The Sticky Floors Podcast

MAJOR SPOILERS as we reviewed Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock, Jason Mamoa, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, and David Corenswet. We talked (again) about the state of comic book movies, whether this movie helps or hurts the DC movie franchise, the imposed limitations on female superheroes and how that is hurting the overall product, the absence of Krypto in this m...

Major Spoilers for our review of The Furious starring Mo Tse, Joe Taslim, Brian Le, Joey Iwanaga, Yang Enyou, and Yayan Ruhian. We talked about how much fun it was to see the return to martial arts on the big screen, fighting styles that reminded us of Street Fighter characters, the twist at the mid-point that makes the movie better, and whether Ip Man can beat any of these guys.

MAJOR SPOILERS for our review of Disclosure Day starring Stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Eve Hewson, Colin Firth, Wyatt Russell, and Coleman Domingo. We discussed the career of Steven Spielberg, his focus on the idea of the “alien” and how this may be a metaphor for his personal experience. We discussed the best scenes in the film, the throughline of truth in the film, the tension between religi...

MAJOR SPOILERS as we reviewed, Masters of the Universe starring Nicolas Galtizine, Camila Mendes, Idris Elba, Jared Leto, Allison Brie, and Kristen Wiig. We reviewed the history of He-Man in film and in cartoons, shared our fond memories of both from our childhood, talked about the epic scene where He-Man finally emerges, the issues with tone and messaging and give Adam a different origin story fo...

MAJOR SPOILERS as we reviewed The Mandalorian and Grogu starring Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Allen White, Johnny Coyne, and Martin Scorsese. We discussed the history of The Mandalorian show on Disney+, if this movie could have been a TV show, the future of Grogu and how his story ends, our favorite scenes, what it’s like to be the old guy at the Star Wars movie, and why there is no back...

SPOILERS WARNING for our review of In the Grey starring Henry Cavil, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzalez, Carlos Bardem, and Rosamund Pike. We discussed the staples of a Guy Ritchie film, the witty dialogue, if the movie makes good on its promise of action, how it compares to Ocean’s Eleven and the A-Team and ideas for a prequel and sequel.

SPOILERS WARNING for our review of Mortal Kombat 2 starring Stars Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee, Martyn Ford, Hiroyuki Sonada, Tati Gabriel, Ludi Lin, Josh Lawson and Mechad Brooks. We discussed the history of the franchise, why there is so little love for the Cole Young character, the best fight scenes, the cheat code behavior of Shao Khan, if Raiden should be a little tougher, the...

This week, we reviewed the 1991 gangster classic, New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes, Ice T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, Vanessa Williams and Bill Nunn. We talked about how this movie influenced so many movie and TV shows after it, the incredible two-year movie run of Wesley Snipes, why it’s never a good idea to have a crack head working in a crack house, the curiou...

This week, we covered 2001’s Swordfish, starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Don Cheadle, and Halle Berry. We talked about how the movie has aged over times, the way women are portrayed in the film, how much the film is reminiscent of The Matrix and why, the alternate ending that didn’t make it to theaters, and what role John Travolta could play in the MCU.

This week, we covered the 2012 Academy Award winning, Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomi Harris, and Judi Dench. We talked about the legacy of the James Bond films and how Skyfall introduces new elements, whether these movies are prequels to the Sean Connery version of James Bond, our favorite Daniel Craig Bond films, the future of the series including who should b...

After a brief bye-week, we returned to talk about the 1999 heist film The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Dennis Leary, Frankie Faison, and Faye Dunaway. We talked about what makes the move work both as a heist film and a romantic drama, why there is another remake scheduled to star academy award winner Michael B. Jordan, if the plot makes sense with more scrutiny, if peo...

This week we reviewed, Thank You for Smoking, a movie with an outstanding cast starring Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, J.K. Simmons, Kim Dickens, William H. Macy, and Katie Holmes with Robert Duvall and Sam Elliot featured. We talked about the bad old days of public smoking, how much this film influenced the way people looked at smoking and cigarette companies, the lessons you can lea...

