They Called This a Movie

It's time to drop in and bust some gnarly heelflips as we bring you an episode we're really stoked about.    Brian's world was nothing but skateboarding, hassling squares, and having a Gen-X attitude. That is, until they killed his brother. Now, Brian's on a mission to shake up the world of boomers the only way he knows how: by gleaming their cubes.    That's right: this week, we're watching the G...

We're talking imminent rueage. That's what you're going to get if you miss this episode of They Called This a Movie, as we throw it back to one of the blockbusters of the 1990s.  Break out the VCR and get your raincoat as we head to Tornado Alley to watch the second-highest grossing film of 1996. Yep, this week, we're watching Twister.  Join us as we break down this ultimate guilty pleasure, as we...

Every man has a destiny... And YOUR destiny is to listen to our brand new episode of They Called This a Movie.  This week, we're here to ruin mythology, as we watch The Legend of Hercules, a cheap knock-off of slightly better movies. Join us as we discuss the blatant "inspiration" from 300, the complete disregard for the actual legends of Hercules, and whether or not this movie would have been bet...

This week, we head out for the ultimate road trip.  We uncovered a hidden gem this week, as we watched an absurdist trip into the American Southwest.  A 10-year old steals his dad's Mustang and sets out to collect a $500 million dollar prize, only to run afoul of a bunch of celebrities in cameo roles and God... we think. This week, we're watching Motorama.  It's time to put the pedal to the metal,...

Snake Plissken is back.  And so are we, as we roll right along with a brand new episode of They Called This a Movie. This week, we go to the distant future and the year 2013, as we travel to a world where the police arrest civilians with impunity, an authoritarian president rules with an iron fist, and Los Angeles is a charmless hellhole. Truly, an alternate universe.  Kurt Russell and John Carpen...

3 Oscar Winners. One Emmy Winner. And Kate Beckinsale.  We've got another weird one for you this week, as They Called This a Movie covers one of the most misguided Oscar-baity films we've seen in a long time. What do you get when you have a script that's way too long, a premise that's straddling the line between woke and offensive, and add Kate Beckinsale's lucky hat? You get Tiptoes, this week's...

The World's Best Trick...  ... is a brand new episode of They Called This a Movie, and boy do we have a doozy for you this week.  What do you get when you combine a reverse werewolf dog, a chaste woman with a fetish for the color green, sexual predators, suicide attempts, overbearing mothers, and not a single note of music anywhere to be found? Why, you get Love on a Leash, quite possibly the wors...

You can't save the world alone... But you can listen to this episode alone, as we take on one of the biggest films of the last few years, and the movie that has everyone signing up for yet another streaming service. It's the culmination of the DCEU, 2017's Justice League, for the brand new episode of They Called This a Movie.  Dan and Mark hold down the fort as Anthony goes the way of Superman for...

He was 98 pounds of solid nerd, until he became...  THE TOXIC AVENGER.  That's right. This week, we're headed to Tromaville and we're watching the film that put Lloyd Kaufman on the map, with the 1984 film, The Toxic Avenger.  Gruesome deaths, foul mouths, and babes are aplenty in this low-budget cult classic. So grab a mop and watch out for toxic waste as we discuss our feelings on Troma Films, h...

She would do anything to be popular... even kill! It's a brand new episode of They Called This a Movie and this week, we head to the weird, wild world of early 90s network television movies with a who's who of 90s network stars. We fulfill a listener request with Death of a Cheerleader, originally titled A Friend to Die For.  Get your cucumbers nice and sliced, as we discuss the most depressing mo...

A criminal mind in an indestructible body... This week, we travel to the wacky future promised to us by direct-to-video sci-fi movies.  The year, we guess, is probably around 2015 and Los Angeles is now under a dome and the control of the evil Cal Corp and there's only one man that can stop them: Slash Gallagher, who is actually the villain in this movie.  Join us as we discuss Hologram Man, the m...

Put on your tight pants for this one and get ready to sell some cars! This week, it's Dan choice, and he decides to take us back to the bygone era of 2009 when R-rated comedies flourished in theaters. Lost somewhere among the classics like Superbad, Step Brothers, and The Hangover, there's The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, a movie that looks great on paper, but really lands somewhere in the forgett...

