Are You Movie Mad?
400 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAre You Movie Mad? Is the podcast that asks the most difficult question one man has ever faced. Cinephile Andrew Jones is perpetually flabbergasted that Johnny Ellis uses the online moniker 'Movie_Mad' yet at any given moment seems not to understand any movie references. Join Andrew as he journeys through a collection of films to educate Johnny and ask if Johnny is Mad about the movie he watched or remains Movie Mad.
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Episodes
BONUS - The Social Network Commentary
October 18, 2020 23:00 - 2 hours - 139 MBRecorded on the 10th anniversary of the UK release, and celebrating Johnny’s 27th birthday, Andrew and Johnny dive into Fincher/Sorkin’s generation-defining masterpiece. There’s trivia games, fear of the fall of democracy, love of cinema and process, and lots of lockdown-re-entering japes in this special gift for all. Sync up 5 seconds into the film, we begin the commentary at 0:19:02
BATB 007 - Lovesick Blues
October 15, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBScarlett and Avery’s fallout looms large over an episode about togetherness, redressing the balance, and of course Nashville geography. Johnny gets to talk Johnny Cash, Andrew discusses songs that slap, and there’s hope building for the future of the show, the city and the podcast in a fun filled episode.
BATB 006 - You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
October 08, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBA not-so-routine traffic stop leads the conversation as Johnny and Andrew stay active in this trying time. Rayna hangs out with a new producer, Juliette has a PR date, Avery and Scarlett are definitely forever, and the town of Nashville will never have any dramatic things happening within it, so long as we keep vigil on the show.
211 - Sinister
October 06, 2020 23:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBJohnny takes command of the episode and makes Andrew sit through a modern horror that he absolutely adores. Andrew prepares for the Ethan Hawke of it all, and finds ways to make horror less scary by turning Sinister into a Muppet movie. Johnny tries to remember his top 10 films of 2012, but there seems to be some cursed beast within the archives, unleashing its own sinister brand of evil. The bad guy of this film is named Mr. Boogie, by the way.
210 - Repo! The Genetic Opera
October 06, 2020 23:00 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBIt’s the cross pollination of musical month and Shocktober, as horror director Darren Lynn Bousman delves deep into the dingy world of operatic storytelling, and gets a pre-I’ll Kill Harvey Weinstein Paul Sorvino to perform, whilst Paris Hilton loses face and Anthony Head remains vastly underpaid for his services to cinema. Also, Andrew laments horror cinema and Johnny works through furloughed worker schemes, because that’s where we are mentally now!
BATB 005 - Move It On Over
October 01, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBIt’s time to face up to addictions, deceptions and audits, as Nashville looks to bring characters together and tear relationships apart. Johnny goes deep in detail whilst Andrew reminisces on the end of Ben Affleck’s The Town and accepts Charles Esten’s smouldering personality.
209 - An American In Paris
September 29, 2020 23:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBThe last week of Music Documentary Musical Month sees Andrew finally witness a Gene Kelly film he’s been meaning to watch for years, and Johnny witness the prowess of a dance god. Also, some deep talk about trailer production for, I’d guess, nobody’s interest.
BATB 004 - We Live In Two Different Worlds
September 24, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBIn the aftermath of Juliette’s criminal activity, Andrew and Johnny recover by discussing the geography of the city of Nashville, problematic characters from the year 2012 and the ensuing political landscape that manifests in the mayoral race on a TV show from the start of the decade. This will be the last episode on the Are You Movie Mad? Podcast feed, we’re going solo from October.
208 - Top Hat
September 22, 2020 23:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBJohnny loves The Green Mile but has been so obsessed with a scene in the film where Michael Clarke Duncan watches Top Hat in the cinema and cries. Now it’s time for Johnny to finally see the whole film, in context, and Andrew is dragged along despite his hatred of Fred and Ginger films. Will Top Hat be top of the hats, or some second thing that means bad?
BATB - 003 - Someday You'll Call My Name
September 17, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBThings get a little crazy backstage this week, as Andrew and Johnny contemplate the amount of ‘Daddy’ talk in this week’s episode, forget names of characters, and continually engage in the ‘will they/won’t they’ of Rayna and Juliette’s upcoming tour prospects.
207 - The Last Five Years
September 15, 2020 23:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBWhat if Anna Kendrick was one of two leads in a romance drama musical? That runs 90 minutes? And came out in 2014? Well, by rights it’d be a thing you’d at least have heard about, right? Thus, this is a film that 100% doesn’t exist. Yes it is another Johnny pick!
Backstage At The Bluebird - 002 - I Can't Help It (I'm Still In Love With You)
September 10, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBEpisode 2 of the Nashville TV Series re-watch show settles us in the world of the show, the dramatic nature of a music-themed statue, and of course more discussion about the use of the term ‘Daddy’. Stay for the coaster discussions and what it means to ‘songwrite’ with another person.
