We Want The D

Beloved D-Lovers, we are coming BACK with a brand new show on a brand new feed!

Announcing A BEAUTIFUL FIND, a movie scavenger hunt podcast about sharing films with your best friends. 

Join Vicky, Nolan and Jill each season as they check movies off their scavenger hunt list, with our trademark laughter, crying and a little bit of good-natured arguing. 

Look for A Beautiful Find wherever you listen to your podcasts. Our first episod...

At long last, our hosts have made it to the Disney movie that needs no introduction - THE LION KING. Despite being staffed by a so-called "B-team" of animators and other other creatives, an argument can be made for this movie being the crown jewel in the renaissance crown, or at the very least having the largest cultural footprint. It unsurprisingly made a huge impact on our hosts, and they couldn't be more eager to share their exc...

Having already watched the disappointing live-action remake, it's time to return to Disney's OG version of MULAN, and ask the important questions all you D-Lovers have come to reliably expect. Does this movie stand proud amongst the best of the 90s Renaissance, or does it leave something to be desired? Is "I'll Make a Man Out of You" an S-tier song, or merely an A++? And, of course, this being We Want The D, our hosts have to ask w...

It's curious that FROZEN II, the sequel to a cultural juggernaut of a Disney movie, doesn't seem to have had the same resonance or impact. Could it be that, in contrast with the first film's simple-yet-largely-effective story, this one is convoluted at worst and overly ambitious at best? Could it be the global pandemic that struck mere months after this movie's release? Impossible to say, really, but our hosts sure do have a lot to...

Our hosts have watched more than a few stories that featured characters who had been or are orphaned in the course of the movie. BIG HERO 6 is a unique movie in that it dares to ask - what if Disney did a double orphan? Incredibly sad and surprising, yes, but also not a bad film. Because unlike so many other orphan movies where these characters are not allowed to grieve properly, this family animated movie is all about grief. And w...

"Have no fear, UNDERDOG is here!" is a common refrain heard throughout this week's Disney movie. But trust us, D-Lovers, fear is about the last emotion one could feel when watching this film. Apathy, probably. Boredom, almost certainly. But fear? Or really, any strong emotion? Not likely. For that, someone would have had to have cared enough to put more than the bare minimum amount of effort in any aspect of this movie's creation. ...

This week on We Want The D, it's an unprescedented, three-for-one, cinematic Poohniverse spectacular! That's right, purely because we wanted to do something special and certainly not because our hosts couldn't bear the thought of doing three separate episodes on movies primarily made for toddlers. And as it turns out it was definitely the right call for at least two out of the three of these Disney releases - PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE, PO...

We wrap up this little run of Disney documentaries with what may be the best one our hosts have seen - WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY. An insiders look at the rise of the renaissance through the release of The Lion King, this doc features some names and faces that will be very familiar to any longtime listeners and especially fans of some of our history-focused Minnie Mouse-isodes. And while you may have heard our takes on this era of Disn...

It's always a delight when our hosts discover something wholly unexpected in the Disney catalog. And none of them could have predicted they'd watch anything quite like ENDURANCE on this podcast journey. Part documentary, part dramatic reenactments performed by the actual subject(s) of the true story being performed, it's not quite like anything any of them had seen before and after what feels like hundreds of animal movies that all...

It's been awhile since we last took a peek behind the curtain at some of the men (funny how it's always men) behind the scenes that helped shape the Disney brand. This week, our hosts celebrate the seemingly simple lives of two of the nine old men, FRANK AND OLLIE, who had a documentary made on them (by Frank's son and the company they worked for since the 1930s) in the mid-90s. And while not without its charms, it ends up being a ...

Nearly twenty years after the first movie and seven years after our episode on it, our hosts are returning to Salem with HOCUS POCUS 2! The Sanderson Sisters are back! Billy is back! That's all who is a back! But the good news is the newcomers to the sequal are welcome additions to the lore. And despite the "straight-to-Disney Plus" level budget, this long awaited sequel manages to capture a lot of the essence of the original while...

Another October Season is upon us, and any long-time listener will know that this time of year has become synonymous with certain DCOM franchises. So our hosts are returning to the strangely segregated town of Seabrook one last time with Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3. What sprasely costumed monsters will upset the status quo this time? What craft supplies will they have glued to their clothes? And how quickly will Addison decide to ditch her sup...

It's with great delight that our hosts return to the world of Planes (or is it still called The World of Cars?). Not only because it allows them to dig deep into the how the mechanics of this mechanical world work, but because against all odds, PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE is one of those sequels that manages to surpass the original. And by a lot in this case. We're talking laughs, we're talking thrills, we're talking what may be Dane Coo...

At long last, our collective nightmare is over. With NIKKI, WILD DOG OF THE NORTH, not only do our hosts finish off every Disney movie theatrically released in the 1960s, but seemingly finally finish watching all these pseudo-documentary animal movies. And while much of this one is familiar territory (IE it's mostly animals fighting), there were some unexpected surprises. Like a martial arts form that may be entirely unique to this...

Since our hosts have seen three Disney movies called "The Jungle Book" let's start by clarifying that yes, this is a theatrically released sequel to the 1967 animated classic, made thirty-six years after the original. And much like the other animated sequels of this era, it's basically the same movie all over again in reverse. Quite literally, this is the story of Mowgli returning to the jungle and singing The Bare Necessities ad n...

Now wait just a second, D-Lovers. Before you give this episode a pass because it's clear pretty much from the title that it's gonna be another one of those fake-documentary animal movies, let us try and convince you to give it a listen. First...er, well this one is about a wolf, that's pretty different! And uh, there's some pretty unexpected animal fights - not that the fight themselves were unexpected obviously, but the kinds of a...