Movies You Forgot You Forgot

Tom Cruise takes a big toothy swing in Neil Jordan’s Hollywood adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire. Joe and Adam discuss this movie plus their thoughts on Cruise’s new film Digger.  Got a film you forgot you forgot?  Join our Discord community and let us know, or chip in a comment or two on one of the various threads: https://discord.gg/WjE2H22ZWk Or send us an email at movi...

Cast your mind back to 2004 and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s puppet comedy about America and famous actors: it’s Team America: World Police. It has funny songs too.  How has it aged though? How many jokes are there? If you don’t find something funny, are you humourless?  And who would Adam cast in a modern update of The Core? Plus a Mind Meld. Got a film you forgot you forgot?  Join our Discord co...

Matt LeBlanc and Gary Oldman star in this Stephen Hopkins directed 1998 blockbuster movie 'Lost in Space'! What other blockbusters came out that year? Why are there two Jack Johnsons confused in IMDB? And why wasn't Col. Jack O'Neill invited to a BBQ? All of this and more on today's episode of this podcast. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our Discord community and let us know, or chip in a...

Barry Jenkins’ 2017 (UK release date) Oscar winner gets the Forgot You Forgot treatment. Adam watched in on blu-ray, no big deal, but does the blurb give the right movie nod for each actor? Starring Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes and Naomie Harris, this episode  sees Joe and Adam tussle over the film’s choices, and whether poetry is better than realism. Oh, and coming-of-age movies more generally...

It's 2004's indie rom-com Garden State, starring (and written & directed by) Zach Braff of Scrubs fame. Also Natalie Portman. Joe & Adam discuss this and also debate the differences between movies and films. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/WjE2H22ZWk Or send us an email at moviesyouforgotyouforgot@gmail.com w...

Find out Joe’s rubbish excuses for not having watched Garden State. Never mind, because the pair had still watched some other movies/films that they chatted about instead. Mainly, The End of Oak Street. Why is David Robert Mitchell’s 80s-inflected Amblin-style popcorn blockbuster getting so many shrugs? Joe likes football, and he’s seen a sort of football based documentary - The Last Resident of t...

Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 French masterpiece  La Haine is the topic of today's episode. Joe & Adam dive into the film but also discuss: in-laws, Cliff Curtis' character names, how many Speilberg references are there in the film? And more. Got a film you forgot you forgot?  Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/WjE2H22ZWk Or send us an email at moviesyou...

The 2002 action thriller, The Bourne Identity got forgot; really? Adam says so, says he’s a Supremacy guy… but what of the Doug Liman director first one, scripted by Tony Gilroy?  What are the best bits? Who would we be if we got Bourned? Who is Jason Bourne? Who is a good recast for a modern (baby) Bourne? All this and more! Got a film you forgot you forgot?  Join our growing Discord community an...

Quentin Tarantino's 1998 flick Jackie Brown is the topic of today's discussion. Joe & Adam dive into the movie, Tarantino's catalogue and more, including: are you a page folder or bookmark person? Which actors belong with which directors? Could Jake Gyllenhaal do a Nolan movie? And how big is Joe's new lamp?

How much is there to say about 1997’s The Fifth Element, beyond the great production design and some fun performances… not a whole lot it turns out.  There’s the Gary Oldman Game though, and who won acting Oscar chat, and there is a prolonged diversion into Django Unchained. Got a film you forgot you forgot?  Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it:  https://discord.com/invite/...

The Mask of Zorro, starring Antonio Bandares, Anthony Hopkins & Catherine Zeta-Jones, is the film of choice for today's episode. But don't worry: Joe & Adam barely talk about it. 

Joe and Adam muse over films they’ve seen recently, focusing on a shoddy trip to the cinema for 500 Miles. Plus Supergirl gets both barrels for its approach to covers, Mando & Grogu splits opinion and Savage House gets some heady praise. But it’s not really about the movies (or films) is it? It’s the fun in between. Got a film you forgot you forgot?  Join our growing Discord community and tell...

Revisiting the most lauded film of 2025, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (or for the too busy to say things fully: PTA’s OBAA). Joe loved it, saw it twice. Adam was chillier… has he chilled? And what Christopher Nolan got to do with it? Expect to hear all about expectation and a run down of PTA’s oeuvre (love that word.) This is the last in this current solo series, and it’s the be...

