What We've Watched Podcast

This week we take a look at a 1963 Japanese crime film directed by Akira Kurosawa - High and Low.

As we come to a close on the series the writers decided to remind us of an even that happened in season 1 with the return of DaiMon Bok and introduce a mysterious person that could be Picard's son.

This week we look back at a much visited classic story with one of its best versions, 1931's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

As we begin to wind down the series we get one last look at the often forget father-son relationship of Worf and Alexander in a episode that has some real surprises.

What if a scifi movie had a 2010 budget, came out in 2000, looked like 1995 and felt like it was written in 1985? Welcome to Battlefield Earth!

Season 7 has had it's ups and downs but oh boy does this one take the cake for so many reasons it's actually a little baffling. For one final time we can all say "Shut up Wesley!"

Why does this ridiculously bizarre looking, barley above student level B-movie have 61% on Rotten Tomatoes? We had to investigate!

This week's episode guest stars everyone's (?) favorite bumbling Star Fleet officer Broccoli er I mean Reginald Barclay! And oops hijinks ensue!

Picking up from the remnants of the failed "dark cinematic universe", Leigh Whannell takes the reigns on with a twist on a classic film, The Invisible Man.

For our February look back we watched one of Marylin Monroe's first films and one of three that she did in 1953, the film noir Niagara.

This week it's all suicides, space mysteries and romance for the crew of the Enterprise!

This week we take a look at a 2022 film that we didn't see last year, the reboot/remake of Hellraiser. All new Cenobites all new victims! We end with talking about the nature of films being released to streaming and how that has changed how we consume media nowadays.

This week the cast have a real mystery on their hands as they try and figure out the bizarre communications from a space monolith and Brent Spinner has to play a dozen characters!

This week we take a long vibe filled look at the films of 2022 that really made a mark on us personally.

After many years Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are back together under director Martin McDonagh in a funny, sad, dark and beautiful film, The Banshees of Inisherin.

This week Diana finally gets her promotion but of course that's a B story to watching Data lose his memory and run around a renfaire.

For this episode we take a look at strange John Carpenter written film that stars Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton. Like three films in one this is both a product of it's time and a stand out oddity.

This week's episode switches focus from the lead cast to take a peak at the crew off the off shifts and lower decks. It's a interesting change in perspective for the show an makes it a more unique episode.

Happy New Year listeners! For our first episode of 2023 we celebrate the 80th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, his own personal favorite of his works. Come join us for this classic film.

For our final pod of 2022 we watched the new Christmas film Spirited, with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynold. Part Christmas Carol adaptation, part musical, how does it fare? Spoiler, we both really like it! We also get into some discussion about getting older and how the world has changed over the decades.

How well does Dr. Crusher and the TNG crew deal with a gothic romance with an 800 year old space ghost? Tune in and find out.

For our final top 5 of 2022 we talk about our favorite Road Trip movies, Emmet unloads some Muppet thoughts and we do a short look back at the year and how we feel about the pods we've done.

This week we have a full episode with Worf's brother in law, prime directive breaking, an unnecessarily mean Picard, holo deck fun and dubious writing!

This week we watch the newly released A Christmas Story Christmas, the sequel to the almost 40 year old classic film A Christmas Story, with Peter Billingsley reprising his role as Ralphie.

It's been 7 years for us on the pod and 15 years between films but Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted, finally came out! How does it hold up against the original? Listen and find out.