Jake and Pete's Movie Talk

This week on Jake and Pete’s Movie Talk , we’re heading into the sleazy streets of 1980s New York City for Shakedown (1988), starring Peter Weller and Sam Elliott! What starts as a gritty courtroom drama about a drug dealer accused of killing an undercover cop quickly spirals into a glorious mess of crooked police officers, shady drug kingpins, exploding cars, roller coasters, and some of the most...

This week on Jake and Pete’s Movie Talk, we’re heading into Raccoon City for Resident Evil (2026), a brand-new take on the classic video game franchise. A medical courier called Brian is having a bad enough night before he gets sent on an emergency delivery through a snowstorm. Then the zombies turn up. Then the dogs start sprouting tentacles. Then things get considerably worse. We get into Zach C...

This week on Movie Talk Roundtable , Jake, Pete, and Brandon take on Halloween III: Season of the Witch — the bizarre franchise detour where Michael Myers disappears and is replaced by a distant acoholic dad. We get into John Carpenter’s abandoned anthology idea, Tom Atkins’ unlikely leading-man energy and Silver Shamrock’s questionable business practices. It’s strange, messy, surprisingly atmosph...

This week on Movie Talk Roundtable , Pete and Jake are joined by Brandon to talk about one of his all-time favorites in the horror genre: Candyman (1992) . We get into Tony Todd’s surprisingly limited screen time, Virginia Madsen’s standout performance, Philip Glass’s killer score, the real-world history of Cabrini-Green, and whether Candyman actually works as a horror villain once you start askin...

Jake, Pete, and Brandon kick a month of horror classics with Children of the Corn from 1984! For Jake and Brandon, this one comes with a lot of history. Back in college, they spent an entire day marathoning seven Children of the Corn movies instead of doing anything remotely normal with their lives. Twenty years later, they return to Gatlin to find out whether the original still holds up. Along th...

This week on Movie Talk Roundtable, Jake, Pete, and Brandon take on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Pete brings the Trek background, Brandon comes in as the outsider asking why half of this stuff makes any sense, and Jake tries to figure out whether the movie is actually about Khan, Kirk getting old, or Ricardo Montalbán’s completely real chest. We get into the Kobayashi Maru, Kirk’s refusal to b...

Jake and Pete are back with one of the strangest disaster movies of the 1970s: The Bees . What starts as a story about killer bees quickly turns into government corruption, corporate greed, secret hitmen, military intervention, bizarre science, questionable pheromones, John Saxon being John Saxon, and a swarm of bees that may actually be smarter than everyone in the movie. Pete accidentally discov...

This week on Movie Talk Roundtable, Jake and Pete are counting down their Top 5 Disaster Movies. From alien invasions and killer bees to pandemics, tornadoes, pilots with a tummy ache and the literal end of the world, the boys cast a pretty wide net on what qualifies as a disaster. Pete accidentally watches the wrong killer-bee movie and decides it belongs on his list anyway, Jake defends Reign of...

Join Jake and Pete for another Top 5 as they run through the movie lines that have stuck in their heads for years. From Talladega Nights to a truly unbelievable line from Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, the boys talk about the quotes they still repeat, why they remember them, and the movies they came from. Some are iconic. Some are profound. Some are completely ridiculous. It’s another amble through th...

This week on Jake and Pete’s Movie Talk, we’re heading out into the wilderness with Wild from 2014. Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed, a young woman who, after the death of her mother and the subsequent collapse of her marriage and personal life, decides to walk more than a thousand miles along the Pacific Crest Trail in an attempt to put herself back together. Pete is rather fond of this...

Join Jake and Pete for another Top 5 as we head behind bars to discuss our favorite prison movies. From the obvious classics like The Shawshank Redemption and Cool Hand Luke , to a maximum-security prison in outer space, we're keeping the definition of “prison movie” appropriately loose. Along the way, Pete introduces Jake to a few grim British classics, Jake attempts to convince everyone that The...

This week on the podcast, Jake and Pete dive into darkness as they take a look at Mister Frost from 1990, directed by Philippe Setbon and starring Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Baker, and Alan Bates. After a wealthy serial killer is arrested and sent to a psychiatric hospital, he breaks two years of silence to inform Dr. Sarah Day that he isn’t crazy at all — he’s actually Satan. Unfortunately for the Prin...

