The Number One Movie in America

We want you to hit us as hard as you can! (Not really, we're very passive people.) Fight Club was just barely a NOMIA, but remains one of the most landmark films of the '90s! Will we still love it? Can we get past the legions of people who completely missed the point? Can it grab the show's highest rating yet? Listen and find out! This week's recommendations: Robin is ambivalent about Those Who Wi...

Oh wow, it's Steven Seagal time. Are we prepared? Is anyone? Somewhat late in the mysterious, fabled Era of Seagal, the notorious kick-man took a trip down to Kentucky to try and find some jugs of green ooze, while romancing Marg Helgenberger and fixing Harry Dean Stanton's porch. Somehow, it's LESS straightforward than that! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela finds herself delighted by KING OF...

This podcast presents Quentin Tarantino presents Miramax presents HERO! Zhang Yimou's epic, eye-popping wuxia film was an Academy Award nominee ... and then a NOMIA two full years later. The rollout got weird. But it's still a near-classic full of beautiful fight sequences, intense color palettes and caligraphy! This week's recommendations: Sean talks about a bunch of stuff then quickly recommends...

It's another fan vote! After a neck-and-neck race, the '90s Hot Topic set won out with THE CRAFT! Can anyone on the panel be objective about this gift-wrapped parcel of our youth? Why would you steal from a witch store? Why so many snakes? These and more questions, as we record with perfect love and perfect trust! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela enjoyed THE OUT SIDE STORY, Robin was just fin...

Take a little Halloween, a little Scream, a whole lot of Jason Voorhees and most of Freaky Friday and you get ... a mid-pandemic number one movie in America! FREAKY climbed above the pile of 2020 theatrical releases (it was a small pile) to take the top spot for two weeks. It was ... pretty good? No one hates this! A refreshing episode! The recommendations are kind of all over the place this time,...

Just be glad Sean and Robin waited until the next morning to record this, their immediate post-ceremony phone call was mostly just enraged noises. It was an Oscars unlike any other! In that it was even more weird and disappointing than usual. Breaking down the fumbles and few glimmers of joy from an Oscar night we're looking forward to forgetting!

Who knows what to expect going into a most unusual Oscar night? No one! But Robin and Sean are probably closer than most. Listen in for a breakdown of all the nominated films, and fairly confident (mostly) predictions on what will win! Dominate the pool at your odd, virtual Oscar-night party!

This one is a lot. Mel Gibson (you know him, he's that angry guy) followed up his megahit about Jesus with a hyper-violent epic set in the waning days of the Mayan empire. Filmmakers loved it, critics were lukewarm, audiences ... well, listen to the show. Prepare for gore and tapir junk! Also: You get to choose another episode! We've got another movie draft on the show. Head to @number1moviepod on...

Sean and Robin sit down to work through the big question of the moment: Who's ready to go back to a physical movie theater? What it'll take to bring us back to the box office, and what we want to see (both onscreen and off) when we get there.

An unpleasant rich kid wants to own Richard Pryor! We're not making that sound bad to make a point, that's the actual premise! THE TOY stole a weekend from the alien juggernaut of 1982, adding to a long list of Pryor's hits; were the scathing reviews that greeted it on release wrong? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela and Robin have made it to the dispiriting conclusion of ALLEN V FARROW, and t...

Sean and Robin both made it through Justice League! Y'know, mostly. Between them, they watched at least 6 1/2 combined hours of Zack Snyder's oddly square-shaped artistic vision. Now, they grab the mics like the Flash grabbing a passing a hot dog to try to figure out: Was all that worth it?

It's a bonus episode, as Sean & Robin gather for the annual sleepy analysis of the Academy Award nominations! Will this be the year that the pleasant surprises outweigh the frustrating snubs? (Please note: That year will never come.) We talk Lakeith, Lindo, Leslie and Love & Monsters, plus a lot more!

That's Coming TO America, not Coming TWO America. Though we cover them both in this past-and-present trip to Zamunda! The winner of our latest audience poll, Coming to America is absolutely having a cultural moment. How well does it hold up 33 years later, and how does it do when viewed back-to-back with its sequel? This week's recommendations: Kahmeela is gripped by ALLEN V FARROW. Robin has to e...

