Pick Six Movies
158 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsPick Six Movies is a movie podcast where each season we select six movies, all related to a single theme. We examine the history of the people in front of and behind the camera, try to make sense of how and why the movie was made, then discuss each one in way too much detail to see if they are any good.
Pick Six Movies is hosted by Bo Ransdell and Chad Cooper, two life-long friends with a shared passion for discussing things they barely understand in an attempt to make each other laugh.
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S26E06: Five Nights at Freddy’s
November 10, 2023 09:15 - 2 hours - 94.7 MBIt’s season finale time here on Pick Six Movies and we’re pulling out all the stops! We’re doing the newest movie we’ve ever done – Five Nights at Freddy’s – and welcoming back old pals like Pick Six Bot and Back to the Future references. We discuss the convoluted lore, the sloppy script, and dabble […]
S26E05: Chopping Mall
October 27, 2023 09:10 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBAs we round the bend toward the conclusion os season 26, one we call Domo Arigato, it’s time to hit the food court with Chopping Mall! We’re talking about how 80s this movie truly is, milking bulls, the readily available explosives in this, and vent freak-outs. Join us, won’t you? 00:00:00 – 00:02:12 – Welcome […]
S26E04: Class of 1999
October 13, 2023 09:30 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBOn a new episode of Pick Six Movies, we head to school with the robot teacher sci-fi nonsense, Class of 1999! We have albino Stacy Keaches, technicolor gangs, street drugs, and some scene-chewing villains that add spice to this A-Team-explosion-filled movie. It’s a wild one, folks! 00:00:00 – 00:02:06 – Welcome to the Show with […]
S26E03: M3gan
September 29, 2023 09:15 - 2 hours - 87 MBWelcome, human listeners, to another episode of this season of Pick Six Movies. We call this one “Domo Arigato,” and it’s all about movies featuring robots. In this case, a robot doll that’s supposed to fill the heart of a grieving girl named M3gan. Instead, it fills the screen with mayhem, which is perfect for us! […]
S26E02: The Black Hole
September 15, 2023 09:15 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBAs part of our 26th season of Pick Six Movies, Domo Arigato, we are looking at six movies all about robots. For our second episode of this season, we are venturing into deep space with quippy robots, unclear protagonists, and a crazy German intent on defying the very laws of science and good movie-making. That’s […]
S26:E01: Heartbeeps
September 01, 2023 09:15 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBIt’s a new season of Pick Six Movies, and we are getting cozy with our future robot overlords. We’re looking at six movies all about robots and what better place to start than with a movie that almost no one has seen, 1981’s Heartbeeps! How could a movie starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters with […]
S25E06:Wild at Heart
August 18, 2023 09:15 - 2 hours - 85.4 MBFor our final road trip in Season 25, Holiday Road, we are throwing on the snakeskin jacket and hitting the Yellow Brick Road with David Lynch’s Wild at Heart. Is it the artist movie we’ve seen this season? For sure. Is it the best? Well, you’ll have to tune in and find out! And prepare […]
S25E05: Over the Top
August 04, 2023 09:15 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBIt’s the penultimate episode of Season 25 of Pick Six Movies and we are hitting the road, the Holiday Road, that is, with Sylvester Stallone in the arm wrestling/trucking/father-son epic (?), Over the Top! There’s a grumpy Robert Loggia, a terrible kid, lot of montages, and songs that contradict the dialogue as far as the […]
S25E04: The Hitcher (2007)
July 21, 2023 09:15 - 1 hour - 75 MBSeason 25 of Pick Six Movies is called Holiday Road, a season all about the joy of the road trip. And now we slam on the brakes to pick up this unwelcome traveler, 2007’s make of The Hitcher from the goons who did remakes of The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. And it’s just as dumb as […]
S25E03: Thelma & Louise
July 07, 2023 09:15 - 2 hours - 90.9 MBHey there, fellow travelers! In a rare bit of good movie-watching, Pick Six Movies heads to the American Southwest with Ridley Scott and Thelma & Louise. It only took us until season 25, one we’re calling Holiday Road, to get to a legitimately great film. We have traded in the usual dumb voices for some genuine […]
S25E02: Drive Angry
June 23, 2023 09:10 - 2 hours - 85.7 MBFor our second episode of Season 25, Holiday Road, we are taking a ride with Pick Six favorite Nicolas Cage as he escapes hell, hooks up with a salty waitress, and goes on the hunt for a chicken-fried cult leader in Drive Angry. There are Cage impressions, plenty of appreciation for Billy Fichts, and a look […]
S25E01: Vacation
June 09, 2023 09:10 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBWelcome to a new season of Pick Six Movies! We are calling this, our 25th season (?!) Holiday Road, and we are kicking it off with the reboot/reimagining/horrible mistake that is 2015’s Vacation. Can two good jokes save a movie? We’ll answer that question, along with how much poop one movie needs, and debate how […]
S24: E06: Masters of the Universe
May 26, 2023 09:10 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBWhen it comes to finales, nobody does it like Pick Six Movies. And by that I mean, nobody finds weirder movies to obsess over. Join us as we comb over Masters of the Universe, a toy-inspired space fantasy with so many problems, we don’t even bother trying to fix this one. Thrill to the lack of […]
S24E05: The Emoji Movie
May 12, 2023 09:10 - 1 hour - 72 MBSeason 24’s penultimate episode explores another pop culture travesty: The Emoji Movie. Our season, pop Culture Club, has generated many horrors. But nothing so shocking, so humiliating as Sir Patrick Stewart playing a pile of poo. And yet, it happened… Join us for a look at this misbegotten family fare and wonder with us why […]
S24E04: Super Mario Bros.
