Mike D'Arrigo

Missing Real with Mike D'Arrigo

Comedy EN ↓ 6 episodes

Great movies take their place in history, but what about all the "turkeys" and disastrous flops littering the vast cinematic cesspool? If you really love movies, then what does it matter if a particular film won eight Oscars or eight Razzies? Sometimes over-the-top hammy acting, laughably choreographed fight sequences and rubber monster FX outdo even the most lavish productions in the Academy Awards echelon. So, whether it's an unsurpassed masterpiece or a piece of something else, every movie I talk about in this podcast is near and dear to my heart. Some you will know well, some you'd be well...

Be sure to visit the podcast's website and support the creator: www.buzzsprout.com

Author

Mike D'Arrigo

Episodes

Season 12 Episode 3: The Dark Knight Trilogy 28.10.2026 1:09:55

Who's the coolest comic book character of all time? I don't want to start a geek battle royale here, but it's safe to say Batman is a likely contender. Comics...oh, excuse me...Graphic Novels...gave us a brooding vigilante who lurks in the shadows and strikes like a ninja. Then came Adam West...and the progressively more cheesy Hollywood take on Batman. Fortunately, the Batman m...

Season 12 Episode 2: Streets of Fire 20.08.2026 29:20

Imagine the hit musical Grease, except that everyone dropped out of Rydell High School and became biker gangs or losers. Now reduce the number of catchy, memorable hit songs for your drunken karaoke fests and set it entirely at night in a crime-infested city with not a trace of Batman. Sounds like a blast, don't it? Well, it's actually a pretty cool film by the director of The Warrior...

S12 E1: Firestarter 26.07.2026 58:58

The year was 1984, and while Big Brother may have been watching you, in his spare time he might have also watched this excellent movie adapted from a Stephen King novel, starring a cute 8-year-old Drew Barrymore. No ordinary kid, of course. She's got the pyrokinesis thing going, so any time she throws a tantrum, things burn down. She can generate the greatest balls of fire Jerry Lee Lewis...

Season 5 Episode 6: Event Horizon 13.07.2026 41:31

Know what an event horizon is? Hint: it is NOT a sunset at a destination wedding. As far as I know, it's some fancy science slang for a thing black holes do. In this case, it's a lost space vessel and the doomed mission to recover it. This 1997 movie, starring Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus!) and Sam Neill (Damien! OK, you might need to have been born in the 70's to get that refer...

Missing Real S3 E10: Star Trek - Classic Crew 21.06.2026 58:09

Sound...the final frontier. Because, really, once you've heard this podcast, what more is there to experience? In this galaxy-spanning comedy supernova, we will explore the classic Kirk/Spock/McCoy era of the Star Trek movies, spanning over a decade of cinema in just under an hour. Relive all your favorite moments, encounter all the intergalactic villains, learn some surprising trivia, chu...

Season 11 Episode 10: The Hobbit 25.05.2026 56:27

Long movies with short characters. We must be back in Middle Earth again! After 8 years, Peter Jackson brought more Tolkien tales to the big screen and another epic trilogy arrived. These Hobbit adventures were almost as awesome at the previous Lord of the Rings movies, and some of our old familiar characters show up here, but it's all top-notch action and CGI beasts done properly. Sweepi...