Reel Film Nerds

Happy hump day everyone! For Reel Film Nerds Episode 306 we chat about our first horror movie of 2023 M3GAN . Additional topics include the TV show Girls , donkeys, and what is elevated horror . Does this film really qualify as a horror movie or is it a thriller? Matt and Mike think M3GAN leans more towards psychological thriller than a horror flick. The things you don’t see or experience are just...

Welcome everyone to Reel Film Nerds podcast 305.  Today Mike and Matt review a film that is lighting up the awards scene, The Banshees of Inisherin starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson . Off topics include kayaking, Star Tours , and our first giveaway of 2023!  For the second podcast of the year your hosts already don’t agree, that is a first! The Banshees of Inisherin is not a film for ever...

Merry 2023 everyone! Matt and Mike hope you got everything you wanted for Christmas and are not still suffering from a New Year’s hangover. For the first pod of 2023 the guys chat about Babylon (2022) starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt . Extra special topics include Flea , our Best Movies of 2022, and gifts. Babylon (2022) is a great movie for some people. It is very long but well acted, shot, w...

Merry almost Christmas everyone. Just a few more days and you can open a ton of presents and enjoy that sweet holiday brew. Enough about that jazz, let's talk about blue people. This week Mike and Matt hit the theaters to check out James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water , a sequel 13 years in the making. Bonus topics include Matt is sick (more than usual), box office numbers, and our last pod of...

Howdy listeners and welcome back to our little movie review pod. For this week’s review we continue chatting about new Christmas films with Violent Night starring David Harbour and John Leguizamo . Not a murdering Santa Claus topics include The Blair Witch Project , our 300th Episode Blu-ray winner announced, and lots of podcast problems. Can you remember a recent year where we got some fun great...

Welcome to December everyone! Today Mike and Matt hit the ground running for Christmas with the Apple TV Original Spirited starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds . Extra topics include MCU Phases , family traditions, and musicals. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a classic story that’s been told in many different mediums and in many different languages throughout the years. Spirited is inspi...

We did it! I don’t know how but we did it. The Reel Film Nerds Podcast hit 300 episodes! Of course we are nerds so we are reviewing a classic 300 episode film, 300 directed by Zack Snyder and starring Gerard Butler and Lena Headey . Bonus topics today include Andor is incredible, DCEU VS MCU , and an incredible giveaway to say thank you to our fans. What is not to love about 300 ? It is an incredi...

Happy Thanksgiving eve everyone! Mike and Matt hope you have a wonderful holiday, eat lots of tasty food, and enjoy some movies with your family. For today’s 299th episode we chat about the Netflix Original All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) . Additional topics include 1917 , propaganda, and Matt needs some sleep. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) is an incredible story based around true ev...

Welcome everyone to our last Marvel Cinematic Universe film review of 2022. Today Matt and Mike chat about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever starring Letitia Wright , Lupita Nyong'o , Danai Gurira , Angela Bassett , and Tenoch Huerta . Bonus topics include Deadpool 3 , death, and comic representations. Phase 4 was one of the most difficult MCU Phases to date. TV shows were introduced, the pandemic hi...

The election is over, for now, thank you Lord for no more political ads! Ok let's get to it, welcome to the Reel Film Nerds podcast! Today Mike and Matt chat about a fun unique film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story currently streaming on Roku . Additional weird topics include Rammstein , a new giveaway, and Machete . Weird Al is an artist that is near and dear to your two hosts' hearts. They grew up l...

Happy turkey month everyone! For today’s pod we play a bit of catch up with DC’s Black Adam starring Dwayne Johnson and Pierce Brosnan . Not antihero topics include pumpkin foods, another incredible giveaway, and Halloween Horror Night mistakes. The Rock does it again. Who knew Dwayne Johnson AKA The Rock would be a great fit for an antihero? In Black Adam Johnson does a great job of well not bein...

All good and horror things must come to an end. Today is the end of our 5th Annual Harvest Horror Fest. For our last film we continue our tradition with Friday the 13th Part III . Not hockey mask related topics include dust spots, 3D for 3D sakes, and horror video games. These movies just keep getting worse and worse and that’s hard to do! Friday the 13th Part III was an attempt to bring back 3D i...

Happy Horror Wednesday? Ya that kinda works! Today your two hosts Matt and Mike review their third Harvest Horror Fest film of the season Halloween Ends starring Jamie Lee Curtis , Andi Matichak , James Jude Courtney , and Rohan Campbell . Bonus topics include taxes, the She Hulk finale is awful, and bathroom breaks. This one is a bit of a shocker for your two hosts. The critics and audience just...

