2 Guys 5 Movies

Hi, everyone. For the end of the year, 2 Guys 5 Movies has recorded a bonus episode, the first of its kind where Chris forces Frank to watch a movie he hates for a second time. This episode is a deep dive on Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, and we discuss Frank's initial thoughts in 1999 and his thoughts now.  This discussion acts as a precursor to our next episode, which will be relea...

2 Guys 5 Movies travels back thirty years this week to the year 1989 and discuss Frank’s best films. Those movies include Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, starring the recently-departed Danny Aiello, the cult dark comedy, Heathers, the post-WWII Japanese drama, Black Rain, John Woo's The Killer, and the Nicole Kidman/Billy Zane thriller, Dead Calm. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other t...

2 Guys 5 Movies jumps from the top movies of 1969 last week to the year 1979 this week. Frank’s top five includes the Francis Ford Coppola adaptation, Apocalypse Now, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, the classic sci-fi/horror, Alien, the adaptation of Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum, and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important w...

054: Top Five Films of 1969  2 Guys 5 Movies is wrapping up the year with a series of decennial lists, starting with the year of 1969. Frank has chosen his top five of that year, which includes a number of classics: the Dustin Hoffman/Jon Voight movie, Midnight Cowboy, Nagisa Oshima’s Japanese crime drama, Boy, Sam Peckinpah’s western masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, the true crime thriller, The Honey...

2 Guys 5 Movies returns this week with a rare episode that isn’t a top five list. This week, Frank walks through the directors and writers that he’s most excited about currently, and we discuss their seminal work and their upcoming movies. His list includes, but is not limited to, such names as: Robert Eggers, The Witch and The Lighthouse Jordan Peele, Get Out and Us Denis Villeneuve, Arrival and...

2 Guys 5 Movies slowly eases its way out of horror movies and the month of October by using the career of controversial cult director David Cronenberg as a bridge. This week, we cover two of his body-horror movies, Rabid and The Brood, his sci-fi cult classic, Scanners, and his two Viggo Mortensen-starring crime movies, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises.  If you are a fan of the podcast,...

This brings an end to our ten month journey of Frank counting down the top five horror B-movies of each year of the 1980s. In this episode, we’ll talk about the Stephen King film adaptation, Pet Semetary, the cult horror film, Puppet Master, Bob Balaban’s 1950s serial killer horror, Parents, the Brian Yuzna-directed Society, and William Peter Blatty’s sequel, The Exorcist III. Finally, Frank and I...

In this week’s episode, our fiftieth of the podcast, we return to an earlier concept from last year. Our long-time friend, Mike Bledsoe, has gone his life without seeing the horror classic Halloween and will watch it with Frank and I for the first time. How did he never see this? How will he think thirty years after its release? Tune in to find out! If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other...

In this week’s episode, Frank and Chris walk through Frank’s top five psychological horror movies. The list spans multiple decades and includes the Bette Davis/Joan Crawford thriller, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1990’s innovative Jacob’s Ladder, Roman Polanski’s second feature, Repulsion, the 2003 Korean horror, A Tale of Two Sisters, and famed Japanese director Takashi Miike’s Audition, a m...

All of us have experienced the overwhelming feeling of streaming service menus: there is so much to watch, but where do you start? Instead of spending hours looking at titles and descriptions, make sure to check out this week’s episode. Before October starts, Frank and I are doing something different. We’re going to scroll through what horror movies are on Netflix and Amazon Prime, and Frank is go...

We are nearing the end of the 1980s horror B-movies list. This week’s list includes Return of the Living Dead II, some well-known horror movies, Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow and the 80s classic Pumpkinhead, and two English-language foreign horrors, the Hugh Grant-Peter Capaldi film, The Lair of the White Worm and the little-known movie, Pin, out of Canada. We also engage in some Hugh G...

Frank and I jump back into the seedy, dirty alleys and means streets this week by looking at his top five modern crime movies. The list includes five films from 1990 to present. They include two Joel and Ethan Coen movies, Miller’s Crossing and No Country for Old Men, the Rian Johnson directorial debut, Brick, Curtis Hanson’s star-studded neo-noir, L.A. Confidential, and the Robert Downey Jr./Val...

