Reel Film Nerds

Happy Wednesday everyone! We are halfway there, well some of us. Today Matt and Mike sit down and chat about a star studded crime thriller hitting theaters and HBO Max , The Little Things . Starring Denzel Washington , Rami Malek , and Jared Leto . Bonus topics today include two Brad’s, margarita’s , and Se7en . If you are nostalgic for the crime dramas of the 90’s like Se7en or The Usual Suspects...

Happy snow days! The white stuff really came down in northern Arizona this week and mucked things up for a few days. Speaking of muck, 2021 continues the awfulness of 2020. Feels like it has been a year already and January is not even over yet! Back to the pod, today your hosts Mike Talent and Matt discuss the new Netflix Original directed by and starring George Clooney , The Midnight Sky . Other...

Happy Inauguration Day! Ok that’s as political as we are going to get, we promise. Today Mike and Matt travel to the future, actually this past Sunday, from the past in 1995’s Johnny Mnemonic starring Keanu Reeves , Dina Meyer , and Dolph Lundgren . Topics better than this movie include organized crime, data prices, and body tech implants. Should you waste an afternoon or evening watching Johnny M...

2021 continues and so far it is living up to the standards set by 2020. Enough about that jazz, today your hosts Matt and Mike chat about a brand new film on Prime video , Sound of Metal starring Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci . Additional topics include Death to 2020 , Academy Awards , and should we do a Keanu month of movies? Sound of Metal is an incredible endearing film full of drama and perseverance...

Happy New Year everyone! It’s a new year so why not review a new movie? Today Mike and Matt discuss Wonder Woman 1984 starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine . Bonus topics today include Mike still can’t read, HBO Max is killing movie theaters, and the MCU VS the DCEU . What a let down. Matt and Mike had high hopes for this movie. They both really enjoyed the 2017 original but it’s 2020 sequel fell very...

Happy Festivus everyone! Today Mike and Matt fulfill one of their promises, they revisit the Christmas action classic Die Hard starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman . We first reviewed it for Episode #74 on Christmas Day 2018. Off topics today include Matt breaks his new phone, architecture, and lots of trivia.  If you have not seen Die Hard and you are listening to our podcast then shame on you!...

Welcome everyone to Reel Film Nerds Podcast 200! Shocking that we made it all the way to 200 episodes. Today Mike and Matt continue their holiday movie reviews with 1980’s comedy gold Scrooged starring Bill Murray . A handful of our many off topics include a house fire, The Chive , TV’s, and LCD’s. Scrooged is a must watch retelling of the classic Christmas story by Charles Dickens , A Christmas C...

Let the holiday movie reviews continue! This week Matt and Mike chat about a new Christmas film Fatman starring Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins . Non holiday topics include Sons of Anarchy , shipping container homes, and the Paramount Network . Have you heard about this epic tale featuring Santa Claus before today? New movies are rolling out on a weekly basis but since the pandemic you really don’t...

Welcome back everyone, did you miss us? The boys are going to try something new for December. Much like our Harvest Horror Fest, for December we are going to chat about Christmas movies! They start off a possible tradition with a bang chatting about the Christmas classic Gremlins (1984) . Off topics include limos, breeding, and stimulus TV’s? Gremlins (1984) is an instant holiday classic where a s...

Welcome fellow movie buffs to another installment of the Reel Film Nerds podcast! Does anyone actually read this, I hope so. Today Mike and Matt chat about a very low budget but amazing Sci-Fi film The Vast of Night . Offbeat topics include rez ball , Roswell , and no MCU tie-in? This is a prime example of being able to do a lot with very little. Is The Vast of Night a perfect film, nope but it is...

Honoring all Veterans on Veterans Day. We don't know them all but we owe them all. Thank you for your service and sacrifices. This week Mike and Matt sit down and chat about a modern war movie The Outpost starring Scott Eastwood , Caleb Landry Jones , and Orlando Bloom . Topics include COVID haircuts, military spending, and Jungleland giveaway. Just a warning for those of you who do not know, The...

Our Third Annual Harvest Horror Fest has come to an end but not Halloween, at least for us. Mike picked a film to raise people’s spirits especially after the election. Turning to Adam Sandler with his latest Netflix Original Hubie Halloween . Off topics include trick or treaters, haunted houses, and coffee consumption. Listeners you are in for a real treat. Mike and Matt do not see eye to eye at a...

