We Wanna Watch

This week's Rick's Pick is The American President (1995) directed by Rob Reiner - rest in peace, king. We talk about the iconic Aaron Sorkin dialogue, the power of movie stars, and how this movie actually looks like a goddamn movie. Plus: a little game.

This episode's Lane's Frame is The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) directed by Anthony Minghella. The first movie in my secret yearlong project to get Ricky to watch a bunch of 1999 Oscar contenders in preparation for our eventual American Beauty episode, we go in on Ripley's great cinematography and winning performances, and somehow don't get too thirsty for Jude Law along the way. Also does anyone else think about how Scorsese uses that Dropkick Murphys song like four times in The Departed? No? Just me?

This week's Rick's Pick is Metropolis (1927) directed by Fritz Lang! We discuss this movie's impressive artistic style and timely Themes (TM). AKA, we bullshit about AI for like 40% of this episode lol. Plus: Ricky watched TWO movies on his own!

This week's Lane's Frame is No Bears (2022) directed by the recently Golden Globe-nominated Jafar Panahi. We discuss the director's prior filmography and this film's metafictional premise. And by we, I mean me, because boy are my arms tired from carrying this episode!

This week's Rick's Pick is The Usual Suspects (1995) directed by Bryan Singer. At one point Ricky says, "chungus sussy", just so you know what you're getting into.

Another year on the books, watchers! Welcome to our second annual Gold Watches honoring the films that We Wanna Watched. Join us in reflecting on our second season of watches and listening to Ricky blow out the mic like 8 times. Plus: a pledge for the final movie of season 3...

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This week's episode is a Priya's Pic: Monsoon Wedding (2001) directed by Mira Nair! Priya joins our discussion about the Golden Lion-winning romantic dramedy with insights on the film's treatment of the Indian diaspora. It's a very chill ep. Our show is always more mellow with guests on, why is that?

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This week's Lane's Frame is Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) directed by Mike Leigh! Our third Leigh film covered to date, this dramedy features another complex and slightly grating main character played hilariously by Sally Hawkins. We get into the exacting mid-aughts fashion, the clever episodic storytelling, and the emotional realism of the writing - all this after we dissect the new Mario movie trailer, of course.

This week's Rick's Pick is Blue Velvet (1986) directed by David Lynch! We aren't very impressed by this movie and struggle to connect with its themes and performances. Instead we digress about anime and an Egyptian film Ricky heard about in an Uber. Sorry Lynch fans! Maybe next time.

It's Bugonia (2025) directed by Yorgos Lanthimos!! Despite the power outages trying to stop us, we get sweaty, greasy, and stinky talking about this movie's surprisingly grounded tone, fun sound design, and the wonderful performances from all the cast except for one. Anyway you know what you're getting so just click play. After we stopped recording Ricky said he'd let Plemons "pack every hole" so don't believe his coyness herein.

Happy Halloween! Our final WE WANNA WAIL is this week's Lane's Frame, Kwaidan (1964) directed by Masaki Kobayashi. We spend our time talking about the unique fun of an anthology film, forms of Japanese storytelling, and this movie's beautiful colors and painted backdrops.

This week's WE WANNA WAIL Rick's Pick is Good Boy (2025) directed by B*n L*onberg. Woof.

WE WANNA WAIL continues with The Bad Seed (1956) directed by Mervyn LeRoy! This August's Auteur is a smash hit, and we talk at length about the amazing performances and impressive, serious handling of such intense subject matter for a 70 year-old movie. Digressions include Halloween candy, the three movies Ricky incorrectly watched, and our shoplifting-related mom trauma (mauma). Plus: a little game.

Congrats bro, you got the whole podcast wailing 😐 This week's Lane's Frame is Skinamarink (2022) directed by Kyle Edward Ball. We start with a looooong discussion about Ricky's formative horror movies before discussing our dissatisfaction with this movie's failed execution of its premise. Plus: banana.

WE WANNA WAIL continues this week with the currently in-theaters sports horror Him (2025) directed by Justin Tipping! Special guest Sy is here to talk through this goofy movie's inconsistent ideas, music video aesthetic, and performance by Marlon Wayans. Plus: TIM HEIDECKER?!

