What Is A Movie?
Dan tries his darndest to help Kevin, a man who has somehow never seen a movie, understand what a movie is. Uploads biweekly on Thursdays.
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It's our third, and final round! After a quick race to the bottom to crown the Loser of Losers, it's off to the final contest of the season:
Erin
Raising Arizona / Vampire's Kiss / Snake Eyes / Pay the Ghost
vs.
Carly
Pig / Kick Ass / Drive Angry / Jiu Jitsu
Who will take home the crown as the Ultimate Cage Team? Tune in to find out!
You can shoot us an email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com
We're continuing on to round two! Today's matches:
Erin
Raising Arizona / Vampire's Kiss / Snake Eyes / Pay the Ghost
vs.
Jon
Moonstruck / Con Air / National Treasure / Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
&
Kevin
Face/Off / The Rock / Wild At Heart / 8mm
vs.
Carly
Pig / Kick Ass / Drive Angry / Jiu Jitsu
Next time: The Finals
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Let the Cage Match commence! Each 'coach' will present and defend a movie in a head-to-head battle. Win two match-ups and the team will move forward to the next round.
Round one brings us:
Dan
Mandy / Longlegs / Zandalee / The Wicker Man
vs.
Erin
Raising Arizona / Vampire's Kiss / Snake Eyes / Pay the Ghost
&
Carly
Pig / Kick Ass / Drive Angry / Jiu Jitsu
vs.
Jon
Moonstruck / Con Air / National Treasure / Ghos...
Let's ride.
It's time for our annual Nicolas Cage movie bracket – but this time: we're going head to head. Instead of simply pitting movies against each other, this year each participant will pit their team against another in a best 2 of 3 contest.
Prepare for rivalries, heartbreak, and plenty of Cage. Up first: drafting and ranking our teams.
Our featured guests:
Carly Hayward, Erin Sheehan, & Jon Waugh
You can shoot...
It's the end of our Women Best Director Nominees season. Back to the 'ancient' days of 2008 when a woman (finally) won this dang award.
We'll be off the rest of February; see you in March for Cage Match!
content warning: discussions of the iraq war, the american military, war crimes, & the horrifying ways bombs and bodies intersect.
You can shoot us an email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com
We're back into our Women Best Director Nominee season and picking up with Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. Sometimes art really emotionally resonates and gets appropriately lauded by the industry, eh?
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We did it, we survived 2025! Let's look back at the films (& other media) we watched this past year and discuss our general thoughts on em. In a new(?) record, Dan has an existential crisis fueled by his own decisions within just 25 minutes.
Here's to getting through 2026 together ❤️
Here's the big list of everything we discuss:
MOVIES/TV!
The Brutalist
Meshes of the Afternoon
Wicked
The Fall
The...
Our season of women Best Director nominees continues with Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird. Let's go on a trip back to post-9/11 high school and all the drama, anxiety, and oddity it contained.
Hope you have a lovely holiday and get a chance to watch whatever films fit the bill for you (Die Hard or otherwise).
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Our tour through the women nominated for Best Director continues and this time we've got:
Legal drama!
Interpersonal Conflict!
A Gorgeously Subjective Camera!
Murder!?
Take a trip with us to the French Alps as we dig into the anatomy of this Anatomy Of A Fall.
content warnings: broad strokes discussions of suicide, parent/spouse death, pet endangerment, legal misogyny
You can shoot us an email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com
It's time for a new season! Our theme this time: Women Nominated for Best Director.
Up first, 2024's The Substance – a perfect Thanksgiving movie. Jump on in for grotesque body horror as we unpack the unrealistic beauty standards for women. #JusticeForMonstroElisasue
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It's sequel season so we've found, perhaps, the most sequel movie we could. A sequel to Alien(s) and Predator? Incredible stuff. Is it also a de-make of Prometheus? Maybe!
Happy 6 year anniversary to our silly little podcast here! Thanks for joining for any and all of this ridiculous ride that you have; we appreciate you.
We'll be back with our next proper season in a few weeks. Until then, Happy Halloween!
You can shoo...
We've got a great podcast, and you can get your head all the way up it.
It's Heat time! Let's acquaint ourselves with Michael Mann's heist classic featuring every dad-cinema guy you could ever dream of.
Also, it's the Double Classic/secretly heat-themed Season finale! We'll walk memory lane for a bit before bidding you adieu as we take a lil breaky break.
cw: discussions of domestic abuse, child en...
Our twice-missed classics season (which is quickly shaping up to be the unintentional 'hot' season) continues with a certified Spike Lee joint.
Summer may have just ended in real life, but let's roll it back to the hottest days of the year. 😎
cw: discussions of racism, police violence/killing
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lol this movie sucks butt
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The season continues as we crack open The Best Movie Ever Made™️
Does it live up to the title? Is the knowledge of the "twist" put a damper on the experience? Themes: what good are they? These topics, and more!
Ahh, the French champagne...
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It's time for a new season! We're back to our roots with classic films Kevin really should have seen by now... that somehow Dan also hasn't seen.
Up first: 12 Angry Men; perhaps the ultimate bottle episode.
Let's put twelve men, their biases, masculinity, and the American judicial system in a pressure cooker and see what comes out.
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The grand conclusion of Giallo Season! Join us as we fast-forward all the way to 2018 to see what a modern, queer, giallo looks like. Buckle up for some blood, neon, and sexy gay boys as far as the eye can see.
Thanks for joining us on this genre quest; catch ya in a month for our next season 😎
You can shoot us an email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com
The giallo films from good ol Dario Argento just keep comin! Time to get a bit meta and introspective with Tenebrae as we discuss the nature of self-critique, feelings on "challenging" works, and - all things aside - how delightful it is to see someone's hand lopped off by an axe. Also, a "brilliant" pitch for how a modern remake of this film should be made.
There's just one more (modern) stop on t...
Profondo Rosso? More like, a profondo real good time!
We're here checking out, arguably, the prime of Argento's Giallo time. Spiral into a winding mystery with us as we chat about puppet murder, top notch haunted house, the DNA of Halloween, and the true specter haunting our podcast; Richard Riehle.
You can shoot us an email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com
Giallo Season continues with Dario Argento's first foray into the genre. Let's dive in and get trapped in a... colorful mystery.
You can shoot us an email at whatisamoviepod@gmail.com
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