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Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Four: We Couldn't Become Adults (2021) ボクたちはみんな大人になれなかった (2021) Romance yet again. Russ and Frye now know that James wants a romance without any of those pesky romance trappings like love or passion or human contact or fulfillment, so maybe a depressing slice-of-life Japanese pseudo-romance will suffice. The boys are feeling especially...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Three: The F Word  - OR- What If? (2013) Romance, eh? You know this one's going to be a tough sell, but maybe Harry Potter AND Kylo Ren can help out. It's the most Tik-Toked romcom of 2022, and Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, and Adam Driver are giving it their all. This movie is called What If? in the US and The F Word everywhere else. Seems the imp...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and Two: Carter (2022) We forgot to spin the wheel last week, so Russ has hijacked the podcast again! With his newfound power, he has brought the latest action movie out of South Korea that might be more action than movie. The list of things wrong with this movie is exactly the same as the list of things this movie gets right. Is it possible to have too much ac...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred and One: Men (2022) Suspense! As is turns out, James didn't want a thriller at all -- he wanted a suspense movie. Accordingly, it's up to the boys to convince him that this "folk horror" -- per Wikipedia -- is sufficiently chilling. With a title like Men , I bet all the guys in this one are just real swell. It's Alex Garland directing J...

Send us Fan Mail Episode One Hundred: The Gray Man (2022) We've been doing this for a hundred episodes now, and the movies are just as unnecessary as ever. James wasn't interested in watching Spiderhead , so we brought him a thriller with a lot more explosions, Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, podcast favorite Ana de Armas, and Billy Bob Thornton. If you don't think those names just screa...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Nine: Spiderhead (2022) The wheel has demanded thrillers, so Russ and Frye picked a movie that is definitely classified as a thriller on Wikipedia. Spiderhead shows us a terrible world where pharmaceutical companies are also prisons run by Chris Hemsworth, and are about as unethical as they are in real life.  Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett round out our cast of pr...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Eight: BIGBUG (2022) James is under the impression that countries other than the USA make comedies, so it's up to Russ and Frye to go along with that. Jean-Pierre Jeunet has brought us classics like Amélie , The City of Lost Children , and also Alien Resurrection , because we all have to take an L sometimes. In BIGBUG , we get to watch a bunch of futuristic Fre...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Seven: The Last Days of Coney Island (2015) Independent animation. We do pick some good ones here, don't we? Who better to tempt James than the architect of so many of your childhood nightmares -- Ralph Bakshi. Here he is presenting the last piece he made before he retired from the animation game. We'll be honest -- it wasn't a close call on this epis...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Six: The Last Days of Capitalism (2021) James didn't want to watch Tom Hanks and his pet robot, so we're going even more dramatic this week. What could be more dramatic than a single Vegas hotel room, two people, sex, drugs, and a lot of cash. Pair all that with a bunch of pseudo-philosophical gibberish and you have this week's movie, or pretty much a...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Five: Finch (2021) James has a LOT to say about Assassin 33 A.D. , but Russ and Frye are not to be contained. The wheel demands drama, so we brought it sci-fi. Well. Sci-fi drama. More fi than sci. It's Tom Hanks, C-3PO, a Roomba, and Toto wandering around a Fallout 76 map, and somehow we didn't just describe an episode of Love Death + Robots .  Logo desig...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Four: Assassin 33 A.D. (2020) The boys have finally done it. It took ninety-four episodes, but they finally broke James. If you haven't heard of it by now, you should have. This is the movie with no audience in mind. It's a faith-based picture where Islamic terrorists create a time machine so they can go back in time and cap Jesus, but worry not -- there&a...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Ninety-Three: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020) Actors forced to sing. Is there any more hellish fate than the musical? Maybe trying to convince James to watch one is worse. It seems like it's been ages since Stuck , hasn't it? The boys are back from vacation, and they've brought Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams in the best tribute to Eur...

