by Justin Morissette & Hayley Leier
Plenty of readers have countless books on their shelves that they've never even begun to read. What this podcast presupposes is, what if Movie people are the same? Justin and Hayley have a shared background working in retail in the late 2000s, during the prime era of the discount DVD bin. Now the radio hosts are finally getting around to the movies they own that have come to own them. That, plus getting side-tracked by current hyper-fixations and talking about all the other movies they've been seeing of late. Watching the movies we bought and forgot! It's ADHD-DVD.
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April 30, 2025
<p>This week, we're busting out the slammer and potentially wishing we were back in it depending on who you ask, as we team up with the canary-clad copper to take down a star-studded mob in a wildly stylish and outlandishly conceived blockbuster starring a charming old man incapable of doing action scene, that's been seemingly buried in the Disney vault in the years since. It's 1990's <strong>Dick Tracy</strong>, directed and produced by Warren Beatty, and starring Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Mandy Patinkin, Dustin Hoffman, Seymour Cassel, William Forsythe, Charles Durning, Dick Van Dyke, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Kathy Bates and Catherine O'Hara. Most of these stars are unrecognizeable under the monstrous makeup required to make them look like their vintage crime comic strip counterparts, but Pacino made enough of an impression with a wildly comedic take on his typical mobster persona that he netted an Oscar nom for Best Supporting Actor, losing to Joe Pesci for <strong>GoodFellas</strong>. While Beatty is at least a decade too old to be proper fit as the movie's lead, it's his ambition behind the camera that makes the movie such a curiosity all these years later, as the film is either an enchanting dreamscape filled with unsolvable How Did They Do That movie magic puzzles, or a steaming pile of neon-drenched puke depending on which of our two hosts you ask. But that's okay, as we have some heated disagreement this week that is maybe the closest we've yet come to vintage Siskel & Ebert kinda stuff. Plus: We've both been to the theater and are happy to sound off on Ryan Coogler's latest as JMo and Hayley both greatly enjoyed <strong>Sinners</strong> in the cinema, and Justin's got a bonus theatrical field report on <strong>Drop</strong>, the latest from <strong>Happy Death Day</strong> director Christopher Landon.</p> <p>If you'd like to watch <strong>Dick Tracy</strong> before listening along to our conversation, good luck finding a physical copy, and Disney will seemingly never stream this thing on Disney+ -- possibly for rights reasons to avoid paying anything more to Warren Beatty, or possibly because they are cowards who are ashamed of the fun movie they made. Either way, it's tough to find outside of renting it on YouTube.</p> <p>Other works discussed in this episode include <strong>Creed</strong>, <strong>Fruitvale Station</strong>, <strong>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</strong>, <strong>Bram Stoker's Dracula</strong>, <strong>Puss In Boots: The Last Wish</strong>, <strong>Mad Max: Fury Road</strong>, Loki, <strong>The Accountant</strong>, <strong>The Perfect Storm</strong>, <strong>Bridge of Spies</strong>, <strong>War Horse</strong>, <strong>The Adventures of Tintin</strong>, <strong>Red Eye</strong>, <strong>Trap</strong>, <strong>Reign of Fire</strong>, <strong>Surrogates</strong>, <strong>The Expendables 2</strong>, <strong>The Last Boy Scout</strong>, <strong>Princess Mononoke</strong>, <strong>Hook</strong>, <strong>This Is The Tom Green Documentary</strong>, <strong>Cutthroat Island</strong>, <strong>Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl</strong>, <strong>G20</strong>, <strong>The Silence of the Lambs</strong>, <strong>Longlegs</strong>, <strong>Resident Orca</strong>, <strong>Avatar: The Way of Water</strong>, <strong>Blackfish</strong>, <strong>Batman ('89)</strong>, <strong>Batman Returns</strong>, <strong>Batman Forever</strong>, <strong>Batman & Robin</strong>, <strong>Who Framed Roger Rabbit?</strong>, <strong>X-Men</strong>, <strong>Blade</strong>, <strong>The Shadow</strong>, <strong>The Phantom</strong>, <strong>The Rocketeer</strong>, <strong>Darkman</strong>, <strong>Speed Racer</strong>, <strong>Furiosa</strong>, <strong>Challengers</strong> and <strong>Sin City</strong>, among others.</p> <p>We'll be back (more than likely) next week, with another special in-theaters spectacular, as 100+ episodes after we covered the original film, it is tax season once again and we're back for more Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal in <strong>The Accountant 2</strong>. So look for that next Friday, and until then we'll see you at the movies!!</p>
April 11, 2025
