Mashley at the Movies

Larry joins us on our latest Criterion episode to discuss Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho . River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in this early-nineties queer cinema masterpiece. We had a great time talking about it, and hope you enjoy listening.

Emma Thompson is a lonely, unfulfilled woman, and Daryl McCormack is a sex work she hires for several assignations in a hotel room. And there we have Good Luck to You, Leo Grande , and so much more. Ashley & Matt review this new movie, available to watch on Hulu.

Philip Baker Hall stars in Hard Eight , a late-90s movie that showcases his acting talent, and Matt & Ashley talk about it in our latest RETRO episode, in honor of the actor's passing this week.

Ashley & Matt review the sixth (and final?) entry in the Jurassic movie franchise.

Grant joins us for the latest edition of our Criterion series. We discuss Akira Kurosawa's 1990 fable Dreams .

The legacy sequel to Top Gun is in theaters. Does it live up to the hype? Listen as Matt & Ashley discuss Top Gun: Maverick to find out .

With its sequel a smash hit at the box office this weekend, Ashley & Matt thought they would finally catch-up with the original Top Gun in this week's episode.

We rejoin the world of the Crawleys and their staff, as Downton Abbey returns! Rachel joins us to talk about the latest comfort food film.

Alex Garland is back with a new film, and Rachel is here to help us talk about it. Men is a movie about trauma, grief, the beautiful English countryside, and then some really effed-up stuff that we can't really explain. 

Golden Arm is a wonderfully hilarious movie about friendship, female arm wrestling, and so much more. It was released last year, and we saw it for the first time last month at the Roger Ebert Film Festival. It was our favorite movie of the festival, and we are happy that Jenna Milly, who co-wrote the film with Ann Marie Allison, took the time to join us on this episode to discuss how the movie was...

Ashley, Matt and Larry review Firebird , a new movie based on a true story about forbidden love on a Soviet airbase in the 1970s. We have a lot to say about it on our latest episode.

Multiverses! Madness! Ashley & Matt review the latest MCU joint, where Sam Raimi directs Doctor Strange . Listen to our thoughts on this wild ride in our new episode!

It's the return of Bad Movie Night, and wow... do we have a bad one! Matt & Ashley talk about Evils of the Night , a mess of a movie from 1985. Listen, if you dare!

Alexander Skarsgård stars as Amleth, who must avenge his father, save his mother, and kill Fjölnir.  We are joined by Jeff in this episode, as we discuss Robert Eggers' new movie, The Northman .

Rosa is back with us to talk about new, very meta, action adventure bromance movie starring Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

A group of amateur filmmakers rent a guest house in rural Texas to make an adult film, and their hosts - an elderly couple - are not quite what they seem. Ashley & Matt review Ti West's latest horror movie, X , in our new episode.

After a three year hiatus, the Roger Ebert Film Festival (aka Ebertfest ) is back! Matt & Ashley look ahead to this year's installment with festival director Nate Kohn. Highlights include the movie Ghost World (with director Terry Zwigoff and co-star Thora Birch in attendance), and Nightmare Alley (with director Guillermo Del Toro and screenwriter Kim Morgan also attending). Lots of other...

A Chinese-American family become involved in an impactful adventure that spans universes. Ashley, Matt and Ryan review this quirky, funny, and deeply moving film starring Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, directed by Daniels.

In the latest episode our RETRO series, we step back in time to 1985, when a grown man's bike is stolen, and he goes on a cross-country quest to find it. Ryan from The Coolness Chronicles makes his debut on the podcast to help us talk about Pee-wee's Big Adventure !

Ashley & Matt are back this week with a review of the new movie, The Lost City . Hear what we think about this action/adventure comedy in our latest episode.

Ben Affleck is cuckold to Ana de Armas in Adrian Lyne's throwback erotic thriller, Deep Water . Matt & Ryan review this new movie, now streaming on Hulu.

In a new, mid-week episode, Ryan & Matt go over their predictions of who will win some of the major categories at this year's 94th Academy Awards, which will be held this Sunday, March 27.

Mark Rylance runs a small cutter shop in 1956 Chicago and, one night, things begin to spin out of control. Ashley, Matt and Aaron review this new thriller in our latest episode.

Simon Rex won Best Actor at the Independent Spirit Awards for his work in Red Rocket . Ashley & Matt review this late-2021 film about a washed-up porn actor who returns to his estranged wife in a small Texas town.

Our second new episode of the week is about a woman, Julie (Renate Reinsve), who impacts the lives of others while trying to figure out her own. Matt & Ashley review this Oscar-nominated film, and the discussion is deep, and Matt gets emotional! Is Julie really The Worst Person in the World ?