We Wanna Watch

We wanna watch...but maybe not these movies! This week's choice of Lane's Fame is Boogie Nights (1997) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, whose name I said in this episode like Agent Smith for some reason. We talk about showy filmmaking, porn as an art form, and Julianne "My Mom" Moore. We also digress into Reddit celebrities for like, a LONG time.

Nevermind the Watchmen - who watches the watchers?! Someone certainly ought to! This week's Rick's Pick was Watchmen (2009) directed by Z*ck Sn*der. We get into this movie's style (dated), politics (DATED), and critiques of superheroes (also somehow dated!). Plus: Lane poisons squirrels.

This week's mess of a Lane's Frame is Longlegs (2024) directed by Oz Perkins. 🚨 WE SPOIL THE MOVIE RIGHT AWAY🚨 and talk about the film's hype campaign, strange tone, and story that seems to homage everything while retaining a unique visual style. Features a couple surprises along the way so hang in there for the shitty audio quality lol. Cuckoo!

This week's Rick's Pick, which he seems to actually not know the name of, is Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) directed by Ang Lee. We talk about this sensuous, sumptuous film's mastery of tone, humor, and emotion. Along the way, we meander into discussions about Italian ice, assessing acting performances in languages you don't speak, and the FUCKING squirrel that keeps eating out of my bird feeder.

This week's Lane's Frame is Kinds of Kindness (2024) directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Why are they covering a surreal allegory for the Holocaust from 1970s Poland? Are they stupid? This week's Rick's Pick is The Hourglass Sanatorium (1974) directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, a psychological horror-drama that left us creeped out and moved in a great way. We discuss anti-intellectualism and Ricky's extreme distaste for mannequins, wax figures, corpses, and all manner of human facsimile.

This week's Lane's Frame is a celebration of being a dramatic and indulgent little birthday boy: Henry V (1989) directed by Kenneth Branagh. We discuss our histories with Shakespeare, the cast of Harry Potter, and cool maps. Shockingly not a horny episode because I'm saving myself for Hamlet 🥰

We return to our anime roots with this week's Rick's Pick, the first three episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015). A lot less "Wow! Cool robot!" than expected, we talk about how cool (?) Char is, Crunchyroll's shoutout-worthiness, and the Glup Shitto phenomenon. Also, I'm calling it now, this is going to be one of our lowest-ranked episodes because of this massacre of an episode title,...

We are horrorpilled jumpscaremaxxing mommycels on this week's Lane's Frame, Hereditary (2018) directed by Ari Aster. This episode has been edited to smithereens and I don't even know what to put in the caption. I never wanted to be your mother?

This week's Lane's Frame, Sicario (2015) directed by Denis Villeneuve, totally DOGWALKS our previous movie from the same director. We get into depiction of violence in movies (again) and how many bags of popcorn Ricky hallucinated us eating together one time. Lotta truck sounds on my audio in the background this episode, balanced out with the pleasant sounds of birds chirping from Ricky's audio tr...

How many times can Ricky joke about having too many notes? Tune in to find out on our episode for this week's Rick's Pick, Amadeus (1984) directed by Miloš Forman. We relish everything about this movie from the incredible performances, the set design, and, of course, the wigs. We also litigate having movies spoiled for us, our music listening habits, and Ricky's likeness to Cthulhu.

A lost pearl, shiny, In the sea feeling tiny, So very briny. Also, we watched Blow-Up (1966) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, for the keyword bots.

A movie that dares to ask the question, what if Mad Max were wet and also bad? This week's film off the Christopher Listopher is Waterworld (1995) directed by Kevin Reynolds, NOT Kevin Coster like the zeitgeist wants you to believe. We talk about eating ice cream on Monday mornings with your dad, how Jeff Goldblum is not sexy, and also the movie Waterworld (1995) directed by Kevin Reynolds NOT Kev...

