Movies with My Dad

Episode 95: Minions & Monsters How did we celebrate America’s 250th birthday? Fireworks, hot dogs, and a cold beer? NOPE. We saw Minions & Monsters at our local cineplex! Okay, it was only the 3rd of July, but that didn’t help us agree on much. We do think the animator did a great job of taking the Minions back to 1927 Hollywood, complete with callbacks to great actors and movies from that...

Episode 94: Supergirl It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…we can’t agree on what Supergirl is all about. This is Tina’s favorite type of bummer superhero cinema and nothing like the superheroes of Stratis’ youth. We get into the morality of using human trafficking and dog torture to get the audience emotionally connected to the characters. Tina tries to buy an intergalactic fizz cocktail but ends up b...

Episode 93: Masters of the Universe By the power of Grayskull we are transported to the mythical planet of Eternia, home of He-Man. Let’s just say that Masters of the Universe does not bring to mind our ideal vacation spot, but Stratis did manage to take a couple of relaxing naps during the movie. Somehow Tina analyzes He-Man’s gender identity issues while Stratis has flashbacks to his college dor...

Episode 92: The Sheep Detectives If you’re looking for a movie to teach your small children about murder and the horribleness of humanity, then maybe you’ll find it in The Sheep Detectives . If you listen to the voices of the internet, then you’ll think Tina and Stratis are just wrong about this movie. Their hearts were not warmed even a little. Heck, these sheep almost put Stratis to sleep, and e...

Episode 91: Is God Is Is God Is is a crazy title for a film, but it fits this most unique twin-sisters revenge epic as they try to deal with a horrible childhood. Kara Young and Mallori Johnson play the twin sisters amazingly well, if not a bit too disturbingly, but that’s more Aleshea Harris’ choice since she’s both director and screenwriter. Tina believes the moral of this movie is that love is...

Episode 90: Tuner Stratis is thrilled that this week’s film doesn’t have any talking sheep or a ridiculous amount of blood and guts. Instead, we’re treated to an actual story with real characters. At least that's what he thought of Tuners. The film takes us into the world of a master piano tuner who also has hyper-sensitive hearing. What else can he do with his super hearing? Crack safes for the m...

Episode 89: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu If you want to slog through a galaxy far far away, then maybe you’re a good candidate for the latest Star Wars film, The Mandalorian and Grogu. We definitely didn't have the Force with us on this one. Tina spent most of the movie curled up in a ball and Stratis managed to nap through the really loud fight scenes. We both thought the musical score wa...

Episode 88: I Love Boosters The theme of this week’s movie is Fashion Forward Philanthropy, and if that doesn’t make sense to you then you probably need to go see I Love Boosters . Boots Riley’s latest film takes us on a psychedelic ride through Los Angeles while stealing high-fashion clothing. Guess who showed up at the theater wearing an I Love Boosters t-shirt? Tina, so you know she’s all in on...

Episode 87: Obsession This week’s movie, Obsession, creates drama for Stratis right from the start. A co-dependency love story is just too much for him to handle. According to him, this film is somehow boring and deeply disturbing at the same time. On the other hand, Tina loved it and would be happy to see it many more times. How are we even related? Our backseat sentient being makes an appearance...

Episode 86: Mortal Kombat II Kombat is this week’s theme and we get right into it over the need for this movie to even exist. Is Mortal Kombat II actually a movie or just a bunch of video game scenes? Tina takes the stand that it’s a fun summer romp, but Stratis isn’t having any of it. Granted, he may have done some napping during important plot points, but he doesn’t think that mattered much. Her...

Episode 85: The Devil Wears Prada 2 It’s not often that a Meryl Streep movie causes us to have so little enthusiasm, but The Devil Wears Prada 2 is that kind of film. You can’t even blame it on not liking the original, because Tina’s a huge fan and Anne Hathaway will always be Princess of Genovia in her heart. The original’s magic comes from the awfulness of Streep’s character, back when evil boss...

Episode 84: Over Your Dead Body Over Your Dead Body wants to be an enjoyable, quirky, dark comedy about love, relationships, and marriage, but it hits a brick wall that Tina can’t get past. Let’s just say there’s one scene that could have been left on the cutting room floor and we’d all have been better off. On the positive side, we both enjoyed Jorma Taccone’s skill at threading multiple story li...