April 28, 2023 09:12 - 2 hours - 97.6 MBWe reach new levels of weirdness on a brand new Pick Six Movies with Super Mario Bros. No, no the now one, the old one with Dennis Hopper being creepy, Mario getting kinky, and Luigi getting choked on fungus. Oh, also lots of Mojo Nixon talk. Grab your belt, we’re taking a wrench to this […]
Pick Six Movies: S24E04: Super Mario Bros.
April 28, 2023 09:00 - 2 hours - 97.6 MBWe reach new levels of weirdness on a brand new Pick Six Movies with Super Mario Bros. No, no the now one, the old one with Dennis Hopper being creepy, Mario getting kinky, and Luigi getting choked on fungus. Oh, also lots of Mojo Nixon talk. Grab your belt, we’re taking a wrench to this […]
S24E03: Perfect
April 14, 2023 09:15 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBJoin Pick Six Movies as we mark the halfway point of season 24, Pop Culture Club, with the sweaty and silly Perfect. How does this movie make Jamie Lee Curtis working out so unsexy? What crime did that guy commit? And is our John Travolta impression the worst thing we’ve ever done? The decision is […]
S24E02: The Jerky Boys
March 31, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBPick Six Movies dials up a blast from the past with this prank phone call turkey from 1995, The Jerky Boys. We talk about why movies about phone calls don’t really work, debate the best of the Boys’ prank calls, and pitch the inevitable sequel to Glengarry Glen Ross. Check the caller ID, it’s a […]
S24E01: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
March 17, 2023 09:10 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBIn this new season, Pop Culture Club, we are exploring some of the worst movies to be borne from the shameless money-grab of chasing a fad. First up is The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, one of the worst movies we’ve ever done. I know we say that a lot, but wait… there’s bad puppetry, weirdly […]
S23E06: The Tomorrow War
March 03, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBIt’s a season final for Pick Six Movies Season 23, which we call Stream On! We’re wrapping up with the utter nonsense that is the sci-fi time-travel elevator fart, The Tomorrow War. Why do they care so little about the time travel premise of this movie? Is this the worst job interview ever? And how […]
S23E05: Bird Box
February 17, 2023 09:10 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBThe end is nigh! Of Season 23 of Pick Six Movies, I mean. And while we wait for the end, we’re taking a pit stop in Apocalypse Town with the Sandra Bullock-starring thriller, Bird Box. Is this a rip-off of The Happening or of A Quiet Place? Why not both? Also, lots of fun with […]
S23E04: Army of the Dead
February 03, 2023 09:10 - 2 hours - 89.3 MBLike a bad penny, Zach Snyder turns up again on the latest Pick Six Movies as we roll the dice on the Netflix Original, Army of the Dead. We talk about movies that almost weren’t, the rained-on parade that is this movie, and we resolve to never, ever do this to ourselves again. 00:00:00 – […]
S23E03: Samaritan
January 20, 2023 09:10 - 2 hours - 93.2 MBWelcome to a superheroic episode of Pick Six Movies with a look at the Sylvester Stallone flick Samaritan. This movie has everything… that you don’t want. There’s a terrible kid, some overwrought twin hero nonsense, a villain with a Robocop game cabinet, and oh so much more. Let’s dumpster-dive into this one together, shall we? […]
S23E02: Bright
January 06, 2023 09:10 - 2 hours - 82.9 MBAs Season 23 of Pick Six Movies, a season we call Stream On, flows along, we find ourselves washed ashore of the buddy cop/fantasy movie hybrid Bright. It features Will Smith Will Smith-ing it up, a tone-deaf script, some not-so-subtle allegory, and a bunch of orc racism. What’s not to like? So join us for […]
S23E01: Falling for Christmas
December 23, 2022 09:10 - 94.1 MBIt’s time to crack the seal on Season 23 of Pick Six Movies and we are starting with a holiday humdinger – the Netflix/Lindsay Lohan team-up, Falling for Christmas. Get ready for Christmas ghosts, the nicest house a horse ever had, and the return of Pick Six Bot, all on a special holiday episode we’d […]
22E06: Child’s Play (2019)
December 09, 2022 09:15 - 1 hour - 80 MBWelcome to the Season 22 finale of Pick Six Movies and we are unwrapping a little gift for ourselves – Child’s Play (2019)! Is this the closest thing we’ve seen to a real movie this season? Did they really need Mark Hamill for this? And will this be the end of Garrett the intern? All […]
S22E05: Halloween (2007)