Shoutout to Brussels. We keep it a little downbeat on this week's Rick's Pick, News from Home (1976) directed by Chantal Ackerman. A beautiful, melancholic movie, we're mostly *Drake voice** in our feelings about our relationships with our moms, what it means to be home, and how they just don't make silk-lined houndstooth beige tweed shackets like they used to. Also, lotta Zumba talk on this episo...

With nothing but a blueberry Truly and a dream, we hoot and holler over this week's cursed Lane's Frame, Beyond the Sea (2004) directed AND starring [the actor who played Hopper in A Bug's Life]. We get into that actor's career, the terrible decisions made in this movie, and what makes a bad biopic. Plus: can Ricky say "faggot"?

Rick's Pick this week is The Devil Wears Prada (VERY 2006) directed by David Frankel. We get into this movie's incredible performances, early 2000s beauty standards, and nightmare assistant jobs. Digressions include grey hair, dick inches, and face blindness. Also, there is a reveal about Ricky that is SO nonsensical and incongruous with everything we know about him that it will shake you to your...

Flop! Lane's regretful Frame this week is Animal House (1978) directed by [this tweet may violate rules against hateful conduct.]. We talk about frat culture, gross-out humor, and hooking up in cars with other people nearby. The gain on Ricky's mic is all fucked up in this episode. Who wants to take bets on how quickly he gets to the Todd episodes of Breaking Bad? I give it 10 days.

Part Lane's Frame, part blatant bait at listener engagement, part thirst watch: it's Civil War (2024) directed by Alex Garland. 🚨 We spoil the movie right away 🚨 in our discussion of its politics, the intensity of the action, and the sometimes-clumsy dialogue. Plus: movie theatre etiquette, eating on mic, and a lotta cat sounds.

After the Memories of Murder episode, we spent some time building out Ricky's Letterboxd, an exercise that led to an hour of Ricky saying, "I liked it!" with more and more of a babytalk voice each time. This is a jank ass episode with mic issues and minimal editing so you've been warned.

This week's Rick Pick, Memories of Murder (2003) directed by Bong Joon-ho, is the best movie we've covered that we never want to watch again. We talk about the movie's ever-changing tone, depiction of violence in movies, and our listeners' personal data >:) Note: Ricky's mic cuts out a couple times in this episode, which I tried to edit around, but none of y'all read these notes anyway so I put...

This week's Rick's Pick takes us back to 2004 for Michael Moore's inflammatory-yet-quaint documentary on the conservative machinations leading to the Iraq War, Fahrenheit 9/11. A movie that is somehow more fun to talk around than to talk about, we digress into Trump-era politics (ew), our opinion on 9/11 jokes (they're corny), and this movie's influence on YouTube documentarians (also ew and corny...

This week's episode is a...Bronco Henry Entry? Is that anything? For Liesl's Reel we watched The Power of the Dog (2021) directed by Jane Thee Campion. We get into the heady topics like being gay at Yale, Lane's throuple with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons <3, and whether we should give a synopsis of the movie in each episode (no). Ricky's cats are WILDING in the episode so beware of the meowi...

This week's Lane's Frame is a doozy: Naked (1992) directed by Mike Leigh. We discuss scumbags, the depiction of violence in movies, and people who can't shut the fuck up. Digressions include an Oscar recap and what makes a good plane movie. Note : This movie contains a lot of sexual violence and we talk about it in this episode. Listener beware!

This week's Rick's Pick is 1988's The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! directed by David Zucker. What makes a good comedy? Does Ricky know who Priscilla Presley is? Can Liam Neeson fill Leslie Nielsen's (Christmas) shoes? Note: I tried to edit it out but you can definitely hear me filing my nails in the background at times. Sorry about that! It's no worse than Ricky banging on the t...

Ricky defines the term "bad faith" during our lengthy discussion of this week's Lane's Frame, The Last Airbender (2010) directed by M. Night Shyamalan. In between Ricky's very indulgent attempts at tearing down this movie, we get into whether an adaptation can offend its source material, the story behind the racist casting, and Ricky's secret career as a CinemaSins content creator.