Two Dudes, Brews and Reviews

Are you a fan of superhero's? Are you a fan of your beloved characters becoming alcoholics, unrepentant murders, depressed and sufferers of dementia? We certainly do! This week we're talking about the 2017 addition to the X-Men series 'Logan', directed by James Mangold and starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, and Stephan Merchant. Thank god for the success of Deadpool, because witho...

Better check your heart rate,  because we're not just watching this film, we're EXPERIENCING it. This 2019 movie directed by Josh and Bennie Safdie not only delivers anxiety-ridden thrills, but also what we're calling the great redemption arc of Two Dudes, Brews & Reviews history with Adam Sandler's performance here. From the same man that brought you films like Jack and Jill and That's M...

Lots of big news coming out of this edition of the Two Dudes, Brews & Reviews podcast. Austin goes into detail about recently getting engaged, and Alex talks about his recent near-fatal run-in with a black bear while out enjoying the tourist trap of Gatlinburg, Tennessee…and that’s all before we even get into talking about James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar aka Pocahontas in space aka the biggest fu...

Things are getting a little awkward on the podcast this week, as our film ‘The King of Comedy’ focuses on the most socially inept and un-self aware protagonist that we’ve covered so far, Rupert Pupkin! (not Pumpkin, or Puffer, get it right) This 1982 Martin Scorsese movie might have bombed at the box office and received lukewarm reviews at the time, but it’s comments on fame and public perfection...

There's nothing else quite like sitting down to watch a "comedy" special and then becoming incredibly existential. Oops! Bo Burnham's 2021 Netflix comedy/musical special has us revisiting the last two or so years of quarantine and the COVID pandemic, how fun! We're also getting into themes of technology, mental illness, and suicide throughout. Also fun! Anyways, we're pretty straight forward on th...

We thought this was gonna be a campy B-movie that we were gonna meme up and crack jokes with, turns out it only got us in our feels. Welcome to the film ‘Titane’, a French slasher-turned-body horror-turned wholesome family drama! Weren’t expecting that eh? This sophomore film by Julia Ducournau draws you in with its campy gimmick (she does what to a car?!) and turns it into a meaningful film about...

After a small delay, we’re back to talk about one of the more recent Pixar animated films ‘Luca’, which was released on Disney+ last year. This is a film that Austin feels much more strongly about than Alex, who sees its place in Pixar’s film canon as somewhat ‘mid’. As for life-update stuff, Alex recently saw Bright Eyes in concert and has been playing a lot of Elden Ring. Austin has been getting...

Since Two Dudes, Brews & Reviews has started, Alex has been hoping this day would come - we're finally giving ourselves an excuse to talk about Breaking Bad on the podcast. We're reviewing 2019''s 'El Camino', a film that serves as an epilogue to the legendary show with Aaron Paul taking the spot as the leading man, although many familiar faces return here (most notably Jesse Plemmons, Kristen...

Never would I have thought that Two Dudes, Brews & Reviews would be tackling themes of religion on our podcast, but here we are! We're reviewing Ang Lee's 2012 3-D extravaganza 'Life of Pi', not THE Life of Pi, get it straight folks. This is a nostalgic favorite of Austin's, so he's able to gush about it, but to be fair, this movie has aged exceptionally well. We talk about the films special-e...

It was inevitable that we would talk about Quentin Tarantino at some point, and that time is finally now! Today we're talking about the legendary directors debut with 1992's 'Reservoir Dogs' - starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Steve Buscemi. We share our relationship with Tarantino's films prior to this podcast, and showcase our love for Buscemi's weaselly personality. We stay...

We've talked about him on the podcast for ages, but the savior (don't call him that) of hip-hop is finally back. This episode is our first impressions of the new Kendrick Lamar album 'Mr. Morale' & the Big Steppers', being recorded only five days after its release. We go through our pen-pal style text message reactions between the two of us, our relationship with the album DAMN now that five y...

Things are going off the rails here at Two Dudes, Brews & Reviews - as our usually level-headed host Austin is getting lost in the champagne (hey that's Alex's gimmick!), but we keep it together enough to tackle the metal/alt-rock/shoe-gaze hybrid of 2012's Koi No Yokan by Deftones. Throughout the episode we talk about our takes on the different kinds of "drunk" through v...

