Please Make This

Lonely and bored in a new town, Deb Davis was having a hard time adjusting to her new life. With her kids gone to college and her husband as remote as ever, Deb turns to a local women’s club for companionship, but gets lost along the way. Finding her way into a local gaming shop, Deb gravitates toward a group playing a fantasy RPG and asks to join the motley crew of younger players. As the adventu...

In the New Action City, the skyline glitters and the pavement steams. Life is a little more exciting than your average town, due largely to the fact that in New Action City, heroes and villains with superhuman abilities constantly clash. In New Action City banks are robbed, monsters are defeated, and super-scientific machines threaten mass destruction on a daily basis. In this tale from New Action...

***We got so excited talking and writing about this film that we’re releasing it in two parts! Tune in next Friday for the scripts!*** In the New Action City, the skyline glitters and the pavement steams. Life is a little more exciting than your average town, due largely to the fact that in New Action City, heroes and villains with superhuman abilities constantly clash. In New Action City banks ar...

Could it be?! Has Laura once again stepped into the world of fan-fiction!? The answer is yes! To commemorate the beginning of an all new third season of her other podcast YA, We Read It! Laura wanted one last hurrah with the series they read for Season 2. This time she writes/explores what she wished the spin-off book in the series would have been if it was a Dr. Cable origin story. TLDR, it'...

It’s the day of Grandpa Benji and Grandma Penny’s third or forth wedding (who’s counting) and their family has assembled in Myrtle Beach for the occasion. As the ceremony begins, life changes for everyone very quickly, and everyone has to come together to pick up what’s left. Tune in for a tale of love, catering, and second (or third or fourth) chances. Scripts start @ 01:10:29 Starring: Claire Fa...

Hobert is finally finished moving, so it’s time for a new installment of At the Parties With Hobert Thompson, the only movie review show where the movies are reviewed by drunk people at parties. In this installment, Hobert has some friends over to his new apartment to eat some tacos, drink some beers, and talk about films. Enjoy! Film discussed: American Hustle LOTR: The Return of the King Shang-C...

Edgar has always been enthused with the paranormal. After inheriting his parents' haunted home & museum in his hometown in Wisconsin, he's always on the search for his next "haunted" item to add to the collection. The only issue is, most of the things he finds are not haunted in the slightest. That is, until he purchases a bejeweled dagger online that turns out to be much m...

Love is in the air for this Please Make This Minisode. Laura and her boyfriend Nick are on the ultimate quest to find the perfect date movie. Join the pair as they cuddle up to watch and discuss the highly anticipated sequel "A Quiet Place Part II." Will it hold up to the acclaim of the first movie? And more importantly, is it worth watching with your partner? 

Samira is your average teen, she goes to school, has a boyfriend, and loves to goof around on social media under the handle @humptydumptruck. When a video of her twerking (and subsequently falling) skyrockets her into internet stardom, it completely changes Samira's outlook on the world around her. As the years pass, Samira experiences the highs and lows of online fame and tries to come to te...

Hobert is finally able to go to small gatherings, so it’s time for a new installment of At the Parties With Hobert Thompson, the only movie review show where the movies are reviewed by drunk people at parties. In this installment, Hobert attends a backyard BBQ to celebrate the birthday of his friend Pat, drink some beers, and talk about films. Enjoy! Recommended Films: How to Get Ahead in Advertis...

Louis Collins was adrift in life till he found a golden orb that allowed him to talk to a distant, forgotten god. Gathering followers to hear the god’s simple message of kindness and self-sufficiency, Louis starts a commune and meets Bethany, an eager follower that claims to hear god too. After Louis and Bethany are married and have kids of their own, Bethany claims to have secret knowledge the go...

Laura Petro sits down with her best friend and writing partner, Meggie Gates, to watch the final installment of Netflix's newest horror franchise: "Fear Street." Originally based off a book series of the same name by R.L Stein, this trilogy takes us throughout the centuries to solve the mystery of why Shadyside (and the people living there) all seem to be cursed. This is the last pi...

As Liz, Violet and Ben dive deeper into their dreams, the world of reality starts to lose its luster. Having lived lifetimes with each other in a world of their own creation, the three college students head toward the end of the sleep study with deeper connections and a reevaluation of their lives, decisions, and personalities. Will they learn to balance the real and dream worlds, or will they del...

