Shut Up and Watch This
106 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin us as we uncover each other's media and pop culture blindspots. We're a couple getting to know each other better by sharing the must-see movies from our past.
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#6: Local Hero (1983)
March 12, 2018 02:00 - 34 minutes - 24.5 MBThis week Dave chooses LOCAL HERO, a delightful, nearly forgotten comedy by Scotland’s Bill Forsyth (GREGORY’S GIRL). Yes, let’s postpone the darker movies for a while and travel to the seaside village of Ferness with Peter Riegert’s Houston oilman and a gangly twenty-something Peter Capaldi as they attempt to purchase the bay, the beach, and the entire village for Knox Oil and their astronomy-obsessed boss, Burt Lancaster. Roll up your pants and hit the tide pools, bring plenty of change fo...
#5: The Fog of War (2003)
March 02, 2018 02:00 - 36 minutes - 26 MBDave and Ashley wrestle with some of the big questions while watching Ashley’s pick, THE FOG OF WAR: 11 Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, directed by master documentarian Errol Morris. What is our moral duty to our fellow men? Who was ultimately responsible for the US involvement in Vietnam? And how did Errol Morris get Werner Herzog to eat his shoe? Definite answers to at least one of these questions, plus Dave confronts an insecurity about modern American history, and Ashley tal...
#4: Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
February 16, 2018 02:00 - 32 minutes - 23.2 MBThis week we tackle Dave's pick: SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, Steven Soderbergh's 1989 debut with James Spader, Andie MacDowell, and Peter Gallagher (a.k.a. Eyebrows McGee). We've got iced tea, cheating husbands, lying sisters, repressed wives, and a philosophical loner with a peculiar box of videotapes. Is Andie MacDowell's hair basically a character in this film? See if you agree. Subscribe in iTunes or Android Follow us on Facebook Send your feedback to [email protected] © 2018 A...
#3: Benny & Joon (1993)
February 02, 2018 01:00 - 34 minutes - 24.2 MBRemember BENNY & JOON, that quirky Johnny Depp movie from the 90s? Dave doesn't--it's in his blind spot! Aidan Quinn stars as an auto mechanic who's made it his life's purpose to care for his mentally ill younger sister (Mary Stuart Masterson). Enter an eccentric, Buster Keaton-type (Depp) who can speak her language and read her emotions, but who's appearance upsets the balance. This week Ashley chooses a "comfort food" movie from her past. And Dave has to confront his Johnny Depp problem.
#2: Down By Law (1986)
January 21, 2018 00:16 - 32 minutes - 45.8 MBThis week it's Dave's pick: DOWN BY LAW, Jim Jarmusch's deadpan indie prison break film from 1986, featuring Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni. What happens when you cram a deejay, a pimp, and an Italian tourist into a claustrophobic New Orleans prison cell? We talk cinematography, music, male energy, plus the curious Benigni effect. Along the way, we also touch upon Jarmusch's 2017 film PATERSON and Kogonada's COLUMBUS.
#1: The Tao of Steve
January 06, 2018 02:51 - 28 minutes - 20.4 MBOne of us chooses, the other watches, then we break it all down. This week Ashley makes Dave watch Jenniphr Goodman's 2000 indie comedy, The Tao of Steve starring Donal Logue, a movie she saw when she was attending community college and still living at home with her folks in West Texas. Dave was in film school in Austin but missed it completely. How does this movie about a sloppy, philosophical womanizer look and feel in the year 2018?