Under the Wheels
97 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHome source for the podcast by Austin, Gabe, and Matt. We talk about all things, mostly movie related and specifically with a love for Tom Hardy... among others, of course.
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Under the Wheels Episode 36: The Ketchup Episode
May 24, 2021 23:38Gabe and Matt recount what they've been watching lately and divert from the main path even more than usual. - - - - - Listen to us on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, or Spotify! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Like our content? Visit our website!
Under The Wheels Episode 35: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Lost Episode)
May 11, 2021 21:37Gabe and Matt discuss why or why not plays should be adapted into movies and how to do it badly and not as badly. Topics include The Elephant Man, Star Wars as failed Dungeons and Dragons characters, what serves as the best introduction to David Lynch movies (hint here), what Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and One Night in Miami do similarly and differently, Matt's odd fascination with Hitchcock movie adaptations of stage plays like "Dial M for Murder", Denzel Washington's desire to make the Au...
Under the Wheels Episode 34: Oscar Preview
April 22, 2021 04:19Gabe and Matt talk about the Academy Awards for the 2nd year in a row and discuss their top ten of the year. Gabe goes on quite a few rants that are well worth hearing, if just for the entertainment value. Notes: How does Oscar Voting Work - - - - - Listen to us on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, or Spotify! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Like our content? Visit our website!
Under the Wheels Episode 33: Zack Snyder's Justice League
March 31, 2021 04:09Matt, Gabe, and Austin assemble together in the Hall of Justice to discuss the latest Zack Snyder slow-motion-fest Zack Snyder's Justice League. - - - - - Listen to us on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, or Spotify! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Artwork by Heather Painton. Like our content? Visit our website!
Under the Wheels Episode 32: Judas and the Black Messiah
March 14, 2021 04:22Matthew and Gabe discuss Judas and the Black Messiah, its merits, the acting, and how it is so much more than just the equivalent to "A Very Special Episode". Later Matt gets flummoxed over the Golden Globe Nominees for 2021 and desperately shills again for HBO Max. Subjects: My Friend Dahmer The Rider Lost in Translation The Little Things The Good Liar F for Fake The 3D Musketeers Will Smith in the Matrix Fist of Jesus - - - - - Listen to us on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, or...
Under the Wheels Episode 31: Soul
March 01, 2021 02:29Gabe and Matt discuss Disney/Pixar's Soul. - - - - - Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Like our content? Visit our website!
Under the Wheels Episode 30: The Midnight Sky
February 14, 2021 05:00Matt and Gabe try to find the meaning of The Midnight Sky. Other topics include a discussion on difficult videogames, the merits of drinking straight coffee, independent theaters, Neal Breen movies, Jack Kirby's writing abilities, why some Netflix projects look generic and others turn out unique, the bad filmmaking of Robert Rodriguez, George Cloony: The Last Old-School Movie Star (and his somewhat rocky ability to direct movies), the cliche of science fiction movies in space on IMAX, how A...
Under the Wheels Episode 29: Wonder Woman 1984 and Invisible Man
January 14, 2021 13:00Matt and Gabe discuss Wonder Woman 1984 and Invisible Man, both connected by a common thread - invisibility. References: Bronson Elf The Breadwinner The Song of Sparrows The Chef Show Soul Megamind - - - - - Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Like our content? Visit our website!
Under the Wheels Episode 28: Possessor and VFW
January 05, 2021 13:00Matt, Austin, and Gabe discuss Brandon Cronenberg's new film Possessor, Jeff Bezos's film VFW, and video games. Lots of video games. And Best Damn Root Beer, if you would like to sponsor us please do. - - - - - Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Like our content? Visit our website!
Under the Wheels Episode 27: The Problems with Mando (Season 2)
December 23, 2020 05:00Matt, Gabe, and Austin try to dissect why the second season of The Mandalorean doesn't live up to the first season while also pondering what it means to "save Star Wars". - - - - - Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Like our content? Visit our website!
