Please Make This

Good night and good morning! Hobert’s feeling sleepy, but before he heads off to dreamland, he’s watching a movie! Time to snuggle up with some cinema in this new minisode series brought to you by the letters “zzzzzz.” In this minisode, Hobert takes a look at Dream Scenario, a tale of a man who suddenly starts appearing in the dreams of random people. Will the fame (and notoriety that follows it)...

Tis the time for another venture into the horrific world of Jigsaw and his many many horrific traps and riddles. And of course Laura and Nate are ready to host their way through their experience watching Saw 4 . The franchise takes a turn as one of the side characters becomes the main protagonist so they can (obviously) tie the ALL of the movies together somehow. It's a woven blanket of madne...

It's the rule of THREES, baby! As in: we've seen Saw 1 , we've seen Saw 2 , and now it's time to see SAW 3 . Laura and Nate sit down with a bottle of wine to yet again answer the age old question: "What the hell is going to happen in this franchise next!?"  This time Jigsaw is on his deathbed with his trusty Jigsaw-in-training running the show. And we've got trap...

Joey Ford was a mild-mannered kid getting accustomed to living in Las Vegas till he sneaks into a casino backroom wearing a fake mustache and inadvertently discovers a secret world of super spies and international crime. After lying his way onto a spy agency’s team, Joey becomes the key piece in a plot to take down a crime lord and stop a powerful new street drug by befriending a mafioso’s shy son...

Script Rippers Mike and Hobert are back, and their web connects them to Madame Web, a bafflingly bad installment in Sony’s extended Spider-Man-less Spider-Verse. Join the Script Rippers as they unpack the strange decisions that led to Dakota Johnson admonishing a picture of her dead mom for loving spiders too much, a lot of vehicular violence, and the reveal that Spider-Man is culturally Peruvian....

When their friend Emmett dies in a freak accident, hot-headed Angelo, meek but muscular Remy, and straight-laced Tyler come together to celebrate their friend, despite not being particularly close themselves. When a drunken attempt to do a seance brings the spirit of Emmett back, the four pals set out to give their dead best friend a proper send-off into the afterlife. Will a night of beer-chuggin...

Sup, Bros? In this Please Make This Miniseries, host Hobert and his brother Andy discuss and review films about, for, or even by brothers. This time they shared some very off-putting smiles as they watched Will Forte and Will Arnett in The Brothers Solomon. The Brothers Solomon might have bombed, but you know what, it has its moments. Remember when they used to make smaller budget ensemble comedie...

Goldwater Farms has been in decline for years. Since the death of his beloved wife, Joan, Josh Goldwater has lost his interest in farming, and only his friend and helper Gary still believes in him. But Josh’s fortunes change when a strange fruit appears on his farm, a fruit that seems to be related to the recent crop circles found around his property... What will the people in town think of “Joshb...

It's once again time for a Please Make This Minisode! Movie Table Talk is exactly what it sounds like, a group of pals sitting around a table talking about a movie. This time around, the group is talking about The Birdcage (1996) in which a cabaret owning couple put on a ruse to help their son who demands they act normal for to meet his fiance's conservative family. Hilarity ensues! Join...

Let's See Saw continues!!! Laura Petro and Nate Todd (resident forever besties and newfound Saw watchers) sit back down to share a bottle of wine, split a can of beer, and watch the very first Saw sequel. Will Jigsaw come to the table with more tricks up his sleeve? You bet he will! He's graduated from a booby-trapped room to a booby-trapped HOUSE with even MORE victims who have been for...

Laura and Hobert sit down with their buddy Gabe Michalski to talk about Rawhead Rex, a childhood fav of Gabe’s about a demon with a stupid name that terrorizes an Irish village. This lean monster thriller is heavy on monster rampage, light on explanation. If you’ve ever wanted an hour and twenty minutes of basic slasher leading up to a showdown in a church that includes piss-play and vagina lasers...

Lee and Desker are two slacker friends who prefer smoking weed in Lee’s basement and talking about their favorite fantasy novels more than pretty much anything else. For years they’ve dissected and discussed Alton P. Thornshire’s Gates of the Hellmouth series, but without the final book (banned by its publisher after a strange satanic incident) all they can do is guess how it ends. When Lee finds...