<p>This week, we're breaking our hiatus to break from our format, as we are not breaking down a film this week so much as hyping one up, as we get ready for the movie event of the summer by over-analyzing the final trailer for <strong>Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning</strong>. If you're a long-time listener or even someone who's only heard a few episodes you probably know that the <strong>Mission: Impossible</strong> movies are a permanent hyper-fixation around here, so we had to get together to discuss a preview loaded wall-to-wall with That Guy character actors, including the return of our beloved boy Shea Whigham, and even that one guy from the first movie who had to go have diarrhea. Everyone is here! Plus: J Mo's got a theatrical field report having been out to the VIFF premiere of the pro wrestling biopic <strong>Queen of the Ring</strong> that included a live Q&A with the film's director and star, and as usual we catch up on what's been filling our Letterboxd.</p> <p>Other works discussed on this episode include <strong>Kimi</strong>, <strong>Rushmore</strong>, <strong>The Accountant</strong>, The Pitt, <strong>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever</strong>, <strong>Avatar: The Way of Water</strong>, <strong>Aquaman</strong>, <strong>Campfire Tales</strong>, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, <strong>The Twister: Caught in the Storm</strong>, <strong>Twisters</strong>, <strong>Tenet</strong>, <strong>Deja Vu</strong>, <strong>The Iron Claw</strong>, <strong>Flow</strong>, <strong>The Wild Robot</strong>, <strong>Rope</strong>, <strong>Stranger Than Fiction</strong> and <strong>Terminator: Salvation</strong>.</p> <p class="p1">Not sure when we'll back together again, but we can say when we do we will be discussing Warren Beatty's 1990 comic book detective noir <strong>Dick Tracy</strong>, a movie that is literally never available to stream and may never be despite being produced and distributed by Disney. We've also got while-they're-in-theatres episodes planned over the next month for both <strong>The Accountant 2</strong> and <strong>Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning</strong>, so look forward to those, and until then, we'll see you at the movies!!</p>
March 30, 2025
<p>This week, we're having a ball -- scrapping, yelling and mixing it up, loving every minute with this damn crew as we close out Gene HackMarch with a regal induction into the podcast canon. It's 2001's <strong>The Royal Tenenbaums</strong>, directed by Wes Anderson, co-written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, and starring Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover and the voice of Alec Baldwin. While Anderson launched himself to prominence with <strong>Rushmore</strong>, Tenenbaums marked the full-throated arrival of a confident new voice in American cinema, and arguably remains his best effort nearly two and a half decades later. Perfectly utilising Hackman's gruff hard-ass patriarcal screen presence, cut by the man's easily over-looked and ofter under-utilised comedic abilities, it's a redemption story for an almost historically bad dad -- a funny, feel-good movie that says it's never too late to make things right. Plus: Hayley's got another theatrical outing to report on as she headed to the cinema to catch <strong>Black Bag</strong>, while both hosts have food fixations on the brain this week.</p> <p>If you'd like to watch the movie before listening along to our discussion, <strong>The Royal Tenenbaums</strong> is currently available to stream on Disney+, as well as Crave and Starz north of the border.</p> <p>Other works discussed this week include <strong>Presence</strong>, <strong>Kimi</strong>, <strong>Ocean's Eleven</strong>, <strong>Enemy of the State</strong>, <strong>The Conversation</strong>, <strong>No Way Out</strong>, <strong>Dirty Dancing</strong>, <strong>Step Up</strong>, <strong>Center Stage</strong>, <strong>Stranger Than Fiction</strong>, Arrested Development, <strong>Hard Eight</strong>, <strong>Sliding Doors</strong>, <strong>The French Dispatch</strong>, <strong>The French Connection</strong>, <strong>Isle of Dogs</strong>, <strong>The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou</strong>, <strong>The Darjeeling Limited</strong>, <strong>The Grand Budapest Hotel</strong>, <strong>Bottle Rocket</strong>, <strong>Asteroid City</strong> and Eastbound and Down, among many more.</p> <p>We don't know when we'll be back or what we'll be watching, as events in Hayley's life are making recording rather difficult over the next few months. But we will return, so don't fret! We just may be going down to a bi-weekly schedule for the next little while until things blow over. And don't worry, it's nothing bad. Updates coming on our social media feeds when we have them, but until then, we'll see you at the movies!!</p>
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