I Like To Movie Movie

Are you ready for a battle? Garrett and Dan sat down to watch Whiplash, one of this years Best Picture Nominee's in advance of their Oscar themed Movie Movie Live! on Thursday, Feb 12th at PhilaMOCA. And not unlike like the characters at the center of this film, your intrepid hosts waged war against one another for a shot at greatness (also read "rightness"). This movie sparked one of our best deb...

Garrett and Dan are joined by Omar Scruggs and Mike Logan to discuss the 1977 Best Picture Winner Rocky. With this years Oscar's only a few weeks away, and our Oscar themed Movie Movie Live! even closer (Feb 12th at PhilaMOCA), we went back to one of the Oscar's most competitive years. Up against Taxi Driver, Network, All The President's Men, and Bound For Glory, Rocky took home the award, launchi...

Garrett and Dan sit down to chat about John Carpenter's They Live and realize pretty quickly that this marks their third John Carpenter film on the podcast, making him their most talked about filmmaker. And with good reason - the man knows how to make a movie movie, as further evidenced by They Live. Full of practical effects and machismo one-liners, the movie manages to deliver its message withou...

Happy New Year from I Like To Movie Movie! As 2014 came to a close and Dan and Garrett reflected on all the great, original films that came out that year, they looked toward a horizon made entirely of franchise sequels. And so begins 2015, the year of our Intellectual Property Overlords, with an episode about where franchises can go right, and more specifically where they can go very, very wrong....

Dan and Garrett are joined by Scott Pagnotti for a massive, four hour, epic marathon of their Top 10 Movie Movies of 2014. Come see Movie Movie Live! the game show based on our podcast at PhilaMOCA, this Thursday Dec 18th at 8PM for only $5. Like us on facebook  and follow us on twitter .

Tis the season, and Dan and Garrett are back with their kind of Christmas movie - Holiday Slasher's. Joined by Kevin Kahler and PhilaMOCA's Rob Skvarla, this episode covers everything from Santa Killer films, slasher origin stories, and our first experiences with horror in the theater. And best of all YOU can see Silent Night, Deadly Night on the big screen at a screening at PhilaMOCA on Wed Dec 1...

As Garrett tries to catch up on 2014 movies, Dan introduces him to one of his favorites thus far - Under The Skin. This movie is easily one of the most movie movie's we've watched in a while, and the journey of simply trying to unpack what this movie is becomes it's own fascinating experience. Find and watch this movie before listening to this episode! follow us on twitter  // like us on  facebook...

Garrett and Dan are back with last week's guest, Mikey Garcia, for a full Nic Cage episode on his Oscar Award Winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas. This episode meanders as much as Nic Cage does through Vegas, and it's a blast. Come see our live, Nicolas Cage movie themed game show on Thursday Novembe 20th at PhilaMOCA! 12th and Spring Garden in Philadelphia. 8PM, $5.

From the bottom of Garrett and Dan's hearts, we'd just like to say - Whoops! We lost an excellent, 90 minute episode about Face/Off this week, so here's a 15 minute, redo episode where we talk about Face/Off with our guest, Mikey Garcia. Our sincerest apologies - we will bring you another Nicolas Cage episode as quickly as possible, in support of this month's Movie Movie Live!  at PhilaMOCA on Thu...

October isn't over yet, and Dan and Garrett are back with another horror classic - the 1978 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. As our guests Bino Brogden and Jeff Soles found out, this remake manages to balance a sense of rapidly escalating terror with some weirdness and mystery that make for a really fun film. See our comedy gameshow Movie Movie Live! on Thursday November 20th - This month's show is...

Dan and Garrett are slashing their way through October with a marathon of their favorite horror classics, continuing this week with John Carpetner's Halloween. Joined by Frank Kachenko and Brandon T. Gorin (one of our panelists on this month's Movie Movie Live!), the guys delve into the effectiveness of Carpenter's early filmmaking and try to figure out why horror is such a definitive genre of mov...