Earth has a deadline.  On this episode of They Called This a Movie, we trade our real-world hellscape for a barely-researched hellscape, as we reminisce to the early 2000's, when disaster movies were a thing for a solid half decade.  Imagine Armageddon. Now, imagine if they shot that rocket straight into the ground, and that's what you get with The Core.  Join us from a safe distance as we discuss...

Get ready for double the Van Dammage on this week's episode of They Called This a Movie.  We were feeling some good old fashion 90s action, so we once again tapped our favorite Belgian action star, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and a film in which he plays twin beefcakes separated at birth. It's Double Impact, and yes, it's exactly like The Parent Trap.  We head to Hong Kong as our twin heroes Chad and A...

It's finally happened.  78 episodes in and we've finally done it.  We watched a Nicolas Cage movie.  And not just any Nicolas Cage movie; we watched one of the first times the Oscar-winning actor ever went full Cage. It's a movie about love, trying to manage a good work-life balance, and the importance of adhering to a strict, yet common sense filing system. It's Vampire's Kiss on this week's epis...

Why did we watch this movie? No reason.  Why are we reviewing this movie? No reason.  Why is this one of our shortest episodes ever? No reason.  This week, we actually fulfill one of our longest requested films; a request that actually predates this podcast. And it's one of the weirdest films we've ever covered.  While the world learns to self isolate, a tire becomes sentient and learns that it ca...

It's done. We can move on.  This is a very jellicle episode. We sat in our jellicle chairs, plugged in our jellicle microphones, and talked about a very jellicle movie. It's been watched and it cannot be unwatched.  This week on They Called This a Movie, we sat down to discuss what can barely be called a film, let alone a completed work of "art". We watched Cats, a once-in-a-lifetime studio film f...

Get your Coca-Cola and your Skittles and get ready for an adventure that's legally unique enough to avoid legislation.  This week, as new releases are paused indefinitely, we decide to go to the grab bag and we've pulled out a real gem with 1988's Mac and Me. This is a wild one, folks.  Take a listen and avoid any neighboring cliffs as we discuss everything from Paul Rudd's favorite scene, the ver...

Happy St. Patrick's Day and Erin go Bragh and all that crap!  We're a few days early this week, as we celebrate the feast of Saint Patrick, so while you may be waiting to pour the Guinness and eat some cabbage, we're getting our St. Patrick's tradition out of the way on this brand new episode of They Called This a Movie.  Last year, we tackled Leprechaun 3, so this year, it made sense to continue...

Oh boy. Get ready hep cats. This episode is going to be a trip.  Let's go back to 1972, as the death rattle of the 1960s made way to a more cynical time full of cocaine, disco, and lots of hair. It was also the time for pushing the envelope for animation, and no other film personifies this more than the movie we're covering this week: Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat.  We take our time on this one to...

Now you see him...  Now you don't!  But you can hear us this week on a brand new episode of They Called This a Movie. While Elisabeth Moss battles an unseen threat in The Invisible Man, we take a more kid-friendly route as we discuss another movie with a transparent protagonist. This week, we're watching the direct-to-video movie, Invisible Dad. And we wish we can unsee it.  Hunker down as we try...

This week, we're going fast on this very special episode of They Called This a Movie, as we welcome our friends from The Game Vault Podcast to discuss the brand new release, Sonic the Hedgehog.  Grab your running shoes and eat some chili dogs, as we discuss our feelings towards the movie that's been discussed for the better part of the last year. We talk about our history with the video game franc...

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!  For our very special romantic episode, we once again attempt to tackle a phenomenon that took the world by stop in the last ten or so years. Last year, we covered the first installment of Twilight. This year, we're covering Twilight fan fiction. That's right: we're talking about Fifty Shades of Grey.  Tie your sub down to something sturdy and get your butt plugs re...

We are totes excited for this episode. It can only be described as "nice".  This week, we cover the second movie that tied in our last Twitter poll for the month of January. It's a pre-Bangerz Miley Cyrus as a private investigator masquerading as a sorority girl. If it sounds similar to Miss Congeniality, it's because that's the basic premise for this movie. While we don't particularly dislike it,...

You know that old story: Woman breaks up with a guy, woman goes to Nice with her parents, woman falls in love with a contract killer; It's a tale as old as time. This week's episode of They Call This a Movie is the first of two movies that tied on the most recent Twitter poll, this time we dive into that special time in America when we still believed in hope and change, and Katherine Heigl and Ash...