You Made Me Watch

What other podcast could have episodes on Streets of Fire and My Neighbor Totoro? My Neighbor Totoro is the hit animated fairytale that almost didn't get made. It was a risky venture for Studio Gibli, but arguably it's the movie that made them an international powerhouse animation studio. Animation nerds love this movie. References to it have shown up in the Toy Story franchise and even Bob's Burg...

Mike thought Allyson was making him watch the Richard Linklater film Slacker, but instead they watch the college caper romantic comedy Slackers starring Devon Sawa. This is a who's who of actors who would go on to be comedy powerhouses from people like Rhetta to the Oscar winning duo of Nat Faxon and Jim Rasch. Let us know what you thought of Slackers. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk!...

Both Mike and Allyson's dad recommended Allyson watch the Terry Gilliam masterpiece The Fisher King. It stars Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, but the supporting cast is also truly amazing. Let us know what you thought of The Fisher King. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which mo...

Allyson womansplains "hiphop" to Mike while making him watch the interracial dance drama Save the Last Dance. Before she was teaming up with Jason Bourne, Julia Stiles was cutting rugs with Sean Patrick Thomas. Kerry Washington makes her big screen debut in 2001's Save the Last Dance. It's The Cutting Edge minus the ice. It's ballet plus hiphop. It's 90 minutes. Let us know what you thought of Sav...

Allyson....come out to watch Warriorrrs! Allyson! Come out to watch Warrrriors! ALLYSON! Come out to watch Warriors! Mike makes Allyson watch the Walter Hill cult classic The Warriors! This was a brutal look at the gangs of New York, but isn't to be confused with the Gangs of New York, which was also a brutal look at the gangs of New York, but in a different century. Right before bodegas, luxury l...

Allyson made Mike watch the 2001 mystery thriller Frailty starring Matthew McConaughey and the late great Bill Paxton. Writer Brent Hanley crafted a really sharp story that jumps back and forth decades. There's murder...lots of murder...or destroying demons, depending on how you look at it. Will Mike enjoy this nearly as much as his spooky wife does? Listen and find out! Join our Facebook group an...

Mike and Allyson are back! After a long hiatus, the Bobbitts return to making each other watch a movie the other has never seen before. This week Mike makes Allyson watch Promising Young Woman. Before Saltburn, there was Promising Young Woman. Emerald Fennell's 2020 movie dissects the so-called "nice guy". It's one-part thriller, one-part revenge porn, and one-part romantic comedy. Those three par...

Let's be honest. Allyson isn't exactly on a winning streak when it comes to picking movies to make Mike watch. Will this one be any different? Where The Heart is got lost in the Star Wars hoopla even though it stars Queen Amidala herself Natalie Portman. It's the dramatic tale of a young pregnant lady abandoned at a Wal-Mart by the baby's father. Stuck in the middle of Oklahoma she's challenged wi...

It's Allyson's turn once again to pick the movie our dynamically betrothed duo will watch for the podcast. What on Earth will Mike think of the Natalie Portman starring independent slice of life comedy/drama Where The Heart Is? Well, one thing's for sure, even if he doesn't like it, he'd never abandon Allyson at a Wal-Mart. Allyson recommends the absolutely wonderful Canadian sketch comedy series...

Mike makes Allyson watch the 1991 afterlife romantic comedy Defending Your Life. When Mike was a teenager, he found this to be a profoundly moving piece of cinema. Now that he's closer to the icy cold hand of the grim reaper readying his scythe to usher Mike to the other side, will this still be as gripping as it once was? What will Allyson think of this existential film that largely flew under th...

Death obsessed Mike has a rom-com about the afterlife for Allyson. Next week they're going to watch the critically acclaimed box office disappointment Defending Your Life. Allyson recommends the Jason Segel Apple TV + dramedy Shrinking. Mike recommends the weiner free video game reboot Saints Row. Then the show devolves into nipple talk and talking nipples! Join our Facebook group for more movie t...

1999 was a peculiar time for movies. It was a time when movies didn't exist solely because they were based on an existing IP. They existed because two bankable stars both had time in their schedule. How does the union of Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts hold up 24 years later when neither of them are still the box office darlings they once were? Can the great Richard Curtis write something tender that...