We are nearing the end of the horror B-movie list with only two years left after this episode. This list features many well-known titles, including John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou, Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire flick, Near Dark, arguably the best A Nightmare on Elm Street movie, and the Clive Barker classic, Hellraiser. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other...

2 Guys 5 Movies is celebrating their one year anniversary today with an episode with both proud of. Based on the popularity of the 1990s sci-fi movies, episode 32, Frank decided to cover his top five science fiction films from the 1970s. In this episode, we discuss his favorites of the decade, including the Disney film The Black Hole, the Bruce Dern-vehicle, Silent Running, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clo...

This week, Frank and I travel back to fifteen years ago and revisit a period of time where we were watching every movie that came out in the theater. Frank picks his top five movies from that year, which includes Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Volume 2, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the surprise hit comedy of the year, Napoleon Dynamite, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the...

Frank and I review Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, and potentially last film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. WARNING: This review contains spoilers. Beyond the review, we address the critical reception of the movie, talk about the general criticism Tarantino receives as a filmmaker, and try to place the film in context with his filmography. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two imp...

Frank and I are on the back end of the best horror b-movies of the 1980s. This week, we delve into the year 1986. The list includes the C. Thomas Howell/Rutger Hauer vehicle, The Hitcher, the cult classics April Fool’s Day and Night of the Creeps, the terrifying serial killer film, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and making an appearance two months in a row, Stuart Gordon, with his Re-Animator...

This week’s episode is a little different in the sense that we are doing our first “worst of” instead of “best of” episode. In the episode, we discuss the 2006 version of The Wicker Man, the 1998 Gus Van Sant version of Psycho, the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Brett Ratner-directed Red Dragon, and the 2005 remake of House of Wax. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important...

It’s July, and summer is upon us. Frank breaks down his top five summer movies. Each of the films includes the season as a large part of their milieu. The list this week includes the Katharine Hepburn vehicle, Summertime, the Steven Spielberg classic, Jaws, and one of its many spoofs, Piranha. Also on the list is the Richard Linklater teen movie, Dazed and Confused, and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Th...

This week, the podcast is doing something completely new and different. Friend of the podcast, Orion Wellmaker of the YouTube series Battletoad OVerload, joins us and explains drinking game rules he developed for the 1946 Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall noir, The Big Sleep. Can Frank and I survive this absurd drinking game challenge? Slightly drunken note: This starts out slow and picks up the more...

This week, Frank and I cover the top five horror b-movies of 1985, an amazing year for the genre. Included in this week’s discussion are Dario Argento’s Phenomena, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator, and the cult classics, The Stuff, Fright Night, and Returning of the Living Dead. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important ways you can help us. First, you can please subscribe, rate, a...

This week, Frank and I cover the best of docudramas. The list details a wide-range of topics, from the toll of crime and investigation in David Fincher’s Zodiac and the little-known Citizen X,  filmmaking and artistic passion in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, gay rights and ethical political behavior in the Sean Penn-vehicle, Milk, and moral journalism in Capote.  If you are a fan of the podcast, there are...

This week, Frank and I reach the halfway point of the horror b-movie list. In this week’s episode, we talk about Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves, the cult classics, C.H.U.D. and Night of the Comet, Troma’s The Toxic Avenger, and Wes Craven’s horror classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important ways you can help us. First, you can please subs...

This week, Frank and I are doing something a little different…and more current. We sat down to discuss Avengers: Endgame and the entirety of the MCU. We break down the highlights and lowlights of the 22-movie series, examine best character arcs, best portrayals, and the future of the MCU now that the first saga is over. If you are a fan of the podcast, there are other two important ways you can he...

Frank continues watching new and old movies all the time to add to his 15,000 plus movies he’s already watched, so this week’s episode is a little different and introduces a new segment – The Fresh Five, the top five movies Frank has watched in the past month.  The list includes movies from multiple genres and years. We discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s period drama, Phantom Thread, Terry Gilliam’s l...