Send us Fan Mail This is the last vacation week for HJWT, so please enjoy these outtakes from our second season! Regular episodes resume next week! 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 The boys are on vacation this week, so please enjoy these outtakes from our second season! 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 Ninety: Stuck (2017) The wheel wishes to punish us. It craves musicals. This one has Giancarlo Esposito in it, and it's certainly a musical. Beyond that, the boys are even further out of their (already tenuous) element. While Rent is a modern adaptation of La Bohème set against the background of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the early 90's in Manhattan, Stuck is about...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-Nine: Psychokinesis (2018) 염력 (2018) The wheel has spoken -- it's foreign (foreign) action! Accordingly, the boys have gone as far from the States as possible -- South Korea. It's a superhero movie that hits some realistic beats that the standard Marvel staples tend to miss, but will that be good -- and foreign -- enough for James? What even makes a real...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-Eight: Ready or Not (2019) James didn't want to see The Hunt , so Russ and Frye have gone back to the ol' Most Dangerous Game well. They're still hunting people this week, but this one has slightly less politics. Samara Weaving -- who is definitely not Margot Robbie -- gets to dust off her best wedding dress and brightest yellow Chuck Taylors so she c...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-Seven: The Hunt (2019) The Wheel has spoken. It's horror, and it's Frye's least-favorite film genre. Surprisingly, we might've found one he enjoys! Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if Frye likes it or not -- we've got to convince James that he likes it.  Betty Gilpin and Hilary Swank lead our cast in hunting The Most Dangerous Game. If...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-Six: All the Old Knives (2022) It's Chris Pine! It's Thandie Newton! It's Jonathan Pryce! It's Laurence Fishburne! They're all spies, but who's the mole? It's definitely one of them, and it takes a whole movie for them to tell us who's guilty. The Wheel commanded us to do a thriller, so we made it a spy thriller. Tinker Tailor...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-Five: Mythica: A Quest for Heroes  (2014) How do all the most stereotypical D&D campaigns start? They met in a tavern. And indeed they do in Mythica -- a movie we chose because James said he wanted fantasy. It so happens that we know JUST the kind of fantasy that James likes. Funded by Kickstarter, this is the most labor-of-love movie based on D&D you'l...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-Four: Moonfall (2022) James didn't request this one -- Russ demanded it. The Master of Disaster Roland Emmerich is back to his usual nonsense. For a man who has destroyed the entire world at least five times, what's left to do but drop the whole moon out of the sky? If you saw Independence Day , Godzilla , The Day After Tomorrow , 2012 , AND Independence D...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-Three: Reminiscence (2021) Last week's theft just wasn't good enough, was it? We just had to find another thief, didn't we? Well, fine then. This week you get Hugh Jackman at his wettest. As if Miami wasn't already miserable enough, writer and director Lisa Joy has to go and flood the place for her neo-noir yarn. James isn't satisfied with s...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-Two: Windfall (2022) This week James thirsted for theft, thieves, thievishness, and the boys very nearly delivered. Lily Collins, Jason Segel, and Jesse Plemons round out almost the entire cast of this cringeworthy attempt at burglary-turned-hostage dramedy. Will this flick be enough to staunch James's hunger for MORE, or will Russ and Frye be cracking another...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty-One: The World of Kanako (2014) 渇き (2014) CW - descriptions of cinematic sexual assault This week James wanted thievery, but Russ wasn't done with unlikeable protagonists. Accordingly, he brought in Kōji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, and director Tetsuya Nakashima to do his dirty work. While there might be one or two instances of thievery in this movie, there are mu...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Eighty: Steve Jobs (2015) This week James wanted his protagonists unlikeable. Is anyone more unlikable than America's favorite middle manager turned CEO? We might end up speaking ill of the dead on this episode, if this Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic isn't lying. Is it better to be liked? Would a narcissist even care? James is about to find out.  Logo design by: http...