November 25, 2022 09:15 - 2 hours - 87.5 MBWell howdy! Happy Post-Thanksgiving and we here at Pick Six Movies are honoring this gluttonous holiday with the traditional crappy remake of a classic horror film. This time, we look at Robert Zombie’s Halloween as part of Season 22, a season we call Deja Ew. There are book-hungry doctors, jerk killers, and lots of head-scratching about who […]
S22E04: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
November 11, 2022 09:00 - 2 hours - 87.8 MBHalloween may be over, but don’t tell Pick Six Movies that! We’re continuing Season 22’s look at horror remakes with A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). This movie mystifies us, tortures us, and haunts us in our dreams. Come for the story of how Pol pot sort of inspired the original film, stay for the deep hurting. […]
S22E03: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
October 28, 2022 10:10 - 2 hours - 86.4 MBJoin us for a new episode of Pick Six Movies as we rev up to eviscerate the terrible remake, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003). What would you expect from a season we call Deja Ew? We talk about a shocking lack of nipples, pig-based home security, and how hollow this movie is compared to the […]
S22E02: Friday the 13th (2009)
October 14, 2022 10:10 - 2 hours - 88.6 MBWelcome to Pick Six Movies where every day is Friday the 13th! At least for this episode, part of season22, Deja Ew, in which we look at six not-so-classic remakes of horror classics. Drop by Camp Crystal Lake as we try to decipher whether or not Jason is a weed farmer, why the kills are so […]
S22E01: The Amityville Horror (2005)
September 30, 2022 09:15 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBIt’s season opener time for Pick Six Movies, and we are kicking off Season 22, Deja Ew, with the miserable misfire of a remake, The Amityville Horror (2005). At the top of the show, we dive into the real story of America’s most famous haunted house and how Ed and Lorraine Warren figure into the […]
S21E06: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
September 16, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBIt’s season finale time once again here at P6 HQ, and we like to go out with a bang. Hold on to your butts, it’s the wildly inferior sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Why does the best character get killed so unceremoniously? Why on Earth did anyone think this was a good idea? And […]
S21:E05: Runaway
September 02, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBWelcome to a new episode of Pick Six Movies featuring our ongoing look at movies based on the works of Michael Crichton. Episode Five brings us a near-future techno-thriller starring Tom Selleck as a renegade robot hunter and Gene Simmons as a Gene Simmons who wants to sell some microchips to terrorists or something called […]
S21:E04: Rising Sun
August 19, 2022 09:10 - 2 hours - 93.8 MBWelcome to an especially mysterious episode of Pick Six Movies! This time around, we are solving a mystery with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes in Rising Sun! We ratchet up the tension with a Bad Lieutenant in the form of Harvey Keitel, sleazy politicians, doctored video, and so much more. Does any of that make the […]
S21E03: Timeline
August 05, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBAs we reach the midpoint of the season, we ask ourselves, how boring can a Michael Crichton adaptation be? Well, have you seen Timeline? It has a great cast featuring Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, Gerard Butler and, er, Paul Walker. And there’s time travel! And swordplay! And… it’s all quite dull Join us as we […]
S21E02: Westworld
July 22, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBNow that we’ve got all that Congo monkey business behind us, it’s time to look ahead… far ahead into the near future for episode 2 of our Crichton the Middle with You season for the next film… Westworld! In addition to examining the film itself, we debate the success of Richard Benjamin, the accent of Yul Brynner, and the amount […]
S21E01: Congo
July 08, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBWe kick off Season 21 of Pick Six Movies with a brand new theme all about a beloved author whose work has brought countless thrills and chills, from dinosaurs to reverse sexism, from killer robots to reverse sexism… We’re talking about Michael Crichton, of course! In episode one, we are traveling to the volcanic realm […]
S20E06: The Lone Ranger
June 24, 2022 11:41 - 2 hours - 91.9 MBWelcome to the season 20 finale of Pick Six Movies! I wish we could say we were saving the best for last, but in a season called “Bombs Away!,” it’s really all pretty bad. Especially when we’re talking about The Lone Ranger. Get ready for bad framing devices, questionable casting decisions, too many villains, and […]
S20E05: R.I.P.D.
