Do I Still Love It?
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsEvery episode, Marshall & Laura (and a special guest) revisit some bit of pop culture from their childhood to determine if their younger selves had good taste...or would simply watch anything put in front of them.
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EP 045: The Waterboy (1998)
March 13, 2019 22:28 - 53 minutes - 77 BytesWe continue with part 3 of our very scientific survey "Was Adam Sandler actually funny?" and watch his second sports comedy with Michael Chau of Heckler Films. We ask the tough questions like "Is Bobby Bouché supposed to be mentally stunted, emotionally stunted, or both?" and "What is the purpose of Farmer Fran and what is he saying?" and really "What dirt does Rob Schneider have on Sandler?" Michael Chau is a comedy writer and performer living in Los Angeles and is part of Heckler Films. Y...
EP 044: Happy Gilmore (1996)
February 16, 2019 22:17 - 48 minutes - 69 BytesPart 2 of our Totally Scientific Study - Was Adam Sandler Funny? We all remember him being funny and loving his early work but then it all seemed to go downhill. We are asking “was there ever a top of the hill to go down from?” This week we are joined by funny lady Sara Goldsmith to watch Happy Gilmore and get to the bottom of it. How does that fight with Bob Barker hold up? Was Shooter McGavin the greatest Sandler villain? Wait, Ben Stiller was in this movie?
EP 043: Billy Madison (1995)
February 01, 2019 08:05 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBDirector/Stop-Motion Animator Eriq Wities stops by to help us figure out if Adam Sandler was ever funny or if his sense of humor is truly that of a 12-year-old (like we once were.) Join us as we try to figure out whether this film is a celebration or condemnation of the lazy capitalist class (or anything at all. -Laura) Eriq Wities is a stop-motion animator and commercial director living in San Francisco. Check out his work on his website! Support your local teachers! Many are striking to ...
EP 042: D3: The Might Ducks (1996)
January 18, 2019 05:46 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBPaul Dupree has loved hockey for as long as he can remember, due in no small part to the Mighty Ducks film franchise. After joining Marshall and Laura for a revisit of the first two films, he is back to round out the trilogy. Will the movie disappoint? Will the kids have new character arcs? How will the movie top being the world champions from D2? How much is Emilio Estevez really in this one? Find out as Paul discovers whether he still loves it! Paul Dupree is a comedian and filmmaker from...
EP 041: Surf Ninjas (1993)
January 04, 2019 06:52 - 58 minutes - 84 BytesBen Tibbels is back on the show with another ninja flick, 1993's Surf Ninjas. More Rob Schneider, a surprise Leslie Nielsen, a confusing number of Ernie Reyeses (Reyi?) All this and more as the guys try to figure out if they still love it! Ben Tibbels is a comedian and ninja living in Los Angeles. He cohosts the podcast Sots Watch wherein he and his buddies watch movies whilst drunk. Check it out!
EP 040: Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992)
December 20, 2018 21:20 - 59 minutes - 85 BytesWe're back for Season 2! Youtuber and video game designer Brent Black is on the show to see if Macaulay Culkin can do it again. As we revisit Home Alone 2, we ask ourselves "how many times can the McCallisters get away with child neglect?" "Are Harry and Marv supernatural beings?" and "Is Tim Curry inevitably the best part of any movie he's in?" and of course the big one: will Brent still love it?
EP 039: Home Alone (1990)
December 26, 2017 20:00 - 54 minutesWriter/director Diana Wright returns to review this a Christmas entry into her apparent favorite genre: young scamps getting into mischief. The gang begins to wonder how plausible it can be to abandon a child by accident at home as well as how stupid two burglars can be to offer themselves up to such repeated torture on this week's podcast! Diana Wright @thatswright is a writer, director, comedian, and improvisor living in Los Angeles. She is a member of the sketch team Royale, performing e...
