First Timers Movie Club

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and that’s also the title of the movie we watch this week. Join Patrick and Lolo while they watch the 1963 classic comedy film that brought together many of the comedic heavy hitters of the time together to make what at the time was intended to be THE seminal comedy film of all time. Listen as Patrick and Lolo discuss editing for comedy, the sound awards at the Osca...

It was supposed to take 30 minutes but ended up taking 14 hours. . . the heist that is not this episode of the podcast. This week Lolo shows Patrick the highly acclaimed film based on a true story - Dog Day Afternoon. They discus the prolific director behind this film Sidney Lumet, the amazing cinematography of this film, the many impactful themes of this film and so much more including “whether o...

Let’s get into a spaceship and test some theories of time travel in an episode Patrick’s been wanting to do since the beginning of the podcast and Lolo’s been dreading it’s the original “Planet of the Apes”. We recently talked about this film in our “2001: A Space Odyssey” episode and compared ape makeup between the two having both been released the same year. (Planet of the Apes took home a honor...

Good morning, First Timers Movie Club listeners! And in case we don’t see you later - good afternoon, good evening, and good night! On today’s episode Lolo sits Patrick down to watch The Truman Show, a super fun comedy-drama-sci-fi-psychological-reality-show-thriller…? Listen as we talk about the original script for this film, the moral debates sparked by a story that predates the big reality show...

If you haven’t seen Toy Story, you are a sad strange little man and you have my pity. This is how Patrick felt about our resident young person Amber Joy, luckily, we’ve now fixed that. Get ready to go to infinity and beyond right in time to see the new Lightyear movie. This week Lolo and Patrick are joined by special guest Amber Joy to watch the first ever CGI feature film Toy Story! They discuss...

Open the Blu-ray case Hal, it’s time to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey. In our third episode focused on the works of Stanley Kubrick we finally watch the movie Lolo’s been trying to show Patrick this whole time! Listen now as they discuss one of the most groundbreaking pieces of sci-fi film history and discuss a myriad of topics including “is it boring or is it art and what’s the difference”, the sym...

Time to put a bra on your head and get out your Barbie dolls, it’s the Weird Science episode of First Timers Movie Club. It may not be John Hughes most famous or popular film but it’s definitely the strangest. Patrick and Lolo are hard at work writing what might be their next script and todays film falls into research for movies in a similar vein. So listen now to hear Patrick show Lolo Weird Scie...

I have a need, a need for speed! Or rather a need for seeing Top Gun before the new movie comes out. If you are like Patrick you like to see all the big summer movies but you also might be just like Patrick and have never seen the original Top Gun. Luckily we have Lolo to tell us all about the year Top Gun came out, the players involved in getting this movie made and tons of fun trivia about the f...

Ready for more Kubrick? We hope so! This week Patrick and Lolo discuss Kubrick’s classic satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. We skipped watching Lolita but don’t worry, Patrick watched it and we do talk about it in the first half and how that experience may have influenced this film. Also they discuss the difference between satire and parody, the connection...

Lets flip things upside down and watch the disaster movie that started it all, The Poseidon Adventure! In this episode Lolo shows Patrick another movie about a boat slowly sinking in the ocean, and she wonders why she doesn’t like the idea of a cruse? They discuss what it is about this film that makes it so great, the struggles that went it to making the complex set pieces of this film, the differ...

“I AM SPARTACUS!” we’ve all herd the famous line now Lolo see’s the movie it came from for the first time! This week starts a mini series within our show of watching the films of Stanley Kubrick (don’t worry we will throw so non-Kubrick films in the line up as well). In this episode we watch one of Kubrick’s early films as well as his only film where he didn’t have complete creative control. Learn...

After Nosferatu last episode we decided to do a complete 180 in the type of movie we watch next and what could be more different than a silent, horror film that’s got a single color wash well a vibrant technicolor musical of course! This week Lolo shows Patrick the Audrey Hepburn classic, My Fair Lady for the first time! In this episode we find out how our resident thespian Patrick Poe has never s...