Under The Wheels Episode 26: Mank
December 10, 2020 05:00Gabe and Matt go old school to talk about David Fincher's new "biographical" "drama" Mank, where Matt stumbles upon pronouncing everything and Gabe can't pronounce Amanda Seyfried. They also get depressed about the impending top 10 of the year. References: Wikipedia donate The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Ghost Dog Andrei Rublev The Crown Ludwig Goransson Orson Welles wine commercial Side by Side (Documentary) Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by...
Under The Wheels Episode 25: Ghost of Tsushima
December 07, 2020 05:00Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Like our content? Visit our website! --- Matt and Gabe slice and dice through the good, the bad, and the ugly of Ghost of Tsushima and try not to get Sucker Punched along the way (apologies for the terrible pun). Mike's Youtube playlist of Ghost of Tsushima Reference: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Color out of Space Island of Dr. Moreau controversy Raymond Daniels sends someone's ...
Under the Wheels Episode 24: The Haunting of Bly Manor
November 26, 2020 18:19Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. - - - Matt and Gabe attempt to unravel The Haunting of Bly Manor. References: My Week with Marilyn Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan The Exorcist Cruising Blue Velvet Henry James Who is the worst Chris Twin Peaks Twin Peaks, the Return The Knick Half in the Bag: Borat 2 and Haunting of Bly Manor
Under the Wheels Episode 23: The Efficient Beach Episode (ft. Nosferatu)
November 06, 2020 11:00Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. In the filler episode of Under the Wheels, Matt and Gabe discuss Quibi, how Matt can't say Cerebus correctly, the legacy of Cerebus, the actual draw of Batman: The Killing Joke, an observation on the works of the late Stuart Gordon, a sidebar into the unrealized Honey I Shrunk the Kids sequels, a Rick Moranis Appreciation, Gabe's issue with the Superhero Movie Equivalent of 1950-60 (as...
Under the Wheels Episode 22: Tenet and Devil All The Time
October 20, 2020 11:00Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Matt and Gabe discuss two films featuring Robert Pattinson as a supporting actor: Tenet and Devil All the Time.
Under the Wheels Episode 21: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
October 01, 2020 03:24Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Gabe and Matt dive deep into the mind of Charlie Kaufman and attempt to make meaning of his latest film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, not sponsored by Dairy Queen. Along the way, they stumble their way through how Mulan the Movie is having a direct negative effect on Hong Kong, they get demonetized and banned in China for... well, obvious reasons, Matt is wrong in most of the assumpti...
Under the Wheels Episode 20: The Old Guard
September 11, 2020 12:00Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Opus Overtones can be found here. Sponsored by Jif Peanut Butter (please?) - Matt and Gabe get back into movies made in 2020 with the "hit" Netflix movie "The Old Guard" starring Dudley Dursley from Harry Potter with some other somewhat famous international stars. Topics include how awesome Rutger Hauer is/was, Sly Stallone's steroid-enhanced Ego and his drag sensibilities, the odd styl...
Under The Wheels Episode 19: Ronin
August 05, 2020 15:40Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Matt and Gabe go into a thorough analysis of John Frankenheimer's Ronin. Discussed on the episode: Tombstone Snowman and the Art of Editing The Silence of the Lambs Ice Age Outrage Coda The Killers (1946) Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers" John Frankenheimer David Mamet Michael Lonsdale Baby Driver Russian Ark The Amazing Spider-man 2
Under the Wheels Episode 18: Da 5 Bloods
July 17, 2020 20:25Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Matt and Gabe review a more recently released movie - Spike Lee's newest joint Da 5 Bloods. Topics including creative content generation theories, knowing what not to include, subtle science fiction elements, kitchen sink realism, the "Disney Business Model", confusing Ken Burns and Ed Burns, how big-name actors writing a script for themselves is an automatic red flag, the idiosyncratic...
Under the Wheels Episode 17: Austin Returns
July 07, 2020 23:32Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. The boys are back! Matt and Gabe are joined by Under the Wheels co-founder Austin where they discuss such topics as what they've been watching lately, authors who go on to direct motion pictures, Nicholas Winding Refn, The Snyder Cut, the perplexing reception of Star Wars Rogue One, the studio problem in regards to cheap reboots, a whole lot of Star Wars talk, Christopher Nolan, the sel...
