They Called This a Movie

Well... this one felt a little different when we recorded it. To ring in the New Year, we decided to satisfy one listener's request to watch one of the greatest sci-fi action flicks of all-time. Then, things got crazy and now a satire about how authoritarianism and capitalism go hand-in-hand feels even more frighteningly relevant than it did a few hours ago. We watched RoboCop for They Called This...

We're putting a bow on this weird year with a quick thank you to our listeners. We breakdown what our favorite movies we covered were this year and what we hope to accomplish in the next year. Find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @themaindamie. We are a proud member of Geek Vibes Nation and you can find them at gvnation.com. Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can b...

'Twas the night before Christmas and at every turn They Called This a Movie released a podcast. Knowwhatimean, Vern? Merry Christmas, listeners! We're squeezing one more Christmas-themed episode in before St. Nick sticks his butt down the chimney and fills your stockings with a whole bunch of coal. It's our very special Christmas Eve episode of They Called This a Movie, decided by our Twitter foll...

Every who on the internet loves this movie a lot. But one Grinch, who talks on this podcast, did NOT! Our celebration of Christmas movies rolls on, as we discuss the live action adaptation of one of the most beloved Christmas stories of all time. Muddy cinematography, dutch angles, and an in-your-face performance all collide in this holiday blockbuster helmed by Ron Howard. It's the 2000 feature f...

It's beginning to look a lot like Groundhog Day. Christmas. I meant Christmas. This week, we're hitting the small screen, as we exhumed a film from the lost archives of The Family Channel. Billy Jackson hates Christmas, but he's going to learn to love it when he has to relive the same Christmas over and over again. It's Erik Von Detton in a charming, family movie called "Christmas Every Day", from...

Four families, one day, no mercy.  It's December, and you know what that means: it's Christmas season and we're kicking 25 Days of Christmas into high gear with not one, not two, not three, but Four Christmases!  Academy Award Winner Reese Witherspoon collides with professional a**hole Vince Vaughn in a loud, obnoxious comedy that could only come from the mid-to-late 2000s. It was a long forgotten...

That's not cranberry sauce.  What it is, though, is a special Thanksgiving episode of They Called This a Movie, featuring one of the wildest holiday-themed slasher movies we've ever come across. Twins, machetes, and a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown; it's all par for the course in Blood Rage, a Thanksgiving horror movie that only the Florida panhandle could produce. Grab your PBR, eat th...

This week, we pay tribute to a legend by watching and reviewing the movie that made him quit acting. It's touching, really.  On this episode of They Called This a Movie, we gather all your favorite literary characters that have become part of the public domain. That's right: Dorian Gray, Captain Nemo, Tom Sawyer... a vampire lady... that guy that George Lucas ripped off to make Indiana Jones. They...

Well, it's certainly a movie we watched.    Back in the before times, all the way in 2014, some producer decided that he wanted to make a movie that would appeal to the Chinese filmgoing markets. So, he gave Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen an undisclosed amount of money, flew them to the forests of China, and made a dull, joyless sand and sandals movie about white people saving Asian royalty....

Selleck. Simmons. And a whole lot of spider robots.  On this week's episode, we head to the distant future of 1991 as told by 1984. It is a future with self-driving cars, cameras on doorbells, televisions in the palm of your hand, and other hilariously impossible pipe dreams that only the 80s could conjure up.  Tom Selleck brings his mustache with him in this one, as he plays Jack Ramsay, a police...

Who will survive and what will become of them?  It's our final 31 Days of Horror episode for 2020, and this year, we let the fans decide on our last movie. It was a close final tally, but in the end, it was Tobe Hooper's classic 70s slasher, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that won out.  As we put one final bow on spooky season, we come at this one with a slightly hot take. So grab your finest head c...

Get ready to see more than any man has ever seen! Or... heard. It's an all new episode of They Called This a Movie.  The team from Re-Animator teams up with horror legend Ken Foree for an inter-dimensional horror the likes of which only HP Lovecraft could write and only Stuart Gordon could bring to life.  Put on your best dominatrix outfit and open your third eye as we discuss this cult classic. W...

It's exactly what you think it is.  And by that, we mean it's an all new episode of They Called This a Movie!  This week, we're going a bit obscure, as we continue our celebration of all things horror during 31 Days of Horror. A killer is loose on a Boston college campus, and it's up to a tennis pro-turned-undercover cop and the student that lays the most pipe to figure out who's behind all the mu...

