It's Your Pic
177 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFather and son take turns picking movies to watch and review.
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Episode 175 – Stranger Things Season 4
August 14, 2022 18:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBOnly 2 things could bring us out of circumstantial retirement: a Transformers reboot or a new Stranger Things season. See you next year.
Episode 174 – The Silence of the Lambs (Double Ft. Scream)
October 07, 2021 00:16 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBBlood, guts, gore, skinning, hanging, stabbing, kidnapping, cannibalisms...oh, and we also watched a movie. Something about a baby sheep I think. Matthew Lillard and Jamie Kennedy showed up too for some reason.
Episode 173 – Men in Black (Double Ft. The Vast of Night)
September 03, 2021 00:02 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBWe spend this entire episode lying on the hood of our Dodge Dart, looking up at the heavens, waiting for the little men in their fantastic vehicles. Actually, we ordered Ubereats and they're 20 minutes late (and there's probably not a road-worthy Dodge Dart left in the country). When the Zaxby's finally arrives, we watched two very different takes on the alien movie genre: one big-budgeted and star-studded, and one that takes a decidedly more subdued approach.
Episode 172 – No Country for Old Men (Double ft. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
July 27, 2021 00:10 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBThis month we belly up to the bar, order a sasparilla and settle ourselves at a table for a game of stud...actually, not at all. These two Westerns are a long way from the days of white hat/black hat morality tales. There are no obvious good guys to be found in Leone's revisionist take, or the Coen's Western noir mashup. And for the record, I actually enjoy board games.
Episode 171 – Lupin III: The First (Double Ft. A Fish Called Wanda)
June 27, 2021 19:18 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBThis week crime DOES pay, and it pays rather handsomely. We discuss 2 movies, each with a cast of charismatic and hilarious ne're-do-wells. Collin outdoes himself with some in depth research on all things Lupin.
Episode 170 – The Royal Tenenbaums (Double Ft. The Mitchells vs. the Machines)
May 27, 2021 23:25 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBDoesn't everyone think they belong to a dysfunctional family? Maybe that accounts for the plethora of choices when selecting a movie to represent the genre. For me, head and shoulders above the rest, is Wes Anderson's third feature, The Royal Tenenbaums. Collin counters with a new animated dysfunctional family flick, The Mitchells vs. the Machines.
Episode 169 – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Double Ft. – This is Spinal Tap)
April 24, 2021 11:59 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBI'm trying to write the show notes and keep getting interrupted because my family thinks the podcast is about as important as you do, so I guess just read the title; we talk about those movies.
Eight Harry Potter Movies, One Show
March 21, 2021 14:39 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBWe took a 2-week trip out west, and after exhausting ourselves hiking around the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest, we spent our evenings re-watching all the Harry Potter movies. It's one long Good Stuff/Bad Stuff episode as we hand out awards for the best and worst of what we saw this time around.
Episode 167 – Mad Max: Fury Road / Mortal Engines
February 18, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBIt's the end of the world on this episode of It's Your Pic. Two post-apocalyptic visions enter, one post-apocalyptic vision leaves. Actually, it's not much of a contest; Furiosa could take Hester Shaw with one arm tied behind her back.
Episode 166 – O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Cool Hand Luke
January 28, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBOn this episode we look at two very different stories involving iconoclasts, chain gangs, and escaped cons. Collin's main pick is the Coen brother's borderline musical O Brother, Where Art Thou? A movie that I despised on my first watch. My double feature pairing is the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke.
Episode 165 – Christmas Top 5
December 15, 2020 02:25 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBWe didn't want to do it, but the podcast police threatened to insert Me Undies and Casper Mattress ads at 3-minute intervals into all our podcasts if we didn't do a top 5 Christmas movies list. Rather than sacrifice the quality and integrity that we've worked so hard to achieve, we reluctantly complied.
Episode 164 – Weathering With You / Source Code
November 24, 2020 13:27 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBCollin's pick this month is Makoto Shinkai's follow up to the massive hit Your Name, Weathering With You. It's every bit as visually dazzling, but is the story equally compelling? I also break a sweat trying to connect it to Duncan Jones's Source Code. Spoiler talk starts at about the 33:30 mark.
Episode 163 – Alien / Cloverfield
October 19, 2020 15:16 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBWe're tweaking the format and schedule (like we ever had one of those) for reasons. This month is our Halloween show with a sci-fi twist. It's a monstrous double feature with Alien and Cloverfield.
