Mandatory Movies

About Mandatory Movies

Mandatory Movies is a casual format film podcast in which hosts Brad and Kevin both choose movies relating to each episode's theme that both must watch before getting together to discuss, argue, and admonish each other on mic.

Publisher

Bradley Redder and Kevin Falkenberg

Category

arts · comedy · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Mar 2019

Latest episode

10 Jun 2023

Latest episodes

44 episodes in the feed.

1. 10 Jun 2023

   Don’t Look Up, Directional Titles, and Dollar Store Knock-Offs

   Don’t Look Up arbitrarily has us talking about movies with directions in their titles in a special episode with our wives, Ellen Redder and Carolyn Rennie, from Barry Sonnenfeld’s obsession with the female body in Wild Wild West to our collective obsession with Viggo Mortensen’s male body in Eastern Promises.

2. 6 Jan 2022

   Cry Macho, Alliterative Character Names, and a Series of Jort Films

   Cry Macho has us talking about characters with alliterative names, from Eli Roth’s dreadful Donny Donowitz in Inglorious Basterds to Michael Rooker granting Grant Grant unexpected pathos in Slither.

3. 3 Aug 2021

   Those Who Wish Me Dead, Targeted Witnesses, and the Mafia Gangster Guy

   Those Who Wish Me Dead has us talking crime witnesses pursued by the mob, from the miscasting of Jack Nicholson in The Departed to the miscasting of Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition.

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