What We've Watched Podcast

Wow, episode 400! We wax long this time with our top 5 actors of the 2000's (2000-2009) and some general waffle throughout. Thanks to everyone who has listened to us over the years!

Our monthly "beyond" film land us on a strange Italian movie from the early 80s, The Beyond (renamed The 7 Doors of Death in it's US release).

This episode we watched our third and final (for now) Larry Cohen film, The Stuff. Enough is never enough!

It's the ninth anniversary of the What We've Watched Podcast this week and we are theming it up with Nine Days, a film full of great performances from just a couple of years ago.

We are back on track with another Larry Cohen film, Q the Winged Serpent! Sitting somewhere between campy monster film, police procedural it's quite a unique experience.

For this episode we delve deep into the genre of spoof and parody films, pick our top fives and discuss some others we like and generally talk about what we think makes a good parody and how that differs from other comedies and satire.

With the recent passing of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland we take a look at one of his more famous films and roles as Oddball in Kelly's Heroes as well as a general discussion of his career.

For June's "beyond" film we take a look at the noir crime thriller from 1956, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Turns out we do have doubts...

This week we start a small series where we take a look at some Larry Cohen films, starting with 1976's God Told Me To (aka Demon). It's quite the wild ride.

This week we watched and discussed one of the "largest" releases of 2023 - Godzilla Minus One! We also chat about the Godzilla series in general.

This top five episode we cover another decade of our favorite actors with the 1990s.

It's time for another movie where we go "beyond" and this time we look at the very well done Japanese indie film Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.

Not quite a look back a film from our childhood, Dick Van Dyke leads this slightly too long musical from the late 60's.

This episode we take look at Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's final film in their loose trilogy (following Resolution and The Endless), Synchronic, this time with a much bigger budget and well known actors.

Hey it's another Bill Forsyth film! Yup, this week we watch a late 80's crime comedy staring Burt Reynolds and Casey Siemaszko.

This episode we run through our top 5 lists of movies that we think should have won the Oscar for best picture, instead of the ones that did.

We continue going "beyond" this week with Panos Cosmatos' surreal psychedelic sci-fi precursor to Mandy, Beyond the Black Rainbow.

We follow up Resolution from last month with the next film in this loose trilogy from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, The Endless.

The Three Musketeers has been made into many a movie but the 1948 one is something pretty special - come enjoy it with us!

This episode we take another look back to the early 80's when everyone was trying to cash in on the Star Wars boom - this time with a Roger Corman production - Battle Beyond the Stars.

Once again we take a look at a decades worth of actors and decide which are our favorites, this time in the 1980s.

This episode we tackle the first of a trio of loosely connected films, Resolution (2012), from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.

This episode we take on a wild animated film from the 80s, born out of the Star Wars-alike frenzy - Starchaser Legend of Orin. It's a doozy.

After many years we return to the duo of Mike and Marcus to see what these "bad boys" have gotten up to. Can they redeem themselves after the awful Bad Boys 2??? Listen in and see.

This week we travel back to 1960 to watch Beyond the Time Barrier, a rather well done time travel film considering the production circumstances.