The AFHigh List

The stoners have arrived at the penultimate film of the list and this classic has everything: Sidney Poitier’s effortless cool, Katharine Hepburn’s wavering tears, chilling Get Out vibes, a nod to the tackiness of the aughts, and maybe the best speech in any movie ever?! Matt and Ashley lament the loss of video stores, determine that Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is the most patriotic film ever, and shout it from the rooftops one mo...

Here we go, besties! Only three movies left on the list and the microphone is on the fritz again. Once you get over the sensational audio quality, the stoners share a look into their hardcore senioritis while sinking into 90's syrupy Westerns. We all feel a strange way about Matt's basement time with Unforgiven, accept the fact that we need to lower our expectations for everything, and wait, is Clint Eastwood a grizzled Christ? 

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Matt and Ashley are overwhelmed and delighted by the zany ball of anxiety that Bringing Up Baby is. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant are a couple of nutcases dealing with an actual leopard that is the cutest biggest sweetie. Everyone is talking, no one is listening, and, ugh, you know the deal, just listen to the stoners ramble about silly sh!t and have a good day and stuff. 

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Matt and Ashley are back chatting in the living room, in the very spots they both maybe kind of dozed off while watching The Searchers! Despite the mixed feelings on some of the Westerns on the list, the stoners are surprisingly insightful about the tropes and evolution of the genre. But don't worry, Ashley is still complaining about grumpy old white men with their nasty attitudes and Matt got to eat some tasty boxed stuffing, so a...

The stoners make their holiday return to the list with Goodfellas, a movie that kicked in the 90's with hella violence and even more cocaine. Ashley cannot say "watch Pulp Fiction" to save her life and Matt drops a pretty excellent Ray Liotta impression. The stoners enjoy a faux aquarium ambience as they record for the first time ever in their living room and they give a big shoutout to true gangster films. Oh, and Joe Pesci is abs...

Whoops! For the first time ever, the stoners are going out of order! Here’s the thing, the holidays are here, it’s almost Ashley’s birthday, and to be honest, Pulp Fiction is the easiest thing to watch and talk about since Millennials were essentially born into a masterclass of this Tarantino classic. Matt and Ashley reminisce about worshipping the television with family movie nights and share how traumatized they both were over Mi...

It’s fireside chat time so gather ‘round, friends! This week the stoners visit The Apartment, which is basically a 1960’s sex den for executives to cheat on their wives and for Jack Lemmon: Sex Master to have a horrible time setting boundaries. There is a special celebrity sighting of an old sink which triggers all the wacky trauma from Matt and Ashley’s own nightmare apartment. Ashley’s hair smells good, Shirley MacLaine is cute a...

The drama and romance are kicking hard for A Place in the Sun so the stoners have to determine where this falls on the suds-o-meter. Montgomery Clift has returned as a social Slender Man and is torn between the cutie down the conveyor belt or the tornado high society girl who haunts his every thought. This spiraling sociopath is playing out a very specific Rick and Morty plot while refusing to make a single responsible decision. Do...

It’s time for My Fair Lady and the stoners are curious, is this a cute 60’s musical or is this a guy torturing a woman for three hours? Either way, everyone screams the whole movie and there are lots of silly British sayings (almost all of them insults toward women)! Audrey Hepburn wants lessons on how to speak like a proper lady and instead, her senior citizen boyfriend She’s-All-That’s her to feel powerful with far less charm tha...

The stoners have reached The Jazz Singer at number 90 and what a time to feel weird and yucky. Matt and Ashley exist nearly 100 years in the future of this old-timey musical and boy can you feel it. There are more abusive daddies, confused dreams, songs that just don’t slap to modern ears, and the casual use of blackface for white entertainment. Is this as a full feature one of the best or simply something that happens to have one ...

Get ready for a slap in the face of a good time as the stoners spiral in the never-ending pit of war movies with Patton! Matt and Ashley are far more familiar with references of this guy in stuff like Animanics because they are 90’s kids through and through, but thanks to this list, they are already seeing him glorified by incels in movies from the 2010’s. Patton basically has a PhD in war and an affinity for historical carnage – c...

Get your motor runnin' and head out on the highway as Matt and Ashley examine the sense of adventure and gratuitous drug use in Easy Rider! The stoners feel right at home in the Peter-Fonda-Dennis-Hopper smoke circles, but as soon as Jack Nicholson's quirky self enters the scene, things get too spooky real and relevant when it comes to "individual freedoms." Matt admits he's not great with drugs on his pot-positive podcast and Ashl...

Just in time for spooky season, Matt and Ashley get a breath of fresh, rotten corpse and charred windmill air with the iconic horror classic, Frankenstein! After a moment of stoney tangents about time, the two get ultra studious about chaotic genius, daddy issues, magic plus science, baller filmmaking, and the legacy of this bolted bad boy. Matt also shares his fond memories of Frankie Halloween costumes while Ashley plots to do sp...

Alas, it's 3am and the copywriter is mad that she has to write copy once again. Ashley's psychosis is raging this week and Matt doesn't give a sh!t about boat people, but that won't stop them from talking all about swashbuckler-lite, Mutiny on the Bounty. This oldy moldy watches like stereo instructions and all these grumpy dudes look the same. Matt's inner Beavis and Butthead humor is summoned for this classic about men at sea. No...

The stoners meet the Marx Brothers this week and witness the great kerfuffle that is Duck Soup. There are dudes turning into snakes, middle school kids in bowling shirts, and too many David Harbours. Ashley offers a silver lining for millennials, Matt covers his fisticuffing days, and they do actually talk at length about that mirror scene, because if you are unfamiliar, it’s great.

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Oh jeez, Matt and Ashley get to bully Jerry Lundegaard and talk all about how Marge is such a super lady this week for Fargo. Could this movie’s vibe fully exist without Pulp Fiction? What happened with Mike Yanagita? Why did Exorcist II: The Heretic do the Pazuzu that you do? Send love letters and coordinates to a bag of unmarked bills to afhighlist@gmail.com Follow @afhighlist on Instagram. Leave a rating and review on you...

It’s another Vietnam movie so you know what that means…Matt is furious! As the stoners chat about Platoon, they cannot help but fall back into questioning the criteria of this list and how on earth Ferris Bueller’s Day Off isn’t on it. This is the nicest Willem Dafoe character they have seen maybe ever and Tom Berenger secures a premium spot on the Top Most Hated Characters on the podcast. Kevin Dillon upholds the family “Dillon vi...

Welcome to the longest mini episode in town - a High Take on a Las Vegas wrestling extravaganza! Did you spot Matt and Ashley at SummerSlam?! The stoners reflect on Matt’s thrill of seeing Edge fight Seth Rollins in the year of 2021, Ashley’s favorite fan sign, screaming at surprise entrance themes, and of course the Reigns v. Cena match. Making the most of a Vegas weekend, these two knuckleheads enjoyed feasts worthy of Munchie Ti...

This week Matt and Ashley gossip like old-school Texans as they sink their teeth into Giant. Once again, the stoners cannot stop talking about James Dean and they are obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor taking a haunted desert mansion from Munsters to Modern Family. This rancher epic has everything: groups of stubborn, conspiring white men, infuriating racism, family tree drama, sassy young women, old dudes throwing punches, and enough ...