Movie Mandates

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're wrapping up Originated On Stage month with my sister's mandated flick, Glengarry Glen Ross, a movie known for Alec Baldwin's "Always Be Closing" monologue that new viewers are surprised to find is his only scene in the movie! Join us as we fi...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month, we're celebrating movies that Originated On Stage so I mandated we watch Cyrano, the umpteenth adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, a story about a man who is such a good friend, he'll sext your girlfriend in your stead. Now that's a true...

Where's the pomp? The circumstance? Did anyone think to tell Amazon? 0:00 - I sang on RafScrap's cover of "Be Prepared"! Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhtEkcbuMw 2:22 - Wait... the Nintendo Switch 2 comes out in less than two weeks?!!! 11:47 - Games aren't expensive enough, says totally real gamers who don't have a stake in game sales 30:34 - The history of Benny Bear 35:04 - Afte...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Ani-May month concludes with my sister's mandated movie: Grave of the Fireflies, an anime about a pair of young, sibling war orphans doing what they can to survive in war-ravaged Japan back in 1945.  No gravity-defying hairstyles.  No giant robots....

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's Ani-May, the month where we indulge in animated films from Japan!  Hey, did you see the one about the busty high school girls with the short skirts and gravity-defying, rainbow colored hair who save the world by piloting giant robots with the...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're wrapping up Animal Attack month with Keleigh's mandate movie, The Birds, a title which leaves no doubt as to which animal is doing the attacking. Ferrets. 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 19:53 - The Birds review 1:12:44 - Next episode's mandated movie...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's Animal Attack month and we're kicking off the festivities with Phase IV, a mid- 70s sci-fi film where ants attempt to take over the Earth.  Can they be stopped by two ridiculously well-funded university scientists studying the ants' organizati...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  To round out Kids (Not That One) month, my sister mandated we watch Stand By Me, a movie based on the Stephen King book, The Body.  So, why the title change? We would assume the producers wanted to sell more soundtracks (yes, Stand By Me features p...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month's theme is Kids (Not That One) so I mandated we watch Cop Car, a movie about two kids who steal a cop car from a, get this, evil cop.  Unfortunately, the evil cop is played by Kevin Bacon so we might have trouble rooting for the kids. Pl...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  February is Best Buds month and we're wrapping up with Keleigh's mandated movie, Midnight Run.  Granted, our protagonists don't start out as best buds; their relationship is, in fact, rather contentious.  But one can't run from the cops, the feds,...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  February is Best Buds month and we're mandating movies where the protagonists are such buds they'll unashamedly bring each other and their one-night stands post-coital donuts, a gesture only the bestest of buds would make. And so I mandated Running...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  January is Second Breakfast month where we call we're allowed a mulligan on a previously mandated movie that didn't turn out so good.  While we both enjoyed Keleigh's recent Artsy Fartsy pic of The Green Knight, she thought she could squeeze a bit...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  January is the time for Second Breakfast where we call a do-over on one of our mandated movies and try another.  For "Shoulda Seen This By Now" month back in October, I mandated the original Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.  I shouldn't have.  It was a...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  December is Artsy Fartsy month so Keleigh mandated we watch The Green Knight, a movie we've both seen but never had a chance to discuss. UNTIL NOW!!! This movie has so much artsy fartsy stuff to talk about!  Metaphor, color theory, mise-en-scène, e...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  December is Artsy Fartsy month so I mandated we watch La Casa Lobo, a stop-motion film unlike anything you've ever seen unless you've seen something similar!  And if you've not seen something similar, you should see this.  You many not like it, but...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Nutty November concludes with Keleigh's mandated pick: Blockers, a movie that contains a handful of nuts. That was a joke.  If you've seen the movie, you get it.  If you haven't seen the movie, you probably still get it.  Not because it's a simple...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  It's Nutty November and I've mandated the nuttiest movie I could think of: Pom Poko.  Yes, this animated Ghibli classic is absolutely chockful o' nuts.  More nuts than you can shake a stick at.  An embarrassment of nuts.  Just, so many nuts. You'll...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  We're continuing our celebration of movies we Shoulda Seen By Now and unsurprisingly, this week's mandated movie is another classic.  I mean, if it weren't a classic, should we really have seen it by now?  Anyway, Keleigh has mandated we watch the...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month we're celebrating movies we Shoulda Seen By Now so I've mandated we watch the 50s classic, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman.  Because we haven't seen it. And we shoulda.  By now. 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 12:49 - Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman review...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Art of the Steal month concludes with Keleigh's mandated movie: The Town, a heist film that dramatizes why someone who commits armed robbery, assault, and kidnapping should not date their victim. "Ah," but the movie bravely asks, "Is it okay if the...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Art of the Steal month focuses on heist movies and to kick off the festivities I've mandated we watch Topkapi, a heist movie from the 60s that the internet tells me was one of the inspirations for the subsequent Mission: Impossible television show....

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Title Song month concludes with The Crying Game, a movie only notable for its titular song.  No other reason. So, it should be a pretty short discussion, yeah? 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 11:03- The Crying Game review 1:02:28 - Next episode's mandated mo...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  This month we're celebrating the nearly lost art of the Title Song!  It's not good enough that a character in the movie speaks the films title; it must be sung!  Not necessarily by one of the characters but that's cool too! My mandated movie is a s...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  Kaijubilee wraps up with my sister's mandated movie, The Host!  I saw this back in the theater back in 2007 and... didn't like it.  Which surprised me because I like monster movies and people were raving over this one. Maybe I was in a bad mood?  L...

Welcome to Movie Mandates, a review show in which sibling cinephiles Andrew and Keleigh force each other to watch movies according to a monthly theme!  July is a Kaijubilee where we celebrate all monsters big and stompy.  Well, not all of them.  We only have two shows a month and let's face it, some Kaiju are just goofy bozos (*cough* Gabara *cough*). Anyway, for my part, I've mandated we watch Sh...