Welcome to a polite and fun new miniseries where two best friends, Laura Petro and Nate Todd set out to watch all of the Saw movies.  In this minisode, they're watching the first Saw movie that's appropriately titled: Saw. Will this journey bring these two friends closer together? Will the gore-horror phase of the 2000s be just as gory as they remember? Let's see Saw and find out! 

Script Rippers Mike and Hobert are back to take a slow-mo look at part one of ??? of Zack Snyder’s ponderous Star Wars knock-off, Rebel Moon. Join the rippers as they try to piece together Netflix’s seemingly abridged edit of this space opera that sacrifices third act coherence for drumming up support for an already completed director’s cut. Can Hobert and Mike Quasar salvage a movie they’d like f...

A long withstanding legend within each Please Make This episode is the mysterious writer’s room, where your hosts step inside after a wondrous pitch only to return with their fresh scripts hot off the presses. But what happens behind that closed door where there’s no microphones and the magic really happens? Tune in as Hobert gives you a tour of his own writers’ room as he tackles the beginning se...

Scott Payne is an aspiring actor who books the opportunity of a lifetime as the TV pitchman for a new window cleaner. When his enthusiastic pitching becomes a pop culture sensation, Scott is propelled into fortune and fame, but deep down, all he really cares about is telling the public about a product he’s so passionate about, it borders on love. As his career - and the public’s interest in cleani...

On a desolate future Earth, workers made of undead people enhanced with mechanical parts toil away in a factory. All day and night they make things the living need, but is there anyone left to use the household items they create? When one worker suddenly remembers his past life, he sets out to learn who he was, and remind his fellow workers what it means to be alive. UGGHHHH!  Scripts at 56:30 Sta...

A long withstanding legend within each Please Make This episode is the mysterious writer's room, where your hosts step inside after a wondrous pitch only to return with their fresh scripts hot off the presses. But what happens behind that closed door where there's no microphones and the magic really happens? Tune in as Laura finally breaks down this barrier to give you a peak into the fu...

When six alien explorers visit an uncharted, water-covered planet, their mission is simple. Very simple, really. Just collect a water sample to prove the existence of water to their galactic empire’s ever growing search for resources. With time to kill before they return to their command ship, the researchers decide to party it up on a planet that boasts perfect sunsets and calm, clear waters. But...

Script Rippers Mike and Hobert are back with special guest Laura to spend five nights (or 58ish minutes) talking about Five Nights at Freddy’s, a film about an amateur dream detective who fights ghost robots that isn’t nearly fun or cool or interesting as that premise promises. Well, at least The Youth like it! Tune in as the rippers tear apart this lore-heavy, anti-sleeping pill PSA that loves it...

Laura and Hobert sit down with their buddy Gabe Michalski to talk about Frankenstein Unbound, a surreal retelling of the classic Mary Shelley novel that adds time travel, super cars, and reframes Shelley as a non-fiction writer. You only have 8 years till John Hurt destroys the timeline so he can have sex with a historic author, so tune in to this mini and check out Laura, Hobert and Gabe at GABEW...

Join Laura and Hobert as they sit down to revisit REM Cycles, the almost-finished rough draft of a film conceived during wind-down of the lock-down. A lot has changed for the hosts since then, so it’s time to sit down, crack open a beverage, and re-explore the dreamscape-filled romance/sci-fi/coming-of-age script with the intention to tear the original idea apart to see if it’s worth putting back...

Chester Callahan’s never been good at working. Lazy but charismatic, Chester is better at managing expectations than he is at meeting them. When he finally loses his bland office job, he treats himself to a burger at his favorite local joint, and notices a dip in the quality. Spotting an opportunity to make Barn Burger a better place, Chester adopts the disguise of the restaurant’s elderly owner a...

Dan and Kate are two stuck-up trivia buffs given a chance to appear on America’s favorite game show for couples: Secrets of the Heart. Confident in their ability to win on brains alone, they quickly realize the show is more intense than they’d anticipated, featuring a host who’s as sinister as he is sincere and a fast-paced quiz pitting them against two other couples and sprinkling in personal det...

Brian, Stephanie and David are three college friends who are about to move into a brand new apartment together over the course of a weekend. When the movers bring their furniture and drop off their stuff, they discover that there’s a mysterious trunk accidentally left behind. Agreeing to leave the trunk alone till the movers return on Monday, they try to settle into their new place. As tension bui...