June 10, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBNo season called Bomb’s Away! would be complete without a look at the just-awful R.I.P.D. How did this movie fail when all the ideas it stole work so well in other movies? Is this the film where Jeff Bridges completed his transformation into an unintelligible codger? And is Ryan Reynolds the worst cop ever? All this and more on […]
S20E4: Gigli
May 27, 2022 11:15 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBWe’re rounding the bend on Season 20 of Pick Six Movies, and we are tackling the infamous box office bomb Gigli, perfect for our season’s theme of Bomb’s Away! Whatever you think about Gigli, it was way weirder and more shocking than you can imagine. Let’s get into it, shall we? 00:00:00 – 00:01:38 – Welcome to […]
S20E03: John Carter
May 13, 2022 11:15 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBWhat happens when Disney takes a crack at adapting a seminal sci-fi fantasy series for the big screen? Why, John Carter, that’s what! It’s filled with too much exposition, completely abandoned plot threads, and a bunch of nonsense that has Chad fuming. You won’t want to miss this one! 00:00:00 – 00:01:45 – Chad’s Opening00:01:46 – […]
20E02: Mars Needs Moms
April 29, 2022 11:15 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBOn our second episode of Season 20, your Pick Six Movies heroes head to mars for a truly terrible animated feature, Mars Needs Moms. We have awful children, disgusting orphans, weirdly attractive aliens, and a heapin’ helpin’ of misogyny. Not enough? There’s also a history of Berkely Breathed’s work and even more! 00:00:00 – 00:01:48 – […]
S20:E1: Cutthroat Island
April 15, 2022 11:10 - 1 hour - 75 MBIt’s a new season of Pick Six Movies we call Bombs Away, a sextet of movies that made a splash thanks to being giant disappointments. First to walk the gangplank, Cutthroat Island. We discuss some famous female pirates, what made this such a bomb, and how invisible monkeys have all the best ideas… Join us! Pick […]
S19: E6: The Rock
April 01, 2022 11:10 - 2 hours - 96.5 MBWelcome to The Rock! It’s the Season 19 finale on Pick Six Movies, and we are closing out this season, Die Hard-Ons, with a bang. And a boom, and a pow, and, I think, a wham-o! We have relatable villains, unrelatable heroes, and lots of bad impressions to close out this season, so strap in, […]
S18E5: Passenger 57
March 18, 2022 10:15 - 2 hours - 83.4 MBWhen it comes to Die Hard rip-offs, none are more high-flying than Passenger 57 starring Wesley Snipes! Buckle in for a look at the mystery of D.B. Cooper, psychotic British villains, and ad improv with co-pilots. It’s all waiting on a new episode of Pick Six Movies! Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Podchaser, Google Podcasts, and […]
S19E4: Sudden Death
March 04, 2022 10:15 - 2 hours - 85.6 MBHit the ice with Pick Six Movies and a look at the stone-cold action in the Jean-Claude Van Damme feature, Sudden Death. This Penguin-brawling Die Hard rip-off features Powers Boothe as a villain with ice in his veins, bomb hunts, French chefs, and so much more! It’s more carbon copy capers with Season 19 of Pick Six Movies, […]
S19: E3: Cliffhanger
February 18, 2022 11:05 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBWe’re knee-deep in a new season of Pick Six movie, a season we call Die Hard-ons, on account of this collection of six movies being a rip-off of the excellent Die Hard. In this case, we are tacking the decidedly non-excellent mountain climbing adventure Cliffhanger! It’s good bad villains, dopey plotting, nonsensical stunts, and a pesky wabbit. […]
S19: E2: Speed 2: Cruise Control
February 04, 2022 11:15 - 1 hour - 81 MBWe’re hitting the high seas with episode 2 in our season of Die Hard-inspired action films we call Die Hard-ons! It’s Jason Patric and Sandra Bullock v Willem Dafoe in a movie where almost nothing happens, Speed 2: Cruise Control. So, what is Dafoe’s plan again? And is Sandra Bullock in the Crazy Girlfriend Hall of Fame? Join […]
S19: E1: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
January 21, 2022 11:15 - 2 hours - 83.9 MBIt’s new season time at Pick Six Movies, and we’re celebrating with a train trip in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. Steven Seagal’s Die Hard on a train is the perfect kick-off of our season’s theme, Die Hard-ons, movies that have shamelessly ripped off the classic action movie. And how shameless is this spin on the Die Hard formula? And how bad is […]
S18: E6: Die Hard 2
January 07, 2022 11:00 - 2 hours - 86.9 MBWelcome to the season finale of Pick Six Movies! This season, Season 18 if you’re nasty, is all about Christmas-adjacent films in a season we call Christmastime Is Here. For our slam-bang, action-packed finale, we’re taking a look at the carbon copy caper, Die Hard 2. There’s lawlessness, terrorist acts, and bad behavior, and that’s […]