Under the Wheels Episode 16: Inception
June 14, 2020 16:41Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Matt and Gabe share the dream with special guest Mike and discuss Christopher Nolan's Inception. Topics include too much Star Wars in an episode that should not have any Star Wars, the tenants of a Christopher Nolan film, a Harrison Ford and Blade runner drop (what a surprise), strange shows that somehow were real things, the issues with escalation as tv series evolve, how Matt can't co...
Under the Wheels Episode 15: Lawless
May 16, 2020 01:42Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Gabe and Matt hope the years have fermented Lawless into some shiny and chrome moonshine. Topics include Lore (with a capital "L"), a thorough analysis of the business-side of textbook publishing, essay writing theory, the "cinematic stylings" of one Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, story structure in movies vs. books/novel adaptations, triangular structure and art theory, the complex re...
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 15: Lawless
May 16, 2020 01:42Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher! Send us a message! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud. Gabe and Matt hope the years have fermented Lawless into some shiny and chrome moonshine. Topics include Lore (with a capital "L"), a thorough analysis of the business-side of textbook publishing, essay writing theory, the "cinematic stylings" of one Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, story structure in movies vs. books/novel adaptations, triangular structure and art theory, the complex re...
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 14: Bad Taste
May 04, 2020 20:24Gabe and Matt throw Peter Jackson's first film Bad Taste under the wheels. Topics include Michael J. Fox's post-film career, super hero movies in the good old days, Michael Caine is an amazing actor, the good and bad of docuseries and documentary filmmaking, Maori slang, New Zealand Pride, the mystique of low budget special effects, Peter Jackson's obsession with goofy gore, how bad Goldfinger and the James Bond franchise really is, George Lucas's non-Star Wars legacy, Marcia Lucas - unsun...
Under the Wheels Episode 14: Bad Taste
May 04, 2020 20:24Gabe and Matt throw Peter Jackson's first film Bad Taste under the wheels. Topics include Michael J. Fox's post-film career, super hero movies in the good old days, Michael Caine is an amazing actor, the good and bad of docuseries and documentary filmmaking, Maori slang, New Zealand Pride, the mystique of low budget special effects, Peter Jackson's obsession with goofy gore, how bad Goldfinger and the James Bond franchise really is, George Lucas's non-Star Wars legacy, Marcia Lucas - unsun...
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 13: The Apartment
April 21, 2020 02:56Matt and Gabe travel deep into Billy Wilder's Apartment. Topics include Tom Hardy once again being the greatest actor of a generation, a Michael Shannon drop, Gabe hates Masterpiece Theater, roaring Christmas parties of the 1950's, cameo-fest movies of the '90's, where the Golden Age of Hollywood ranks upon the pantheon of greatest movies, a Harrison Ford reference, Paul Thomas Anderson talk, Hitchcock's horrible movie endings, the true value of Fred MacMurray's name, and the last black and...
Under the Wheels Episode 13: The Apartment
April 21, 2020 02:56Matt and Gabe travel deep into Billy Wilder's Apartment. Topics include Tom Hardy once again being the greatest actor of a generation, a Michael Shannon drop, Gabe hates Masterpiece Theater, roaring Christmas parties of the 1950's, cameo-fest movies of the '90's, where the Golden Age of Hollywood ranks upon the pantheon of greatest movies, a Harrison Ford reference, Paul Thomas Anderson talk, Hitchcock's horrible movie endings, the true value of Fred MacMurray's name, and the last black and...
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 12: Death Stranding
April 12, 2020 05:18Matt and Gabe throw Hideo Kojima's latest passion project Death Stranding under the wheels. Topics covered include a look into Steven Soderberg as a filmmaker, Genndy Tartakovsky's career, an alternate Under the Wheels perspective on the production side of Adam Sandler's movies, a Hideo Kojima semi-career overview, video game design philosophy, our respective issues with God of War, love for Borderlands, some middling Assassin's Creed talk, the David Hayter-Hideo Kojima "controversy", and a...