It's Allyson's turn to pick a movie for the podcast. This week she plucks something from the Richard Curtis filmography knowing how much Mike loves Love, Actually and About Time. This time it's Notting Hill. Mike recommends the television series Our Flag Means Death and Allyson recommends Abbott Elementary. Yes. We have small children and are sleep deprived and outside of watching movies for the p...

Our friends Meg and Gordon Widener...you know Gordon, we only mention how a young Oliver Platt looks like him literally every time we end up watching a movie featuring a young Oliver Platt...anyway...Meg and Gordon stop by and we make Allyson watch the Matthrew Lillard masterpiece Hackers! It's not necessarily a masterpiece, and Matthew Lillard is probably only fourth or fifth on the call sheet be...

Director Mike Nichols was part of the groundbreaking comedy duo Nichols & May alongside comedy legend Elaine May. Does that mean this 80s film championed as a feminist classic is in the right hands? Will Mike Nichols be the great white male hope in a movie ultimately about great white male hopes? Nah? Working Girl stars Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack and lots an...

Maybe there's a tower, somewhere up above Filled with shoulder pads and love Where dreams can fly hard But until we can live in that imaginary world We'll work hard or die trying, girl Mike is about to subject Allyson to not just Melanie Griffith's biggest hit of the 80s, but her only hit ever! It's Working Girl, directed by the comedy legend Mike Nichols. Will this empowering tale stand the...

The Robin Williams classic Mrs. Doubtfire is deservingly well loved, yet somehow Mike managed to miss it completely. How hard is he going to kick himself for taking so long to watch one of the best films in the Williams' library and maybe one of the best films of the 1990s? It's no Pixels, but it may be the most important film Chris Columbus ever directed. Although, how cool would it be to find ou...

Once again Allyson finds another beloved classic that Mike has somehow missed and/or avoided. She's going to make him watch the critically acclaimed Robin Williams film Mrs. Doubtfire. Will he love it as much as the rest of the world or will it be one of those situations where if you didn't experience it first run, you probably won't have a sweet spot in your heart for it. Tune in next week to fin...

Allyson is a giant animation nerd, so Mike is pretty sure she's going to enjoy this John DiMaggio produced documentary about off camera actors titled I Know That Voice. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instag...

Mike recommends the John DiMaggio documentary I Know That Voice, which provides an insider look at the world of voice actors. Allyson recommends the Netflix docuseries Flint Town about the hardships the city of Flint, Michigan endures. The Mike doubles up on his extracurricular recommendations by recommending the website and app Letterboxd through talking about their friend Johnny Mocny's excellen...

Coinciding with the Oscars, Mike and Allyson go through the movies they were made to watch in the past year and pass out their own awards! Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on Instagram @MartyButtons Theme song b...

Premiering in 2012, the same year as the HBO series Girls, it was difficult to not draw comparisons with Noah Baumbach's film Frances Ha. Heck, 11 years later it's still easy to connect the two. Both are about the post college lives of a female New Yorker trying to figure out her place in the world and in the lives of her kith and kin. It's easy to dismiss Frances Ha, particularly if you found Len...

For next week, Allyson recommends The Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig collaboration Frances Ha. It's a movie that's been in Mike's Netflix queue for sometime, so hopefully he'll enjoy it as much as Allyson does. Mike recommends the short lived Netflix series Brews Brothers. Allyson recommends the limited docuseries on Netflix called Worst Roommate Ever. It's true crime...of course! Join our Facebook gr...

Inspired by the dirty St. Bernard scene in Beethoven, Mike makes Allyson watch the Stephen King adaptation of Cujo starring Dee Wallace Stone and a very young Danny Pintauro. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook.com/groups/youmademewatch Follow us on Instagram @YouMadeMeWatch to get sneak peeks at which movie we'll talk about next. Logo by Martin Butler. Follow him on...

Hot off the heels of the stinking pile of dog poop that was Beethoven, Mike recommends a less upsetting movie about a St. Bernard. Next week Mike and Allyson are going to watch the 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's Cujo! Allyson recommends Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Mike recommends the 2016 film Other People, which should have gotten Molly Shannon and Oscar Nomination! Join our Facebook...