We Wanna Watch

This week's Rick's Pick is Blue Velvet (1986) directed by David Lynch! We aren't very impressed by this movie and struggle to connect with its themes and performances. Instead we digress about anime and an Egyptian film Ricky heard about in an Uber. Sorry Lynch fans! Maybe next time.

It's Bugonia (2025) directed by Yorgos Lanthimos!! Despite the power outages trying to stop us, we get sweaty, greasy, and stinky talking about this movie's surprisingly grounded tone, fun sound design, and the wonderful performances from all the cast except for one. Anyway you know what you're getting so just click play. After we stopped recording Ricky said he'd let Plemons "pack every hole" so...

Happy Halloween! Our final WE WANNA WAIL is this week's Lane's Frame, Kwaidan (1964) directed by Masaki Kobayashi. We spend our time talking about the unique fun of an anthology film, forms of Japanese storytelling, and this movie's beautiful colors and painted backdrops.

This week's WE WANNA WAIL Rick's Pick is Good Boy (2025) directed by B*n L*onberg. Woof.

WE WANNA WAIL continues with The Bad Seed (1956) directed by Mervyn LeRoy! This August's Auteur is a smash hit, and we talk at length about the amazing performances and impressive, serious handling of such intense subject matter for a 70 year-old movie. Digressions include Halloween candy, the three movies Ricky incorrectly watched, and our shoplifting-related mom trauma (mauma). Plus: a little ga...

Congrats bro, you got the whole podcast wailing 😐 This week's Lane's Frame is Skinamarink (2022) directed by Kyle Edward Ball. We start with a looooong discussion about Ricky's formative horror movies before discussing our dissatisfaction with this movie's failed execution of its premise. Plus: banana .

WE WANNA WAIL continues this week with the currently in-theaters sports horror Him (2025) directed by Justin Tipping! Special guest Sy is here to talk through this goofy movie's inconsistent ideas, music video aesthetic, and performance by Marlon Wayans. Plus: TIM HEIDECKER?!

Bring in the perverts: WE WANNA WAIL is back! Our horror miniseries returns with our first Rick's Pick of the season, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) directed by Dario Argento. Lane hates this movie and Ricky says, "I liked it". Who knew?

A refreshing detour from the last few dour weeks of films, or a BLEH! movie that we just couldn't lock into? This week's Lane's Frame is about Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! from 2001. After a loooong opening about the new Conjuring movie (lol), we talk about this movie's fun performances, lackluster story, and ascension into the WWW canon of "immediately pre-9/11 culture". Plus: we reveal our first...

In another week of war films, this week's Rick's Pick is the Empire of the Sun (1987) directed by Steven Spielberg. What a weird ass movie! We talk about Christian Bale's performance, the strange fumbling of tone, and Spielberg's wider career. Slut-shamed on my OWN podcast.

what if there was a Deer Hunter (1978) directed by Michael Cimino

We're wrapping up Fullmetal August by covering the final three seasons of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood! Thanks to very special guest Priya, we somehow managed our longest episode ever. Oops.

It's Rebecca (1940) directed by Alfred Hitchcock! What else do you want? What? What did you say? Follow us on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/wewannawatch.bsky.social Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/ganon_kazooie/ / https://letterboxd.com/addledalpaca/

Our minor detour from Fullmetal August takes us to Alfred August instead, starting with The Birds (1963) directed by, of course, Alfred Hitchcock. After a short jaunt through upcoming 2025 releases, we discuss this movie's moody atmosphere, animal handling, and whether birds are even all that scary. Like we talk a LOT about all the birds. Follow us on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/wewannawatc...

We're continuing Fullmetal August with the second "season" of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. After a brief sidebar about Mario lore , we talk about the different factions being introduced and Edward's psychological arc. Plus: big boobs and vore. Plus PLUS: we're taking a break from FMAB next week because spending five episodes on this show was a ludicrous endeavor, a fool's errand, truly a Rick...

Fullmetal August kicks off with a discussion of the first 13 episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. After a lengthy digression about the renaissance faire and Ricky's new couch (?), we get into the series' worldbuilding, the breakneck pacing, and the mechanics of the alchemy system. Strap in folks because we're doing this for five weeks. Go girl give us nothing, etc. Follow us on Blue Sky:...

Jesse July comes to a bittersweet end with I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) directed by Charlie Kaufman. After a digression surrounding Ricky's penchant with bulk fruit, we talk about this movie's not-quite-surreal, not-quite-horrific tone, fun psychological probing, and dense visual style. Plus: a little game. Follow us on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/wewannawatch.bsky.social Follow us...

Hostiles? More like no smiles >:( this week's Jesse July entry is Hostiles (2017) directed by Scott Cooper. We talk about this movie's dogshit performances, weird racism, and how our podcast needs to cover an original Western sometime. Plus: Ricky makes up an episode of the Twilight Zone.

Jesse July continues with this week's film, The Master (2012) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. We get into the Welles/Brando of it all, the interesting psychosexual dynamic between the two leads, and, of course, Tom Cruise and Scientology. Plus: we discuss the Bugonia trailer and its prominent sweaty ponytail 🥵🥵 We also talk about Nosferatu a lot for some reason. Why is this episode so horny?

Maligned, misunderstood classic or a correctly discarded misfire? The first movie in our Jesse July miniseries is Observe and Report (2009) directed by Jody Hill, an underseen comedy with an outsized reputation. Join us for a discussion around this movie's attempted satire, Seth Rogen's screen persona, and the effortlessness with which Plemons assumes the energy of a character who works at a mall...

One HUNDRED movies ! This week's wrap on our pride month miniseries includes The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) directed by Rainer Fassbinder and Love Lies Bleeding (2024) directed by Rose Glass. We get into fluffy robes, phone acting, toxic lesbian relationships, fisting, turning into your dad, testosterone (problematic?), fisting again, and, of course, a little game . Happy pride month!

Pride month continues with this week's two pride pics, Brokeback Mountain (2005) directed by Ang Lee and Theater Camp (2023) directed by Nick Lieberman and Molly Gordon. After an extended mishap of losing Ricky's audio while talking about Mario Kart World f0r 20 minutes, we summarize Theater Camp (literal nothing movie) and get into Brokeback for the majority of the runtime. Lane gets Heath Ledger...

Continuing in our pride month miniseries, this week's pride pics are The Birdcage (1996) directed by Mike Nichols and All About My Mother (1999) directed by Pedro Almodóvar. After talking about dick humor and keys, we discuss Robin Williams' screen persona, whether All About My Mother is a serious movie, and the timelessness of these themes. Also, a really long tangent about Frankenstein. Follow u...

Happy Pride Month watchers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈‼️ We're starting a whole MONTH of LGBTQ-movies with two pride pics, The Boys in the Band (1970) directed by William Friedkin and Y Tu Mamá También (2001) directed by Alfonso Cuarón. One of us vastly prefers one of these movies more than the other, and one of us says "I liked it!" about both of them. Any guesses who is whom? We get into meanness...

This week's Rick's Pick was Wicked City...(1987)....directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri............................... Trigger warning in this movie and episode for all manner of sexual violence and general hentai bullshit.