31 Days of Horror rolls right along and brings us to the backwoods for a southern-fried fairy tale.  Lance Henriksen plays a grieving father out for revenge, as he summons a demon out of folklore to terrorize a group of teens. It's Pumpkinhead on this episode of They Called This a Movie.  We get on our dirt bikes and do some sick tricks as we roll over some four-eyed kids in this one. We discuss e...

If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead!  But if you're not, you may as well listen to our brand new episode of They Called This a Movie, as we kick off this year's 31 Days of Horror festivities with a movie that some would call a cult classic. Graveyard sex, inter-dimensional portals, gangly alien morticians, ice cream men with ponytails, slave labor, tweens driving muscle cars, this m...

So it's come to this: a They Called a Movie Clip Show.   We took a break from reviewing a movie this week in order to take a week to acknowledge our own little accomplishment. We're very proud to have made it to this milestone, so we go through some things that have happened over the first 100 episodes. We discuss our most downloaded episodes, our favorite movies that we've covered, and we play so...

Get ready to sine your pitty on the runny kine, my damies, as we are in celebration movie. It's our 100th episode and we're taking this moment to talk about the movie that inspired the name of our main website: The Main Damie.  In 2001, a TV writer took a character he created for The Chris Rock Show and tried to make a feature length film out of it. Then, the studio butchered it and we got one of...

We go across the pond this week in an all new, listener requested episode of They Called This a Movie.  When the entirety of Her Majesty's Secret Service gets wiped out, there's only one man that can save England from evil that threatens the crown: Rowan Atkinson. That's right, Mr. Bean himself is here to save the day, as we discuss Johnny English, a film that surprisingly spawned two sequels.  Jo...

The obsession continues... On this week's episode of They Called This a Movie, we have a monumental first: we review our very first Lifetime movie. And what better person to help us usher in the realm of killers-next-door than a boozed-up (allegedly) Eric Roberts, as we watch the first sequel in the Stalked by My Doctor series, Stalked by My Doctor: The Return.  Grab your poisoned iced tea, stay a...

When the going gets tough...  The tough get a sentient dirt bike with anarchy coursing through its veins. This week, we're taking on the man, as Ralphie from A Christmas Story finally gets the gift he always wanted: a dirt bike. It's a classic slobs vs. snobs story that you could only get in the 80s, as Peter Billingsley tries to save his favorite hot dog stand from a greedy banker. It's The Dirt...

The most colossal conflict the screen has ever known! This week, we're watching one of the oldest movies we've ever covered. It's all miniature villages, English dubs, and rubber suits. That's right: this week, we're watching the original battle of two behemoths. It's King Kong vs. Godzilla from 1962 on this week's episode of They Called This a Movie.  Join Dan and Anthony as they watch this kaiju...

Joseph Minion is the screenwriter behind Martin Scorsese's After Hours, as well as two films that we have previously covered here on They Called This a Movie: Vampire's Kiss and Motorama. This week, he was nice enough to take time out of his schedule to speak with us for our first ever interview. Listen now as he discusses his influences, what it's like to have your screenplay directed by Martin S...

A new breed of enemy has taken over the world... Sam Hell has come to take it back. Roddy Piper, human-frog mutants, and metal underwear. This week, we're heading to a post-apocalyptic wasteland with the Rowdy One himself, as we watch Hell Comes to Frogtown, the most literal title we'll ever cover.  Join us as we discuss the lack of exploitation, the frog suits, and Roddy Piper's genitals.  You ca...

Some fight for money...  Some fight for glory... He's fighting for his son's love. Life doesn't meet you halfway, so go all the way this week, as we watched Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestle for the custody of his child. That's right, we watched Over the Top and we loved it.  Turn your hat around and join us, as we discuss the kickass 80s soundtrack, the solid father-son relationship, and talk about...

Don't think it. Don't say it. Don't think it. Don't say it.    But you can listen to it all you want.    This week, we're plumbing the depths of the horror genre to bring you an episode on one of the worst films of the past few years. College kids, underdeveloped lore, and evil nightstands. It's all part of The Bye Bye Man, the latest movie we watched for They Called This a Movie.    Join us as we...