We saved the best for last for our Third Annual Harvest Horror Fest, Candyman (1992) starring Tony Todd and Virginia Madsen . Additional topics include the importance of movie soundtracks, urban legends , and discovering old photographs. Neither of your hosts have seen this film in a very long time and it caught them off guard. Candyman (1992) is a great movie that has stood the test of time. The...

Our Third Annual Harvest Horror Fest continues with a true vampire horror comedy classic The Lost Boys (1987) starring Jason Patric , Kiefer Sutherland , and the two Coreys . Off topics include Taken , RAW vs JPEG , and Natalie Portman . This is it, arguably the original teen vampire film, The Lost Boys (1987) . Basically it’s Matt and Mike’s version of the Twilight saga or Vampire Academy except...

Welcome campers to our second pod of the Third Annual Harvest Horror Fest! Today the classic horror continues with one of Matt’s favorite horror films, yes Matt’s, Friday the 13th (1980) . The boys stayed on point for most of the show but some extra topics include Halloween , gore in film, and horror films that scarred us for life. Friday the 13th is an incredible film. It is not only a great horr...

After 11 months of waiting it is finally here! Our Third Annual Harvest Horror Fest! To kick off our month of horror reviews everyone’s favorite horror host Mike Talent dipped into his bag of gold and pulled the original Leprechaun from 1993. Scary but not horror topics include cereal, wells, and the imminent death of movie theaters . What can we say about the Leprechaun . It is a very unique horr...

Sick and tired of politics yet? GREAT! Why not sit down and laugh while listening to the Talent-less Mike of Mystery and Matt review the Amazon Original Get Duked! Better topics than this movie include Prescott Valley professional sports, The Boys TV show , and our Third Annual Harvest Horror Fest! Well this is awkward, maybe not awkward but it has been a long time since Mike and Matt didn’t agree...

Hi everybody! It is Wednesday and that means new podcast day! For today’s episode Mike and Matt travel back to 2011 to review a fun comedic alien sci-fi classic starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg , Paul . Odd discussion topics include genetics, probing, and the acceptance nerd culture. This is the kind of film we need right now. It is fun, nerdy, and hilarious! If you have not seen Paul it is wort...

Happy hump day everyone! Today Matt and Mike continue cheating death and visit the movie theater to catch the last Fox Marvel film The New Mutants . Additional topics include sports ball, Siskel & Ebert , and the future of the X-Men franchise . What is wrong with critics today? The New Mutants isn’t a masterpiece but it is in no way a terrible movie. Could it have been better, sure. It is a decent...

Thank the maker! Matt and Mike Talent return to the theaters this week after a 5 month absence risking their lives and relationships to see Christoper Nolan’s latest epic Tenet . Bonus topics included more movie giveaways, Twilight (yes, that one), and the Saw franchise . Christopher Nolan again tackles his favorite subject, time, but using a James Bond type character. Tenet is a great film that h...

Happy week happy pod! Today your host’s Mike Talent and Matt review a brand spanking new movie that they are shocked got made, Bill & Ted Face the Music . Hold onto your butts listeners this is a long pod! Extra topics include a farewell and thank you to Chadwick Boseman , box office numbers , and booze filled seltzers . Have you been missing that thing we used to have last year, all the way back...

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today Mike and Matt sit down to chat about one of Netflix’s latest Original Films Project Power starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt . Non superhero related topics include Fortnite , movie theaters opening back up , and win a Blu-ray copy of The King of Staten Island . Netflix has done it again, what a fun popcorn action flick! The acting was great, the sets are d...

Welcome movie lovers! Today we dip into our fan requests and review the 2009 depression era gangster film starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale , Public Enemies . Not gangster topics include YouTube, $0.15 movies at AMC , and we have a Blu-ray giveaway to enter! This film is a perfect example of a great gangster film with one major issue, it’s long! Bale and Depp perfect the cat and mouse game w...

Another week and another podcast for your listening pleasure. Today Mike and Matt dip into yet another streaming service to watch the first HBO Max Original film An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen . Extra topics include PSL, portrait mode, and do we really need more streaming services? An American Pickle is definitely a movie. It is not a good movie, it is not a terrible movie,...

Happy Wednesday everyone! Mysterious Mike Talent finally picked a film for review this week. Another Netflix Original and this one is a couple of years old. The SciFi thriller Extinction starring Michael Pena and Lizzy Caplan . Other topics include Four Peaks releases their Pumpkin Porter early , SpaceX splashdown, and what order to watch the Star Wars films. This is the first time in a while the...