The Matt and Mark Movie Show

Call the amba lamps because this week Michael Bay takes our podcast for a breakneck thrill ride through his latest slice of Bayhem, 2022’s AMBULANCE. We review the film and talk drones (so many drones!), Jake Gyllenhaal’s new school movie choices, and Michael Bay’s pre-and post-Transformers filmography. We even find time to react to the new Prey trailer that just dropped. And we...

SPOILERS ABOUND FROM MINUTE 1. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Still here? Oh good! We invited our own doctoral candidate of the strange arts, friend of the show Mister Suspicious , to help us review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Blandness. Whoops! I mean Madness. Madness. Along the way, we chat Sam Raimi (as you do!), the Avatar: The Way of Water trailer debut, and inappropriate uses for multiversal...

CAGE-IACS UNITE! The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent isn’t just the ultimate Nicolas Cage film, it’s also kinda the ultimate buddy movie. So we invited our Insta best buddy Tommy Nuggetz from CTSO to hang out and help us review it. We talk all things Nic Cage, including favorite Nic Cage performances as voted on by YOU in our Instagram polls.  Along the way, we nerd out over the B-...

It ain’t the holidays, but who cares, let’s do another GRAB BAG EPISODE! Break out the nostalgic commercials of yesteryear and your favorite Happy Meal toys, because we’re winding you back to the 90s to celebrate the onetruegod, Nic Cage, and his early films like Leaving Las Vegas and Amos & Andrew. Join us as we review those movies, reminisce about the sleazy heyday of HBO’s...

Our good buddy Jeff from The Love of Cinema Podcast joins us to talk Sonic 2 this week! And you can’t talk Sonic without waxing intellectual about chili dogs, Jaleel White, and Michael Jackson’s possible musical involvement with the Sonic video game franchise. Along the way, we also pay our respects to our buddy Gilbert Gottfried, and name our favorite Jim Carrey performances ever, con...

The subject of Jared Leto returns to our show with Sony’s latest attack on the multiplex (and the spider-verse), Morbius. Join us as we discuss the film, which scenes got cut, its baffling Easter eggs, botched connections to the Sony-verse, and more. Along the way, we also manage to discuss the Will Smith slap bullshit, Elon buying Twitter, and Jackass Forever. Follow us on Instagram  @thema...

Mark returns this episode, so we had A TON to catch up on like: his house problems, New York City and the horrific state of the subway, Hogwarts Legacy, the quality of Newsies, Doogie Kamealoha M.D., the infuriating Incredible Hulk MS-DOS game, AND SO. MUCH. MORE. Oh yeah, and we kinda discuss The Adam Project, too. Follow us on Instagram  @themattandmarkmovieshow , or TikTok  @themattandmarkmovie...

As the box office still recovers from Bat-mania, we find ourselves in a bit of a theatrical holding pattern. So it’s to the streamers we go this week, for the buzzy horror comedy FRESH on Hulu. And joining me for this review are friends of the show, Jake and Emily from Feels Like the First Time Podcast .  We talk online dating, eating during cannibal movies, Armie Hammer, and obsess over our...

SPOILER ALERT… it’s The Matt and The Batman Movie Show! This new episode takes us to the darkest vision of Gotham City yet. And exploring the darkness with me is friend-of-the-show Derick McDuff from The Underrated Podcast . He’s a huge Bat-fan AND a huge Matt Reeves fan, so he was the perfect guest to talk shop with me on this review. We’re chatting Penguin, The Riddler, C...

The BUZZ is back! And so are we. This week, we’re talking all things Leatherface with Insta bestie Tommy Nuggetz from CTSO with Tommy Nuggetz. How does this new entry in the Texas Chainsaw franchise stack up? Is there still some meat left on this bone? Or is it all studio grizzle? Make room, because we’re also side-dishing on People of Wal-Mart, legacyquels or “requels” as...

This week, we talk the Master of Disaster, Roland Emmerich, the man behind Independence Day, 2012, and what is destined to be the conspiracy whackjobs’ favorite new movie, Moonfall. It’s a film that continues Emmerich’s very bizarre obsession with Noah’s Ark and product placement. You can hear us begin discussing it in full around the 55:19  mark. But if you skip ahead, you’ll mi...

You’re gonna get Gabagool’d. (If you don’t know what that means, that’s okay; neither do we.) This week, we make good on our threat to review the new Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, a film so dumb it makes us both feel smart. It’s another in a long line of bad video game movies that we begin discussing in full around the 38:45 mark. But if...