This week on Jake and Pete’s Movie Talk, the boys are digging into their favorite movies based on true events. From shipwrecks and cannibalism to financial collapses, Olympic hockey, classical composers, government whistleblowers and the Crusades, Jake and Pete put together two very different lists and ask the most important question of all: how much of this stuff actually happened? Along the way,...

This week on Movie Talk Roundtable, Jake and Pete are joined by Prince to take on Obsession from 2026. Directed by Curry Barker and starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, and Cooper Tomlinson, Obsession is a low-budget horror flick about love, wishes, bad decisions, and what happens when you get exactly what you asked for. The guys get into the movie’s Monkey’s Paw-style setup, the mystery of...

This week on Jake and Pete’s Movie Talk, we’re going over our Top 5 favorite gangster movies. From the mean streets of Boston and New York to London, Miami and the Italian underworld, we’re talking mob bosses, crooked cops, bank robbers, drug lords and more than a few guys who probably shouldn’t be trusted around a loaded gun or spedo laden heist. We get into The Godfather, The Departed, Goodfella...

This week on the podcast, Jake and Pete head into the cold, lonely reaches of space to check out Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 sci-fi picture, Silent Running . Bruce Dern plays Freeman Lowell, a botanist aboard the Valley Forge, where the last remaining forests from Earth are being kept alive inside massive biodomes. When orders come down to blow the forests into oblivion and head back home, Lowell deci...

Swipe a bottle of beer and climb aboard the Thunder Road, because this week Jake and Pete are blasting off with Explorers from 1985. Directed by Joe Dante and starring Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, and Jason Presson, Explorers follows three young friends who use a mysterious circuit from a recurring dream to build their own homemade spacecraft. Along the way, the boys discuss childhood inventions, t...

Grab your longbow, pull on your best pair of tights, and prepare to take a trip into Sherwood Forest, because this week Jake, Pete, and Brandon are going over Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves from 1991. Directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Michael McShane, and the scene-devouring Alan Rickman, the film follows Robin of L...

Join Jake and Pete for another Top 5! Last time, the boys took a fond walk down memory lane and shared some of their favorite trips to the cinema. This week, they head in the opposite direction to revisit the movies that disappointed, embarrassed, confused, and occasionally scarred them for life. From watching wildly inappropriate comedies with Grandma and flying halfway around the world for a ter...

This week on Movie Talk Roundtable, the boys are heading back Down Under for a rather unpleasant camping trip with 1978’s Long Weekend . Directed by Colin Eggleston and starring John Hargreaves and Briony Behets, the film follows Peter and Marcia, a deeply unhappy married couple who decide that the best way to repair their crumbling relationship is to disappear into the Australian bush for a few d...

Join Jake and Pete for another Top 5! This week, the boys take a walk down memory lane and share their most memorable trips to the cinema—from childhood screenings that sparked a lifelong love of movies to accidental Tarantino discoveries, missed opening scenes, flying candy, real-life monsters, and the crushing embarrassment of being the only grown men dressed like hobbits. Along the way, Jake an...

This week on Jake and Pete’s Movie Talk , the boys sit down for Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 directorial debut, Sex, Lies, and Videotape . Starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo, the film follows a troubled married couple, the wife’s outspoken sister, and a mysterious drifter whose strange videotape project forces everyone to confront the lies they tell each oth...

Ever wonder what you would do if you had a time machine? So have the boys. Welcome back to Jake and Pete’s Movie Talk: Movie Talk Roundtable! This week on the program, get ready for Jake and Pete to wax poetic about technology in film. Joined by Jesse S., the boys break down what they would do if they possessed their five most coveted pieces of movie technology. This podcast features adults using...

Slide on your pleasure rings, and prepare your war rockets, because Jake and Pete are blasting off to the planet Mongo for Flash Gordon from 1980. Directed by Mike Hodges and starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol, Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, and the legendary Brian Blessed, Flash Gordon follows a New York Jets quarterback, a travel agent, and a mad scientist as they try to...

This week on the podcast, Jake and Pete are flashing the badge, turning on the sirens, and diving into their Top 5 cops in movies. Are these the best cops in movie history? Absolutely not. But are they some of the most iconic? You’re damn right. This podcast features adults using adult language.