You Made Me Watch

Allyson loves True Crime, so Mike was positive she was going to enjoy 2018's Lords of Chaos about the murder of Mayhem guitarist and founder Euronymous by the hands of his bandmate Count Grishnak. And spoiler alert, Mike was right! Allyson and Mike sing the praises of the acting in this film, particularly by Rory Culkin, Jack Kilmer and Ethan Cohen. All three were born around the exact time this s...

Allyson was a high school senior in 1999, so this high school romcom was super relevant to her. She also wore glasses. Ooh, Allyson's middle name is also Leigh, just like the star Rachel Leigh Cook. Nerds! Sure, She's All That is a cheesy and predictable movie, but will the mere presence of Star Wars super fan Freddie Prinze Jr. and the always great Matthew Lillard be enough to make Mike enjoy thi...

Allyson and I rarely get to watch movies just for the hell of it. Over the last two weeks we both took dreadful missteps. I had us watch the Spanish thriller Two (Dos) on Netflix, then Allyson made us watch the latest from James Wan, Malignant. Both movies were so utterly unenjoyable that the only way we can feel good about wasting three and a half hours of our lives is by warning you not to watch...

1950's Billy Wilder masterpiece Sunset Blvd is already beloved by film fans around the world. Mike is delighted to have this opportunity to introduce Allyson to this fairly controversial for its time film about the dark side of Hollywood and the disposable nature of fame. Sunset Blvd stars William Holden, Gloria Swanson, and Nancy Olson. It also features real life legendary directors Cecil B DeMil...

Gwenyth Paltrow's cleverly disguised acting demo reel showcases her ability to do a posh English accent. 1998's Sliding Doors is a movie about that great eternal question, "what if things were different?" We follow Paltrow's character through to parallel timelines that part when she either does or doesn't catch a train. It costars John Hannah, who I think Americans will know best as the sidekick f...

As dirty as I pretended The Little Mermaid was, this DEFINITELY has very kinky undertones. So not to kink shame, but Mr. Limpet, starring Don Knotts in his first lead role in a film is about a guy who clearly is okay with his buddy banging his wife, because he really wants to bang fish...oh yeah, and join the Navy to fight Nazis. But he's REALLY into fish. Like, as soon as he magically turns into...

In honor of the passing of the great Signey Poitier, Mike and Allyson cover one of his most iconic roles, Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night. It was nominated for seven Oscars in 1968, taking home five of them, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Rod Steiger, best actor in a leading role that year, costars as Gillespie. This is one hell of an odd couple whodunit. Will Mike be able...

Mike considers himself a cinephile, but there are still way too many "classics" he hasn't seen yet. Allyson fills in one of his blindspots with David Lynch's debut Eraserhead. It's a movie that impressed George Lucas so much that he asked Lynch to direct Return of the Jedi. Lynch turned that down and made Dune instead. Will Mike be as impressed as George Lucas? So buckle in, floof your hair, tend...

It's not often a live action Disney movie from yesteryear is remembered, but this week Mike takes Allyson down memory lane to visit 1978's The Cat From Outer Space. This stars Ken Berry, who most people these days probably remember from Mama's Family, and Sandy Duncan from The Hogan Family. It's a truly delightful talking animal story from Ted Key, the creator of Mr. Peabody and Sherman. Married c...

Spray on your Whipped Cream Bikini and hunker down with your boyfriend's bestie, because we're about to watch a high school football classic. James Van Der Beek totally isn't Dawson from Dawson's Creek because he has different color hair. Ali Larter from Heroes doesn't have super powers because if she did, she'd probably use them to teleport herself out of this 1999 thing that happened. You can pr...

Allyson and Mike will be back next week, but finishing off the Christmas episodes is Johnny Mocny from the wonderful We Are Movies podcast. He makes comedian extraordinaire Louis Michael watch the Renny Harlin/Geena Davis action film The Long Kiss Goodnight. Written by Shane Black, who LOVES writing stories around Christmastime, The Long Kiss Goodnight is about Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson ou...

This week, Amanda and Ryan from the Dead Waves podcast take over the show for Mike and Allyson, and make their friend, fellow improviser and author Chris Morgan watch the 2005 Bill Goldberg Christmas horror comedy Santa's Slay. Do you like movies with professional wrestlers? Do you like movies where big stars like James Caan, Fran Drescher, Saul Rubinek and the late great Robert Culp apparently ne...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Angie and Marty from Great Lakes Confidential fill in for Mike and Allyson. Angie makes Marty watch the Christmas horror film Krampus! If you want to let us know what you thought abou...

The Santa Clause trilogy is now complete! Last year Mike and Allyson tackled the first two movies in the Tim Allen Christmas franchise, but had to tap out. This year, they finish the saga of Scott Calvin with The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. Will this be more akin to the original Star Wars trilogy or will it be more like the most recent trilogy where it suffers the laws of diminishing return...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Mike made Allyson watch the George Lucas written and Ron Howard directed Willow. If you want to let us know what you thought about this weeks movie, or you have a movie you think we s...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Allyson makes Mike watch The Little Mermaid. If you want to let us know what you thought about this weeks movie, or you have a movie you think we should watch, let us know. Join our F...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Allyson makes Mike watch the 1990 Warren Beatty passion project Dick Tracy. Will Mike enjoy this movie as much as Allyson, who played Dick Tracy with her brother while they were 8 and...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Allyson and Mike made their friends Angie Amman and Martin Butler from the Great Lakes Confidential Podcast watch the Korean zombie masterpiece One Cut of the Dead. If you want to let...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Mike invites Amanda and Ryan from the Dead Waves Radio podcast and makes them and Allyson watch one of his all time favorites, Lost Boys! The Alexes (Bozinovic and Piccolo) drop in to...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Mike and the Chewbacca to his Han Solo, Dennis Burdziak made their wives Allyson and Erin watch the horror comedy Frankenhooker. If you want to let us know what you thought about this...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Mike made Allyson watch the notoriously homoerotic A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. If you want to let us know what you thought about this weeks movie, or you have a mov...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, Allyson made Mike watch the Jaws, but the shark is a semi-truck...no, not Duel, the shitty Jaws, but the shark is a semi-truck movie Joy Ride from 2001. Joy Ride stars Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, the late Paul Walker, and the voice of Buffalo Bill, the great...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, Allyson and Mike are joined by their friend Paul Duggan, who made them watch the Josh Hartnett, Ron Perlman, Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore hidden gem Bunraku. Strap in and buckle up for cowboys, samurais, bartenders, floppy hats, and lots and lots of dance fight...

Married comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt are 11 years apart and have vastly different tastes in movies. Each week they go back and forth and make the other watch a movie they've never seen before. This week Mike makes Allyson endure the brutal and bleak Cormac McCarthy adaptation of The Road. If you want to let us know what you thought about this weeks movie, or you have a movie you thin...