Bring in the perverts: WE WANNA WAIL is back! Our horror miniseries returns with our first Rick's Pick of the season, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) directed by Dario Argento. Lane hates this movie and Ricky says, "I liked it". Who knew?

A refreshing detour from the last few dour weeks of films, or a BLEH! movie that we just couldn't lock into? This week's Lane's Frame is about Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! from 2001. After a loooong opening about the new Conjuring movie (lol), we talk about this movie's fun performances, lackluster story, and ascension into the WWW canon of "immediately pre-9/11 culture". Plus: we reveal our first Rick's Pick for WE WANNA WAIL!

End music: Kalen's Corner/Nirvana's Nevermind but with the SM64 Soundfont

In another week of war films, this week's Rick's Pick is the Empire of the Sun (1987) directed by Steven Spielberg. What a weird ass movie! We talk about Christian Bale's performance, the strange fumbling of tone, and Spielberg's wider career. Slut-shamed on my OWN podcast.

what if there was a Deer Hunter (1978) directed by Michael Cimino

We're wrapping up Fullmetal August by covering the final three seasons of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood! Thanks to very special guest Priya, we somehow managed our longest episode ever. Oops.

It's Rebecca (1940) directed by Alfred Hitchcock! What else do you want? What? What did you say?

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Our minor detour from Fullmetal August takes us to Alfred August instead, starting with The Birds (1963) directed by, of course, Alfred Hitchcock. After a short jaunt through upcoming 2025 releases, we discuss this movie's moody atmosphere, animal handling, and whether birds are even all that scary. Like we talk a LOT about all the birds.

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We're continuing Fullmetal August with the second "season" of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. After a brief sidebar about Mario lore, we talk about the different factions being introduced and Edward's psychological arc. Plus: big boobs and vore. Plus PLUS: we're taking a break from FMAB next week because spending five episodes on this show was a ludicrous endeavor, a fool's errand, truly a Rickybrained decision.

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Fullmetal August kicks off with a discussion of the first 13 episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. After a lengthy digression about the renaissance faire and Ricky's new couch (?), we get into the series' worldbuilding, the breakneck pacing, and the mechanics of the alchemy system. Strap in folks because we're doing this for five weeks. Go girl give us nothing, etc.

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Jesse July comes to a bittersweet end with I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) directed by Charlie Kaufman. After a digression surrounding Ricky's penchant with bulk fruit, we talk about this movie's not-quite-surreal, not-quite-horrific tone, fun psychological probing, and dense visual style. Plus: a little game.

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Hostiles? More like no smiles >:( this week's Jesse July entry is Hostiles (2017) directed by Scott Cooper. We talk about this movie's dogshit performances, weird racism, and how our podcast needs to cover an original Western sometime. Plus: Ricky makes up an episode of the Twilight Zone.

Jesse July continues with this week's film, The Master (2012) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. We get into the Welles/Brando of it all, the interesting psychosexual dynamic between the two leads, and, of course, Tom Cruise and Scientology. Plus: we discuss the Bugonia trailer and its prominent sweaty ponytail 🥵🥵 We also talk about Nosferatu a lot for some reason. Why is this episode so horny?

Maligned, misunderstood classic or a correctly discarded misfire? The first movie in our Jesse July miniseries is Observe and Report (2009) directed by Jody Hill, an underseen comedy with an outsized reputation. Join us for a discussion around this movie's attempted satire, Seth Rogen's screen persona, and the effortlessness with which Plemons assumes the energy of a character who works at a mall in 2009.

One HUNDRED movies! This week's wrap on our pride month miniseries includes The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) directed by Rainer Fassbinder and Love Lies Bleeding (2024) directed by Rose Glass. We get into fluffy robes, phone acting, toxic lesbian relationships, fisting, turning into your dad, testosterone (problematic?), fisting again, and, of course, a little game. Happy pride month!

Pride month continues with this week's two pride pics, Brokeback Mountain (2005) directed by Ang Lee and Theater Camp (2023) directed by Nick Lieberman and Molly Gordon. After an extended mishap of losing Ricky's audio while talking about Mario Kart World f0r 20 minutes, we summarize Theater Camp (literal nothing movie) and get into Brokeback for the majority of the runtime. Lane gets Heath Ledger now, Ricky talks about how one of us needs to die for us to have a good podcast, and Christopher confirmed heterosexual.