EP 038: D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) w/ Paul Dupree
December 12, 2017 16:28 - 54 minutesPaul Dupree is back to revisit his favorite hockey movie, D2: The Mighty Ducks! (1994) Paul is confident he will still love this middle installment of his favorite kids-playing-hockey franchise. Marshall and Laura invite him over and together they try to determine which Mighty Duck they would want to have dinner with, whether Iceland is really that bad, and if there really are any girls in this movie. Find out in this week's podcast! Paul Dupree is an actor, writer, comedian, and hockey...
EP 037: Flight of the Navigator (1986)
November 30, 2017 07:23 - 44 minutesCelery Jones is an artist and designer living in Los Angeles, CA. Her work is routinely featured in the HGTV Dream Home sweepstakes! Definitely check it out for your chance to win, and scope out some of her incredible work on her website.
EP 036: The Neverending Story (1984)
November 18, 2017 01:27 - 57 minutes…Comedy-actor couple Kevin Stafford and Natalie D’Alacio put the 1984 classic “The Neverending Story” under the microscope in this week’s podcast. Marshall is giddy with excitement for puppets; Laura is leery about the fate of Artax the horse. Kevin wonders “are we ALL in the Neverending Story right now?” Natalie is just happy to finally see the whole movie without parental interruption! But will they still love it? Find out as comedy-actor couple Kevin Stafford and Natalie D’Alacio put the ...
EP 035: Practical Magic (1998)
October 31, 2017 09:16 - 54 minutesWriter/Director Yulin Kuang wants to know if Practical Magic still holds up. She's a fan of the romantic cinema but can't really remember if this Sandra Bullock/Nicole Kidman flick was technically a rom-com, but it definitely has something to with witches and love spells and curses, so that's pretty Halloween-y, right?
EP 034: Blade Runner (1982)
October 16, 2017 09:22 - 52 minutesMichael Chau is back, but is he a replicant?! The gang revisits the original Blade Runner, just in time to go see the new sequel. Does the "greatest sci-fi of all time" hold up? Who is the villain in this film? Are they all villains? Is Deckard the least likable character Harrison Ford ever played? Find out this week on Do I Still Love It?!
EP 033: An American Tail (1986)
October 03, 2017 10:08 - 40 minutesWe're back for season 2! Becca Cousineau joins us to review the immigrant story "An American Tail" (1986)! This story of Jewish mice coming to the United States manages to pack a lot of allegory into it's messaging, causing Becca to wonder if this movie needs an immediate rerelease to theaters. The gang wonders about Fivel's big hat and it's mystical powers of plot driving teleportation and also "who told these mice there were no cats in America?" on this week's podcast!
EP 032: Hot Shots! (1991)
August 23, 2017 21:54 - 55 minutesFan favorite Ariana Kaiser returns to the show bringing with her a much-loved favorite from her youth: Top Gun parody Hot Shots! We last heard from Ariana during the episode on Willow wherein she couldn't remember which of these two movies she spent an entire summer at the theaters watching. Possibly both? This hugely-successful comedy from a golden era of parody harkens to a style of comedy we don't see a lot of in modern showbiz and it begs the question: has parody's time passed? Will the t...
EP 031: Pretty Woman (1990)
August 08, 2017 21:29 - 54 minutesMary Hamilton and her pup Pompom are a couple of pretty women trying to figure out if they still love Pretty Woman (1990). They join Marshall and Laura to revisit the film that made prostitution seem romantic to determine why they were allowed to watch this as children, and a lot of other things come up: are we supposed to like Richard Gere's character? Is this a romantic comedy for the ultra rich? What are the odds on their relationship lasting more than two more months? All this and more on...
EP 030: Newsies (1992)
July 24, 2017 23:19 - 48 minutesDarcy Kendall, musician and songwriter, waxes poetic about the first musical she ever saw, Disney's 1992 flop-turned-cult-hit-turned-Broadway-musical "Newsies!" This musical concerning the real 1899 newsboy strike takes center stage as Darcy joins Marshall and Laura in discussing the papes trade, child labor laws, invisible female characters, and Chrisitan Bale's singing voice in this week's episode of "Do I Still Love It?" Darcy Kendall is a musician, songwriter, and comedian living in Los...
EP 029: The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
July 13, 2017 05:52 - 52 minutesWriter Paul Bianchi loved The Chipmunk Adventure when he was a kid, but will he still love it now that he's grown up? He drops by Marshall and Laura's place and this rock-n-roll movie raises lots of questions about the simple visions of foreign countries that were fed to us 80's and 90's kids. Will this balloon race around the world soar? Or will it crash under the weight of cringy stereotypes? Listen this week and ask yourself the question "Do I Still Love It?" Paul Bianchi is a writer and...
EP 028: Masters of the Universe (1987)
June 27, 2017 04:20 - 52 minutesComedian Raul Garcia joins Marshall and special guest host Sean George to see if they have the POWER!! While Laura's away it's guys night at "Do I Still Love It?" and they've got a movie so manly that the main character is named HE-MAN. Will these grown men reconnect with their toy-loving former selves? Or will the off-putting nature of Frank Langella's Skeletor make-up be too much for our heroes? Find out on this week's podcast! Raul Garcia is a comedian and actor from Los Angeles and co-c...
EP 027: The Mighty Ducks (1992)
June 19, 2017 19:37 - 55 minutesWriter/Comedian/Hockey fanatic Paul Dupree can't wait to revisit "The Mighty Ducks" with Marshall and Laura. This classic underdog story goes under the microscope so the gang can examine the importance of representation, the insanity of Coach Bombay's privilege, and the viability of the flying V as an offensive tactic on this week's "Do I Still Love It?" Paul Dupree is a writer, actor, comedian, and hockey die-hard from Los Angeles. He is the creator of the critically-praised comedy musical...
EP 026: Strike Up the Band (1940)
June 06, 2017 10:21 - 59 minutesAustralian theatermaker Joanne Hartstone Is in town for the Hollywood Fringe and decides to revisit this Mickey & Judy classic. Laura and Jo coo over Hollywood's most shippable couple and the gang ponders things like abbreviated modern attention spans, cannibalistic fruit orchestras, and boy encounters was they try to determine "Do I still love it?" Joanne Hartstone is a writer, actress, and theatermaker from Adelaide, Australia. Her one-woman play "The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sig...
EP 025: A Goofy Movie
May 23, 2017 09:58 - 53 minutesRama Vallury returns to rewatch another part of the Disney Afternoon movies, A Goofy Movie! Laura and Marshall welcome him over to watch what is definitely one of the heavier flicks in the animated Disney arsenal, bringing up such questions as: Is Mickey Mouse famous WITHIN the world of the Disney characters? What’s up with those white gloves? Is Walt Disney akin to God to the Disney characters? Rama continues the probe deep the Disney Afternoon Movies on this week’s “Do I Still Love It?” R...
EP 024: 3 Ninjas (1992)
May 16, 2017 04:06 - 49 minutesAY-YAH, dude! Ben Tibbels is excited to revisit a childhood favorite that really kicks some butts, 3 Ninjas! Marshall and Laura complete the trio and questions arise: has the FBI ever faced off with real ninjas? Is revenue from martial arts studios considered blood money? Is this what you get when you dump all of 1992 into a blender and hit purée? Find out on the latest episode of "Do I Still Love It?" Ben Tibbels is a comedian and actor living in Los Angeles. He is a member of the comedy c...
EP 023: Edward Scissorhands (1990)
May 09, 2017 05:19 - 54 minutesArtist Celery Jones drops by Marshall and Laura's place to discuss the movie that taught her to love weird boys: Edward Scissorhands! Will Tim Burton's opus about being a weirdo in vanilla suburbia still resonate with these grown-up big kids now that they've escaped suburban life? Will the original "Tim Burton film" be too Tim-Burton-y even by modern standards ::shiver::DarkShadows::shiver:: ? Find out as we ask the question "Do I Still Love Edward Scissorhands?" Celery Jones is an artist a...
EP 022: Drop Dead Fred (1991)
April 24, 2017 07:23 - 56 minutesComedian Reed Brice stops by with their favorite imaginary friend movie "Drop Dead Fred." Marshall, Laura, and Reed take a trip into the memory banks to recall their own imaginary playthings, delve into gross-out humor as a medium, and ponder on how much sex and violence really makes a movie "family friendly." Find out how much on this week's "Do I Still Love It?" Reed Brice is a comedian, writer, and activist living in Los Angeles. Their hilarious twitter is @thatDangDingus and should be f...
EP 021: Blank Check (1994)
April 17, 2017 07:53 - 55 minutesFinally a movie that let you fantasize about what you'd do as an 11-year-old with a million dollars: buy a castle and easily several million dollars worth of props! Comedian John Clavier joins Laura and Marshall to watch the film that combined Macaulay Culkin's characters from Home Alone and Richie Rich into one character played by a decidedly-not-Macaulay-Culkin. The trio are invited to suspend their disbeliefs in a myriad of ways, while questioning their own knowledge of castle-buying, the...
EP 020: The Sandlot (1993)
April 03, 2017 09:32 - 55 minutesComedy Writer/Director Diana Wright puts on the fuzzy sepia-colored glasses to revisit "The Sandlot." prompting some deep childhood reckoning in Marshall and Laura. Was this the childhood everyone wanted? What music plays during your own personal coming-of-age movie? What boyhood best friend did you have a crush on? And of course, do you want a S'more? Diana Wright is a comedy writer and director living in Los Angeles. Her webseries (with Laura Wiese as a special guest) is caled #Hashtaggin...
EP 019: Spaceballs (1987)
March 20, 2017 07:59 - 45 minutesMusic agent Dan Koplowitz throws it into Ludicrous Speed when he joins Marshall and Laura to find out if the Schwartz is with him, along with answers to the questions "Is 'Schwartz' Yiddish for 'penis?'" "Did they ever make Spaceballs the Sheet?" "What sight could turn Laura off pizza forever?" If you know the answers, let us know! Read all about Dan becoming famous in Finland here! Maesa Pullman's The Last Hurrah!! project "Mudflowers" Oh yeah, here's The Man Who Saved the World aka Tur...
EP 018: Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991)
March 13, 2017 14:43 - 1 hourActor/writer/activist/comedian Petey Gibson stops by to watch a tale as old as time. Just in time for a live-action remake, Petey, Laura, and Marshall wrestle with such conundrums as "Does Petey know the words to this movie by heart?" and "Why did that witch punish a whole castle filled with servants for the actions of their 11-year-old prince?" and "Is Donald Trump the Gaston of our time?" Chilling! Petey Gibson is a writer, actor, comedian, activist and educator living in Los Angeles. The...
EP 017: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
March 06, 2017 06:23 - 57 minutesWriter/director Leta Tremblay joins Laura in cooing over a movie Marshall has never seen when they watch Disney's "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken." This period piece about horse-diving and inappropriate romance was very formative to Laura and Leta as wee children, will it hold up to scrutiny in a world where horse-diving is frowned upon? Will the decade's-wide gap between the romantic leads prevent them from being shipped by our modern hosts? Will they convince the boy to like the girl movie? F...
EP 016: The Mask (1994)
February 28, 2017 01:51 - 1 hourIt’s time for a smokin’ new episode and this time we have actor/comedian Ryan Miller on the show to discuss the ‘90s preeminent physical comedy actor, Jim Carrey. Will the antics of the man with the rubber face hold up after two decades? Is a terrier actually the best actor in this movie? Between tommy guns and computer banking, what time period is this movie taking place in? Somebody stop me! Ryan Miller is a comedian, actor, and writer living in Los Angeles. He is part of the sketch comed...
EP 015: Mother Goose Rock-n-Rhyme (1990
February 20, 2017 09:20 - 56 minutesActress and comedian Rukhmani K. Desai dusts off the obscure Shelley Duvall kid's flick "Mother Goose Rock-n-Rhyme," prompting Marshall to wonder if he still loves it and Laura to wonder why she never even heard of it. Is it a warm star-studded fairy tale hodge-podge or an alarming Sisyphean task akin to Dante's Inferno? Tune in and check it out! Rukhmani K. "Rukhi" Desai is an actress, writer, and comedian living in Los Angeles, Follow her hilarious and inspiring Twitter account @RukhDesa...
EP 014: Mary Poppins (1964)
February 13, 2017 17:01 - 1 hourIt’s time to revisit a film that glorified the service sector over the banking industry! Marshall and Laura are joined by British-American husband-and-wife comedy duo Nick Afka Thomas and Sarah Ann Masse of “We Are Thomasse” to explore, among other things: the mysterious origin of Mary Poppins’ powers, Dick Van Dyke’s very questionable cockney accent, and whatever the hell a “tuppence” is. Sarah Ann Masse is an actress, writer, singer, and comedian from the United States, currently living i...
EP 013: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
January 30, 2017 22:21 - 57 minutesActor/writer Sean Wright stops by Marshall and Laura's place to revisit "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." This Ron Howard family comedy challenges our hosts to ponder such indomitable questions as "How does science work?", "How bleakly obvious is Russell Sr.'s favoritism of Russell Jr.'s over his brother Ronnie?", and "When was the last time you saw just one ant?" All this and more as they try to answer the big question "Do I Still Love It?"
EP 012: Willow (1988)
January 16, 2017 07:39 - 55 minutesActress Ariana Kaiser stops by for movie night bringing with her Ron Howard's 1988 fantasy "Willow" starring Warwick Davis and mega-hunk Val Kilmer. Will we still love it? How badly did Ron Howard just want to make Lord of the Rings? How distractingly attractive is Val Kilmer? What made Ariana exclaim "It looks like a cross between testicles and a parrot?" Find out on this week's show! Ariana appears in the series "Good Game" and the short film "Gyre" (featuring the briefest of cameos by Ma...
EP 011: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1st Season, TV Show)
January 09, 2017 21:14 - 1 hourIt's morphin' time! Marshall and Laura are joined by game designer and podcast host Alex Kessler to revisit the original season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! For the inaugural tv show review episode, the Grown-Up Big Kids decide to tackle the cultural phenomenon that was/is the Power Rangers to discuss such pressing issues as "How formulaic were kid shows in the early 90s?" and "How many shows were spliced together to make this?" and "Does this contain literally everything I thought was c...
EP 010: Legend (1985)
December 13, 2016 09:43 - 56 minutesGet ready for a story for the ages as Laura and Marshall are joined by returning guests Michael Chau and Sean George, creators of the Heckler Films series "Schlock Tank!" The gang sit down to watch Ridley Scott's faerie tale tribute "Legend" and as usual, they have many questions, such as "Can there ever be a better Devil than Tim Curry?" and "Why do these characters keep thinking the mean-spirited petulant princess is so 'innocent?'" and "What are stakes and why should you establish them?" ...
EP 009: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
November 29, 2016 10:42 - 51 minutesFilmmaker Liz Manashil joins Laura and Marshall to review "Adventures in Babysitting" as they ponder deep questions like "is the big city really that scary?", "why are there so many Playboys in this kids' flick?", and "Which Game of Thrones actors would you cast in the remake?" Check out Liz Manashil's excellent film "Bread and Butter" through video-on-demand and follow more of her talented work on IMDB.
EP 008: DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
November 15, 2016 00:19 - 59 minutesComedian and actor Rama Vallury joins the gang as they rewatch Disney's DuckTales movie. Released just before Aladdin, was Disney just on a genie kick for a while? Why is everyone in Duckburg a duck or a dog? How problematic is Dijon and his "generic Middle Eastern/Indian" voice? Find out this week! Rama Vallury is an actor, writer, comedian, and voice-over artist living in Los Angeles. He is half of the comedy duo "George & Vallury" with Sean George (a guest on our very first episode about...
EP 007: Beetlejuice (1988) w/ Heather Dorff
October 24, 2016 17:41 - 52 minutesScream-queen Heather Dorff joins Marshall and Laura to talk about Tim Burton's original cutesy-ghoulish gem "Beetlejuice." Together they ponder such probing inquiries as "Is Beetlejuice good at his job?", "Can Beetlejuice even be called a protagonist?", "Is this Alex Baldwin's least-sexy role?" and "Is Winona Ryder the Kwisatz-Haderach?" Find out if you still love Tim Burton's Beetlejuice with us, won't you? Check out all of Heather Dorff's projects at her website, www.HeatherDorff.com
EP 006: Hocus Pocus (1993) w/ Callista Mei
October 10, 2016 08:37 - 41 minutesThis Halloween, DISLI? is getting to the bottom of some spooky questions: Does Bette Middler believe herself to forever be in a stage musical? Does "all the world's a stage" apply to lousy, abstinance-shaming kid flicks? Laura and Marshall are joined by Callista Mei to determine if "Hocus Pocus" still has a little magic.
EP 005: Super Marios Bros. (1993) w/ Michael Chau
September 29, 2016 18:20 - 46 minutesWe invite you to come with us into a parallel universe where the Super Mario video game franchise was all about intelligent dinosaurs lorded over by a handsomer, arguably less-evolved Dino Trump. Laura and Marshall are joined by his somewhat adopted brother-in-plumbing Michael Chau to divine if you have to judge an adaptation on its loyalty to the source material or can it stand on its own merits? More importantly, do they still love it? Special Guest - Michael Chau - A writer and comedian,...
EP 004: Labyrinth (1986) w/ Andraé Vigil-Romero
September 12, 2016 05:37 - 33 minutesIn honor of the 30th anniversary of the David Bowie classic, Marshall and Laura review the thin white duke's muppet-filled adventure, "Labyrinth." They're joined by Andraé Vigil-Romero to try and figure out if Jennifer Connelly will ever learn to rescue herself and whether any of the musical numbers add anything to plot development.
EP 003: The Land Before Time (1988) w/ Erin Tylski-Williams
August 22, 2016 21:10 - 45 minutesOn this episode, Marshall & Laura and guest Erin Williams re-watch Don Bluth's animated classic "The Land Before TIme." They discuss its heavy messages about parental death, faith in the unseen, and overcoming racial prejudices. After all these years, do I still Love it?
EP 002: The Little Mermaid (1989) w/ Zoë Rose Moacanin
August 08, 2016 23:17 - 45 minutesMarshall and Laura invite special guest Zoë Rose Moacanin to be part of their world to discuss following your dreams, the merits of dating a mute, and whether this movie sends a good message to young people.The trio re-watch Disney's "The Little Mermaid" and try to determine if they still love it. Special Guest: Zoë Rose Moacanin - actress and comedian Founding member of the all-female sketch comedy group "OBGY-Not?", graduate of the Second City Conservatory
EP 001: The Goonies (1985) w/ Sean George
July 14, 2016 05:33 - 38 minutesHEY YOU GUYS! Marshall and Laura sit down with special guest Sean George to watch Richard Donner & Steven Spielberg's "The Goonies" and try to determine if they still love it. Special Guest: Sean George - actor, writer, musician, and puppeteer. One half the comedy duo "George & Vallury", lead writer and co-producer of "The Mary Dolan Show", graduate of the Second City Conservatory