Two Thumbs Down with Mike and Ryan

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

Spooky Season is officially over, and the boys are trading ghouls and goblins for birthday cake! It’s Ryan’s birthday, and he got to pick any two movies he wanted. Staying true to his Siskel & Ebert roots, Ryan went bold, choosing two of the only three movies Gene Siskel ever walked out of. (Don’t worry, we’re saving the third one for a couple weeks from now!) Neither of these movies are offic...

The trees are out to get us on this week’s episode! We talk a whole lot of Sam Raimi, Mike just saw One Battle After Another so some more Leonardo DiCaprio talk, and the greatest movie best friends of all time

Everyone loves horror, and everyone loves a sequel. Well except for ol Gene and Roger. This week we bring back Austin Wolf-Sothern to discuss some slashers, some queer reading into a Freddie Krueger movie, and whether or not Dream Warriors is the greatest movie of all time

Spooky is sexy and sexy is spooky. This week we have some sexual horror flicks, a large chunk of Paul Thomas Anderson, some insane deaths in They’re Playing With Fire, another week of Timothy Hutton, and maybe the most crazy on screen pizza ever: mustard and anchovies They're Playing with Fire (26:55) The Temp (1:02:54)

Spooky season has STARTED. We kick off October with returning guest Mark Schroeder to talk some Halloween adaptations, Stephen King, John Carpenter, and what it takes to be a real on screen BADASS The Dark Half (25:41) In the Mouth of Madness (57:35)

It’s all about 90’s treasure hunters this episode. These movies and episode are packed with so much 90’s! I’m talking Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Ice T (with a mullet) and Ice Cube (with a gold front tooth) as East St. Louis gang members, and, of course, stunts that may or may not have put some stunt people in their graves Trespass (15:35) Gunmen (44:30)

This week it’s all about MOMs. We have Don’t Tell Mom, The Babysitters Dead (15:59) and Trading Mom(48:14), a Sissy Spacek lead movie that’s been lost to time(maybe for good reason??). We also talk Spike Lee, what kind of mom is the coolest mom, and what might be the worst movie mom in cinema history

Another kids week! This time we’re talking ghouls with Little Monsters (13:15) and a story about toys with Small Soldiers (47:20). We also talk Joe Dante, Phil Hartman, Tommy Lee Jones, the challenge of eating a peanut butter and onion sandwich, and how a character in Little Monsters knew his apple juice got switched with monster urine

We got some big ones on the pod this week! We bring back Christina Laskay to talk about Brian De Palma’s Bonfire of the Vanities (23:53) and Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (57:47). We talk a whole lot about special effects, Meryl Streep’s brand of comedy, almost every miscast character in Bonfire of the Vanities, and one of Ryan’s top movie cardinal crimes: Unnecessary Voice Over!

What’d you call me?! This week we talk about a Mexico period piece, Old Gringo(22:20), and a New York Italian comedy, Kiss Me Guido ( 49:00). We talk about all the usual: man ass, Wet Hot American Summer, possible incest, and one of the strangest horse stunts we’ve ever seen!

Hey buddy, let’s listen to a podcast! This week it’s all about buddy cop movies in Renegades (21:00) and Tango & Cash (47:38). We talk Stallone, Kurt Russell, Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips, some insane stunts and even more insane sex scenes, and more importantly: BOOT GUNS

The guys are going into hiding! They watch a double feature of people who have to go on the run with Hiding Out (19:47) and For Richer or Poorer (46:21). How believable are these movies? Is Jon Cryer’s romance in Hiding Out legal? Is there any chemistry between Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley? Is Wayne Knight and Michael Lerner the best 1-2 combo in movie history? Find out on this episode!

This week, the dudes bring Wayland McQueen on for a trip back in time! The gang gets medieval with it and discuss Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (23:00) and a Three Musketeers adaptation with The Man in the Iron Mask (01:05:20). They talk Kevin Costner’s accent, the almost total lack of French people in The Man in the Iron Mask, and there’s also a quick conversation about how amazing Happy Gilmore...

In a totally cowabunga episode, the boys bring back River Butcher to talk two 90’s powerhouses: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (18:50) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze! (01:01:22) They talk about things turtles, ninjas, Casey Jones, April O’Neil, Shredder, and somehow someway even Ralph Nader