Continuing in our pride month miniseries, this week's pride pics are The Birdcage (1996) directed by Mike Nichols and All About My Mother (1999) directed by Pedro Almodóvar. After talking about dick humor and keys, we discuss Robin Williams' screen persona, whether All About My Mother is a serious movie, and the timelessness of these themes. Also, a really long tangent about Frankenstein.

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Happy Pride Month watchers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈‼️ We're starting a whole MONTH of LGBTQ-movies with two pride pics, The Boys in the Band (1970) directed by William Friedkin and Y Tu Mamá También (2001) directed by Alfonso Cuarón. One of us vastly prefers one of these movies more than the other, and one of us says "I liked it!" about both of them. Any guesses who is whom? We get into meanness culture, Pee-Wee Herman/Paul Reubens, and the smell of oral sex. Plus: a little game.

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This week's Rick's Pick was Wicked City...(1987)....directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri...............................

Trigger warning in this movie and episode for all manner of sexual violence and general hentai bullshit.

McDonald's again?! This week's Rick's Pick is Yi Yi (2000) directed by Edward Yang. After our usual argument about RogueLike DeckBuilders (TM), we discuss this movie's understated performances, gorgeous long takes, and the idea of a movie allowing people to see the perspectives of others. Digressions include how we hate the word "panties" and OH MY GOD A CENTIPEDE IS ATTACKING ME HELP ME PLEASE

This week's Lane's Frame is Battleship Potemkin (1925) directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Hard for two idiots to talk about a one hundred year old movie, but we managed to do it for a whole hour! Just ignore all the digressions about what constitutes a modern movie, Palworld, and Twilight. Also, Ricky's friendship with the KGB ended, Mormonism is Ricky's friend now.

This week's Rick's Pick is The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) directed by Richard Williams. As the movie with the longest-ever time spent in production, we go long talking about the different versions of the film, its gorgeous animation, and completely incomprehensible story. Digressions include bottled water, creative "geniuses", and Aladdin's racism. Warning! We talk about puking a lot in the first twenty minutes of this episode lol.

This week's Lane's Frame is Pride & Prejudice (2005) directed by Joe Wright! A canonical Lane's Frame, this movie charms the pants off of us both, even though I was sick and Ricky was tired during this record so we sound a lot more muted than normal. A shockingly short episode. I can't believe we forgot to talk about the sounds of birds chirping!

This week's Rick's Pick is In the Mood for Love (2000) directed by Wong Kar-wai! Part movie discussion, part ethical argument about romance and fate, this episode gets into the psychology of the two leads, the sumptuous colors and cinematography, and whether roleplaying as your spouse's affair partner with your spouse's affair partner's spouse counts as cheating. Plus: fuck Blue Prince and the house it built, and rebuilt, and rebuilt.

This week's new release episode is A Minecraft Movie (2025) directed by Jared Hess. With friend of the show and special guest Sy, we go long on the Minecraft of it all and talk very little about the movie, which is deeply fine and not really remarkable in any way. Plus, a continued conversation about what "cis" means.

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Who picked this dogshit movie? Unfortunately, this week's Lane's Frame is Super Size me (2004) directed by Morgan Spurlock. Pizza Hut! Pizza Hut! Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut!

Content warning: We talk pretty explicitly throughout this episode about eating disorders, fatphobia, calories and calorie counting, weight measurement and loss, body image, and basically everything to do with those subjects. Watchers beware!

This week's Rick's Pick is Escape from New York (1981) directed by John Carpenter! This episode is basically unlistenable by the end because we're both drunk.

We're idiots after all! This week's Lane's Frame is Tokyo Story (1953) directed by Yasujirō Ozu. We discuss this movie's impressive cinematography, our difficulty connecting to its plot, and just how they managed to pull off those neat background shots almost seventy years ago. Plus: a debrief about Lane's trip to NYC to see the new Glengarry Glen Ross revival.

This week's double feature of Rick's Picks were The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) directed by Sergio Leone and Unforgiven (1992) directed by Clint Eastwood. We get into the former's iconic soundtrack and closeups, the history of the cowboy archetype in film, and whether or not Clint Eastwood is hot.

