I'll Show You Mine

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week Elyse is showing James Yasujiro Ozu’s ‘Late Spring’ from 1949. ‘Late Spring’ tells the simple tale of a father in Japan trying to find a suitable match for his daughter Noriko, who doesn’t want to leave home and is hesitant to agree to a marriage. Join us as we talk about the quiet, slow pace of this movie, the deliberate and symbolic cin...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week we’re doing a little April Fools switcheroo and James is showing Elyse a movie she’s never seen, ‘Synecdoche, New York’ from 2008, written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. A postmodern drama, ‘Synecdoche, New York’ follows the life of Caden Cotard, a theatre director trying to stage his biggest production yet while managing his relationsh...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week we’re doing a little April Fools switcheroo and Elyse is showing James a game he’s never played, the action RPG Fallout 4 from Bethesda. The most recent full game in the ‘Fallout’ series, Fallout 4 takes place in post-apocalyptic Boston as your main character, the Sole Survivor, goes searching for their missing child. Join us as we walk t...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week James is showing Elyse ‘Lumines: Puzzle Fusion’ from 2004, the colorful and rhythmic puzzle game designed as a launch game for the PlayStation Portable. The game has since been released for many different platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, which is the version we played. Join us as we talk about the unique mechanics of the game, th...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week Elyse is showing James ‘Down with Love’, an homage to the “no-sex” sex comedies of the early 60s, such as the Doris Day/Rock Hudson romcoms like ‘Pillow Talk’, starring Renée Zellweger as modern woman author Barbara Novak, and Ewan McGregor as Catcher Block, the “ladies’ man, man’s man, man-about-town” playboy magazine writer. When Barbar...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week James is showing Elyse ‘Bastion’ from 2011. The debut game from now-hotshot developer Supergiant Games, ‘Bastion’ is an action RPG that follows the story of The Kid, a silent protagonist who wakes up in the fantasy world of Caelondia after the apocalyptic events of the Calamity. As he attempts to fix The Bastion, a kind of floating base c...

Welcome to a brand new season of I’ll Show You Mine! This week Elyse is showing James ‘Rocky II’, starring, written, and directed by Sylvester Stallone. Released in 1979, three years after the first ‘Rocky’, it picks up right where the first film left off and tells the story of the rematch between the “Italian Stallion” Rocky Balboa and the heavyweight champion of the world, Apollo Creed. Join us...

Hello friends! Just a little trailer for our various podcast profiles, to introduce any new listeners to I’ll Show You Mine! We’ll be back next week to kick off Season 6 with ROCKY II from 1979. Join us then and be sure to rate and review the podcast, share with friends, and join our Patreon if you would like longer, higher-quality episodes, with exclusive downloads, bonus blogs, and more!

Welcome to the I’ll Show You Mine Christmas Movie Special! This year we’re watching the classic Rankin/Bass stop-motion TV special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, originally aired in 1964. It’s the story you know from the traditional Christmas song about little reindeer with a shiny red nose, with a little patented Rankin/Bass fantasy thrown in for good measure. Join us as we talk about the cute...