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 11: Harley Quinn in Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey [And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn]
March 31, 2020 02:13Matt and Gabe discuss the relative merits of Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey - the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn (#harleyquinn). In the interim, we wonder why Ewan McGregor is in this movie, what a potentially good Obi Wan movie might look like (spoilers: it's definitely not the one that Disney wants to green light), why they would make Black Canary Black, how to balance tonal issues in a movie, what "mature" fandom content actually means by "mature", the conversation around diversit...
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 10: Get Owned by Steve Jobs and Aaron Sorkin
March 21, 2020 04:06Gabe and Matt attempt to talk about Danny Boyle's Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender et al (and not the Ashton Kutcher "Jobs" movie) while also digressing into talk of James Bond and budgets and looking ahead to an uncertain, nostalgia-infused future with a lack of futurists. Discussion also includes talk of the Academy Award and excitement over Alex Garland's new television series. Discussed in the episode Highlander The Conversation I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering ...
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 9: Top 10 of the Decade
March 06, 2020 03:58In today's episode, Gabe and Matt go toe to toe in their predictions for the Academy Awards. Later, they revolutionize Top 10 Movies of the Decade by having two completely different list theories. Somehow Jean Luc Godard is mentioned in passing. Twice. Time Codes: #10: 1:30:25 #09: 1:37:55 #08: 1:47:42 #07: 2:03:18 #06: 2:12:58 #05: 2:22:22 #04: 2:36:15 #03: 2:44:30 #02: 2:47:52 #01: 2:55:47 Brows Held High Godard's King Lear - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrR6BY4e8tU Lindsa...
Under The Wheels Reborn Episode 8: Top 10 of 2019
February 05, 2020 01:45Gabe and Matt discuss their respective top-ten of 2019. Time markers for each place: 10: 0:32:39 09: 0:54:00 08: 1:10:21 07: 1:28:00 06: 1:31:43 05: 1:42:02 04: 1:44:51 03: 1:57:23 02: 2:07:44 Honorable Mention: 2:19:04 01: 2:26:26
Under The Wheels Reborn Episode 6: The Irishman and Knives Out
January 24, 2020 02:24Matt and Gabe discuss the relative merits of The Irishman and Knives Out. Topics include if Robert De Niro and Al Pachino are able to act like 20 year olds, how good the de-aging of the faces are (or are not), Scorsese and his obsession with long movies, Daniel Craig - Foghorn Legham, Rian Johnson - subverter of everything - kinda, cartoon characters in mystery movies, lots of Gangs of New York stuff, and Baseball ratings for movies.
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 5: Ford V Ferrari with Special Guest Mike!
January 11, 2020 03:26Matt, Gabe, and special guest Mike discuss the new movie Le Mans 66 starring that one guy who is an asshole and that other guy who yells a lot and chews scenery. They follow this up with a discussion of the merits of James Mangold as a filmmaker. Special Thanks to Mike for the new music!
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 7: The Rise of Skywalker and Decline of a Franchise
January 02, 2020 00:56Matt and Gabe discuss the newest "Star Wars" "Film".
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 4: Blade Runner: The Final Analysis of the Final Cut
December 04, 2019 02:05Gabe and Matt talk about one of the greatest movies ever made and rereleased in four different versions. They also talk about the creator of the movie and some other guy who did a movie that takes place in the 80's version of the future and finish by theorizing how the world of Blade Runner would look now (hint: a lot of fruit and mice).
Episode 3: The Lighthouse King Has A Parasite Starring Robert Pattinson
November 16, 2019 21:16Gabe and Matt are back. In Episode 3 the duo discuss a trifecta of For Your Consideration-er's: The Lighthouse, The King, and [The] Parasite, and various other smaller movies. Some will get shiny and chrome, some will be added to top ten lists, and some of them have memorable performances from Under The Wheels fan favorite Robert Pattinson. Listen in to see what happens when you go... Under the Wheels!
Under The Wheels Reborn Episode 3: The Lighthouse King Has A Parasite Starring Robert Pattinson
November 16, 2019 21:16Gabe and Matt are back. In Episode 3 the duo discuss a trifecta of For Your Consideration-er's: The Lighthouse, The King, and [The] Parasite, and various other smaller movies. Some will get shiny and chrome, some will be added to top ten lists, and some of them have memorable performances from Under The Wheels fan favorite Robert Pattinson. Listen in to see what happens when you go... Under the Wheels!
