We want to play a game.... Listeners requested we watch the latest entry in the Saw franchise, but it made your hosts think of the fact that they hadn't seen the original is a VERY long time. From the minds of now well known horror creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell, this film mostly centers on two strangers locked in a grimy, disgusting bathroo…

A group of Gen-Zers decide to have a Hurricane party and play a murder mystery party game that becomes very real very quickly in this 2022 horror(?) comedy.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We discuss the final movie in James Gunn's Marvel trilogy. Taking place after Avengers: Endgame this time Rocket takes center stage while the rest of our heroes are also adjusting to life after the Blip.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

James Gunn, Peter Quill and his band of Marvel space misfits return to tell a story about fathers and sons.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We go back in time to 2014 and review James Gunns' surprise cosmic Marvel hit about a team of space misfits who come together to save the planet Xandar from destruction at the hands of Ronan, a disciple of Thanos.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

This week we re-watched A Chicano/Hood film classic per a listener request. This film follow the story of Miklo, and his cousins Cruz and Paco who are both brothers. These three men are reunited when Miklo moves back to East Los Angeles and we get to see how their paths both cross and split over a period of twelve years. This three hour crime epic …

This week we review a film that comes at the tail end of the Disney Animated Renaissance of the 90s which can not be forgotten. It has great music, a villain so horny he wants to burn down all of Paris, and we talk briefly about the Festival of Foolss... But more importantly we talk about Feast of the Ass and that alone is reason enough for you to …

We’ve come to the end of Nolan Week, folks. The Academy Awards are nigh and we’re here to offer the last word on the soon-to-be-Oscar-annointed OPPENHEIMER. Join Matt and SPECIAL GUEST BRIAN BOARINI (!) for a three-hour tour of a quarter-century filmography. It’s time, folks. It’s Nolan time. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: A…

The grandaddy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Back when The Incredible Hulk and Doctor Strange only existed in dark dingy television, Marvel took its first step into feature films with this 1986 adaptation of the comic series which was produced by George Lucas. Trapped in a world he never made a made, this film follows Howard, a duck from a dista…

Why are we reviewing this... Because our listeners secretly hate us because watching this movie was not self love. This week we cover this disastrous adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's beloved musical with CGI Cats thats should only exist in nightmares.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

It’s TENET-talkdown time, team. We chat. We disagree. We rank. Sound good? Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS Donate: Thanks! Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Sound good? We chat. We disagree. We rank. It’s TENET-talkd…

It’s time to talk temporality, team. - INCEPTION (2010) - INTERSTELLAR (2014) - DUNKIRK (2017) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSSOscar Dahl & Matt Knudsen

With Nolan’s vision of Gotham City in our rearview, we’re now flashing back to the beginning of the auteur’s cinematic journey. We’ll scrutinize his dexterity with the daylight noir, his interest in self-victimizing sleuths, and his fascination with prestidigitation. - FOLLOWING (1998) - MEMENTO (2000) - INSOMNIA (2002) - THE PRESTIGE (2006) Email:…

You know them, you’ve seen them, and you certainly have opinions about them. Join us as we revisit three of the most successful, influential, and subversively political films of the 21st century- courtesy of a man who insisted that he had absolutely no political agenda in mind when he made them. We’ll [attempt to] get to the bottom of this thematic…

As we traverse the last few miles in the marathon that will end at the 96th Academy Awards, it has become clear that “foregone conclusion” is the proper term to describe this year’s Best Director race. We here at WE LIKE MOVIES could not be happier with this inevitability as we look forward to no longer living in a world in which Christopher Nolan …

This legasequel follows K, a replicant (played by Ryan Gosling) who is a Nexus-9 replicant working for the Los Angele Police Department responsible for retiring (killing) older replicants who have disappeared and gone into hiding.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

Ridley Scott's sci-fi neo-noir film stars Harrison Ford as an replicant (robot) hunter who is tasked with terminating four replicants who are on earth to find their creator in a futuristic Los Angeles.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

Original Godzilla studio Toho returns ditching the giant monster battles for a post-WWII period piece grief movie! It's interesting that in a year where may of us were watching a film about the father of the Atomic Bomb, it was a kaiju movie that probably best tackled the fallout of this man made super weapon.…

