Hate Watch / Great Watch

Hello, excellent humans! We’re joined by filmmaker This Jes ( ThisJes Films on youtube ) to dissect Jordan Peele’s US (2019)! This isn’t a regular-degular episode of HWGW , as we’re focused on the themes and motifs in the picture, though we still manage to talk about The Rolling Stones, Jerry Lewis’ Vision Quest, how Hide-a-Keys never work and we even squeeze in a Fire Safety Moment! So not an ent...

Hello, excellent ...aliens!?!? On this episode of HWGW, we’re going to space and to the future to talk about the alien MMA action comedy (?) ARENA from 1989! We’re joined once again by frequent guest Bryan Bierman! Talking points include: Randy Orton, the Bryan Bierman / Tina Dillon guest feud, Forrest Gump spin-offs, krugerrands, and for some reason we throw shade on Green Book !

Hello, excellent humans! Climb in, double check your maps and I hope you peed before we left because we’re going on a road trip! We’re talking JOY RIDE (2001) featuring Paul Walker, somehow top-billed Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski on a cross-country trip full of Deadly Pranks. Find out if returning guest Billy Guinan and first timer Keith Boehm can describe the film in just 6 sentences and stick...

Hello, excellent humans! This episode starts off a little bit heavy with a discussion about celebrity death that impacted us, but the talk quickly turns to the film at hand: 1996’s direct-to-video gem VIBRATIONS starring Christina Applegate! Guest Nicole “Smalls” Krecicki and special surprise guest Krystal Brackett both return to watch this extremely strange flick with us. Since you probably haven...

Hello, excellent humans! Splish splash, we’re taking a bath with guest Aliya Amilani who asked to be described as “the mushroom queen of Philadelphia” as we discuss 1999’s DEEP BLUE SEA and, perhaps more importantly, our forthcoming porn parody with a nigh-unpronounceable title! Along the way we talk about vintage MTV including Jesse Camp and someone named Caison Derly, discuss Danny Boyle’s direc...

Hello, excellent humans! Celebrate Liberty Day - y’know, that holiday everyone knows and celebrates - with us as we’re joined by Gabby Reeves to discuss Brian De Palma’s 1981 Philadelphia-set neo-noir BLOW OUT ! Listen as we: discuss Dennis Franz’s poor attempt at a Philly accent, attempt to explain the Mummers, and invent new character Scoop Newsman! And Hunter pitches a new TV show: Horse Cops !

Riley O’Neill returns to talk about one of her favorite movies, 2009’s CORALINE ! We discuss getting called by the wrong name, compare Coraline to Castle Freak and invent new characters like Ian McShane McMahon and Tony Bananaslugs! Come for the film discussion, but stay for the anti-corporate screed and learn why We Like-a Laika!

Hello, excellent humans! In a stunning display of foresight, we brought back Celso Garcia to talk about this seasonally-appropriate blockbuster the same week as July 4th. Listen to us gab about the film and its many, many miniatures, as well as about such far-ranging topics as: Bastille Day; Adam Sandler and what he's been up to; if Werner Herzog directed this; and much much more.

We are joined on this episode by Riley O’Neill to discuss The Banana Splits Movie from 2019. Remember The Banana Splits? Well they’re back in horror movie form! We speculate on the possible origins of this flick, take listeners to The Ziti Zone, and Allison tells a horrifying story about a childhood limbo accident!

Maximum Overdrive (1986) Hello, excellent humans! Listen to what happens when good trucks go bad as we review Stephen King’s sole directorial endeavor, Maximum Overdrive , with our good friend Hank Bratton. Press play to hear our ideas on how we’d do a modern remake, learn the behind-the-scenes heroism of dolly grip Gene Poole, revel in the soundtrack absolutely littered with AC/DC, and much more.

Hello Excellent Humans! Hallo ausgezeichnete manschen! Get on your dancin’ shoes, we are joined by Tomie Wilson to discuss 2018’s Suspiria! We chat about how it compares to the original, the supernatural nature of Tilda Swinton: The Myth Who Walked, the logistics of a witch-themed amusement park and provide you a new definition for “Geszundheit” and a little ASMR, as a treat!

House (Hausu) (1977) Welcome back six-time guest Bryan Bierman to discuss the psychedelic Japanese spookhouse flick House (a.k.a. Hausu) from 1977! On this episode (definitely brought to you by Chroma Key!): Hunter misunderstands Ghost Dad , we sing that famous B-52’s hit song “Refrigeration Shack” and we discuss music we hate, Alf, and Isadora Duncan!