Digressions include Nintendogs, blocking people on social media, and our new podcast We Wanna Eat.

LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! This week's Lane's Frame is Michael Clayton (2007) directed by Tony Gilroy. We get into this genre of conspiracy/legal/courtroom thriller, indulgent movies, and Karen's fuckass outfits. Also at one point Ricky can't remember the name of the protagonist lmaooo. Plus: fan submitted Nosferatu content 😍

A long tangent about making our beds AND sleeping in them. Our favorite fabrics. Pee-Wee's Playhouse's dog. Killing men. Cooking ASMR. It's our Jeanne Dielman episode! This week's Rick's Pick is Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) directed by friend of the show Chantal Ackerman. We go loooong talking about this movie's psychological impact, the characterization of Jeanne Dielman, and Ricky's favorite thing: face acting.

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Is it one of the greatest movies of all time? Maybe! This week's Lane's Frame is The Apartment (1960) directed by Billy Wilder. We talk about this movie's tight screenplay, cool old tech, and treatment of transgressive topics like adultery, suicide, and eating without Youtube. Plus: we have long digressions about being sad at Christmastime, argue about what the Grinch's tulip head is made of, and reveal Ricky's identity as the Kremlin Gremlin.

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This week's Rick's Pick is inexplicably Excalibur (1981) directed by John Boorman. We have a pretty bugnuts episode today, with topics including all the movies Ricky watched this week (!), our feelings on Monty Python, and the worst Zumba instructor of all time.

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This week's Lane's Frame is Secrets and Lies (1996) written and directed by Mike Leigh. After another loooong intro discussing some recent Oscar controversies, we talk about this movie's incredible performances, character development, and balanced treatment of adoption. Plus: is Ricky punchier when he finishes the movie 5 minutes before recording?

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Happy birthday Ricky! This week's Rick's Picks are a double feature of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) directed by Jacques Demy and Do the Right Thing (1989) directed by Spike Lee. After a loooooong intro, we talk about our feelings towards musicals, French as a language, and how these two movies could possibly be in conversation with each other. Features the worst instance of Ricky blowing out the mic yet.

Silencio...is what the haters would say to this podcast! This week's Lane's Frame is Mulholland Drive (2001) written and directed by the late David Lynch. After taking time to discuss the Oscar nominations that dropped earlier in the day, we try to go as long as possible without trying to dissect the plot of this movie while discussing its nightmarish vibes, the impressive cinematography, and how much we liked the cowboy lol.

Plus: you wanna play a little GAME?

This week's Rick's Pick is John Woo's 1989 crime drama, The Killer. Featuring special guest Christopher, we talk about our favorite action movies, the history of the "gun-fu" genre, and this movie's Cool Ass Vibes. Plus: we go long on tabletop roleplaying (should Christopher and Ricky start an actual play?) and I shit talk some Oscar movies for a minute.

This week's Lane's Frame is The Piano Teacher (2001) directed by Michael Haneke. Maybe not best characterized as a fucked up movie for freaks! We go long on Erika's psychology, BDSM dynamics, menstrual blood in movies, and our writing pet peeves. Plus: Ricky's cats meow a lot in this episode, oh my god.

Content warning...for a bunch of cool guys! This week's Rick's Pick is Reservoir Dogs (1992) directed by Quentin Tarantino. We get into the aesthetics and glorification of violence, homoeroticism, the ear scene, and the antiblack racism that buoys this whole movie. Plus: we go long on Wallace and Gromit and dabble in a new fancasting game.

Happy new year! We're starting 2025 with a totemic classic of American cinema, Nashville (1975) directed by Robert Altman. We get into the political landscape at the time, the movie's interesting character storytelling, and the style and setting's similarities to Boogie Nights. Tune in for lots of cat talk and a revisit of our early episode G*mergate discussion. Plus: what exactly is Ricky's position on taxing churches?

This combo Rick's Pick/Lane's Frame episode covers two Christmas movies: While You Were Sleeping (1995) directed by Jon Turteltaub and The Christmas Chronicles (2018) directed by Clay Kaytis. We pay the Kurt Russell Netflix movie dust and instead ramble about rom coms, Phineas and Ferb, and getting hit by a train to score a girl. Happy holidays everyone!

