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“I think that’s the liquid from Prince of Darkness ” - Chris, on the pickled eggs canister at Earl’s Bar in this movie On this month’s W ❤️ M, our Spooktacular Four-or Movie Month spills over to Patreon as we chat about the pretty fun slasher sequel, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers ! How sloppy is the mask in this movie? Why are we always moving this guy between hospitals in the middle of...

On the first episode of our two-part special coverage of the 62nd New York Film Festival, we're reviewing several fantastic selections from this year's lineup, including: Miguel Gomes' Grand Tour, Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler's Needs, and RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys. Additionally, even though Chris covered it out of TIFF, Andrew and Eric weigh in on Sean Baker's Anora, and Andrew reports on the new res...

“More often than not, I’m fighting for my life!” - Eric, on his recurring nightmares On this week’s episode, our Halloween Spooktacular kicks off and, in the spirit of this year’s FOUR-OR MOVIE theme, we’re chatting about Renny Harlin’s English language debut, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master ! How great is this Freddy-assisting dog that pees fire? Did we really need to start the movi...

“You don’t know why anyone is on this boat!” - Steve, on the bad script On this week’s show, the guys welcome back their good bud, and official WHM Disaster Movie Expert™️, Justin J. Case to chat about the grimmer-than-average disaster flick, Poseidon ! How brutal are all these kills? Is there any other movie that’s this aggressively 2006? Couldn’t they have tried to make any of these characters t...

“I’m scanning pornography into the computer to make a lady!” - Eric as George W. Bush On this week’s show, we’re chatting about the 1985 John Hughes-directed, sci-fi sex comedy, Weird Science ! How strange is it that back in the day, these creep-tacular incels were just considered harmless, lovable nerds? Why would they cut out all the solid Bride of Frankenstein conversation from the theatrical c...

On this special edition of On-Screen Live, Andrew and Chris are back stateside to wrap up their journey through the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Some films our intrepid, moviegoing buds review in this episode are Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck, Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl, Ron Howard's Eden, Marielle Heller's Nightbitch, Dea Kulumbegashvili's April, Sean Baker's Anora & mor...

On this special edition of On-Screen Live , we were live (thanks to the spotty hotel wi-fi holding out) from the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival! In this episode, Andrew and Chris reviewed films they caught during our first two days at the fest, including David Cronenberg's The Shrouds, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud, Joshua Oppenheimer's The End, David Gordon Green's Nutcrackers, Mati Diop's D...

“How do you not kill the daddy?” - Eric, on previous iterations of the script On the season 15 premiere of We Hate Movies, last season’s VHS Trailer Game Champion, Chris Cabin, selects Twister as the redux title to kick things off! How entertaining is Phoffman in this one? Was the dad at the beginning of this movie able to surf that cellar door for a few seconds? What’s going on with that Cary Elw...

“He’s a gooner!” - Eric, on this version of The Riddler On this month’s We ❤️ Movies episode, we’re chatting about a real excellent-ass comic book adventure, The Batman ! Yes, it’s a long one, but what would we cut here? How incredible is Michael Giacchino’s score? How magnificently do David Fincher vibes pair with Gotham City? Is this the best on-screen depiction of the “Bat & the Cat” relati...

Originally released on Patreon, December 7, 2018 “To me, the idea of Brian De Palma watching Star Wars is like Abraham Lincoln reading Watchmen .” - Steve On this We ❤️ Movies episode, the gang is chatting effusively about the beloved, action-packed space opera, Star Wars ! There's no point in telling you three measly plot points covered in this episode like we normally do in descriptions, though....

Originally released on Patreon: May 19, 2022 It's our monthly flashback to sunny 1990s L.A.! First up on Beverly Hills, 90210 , it's the totally outrageous episode, "U4EA"! Originally airing back on November 14, 1991, this episode has the gang going to an underground club where David gets wasted, Dylan and Brenda dodge tweakers, and Emily Valentine doses Brandon behind his back! Then over on Melro...

Originally Released on Patreon: April 22, 2021 "I found this to be the most uncomfortable hour-and-a-half I've had watching a movie in a really long time." - Andrew On the inaugural edition of Once In A Lifetime , the gang is chatting about the bonkers 2015 film that shockingly launched a whole twisted franchise, Stalked by My Doctor ! Why do they have Eric Roberts talking like a 25 year-old incel...

Originally Dropped on Patreon 10.9.21 On this month's Spooktacular edition of Animation Damnation, the guys are chatting about the kind-of twisted and legit weird Doug Halloween episode, "Doug's Halloween Adventure." Originally airing back on 10/31/93, this episode has Doug being a total coward over going to an amusement park haunted house attraction, Skeeter dressing up like a sex toy to go trick...