Welcome one and all! This week for our second horror film review of the season Mike and Matt check out the reboot of a classic slasher film, Hellraiser (2022) starring Odessa A’zion and Jamie Clayton . Special topics include a new movie giveaway, metal, and horror reboots. There really isn’t much to say about this film. Hellraiser (2022) was an attempt at creating something a little new and differ...

Welcome to October! You know what that means, yes it’s time for our annual Harvest Horror Fest! We kick off our 5th annual event with the 1982 classic Poltergeist (1982) in honor of its 40th anniversary. Bonus topics include Prescott Film Festival was amazing, Star Wars , and movie trivia . What can we say about a film that is as old as your hosts? A lot actually. Poltergeist (1982) is a fun, thri...

Hump day is here and you know what that means, a brand new podcast for your ear holes! Today Mike and Matt chat about The Woman King starring Viola Davis , Thuso Mbedu , and Lashana Lynch . Additional topics today include a new movie giveaway, PSL beer, and the 5th Annual Harvest Horror Fest starts next week! There is a ton of controversy surrounding this film. Your hosts touch on it a bit during...

Happy Friday everyone? Yes that’s right you lucky listeners get two pods in one week! Today we have a really special edition of the Reel Film Nerds Podcast. Matt sits down with Matt (no he did not clone himself, or did he?) to interview and chat with Helen Stephenson, the Director of the Yavapai College Film and Media Arts Program and the Executive Director of the Prescott Film Festival . Mr. The...

We did it everyone! Matt and Mike returned to the theaters to catch a new movie. See How They Run is a meta murder mystery starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan . Bonus topics include Spaceballs , iPhone 14 , and Nick Cage . Boy does it feel good to get back to the theaters. See How They Run wasn’t the best welcome home film to watch but it wasn’t terrible either. See How They Run is a murder my...

Happy hump day friends and neighbors! For this week’s podcast Mike and Matt chat about a modern Sci-Fi classic Edge of Tomorrow starring Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise . Distracting topics include reading books, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is crap, and modern Sci-Fi. Well here we go again another Legacy film and you know we only pick Legacy films we really like. Edge of Tomorrow is a great modern Sci-Fi...

Welcome one and all to another Reel Film Nerds podcast! Today Matt and Mike try to review the 1986 classic Big Trouble in Little China . We failed miserably and instead chatted about National Cinema Day , is comedy dead , and Avatar . Well like we alluded to above Mike and Matt tried to chat about Big Trouble in Little China but they got off topic a bunch. This film inspired some of the off topic...

Hi everyone! Well we had an interesting week, not just personally but also with the pod. Mike had some massive computer issues so we had to record this review twice. For Episode 286 Matt and Mike chat about the Ron Howard directed Amazon Original Thirteen Lives . Off topics today include $3 movies this Saturday , parents and getting old, and The Office . This is an incredible story based on true e...

Happy Wednesday friends and welcome to our little podcast. For today’s episode we review the new Netflix Original Day Shift starring Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco . Bonus topics today include minivans , Deadpool , and a new incredible giveaway you don’t want to miss. Another week of not going to the theaters but hey at least we are getting new streaming films to review. Day Shift is not an incredible...

Hello everyone and welcome to another movie review from two big nerds! Today Mike and Matt chat about a movie that should have come out in the theaters, Prey . Not practically invincible aliens include Legion , new RFN drinking game, and Star Wars toys . This is at least two films in a row, maybe more where your hosts were just blown away! Prey is a very good film. Its biggest drawback is that it...

Happy hump day boys and girls! For today’s podcast, Episode 283, Mike and Matt chat about Davd Leitch’s   latest film Bullet Train starring a ton of people but especially Brad Pitt . Not Pitt topics include a new giveaway , Stranger Things Season 4 , and critics suck. What a fitting end or near end to the summer blockbuster season. Bullet Train rocketed out of nowhere and I am glad it did. It is a...

Welcome listeners new and old! For Episode #282 the guys sit down and chat about the Russo brother’s latest Netflix Original The Gray Man starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans . Bonus topics today include abs, La-Z-Boys , and Man on Fire (2004) . Netflix continues to put out big action films to compete with the traditional movie theater type studios. The Gray Man follows many of their leads with b...