I Like To Movie Movie

It’s no secret that here at I LIKE TO MOVIE MOVIE we love sports movies and we love movies about bad people being bad to one another because it makes them horny. Enter Luca Guadagnino’s CHALLENGERS, a sports movie about bad people being bad to one another because it makes them horny. We discuss the dense thematic material contained within, the incredible filmmaking craft, and the fact the Mike Fai...

Alex Garland’s latest film is one of the biggest and most divisive movies of the year. Is it an anti-war classic or just empty provocation? Is refusing to take a position a position all its own? Do tracer rounds get you hard? We cover it all in our discussion of the latest, and potentially loudest offering from A24, and afterward we count down our favorite anti-war films. Follow the show on Instag...

Megan has never seen a MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movie. Dan and Stephen are making her watch ALL OF THEM. That’s right, as the final (?) film in the series slowly approaches, we will be going through the ultimate preparatory task. It sounds impossible, but we’ll succeed, just like Ethan Hunt and the IMF gang! We have plenty of time, so this won’t be a back-to-back-to-back project, but expect plenty of M...

On this week’s episode of I LIKE TO MOVIE MOVIE, we leave the lush rainforests of Caladan for the unforgiving desert climate of Arrakis once again to discuss part two of Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s “unadaptable” classic. Stephen has questions. Dan has (some) answers. Gurney has a song. And speaking of songs, we close out the episode with some of our favorite musicians-tur...

People of Earth! Apologies for the slight delay, but we were tied up watching the Oscars last night. And since you fellow degenerates were probably rushing to cram every damn movie in your brain before the big night, we decided not to do a classic episode, lest you be saddled with boring homework. Instead, we decided to chillax and discuss what we’ve been watching lately. Maybe you’ve seen the sam...

On Sunday, March 10th the Oscars are back for the 96th time! You’d think Hollywood would be tired of itself by now, but nope. The show must go on! To get ready for Tinseltown’s biggest night, we go through each category to determine what should win, what will win, and how to pronounce NYAD without actually watching the movie. Follow I LIKE TO MOVIE MOVIE on Twitter and Instagram @moviemoviecast. S...

On February 1st we lost a true god amongst men: Carl Weathers. He fought Rocky, Predator, Shooter McGavin, and a host of people who were much too happy to throw away their food. To celebrate his life we’re covering ACTION JACKSON, the film that aimed to make Weathers a leading man by putting him up against Coach himself: Craig T. Nelson. This explosive film features fully on fire stuntmen, dummy w...

It’s 2024 baby! We’re kicking off what’s sure to be an exciting year with Jake Johnson’s feature directorial debut: SELF RELIANCE! Check it out on Hulu and then join us for a spoiler-filled discussion of this moving, funny, high-concept adventure. We discuss Johnson’s skills behind the camera and the keyboard, and make a plea for him to become our new best friend and play Mario Kart with us. Yes,...

It’s the end of the year, so you know what that means: an offensively long episode in which we count down some of our favorite movies of the year. So sit back, relax, and cure your New Year’s hangover with the power of cinema! You should also drink some water. It’s important to stay hydrated, especially after boozing it up. Anywho, follow the show on IG and Twitter @moviemoviecast, as well as our...

Happy Holidays from I LIKE TO MOVIE MOVIE! As is tradition, we like to fill December with holiday cheer by focusing on atypical seasonal cinema. This year’s tasty treat is a deep dive into Shane Black’s festive directorial debut, KISS KISS BANG BANG. We talk about the career resuscitation of Robert Downey Jr., the difficulties of taking a noir style and updating it with contemporary flair, and the...

Whenever David Fincher releases a new movie it’s always cause for celebration. Add to that this week’s Thanksgiving holiday and we here at I LIKE TO MOVIE MOVIE are feeling quite a bit of gratitude! Thanksgiving dinner was a beast, but we hope you saved room for dessert. So pop open that top button, rub your belly, and enjoy our deep dive into Fincher’s atypical and divisive thriller. We didn’t ha...

Mike Flanagan did the impossible when he made DOCTOR SLEEP: successfully sequelizing an untouchable classic AND adapting a novel that itself is very much *not* a sequel to said classic. Join us as we close out our seasonally spooky programming by forcing Stephen to watch another horror movie (he’ll watch anything if it has Rebecca Ferguson in it — maybe one day he’ll watch THE SNOWMAN lolololol) a...