All the hot girls put your hands up and say: We Wanna Watch! This week's Lane's Frame is Om Shanti Om (2007) directed by Farah Khan. Our first Bollywood movie discussion covers a lot of ground, including our history with Indian cinema, the fall of the American movie star, and our Zumba proclivities. Plus: Ricky's favorite Broadway musical, Hamlet. Not to be like If I Was in An Ari Aster Movie It'd Be Different but if I peep through a keyhole and see Christopher fucking a girl on the ground in a barn I'm kicking down the door.

We're starting off our year two of our podcast with a stellar Rick's Pick, Mysterious Skin (2004) directed by Gregg Araki. We discuss this movie's approach to sexuality, excellent performances, and beautiful, bittersweet ending. Digressions include internet cruelty and Ricky's apartment falling apart.

Please be warned that this movie and our discussion both cover topics like sexual violence and pedophilia, so watcher discretion is advised.

Welcome to our first annual awarding of Gold Watches, where we honor all the films that We Wanna Watched! Join us to reflect on our 64 movies watched as we celebrate our first year of the podcast. How many people done doubted us?! Please enjoy this long, meandering hangout of an episode with lots of cat-related interruptions. Thanks to all watchers for listening! And watching, right? RIGHT??

Our last movie of the fiscal year (and by that I mean it's been almost a year of the podcast!) is this week's Lane's Frame, The Great Escape (1963) directed by John Sturges. We have quite a few digressions in this episode about the banality of evil, depicting war in movies, and why the Nazi salutes in this movie seem so funky. Also, a brief intro about 2024's Look Back directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama. Also the MEOWING. Ricky's cats were really fucking loud this episode.

Here's the clip of George Mackay running to Roman Holiday (not Roman's Revenge...

This week's Rick's Pick is a return to form for our show: a random movie he saw a viral clip of online. We watched Fitzcarraldo (1982) directed by Werner Herzog. Described by Ricky as "Herzog's Apocalypse Now" (despite Ricky having not seen Apocalypse Now nor any other Herzog movies), we talk about hubris, movies with troubled productions, and how this movie just hasn't aged very well. Plus: an episode-long appearance by my Mario desktop plant fountain, fml.

Oh Yeah! This week's Fresh double feature Lane's Frames are a blatant excuse to talk about the music of Daft Punk; we watched Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003) directed by Leiji Matsumoto, Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Daisuke Nishio, and Hirotoshi Rissen AND Daft Punk's Alive 2007 Live Concert at Lollapalooza (2007), which has no director credits because it seems to have just been some footage that was never released until like 15 years later? Anyway, we have fun Burnin' through our gripes with these movies and show a bit of Emotion talking about the Daft Punk discography, Touch-ing on our childhood...

The final entry in our WE WANNA WAIL series (no for real this time) was chosen in a somewhat snap-decision to be Smile 2 (2024) directed by Parker Finn. As a carryover from the days of Kino 101 with Ricky, the first Smile movie holds a special place in our canon, so it only fits that we would scare the shit out of ourselves in theatres with the sequel. I feel like you can really hear how nervous we sound in this one lmao. Plus: a special appearance by all five (5) cats, and a sneak preview of Ricky's upcoming movie "Psyche", in...

Surprise! WE WANNA WAIL ends (😏) with a special early Halloween drop for our discussion about The Exorcist (1973) directed by William Friedkin. Here's that e-boy content you ordered.

Much like the protagonist in the last 25 minutes of this movie, WE WANNA WAIL! This week is a very special Nick's Flick (or is it? watchers, get at us), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper. Does this movie live up to its blood-soaked reputation? We all know Ricky hates women, but does Nick hate women more? Is this episode too long? How many movies did I say to Ricky, "we'll watch that someday" about during this? (Death Proof, Safe, May December, Black Christmas, Skinamarink, Licorice Pizza, so six...)

P.S. here's my review of...

We take a little breather during our WE WANNA WAIL series to watch this week's double feature of Rick's Picks, Monster House (2006) directed by Gil Kenan and ParaNorman (2012) directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler. We talk about stop motion animation, creepy old people, and how "Prenderghast" doesn't really give Slav. Plus: a little detour to talk about THE SUBSTANCE (2024) directed by Coralie Fargeat.