Laura and Hobert sit down for another double feature of their own design! This time the theme is “things talking that shouldn’t talk,” and the films are Look Who’s Talking (1989) and A Talking Cat!?! (2013). After the movies, Laura and Hobert break down the appeal of the worst talking cat effect of all time, old white dudes as babies, and some potential drinking games to complement A Talking Cat!?...

When three college students sign up for a week-long sleep study experiment, they think they’re just going to get some spending money, some much needed rest, and some insight into their recurring nightmares. On the first night of the study, though, the three strangers from different paths discover that, for reasons none of them can explain, when they dream together they can enter each other's...

Laura and Hobert are back in the writers’ room for new episodes of Please Make This! Tune in for a reintroduction to everyone’s favorite podcast where we sit down with a guest, come up with an idea for a movie, and then write scenes from that movie for actors to read, and hear a trailer for our upcoming new episode(s!) about a feature we almost finished called “REM Cycles.”  Also, give us a follow...

Erik is back for another edition of Please Watch This, and this time it’s his turn to pick a movie for Hobert to watch! Tune in for an in-depth discussion of the 1995 brain-hacking classic, Johnny Mnemonic! Erik and Hobert talk Keanu, Cyberpunk 77, and how quirky sci-fis always get screwed by movie studios. In a world where a dolphin can blow up Dolph Lundgren, why don’t we get to see anyone’s rob...

Cozy up on your favorite seat and tune into this week's Please Make This Minisode! To commemorate the upcoming ending to Season 1 of Laura's other podcast "YA, We Read It," Laura chose to go where she had never been before: the world of fan-fiction. That's right! She went ahead and wrote a whole story of what the Clique girls lives will look like at 26. Ah-mazing. Or not.

Is there a film that you hold near and dear to your heart that film critics hold a little closer to a garbage can? Then this minisode is perfect for you. Join host Spencer D Blair and his guest Meredith as they discuss Hot Rod (2007), the classic film that they can't get enough despite being panned by "film critics." Can we reclaim this piece of cinema as a masterpiece? Of course we...

Detective Stan Mills was working hard on his greatest case when he was pushed into a watery grave. Waking up in a strange, underwater metropolis that seems oddly familiar save for the merfolk populace, Mills quickly learns that life isn’t so much different under the sea. As Mills gets drawn deeper and deeper into the mysterious murder of a local millionaire merman, he begins to wonder if this magi...

It’s the year 2020 in Chicago, IL, and three roommates are trying to make the best of the March-April lockdown by throwing a weekly, themed party to entertain themselves and their downstairs neighbors. Vowing to never throw the same party twice and take the time to radically change themselves, they set out to party away what they think is just a month. But as the pandemic drags on and the days and...

On their quest to find holiday cheer in the dismal year that was 2020, Laura Petro and Sierra Kenyon sit down to watch Jingle Jangle, a new Netflix original Christmas Musical. Prepared for a subpar adventure, your hosts soon find that Jingle Jangle may just have been the movie they needed this holiday season.

Join your PMT hosts and the Hollywood Kaiju Badboys from Podzooky (a kaiju film podcast you really should check out!) for the pitch and reading from our Halloween livestream event for Spat2la, a sequel to our horror series The Spatula! In this gore-fest of a sequel, Wendy/Christine, ten years after learning she was the daughter of murderous fry cook Pat, has her sights set on taking over the famil...

In this special Halloween Minisode, Hobert shares a story of strange vibes in the film lab and getting ghosts on the brain in college. What happens when you spend too much time watching old home movies? Could you end up taking someone else’s memories home? Find out in this semi-autobiographical tale of reel terror! Poster by Ron Ferrara

Please Make This proudly presents the final installment in our Candyland saga! Tune in to this exciting finale to find out how Hobert, Laura, and Spencer decide to end the movie, what Queen Frostine’s whole deal is, and how to strike the proper tone to achieve the perfect mix of salty & sweet, sweet & sour, chocolate & peanut butter, Lord of the Rings & Labyrinth. Will the twins tr...