Welcome to another JRPG Thanksgiving here at I’ll Show You Mine! This year, as we digest our Thanksgiving dinners we’re talking about another JRPG, Pokémon Red Version from 1998. The original North American release of the infamous “pocket monsters” franchise, Pokémon Red quickly became a global phenomenon that inspired a generation of young gamers. Join us as we talk about the classic Pokémon game...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, we’re closing out our Halloween episodes and the season with Doom 3, another black sheep of a storied franchise. When a portal to Hell is opened on Mars, it’s up to you, Unknown Marine, to fight back the demon hordes and survive. Join us as we talk about the jumpscares, the departures from the original style and look of Doom, and all tho...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, for the first of our Halloween episodes, Elyse is showing James the Korean psychological horror, A Tale of Two Sisters. Directed by Kim Ji-woon, it is an adaptation of a Korean folktale that tells the story of two sisters returning from a stay in a mental institution and dealing with strange things happening in their home. Join us as we...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, James is showing Elyse an all-time classic, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Developed and published by Nintendo, Link to the Past is the third game in the Zelda franchise, and tells the familiar tale of a young hero Link, who must save Hyrule from an evil wizard trying to take over the world. Join us as we discuss the absolutely...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, Elyse is showing James another favorite Shirley MacLaine movie, the 1969 musical Sweet Charity. The story of a hopeful taxi dancer looking for love in New York City, Sweet Charity follows MacLaine as Charity Hope Valentine, getting into all manner of trouble and adventures in her search for true love and a new life. Join us as we talk ab...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, James is showing Elyse The Best Free Game On The Internet, Cave Story! Developed by one determined man, Daisuke Amaya, Cave Story is a simple indie platformer-shooter where you play as Quote, a small android thrown into the middle of a world-threatening conflict on a mysterious planet. More than 10 years after its initial release, Cave S...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, Elyse is showing James an American classic, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment from 1960, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Insurance agent C.C. Baxter lets his bosses “borrow” his apartment to conduct their extramarital affairs, but things get even more awkward when the big boss wants to use the apartment to take out the elevator ope...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, James is rounding out his Trilogy of Shame with another Blizzard classic, the original StarCraft from 1998. A real-time strategy game that revolutionized the genre, StarCraft tells the story of three warring species on the far edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. Join us as we talk about that magic Blizzard touch for great stories and character...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, Elyse is showing James Tombstone from 1993. This early 90s Western revival tells the true story of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at the OK Corral, and everything that happened in between in Tombstone, Arizona in the early 1880s. Join us as we marvel at the moustaches on display, lament the lack of compelling characterization for female cha...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, James is showing Elyse the late 90s classic, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. A skateboarding sports game that lets you play as your favorite professional skateboarders, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was emblematic of an era when skateboarding was at the center of a counter-culture taking the world by storm. Join us as we talk about James’ traumatic pas...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! We’re taking a bit of a break from our normally scheduled season to highlight modern Black filmmakers and game developers. Over the past few weeks, as protests against police brutality, racism and violence have spread all over the world, people are doing what they can to direct attention to anti-racism efforts and funds for the victims of racism an...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week Elyse is showing James a big beautiful musical from France, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg from 1964. A bittersweet love story told in stunning visuals, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a wall-to-wall singing musical which tells the tale of Geneviève and Guy, a pair of young lovers torn apart when Guy is drafted into the Algerian War. Join us as...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! This week, James is showing Elyse one of the lesser known Nintendo franchises, Pikmin. The pet project of renowned Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto, Pikmin was inspired by the sight of ants walking in unison in his garden. A game unlike many of the others in the Nintendo canon, Pikmin nonetheless spawned several sequels and continues to have a de...

Welcome to another episode of I’ll Show You Mine! We’re back to our regular schedule and back to our old tricks as Elyse shows James another Don Bluth film, The Secret of NIMH from 1982. “NIMH” tells the story of a widow mouse, Mrs. Brisby, who enlists the help of a group of intelligent and mysterious rats to move her family out of the farmer’s field in which they live before plowing time, without...

Welcome to the second half of our April Fools episodes! This week, Elyse is showing James a game, the fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Inquisition. The third major game in BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise, Dragon Age: Inquisition tells the story of the Inquisitor, the unexpected leader of an organization formed to investigate a sudden Breach in the Fade, the spirit realm. Join us as we compare the reasons we...

Welcome to our first April Fools episode of 2020! In April we switch hosting duties and this week, James is showing Elyse a movie, the superhero parody Mystery Men from 1999. Based on the independent comic series, Flaming Carrot Comics by Bob Burden, it follows a trio of wannabe superheroes attempting to save their home of Champion City when their A-list superhero Captain Amazing is kidnapped. Joi...