Celebrate the 100 year anniversary of one of the first horror films ever made: Nosferatu! We watch the oldest film yet this week on First Timers Movie Club as Patrick shows Lolo the classic example of German Expressionism, Nosferatu. This episode gets real film nerdy so prepare to learn all about the history of the artform of cinema, how WW1 gave birth to the German Expressionist movement and how...

Get your peanuts, buy a beer and watch A League of Their Own, baseball season is just around the corner. This week it’s Lolo’s turn to host the podcast and she shows Patrick one of the most quoted films in the last thirty years “There’s no crying in baseball!”. Listen to them discus about how great Penny Marshall’s film career was, the odd connection between this film and Amadeus, what exactly it...

Happy Valentine’s Day! Patrick has been very excited to see the new West Side Story, because he loves both the 1961 film and the stage version, but then Lolo said she wasn’t sure she’s ever seen it at all!!! And you know what that means - this week on First Timers Movie Club Patrick and Lolo watch the original West Side Story. Listen as they discuss one of the most winning-est films the Academy Aw...

“Take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” On this episode our guest Amber Joy takes the red pill and we show her the revolutionary sci fi film The Matrix. Listen now as we plug into the trivia of the Matrix and hear Amber’s thoughts on seeing t...

On this episode, Lolo and Patrick sit down with a cup of coffee and watch a childhood favorite of Lolo’s, the iconic comedy “9 to 5”! If listening to Dolly Parton sing that theme song doesn’t make you want to start a revolution, we don’t know what will. This episode includes a ton of trivia about how this movie came into existence, a little bit about the three incredible leads of this film (though...

Happy New Year!!! We’ve got a wonderful last episode of 2021 for you with special guest Andrew Tady of Tady Brothers Productions. We sit down with Andrew and show him the quintessential film about the film industry Sunset Boulevard and discus why it is he’s never watched it, the common problem of films about filmmaking, tons of great trivia about the film as well as a debate about whether or not n...

Yippy Ki Ya Merry Christmas from First Timers Movie Club! It’s a Christmas party over here at the podcast and we bring our resident young person Amber Joy on to drink some egg nog eat some cookies and show her the Christmas classic Die Hard. Listen now to hear us discuss what makes this film so great, the strange trivia around the casting of Bruce Willis in this film, and tons of other great trivi...

Today Patrick shows Lolo, for the first time ever, the timeless, heartfelt, touching, made-for-small-children Christmas classic – GREMLINS! Oh wait, wrong movie description. We meant the stylistic, scary, quirky, definitely not for small children, summer movie, about Christmas – GREMLINS! Listen as they discuss what makes this quirky movie great as well as tons of interesting behind the scenes tri...

Some people start celebrating Christmas the moment Halloween is over but here we like to keep celebrating Halloween till Christmas, not really. But Kinda, so here we go rounding out our Halloween episodes and finishing our spooky for the year with the horror movie that re-defined the slasher genre Scream! Lolo shows Patrick Wes Craven’s instant classic Scream and they discus what it takes to make...

We talked so much about Jurassic Park last episode that we just couldn’t resist bringing back Amber Joy and showing her Jurassic Park for the first time! We both love this movie so much and the impact on film history is so big we’ve brought you the longest episode yet, in it we discuss how this film was a game changer for cinema history, the amazing team of people that made it happen and why Steve...

Our look into Halloween hit films continues this week with the 1992 horror comedy Death Becomes Her! Lolo shows Patrick this star packed film directed by Hollywood icon Robert Zemeckis and they discuss in depth the groundbreaking VFX that this film pioneered and some of the unexpected connections this film has to films that came after it including Jurassic Park! New episodes of First Timers Movie...

Continuing on the Halloween theme Patrick and Lolo show their good friend and filmmaker Sam Tady the comedy, horror sci-fi classic Ghostbusters for the first time! They discuss the crazy road to getting this movie made, how and why it differs from the second film as well as comparing and contrasting it versus the 2016 remake, as well as going in depth about the magic of it’s special effects and mo...

On this episode, Patrick and Lolo kick off the Halloween season with guest Solymar Romero by showing her Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic, PSYCHO for the very first time! A masterful film of terror, this is not one you want to miss. But will Solymar like it? Will it turn out to be everything it’s been hyped up to be? And what on earth is so fascinating about this one movie that we talk about it f...