206 - The Phantom Of The Opera
September 08, 2020 22:59 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBIt’s another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical adaptation for another musical month, and this one sees the late Joel Schumacher cast Gerard ‘Punch The Weather’ Butler as the titular phantom. Andrew and Johnny come to it from two very different angles, but will their love of cinema bridge the vast gaps between them?
Backstage At The Bluebird - 001 - Pilot
September 03, 2020 23:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBJohnny gets Nashville fever and brings Andrew to the ABC drama, all the country music pulls, Powers Boothe as Daddy and Chip Esten’s twin brother Charles dominate the discussion on the hit show’s pilot episode.
205 - Bluebird
September 01, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBMusical/Music Documentary Month gets off to a singing start, as Johnny picks a doc about the Nashville institution that features the likes of Faith Hill, Charles (Chip) Esten, Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks and Kacey Musgraves. Andrew gets a hard indoctrination into modern country performance, and Johnny fondly recalls his travels to the landmark in the pre-pandemic world. Finally, maybe, a new podcast is spawned from this episode? Keep your ears out!
Bonus - FrightFest 2020 Day 4
August 31, 2020 20:55 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBJohnny wraps up FrightFest with a mysterious vampire co-host cracking wise throughout. Hitting up the films The Swerve, Enhanced, AV: The Hunt and the short films Werewolf, The Motorist, Love Bite, The Gift, Wash, Fuel, Polvotron 500, Keith, Death Walks On Nitrate and The Afterlife Bureau.
Bonus - FrightFest 2020 Day 3
August 30, 2020 23:28 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBJohnny lost the internet for a bit, but still he found the scares of FrightFest Day 3, including a whole pack of shorts. We’re talking Clapboard Jungle, Hall, Aquaslash, Two Heads Creek and short films Bark, Jeff Drives You, Ouzo And The Blackcurrant, Breakfast, A Bit Of Fun, FLESH Control, Subject 3, Tarrare, Guest and The Beholder.
Bonus - FrightFest 2020 Day 2
August 29, 2020 22:21 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBHours after we recorded Day One we lost a modern cinema titan, and so tributes are paid to Chadwick Boseman, before heading into discussion on Day 2 of FrightFest online. The films reviewed are The Columnist, The Horror Crowd, They’re Outside and Don’t Click.
BONUS - FrightFest 2020 Day 1
August 28, 2020 23:47 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBJohnny catches Andrew and the audience up with FrightFest 2020’s digital event, including talk of pre-fest movie Sky Sharks, and Day One films I Am Lisa and 12 Hour Shift. Expect haunts and guffaws from two folk making it through a very bad time together. But… apart, socially.
204 - The Drone
August 25, 2020 22:56 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBIt’s Frightfest weekend and Johnny wants to relive the glory of a former year, by choosing a film he himself gave 2 stars to on Letterboxd. Johnny insists The Drone is a good silly fun time, but will it warm the cold, broken heart of horror-un-liking Andrew?
203 - Black Book
August 17, 2020 23:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBPaul Verhoeven steps up to the podcast plate with a 2006 WWII thriller that seems to still fly under the radar. Will the isolation make the film stronger, or will 150 minute films seem like an impossible experience when time is meaningless?
202 - Into The Wild
August 11, 2020 22:36 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBAndrew presents one of his all-time favourite films during a time when neither host has been able to experience any kind of outside adventure in almost half a year, it’s a perfect time to lament and wistfully watch a film like this. Will Johnny join Andrew in loving this film, or like Andrew to any of Johnny’s films, will Johnny nitpick this to death?
201 - Erin Brockovich
August 04, 2020 23:00 - 48 minutes - 44 MBIt’s back to reality, oop there goes gravity, as Andrew and Johnny square up to Isolation August with a spin around 2000’s Julia Roberts Oscar winning performance as Erin Brockovich. Nobody’s going insane or depressed at home, so why wouldn’t a fun romp around big corporations killing and hiding the facts of killing innocent working class people be the kind of film we all enjoy? I’m rambling, one second, I’ll continue, it’s a podcast episode, go listen. End communication.
200 - Hamilton - An American Musical ACT II
July 28, 2020 23:01 - 3 hours - 177 MBIt’s episode 200, 200! And since we cannot celebrate in person with friends, Johnny and Andrew bring folk in to talk Hamilton and their lockdown fun. Join the revolution with Movies On Weekends’ Sarah Cook, Film journalist Nathanael Smith, Forbes and E!’s Simon Thompson, Comedian and film aficionado Richard Sandling, Activist and Host Sarah O’Connell and the return of super-duper film fans Jan Thomas and Dave Thomas in Act II! So settle in for a super expressive celebration of joy, love and ...
200 - Hamilton - An American Musical ACT I
July 28, 2020 23:00 - 3 hours - 191 MBIt’s episode 200, 200! And since we cannot celebrate in person with friends, Johnny and Andrew bring folk in to talk Hamilton and their lockdown fun. Set in for a lot of Cats conversations with Al Pacino expert Mark Searby, VoDZilla editor Ivan Radford, filmmaker Bradley Porter, Activist and Host Sarah O'Connell, Empire Podcast and Magazine’s Chris Hewitt, Mega film fans Jan & Dave Thomas and Variety’s Jazz Tangcay in Act I! So settle in for a super expressive celebration of joy, love and th...
199 - Being John Malkovich
July 21, 2020 22:59 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBIt’s episode 199 and Andrew is bringing the Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman of it back to Johnny in a conclusively final first creative experience episode. Andrew considers Catherine Keener and a sexual awakening, whilst Johnny struggles to comprehend the mindblowing nature of art, puppetry and Cameron Diaz’s hair.
198 - Bon Cop, Bad Cop
July 14, 2020 23:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBAndrew takes control of the show back once more with a Canadian buddy cop picture where cultures clash like teams on the hockey rink. Will J like his new nickname? Will Andrew enjoy a film for once? Will the recording of the episode be marred by the passing of Carl Reiner the hour before recording? Yes, in that case, yes it bloody will.
197 - Book Club
July 07, 2020 22:54 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBIt’s another Johnny pick whilst the lockdown continues to hurt the streaming video libraries, and the 2018 septuagenarian rom-com experience is explored and the hotness of Andy Garcia is stretched to feature length. Andrew continually recalls his pre-screening excitement and post-screening existential spiral as the Book Club opens to the first page.
196 - QT8 - The First Eight
June 30, 2020 22:44 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBJohnny’s love of Quentin Tarantino returns as he makes Andrew watch a doc about the director’s films (besides Hollywood) and sheds new light on the whole Weinstein situation. This is a light entertainment podcast recording during a lockdown heatwave.
195 - The King Of Staten Island
June 23, 2020 23:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBWell, it’s been a long time coming, the latest Judd Apatow film dropped online a few weeks back, and Andrew was psyched. Johnny tags along like it’s a regular day at the cinema, and comes away contemplating Pete Davidson’s comedy, and the potency of Bill Burr as an actor.
194 - Artemis Fowl
June 16, 2020 23:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBIt’s hard to find something new in this weird dead world, but Disney+ bring a film intended for August 2019 straight to streaming a year later, and Andrew and Johnny see it as reason enough to give it a go. Stay for Johnny’s Irish roots which makes Andrew’s Irish accent even MORE offensive, in these trying times.
193 - World's Greatest Dad
June 09, 2020 23:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBA light spry comedy with Robin Williams is just the tonic this world needs, so Andrew throws Johnny into the proverbial deep end with a Bobcat Goldthwait picture, and discusses the times he attempted to bring a second Williams/Goldthwait project to the forefront, because nostalgia and distraction are all we have left in this rotting world of ours.
192 - Funny People
June 02, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBOn the eve of The King Of Staten Island it’s time to check into Apatown for one more swing for the fences, and a 145 minute Adam Sandler cancer drama. Can Johnny make it through the extended runtime? Can Andrew make it through the extended lockdown? Are rhetorical questions good for adding mystery?
191 - Top Secret!
May 26, 2020 23:00 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBHow silly can you get? Well, for Andrew and Johnny this is about the lockdown limit of silly. Coming off discovering 2 different planned films were no longer available to watch, plan C has gone into action, and comedy, and spy thriller, and musical, and all genres to fit in Val Kilmer’s crooning teen-hearthrob-hero Cold War spoof movie.
BONUS - Cats Commentary
May 22, 2020 16:59 - 2 hours - 118 MBIt’s digital release day for Cats in the UK and Johnny is all fur-ious that he’s not watching it with Andrew, and Andrew wishes he could paws life for the 2 hours it takes to sit through Tom Hooper’s Cats. Come join the experience through heaven or hell or heavyside layer, no matter your thoughts on the musical, you can all understand what listening to a tortured soul sounds like.
190 - Under Siege 2- Dark Territory
May 19, 2020 21:52 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBAndrew brings back Casey Ryback as Johnny tries to remember what it was like to be Under Siege the first time. Andrew also dishes out information on how to be Under Siege in Dark Territory, and how the film uses various semiotic, metaphoric and visual ways to create a siege that is in dark territory, and that is under said siege. It’s very clever.
189 - Brimstone
May 12, 2020 23:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBJohnny loves this 150 minute frontier horror, and insists Andrew saddle up for a ride into hell and back, promising that Retribution Is Coming. Andrew, meanwhile, breaks down and contemplates what a serial killer horse could get away with back in olden times. Yep. That’s how the lockdown’s going, folks.
BONUS - 101 Dalmations 1996 Commentary
May 04, 2020 23:00 - 2 hours - 124 MBAndrew’s 30th birthday celebrations are isolated to watching films with friends, and Johnny’s plan to surround Andrew with many furry ones has succumbed instead to popping on Disney+ and watching the Glenn Close live-action comedy. Andrew hasn’t seen the film, has no connection to the work, it is not a meaningful choice by any stretch, but come watch the film with Andrew and Johnny. Fun, games, furs and frivolities included.
188 - This Is 40
May 04, 2020 23:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBA second trip to Apatown, a month after Knocked Up it’s the sort-of sequel, whilst preparing for Judd’s next film The King Of Staten Island coming in June. Discussion leads to aging, marriage, Lost and improvisational Mad Max.
187 - Gods And Monsters
April 28, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBThe quarantine has adjusted everything somewhat, but no worry, there’s always a Brendan Fraser film to fall back on, and plenty of memories of Ian McKellen’s days feline up London with this Frankenstein of an episode where puns are always at play.
186 - Gotti
April 21, 2020 23:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBOh gotti, protect us. Andrew insists on watching a film directed by E from Entourage, and brings Johnny down with him. John Travolta plays a mob boss, but the real crime is against cinema, as the duo work out if films are bad or the isolation is just driving insanity further and further into our skulls.
185 - Knocked Up
April 14, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBAndrew throws on one of his all-time comfort comedies, and Johnny’s expectations are completely subverted as Seth Rogen puts a baby into our hearts. Snippets of The Irishman meeting It and ideas for additional sort-of sequels within the Apatowverse are presented to warn off insanity mid-quarantine.
184 - Impractical Jokers - The Movie
April 07, 2020 23:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBJohnny takes the stage in an impromptu schedule shift, as The Tenderloins’ hit TV show reaches the big screen (A digital release because there are no ‘big screens’ anymore, up is down, cats and dogs are marrying my mother!), and insists we watch Impractical Jokers - The Movie just after its worldwide April Fool’s Day release. Andrew finds understanding in quality TV-To-Film adaptations and reality-meets-sketch hybrid creations, whilst Johnny hurts himself laughing.
183 - Rango
March 31, 2020 21:31 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBWe’re all isolated across the globe, but for this week it’s a trip to the desolate Mojave, as Gore Verbinski’s Oscar-winning western animated adventure comes into view. Talking family movies, quarantine life and the career of the Pirates Of The Caribbean director, maybe some sanity will be found here.
BONUS - Isolation Test - Disney+ Talk
March 28, 2020 17:49 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBAs Covid-19 has put us all in self-isolation, the usual episode feeling of being together, feeding off one-another’s energy is out the window. Testing out online recording for future use, Andrew and Johnny talk Better Call Saul (SPOILERS), Disney+, hint at next week’s episode and Johnny Cash of course comes up once again.
182 - Margaret
March 24, 2020 23:36 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSitting on the shelf after a long time, we release an episode on Kenneth Lonergan’s much-delayed epic human drama, where Johnny has some sort of comprehensive understanding of humanity and the universe, and Andrew reminisces on the single-screen opening day in London.
181 - A Prairie Home Companion
March 17, 2020 22:45 - 39 minutes - 36 MBRobert Altman’s final film comprises death, country music and a huge cast. Are You Movie Mad?’s episode on Robert Altman’s final film comprises watching films, not singing music very well and two people in a room. It’s like yin meets yang!
180 - Inside Man
March 11, 2020 00:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBThe perfect bank robbery film deserves the perfect podcast episode. But for now, this’ll have to do, as Johnny gets another Spike Lee Joint under his belt, and Andrew remembers the wonderful times of 2006 cinema, when Clive Owen could do just about anything, except be Bond.
Fast Fridays - A Prologue
March 08, 2020 23:56 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MBAndrew announces a new mini-series in the Corona-infested world of action, family and turning enemies into friends. Will he discover how the virus spread? What happened to John Cena? Why drop almost every letter in the titles for the 9th (or 10th) movie? Begun, the adventure has.
179 - The African Queen
March 04, 2020 00:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBWhat other podcast can go from 2019 to 1951 in such a smooth move? Johnny’s not seen maybe any Katherine Hepburn picture before, and Andrew is forced to listen to Billie Eilish for the first time. Johnny then delves into time travel more as he explains the manifestations of DC’s TV shows.