They Made Another One?!

This one's a roller coaster, folks. Our dear friend Laura is back and just in time, because, we'll just come out and say it, we watched one of the best things we may ever do on this show. HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II both shreds and slaps in profound ways, and we have a ball talking about it, the Halloween season, and why travelling makes experiences that much sweeter. We even fend of the...

It's that time of year again -- SPOOKTOBER IS HERE! For the next month we're going all out with the spooks, scares, haunts and horror and to start, we've got the most terrifying thing of all: an old director trying a new genre! OOOoooOOoOoooOOOoOoOO. The boys dive hard into the social commentary and thematic points George Romero is trying to get out, debate the best Halloween treat box...

Well, 2020 has been a pretty terrible year, dude. But we have one shining light in the darkness -- inexplicably, unexpectedly, miraculously -- a new BILL & TED movie is here. It's been over a decade in the making but couldn't be better suited for right now, so it was only right we bring in BILL & TED aficionado (he saw it in theatres), actor extraordinaire, and voice of our soundbo...

At the start of every show we say "an oft-forgotten installment in a franchise," and this time we meant it. With our newfound ability to plumb the depths of genuine obscurity, a finger on the monkey's paw curled. This is PARENT TRAP III, a movie related to a movie Liam loves the remake of. It is exactly what you think it is. We don't have profound insights into it, but we do have...

We are no longer the TMAO Boys, we are the Hypercube Car Kids, and we're ready to talk all things theoretical mathematics and malevolent sci-fi shapes. There's more Jerry-based content in this one episode than a single person could possibly want or need, but that's what happens when things get wild in the hypercube. We also spend a lot of time talking about stuff other than the hypercu...

This one goes out to all the Trem-Heads in the chat. We hop in a dusty rust-bucket of a truck and head on down to a Mexican oil field to learn all there is to know about scissors-paper-rock, fingerless gloves, Shasta, survivalists, bad CGI, great practical effects, and the metaphysical burden of looking like Neil Breen in 2020. Time to find out if this movie packs the same punch as 'ol Burt&#3...

This episode is the perfect distillation of the "discovering MAMMA MIA" experience. It starts with general enthusiasm for a movie that is so fun and pure of heart, and by the end you're incoherently laughing, shouting, and insistent that anyone who claims to hate it is woefully wrong. For our first MAMMA MIA journey, it was only right to bring on Ben and Kirby Mekler, resident ABBA-h...

Television? In my movie podcast? You're goddamn right. We're joined this week by Liam's longtime friend Bean to talk about a longtime love of theirs, BOY MEETS WORLD, and how its sequel series fared. In our first trip to the small screen we cover seven episodes, and remember nostalgic teenage moments, what it was like to find new media decontextualized on the internet, appropriate semi...

You might think this is a discussion of the sequel to David Cronenberg's THE FLY -- and you'd be right -- but it's also an extensive slow-motion dunking on Eric Stoltz for not getting the part of Marty McFly in the end. We aren't trying to be mean and it wasn't on purpose but BACK TO THE FUTURE comes up a lot. In between, you might notice that this is the first time Liam and Co...

When a major release finally has the same reverence for in-the-title punctuation that we have, it's bound to get covered... that is just one of the many tangents you will hear in this episode while we try to discuss SCOOB!. Another trip to Hanna-Barbera country goes... a lot better than that other movie we watched and yet we still found a way to require providing written testimony from a third...

You know we had to start the new season with a bang, which means getting hit with a nearly two-hour episode right off the bat. It's an opportunity to return to our roots, and so we return to TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, the first franchise we ever recorded an episode on. With that return comes a question: could this be another hidden horror gem? Let's just say... the movie has some tricks up i...

We've finally reached that long-awaited milestone: one year of They Made Another One?!. There's 51 movies in the rear view now, and with them, innumerable memories. We're gonna get a bit sappy, okay? Thank you to everyone who has ever listened, told someone about the show, thought about listening, or put up with our recording process. We love this show and we can't wait to do more....

We're on the doorstep of our one-year anniversary, and as such, we needed to think of the most appropriate send-off possibly as we venture toward the future. It only felt right to cover a movie that is widely known for not getting a sequel that it teased at the end... and maybe there's a few other fun, meta reasons to get to it before our anniversary. Listen and find out. If you know, you...