Cue the heavy breathing into the microphone, because we're getting into a band that will send even the most open-minded person running for the hills. It's the critically acclaimed 2012 album 'The Seer' by experimental noise-rock band Swans. This double-disc record that spans over two hours evokes the sounds of hell, apocalyptic visions, indoctrination by the occult, and the feeling of the serial k...

We’re back to talk about Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic Dune. This is a masterful film in the technical department, but leaves us both feeling a little cold. This film stars Timothèe Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, ‘big dick’ Dave Bautista, and Stellan Skarsgård. Austin is quite knowledgeable about this world as he’s re...

As the legends have predicted, we're finally doing an immediate response to a brand new movie! This is the first time we've done  a first-impression on a film, quite literally being thrown in front of the microphones right after getting back from the theater...and we're thrilled to be watching an arthouse epic historical drama on a 70+ million budget Robert Eggers directed film (Alex is still...

This might be four months late, but MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you out there. This was recorded in late December so Alex and Austin are discussing the stress of the holidays, giving our thoughts after seeing Spider-Man: No Way Home, and drinkin' on some good ol' fashioned Great Lakes Christmas ale. Our topic is the 2003 album Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie, and it's got both of us hashing...

We're full of ramen and sippin' on some seltzers while reviewing the 2008 DreamWorks animated film Kung Fu Panda. Austin wholeheartedly believes that this series is one of the greatest trilogies of all time. and while I'm not sure if he's being hyperbolic or not, I gotta support my bro, right? This movie features an all-star cast featuring the likes of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelie Jolie, Ja...

While the topic of this episode is centered around finding out the culprit of several heinous murders that occurred in the 1970's, Alex is more concerned with who the culprit is that gave him Covid recently. Yes - this episode was recorded shortly after Alex recovered from being sick, but he's alive, and he's trying his best not to be short of breath and foggy brained throughout the discussion. We...

We're talking sports on this episode of Two Dudes, Brews and Reviews, although only kinda. Moneyball, the least baseball related baseball movie to exist, and it's all the better for it. Starring fantastic performances by Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, as well as nice supporting roles by Robin Wright and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, we're both entranced by how this film is able to milk every ounce of drama...

Hello, our name is Two Dudes, Brews and Reviews and we have diabeetus. Maybe that's not such a bad thing considering we're likely not going to eat ever again after watching John Carpenter's 1982 classic The Thing, because we're FUCKIN' GROSSED OUT. This is easily one of the most disgusting movies we've ever seen: are gunshot wounds and stabbings too vanilla for you? Well we've got the movie for yo...

Time travel, am I right? Alex and Austin are tackling a character drama with heavy sci-fi elements in Rian Johnson’s 2012 film Looper. We get into our recent experience seeing the Dave Mathews Band in concert, make some badly-dated comments about us seeing Brockhampton soon (RIP), and argue confusedly about the logistics of time travel as implemented in the movie. Joseph Gordon Levitt does a great...

We're getting sad talking about death and stuff - no, seriously. The most epic episode of Two Dudes, Brews and Reviews is finally here! It's what you've all been waiting for...I mean you didn't know it was coming but you've secretly wanted it, I think. Shit, where was I again? Austin is finally given the opportunity to dive into the music of David fuckin' Bowie, and does so with what are quite pos...

Back at it like wrapped plastic, Two Dudes, Brews and Reviews are here to talk about Lil Dicky's Professional Rapper. For Austin, this is a somewhat nostalgic trip down memory lane that hasn't aged well, and for Alex, it's a look back at terrible 2010's music trends. We had just gotten back from seeing Animal Collective in Cincinnati, so we're starting off a little drunk already, but we persevere...

*sigh* I think this movie has broken us. For the following hour you will get to hear Alex and Austin slowly become enraged talking about what is quite possibly one of the worst movies from the last decade. Between the disorienting editing, non-sensical plot, and horrible script, Suicide Squad is a truly puzzling movie that should have been a slam-dunk. I guess second time's the charm (thanks James...

We're drinking alien-themed IPA's for an alien movie on this episode of TDBR. Pour one out for all the prawns that died in vain. Today we're talking about District 9, a thought-provoking science-fiction film that despite being somewhat of an indie film featuring no A-list actors, managed to make an assload of money. I contribute that to it starring Borat...I mean Sharlto Copley as our main charact...