Episode 83: Michael This week we joined some very passionate Michael Jackson fans at the press screening of Michael , and if you’re one of those true fans of the King of Pop, don’t even bother to listen to this episode. Put on your fedora and your sequined glove and go see this movie. You’ll love it. As for the two of us, this biopic has some flaws and we don’t hesitate to dig into them. Let’s jus...

Episode 82: Hoppers Pixar's Hoppers takes a stab at environmentalism when they transfer the brain of a young, nature-loving woman into the body of a beaver. The beaver tries to stop the impending destruction of a beautiful glade full of happy little creatures to make way for the expansion of a city highway. We found a lot wrong with this film, even though it was written by a hometown boy (Jesse An...

Episode 81: Project Hail Mary You’d think a NASA-type space movie would be right up Stratis' alley, but Project Hail Mary follows an erratic trajectory. Stratis sums up the story of Ryan Gosling unwillingly going to space and meeting a rock.  Meanwhile, we learn that Tina has a symbiotic crying relationship with Gosling. Just to make matters more interesting, we have multiple interactions wit...

Episode 80: K-Pops! What do you get when you mix a cross-cultural family dynamic with the world of Korean celebrity culture? K-POPS! It’s not obvious why the movie title has that exclamation point at the end because nothing about it brings excitement, except maybe watching Cathy Shim on the big screen. The rest of the film left both of us flat, but Tina does get a little passionate when she talks...

Episode 79: Nirvanna: The Band - The Show - The Movie Canadians Matthew Johnson and Jay McCarrol bring us this zany Back to the Future -inspired , friendship, murder, comedy movie with one hell of a title: Nirvanna: The Band - The Show - The Movie . Stratis enjoyed this film so much that it took him from the brink of slumber to fully awake and laughing at all the goofball jokes. Not surprisingly,...

Episode 79: Oscars With My Mom Stratis sits this episode out so Tina can take her mom, Regina, along to make completely uninformed Oscar predictions based solely on studios’ promotional photos of nominated films and actors. Takeaways from Mom include “the tall man is so tall,” “I feel nothing,” and “that’s a very good crying face.” You don’t want to miss her pick for best picture! Maybe Hollywood...

Episode 77: Psycho Killer If you’re looking for a feel-good rom com date flick you might want to steer clear of Psycho Killer, as if the name wasn’t a good enough clue. Actually, you might want to steer clear of this if you aren’t a murderous, satan-loving, horror-loving kind of person. Staying true to form, Stratis doesn’t understand why these kinds of stories need to be told and really wonders w...

Episode 76: How to Make a Killing Looking for a happy story about killing off seven relatives to score a $28 billion payout? Then this week’s film, How to Make a Killing, is right up your alley. We spend most of the show talking about the rise of Glen Powell as a true movie star, and Tina delves into our need to build up and then tear down our stars. There was no disagreement that Glen is a pretty...

Episode 75: Crime 101 If you’re a fan of cruising the 101 around Los Angeles in a fast car and lifting millions in diamonds, boy, do we have a film for you! It’s Crime 101 , starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, and Mark Ruffalo, and is a return to the gritty crime dramas of the ’70s, but with a modern visual style. What more could anyone ask for? Actually, if we didn’t have notes for the directo...

Episode 74: Mercy Mercy shows us the future of artificial intelligence criminal court, DUN-DUN, where you have ninety minutes to prove you didn’t commit murder or the state executes you on the spot. We start off with Stratis giving his personal power rankings of all the famous Hollywood Chrises. Chris Pratt doesn’t fare well, which makes the fact that we spent most of this 3-D film looking at him...

Episode 73: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Somehow we returned to the post-apocalyptic zombie horror film world and this time we brought a guest - Kaye, Tina’s roommate. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple gets everyone riled up and ready to talk. Stratis starts us off by wondering if this movie even has a plot, but we all loved Ralph Fiennes’ performance as a doctor who befriends the biggest zombie...

Episode 72: Primate Ever wonder what it would be like to be trapped in your house with a rabies-infected killer chimpanzee? If you have, Primate is your kind of movie. Tina’s love of horror films is in full force and Stratis once finds himself someplace he’d rather not be. We both thought the entire cast was fantastic. Tina was all in for the build-up of tension and the chimp’s need to remove peop...

Episode 71: Anaconda Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Amazon rainforest, your favorite killer snake returns in Jack Black and Paul Rudd’s updated version of the classic Anaconda . Tina hoped this new take on the franchise might hold some promise and might even be interesting. Instead, she was just angry the entire time. On the other hand, Stratis was entertained for at least t...