2 Guys 5 Movies

2 Guys 5 Movies welcomes a special guest this week, actor, screenwriter, and producer, Jimmy Kustes. Jimmy's latest movie, Body Swap, has won the Best Feature at both Louisville's International Festival of Film and the Peachtree International Film Festival. He joins us to talk about filmmaking and the genre of body swap movies. Afterward, he and the 2 Guys discuss the picks for best body swap movi...

Frank describes and reviews Francis Ford Coppola's 1986 film, Peggy Sue Got Married. This is a notable episode for three reasons: it's our first Quick Cage request, it's a positive review from Frank, and 2 Guys stay mostly on-topic throughout the episode beyond figuring out where Peggy Sue Got Married is ranked in the movies of 1986. 

Another big category this week from 2 Guys 5 Movies – comedies of the 1940s. Frank's list includes Heaven Can Wait, starring Don Ameche, two Cary Grant comedies – His Girl Friday and Arsenic and Old Lace – the Charlie Chaplin classic, The Great Dictator, and Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Sir Alec Guinness. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important ways you...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 2014 religious thriller...fantasy thriller...horror (okay, I'm not sure, I lost track of the point of this movie while listening to Frank), Left Behind. If you are a superfan of the Left Behind series, you probably do not want to listen to t...

2 Guys 5 Movies are back this week with a big category – 1980s action movies. Frank's list includes a number of classics: Paul Verhoevon's Robocop, William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A., the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, Commando, John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China, and the Sylvester Stallone action/drama, First Blood. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important...

"The worst movie we've covered on this podcast." That's what Frank called this week's Nicolas Cage movie. In this latest episode, 2 Guys 5 Movies present Frank's review of Cage's 2017 thriller, Inconceivable, also starring Gina Gershon and Faye Dunaway. 

Happy Halloween! 2 Guys 5 Movies deliver the first ever genre specific "fresh five" for Halloween this year. This week Frank talks about the top five horror movies that he's watched for the first time recently. The list includes the Russian sci-fi/horror, Sputnik, two Indonesian films, Impetigore and May the Devil Take You, the original The Babysitter and its sequel, The Babysitter: Killer Queen,...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 2012 action thriller, Stolen, co-starring Danny Huston, Malin Akerman, Josh Lucas, and M.C. Gainey.

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 1999 "titillating" thriller, 8mm. Also, Chris complains about Tubi not responding to his email about the origin of their name.

If you listen to the podcast, you've found that we're both big fans of horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan. Much like two years ago during October when we took time to talk about his The Haunting of Hill House series, Frank and Chris binged The Haunting of Bly Manor, and tonight we took time to discuss it. If stay non-spoilery for about fifteen minutes before moving into spoilers, but we note the trans...

2 Guys 5 Movies and friends have a special "First Watch" this week for the month of October. Friends of the podcast, Mike Bledsoe and Orion "Moses" Wellmaker, creative force behind the YouTube channel, Battletoad Overload, will watch the original Child's Play for the first time and give their reactions along with Frank and Chris. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important ways...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 1997 action classic, Face/Off. 

2 Guys starts off a month-long dive back into horror for the month of October, and the first episode of the month centers on avant-garde horror films. Frank's list includes E. Elias Merhige's The Begotten, Jan Svankmajer's adaptation, Alice, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, the Czech vampire horror, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, and the Toby Jones-starring film, Berberian Sound Studio. If you are a fan of...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 2011 home invasion thriller, Trespass. 

There are some movies you loved growing up, but then look back on after decades have passed and realize, with a cringe, that there's insensitive, problematic, or downright racist and sexist portrayals. This week, 2 Guys 5 Movies examines what Frank considers the best of these problematic movies. His list includes Brian De Palama's Scarface, Audrey Hepburn's iconic, Breakfast at Tiffany's, the Blak...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on one of Cage's first major action role: 1996's The Rock, co-starring Sean Connery. 

2 Guys 5 Movies jumps into a more recent decade by examining thrillers of the 2000s. Frank's list this week includes the Christian Bale psycho-thriller, The Machinist, the Elliot Page/Patrick Wilson psychosexual thriller, Hard Candy, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, and two French films, the home invasion horror-thriller, Inside, and Michael Haneke's Cache.   If you are a fan of the podcast, there...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 2016 heist thriller, The Trust, co-starring Elijah Wood

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on one of Cage's early movies, the 1983 romantic comedy, Valley Girl. As usual, we also talk about movie news afterward. 

2 Guys 5 Movies dives into a subgenre of western films this week: the "acid western," a term coined by famed critic Pauline Kael to describe the "trippy" and symbolic nature of Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo. Beyond that movie, Frank's list this week also includes Alex Cox's Straight to Hell, Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, Werner Herzog's Cobra Verde, and Robert Downey Sr.'s Greaser's Pa...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 2005 film, Lord of War. 2 Guys also discusses the Cage news of the week, including the surprise resurgence of The Frozen Ground on Netflix, and COVID news.

2 Guys tries something a little different this week. In this week's episode, we have our first ever "Versus" episode where we take two films that share similar themes or are often talked about in the same breath and do a deep dive into the movies. For the first time, we will cover the fairly recent horror movies, Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon, starring Elle Fanning, and the 2014 independen...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on two minor early Cage roles in Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish and the iconic teen comedy, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Since they are minor roles, other topics arise such as Francis Ford Coppola's career, NBC's Peacock streaming service, and Cr...

Where the high society list felt incongruous with the current times, 2 Guys brings you a list that might feel a little bit more apropos of our current world – the top five post-apocalyptic hidden gems movies. This list includes the "Rowdy" Roddy Piper vehicle, Hell Comes to Frogtown, the historically-maligned Kevin Costner-directed film, Waterworld, the French cult film, Delicatessen, the Russian...

2 Guys 5 Movies presents the latest episode of the Quick Cage, where Frank watches Nic Cage movies so you don't have to. This week's episode focuses on Cage's 2019 crime thriller, Running with the Devil.