That Song From That Movie

YIPPIE KI-YAY... ...podcast listener! Welcome to our 2023 Christmas special which this year is far more action packed than usual. It's the Bruce Willis action classic Die Hard! And it wouldn't be Christmas without a Christmas song, so welcome "Christmas in Hollis" by hip hop legends Run DMC. Ben has zits, Dietrich is talking about Garfield-less Garfield and Alex is summoning the...

ELIO ELIO ELIO Come with us to the sunkissed villages of Northern Italy, where we find Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer demanding each other to Call Me By Your Name . Sufjan Stevens provides the movies two original songs in the shapes of "Mystery of Love" and "Visions of Gideon" , but could he have been signed up to do more than just sing? Dietrich is simply struggling, Alex...

SPARKLE SPARKLE Y'all want some human meat with that? Our blood thirsty 2023 Halloween special of That Song From That Movie is here. Will Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart make their blossoming romance work in a world of reimagined vampires? That's right, it's Twilight . Musically, we decode Paramore's huge tie-in hit " Decode " and briefly chat Muse's "Superm...

WIND BENEATH MY WINGS Tissues at the ready. We tag along with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershy as they grow old together in the 1980s melodrama Beaches . Find out if we were able to hold back the tears. The song? Oh just some little-known anthem called "Wind Beneath My Wings", as heard at pretty much all funerals. Ben is at a Working Man's Club karaoke night, Dietrich calls out Smooth Radio's poor...

SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME Get ready for the longest episode of That Song From That Movie ever as we are covering the many songs of the animated classic Shrek . We cover " On the Road Again ", " Escape (The Pina Colada Song) ", " Welcome to Duloc ", " Bad Reputation ", " I'm On My Way ", " Merry Men ", " My Beloved Monster ", &qu...

LOVE LIFT US UP Are you willing to put your life on the line and be the best of the best for your country? Or do you just want to put on a nice white naval suit? Either is fine, as we are talking all things An Officer and a Gentleman starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Louis Gossett Jr. Music wise, Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker combine for the anthemic love song " Up Where We Belong &quo...

GREAT SCOTT! They finally let Dietrich off the lead! And a wild Dietrich left to his own devices will talk about the TV show Lost or the movie Back To The Future ...and seeing as this is a movie podcast, you can guess which one he picked. We cover the 3 main songs: " The Power of Love " by Huey Lewis and the News, " Back in Time " also by Huey Lewis and the News, and Marty McFl...

HEY! I'M WALKING HERE! Go grab your cowboy boots because we have a treat for you! This episode are are taking all things Midnight Cowboy starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. The movie is considered a classic and so is it's iconic song: " Everybody's Talkin' " by Harry Nilsson. Dietrich gets into a cinema etiquette argument, Alex is rootin' tootin' and Ben is re...

THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE Nobody puts baby in the corner. And nobody ignores our review of 1980s classic Dirty Dancing . With so many songs, we narrow it down to Patrick Swayze's " She's Like the Wind ", Eric Carmen's " Hungry Eyes " and Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes' " (I've Had) The Time of My Life ". Alex gets to call his close friend "TH&q...

YOU'RE TRASH, JUST LIKE ME Happy Birthday! That's right we are 3 years old and that means we are contractually obligated to cover another Toy Story movie. And this one is the big one. It's Toy Story 4 ! Will Ben blow a fuse? Or will he convince the world that the movie is, like Forky, trash. Randy Newman returns for his Disney Pixar paycheck with " I Can't Let You Throw Yourse...

ONCE UPON A DREAM Have you been caught napping? Was that because you were actually tired or because some fairy Godmothers have put you to sleep against your will? If it's the latter, than we know the movie just for you: Sleeping Beauty . Whilst this Walt Disney classic may be a triumph of animation, do the songs stand up? We cover: " Hail to the Princess Aurora ", " I Wonder &qu...

THE WINNER IS...  Our invite must have been lost in the post. Again. Again. We'll get one, one day, I hope. Anyway, time for our yearly run through of the Best Original Song category at the Academy Awards . The nominees are: " Lift Me Up " from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, " Applause " from Tell It Like A Woman, " This is a Life " from Everything, Everywhere All At Once, " Hold My Hand " f...

THAT'S COYOTE UGLY!  You want to go out for a drink? How about a little boogie? Then I know just the place: Coyote Ugly . The music comes in the form of yet another Diane Warren classic, the LeAnn Rimes banger " Can't Fight The Moonlight ". Ben can't stop thinking about Marriage Story's origin, Dietrich spends every weekend bugging DJs and Alex has got the legs for it. Follow us on Twitter: @...