Episode 162 – The Long, Long Holiday
September 29, 2020 19:49 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBWorld War 2 for kids / Seems like a pretty tough sell / The French give a try
Episode 161 – Terminator 2: Judgement Day
September 12, 2020 08:30 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBSkynet tries again / This time Arnie's the good guy / Beast mode Hamilton
Episode 160 – Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (Siege)
August 23, 2020 14:45 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBTransformers go grim Decepticons have legit beef Elita-1 sighs
Episode 159 – The Terminator
August 07, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBCam's got a tight budget I think my dad drove that car That robot talks funny
Episode 158 – Dark (Netflix)
July 30, 2020 15:04 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBThis week I'm joined by my good friend, Giffy, to discuss Netflix's Dark. The series just released its third and final season, and we're itching to discuss the labyrinthine plot, time travel head-scratchers, and the show's stealth hero. Be warned: if you haven't seen the show this podcast will be complete nonsense, and spoilers there will be. Also, there are some audio issues, but 98% of the show is error-free.
Episode 157 – Artemis Fowl
July 10, 2020 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBTop o' the morning We were hoping for better But it's foul indeed
Episode 156 – Say Anything…
July 01, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBWhat if the boombox Played Fishbone, not Gabriel? Would we all still swoon?
Episode 155 – War of the Worlds (2005)
June 08, 2020 23:44 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThis ain't Michael Bay Tom Cruise and his plot armor Is H.G. Wells proud?
Episode 154 – A Few Good Men
May 29, 2020 12:02 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBNicholson v. Cruise Essential for six degrees Maybe Meathead's best
Episode 153 – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
May 21, 2020 14:37 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBMItty dreams away But, when adventure calls him Goodbye Papa John's
Episode 152 – Coming to America
May 11, 2020 22:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBHello my neighbors I have come from Zamunda Would you be my wife
Episode 151 – Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
April 29, 2020 17:54 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThe kid makes rockets With trash cans, toasters, and tape Likely not legal
Episode 150 – So It’s Come to This: An It’s Your Pic Clip Show
April 20, 2020 09:07 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBWe take a break from talking about movies to talk about the only thing we love more - ourselves.
Episode 149 – A River Runs Through It
April 13, 2020 09:20 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBPretty Montana A family of fisherman But Paul has problems
Episode 148 – Foodfight!
March 31, 2020 14:53 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBHow bad could it be? It is way worse than you think Trust me - much, much worse
Episode 147 – Memento
March 22, 2020 15:31 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBA film in reverse What were we talking about? Nolan loves puzzles
Episode 146 – Unbreakable
March 15, 2020 20:09 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBWillis can't get hurt Jackson can crack like an egg No. No shooting friends
Episode 145 – Forrest Gump
March 01, 2020 18:26 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBWe had no trouble finding plenty of people who hate Forrest Gump. Whether it's because it won Best Picture instead of Pulp Fiction (which, true, probably should have won), or the perception of it as a "conservative" movie, it sports a shockingly low score of 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. Collin went in knowing only a few quotes from the movie and no knowledge of the backlash that has been leveled at Gump over the last 25 years. What was a 17 year-olds impression of this supposedly "problematic" ...
Episode 144 – Meet the Robinsons
February 18, 2020 11:35 - 36 minutes - 25 MBWhen Collin was a toddler, this was one of our trusty babysitter movies -- put it on and you've got yourself an hour and a half of peace and quiet. Bad parenting? Sure. But if you're going to let a movie raise your kid at least choose one with a positive message like Meet the Robinsons. The question now is, how does this movie play now for 17-year-old Collin?
Episode 143 – Saving Private Ryan
February 09, 2020 17:18 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBBefore seeing 1917 I thought it necessary for Collin to first see what many consider the greatest war movie ever made. Of course, not everyone thinks that is the case, and we get into a few dissenting opinions. We also discuss whether we think this is a pro or anti-war movie and if Spielberg being Spielberg derails the film. But, before all that, we mull over our level of butt-hurtness concerning this SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSYsmgZEKv0 While it's certainly not direct...
Episode 142 – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — Part 2 – The Good and Final Thoughts
January 02, 2020 12:08 - 40 minutes - 23.4 MBIn part 2 of our Rise of Skywalker discussion, Giffy and I get to what we liked about the 9th and final (?) film of the Skywalker saga. Finally, we talk about the series as a whole and our relative levels of satisfaction.
Episode 141 – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — Part 1 – Intro and the Bad
December 30, 2019 01:57 - 43 minutes - 24.9 MBI'm joined by a guest co-host this week, Giffy, to discuss the finale of the Skywalker saga. It ended up being a longer than usual episode so I've broken it up into 2 episodes. In part 1 we start with an overview of Episode 9 and then get into the bad stuff, but fear not, in part 2 we'll get a little more positive with all the stuff we think worked.
Episode 140 – Joyeux Noel
December 20, 2019 09:37 - 30 minutes - 21 MBCollin makes a rather unusual choice this week: a movie about the 1914 Christmas truce that happened between combatants during WWI. It's a try-hard movie with some really good actors, but does it belong on your yearly Christmas viewing list? We discuss.