It’s here, Sir Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic tale of a man’s journey home, The Odyssey. Starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland et al, the MYFYF duo ponder what went right and what went wrong. Spoiler alert: there are spoilers. They then each rank and rate Nolan’s films (leaving out Following, Insomnia and Batman Begins though, cos Joe hasn’t seen those). Enjoy!

Some films carry a weight: it’s a classic; it’s a masterpiece, it’s a classic masterpiece. Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal is one such film, and Joe loves it. Till now, it’s never felt like the right time for Adam to dally with Bergman. Now Joe has made him watch a Knight play chess with Death.  This episode comes with no weight, it’s a tale of a man, a film and a rusty nail. Got a film you forg...

This week, Joe made Adam watch First Blood, starring John J Rambo aka Slyvester Stallone. How come 80s action aficionado Adam never watched it? It stirs all sorts of thoughts, not least on loners new in town, righteous kills and how inevitable is it that such films male violent anti-heroes aspirational. Also: Sir Christopher puts in a call to Homer, to check all’s good. Got a film you forgot you f...

Joe’s busy for a few weeks or so, but he’s getting Adam to watch some films and talk about them. First up for this is 2016’s Lion, directed by Garth Davis and starring Dev Patel. It’s a good flick, well worth watching - but how good? Can Joe guess what Adam will think of it? Got a film you forgot you forgot?  Join our collegiate Discord community and tell us all about it:   https://discord.gg/b3CU...

Stephen Spielberg is back to the alien well with 2026’s government chase caper Disclosure Day. Starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor.  Did Joe really make Adam watch it? How’s Stevie’s new flick match up to his others? Do directors age out? And what’s Toy Story 5 got to do with it all? Find out on the first of these summer specials where Joe Makes Adam Watch A Film, and Adam talks about it - by h...

Don’t watch the remake of Alfie starring Jude Law (2004), but do listen to this episode about the remake of Alfie.  And do also watch the original Alfie (1966) starring Michael Caine - it’s a bit bleak, but it more than earns its existence, and Adam talks about the far superior original (aren’t they all) a fair bit. Topics in today’s episode: urban legends, Sienna Miller, what is in the original A...

This is Valkyrie: 2009's Bryan Singer directed, Tom Cruise starring, Second-World-Wartime movie about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Joe & Adam talk Cruise, the best thrillers of all time, and play a game called "films better than Valkyrie" with some surprise outcomes. Got a film you forgot you forgot?  Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/b3CUUd...

Stephen Norrington's 1998 film  Blade  is the topic of today's discussion, a movie in which a half-human vampire hunter, played by Wesley Snipes, seeks to foil the plot of mildly-bad vampire villain Dorf.  Joe & Adam dive into one of Adam's all time favourites and explore the film from several different angles, including Freudian. 

Oscar Isaac makes some risky investments and dangerous deals to grow his oil company, in the middle of  a most violent year  in New York in the early 1980s. Joe & Adam discuss this grown up movie, and also play a couple of IMDB based games. 

It’s the phenomenal 2004 Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki directed based on the book of the same name flick Howl’s Moving Castle. How could Joe & Adam forget this? Doesn’t matter; they’re glad they did so they got to rewatch it and talk about: the choice between watching subtitled Ghiblis vs English dub versions, the joyful little side characters that invariably pop up in a Miyazaki flick and bin...

It's the year 2000. Hollywood mega guy Clint Eastwood is releasing a movie starring him and directed by him. He's cast some cool, older guys to be his buddies. That's right, it's Space Cowboys (this isn't a joke). Joe & Adam dive head first into barely talking about the movie at all, but instead discuss: which Friends characters would be which directors? Who would be recast in today's version...

What is a Constant Gardener? Is Ralph Fiennes’ subtle performance a help or a hinderance for a film that is neither satisfyingly edgy nor solidly genre-tastic?  Find out for the latest MYFYF episode on the Fernando Meirelles big pharma whistleblower flick, The Constant Gardener (2005). Also starring Rachel Weisz, this is as plum a forgot as you’ll ever likely to see. Got a film you forgot you forg...