Samuel L. Jackson stars in this 2005 sports drama inspired (As always this term is used LOOSELY) by the true story of Ken Carter, a Richmond, California High School basketball coach who institutes a lockout for his undefeated team so that they could raise their grades to the necessary level to get into college.…

The first new episode of 2024 is us finally covering this 2023 standout film starring Zac Efron as Kevin Von Erich, a Pro Wreslter who is part of one of wrestling royal families. His three man tag team The Von Erichs were the stars of Texas promotion World Class Championship wrestling (WCW) run by their father, first generation pro wrestler Fritz V…

We've made it to the end of our Twilight review series! The closing chapter of this saga wraps up the story of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen with them as parents! I mean obviously theres a big battle at the end with the Voltari, vampire family reunions, vampire/werewolf politics, and Renesmee (Bella and Edward's daughter) is basically the daywalker …

The fourth film in the Twilight Saga brings us the Edward/Bella wedding and how that affects the Vampires, Werewolves Something we were expecting was love triangle melodrama from our two leads and Jacob, the wolf man-boy. Something we were not expecting: Abortion discussions, and a movie that at least makes us think of old horror movies like Rosema…

We are reviewing the third chapter of the Twilight Saga with Eclipse. There is a group of vicious vampires called "Newborns" killing people in Seattle who may also be heading to Forks looking for revenge on Edward and the Cullens. We also get to continue the Love triangle (?) between Edward, Bella, and Jacob. But everyone else move out of the way b…

Hey we're back in Forks! We have decided to wrap 2023 up by coming back to one of the most popular reviews of the year which was Twilight. In this second part to this saga we rejoin Bella and Edward as they try to navigate the challenges of a human/vampire relationship? Oh and we also get to know the Quileute werewolves too. Let's cliff dive into T…

The power of Christ (And David Gordon Green) has brought us back to the franchise based on the William Peter Blatty's groundbreaking novel and William Freidkin's horror masterpiece. 50 years after the original Exorcist, we follow the families of Angel and Kartherine, who experience both the disappearance and reappearance of their daughters after go…

Our second movie in our Spooky SZN festival goes into the Alien Abduction horror subgenre. We follow Brynn, a young shut-in living in her childhood home where she has been shunned by everyone in the small town she lives in. In addition to dealing with the grief of losing her childhood friend and mother, she is forced into survival mode when an Alie…

We're finally back! After a lengthy hiatus we've returned just in time for spooky season to cover this 2012 found footage horror anthology movie. We follow a Droog-like group of scumbags who are paid to break into to a stranger's home to collect a VHS tape. What they find is a collection of bizarre and horrifying experiences.…

The third movie in our Oakland Film Festival is this 2018 film directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada. We follow Colin who witnesses a black man being killed by a police officer on the last week of his probation. This incident leaves him shaken up and causes him to evaluate his life post incarceration and his relationship with his white childhood best fr…

The second movie in our Oakland on Film festival is this 2018 surrealist comedy from activist/musician turned Director Boots Riley. It revolves around Cassius Green, an Oakland telemarketer who discovers a major key to success in his job, and later has to choose between his own financial gain or joining his friends who are try to form a union.…

We spent two weeks praising Ryan Coogler for his Black Panther films and it has led us to finally go back to where it all began. This 2013 debut film from Coogler chronicles the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22 year old man who was shot and killed on New Years Eve by a BART Police officer in Oakland. Our proximity to the the real life event and t…

Ghostface takes Manhattan? After rebooting the popular 1990s meta slasher last year, the good folks of Radio Silence bring us another chapter in this long running horror franchise. We pick up one year after the evens of 2022's Scream where our new "Core Four" has now moved New York City, but unfortunately, a familiar white masked killer has now fol…

Do We Like Scary Movies? In 1996, the slasher craze of the 80s was long gone and movies series like Halloween, Hellraiser, and Child's Play were considering the move to home video. Oddly enough it took the director of Nightmare on Elm Street, and the guy who created Dawson's Creek to bring us the great 90s comeback of horror movies. This film is th…

