Film And Whiskey

Bob and Brad finally watch Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise for the first time and come away stunned by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, a brilliant screenplay, and one of the best films they’ve discovered in years. Then they review Bardstown Bourbon Company Victoria Pineapple Finish, an unusually sweet, rum-and-pineapple-influenced whiskey that sparks a debate over whether Bob is allowed to keep calling it a liqueur.

F...

Bob and Brad hit the road with 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit, celebrating Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, and 95 minutes of gloriously uncomplicated car-chase chaos. Then they review Stillman Sonder 10-Year American Single Malt and discover that an impressive age statement doesn’t always make for an impressive whiskey.

For longer episodes and special bonus content, consider joining our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ ...

Buster Keaton directed and starred in The General (1926), a Civil War train chase turning 100 this year. Bob came in expecting a polite "important silent film" rewatch and left raving about the audacity of it.

The pour is Stillman's Sonder 10 Year Bourbon from Dancing Goat Distillery, MGP-distilled and finished in North American and Andean oak.

For longer episodes and special bonus content, consider joining our Patreon⁠ for as little...

Bob and Brad celebrate 500 episodes of Film & Whiskey by looking back at seven years of movies, arguments, favorite discoveries, listener memories, infamous hot takes, and the community that somehow grew around their weekly conversations. They also mark the occasion with Bardstown Bourbon Company Lochs of Jura, a complex bourbon-and-rye blend finished for 32 months in casks previously used for Scotch from the Isle of Jura.

For l...

Bob and Brad tackle the show's first double feature, watching James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) back-to-back alongside Sagamore Spirit Bottled in Bond Rye, and end up split on nearly everything.

On the original, Bob calls it a landmark rather than a great film and praising mainly its craft, while on the sequel Brad sees a campy cash grab that lampoons the first film.

For longer episodes and special ...

Bob and Brad revisit Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005), over two decades after fourteen-year-old Bob called it “about as damn perfect of a movie as you can get.” They agree that the film’s final two hours remain extraordinary, but sharply divide over whether its first hour provides essential character development or desperately needs trimming.

Along the way, they examine King Kong as distinctly American folkl...

Bob and Brad revisit 1933's King Kong and find it isn't just a landmark, but the full- formed template of the adventure movie itself, right down to the Jurassic Park structural blueprint Spielberg would lift sixty years later.

Plus, a genuinely strange whiskey pairing: SHĀNG Dàn Yǎ, a first-of-kind jiàngxiāng whiskey that takes sauce-aroma baijiu from China, redistills it, and ages the result in charred American oak. At 100 proof an...

The first Let's Make It a Double chain of Season 11 closes with Bob's Pick, The Wild Robot, one of his favorite animated films of the last few years, and a first-time watch for guest and five-time co-host Lee Diaz of ReserveBar. The whiskey pairing is Heaven Hill's Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey, a category the show has barely explored. The conversation about what The Wild Robot does spectacularly well and where it fumbles is one ...

Bob and Brad drop a guest episode with John McCarthy, founder of the John Barleycorn Society, to walk through the full Spring 2026 Barleycorn Awards, including the biggest upset of the season in both Best Bourbon and Best Spirit of Spring 2026. John explains how Barleycorn's remote-first judging format works, reveals every category winner from Chivas 18 to Uncle Nearest to Dogfish Head to Starlight, and gets Bob and Brad on record ...

Season 11 rolls into Week 2 with the second film in the season's first Let's Make It a Double chain, and it's a genuine rarity: Big Hero 6 is Bob's first-time watch, only the third film in F&W history that Bob is coming in cold on (Scott Pilgrim and Secondhand Lions are the other two). Pair that with a new limited release from Green River Distillery Select — an 8-year, 115.1-proof toasted double oak that lands squarely on...

Bob and Brad drop a bonus episode to react to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — Bob's seen it twice and lays out a full theory of late-period Nolan as a career-long meditation on deception scaling from the individual (Memento) to the civilizational (Oppenheimer, now this), landing at 8.5/10. Brad went on a friend's fifteen-minute-notice invitation the night before, having just reread the poem, and comes in at 7/10 — arg...

Season 11 begins, and Bob and Brad have finally cracked the format they've been chasing for ten seasons. The plan: 10 canon-level films across the year, each one kicking off a three-movie mini-program built by chaining "Let's Make It a Double" picks. They use the premiere to establish the rules, knock back a Bardstown Distillery Reserve release that lands at a rare 45/50 from both hosts, and make the unanimous case that The Incredi...

Bob and Brad sit down for one last between-seasons drop before Season 11 begins in July, and this one has real news: every film on the Season 11 slate, revealed. Along the way, they pour Hole One from Penelope's brand-new 18-bottle Architects of Golf collection, a $60 six-year MGP bourbon finished with American oak staves that lands solidly in F&W's summer-crusher territory. It's a preview that doubles as a full whiskey review ...

Bob and Brad review Green River's $25 honey-finished bourbon, then sit with new director of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, David Huffman, on why repertory cinema matters.

Bob and Brad use this between-seasons drop to do three things at once: tease the format of Season 11, review a whiskey that flirts with the legal edges of what bourbon can technically be, and sit down with the new director of one of the country's most...

Patrick H. Willems returns to defend Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story — sparking Bob's most deranged take to date, all about cinematographer Janusz Kamiński. Plus Penelope Riviera, a new blend featuring American Light Whiskey and a Rosé cask finish.

For longer episodes and special bonus content, consider joining our Patreon for as little as $3/mo!

Film & Whiskey Instagram

Film & Whiskey Facebook

Film & Whiskey Twitter

...

In this interseason bonus episode, we saddle up for a conversation that’s equal parts nostalgia, Americana, and bourbon-fueled storytelling.

With the Kentucky Derby around the corner, we finally dive into Seabiscuit (2003)—a film Bob has been waiting 11 seasons to cover. It may be a loose connection (Seabiscuit never ran the Derby), but it’s the perfect excuse to explore one of the most iconic underdog stories in s...

In the Season 10 finale of Film & Whiskey, Bob and Brad wrap up their ambitious “re-review” season by finishing the official Film & Whiskey Bracket Challenge, handing out the annual Filmies, and crowning the best movie of the season, for better or worse.

Along the way, they review Bardstown Bourbon Company’s Cascadia Garryana Oak Barrel Finish, debate whether Rear Window, Casablanca, and 12 Angry Men are ac...

The bracket chaos continues.

In Part 2 of the Film & Whiskey Season 10 Bracket Challenge, Bob and Brad take the field from 16 films down to four—and things get messy fast. What starts as thoughtful film debate quickly spirals into coin flips, upsets, and pure cinematic anarchy.

Along the way, the guys go head-to-head on legendary matchups like Vertigo vs. Star Wars, Pulp Fiction vs. Rear Window, and Casablanca vs. Singin&rs...

Bob and Brad recap the 2026 Academy Awards, break down the biggest winners of the night, and debate the current state of the Oscars. Did One Battle After Another deserve its Best Picture win? Was Michael B. Jordan the right choice for Best Actor? And what does the future look like for the Academy Awards as audience interest continues to shift?

After discussing the highlights from the ceremony—including Conan O’Brien&rsqu...