Episode 2: Joker V Ad Astra
October 30, 2019 23:48Matt and Gabe throw Todd Phillip's JOKER under the wheels and attempt to tackle the difficult job of sifting through the controversy to find the ultimate truth of the piece. Later, Matt and Gabe take a rocket ship to Neptune to throw Ad Astra through the good old rocketship to see if they can find out the reason no one is seeing this fantastic piece of media.
Under The Wheels Reborn Episode 2: Joker V Ad Astra
October 30, 2019 23:48Matt and Gabe throw Todd Phillip's JOKER under the wheels and attempt to tackle the difficult job of sifting through the controversy to find the ultimate truth of the piece. Later, Matt and Gabe take a rocket ship to Neptune to throw Ad Astra through the good old rocketship to see if they can find out the reason no one is seeing this fantastic piece of media.
Under the Wheels Reborn Episode 1
October 19, 2019 05:09From the ashes comes the Under the Wheels Podcast... Reborn! Minus one dude and a whole lot of production value, of course. Today's episode covers Martin Scorsese's controversial comments on Marvel Movies, among other things.
Review: Sorry to Bother You
July 25, 2018 04:16All I knew going into Sorry to Bother You is that a black telemarketer starts using a “white voice” to become a hotshot salesman. Sounded funny enough as a gag. It’s probably for the best that it was the only thing I knew about the movie, and it’s probably the only thing you need to know going in. That and the fact that it’s amazing. Sorry to Bother You is the story of Cassuis Green (Get Out’s Lakeith Stanfield), a down on his luck loser who shoots up the corporate ladder, from encycloped...
You Were Never Really Here: A (Again, Way Too Late) Review
July 06, 2018 02:56Full disclosure: I was extremely hyped for this movie. A stylish thriller with sequences of brutal hand-to-hand combat, directed by a one of a kind auteur, featuring great performances and great music sounds like something that I am destined to love. Needless to say, I set my expectations too high and ended up kinda disappointed. First, the good. Lynne Ramsay delivers, with her technical brilliance once again taking center stage. She’s a master of synecdoche, focusing on specific, clear d...
Annihilation: (A Way Too Late) Review
April 29, 2018 20:46People on the web these days seem to complain about Hollywood movies quite a lot. Not enough roles for women. Not enough minorities. The movies are so stupid they cause viewers to lose IQ points with each passing minute. Well fret not dear reader, our savior is here. Annihilation is the answer to all these problems and more, so surely it will be a smashing success, right? Oh, wait…Nobody saw it. Annihilation is a riveting, genre bending, sci-fi survival/body horror film that is, to be ...
The Top Ten Best Damn Movies of 2017. Period.
February 16, 2018 04:12Buy and large, 2017 was one of the best years for movies we’ve had in a while (mediocre superheroes and a few sci-fi abominations not withstanding). It’s safe to say that making this list was very difficult, as there was an embarrassment of riches to pick from. Needless to say, several great movies will get little more than an honorable mention here. But enough preface. In a post-truth world full of lies, scams, and fake news around every corner, the people need a Top 10 Movie list they ca...
Austin's Top 10
February 14, 2018 18:54Austin here - So I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really planning on actually writing this list, but then I saw how inconceivably bad Matt’s list was and decided that you readers deserve a list worth reading. I did not see nearly as many movies as the other two did because I somehow even have more of a life than those two nerds. I'm not going to have any summaries of the movies in my list because it's boring and nobody cares. Y'all gotta trust me and just see the movies I've listed. Blah blah bl...
Matt's Top 15, 2017
February 10, 2018 00:44Matt here-- In lieu of the trio doing an episode, we all agreed that we would start to use this blog the way it was meant to be used - to say stupid things and hope people try to debate us (at least, that's what I thought a blog was supposed to be). To kick it off, and before we get into double digits in February, we wanted to post our favorite films of 2017. While there will be some overlap of movies (due to us being in fairly constant contact), there is a good chance that the lists won't m...