This week we reviewed the 1994 film (and personal favorite of Mr. Will) Fresh, starring Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N’Bushe Wright and Ron Brice. We discussed the soundtrack for this movie, the gritty underpinnings of this coming of age story, whether Fresh’s plan to outsmart the drug dealers in his neighborhood would have worked, what becomes of Fresh and his sister after...

This week, we reviewed the 1998 culture classic, Belly, starting DMX, Nas, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Taral Hicks, and Method Man. We discussed the unique addition of knowledge of self into the gangster movie story, the story of redemption for the main character and if it was believable, how the film might be better if Sincere or Tommy didn’t make it out alive, why Sincere and his family couldn’t ide...

This week, we reviewed the cult classic, The Last Dragon, produced by Berry Gordy and starring Taimak, Vanity (for the 2nd week in a row), Julius Carry, Christopher Murney, and Faith Prince. We discussed the viral potential of the song, “Test Drive”, a potential origin story for Sho-Nuff, the surprising list of actors that could have played, Bruce Leroy, what the movie is saying about payola in th...

CJ and Mr. Will review the 1988 action film Action Jackson starring Carl Weathers, discussing the late actor's career and legacy while analyzing the movie's strengths and weaknesses

We closed out season 10 with our review of Training Day, starring Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glen, and Chris Curtis. We discussed the career of Denzel Washington and why it was so important to him to have Alonzo meet his end so violently, the politics of Denzel winning an Academy Award for this role in particular, the racial dynamics between Alonzo and Jake, our favorite scenes, how the...

This week, we reviewed the recent Netflix release, The Rip, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Kyle Chandler. We talked about how much the movie leans into the real-life relationship of Damon and Affleck, the mystery and detective aspects of the movie, our favorite scenes, what you always see in Ben Affleck movies as of late, our questions ab...

This week we reviewed the straight to streaming Netflix movie, Don’t Look up starring Leonard DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, and Jonah Hill. We discussed whether the movie’s message vibes with its satirical approach, our favorite performances, what the movie is saying about celebrity and social media, our favorite scenes and if we’re fa...

We kicked off a new year with our review of The Killer starring Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Sala Baker, and Charles Parnell. We talked about the pacing and set pieces of this movie and how it differs from other revengeful assassin movies we’ve seen and reviewed in the past. We also wondered if the Killer would get back into the business at some point, does he learn anything about himself du...

We re-capped the movies we saw in 2025 and talked about the trends of movies and streaming in 2025 and what we are looking forward to in 2026. We talked about best performances of the year, the movies that made us think, the movies we wish we missed and the overall boxes of popcorn for the year of movies.

In this episode, we discussed the Christmas-time classic, Batman Returns starring Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken and Danny DeVito. We talked about the heavy sexual innuendo throughout the movie, if Batman is less interesting than his villains gallery, who played the best on screen Catwoman, if there should be a third Batman film with Michael Keaton, our favorite scenes in th...

We talked about the potential Netflix/WB merger and the implications for moviegoers, streamers, and cord cutters, then we started talking about the X-mas time movie, Carry On, starring Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, Theo Rossi, Danielle Deadwyler, and Sofia Carson. We discussed the realities of airport security and surveillance, the casting of Jason Bateman on this and other Netflix projects, where...

We closed out our month of animated films, with the anime classic, Ninja Scroll starring Koichi Yamadera, Emi Shinhara, Takeshi Aono, and Daisuke Gori. We talked about how this movie influenced the 90s hip hop sound of the Wu-Tang Clan, the Matrix, and the X-men. We also talked about our favorite characters, the Amazon series that followed this movie, anime you should check out if you haven’t alre...

It’s week three of our review of animated movies and this week we covered Disney’s Coco, starring Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Bratt, Imelda Rivera, and Alanna Ubach. We discussed the extent to which the movie accurately depicts key elements of Mexican culture, the underlying themes of family and addressing family and generational conflicts, legacy and the remembrance of people who have passed, if t...