“My ancestors would often say only the most broken people can be great leaders” - Namor The death of star Chadwick Boseman left a huge hole in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that may never be filled. Ryan Coogler decided that instead of recasting his hero, that his follow up to the 2018 Best Picture nominated film would be a film that dealt directly…

For Wakanda? Without question. We return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first of two Black Panther films starting with Ryan Coogler's 2018 superhero epic. The late Chadwick Boseman stars as the titular hero and king of the fictional African nation who must ascend to the throne after the death of his father in Captain America: Civil War (2…

Ready for some 2020 nostalgia? Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson along with Katelyn Crabb bring us this pandemic era slasher movie. It's April 2020, the world is locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Best friends Parker and Miri decide to quarantine together at Parker's family vacation home where they will be terrorized by an intruder who is…

We're finally at Episode 150! This highly requested movie based on the popular book series from Stephanie Meyer follows rural Washington high schooler Bella Swan and her romance with the mysterious teenaged(?) vampire, Edward Cullen.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

On Wednesday we wear pink... and podcast.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We kick off the New Year with this streaming rom-com about two "20-somethings" that decide to avoid the awkwardness of casual dating by spending each holiday together without catching feelings for each other (Good Luck!)Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

Nothing says Christmas like Tom Cruise visiting a mysterious masked s*x party! Join us as we take a trip where the rainbow ends where we discuss the final film of Stanley Kubrick and Angel tries to explain why he like it so much.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

It's the Christmas season so we figured what better way to return than watching Santa Clause kill people with his bare hands. David Harbour stars as Santa himself in a movie that is cheesy enough to be a family film, but gory enough that you could not let a child anywhere near it.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

David Gordon Green and Danny McBride's Halloween sequel trilogy ends with "The Corey Cunningham Story (featuring Michael Myers and Laurie Strode)"Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We have such rebooted sights to show you. Following the success of the Predator reboot "Prey" earlier this year, Hulu is back with another re-imagining of a horror franchise.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

Spooky season is upon us so we figured what better way to make our grand return than to put together a list of 10 of our favorite scary movie moments to celebrate our love of horror movies and to get us all in the Halloween spirit early and it includes many films that have already been discussed on the show! We got the idea for this episode from Br…

We're about a month late but finally talking Jordan Peele's UFO epic.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

Our discussion on the Black Phone got us down the path of another Ethan Hawke starring horror film from the early. 2010s. In this film he plays a true crime novelist who moves his family into a murder house to find inspiration for his next great book. If The Shining has taught us anything, it's that moving your family into a notorious murder proper…

We're back at the theater for this week's movie. The latest Blumhouse horror flick takes us back to 1979 where we follow a kid names Finney, an often bullied quiet kid in his Denver suburb. When a frightening serial killer named The Grabber (played by the excellent Ethan Hawke) kidnaps Finney and locks him in his basement, he finds an old Black Pho…

Sam Raimi makes his return to Marvel films with the 2022 sequel to Dr. Strange. A sequel of sorts to Spider-Man: No Way Home, we catch up with Dr. Stephen Strange who teams up fellow superpowered being America Chavez as they try to stop Scarlett Witch from taking over the Multiverse.Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

Nothing says Jurassic Park sequel like potential Global food shortages, irreversible ecological changes, and the evil of capitalism. Colin Trevorrow returns to the director's chair for "The End of the Jurassic Era". The final film in this franchise combines plotlines from all 6 films and brings together the stars of both franchises to stop Billiona…

In 2015, Colin Trevorrow was selected by Steven Spielberg to take us back to Jurassic Park. Following a gaggle of unmade movies including a bizarre Dino/Human mutant movie, the simplest way to bring us back into this world was finding out what a fully functioning park with Dinosaurs would look like. Similar to the original film, the genetic modific…

We are back talking Sam Raimi's directorial debut. One of the older "cabin in the woods" films, we follow a group of young adults as they escape to a relative's cabin for a fun 80s teen horror getaway. These plans are foiled by a demonic force that moves through the surrounding forest. Also the film debut of Bruce Campbell as Ash!…