Every fall the City of Brotherly Love is host to the Philadelphia Film Festival, a ten day celebration of all things cinema. This year, having only just recovered from Fantastic Fest, I did my best to see as many films as humanly possible. It hurt, but it was that good kind of hurt that you get after going to the gym. Tune in for a rundown of some of the best films from #PFF32. A huge thank you to...

Happy Halloween from I Like to Movie Movie! This year’s seasonal treat marks the first time in Movie Movie history that we’re revisiting a movie that we’ve already covered. Longtime fans will remember that our very first episode was a discussion of Stanley Kubrick’s terrifying masterwork, THE SHINING! Things are a bit different in the House of Movie Movie these days, but one thing remains the same...

This year I was super lucky to be able to attend Fantastic Fest 2023 in-person in beautiful, sweltering hot, Austin, Texas! It was an incredibly good time, filled to bursting with beer, barbecue, electric scooters, and top-notch genre film! In today’s very special episode I go over some of my favorites of the fest: V/H/S/85, EILEEN, DOGMAN, RIVER, THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY, and STRANGE DARLING....

POPEYE’S HERE!!!!! In celebration of the life and work of the recently departed William Friedkin, we dig into the movie that netted him a Best Director Oscar and also took home the grand prize of Best Picture: 1971’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION! We discuss the character of Popeye Doyle, Friedkin’s clever ways of subverting copaganda, and examine the impact that his filmmaking style has on modern day cin...

Stephen was finally able to get a ticket for BARBIE, and he was moved to tears. Dan remains mixed on the film, but by the end of the episode he’s ready to give it another go. All that matters is that people are coming back to the movies in a BIG way and we have BARBIE to thank! We discuss what worked (Issa Rae), what didn’t work (John Cena), and how hard it is to do a split, then we countdown some...

The original intention was to do a BARBENHEIMER episode, but due to the rampant popularity of BARBIE (yay!) Stephen was unable to procure a ticket in time. No matter, as he was indeed able to see OPPENHEIMER, which is such a densely packed epic that it’s worthy of its own full episode. We get into the filmmaking, themes, and historical relevance of Christopher Nolan’s atypical biopic, and then we...

Before Oppenheimer and Barbie knock Thomas Cruise Mapother IV out of the multiplex, we wanted to cover one of his most iconic and well-respected films, A Few Good Men. Rob Reiner’s 1992 classic is one that both Dan and Stephen have had on their shame lists for way too long. Welp, not anymore, muchacho! We discuss Rob Reiner’s incredible run of directorial hits, Tom Cruise’s similarities to Chandle...

It’s here!!! The biggest summer blockbuster ever (until Barbenheimer) has finally arrived! Ethan Hunt and his ragtag team of agents are back for another mission that, for anyone else, would simply not be possible. This is your spoiler warning, so if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you may wanna wait until you do. Up to you. I’m not your damn mother. Join us as we discuss the good and bad of the se...

Hey hey! The full length episode drops Wednesday, and since we didn’t want to leave you hanging OR spoil a movie that isn’t even out yet, we crafted a very special preview episode recorded before and after our screening of Ethan Hunt’s latest caper. M:I-DR(PO) comes out 7/12, and we’ll be waiting for you right here when it does. Enjoy this tasty morsel, and we’ll see you later on in the week.

Dan grew up watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Stephen grew up watching The Empire Strikes Back. As such, they each have a preference when it comes to iconic characters played everyone’s favorite licensed pilot, Harrison Ford. In honor of the upcoming release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, we’re ripping off the concept another podcast (which shall not be named) and doing bat...

It’s that time of year again! That time when we look back on what we’ve seen and decide on our favorite films of the first half of 2023! For Dan, it was a heartbreaking task of cutting a gigantic list down to size. For Stephen, it was a heartwarming task of remembering what movies he saw this year (don’t worry, we’re getting him into Letterboxd whether he likes it or not). Count ‘em down with us!!...

Here be spoilers, both in the form of plot points AND those things you put on the back of a car to make it go faster or something! Dan and Stephen continue a long-standing Movie Movie tradition by diving deep into the latest entry of the soap opera that simply won’t die (or, at the very least, comes back from the dead after dying pretty explicitly). We’re talkin’ cars, Coronas, retcons, Oscars, on...

This legendary Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze collaboration changes shape as the viewer ages, but remains an essential piece of meta-cinema. In solidarity with the WGA, we focus on the importance of the writer in cinema, and celebrate two of the most thoughtful and bizarre performances from the one and only Nicolas Cage. Join us for a discussion of theme, voiceover, and deus ex machina. After our dis...