October is upon us and Movie Movie is continuing their Month of Mayhem (TM) with Toby Hooper's Poltergeist (or was it Steven Spielberg's?). Kevin Kahler and Keane Cobb join in and remember just how cool, scary, and fun this weird little movie is. Come see our live game show - Movie Movie Live! on Thursday, October 16th at PhilaMOCA (531 N 12th St Philadelphia, PA) at 8PM for $5. This months panel...

Garrett and Dan are joined by Brian Finnell as they venture to the True North of Kevin Smith's Tusk. And so begins the Movie Movie journey into October, during which we will watch and talk about horror movies and bring a very special Horror themed edition of Movie Movie Live! to PhilaMOCA on October 16th.

We can't talk about the cinema landscape as it is today without talking about the concept of franchising. And Garrett and Dan can't talk about franchising without talking about some of their favorite movie movies. And one series of their favorite movie movies was an early progenetor of franchising. That's right, Garrett and Dan return to another franchise from their past as they delve into Die Har...

Garrett and Dan return to the studio after another successful Movie Movie Live! to talk about Stanley Kurbrick's Dr. Strangelove with guests Jay West and Kevin Lau.  Movie Movie Live! returns to PhilaMOCA on Thursday September 18th.

Dan and Garrett reunite with the inimitable Pete Steele and a new guest to the show, Noah Houlihan, to continue their journey into the epic time travel opus that is the Back To the Future Trilogy. And no, none of those words are too strong. Join us for our in-depth discussion of chalkboards, dog reactions, and the family Tannen.

Garrett and Dan are joined by Steve Richards to talk about Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men. There's so much movie to this movie movie it's unbemovieable!   Come see Movie Movie Live! the game show based on this podcast July 17th at 8:00PM at PhilaMOCA.   Go to facebook.com/ilike2movie  for details.

Garrett and Dan sit down to discuss the films of 2014, thus far. Per usual, Dan has seen a lot, Garrett has seen a few, and first time guest Mike Logan has zero movies in 2014. The real good news about this episode is that Garrett finally gets his Spider Man rant recorded, so you'll never have to hear about that again.

Dan and Garrett are joined by Brian Finnell and Eddie Finn to discuss summer blockbusters, studio mentality around a tent pole release, and what happens when an inventive director is given a budget to make a large scale event film with an art house twist. Make sure you check out Movie Movie Live! - A comedy game show hosted by Dan and Garrett at PhilaMOCA on Thursday, July 17th! Featuring a panel...

Dan and Garrett are joined by actress Jenna Kuerzi to talk about Quentin Tarantino's contribution to Grindhouse, Deathproof. Cars, women, psychopaths, and feet make for one hell of a fun movie movie, whether it all hangs together as one of his greats or not. Whatver people's opinions of Deathproof may be, it's well worth takling about and full of excellent filmmaking.

Garrett and Dan are joined by Aaron Nevins and Chris O'Connor to discuss one of Jim Jarmusch's early films, Stranger Than Paradise. In a sprawling conversation longer than the film itself, they cover the work of PT Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, and Edgar Wright, and meander their way to topics like scent technologies of the future and the pulled porkinization of America, all while trying to make se...

Dan and Garrett attempt to unpack their complicated feelings about Wes Anderson as they talk about their favorite of his filmography, Rushmore. While some of Anderson's other films might seem more fitting of Movie Movie status, Rushmore balances his sense of style with a slightly more grounded world populated with slightly more believable characters than his other films. In doing so Anderson creat...

Garrett hadn't seen it yet, but Dan was so high on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, they had to talk Superhero films. A modern mythology uniquely fit for modern cinema, Dan and Garrett discuss why they think Superhero stories make some of the greatest Movie Movies. 

Garrett and Dan sit down to chat about Joe Cornish's debut film as writer/director, Attack The Block with their first ever guest, Philadelphia comedian Pete Steele. Attack The Block is easily one of the most movie-movie movie-movie's we've watched, employing show don't tell, economy of script, character centric storytelling, and practical effects to tell a Spielberg influenced, coming of age story...

Garrett and Dan sit down to discuss a classic that neither had a real opinion about before this viewing. Listen in as they discuss the importance of character in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.