Missing Real with Mike D'Arrigo

About Missing Real with Mike D'Arrigo

Great movies take their place in history, but what about all the "turkeys" and disastrous flops littering the vast cinematic cesspool? If you really love movies, then what does it matter if a particular film won eight Oscars or eight Razzies? Sometimes over-the-top hammy acting, laughably choreographed fight sequences and rubber monster FX outdo even the most lavish productions in the Academy Awards echelon. So, whether it's an unsurpassed masterpiece or a piece of something else, every movie I talk about in this podcast is near and dear to my heart. Some you will know well, some you'd be well off never knowing at all, at least until hearing just how enjoyably awful they are, so plug in those earbuds or don your expensive blingy Beats, and let's take a trip to the movies! (Popcorn optional)

Publisher

Mike D'Arrigo

Category

arts · comedy · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 Dec 2023

Latest episode

20 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Season 12 Episode 2: Streets of Fire

   Imagine the hit musical Grease, except that everyone dropped out of Rydell High School and became biker gangs or losers. Now reduce the number of catchy, memorable hit songs for your drunken karaoke fests and set it entirely at night in a crime-infested city with not a trace of Batman. Sounds like a blast, don't it? Well, it's actually a pretty cool film by the director of The Warriors and 48 Hours, featuring some notable cast members like a young Willem Dafoe doing his cree...

2. 

   26 Jul 2026

   S12 E1: Firestarter

   The year was 1984, and while Big Brother may have been watching you, in his spare time he might have also watched this excellent movie adapted from a Stephen King novel, starring a cute 8-year-old Drew Barrymore. No ordinary kid, of course. She's got the pyrokinesis thing going, so any time she throws a tantrum, things burn down. She can generate the greatest balls of fire Jerry Lee Lewis could ever dream of. Goodness, gracious! This has been a longtime favorite ...

3. 

   13 Jul 2026

   Season 5 Episode 6: Event Horizon

   Know what an event horizon is? Hint: it is NOT a sunset at a destination wedding. As far as I know, it's some fancy science slang for a thing black holes do. In this case, it's a lost space vessel and the doomed mission to recover it. This 1997 movie, starring Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus!) and Sam Neill (Damien! OK, you might need to have been born in the 70's to get that reference) is a visually stunning and intestinally purging experience that will haunt you long af...

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YouTube views

2,579

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

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Quality

39

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

76

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