking Now and First Wives Club. We also talk some child actors, the stacked cast of First Wives Club, and what you should do with a dog as bad as the one in Look Who’s Talking Now