We can guarantee, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that this is the most thorough discussion of Jonah Bobo's career and post-film life you can find on the internet, thanks to resident Jonah Bobo scholar Jade Dickinson. Eventually we start talking about ZATHURA, and we're pretty confident this is also the most thorough discussion of that film since it came out, and we even find time to talk abou...

Content warning: discussion of sexual assault, rape, and pedophilia throughout the episode. Knock knock? Who's there? A shitty movie... or is it? Corey isn't convinced KNOCK KNOCK lives up to the hype and reputation that Liam set up for him based on previous experience, but maybe that's just an unspoken bias against Eli Roth talking. It's certainly not an unspoken bias against Kean...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Technical difficulties meant no guest this week... so we got creative. We present to you the first -- and possibly last -- They Made Another One?! Live Commentary Track, where we encourage you to play along at home and sit through the film with us there to guide you through the Air Bud Cinematic Universe. Come for the skating, stay for the shocking amou...

We dip our toes into blockbuster filmmaking once again with this long-lost part of the Lord of the Rings series... okay, fine, the joke is dead, but Elijah Wood is here and he brought his oddball adult horror sensibilities with him. We go long on a novel and unique horror remake -- reimagining seems more accurate -- that's full of surprise, nuance, depth, and a distinct 2010s feel. Oh, and the...

Much to our surprise, Doctor Dad has returned and he's unwittingly trapped several large, blind sharks inside of an ancient underwater Mayan city just as a few teen girls are trying to strengthen their friendship through risky but well-meaning scuba-diving/spelunking adventures. Oh man, we sure hope no one comically ends up in a sharks mouth several times over in weird looking water scenes! Th...

Brace yourself for an odyssey. We are joined by the one and only Final Neal of Metal Slugkast and Mortal Podkast diskord fame to follow up his journey through American Pie-nia by revisiting AMERICAN REUINION, a movie we had somehow all seen before. Liam is another expert on the American Pie Cinematic Universe, so they proceed to school Corey on a movie he... didn't love, while also discussing:...

We're getting downright scandalous this week as we dip our toes back into erotic thriller territory with POISON IVY II: LILY... wait, what do you mean you've never heard of POISON IVY II: LILY? Or POISON IVY? Well don't worry, we have a whole primer on the erotic thriller genre and muse about its place in modern cinema before finding any excuse to talk about other erotic thrillers that...

We were prepared for a real doozy, so we called in some help from two great friends: Laura is back, and Madeline is here join us, too -- once co-hosts together on the Emotional Rescue Show. They bring that great chemistry and intimate knowledge of LEGALLY BLONDE to school us on the original. Then we're all... very, profoundly underwhelmed. We gush about Reese Witherspoon and talk fashion, too...

We never thought we'd be in this position -- y'know, talking about a Martin Scorsese movie. But we've got a couple of pool hounds around the table with Mitch back in the third chair this week, and we're more than prepared to be christened in the church of Fast Eddie Felson. THE COLOR OF MONEY is a cinematic experience that'll have you brainstorming your own pool hall moniker an...

Little did we know, this was a long time coming. The marketing campaign for this movie was bold and provocative, looming large in the cinematic awakenings of Corey and Liam for dramatically different reasons. Corey finally views a movie that had terrified him from a distance, while Liam revisits a familiar film. The movie is grimy and violent and bloody and gross... but is it compelling? Time to f...

We don't have a good description for this one. It's chaotic and weird and fun. We're in uncharted genre waters and the tables have turned: Liam doesn't like the movie and Corey mostly does. We invite all our friends on the show, insist the movie should change its title, theorize about the earth-changing potential of a Big Fat Greek Fan-Cast, and consider the potential of Mamma Mia/...

Last week rattled us to our very core in such a way we were worried about completing forgetting what the feeling of watching a good movie was truly like. Lucky for us, DREDD has come to save the day with Karl Urban's shockingly versatile chin, psychics, gnarly visuals, and prompting an unexpected personal anecdote about Rob Schneider. It is truly the palate cleanser we all need and, frankly, d...