Damn Good Movie Memories

You may be wondering what exactly constitutes a cult classic movie?  If you’re not sure, you need to check out this week’s episode! 

In this episode we discuss our favorite movies that were adapted from novels or short stories.  Who said the written word was dead?!

Jewel thieves!  Bank robbers!  Knocking over casinos!  We cover them all in this episode of our favorite heist movies. 

For the second part of our favorite sports movies, our panel of guests choose many non-obvious films for sports fans to debate about.  Is Dodgeball a sport?  Of course it is, just like ESPN 8 - The Ocho is a real sports network!

Our special guest this week is Matt Romig, former writer at Yahoo Sports.  We discuss a wide range of sports movies, along with Brian’s top 15 list of favorite sports movies.  Play ball!

Our very own Siskel & Ebert (Lynlea and Stephanie) discuss their favorite romance movies and disagree about everything.  Of course, this means “two thumbs up” for the listening audience! 

Last week we used our negative energy to discuss bad remakes.  This week we turn that frown upside-down with our favorite movie remakes.  Enjoy, sunshine!

In this episode we discuss movies that shouldn’t have been remade, thus tarnishing the legacy of the originals we love with inferior remakes.  Let’s get snarky!

Unlike the 2017 Oscars, there are absolutely no mistakes in our picks for our favorite Oscar winning movies for Best Picture.  We also discuss movies that should have won Oscars, but were snubbed by the Academy.

For many young movie fans, watching your first rated “R” movie is a rite of passage.  Whether it’s hearing vulgar language or viewing adult situations for the first time, these “restricted” movies are almost always more memorable at a younger, more impressionable age.  Join us for our look back at our first rated “R” movies!

As Ted Turner’s 1980s experiment with the colorization of classic movies proved, film lovers appreciated the original vision and brilliance of black and white films.  It’s all about the tone, the significance of light and shadows, and other subtleties that color films can’t match. (especially "fake" color!)  Enjoy our discussion about our favorite black and white films.

We get romantic in this episode discussing our favorite romance movies.  We cover a ton of movies in this episode. So, find your significant other, grab a bottle of whatever, and enjoy our list of movies to check out on Valentine’s Day.

Our special guest this week is Kevin Smokler, author of Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80s Teen Movies .  Kevin talks about why he decided to write a book about 80s teen movies and provides tons of fun facts and memories for films like Back to the Future, The Goonies, Real Genius, The Karate Kid, and many more!  80s movie fans will love this episode and be sure to purchase “Brat Pack America”...

Everyone loves an underdog (unless you live in New England, just kidding Patriot fans!)  and in this week’s episode we discuss our favorite underdog movies.  Some of our choices are predictable, but many are not.  You’ll just have to listen to find out!

If you’re a movie fan like we are, there are certain films where you can recite line after line, almost like you starred in the film yourself.  In this episode we let the clips do the most of the talking as we share our favorite quotable movies.

We thought about making this a bloated three-hour episode in tribute to the films we feel are much too long, but that would be too ironic for our own good.  However, like a competent film editor, we jam pack our picks into a brisk one-hour discussion.  You will not be bored with this episode!

Have you ever been tricked into watching a movie because it’s supposedly the best movie ever made?  Only to be bored senseless and wondering why you’re even friends with the person that recommended the film?  If this has happened to you, this is the episode to check out!  Join us for our discussion of movies that we didn’t like, but everyone seems to rave about.

Before starting a movie podcast, your host had dreams of being on the radio.  This episode will take you “Back to the Future” (see what I did there?) as you get to hear clips from my college radio show circa 1999-2000.  Those years were the foundation for what “Damn Good Movie Memories” would eventually become.  Join the BLT (Brian and Leah Time) for a blast from the past!

’Tis the season...to listen to movie podcasts!  That’s right, it’s time to discuss our favorite holiday movies and because we’ll always be kids-at-heart, here’s a peak at the main gift of this episode:  Tons of content around “A Christmas Story”!!  If you’re a fan of that classic, you will absolutely love this episode. 

Sequels often get a bad rap, but there are a select few that really take the enjoyment of a first film to the next level.  For this episode, we discuss our favorite movie sequels. Keep in mind we don’t necessarily consider these films to be the “best”, just our favorites.  Enjoy!

This episode could have been titled “Spoiler Alert!”, as we discuss movies that we wish had different endings.  This task was much more difficult than we anticipated when it came to coming up with a list of films that fit our criteria.  Join us for this fascinating journey of endings that should have been better.

In this episode we only have one guest: Dr. Dave Nichols.  We discuss topics from the first eight DGMM episodes, along with delving into music and sports.  Enjoy this fly-on-the-wall experience as you get to hear Dr. Dave and I chat seamlessly for over an hour. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and looking for a fabulous chiropractor, contact Dr. Dave Nichols at Belmont Advanced Chiropracti...

Guilty pleasure (or “misunderstood masterpieces”…thanks Mahlon!) movies could mean a few things:  You might enjoy a movie that was critically panned or was a box office bust.  You might enjoy a movie that film snobs turn their nose at and will mock you for your tastes.  Whatever your guilty pleasure movie (or misunderstood masterpiece) may be, we cover all the bases on this episode!

Gangsters and organized crime has been amply depicted in countless films since the early 1930s.  In this episode we chat about our favorite movies depicting the crime underworld.  “Go get your shinebox!”

Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most popular and revered directors in movie history.  Over his 50+ year career he changed the way movie fans watched films and how films were made.  Join us for this episode as we discuss our favorite Hitchcock films.