Episode 139 – The Usual Suspects
November 28, 2019 04:14 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBDespite its robust Rotten Tomatoes rating, The Usual Suspects has its vocal detractors. No less than Ebert famously panned it upon its release. But if loving that final reveal makes me a gullible idiot then I guess I'll have the quart of snake oil, the used Yugo, and the extended warranty. Further reading on the subject: Point - 'The Usual Suspects' Is a Gimmicky Movie Stupid People Think Is Smart by Rick Paulas Counterpoint - ‘The Usual Suspects’ at 20: Why The Ending Still Holds Up b...
Episode 138 – Rango
November 11, 2019 22:04 - 36 minutes - 25 MBAfter making a few billion dollars for Disney at the helm of the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films, Gore Verbinski got a $135 million budget from Paramount to make an animated cowboy lizard movie. What they got for that investment was a strange, sometimes offputting tale populated with some of the ugliest characters this side of Sid's bedroom with story elements that were a mix of Chinatown and old spaghetti westerns. Does Rango's bizarre amalgamation work or is it just a bunch of b...
Episode 137 – Breaking Away
October 24, 2019 13:18 - 39 minutes - 22.8 MBRarely does a 40-year-old movie hold up this well. It came out the same year as Apocalypse Now and Alien, and it holds up every bit as well as both those films but isn't near as remembered. My wife says it's boring and Collin couldn't remember the title, so maybe it's just a film for which I have a particular fondness. At any rate, it's my pick of the week, and I do my best talking it up. Stick around until the latter half of the show: at around the 28-minute mark, we take a journey with...
Episode 136 – My Hero Academia Season 1
October 02, 2019 20:14 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBIt's a Plus Ultra episode this week as we give thoughts and reviews for season one of the wildly popular series My Hero Academia, and we try to minimize flashbacks to previous episodes. We agree on a lot but have differing opinions as to the overall effectiveness of the show.
Episode 135 – Rushmore
September 09, 2019 21:14 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBThis week we tackle Wes Anderson's second and maybe most beloved movie: Rushmore. We discuss multiple favorite scenes, Bill Murray's facial expressions, and the importance of Dirk.
Episode 134 – A Hard Day’s Night
August 19, 2019 08:56 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThe hard-hitting documentary that shocked the world with its uncompromising behind-the-scenes look at the raucous, seedy lives of the progenitors of the British Invasion...well, not even close, really. Substance wise, A Hard Day's Night is about as insubstantial as they come, but that doesn't mean that it's not entertaining.
Episode 133 – Stranger Things Season 3 Recap Episodes 7 & 8
August 04, 2019 15:14 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBWe finish up our season 3 discussion with the final two episodes. How satisfying was the conclusion? Where does this season rank? Are we looking forward to more Stranger Things? We get into all that and more.
Episode 132 – Stranger Things Season 3 Recap Episodes 5 & 6
July 27, 2019 18:52 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBFour down, 4 to go. We continue recapping Stranger Things season 3. From Burger King bags to people goo, we've got it covered.
Episode 131 – Stranger Things Season 3 Recap Episodes 3 & 4
July 21, 2019 15:45 - 40 minutes - 37 MBWe continue our season 3 recap with episodes 3 and 4, The Case of the Missing Lifeguard and The Suana Test. Topics include Hopper's fitness as a police officer, air ducts, and whether or not binoculars make you invisible.
Episode 130 – Stranger Things Season 3 Recap Episodes 1 & 2
July 15, 2019 11:10 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBThe next 4 episodes will be dedicated to season 3 of Stranger Things. We'll be recapping each episode, commenting, making guesses, counting the references, and passing judgment. And until it's all over, Collin is refusing to cut his hair in honor of the true hero of S.T., Steve.
Episode 129 – Citizen Kane
June 30, 2019 18:43 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBRealizing the impossibility of analyzing Kane in a half-hour podcast, we don't even try. Instead, we stick to our good thing/bad thing, a few favorite scenes and then we grade it out. http://mentalfloss.com/article/78802/13-classic-facts-about-citizen-kane
Episode 128 – High Noon
June 18, 2019 01:20 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBCollin picked this movie pretty much at random after a Google search for old movie posters. Neither of us had any foreknowledge of its status as one of the capital "G" Great westerns, nor that Cooper won the best actor Oscar for this performance. I'm thankful for our ignorance because I think it helped us form honest opinions...probably not popular, but certainly honest. Extra Pick: Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
Episode 127 – The Fifth Element
May 24, 2019 09:12 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBI gave Luc Besson a lot of leeway when I saw this 22 years ago. La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional had engendered quite a bit of good will. Now, however, in a post Lucy and Valerian world, I'm not so forgiving.
Episode 126 – Detective Pikachu Review
May 16, 2019 12:05 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThis week Collin dragged me kicking and screaming to see a Pokemon movie. That's an exaggeration of course; I'd characterize my feeling toward Detective Pikachu as guarded but intrigued. My interest mainly rested on the inclusion of Ryan Reynolds in the cast. Was PG Deadpool enough to garner a recommendation? Download and find out. Spoilers kick in at 15:20.