Does It Hold Up?

We aren't fully done looking back at the movies from 2025. On this episode we hand a few awards known as The Uppies to some of the best and worst movies of the year. Who will win Breakout Star of the Year, Biggest Disappointment, Biggest Surprise? Find out now. Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized...

Happy New Year! We have been asked quite a few times why we haven't covered *certain* movies yet. So this week we are explaining why. And giving you a whole list of movies that we may never cover. But remember, never say never. 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 supporting us...

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! This week we have a little fun with movie franchises. Emily made a tournament featuring 32 of the biggest franchises of all time. Now it's time for Adam to pick winners until there is only ONE! 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 supporting u...

You have heard of us. We may be just the best podcast you've ever listened to. But honestly, we just want to know why's the rum gone? This week we revisit 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporti...

Sometimes the game changes in ways that no one expects. Sometimes the new works better than the old. When it comes to baseball tradition always beats progress, until the 2002 Oakland Athletics changed everything.  This week we revisit 2011's Moneyball, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we...

Imagine your father drops you at a boarding school to go fight in World War I. Then he never comes back, you go broke, and become a servant to a mad headmistress. That's the start of some crazy horror movie type stuff, just kidding. That's just the story of the movie we watched this week that was made for children.  This week we revisit 1995's A Little Princess, does it hold up? Find out now.   Th...

We are back! Shia LaBeouf was a megastar in the making. Especially with his breakout role in this 2003 movie based on a book of the same name. This was a childhood staple for many, but 22 years later is it as good as you remember? This week we revisit 2003's Holes, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook...

This week Adam revisits all 12 movies directed by Christopher Nolan to tell you which is his favorite.    Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremely helpful.  Follow Emily on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/ladyemily11/ Follow Adam on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd...

The 80s were an iconic time for slasher movies and Freddy Kreuger might be the scariest of them all. But was his first outing a dream or a nightmare? This week we revisit 1984's A Nightmare on Elm Street, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there...

Horror movies come in all shapes and sizes. On this week's episode Emily and Adam tackle the task of ranking 11 different horror movie subgenres to come to the conclusion of what scares us most.  Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremely helpful.  Follow Emily on Let...

Walt Disney took a big risk combining animation with classical music, did it pay off? At the time maybe it didn't but over the years the appreciation has come.  This week we revisit 1940's Fantasia, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is ext...

A comedy action movie. A big success. A love is found. A cheating scandal. BrAngelina is born. This week we revisit 2005's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremely helpful.  Follow Emily on Letterboxd: https://let...

An accident as a child left Matt Murdock blind but with his other senses heightened. Now as an adult he fights crime as Daredevil. Ben Affleck puts on the red suit in his first superhero outing. This week we revisit 2003's Daredevil, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently mone...

Have you ever watched a movie and immediately wanted more? Wanted to be a part of that world? Experience that world in a brand new way? How about experiencing the movie as a video game? On this episode Emily and Adam talk about movies they loved and how they would turn them into video games if they could. Hope y'all enjoy.  Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links...

Everyone keeps asking us if we're back. We never really had an answer. But now, yeah, we're thinking we're back!  This week we revisit 2014's John Wick, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremely helpful.  Follow Emily on Letterboxd: h...

We can't survive on just one or two high altitude podcasts per year. We wish we knew how to quit you. All we have now is Brokeback.  This week we revisit 2005's Brokeback Mountain, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremely helpful.  F...

Actors and actresses inside of massive franchises usually go on to great success. Why didn't anyone from Twilight or other YA movies from that time period. We are talking about the cast of the some of the biggest YA movies of the 2000s and 2010s to discuss why.  This week we revisit YA Movie Casts to see which one holds up the best. Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other pla...

We're impossibly fast. And strong. Our skin is pale white and ice cold. Our eyes change color. And sometimes we speak like, like we're from a different time. We never eat or drink anything. We don't go out in the sunlight... This week we revisit 2008's Twilight, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook ar...

Emily's birthday is on the horizon again so she picked this week's movie to cover. And after two years in a row revisiting Jurassic Park, we finally get to move on to something new...sort of.  This week we revisit 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we...

Do you understand the words that are coming out of our mouths?!?! We hope so.  This week we revisit 1995's Rush Hour, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremely helpful.  Follow Emily on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/ladyemily11/...

20 years ago, the story of some blah blah blah hit theaters. And now this summer we are going back. That's what every legacy sequel does and sometimes they are damn good and sometimes they aren't. This week we revisit some legacy sequels, do they hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently...

One year ago we did something horrific and now someone is reminding us. Thank God because we can't remember what we had for breakfast!  This week we revisit 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extre...

You could trouble me for a warm glass of shut the hell...o movie lovers it's time for another movie with Emily and Adam.  This week we revisit 1996's Happy Gilmore, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremely helpful.  Follow Emily on L...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a podcast about Superman! Let's talk about this iconic character and his big budget debut ahead of his most recent outing.  This week we revisit 1978's Superman, does it hold up? Find out now.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremel...

Emily and Adam are back to check in with their box office guesses, talk about the state of movies, and make guesses for more movies coming out this year. Let's see how they did.   Thanks for listening. Please support us other places by clicking the links below. TikTok and Facebook are where we are currently monetized so supporting us there is extremely helpful.  Follow Emily on Letterboxd: https:/...