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Iris quizzes Wes on one of cinema’s most quietly chaotic questions: when a movie title has a number, is it spelled out or written as a numeral? Wes puts his movie-title instincts to the test with surprisingly strong results. Thanks for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s OWM’s 7th annual Halloween spooktacular! Tune in every day in October for scary movie discussions, including this year’s new collection of genre-defining horror movies spanning 50 years! Thanks for listening. And Happy Halloween! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who gets your money sight unseen? Wes and Iris debate the actors and filmmakers worth a full-price ticket on name alone, from Daniel Day-Lewis and Bradley Cooper to Nolan and Cameron. Plus, Mystery Movie Monday trauma and the Jack Black movie that may have cost Emily Blunt BLACK WIDOW. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices....

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH goes out with a bang with Academy Award Best Picture winner THE HURT LOCKER, a movie about the kind of reckless adrenaline junkie the world apparently needs. Find out why one sibling is an alpha when it comes to movies at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Next up: Halloween 2026!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Kyle Chandler, Jeremy Strong, or Bradley Cooper: who would you marry, box, or have babysit your kids? Wes and Iris take F, Marry, Kill way past its logical endpoint, including apple-picking with Mom, a Dracula tour, and replacing Wes as OWM co-host. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once you notice them, you can’t unsee them. Wes and Iris identify the signature moves (tics?) actors keep bringing from movie to movie, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s shaky finger and Brad Pitt’s busy mouth to Seth Rogen’s laugh, Nicolas Cage’s hoot, and Ryan Gosling’s panicked yelp. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...

Ever love a movie enough to buy the DVD, then never watch it again? Wes and Iris confront the movies they had to own but apparently didn’t need to open, including MASTER AND COMMANDER and BLACK BOOK, still shrink-wrapped decades later. Plus, the performances that make Hollywood ask, “Who is that?” Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your...

What happens to the movie after the movie couple breaks up? Wes and Iris revisit Hollywood romances that outlived their films, from Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, plus the curious case of FERRIS BUELLER’s parents. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do female-led reboots of male-driven franchises keep struggling? Wes and Iris debate GHOSTBUSTERS, OCEAN’S 8, and whether the problem is gender swapping itself or something more un-original. Plus, the female DIE HARD we might actually want to see. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH gets strange with STRANGE DAYS, her raw, sinewy, greasy, confetti-filled VR trip through the final hours of 1999. Find out why this wildly ambitious sci-fi noir feels uncomfortably ahead of its time at orwhatevermovies.com. Now available on Disney+. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Are fan conventions joyful celebrations of the things we love… or kind of sad? Wes and Iris debate fandom, $400 autographs, celebrity economics, and the strange power of the superfans who keep entire corners of pop culture alive. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What food becomes absolutely disgusting the second it gets cold? Wes and Iris tackle one of life’s least important but surprisingly divisive questions, only to discover that one inconvenient food may undermine the entire debate. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can Iris identify a movie from nothing but a seven-character vanity plate? Wes puts her movie knowledge to the DMV test with increasingly ridiculous clues, a surprising number of correct answers, and one plate even he can’t crack. Plus, Iris turns the tables with a little “hidey-ho” of her own. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad...

How well does Iris know the people in movies they’ve already covered? Wes quizzes her on the full names of supporting characters, from Arthur Lee Allen and Benjamin Buford Blue to Angelo Pappas and Eric Draven, with a few hints and a surprising number of correct answers along the way. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices....

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH gets deeply uncomfortable with DETROIT, her harrowing account of the 1967 uprising and the nightmare inside the Algiers Motel. If THE HURT LOCKER hurts and STRANGE DAYS is strange, DETROIT is… unpleasant. Find out why that may be exactly the point at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad...

What happens to movie titles when they cross international borders? Wes quizzes Iris on some of Hollywood’s strangest foreign retitlings, from the overly literal to the completely inexplicable, while discovering that some countries apparently consider the title an excellent place to reveal the plot. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about yo...

Do artists get worse with age, or do they just stop caring about hits? Wes confronts his own age through Spielberg, Mark Wahlberg, and Paul Simon’s observation that “hits are for young people.” Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when the movie you can’t wait to see turns out to be the movie you wish you hadn’t? Wes revisits disappointments from TERMINATOR 3, which literally melted his shoe before it could disappoint him, to THE PREDATOR, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, INCREDIBLES 2, and the LORD OF THE RINGS sequels. Iris is less helpful, having somehow enjoyed THE PHANTOM MENACE. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwh...

Would Iris sign a permission slip letting her daughter watch INTERSTELLAR, JOJO RABBIT, AMADEUS, or TOP GUN: MAVERICK? Wes puts her to the test as they debate what kids should be allowed to watch, America’s curious comfort with violence over sex, and the inevitable truth that they’re going to see all this stuff eventually anyway. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhateve...

How much movie can one person carry alone? Iris and Wes dig into isolation movies like CAST AWAY, ALL IS LOST, 127 HOURS, and BURIED. Plus, claustrophobia and the questionable high-school practice of riding in car trunks. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What makes a male movie character hot? Or Whatever Movies asks in the name of science, while weighing confidence, sensitivity, solemnity, accents, hair, and the apparently crucial ability to be emotionally available. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH begins in the shadows with special guest Mark Netter of Film Generations and a movie about a cipher obsessed with finding a cipher. You guessed it: ZERO DARK THIRTY. Join us as we dig into obsession, intelligence, ambiguity, and the decade-long hunt at the center of Bigelow’s relentless thriller. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com...

Who do Iris and Wes imagine listening when they record? Stephen King writes for his wife, Wes has Kelly Rae, and Iris has filmmakers she’d still like to work with. Plus, the dreaded “What did you think?,” 450 episodes of AI training data, and Iris tells Wes “do you” with predictable results. 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

From Waititi to AI, which movie, or movie-adjacent, trends will fade or stay in this today’s dose of whatever? Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not only are the options bad but they are also increasingly absurd in today’s daily dose of whatever. Shout out to all the thumb choker-wearing Uncle Jerry’s! Contains spoilers.  orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices