Book Club for Movies
222 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt's like a Book Club, except for movies, how crazy is that?? Mildly!
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Episodes
BCfM By Myself #11 - Crippled Avengers
June 11, 2023 05:26 - 9 minutes - 11.2 MBStill in 1978, still disemboweling enemies with solid iron prosthetics ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Ryan's Ever-Incomplete List of Action Movies
BCfM By Myself #10 - Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Game of Death, Enter the Fat Dragon, Five Deadly Venoms
June 03, 2023 19:01 - 17 minutes - 19.2 MB1978! Ryan's Ever-Incomplete List of Action Movies
BCfM By Myself #9 - The Black Dragon's Revenge
May 20, 2023 04:22 - 14 minutes - 16.6 MBIt continues... by going backwards a little bit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Ryan’s Ever-Incomplete List of Action Movies
Episode 206 - Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves
May 18, 2023 00:19 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBWhile Matt Marinates (?) we here at Book Club for Movies (it's Ryan. Ryan is typing this) have assembled a crack team of the most proximal people possible: Kandie and Evelyn Miller! It's not the New Normal, it's quite strange in fact, but it's enough to have a quickish discussion about the new (and a little bit of the old) Dungeons & Dragons movie!
BCfM By Myself #8 - 5 Fingers of Death, Fate of Lee Khan, Spiritual Boxer, 36th Chamber of Shaolin
May 11, 2023 23:36 - 12 minutes - 14.6 MBSlowly but surely! Ryan’s Ever-Incomplete List of Action Movies
BCfM By Myself #7 - Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
May 03, 2023 00:57 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MB6 down... 136 to go??? https://letterboxd.com/bcfm_ryan/list/ryans-ever-incomplete-list-of-action-movies/
BCfM By Myself #6 - Come Drink with Me, The One-Armed Swordsman, Dragon Inn, A Touch of Zen
April 15, 2023 15:00 - 13 minutes - 13.3 MBQuadruple the movies, quadruple the amount of by-myself! https://letterboxd.com/bcfm_ryan/list/ryans-ever-incomplete-list-of-action-movies/
BCfM By Myself #5 - The Tale of Zatoichi
April 09, 2023 07:15 - 7 minutes - 7.97 MBAttacking the list part 1(ish)! https://letterboxd.com/bcfm_ryan/list/ryans-ever-incomplete-list-of-action-movies/
BCfM By Myself #4 - Update!
March 22, 2023 23:43 - 5 minutes - 5.48 MBHey I'm re-tooling my half of the BCfM By Myself feed to feature my sputtering effort at covering this list of action movies from 1962 to present: https://letterboxd.com/bcfm_ryan/list/ryans-ever-incomplete-list-of-action-movies/ All publicly released, all here and on the Book Club for Movies YouTube channel. Come hang out! https://www.patreon.com/BookClubforMovies
Episode 205 - TVVB 13
March 09, 2023 22:56 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBRemember when we used to avail ourselves of our copious sports knowledge to talk about all the television we've been watching? Honestly doesn't ring a bell!
Episode 204 - M3GAN
March 02, 2023 23:54 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBAre our opinions on M3GAN are a delicate TikTok dance of emotion OR do we like the pressure washer part? Find out on this week's ep with a little help from Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and Samaritan on the back end!
Episode 203 - Retroactively Cow Volleyball 9
February 19, 2023 04:36 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBIf you guessed that we'd get back into the swing of things by talking about Marvel Snap, Midnight Suns, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, M3gan, John Q, Homebodies, Saving Private Ryan, Something in the Dirt, Wakanda Forever, The Banshees of Inisherin, and Deep Impact... you were right!
Episode 202 - Favorite Fives of 2022... Live!
January 08, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBHey the messiest show of the year just got messier, and feel free to throw your favorite five onto the pile!
Episode 201 - Anna and the Apocalypse
December 23, 2022 07:48 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBFrom the twisted mind that suggested we do shows on Morbius and Ambulance comes... Anna and the Apocalypse! Is it enough? Is it really that good? Listen to find out! Or just yes, yes it is! Also we do our due diligence with It's a Wonderful Life, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, Frances Ha, and Bedazzled! Happy Holidays! :)
Episode 200 - Act of Violence
December 07, 2022 04:46 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBA gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, and an Act of Violence is what we call 200 podcast episodes my friends – we were having too much fun for #Noirvember to do anything else so come join in and stick around for a few words on Austin Powers, Chronicle, and The Money Pit!
BCfM By Myself #2 - Jurassic World Dominion
November 28, 2022 16:00 - 5 minutes - 6.1 MBI think we're alone now, there doesn't seem to be anyone around... so about Jurassic World Dominion then...
Episode 199 - Out of the Past
November 25, 2022 19:40 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBTwo deep into #Noirvember and we have a real zinger on our hands folks, a real crackerjack I tells ya, with Out of the Past! Plus a bit on the back half about Crazy Mama, Fallen, the Goo Goo Dolls somehow, and 10 Cloverfield Lane!
Episode 198 - Blast of Silence
November 16, 2022 02:08 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBIt's our inaugural #Noirvember and we're starting with a showstopper in Blast of Silence before really going off the rails with a bit of Bullet Train, Lightyear, and Rad!
Episode 197 - Black Adam
November 15, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBWe're not fanboys... we're fanMEN *hard rock music begins*
Episode 196 - Deadstream
November 02, 2022 01:37 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBThis is it. This is how it ends. #Octoberween, I mean, and it ends with Deadstream! Okay technically it ends with some talk about Terrifier 2, Bloody Hell, The Conjuring 2, Cat People, Ready or Not, and Nope! Yep!
Patreon Exclusive! - The Blair Witch Project w/ Evelyn Miller
October 29, 2022 21:40 - 34 minutes - 32.7 MBOriginally released on 11/12/21 to patrons only, now public! We did it, we made a bonus, and it was another blast, a bonus Blair Witch blast with our very first podcast guest ever, my daughter. Did she believe the lies? Did she understand the question? Only one way to find out. https://www.patreon.com/BookClubforMovies
Episode 195 - The Innkeepers
October 23, 2022 05:44 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBThe third time's the charm this #Octoberween with Ti West's The Innkeepers and some bonus blabber about Werewolf by Night, Old, The Black Phone, Rosaline, and Three Thousand Years of Longing.
Episode 194 - Glorious
October 14, 2022 19:50 - 1 hour - 59 MB#Octoberween enters the bathroom stall this week with Glorious and extends its stay with Umma, Bodies Bodies Bodies, The Conjuring 2, and the Nightmare on Elm Street... remake ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Episode 193 - We're All Going to the World's Fair
October 08, 2022 07:30 - 59 minutes - 55.4 MB#Octoberween begins! This week it's We're All Going to the World's Fair and boy do we! And then it's Class of 1999, Cloverfield, and Day Shift and boy do we!
Episode 192 - Darkman
October 02, 2022 04:12 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBHey if you guessed we'd follow through and talk about Darkman but also Darkman III: Die Darkman Die, Prey, and (of course) Ski Patrol then you were right on the money, now go take that money to patreon.com/bookclubformovies and...
Episode 191 - In a Valley of Violence
September 25, 2022 03:15 - 1 hour - 61 MBWhat better way to follow up a month of lovey dovey movies with yet another lovey dovey movie assuming you, like us, lovey dovey Ethan Hawke! Failing that you can stick around for some talk about Do Revenge and Judgment Night('s soundtrack) on the back half of the show!
Episode 190 - Somewhere In Time
September 19, 2022 22:39 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBAnd so the month of Awwwgust ends in the middle of September with 1980's Somewhere In Time plus a little help from Airheads, Supergirl, Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, Europa Report, and... Immortality?
Episode 189 - Age of Adaline
September 14, 2022 03:56 - 1 hour - 70.1 MB#Awwwgust gets to 3rd base this week with Age of Adaline and a hefty helping of Thor: Love and Thunder on the back half, then we talk about The Outfit for some reason! Movies!
Episode 188 - Once (2007)
August 30, 2022 22:29 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBAwwwgust continues with a total Carney movie: Once! It then continues with additional carney movies Adventures in Babysitting, M*A*S*H, Guarding Tess, and The Contractor!
Episode 187 - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
August 20, 2022 22:17 - 56 minutes - 52.8 MBAre you ready for the name we came up for this month we're doing of lovey dovey movies? No, you're not! So cuddle up with a cry-buddy and fire up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg for starters, and keep the waterworks going for Grown Ups, Fanboys, Robin and Marian, Between Two Ferns The Movie, and The New Mutants!
Episode 186 - Furie (2019)
August 12, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBBringing you yesterday's podcasts... today! But who can blame us for stretching out Julykwondo as long as possible with our last and final selection for 2022: Furie! We also stretch it out with a few words on The Princess, The Gray Man, and Umma, but who wouldn't!
Episode 185 - Fire Down Below (1997)
July 30, 2022 23:24 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBInvestigate that Fire Down Below from 1997 with Matt and Ryan this week in what's probably this year's 3rd entry for #Julykwondo, then stick around for Plus One, Game of Death, and Enter the Fat Dragon!
Episode 184 - The Blonde Fury (1989)
July 23, 2022 00:26 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBJulykwondo continues to be a very good name for a very good month wherein we're now watching The Blonde Fury aka Cynthia Rothrock herself mow down as many as it takes to SOLVE CRIMES, but we also have a few words on Six String Samurai, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, History of Punk: Sound of Rebellion, and 1991: The Year Punk Broke! *whisper whisper* patreon.com/bookclubformovies...
Episode 183 - The Fearless Hyena
July 16, 2022 21:26 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBJulykwondo is back and everybody loves the name! This year we start off with The Fearless Hyena and a little help from Five Fingers of Death and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin... and 24 Hour Party People and Masterminds!
Episode 182 - Paddington 2
July 01, 2022 01:16 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBAlso unbearably massively talented? Paddington! 2! And since Matt went and saw Doctor Strange 2 we go ahead and give that another spin as well, spoilers included this time.
Episode 181 - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
June 24, 2022 00:13 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBWhat's better than a movie about a movie about a movie? Talk about value! We also talk about In the Tall Grass, Top Gun Maverick, and the CORRECT Ambulance movie, because we're professionals. And as always thank you for listening, please consider contributing to the Patreon if you want to enable this lunacy, and enjoy the extras! https://www.patreon.com/BookClubforMovies
Episode 180 - TVVB 12 LIVE!
June 15, 2022 04:16 - 1 hour - 101 MBTVVB! It's back! How do you play? We may have invented the game but that doesn't mean we know how (or why) it works! Come, join us to talk of television & other things. But mostly television. And yes, there is a winner at the end. A winner is you!
Episode 179 - Ambulance (2022)
June 14, 2022 08:23 - 58 minutes - 54.7 MBWe do in fact talk about the Michael Bay film called AmbuLAnce, but we also talk about Emergency, Top Gun, and Hot Shots... so it's a win in my book!
Episode 178 - Morbius
June 03, 2022 23:38 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBWe're Venom! Haha jk, here's some Morbius and some not-Morbius about Den of Thieves, Taken 3, and Turning Red!
Episode 177 - Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers
May 31, 2022 18:06 - 50 minutes - 47 MBSure they can rescue you from not being glued to a TV on a 1980s weekday afternoon but can Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers get the job done on a Sunday evening in your early 40s? Find out this week with a little additional help from Formula 51, Ghostbusters (2016), and Get Smart. Movies!
Episode 176 - Everything, Everywhere in the Multiverse of Madness or How To Cow Volleyball 8
May 12, 2022 23:29 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBWell the universe is splintering ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so we're probably talking about Everything Everywhere All At Once, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Quick and the Dead, Dark Waters, The Batman, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and You Were Never Really Here. Movies!
Episode 175 - Windfall (2022)
May 06, 2022 23:15 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBIf you're anticipating a windfall then boy do I have good news for you: Jesse Plemons continues to make movies! And if you're anticipating a Grindhouse or an Anthropophagus then wow somehow that paid off as well!
Episode 174 - Uncharted
May 05, 2022 23:05 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBFans of movies will agree this is one and people who look at Tom Holland will undoubtedly see him in this film, so come and enjoy 2008's movie of the year: Uncharted! And since that doesn't last long we also talk about Attack the Block, I Care A Lot, Ramenheads, and Life After Flash.
Pull List S01E02 - Hawkeye
May 05, 2022 00:53 - 1 hour - 64 MBIf you caught our mainline-but-LIVE show on the Hawkeye TV series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OboR0F47JEM) you know that we read a comic or two in preparation, well this is what you listen to or watch if you want all the gory details. Normally there isn't a video version (https://youtu.be/Mfo5hA3TTho), and normally these are Patreon exclusives, so if you like what you see or hear go visit us over there!
Episode 173 - Nebraska
April 27, 2022 18:33 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBBruce Dern. Nebraska. You literally could not ask for anything more, and we don't, but we do also talk a little bit about Nebraska's spiritual sequel: Blade Runner 2049.
Episode 172 - Death on the Nile (2022)
April 19, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBDeath on the Nile is a movie that existed before, all professionals know this, and exists again in this our year 2022 so here's a cool 31 minutes on it plus another 31 on Underworld, The Adam Project, and Jimmy Savile a British Horror Story!
Episode 171 - Breakdown (1997)
April 13, 2022 04:50 - 1 hour - 57 MBThrill as we breakdown Breakdown and then stay as we speed past The Thomas Crown Affair, Tick Tick Boom, and Unstoppable!
Episode 170 - Special "Still Alive" Episode... LIVE!
April 04, 2022 19:33 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBIt's a very special episode this week where Matt knows what he wants to talk about and Ryan has no idea what it is and his levels are a little lower than they should be... LIVE!
Episode 169 - Spider-Man No Way Home
April 02, 2022 07:44 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBSpider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can, like go to his wizard friend and really whoops up reality and what not. Oh plus The Kingsman, The Untouchables, and Live By Night because we care.
Episode 168 - The Batman
March 22, 2022 06:17 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBThe Ryan and The Matt talk about The Bat, Man, and somehow still manage to surprise each other, something that Batman hasn't done for quite some time!