WE WANNA WAIL continues as we enter the Forbidden Room with this week's Lane's Frame, Pulse (2001) directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. We talk about ghosts, existential dread, and how scary it would be to have some guy just pop up in our Discord call. Plus, are all the jokes online about people wanting to kill themselves desensitizing us to depictions of suicide in movies?

Continuing our WE WANNA WAIL miniseries (not We Wanna Whale, mind you), this week's Rick's Pick was a thematic double feature: Perfect Blue (1997) directed by Satoshi Kon and Black Swan (2010) directed by Darren Aronofsky. While we compare these two films' visual and story similarities, we come to the conclusion that the similarities are far outweighed by the differences in characterization, viscerality, and emotion - though Aronofsky is not beating the ripoff allegations, either. Plus: Oreo Coke Zero, Amazing Cultivation Simulator, and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

This week's entry in our WE WANNA WAIL series features TWO Lane's Frames: both the original Psycho (1960) directed by Alfred Hitchcock AND the remake Psycho (1998) directed by Gus Van Sant. We talk about the original movie's influence, the gay subtext in both films, and the fascinating endeavor of remaking a beloved classic. I'm very punchy and looking for a fight with Ricky during this episode, lol.

We're kicking off our WE WANNA WAIL miniseries with this week's Rick's Pick, Midsommar (2019) directed by Ricky's favorite director Ari Aster. Is this movie as scary as Hereditary? Does the boyfriend deserve it? How does white women loving true crime play into homestead-flavored racism? Plus: I sent Ricky a meme about calling all camera movement "panning" and now he wants to be an asshole about it on mic.

For this week's Lane's Frame, we watched Othello (1951) directed by Orson Welles. A strange adaptation that reduces the usual 3-hour play to just 90 minutes, the movie gets mixed reactions from us; we appreciate its cinematography and ambitious vision, but struggle to get past its sloppiness, character-limiting choices, and, yes, the horrible racism. Also, we talk about Jujutsu Kaisen and Zumba, we'll see if that does anything for the algorithm lmao.

This week is a Rick's Pick, and boy, was it ever! We watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) directed by Robert Zemeckis, a movie that Ricky had somehow never seen. This episode is replete with antics, shenanigans, and sound effects - but only to complement the movie, of course.

This week's Lane's Frame is Silkwood (1983) directed by Mike Nichols. It's a bit of a bummer episode, but we keep it fun and fancy free with diversions about Kurt Russell, forgotten Oscar movies, and our beloved Nintendo.

We finally get back around to this week's Rick's Pick, Barry Lyndon (1975) directed by Stanley Kubrick. To nobody's surprise, it doesn't compare favorably to Amadeus, but we still have a good time discussing its merits, including its painting-like shots, hilarious irony, and its timeless thematic elements. Also, what the fuck is lindy? Ricky go outside challenge.

Thanks and much credit to NTRXMUSIC for the wonderful outro.

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, lol, RIP SEO.

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 track, so it's a wash.

I can't believe I didn't think of making a "Sic-mario" joke while we were recording this so I included a little ""Easter egg """ for the REAL watchers at the...

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 Kevin Costner.

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 episode for some reason.

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 core. That's all.

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 an audio tag in, too.

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 is probably the best sounding episode yet because now that I have Ricky on cam during our calls he is forced to not fidget around and smack the table and shit.

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

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 table though so who cares, really.

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.

This week's Rick's Pick is another great movie that's tough to say much about beyond, it's good! While discussing our second Hayao Miyazaki movie, 1984's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, we talk about Miyazaki's greater career, fandom, and whether anime is a mistake. Also, you can definitely hear the sounds of Christopher building a plane in the background during this record...just pretend it adds to the airship ambiance.

This week's Lane's Frame leads to a wicked smaht discussion of Good Will Hunting (1997) directed by Gus van Sant. Digressions include 90s Oscar bait, Matt Damon's screen persona, and how men will emotionally burn out their girlfriends instead of going to therapy. Also I spent 20 minutes in an unrelated wikipedia rabbit hole this week reading about the autistic savant character in The Predator and organically came across the article on photographic memory which clearly says it doesn't exist, so Ricky can go huff farts.