HE'S A TRAMP  2023 is here and, finally, so is That Song From That Movie. To kickstart the new year we are taking the next step of our Disney marathon with Lady and the Tramp . Songs covered this episode: " Bella Notte ", " La La Lu ", " What is a Baby? ", " He's a Tramp " and the infamous " We Are Siamese ". Dietrich resolves the head vs heart conundrum, Alex promises Crossroads and Ben quiz...

IT FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS We did it. We finally flipping did it. Our 2022 Christmas special is the often requested winter classic: The Muppet Christmas Carol . There's so many songs that this is now our longest episode ever: " Scrooge ", " One More Sleep 'Til Christmas ", " Marley and Marley ", " When Love is Gone ", " It Feels Like Christmas ", " Christmas Scat ", " Bless Us All ", " Thankful Heart...

ENGLAND WILL BE PLAYING 4-4-2! Didn't that quote used to have a swear word in it? Anyway, it may not be the most popular of movie but it allows us to gift to you our FIFA World Cup special: Mike Bassett: England Manager . This British cult classic features a football song classic: "It's On My Head, Son, Not Off My Head, Son" by Keith Allen and Atomic Kitten. Ben is in a bottomless pit of despair,...

WALKING DOWN THE STREET We have a rare case of That Movie From That Song on this week's episode of That Song From That Movie, as we are covering the romcom Pretty Woman . So obviously (for some) the song we are covering is " Oh, Pretty Woman " by Roy Orbison. Dietrich has the squeakiest chair known to mankind causing him audio issues, Alex's microphone stand is slowly breaking causing him audio is...

IT'S SHOWTIME! Evil laugh! Welcome to the 2022 Halloween special of That Song From That Movie. This year we are trying to avoid repeating ourselves when whilst we break down Beetlejuice . Not spooky enough for you? Well, what about a ghostly possession to the calypso vibes of Harry Belafonte's " Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) "? Alex's knowledge of the Baldwins is pushed to its limits, Ben rejects t...

IT'S HAPPENING... Do I hear wedding bells? No, this is typed text. However let's still get excited for our breakdown of the 2011 comedy classic: Bridesmaids . But the titular tribe of bridesmaids are not alone, they are joined by 90s pop group Wilson Phillips and their hit song: " Hold On ". Ben wants to stick with just the two dogs, Dietrich lays down a challenge to the bigwigs in Hollywood and A...

IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE MUSIC... ...it's time to light the lights. It's time to meet the Muppets on the 2011 sort of reboot with the imaginative title, The Muppets , tonight. A good fuzzy handful of songs of varying degrees of quality: " Life's a Happy Song ", " Pictures In My Head ", " Me Party ", " Let's Talk About Me " and " Man or Muppet ". Dietrich wants better representation in the Disney park...

GOOD GUYS DRESS IN BLACK  "Keep Agent K's name out of your f**king mouth" screams Will Smith on the set of Men in Black 3 , presumably. We complete the black suit trilogy but there's no Will Smith song to be found this time, instead Pitbull takes the honours with his confused throwback hit " Back In Time ". Alex feels like Phase 4 is the same as Phase 1, Ben has been face to face with a sea b...

SPRING BREAK FOREVER  We joked about it at the end of the previous episode but we actually went and did it. So for your enjoyment, we present Spring Breakers . The movie is kicked off with Skrillex's " Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites ", followed with Britney Spears' " Everytime " and Danger Russ' " Hangin' With da Dopeboys ". Ben is desperate for his ears to bleed, Dietrich has been getting v...

VOTE FOR PEDRO   It's certainly not to everyone's tastes but there's no denying that Napoleon Dynamite made a significant impact on pop culture in the mid-2000s. Vote for Pedro t-shirts, large nerdy glasses and a solo dance routine set to the acid-house rhythms of Jamiroquai's " Canned Heat ". Dietrich is very slowly losing his voice, Alex's wife rips up the rule book and Ben puts on his tiny...

I FEEL THE NEED...   ...the need for an episode released too late to capitalise on the momentum of a well received, newly released sequel. We are talking all things Top Gun from 1986 and its fantastic songs: " You've Lost That Loving Feeling ", " Playing With the Boys ", " Danger Zone " and " Take My Breath Away ". Alex is struggling to follow what is going on, Ben has been doing handstand pu...

YOU CAN FLY!   It's time for us to return to our rundown of every single Walt Disney Animation Studios movies; this time we are talking Peter Pan . There's so many songs(?) in this one, here goes: " The Second Star to the Right ", " You Can Fly! ", " A Pirate's Life (Is a Wonderful Life) ", " Following the Leader ", " What Made the Red Man Red? ", " Your Mother and Mine " and finally " The El...