This week, Mark and I deep-dive into the new Scream, the fifth installment to the iconic slasher franchise.  Along the way, we rag on the hipster Vespa Gang from The Book of Boba Fett, praise HBOMax’s Peacemaker TV series, and tease our upcoming Listener Request Episode where YOU will get to vote on what movie we watch and review next. Skip to 30:00 if you want to get right to the Scream tal...

This week, Mark returns to the show to help Matt take a look back at Wes Craven’s iconic slasher Scream from the year 1996. How did we first see the movie? Where does Ghostface rank in our Mount Rushmore of horror icons? And why doesn’t Mark remember seeing Scream 4? All of this and more as we deep dive in to the slasher the brought the horror genre back from the dead and into the 90s....

As we fade out on 2021… it’s time for a post-credits to the year — a chance to pick our favorite movies, name our biggest cinematic disappointments, complain about the insufferable Nicole Kidman AMC Theaters PSA’s, and look forward to what’s on the slate for 2022! And hear to help me do all of that and more are our buddies The Love of Cinema Podcast . Go check their s...

Spider-Man? More like SPOILER-MAN! The multiverse is officially open in the MCU… and we’re using it to pull our friends the Genre Geeks through a portal to help us talk ALL THE SPOILERS for Spider-Man: No Way Home. That’s right, we’re talking villains, Spider-surprises, MCU Easter Eggs, post-credits scenes, connections to Hawkeye, and more… and we’re doing it al...

It’s the holidays which means it’s time for our yearly pod tradition of doing a GRAB BAG EPISODE! Break out the nostalgic commercials of yesteryear and your booziest eggnog, because we’re watching alternative Santa movies like Mel Gibson’s Fatman, Goldberg in Santa’s Slay, and more! Join us as we review those films, wonder about Charles Dickens’ secret career in...

He’s bashed Marvel. He’s criticized millennials. He’s yelled at clouds. Ridley Scott has directed some of Mark’s favorite movies and now we want to know why the hell he’s acting so damn grumpy about everything. Join us as we work our way through Ridley’s filmography, answer the question of who made the first director’s cut in movie history, and hear all ab...

This is it. The moment we never thought possible… our one year anniversary is here! Join us for a star-studded special, celebrating 50 episodes of the show! We’re talking Ghostbusters: Afterlife, ranking Thanksgiving desserts, and marveling at Mark’s new waifu pillow that arrived in a boob-ular NSFW package. Also, remember Compaq Presario? No, not that one; the other one, the pim...

This week, The Producer in the Booth steps out of the booth and onto the mic to help me review Wes Anderson’s latest quirk fest, The French Dispatch. This movie’s loaded with famous faces, hipster worthy music cues, and nudity galore! Like whoa. Get ready to blush harder than Tilda Swinton mugs, and MUGS SHE DOES. A lot. Can Tilda just knock it off already? We also take a few detours t...

Halloween is over, but we technically got one more Spoopy episode in the can before the holiday officially ended… and it’s Scott Cooper’s ANTLERS. Join us as we review this highly-anticipated, Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror film. Did it live up to the hype? Did it scare us? And what in the hell does Mark have against Dana Carvey? Find out in this Day After Halloween special t...

Our SPOOPY season comes to a close with Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE. The movie’s as long as a Sandworm, but mercifully, we kept this episode a little short! You’re welcome…?  Join us as Matt voices his love for David Lynch’s 1984 original Dune, and Mark recommends about ninety-three movies and TV shows in his longest Get Rec’d segment ever. Kinda spooky… if you thin...

SPOOPY season rolls on here at The Matt and Mark Movie Show, and this week, we’re reviewing Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond in No Time to Die.  Join us for a deluxe episode of double-O fun as we debate whether or not Bond visits Italy or Greece, rank the Craig Bonds and then argue about which is worse, and wonder what it was like for Blofeld to pair the Bluetooth in his bioni...

It’s SPOOPY season, and The Matt and Mark Movie Show is “down to clown” with all the spooky seasonal fun! All this month, we’ll have spoopy surprises like a new theme song, scary Rec’s, and frightfully fun guests like our friend, Mister Suspicious .  He’s on-hand to help us discuss Venom: Let There Be Carnage! We also dig deep into our burning Venom questions li...

Hold on to your hats… er, heads… for this episode because it is a doozy! We’re reviewing James Wan’s latest head trip Malignant, and doing a deep-dive on giallo movies. We also take a few detours –as we do– to talk breakfast sandwiches, home video formats, and the nightmare fuel that is the creepy Old Navy mannequins. Seriously, they’re scarier than anythi...