Does It Hold Up?

It's time for door to door trick or treating so we have a little treat for all of you. This week we are playing a brand new game on the podcast. 5 Points for Trick quetions. 2 Points for Treat questions. +10 or -5 Points for King Sized Questions And a final Bag Check Question where you c an risk it all. Let's see who has better horror movie knowledge. Thanks for listening. Please support us other...

How do you prove your love to someone who doesn't love you back? Go on a journey across the wall to a magical land of princes, witches and pirates to retrieve a fallen star. Obviously. A hero's journey that ends in the least expected way.  Let's talk about it. This week we revisit 2007's Stardust, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the l...

When life is on the line you can only hope that the men deciding the outcome are reasonable and upstanding citizens. But what happens when some of them aren't? Hours of deliberation. And with hope, one of those men will make the others see things in a whole new way. This week we revisit 1957's 12 Angry Men, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clic...

After years of doing this podcast and talking about movies from all eras, it's finally time to talk a little about us. We created questions for each others to answer to let everyone get to know us a little better and our love of movies. Hope you enjoy.  Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supp...

How do you hold it all together when everyhting is falling apart? Do you rob a bank? Do you take hostages? That's exactly what Sonny and Sal did on one August day. And just when it couldn't get any worse, it kept getting worse. This is considered one of the greatest films of the 70s, so let's talk about it. This week we revisit 1975's Dog Day Afternoon, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for li...

Warner Bros. released this spooky, thrilling, romantic, comedic movie with two of the biggest stars at the time. It didn't find much of an audience upon release, but over the years, the folling became cult like. But is the movie as good as everyone thinks it is? Let's talk about it. This week we revisit 1998's Practical Magic, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for listening. Please support us...

Spider-Man is one of the most beloved superheroes of all time and has now had 12 theatrically released movies. We are here to talk all things Spider-Man...movies. We had so much fun a few months ago talking about our favorite things from Star Wars, that we are back to do it again with the fvriendly neighborhood wall-crawler. Hope you enjoy!   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by...

A Jewish barber, a dictator, and a pilot walk into a bar. Sounds like the setup for a terrible joke, but it's just the three leads of one of Sir Charles Chaplin's greatest works. A satirical look at Nazi Germany and the bufoon that was their leader. Let's talk about it. This week we revisit 1941's The Great Dictator, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for listening. Please support us other plac...

We fell asleep on a plane while traveling for Emily's birthday and when we woke up a raptor looked right at us and said "Emily". Let's talk about it. There was no episode last week because it was Emily's birthday and we were busy. She made the decision to delay this classic for one week. Hope you enjoy.  This week we revisit 2001's Jurassic Park III, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for liste...

We love being positive about movies and many of our episodes not about a specific movie focus on the good side of cinema. But there are also a lot of things that irk us like no other when it comes to modern filmmaking and film watching. So it's time to talk about some of the biggest complaints we have with modern cinema from small single movie issues to large industry wide problems. Hope you enjoy...

If you could travel back in time, where would you go, what would you do? I doubt any of us would travel to when our parents were young and get hit on by them. And yet everyone loves a movie that does just that. Is it all nostalgia sake or is the movie actually still good? Let's talk about it. This week we revisit 1985's Back to the Future, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for listening. Pleas...

As If we weren't going to eventually cover this 90s staple. Cher and her outfits have turned into icons over the last 36 years, but do the story, the performances, the directing, the editing, the whole package really still work or has everyone just become clueless. And what was up with them being siblings? Let's talk about it. This week we revisit 1995's Clueless, does it hold up? Find out now. Th...

Emily takes the lead this week as she made a list of some of the most underseen movies in recent years. These are movies she never would have seen if it wasn't for expanding her vision of what movies can be worth watching over the years. So, she wanted to come on here and give you all a list of movies she thinks more people should have watched and hopes you'll give them a chance. Great job Emily,...

Do you remember chatting online with a stranger? Did you ever hope that stranger could be your soulmate? Joe is here to ruin Kathleen's life by shutting down her bookstore, but he's also secretly the person Kathleen confides in most through email and instant messenger. This classic rom-com was a product of its time. This week we revisit 1998's You've Got Mail, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks...

We are back to check in with our box office guesses from the first half of 2026. There's a new format that is hopefully easier to understand how well or how poor we did. We also talk best and worst of the year so far. Then finishing up by making our box office predicitons for the second half of 2026.    Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Fa...

What's the very first animated movie you remember watching? This is the one for Adam and maybe even Emily. 4 adorable dinosaurs and 1 annoying dinosaur must bond together and travel to The Great Valley. And their journey will be perilous.   This week we revisit 1988's The Land Before Time, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links bel...

It's the birthday week for Adam, so he decided to play a little game. Welcome to This or That, a game wehre the two hosts go back and forth giving the other one a choice, This or That. Every question is centered around movies and some answers are....unexpected. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are cur...

Come closer. Pay close attention because the closer you are the easier it'll be to fool you. WHat happens when you're the smartest person in the room? You pick apart a magical movie for all of its flaws. But even in doing so maybe you discover the flaws don't ruin the movie at all.  This week we revisit 2013's Now You See Me, does it hold up? Find out now. Thanks for listening. Please support us o...

1980's nostalgia mixes with 21st century filmmaking in this coming of age throwback. What happenes when E.T. combines forces with Stand by Me? You get J.J. Abrams love letter to everything he liked as a child. But something about this movie feels a little off. We are here to try and find out exactly what that is and why this movie may not be remembered as fondly as others of its kind.  This week w...

It's the 5th anniversay of the show, so you know what that means. It's time to revisit a Tom Cruise movie to see if it holds up. Tom started this whole podcast back in 2022 and every June we pay our respects and this year we watched Legend. The fantasy classic that found a cult following years after its release. So were the people in 1986 or right, or are the ones who love it now right? Will we ag...

Star Wars has been around for almost 5 decades now and there has been a lot of content. TV shows, books, comics, games, and more importantly...movies. We are here to talk all things Star Wars in honor of the newest movie in theaters now, The Mandalorian and Grogu. We break down our favorite parts of Star Wars in a few select categories. Hope you enjoy!   Thanks for listening. Please support us oth...

A family curse. A deformed face. True love from an upperclass blueblood the only way to be normal. All the telltale signs of a fairytale, but this isn't some time long ago, it's closer to modern day. Fantastic performances, an interesting story, and great visuals create Penelope, so why didn't anyone see this movie? This week we revisit 2008's Penelope, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for...

A candle, a virgin, All Hallow's Eve, and the Sanderson sisters. All the things you need for a campy, kid's first horror movie, but does it all come together to make something good? This cult classic wasn't good at the time, found a following years later, and now...? This week we revisit 1993's Hocus Pocus, does it hold up? Find out now. If the audio sounds a little off, we apologize. Our normal s...

This week we discuss how villains used to be good and have maybe gotten too soft over the years. What happened to the straight up villains of the past like Hannibal Lecter, John Doe, and Nurse Ratched. Evil has gotten weaker throught the years and we discuss how that happened while naming some of our favorite villains and how themes are now villains rather than characters. After that, Emily plays...

A successful comic strip turned into a successful cartoon hits the big screen in a not so successful movie. The star power was there, the ideas were there, the recognizable IP was there, so what happened?  This week we revisit 2001's Josie and the Pussycats, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are wh...