Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr Falcon

There's a new take on the Universal Studios classic The Wolf Man (1941) coming out for Halloween 2024. With that in mind, we take a look at the previous remake of this horror classic from nearly 15 years ago, The Wolfman (2010) starring Benicio Del Toro in one of his most forgettable performances alongside Anthony Hopkins. And we see how it stacks up against an unofficial Wolf Man remake from the...

Longlegs. People talked about how scary it was, how original, how inventive, how amazing Nic Cage's performance was. It will rattle your bones inside your meat suit and make you pass out from sheer terror. Well, Dave thought it absolutely sucked. And he's gonna tell you about it. 

The character of serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter is so pervasive in pop culture that he might as well be real. Anthony Hopkins blew audiences away with his portrayal of the killer psychiatrist in Silence of the Lambs, but did you know that wasn't the first portrayal of Lecter in a feature film? Can't forget about Manhunter from the '80s. Dave and Tom get into all that and more in the se...

The character of serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter is so pervasive in pop culture that he might as well be real. Anthony Hopkins blew audiences away with his portrayal of the killer psychiatrist in Silence of the Lambs, but did you know that wasn't the first portrayal of Lecter in a feature film? Can't forget about Manhunter from the '80s. Dave and Tom get into all that and more in the fi...

We started talking about it, and then decided to go movie by movie through Tom Cruise's filmography to see if the man has ever actually made a movie that was a dead flop. Even the biggest movie stars have had duds, some more embarrassing than others in retrospect, but when it came to Cruise, we couldn't think of one off the top of our heads. And I'll tell you what — we had a damn hard time finding...

Baseball movies are special. They're a genre within the sports movie genre, and no sport lends itself to the drama of the screen quite like baseball. They range from ethereal and sincere, like The Natural and Field of Dreams, to fun comedies like Major League. Some tell isolated stories, tiny chapters within the sprawling history of the game, like A League of Their Own and 61*. Others focus on the...

With a new show coming to Max from one of the later Dune books, now seems like a good time to delve into the many, many pages of Dune lore that exist in the novels that come after Dune and Dune: Messiah (which is getting a feature film treatment soon). Fortunately, Tom is a monstrous nerd and has read all EIGHT Dune novels. He breaks down the long saga that will no doubt be strip-mined for movies...

The Crow (1994) turns 30 this year, we were lucky enough to see it in a theater for the first time ever after being way too obsessed with it as angsty teens. It was also the first time Tom had been back in the theater that was OUR theater growing up in about 20 years.  We came to know this movie from VHS copies and DVDs, but never got to see this doom-obsessed teenager's wet dream of a movie on th...

A few years ago, a bunch of odd folks thought the Rapture had arrived. Like, the saved would be beamed up to heaven while the rest of us wallowed in hell on earth. Or something like that. Just before the supposed event, Dave saw The Room in its entirety for the first time. And tehre was a moment...just a moment, when he thought it might be the last film he'd ever see.  

Here's the next entry in our Laundry List series, and it's buddy-cop movie time. Dave convinces Tom to watch what he argues is the best buddy-cop movie to come along in at least a decade, End of Watch (2012) starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on one of the best of the sub-genre. 

"What are you eating?" "Donut stuffed with M&Ms. That way, when you finish your donut you don't have to eat any M&Ms." 

He's one of the most popular antagonists of all time. Satan, Beelzebub, The Morning Star, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Louis Cypher, John Milton — whatever you call him, the Devil has captured the imagination of storytellers for centuries. Filmmakers are no different. Dave and Tom take a look at some of the best portrayals of the dark one in movies (not TV) and try to zero in on who played the absolut...

Did you ever do...lewd things with GI Joes and Barbies when you were a kid? We discuss this important topic and how it really sucks hating a movie that so many people like — we couldn't stand Killers of the Flower Moon...and DiCaprio really pissed Tom off...like, a lot. 

It's over. The well has run dry. It's time, for the love of all that is good and sweet in this world, to stop making Terminator movies. Every avenue has been explored, every iteration probed, every avenue trodden. It's. Over. And any further attempts can only get worse. Dave is joined by his old college buddy and extreme movie nerd, Vinnie, who will break down exactly why the Terminator series is...

A lot of people make fun of Tom Cruise, but he might be one of the last true movie stars left who is making consistently good stuff. And his career has been nothing short of amazing. 

At this point, there are several generations of Star Wars fans - but the OG fans are the ones who grew up with nothing but the original trilogy, a bunch of novels, and a few ancient video games. We saw the prequel trilogy come and go, and then the sequel trilogy — but the one thing we always wanted, we never got. And now, it can never be. But Disney could at least give us the original Star Wars tr...

There have been a few good comedy sequels, but how many? You can probably count them on one hand off the top of your head. Maybe. Making a good sequel to a popular film is hard enough, but it seems like the special magic imbued upon popular comedies is even harder to capture for a second go-round, from the abomination that was Caddyshack II to the horror of Zoolander 2, we examine why that follow-...

Dave is joined by his old friend and extreme film nerd, Vinnie, to talk about the recently announced Blair Witch Project remake coming from Lionsgate and Blumhouse. They get into why Hollywood really has to get its head out of its ass when it comes to choosing IPs to remake or reboot and why the chances that this won't suck are really, really low.  

In our first episode ever, Dave did his best to convince Tom that Rob Zombie's version of Halloween (2007) was worth his time — because he'd never seen it, and he should have. Tom took the advice and watched this divisive remake of a horror classic. Find out what he thought and if he'll ever trust Dave for a horror movie pick ever again.  

Dave doesn't speak Dune very well. He's finally seen the entirety of Dune: Part One (2021) in one sitting, sober, in anticipation of seeing Dune: Part Two (2024), and the recently announced and forthcoming third chapter, Dune: Messiah. He also rewatched David Lynch's Dune from 1984. And he has some question. Luckily, Tom is a huge nerd and has read all EIGHT Dune books. He provides a crash course...

There are a lot of bad movies out there, and most of them have equally shitty endings. It's expected. But every once in a while, you get a good movie, a really solid film that just gets mucked up by a bad ending. On this episode of Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr. Falcon, we go through a few of those and get to ranting and raving about some of the worst endings in movie history tacked on to equally shit films. We...

The guys get to talking about Walk Hard and the legend of Dewey Cox before Dave tells a story about how he kinda sorta accidentally stole a car one time. 

The horror classic, The Thing (1982), is one of the crowning achievements of director John Carpenter's career, but the ending has had people arguing for decades. In a movie where anyone can be the monster, you can have a cut and dried finale. So how 'bout it? Was Childs infected after the arctic research station is destroyed? Could MacReady be infected? Both?

You find some weird shit when you randomly watch buried titles on streaming services, but this was one of the best we've ever come across. After finding the made-for-TV cautionary tale classic (in my mind, now, at least) Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983), I just had to watch it.  It's like an after-school special for adults, a mediocre budget for TV at the time, and a cast with some surprising n...

We get to talking about our absolute favorite serial killer movies of all time, and we get into that by talking about the recently concluded fourth season of HBO's True Detective: Night Country, starring serial-killer movie alum Jodie Foster alongside Kali Reis. This season have proved controversial, mostly because a lot of media outlets heaped praise upon it, while many fans were left wondering h...