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!  June is Pearl Clutchers month and my sister mandated Basic Instinct, a riff on the noire genre most famous for its interrogation scene where... oh my heavens!  Just thinking about it had me reflexively clutching my pearls so hard they broke.  Darn...

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!  June is Pearl Clutchers month and I mandated Cuties, a movie about a dance troupe of young girls who, lacking any guidance from the adults in their lives, mimic the overtly sexual dress and dance moves they see online.  This film created a firestor...

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 asking if the movies from our childhood are As Good As We Remember.  For our final episode this month, my sister has mandated we watch Flight of the Navigator, a movie that answers a question we wouldn't think to ask until decades...

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 my sister and I are mandating older movies we enjoyed when we were younger but haven't seen in decades.  Today, we're taking a look at my mandated movie, The Faculty, a late '90s riff on The Invasion of the Body Snatchers set in a small...

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!  Could Be a Porno month comes to an end with our final movie that could be a porno, Holes!  Who's holes?  How many holes?  What's going in or coming out of those holes?  We'll, we'll just have to watch the movie and find out! Porno or children's fil...

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 April and that means we're celebrating films with titles that Could Be a Porno!  We're kicking off the festivities with Fun With Dick and Jane, the earliest example of a movie I can think of that made me giggle like the immature child I was an...

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!  Feel-bad Movie month concludes with Keleigh's pick, Legends of the Fall, a film about the extensive bad karma that's visited upon you and yours when you abuse animals. At least, that's my read. 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 13:45- Legends of the Fall revie...

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!  You've heard of Feel-good Movies?  Well, March is all about Feel-bad Movies!  Stories that may be genuinely great but they leave you feeling hopeless, dirty, and alone as you sit naked in your shower stall under a cold spray and gently cry yourself...

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 concluding Black History Month with Keleigh's mandated movie, Judas and the Black Messiah, a title so perfect that it spoils the movie even if history already hadn't! 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 6:46- Judas and the Black Messiah review 57:53- Next...

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 kicking off Black History Month with my mandated movie, Hidden Figures, a film that dramatizes the significant contribution black women made to the space program in the 60s.  Normally, I'd pretend I knew who these women were even before the b...

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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!  Last year, Keleigh mandated we watch Igby Goes Down. She chose... poorly. So, for Mea Culpa month, my sister has mandated we watch Pi, an early work from Darren Aronofsky, a filmmaker who's all about the feel-good movies so I'm sure we're in good h...

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 not sadists.  We're not trying to torture ourselves or you so every movie we mandate is mandated in good faith.  We never try to pick bad movies but sometimes we mess up.  Well, that's what Mea Culpa month is for!  It's our opportunity to apo...

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 you may not have known got a sequel.  This week, my sister mandated we watch the direct-to-video sequel, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money.  Does it have anything to do with the original?  Eh, not much.  I...

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 a new month and a new month means a new theme and that new theme is: There's a Sequel?!!!  Yes, December is all about those movies that somehow ended up with a sequel.  For example, this week's mandated movie is the 1998 sequel to the 1...

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!  Need For Feed month concludes with Keleigh's mandated movie, Chef, a movie written and directed by Jon Favreau, who cast himself as the greatest chef who has ever touched a spatula and is also god's gift to women.  Some very subtle wish-fulfilling...

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 November and we've got a Need For Feed so I mandated we watch Mostly Martha, the German food/comedy/drama that was remade in 2007 as No Reservations with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart. 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 16:11 - Mostly Martha revie...

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!  October is Creeped Me Out As a Kid month and we conclude with my sister's mandated movie, Return to Oz, a place the Wicked Witch of the West's horrifying monkeys find too disturbing to visit. 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 13:43 - Return to Oz review 1:02:0...

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!  October is Creeped Me Out As a Kid month so let's rehash some childhood trauma with the earliest example of a movie I can think of that unsettled me when I was a little tyke, The Secret of NIMH, an animated kid's movie with a goofy crow voiced by D...

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!  Back to School month on Movie Mandates concludes with my sister's mandated movie, Summer School.  Can the worst kind of school make the best kind of movie?  There are 647 ways to find out and watching this episode of Movie Mandates is one of them!...

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!  September is Back to School month on Movie Mandates (even though most of the kiddos returned sometime last month) so I mandated my sister watch School of Rock, a charming comedy film for the entire family about a man who exploits children for his o...

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 "Cars, But Not Disney's" so my sister mandated we watch Days of Thunder, a movie with days but no real thunder.  But perhaps I'm taking the title too literally. 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 12:11 - Days of Thunder review 51:26 - Next...

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 "Cars, But Not Disney's" so I mandated we watch Sorcerer, a movie about four justice-fleeing ne'er-do-wells trying to earn enough money to emigrate to a new country by driving trucks full of unstable nitroglycerin over two-hun...

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 "Indie-pendence Month!" so Keleigh mandated we watch Igby Goes Down, a movie that dares explore whether a movie can still be good even when all the characters are kinda crappy people. 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 3:30- Igby Goes Down...

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 "Indie-pendence Month!" so I mandated we watch Primer, a simple time-travel movie that needs no external info to explain what the hell's going on! 0:00 - Trivial Trivia 10:25 - Primer review 58:38 - Next episode's mandated mov...