Cliffhanger (1993) Will Congleton returns, continuing his quest to find a mountain climbing movie that doesn't suck. Could it be 1993's Cliffhanger ? Tune in to find out. Along the way we also explore the most expensive funerals in history, tally the number of Gallaghers in existence, discuss the importance of teaching your children defensive snowman construction, and much more! For those of you g...

Tina Dillon is back for her 5th appearance (!) and she’s brought her Big Bell Energy with her to talk about 2018’s Hereditary ! We discuss where Tina *thought* the movie was going, spend a lot of time as a 40’s radio station and address the elephant in the room: Mark Wahlberg’s apparent beef with us. Hail Paimon! Matt Daimon!

Hello Excellent Humans! Good evening! It must be the evening cuz we’re talking about Night Shift (1982), a movie we’d never heard of until returning guest Bill Guinan brought it to our attention despite it starring Henry Winkler, Shelley Long and Michael Keaton! Wild, right? We wonder whether Keaton is on cocaine, talk about Henry Winkler’s performance on HBO’s Barry and come up with alternate tag...

This week Hunter and Allison are joined by frequent guest and resident Wahlbergologist, Tina Dillon and since Mark isn't returning our calls, we talk about The Jazz Singer (1980).

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World For the second half of Valentine’s Day (Month), we’re bringing you a double date night with Nicole Krecicki and Nicole Wiegand. We cover a whole lot of ground on this one, discussing Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) as well as the Ovipositor adult toy, the Mandela effect, Ashlee Simpson, that thing you just can never seem to remember, how many Culkins there are, how R...

Happy Valentine’s Day (Month)! This very special episode marks the inaugural Hate Watch / Great Watch Date Watch. Hunter and Allison watched one of Allison’s favorite romantic vampire flicks and discussed a variety of life's most important questions such as: Does being near a lake make you a better writer?, Is Allison adopted?, Do vampires poop?, and more. Listen in!

Hello Excellent Humans! Bryan Bierman is back! Back on the show and back from a brief, wrestling-related trip to Japan. Appropriately enough, we watched 2016’s Shin Godzilla and bring you unnecessary measurement conversions, Y2K remembrances, some fire mixtape recommendations, yet another great band name available (for a small price) and talk about Michael Winslow, Discovery Zone , Predator math &...

Will Congleton (you might remember him from waaay back on episode 7 ) returns to talk with us about another obscure gem - 1965’s Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine . We gush over the late, great Vincent Price, sing the instantly catchy theme song, wonder how many flights are in a flock, explain who the heck that biker guy in the dungeon is and discuss sexy bank robbery and Where the Red Fern Grow...

Hunter’s roommate and friend of the show Krystal Brackett watched You’re Next (2011) with us. We talk at length about how much it sucks to step on a nail (just ignore everything from 1:26:14 to 1:29:33 if you can't handle it). Also Allison was way too loud, Krystal explains what a "goon bag" is, and everyone attempts an Australian accent at some point - usually with poor results. Enjoy!

Frankie Marsh joins us for Ocean’s 11 (2001), arguably the most-referenced heist film of our generation. In this episode Bob Barker superfans may be offended, we talk Tom of Finland's Batman , DePalma's gonna DePalma, we share stories about lying to strangers, The Bourbon Squad, just for Dec we leave in a brief Christmas Movie reference, how Ocean's is a light sci-fi film and we discuss Joe Coyle...

Though we're proudly Philly through and through, our first Sly Stallone movie isn’t Rocky, but 1986’s Cobra! We are joined by our friend Pat McGinn who is not always for public consumption making this our Most Heavily Edited Episode To Date! Pat talks about: his attraction to villain Brian Thompson, how much ketchup is too much, getting the most bang for your grenade buck, compares Iñárritu’s Bird...

Contact (1997) On this very special episode Hunter’s honest-to-goodness real-life mom Lynette Notte joins us to watch Contact (1997) a movie that asks big questions about life, the universe and everything. We answer our own, smaller-scale questions like: Is Lynette the east coast’s most prominent uncaptured black widow? Will IKEA ever sponsor the show? What happens when Allison does a little *too*...

Hello Excellent Humans! Natural Born Killers (1994) “Classy Guy” Frank Cassella showed up to watch the spree killin’ psychologically thrillin’ “who’s really the villain?” Natural Born Killers (1994). It’s a complex movie with weird cinematography and broad social themes so it gave us a lot to talk about. Listen in!