In an unexpected feat of timing, we've got Oprah and a troubled princess! THE PRINCESS & THE FROG, Disney's penultimate hand-drawn feature, has a lot going for it and just as much going against it. But hey, there's a great villain song and an alligator that wants to play the trumpet! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela recommends the Netflix series BEHIND HER EYES, and gives kind of a soft e...

Despite this movie utterly vanishing from our cultural memory, it was the fourth top-grossing movie of 2008! Lots of people went to see Will Smith drunk fly, redeem himself, and then deal with a whole second plot because the movie realized it wasn't long enough yet! This week's recommendations: Robin went on a tear and recommends Judas & The Black Messiah, Nomadland and Sound of Metal. (She's...

Our second straight comedy sequel is MEET THE FOCKERS, the stunningly successful follow-up to the movie where Robert De Niro asked Ben Stiller about his nipples. Everyone and their mother (literally) went to see Barbara and the familiar Fockers back in 2004, but was it any good? (How many movies that rely on a swearing toddler are actually that good?) This week's recommendations: Kahmeela gives a...

We're going back to Jump Street! (Even though we, as a podcast, never went there in the first place!) Let's take a look at the comedy sequel 22 Jump Street, discuss its weird proposed follow-ups and find ourselves pleasantly surprised that it's just straight-up funny throughout! This week's recommendations: Sean likes the award-nominated Shudder original La Llorana, and recommends revisiting the o...

She may be PRETTY IN PINK, but both her suitors are real doofs. Robin represents the segment of the population that loved this movie growing up, while Kahmeela and Sean give it somewhat lower marks for being, y'know, kind of a mess. But hey, Harry Dean Stanton and Annie Potts are great! This week's recommendations: Kahmeela gives a cool recommendation to the SALT-N-PEPA movie and a big ol' shrug t...

We'ah puttin' this whole friggin' tahn in ah-ur reah view! (That's about as close as you can type to a hilarious Boston accent.) Yes, Ben Affleck scored his first directorial hit with THE TOWN, a charming portrait of a humble Boston neighborhood where absolutely everyone robs a bank every day. This week's recommendations: Kahmeela jumps on board the ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI train. Sean liked THE DIG, an...

We have a very particular set of skills! It's mostly tearing apart reality-breaking minutiae in popular movies! Liam Neeson's career unexpectedly changed after his twentysomething teenage daughter got TAKEN like four minutes after landing in Europe. Does this landmark of old guy punchy-punchy cinema actually land (like a throat punch), or was it just kind of the goof that worked? Plus, this week's...

At last, we land on a Star Wars movie! Not the one anyone wanted us to land on, but who's counting? Everyone's favorite scoundrel gets an origin story with a troubled production history, as not-Harrison fills us in on far too many details about the young life of SOLO! This week's recommendations: Robin enjoyed LIKE A BOSS! Sean recommends ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI and gleefully revisited BIRDS OF PREY! K...

Who's ready to collect some bones? (Not this killer, but that's neither here nor there.) Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie team up for a blatant Seven knockoff, as THE BONE COLLECTOR continues our surprising streak of movies with elaborate clues! Stick around for the moment where a giant cat invades the show! Plus, this week's recommendations: Kahmeela reminds you to watch KILLING EVE. Robin li...

We're gonna start the year off right: By stealing the Declaration of Independence! Wildly successful Indiana Jones knockoff NATIONAL TREASURE made Disney a lot of money and helped make Nicolas Cage the walking meme he is today. But is it, you know, any good? We'll find out, if we can get this ocular device to work! Plus, in recommendations: Sean and Robin split on WONDER WOMAN 1984, but fortunatel...

2020 ends on a fittingly bleak note, as we talk about SEVEN, perhaps the most depressing film ever to top the box office! (For four whole weeks, yet!) Is the world worth fighting for? Does John Doe have the upper hand? What's in the box? We will try to keep our spirits up as we dive in to Kahmeela's hand-picked episode! This week's recommendations: Robin gives a rousing shrug to TENET; Sean gets m...

Think of our holiday special as a whole cheese pizza, just for you! We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Home Alone by revisiting the slapstick, heartwarming, bandit-murdering comedy classic! This movie was the Number One Movie in America for a staggering 12 consecutive weekends; was it worth all the grave bodily harm to Joe Pesci? Plus, Sean recommends something old (It's a Wonderful Life) and so...