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Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Nine: Theri (2016) थेरी (2016) Action. Musical. Well, you knew we'd have to be crossing some oceans for this one. If we need guns and explosions and romance and singing and dancing we're definitely headed for Bollywood. When your writer / director operates off a mononym, you know you're in for a good time.   Logo design by: https://www...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Eight: Expelled from Paradise (2014) 楽園追放 (2014) Animated. Thriller. Those are two words that seldom appear side-by-side, but Russ and Frye are always up for a challenge. Did you like The Matrix ? Gundam Wing ? Trigun ? Dune ? What if they all had a baby? And then that baby grew up to only provide fanservice? You just might end up with Expelled f...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Seven: Spin Me Round (2022) As of last week, we still haven't found something James likes. The wheel wanted independent drama, and that theme generally contains very few pirates, lighthouses, oilmen, or Cthulhu. He's just not biting, and we're getting bored of this category. It's up to Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, and Olive Garden t...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Six: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) Based on a true story. Do those words do anything for you? This week in independent drama, we bring you the based on a true story tale of Japan / Minnesota's least-effective treasure hunter.   Urban legends abound as we try to please The Wheel and finally find something James likes.  Logo design by: https:...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Five: Stop and Go (2021) Road movies. There aren't a lot of movies that embraced the COVID lifestyle. Most studios either shot around it or greenlit animated productions. One movie dared to show us all the lifestyle changes that would age as well as a carcass on a freeway. Whitney Call and Mallory Everton are taking a road trip from Albuquerque...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Four:  Bullet Train  (2022) The wheel has demanded comedy-thriller, and Brad Pitt has taken up the gauntlet. We're off to Japan for the most white-washed movie set on a shinkansen you've ever seen. When Michael Shannon is playing a Russian yakuza boss, you know some wires have gotten crossed somewhere.  Logo design by: https://www.fiverr.co...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Three: Class Action Park (2020) What is an action documentary, we wondered to ourselves after last week's episode. Then along came con-artist and criminal Gene Mulvihill to give us our answer. His brainchild was a meatgrinder of a playground called Action Park, and enough cannot be said about this Jackass of an attraction. The 80s and New Jersey...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Two: Money Plane (2020) We're back! It's a listener request to start off 2023! This is the best movie released in 2020 that stars both a classically trained thespian and a WWE superstar. If you've ever wanted to see Edge act opposite Kelsey Grammer, now you can. The title alone is perfect, but is that an easy enough sell for James? Als...

Send us Fan Mail Happy 2023, everybody! We'll be back next week with the usual nonsense. There are some politics in this episode, but it's an outtakes episode and anything's fair game. Enjoy! Logo design by: https://www.fiverr.com/ideahits Intro voiceover by: https://www.youtube.com/kevincrocker heyjameswatchthis@gmail.com Follow us @heyjameswatch

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twenty: Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) Christmas horror, you say? There's a LIBRARY. This week it's director Joe Begos and a murderous robotic Santa Claus. No, not the one from Futurama .  Riley Dandy holds her own as the Final Girl in this movie that summarizes itself with its title. Let's be honest -- you know what you're getting. A...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Nineteen: Love & Peace (2015) ラブ＆ピース Our Christmas drama took us to the UK, and it looks like our foreign Christmas movie is taking us to Japan. We couldn't find the KFC that Frye wanted, but we did find a prolific director. Sion Sono -- a deeply insane person -- wrote and directed this passion project. It's 20 years in the making, and i...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Eighteen: The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) Happy Holidays! 'Tis the season around here, and the Wheel has demanded Christmas drama. Where better to look than where it all started? It's Victorian England and it's ol' Charlie Dickens. It turns out, the process of creating A Christmas Carol was a surprisingly cinematic one. Who would&a...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Seventeen: Jurassic World Dominion (2022) It feels like we've come full circle in a strange way. Our first episode over two years ago was another Jurassic World movie. And now James comes into this one knowing full well what Frye and Russ are selling. They brought back Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and also eve...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Sixteen: Nuts! (2016) The world of animated documentaries is wider than you might think, and we were lucky enough to discover this depiction of the life and many, many, many frauds of America's greatest quack doctor -- John R. Brinkley. As if treating every ailment with an implantation of goat testicles wasn't enough, he also skirted the FCC by bu...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Fifteen: Sundown (2021) James didn't want to watch Mélanie Laurent stuck in a tube, so we've got to bring back the spicy foreign drama. Maybe instead of watching Mélanie Laurent stuck in a French tube, he'll be more amenable to watching Tim Roth stuck on a Mexican beach. Although, he is there by choice. James also has a lot to say about the J...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Fourteen: Oxygen (2021) Oxygène (2021) The wheel demanded foreign drama, so we gave James a French sci-fi film where Mélanie Laurent is stuck in a tube. That's the entire movie. It's like that flick we did last year called Galaxy of Horrors , except there aren't any dumb scary short vignettes to break up all the tube stuff. Additionally, Russ...

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Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Twelve: Cold Pursuit (2019) "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have is a trophy for being voted Best Person in Town, and a snowplow. My snowplow makes me a nightmare for people like you. If you let Laura Dern out of this movie, that'l...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Eleven: Hellraiser (2022) Happy Halloween, everybody! We've come full circle to good ol' bloody horror and unnecessary remakes all in one! From sex demons dressed in their own skin to the silliest tailoring job you've ever seen, no idea was too silly for the writer's room. This reimagining of Clive Barker's classic will surely polar...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Ten: His House (2020) It happened again. We needed a new ghost story, and we accidentally picked one that was too good for the podcast. Of course, that won't stop us from making the most of it. The immigration experience framed as a horror is just the beginning of everything that's happening here. You'll also have to deal with the boys'...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Nine: A Ghost Waits (2020) Spoopy Season continues! James was ever so excited by our comedy cosmic horror, but now the wheel has called for a ghost story. James isn't a fan. He'll probably be less of a fan this week because Russ and Frye have to deal with a ghost story that throws the viewer the most unnecessary suicide this side of Romeo and Juli...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Eight: Glorious (2022) Happy Spoopy Season everybody! It's that time of year when we do a month of horror! The wheel called for horror comedy, but we knew James was disappointed. We knew he really wanted Lovecraftian cosmic horror. But Russ and Frye are wily. What if they could deliver both? What if they could deliver an eldritch god voiced by JK Simmo...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Seven: Promare (2019) プロメア (2019) The wheel called for animated action?  That's certainly a thing, but it's usually called DragonBall Z. When you hear "animated action," it's almost certainly an anime -- right? Not to worry. We're weebs -- we know what's up. This is Studio Trigger, and this is Hiroyuki Imaishi. Do you...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Six: Detour (1945) We usually stick to pretty recent stuff on this show, but the wheel is merciless and it has demanded a classic. While the idea of an "unnecessary" classic film is chuckle-worthy, we think we've delivered. This is a film noir from 1945 directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. If you want to play blackout...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Five: Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022) I hope you're all ready to learn something, because it's documentary week. If there's one thing we love more than Werner Herzog's speech patterns, it's clowning on crypto and crypto-bros. Luckily, this movie has lots of both. Marvel at the parade of bad decisions, mysteries, an...