“It’s a real smorgasbord of vampires...” - Andrew   Recorded Live at Cap City Comedy in Austin, TX 5.15.24 On this week’s Summer Break episode, we were in Austin, Texas chatting about one of our all-time faves of the 1990s, From the Dusk Till Dawn ! Did QT write this movie just so he could suck on Salma Hayek’s feet? How fantastic is Michael Parks at the start of this movie? Why couldn’t Seth have...

Originally released on Patreon, August 18, 2023 On this month's very special edition of our Star Trek re-cap show, The Nexus, the gang is talking about TNG's "The Best of Both Worlds!"   The first part aired June 16, 1990 as the finale of the third season, and the season four premiere, part two, aired September 22, 1990. This is of course the fabulous in-series movie-feeling two-parter where Picar...

Originally released on Patreon: June 14, 2018 “It’s bigger and it’s stupider!” -  Steve on this vs. Jurassic Park On this WHM Prime episode, the gang gets Dino Fever with the first of two JPU films being discussed this month*: Jurassic World ! Was that statue of John Hammond actually his corpse mummified under flash-baked dino poo? Did Claire and Owen have their first date on that cursed island? A...

Recorded at the Coruscant PAC, Imperial City, Coruscant 2.16.23 It's another entry in our beloved Star Wars sideshow, The Gleep Glossary! This month, we're chatting about one of the galaxy's biggest losers, Count Dooku! How boring of a lightsaber instructor was Dooku? Why would the Jedi keep monuments to Sith separatists, like Dooku, in their Hall of Legends? And was Dooku really trying to get an...

“Cue the Bloodhound Gang!” - Chris, on this film’s soundtrac k   Recorded Live at City Winery in Atlanta, GA 4.25.24 For the first summer break episode of 2024, the guys were in Atlanta talking about the Gerard Butler video game action adventure, Gamer ! Why couldn’t they edit these action scenes a little more clearly so you can follow this stuff? How lame is it to set your film “a certain time fr...

“He’s magnificent in this movie…” - Andrew on Brandon Lee On this month’s We ❤️ Movies, we’re finally chatting about the absolutely fantastic comic book adaptation, The Crow ! Despite being a little bit of a bittersweet re-watch, this movie still absolutely rocks, including, of course, Brandon Lee’s amazing performance as Eric Draven! But a few questions remain, like who does Ernie Hudson’s cop ch...

On the summer finale of On-Screen Live, we're reviewing what could very well be the highest-grossing film of 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine ! We're also going over the weekend box office, reacting to the trailer for DC's new Creature Commandos cartoon, recommending a couple of 4K disc releases on Home Media Mania & more! On-Screen Live airs Mondays at 12pm/et. This episode is the summer finale...

“How do you not kill the guy on the toilet?” - Eric On the season 14 finale of We Hate Movies, the gang welcomes actor/comedian/podcaster/author/movie-lover and all-around good guy, Paul Scheer to the show to chat about the sleepy, yet kinda crazy monster movie, Arachnophobia ! Why isn’t this movie just about John Goodman’s exterminator character? Why couldn’t the major spider at the end be a huge...

“They always have to act like they’ve been through a civil rights march for nudity” - Chris on creepy movie guys On this week’s episode, the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza goes to Comic Book Town as we welcome back our good bud, New York Times columnist, Jamelle Bouie to chat about a real landmark motion picture, 2000’s X-Men ! How fantastic is it that the movie creates this entire world of mutan...

On this week's On-Screen Live, we'll be giving our first reaction to the new trailer for Captain America: Brave New World , going over the weekend box office, reviewing a bunch of summer (so far) titles we've been checking out over the past few weeks, including Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, Longlegs, MaXXXine, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F . Plus lots more! Show note: No new OSL next Mond...

“This is the goopiest movie of all time!” - Steve On this episode, the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza heads to space as we chat about the better-than-Andrew-remembered sci-fi sequel, Alien: Resurrection ! How fantastic is Sigourney in this one? Shouldn’t Brad Dourif’s evil scientist have tried to train just one Xenomorph at a time instead of a Baker’s Dozen from the jump? Shouldn’t we have seen t...

For this summer time Mail Bag, we're reading wild letters from listeners— including ones about a crazy dad following Dan Aykroyd into a casino bathroom, a teenager getting to hang out with Danny Trejo for an entire day, a movie theater parking lot brawl after a Beavis and Butt-Head Do America screening, a guy who helped someone get laid with a screening of The Notebook & more; we're also answe...