Why Did We Watch This
220 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 hours ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsThree friends praising, destroying, and fixing the messiest, crappiest movies known to humanity. Oh, and we drink a lot, too.
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59 – Beauty and the Beast
August 24, 2020 04:00 - 31.4 MBNo, not that Beauty and the Beast, god forbid! The bad one. The one where all the charm and heart of the original animated classic was replaced with CGI glop and soulless autotune and Stanley Tucci as a harpsichord that shoots keys at people (we didn't say EVERY change was bad). Leigh, Brendan, and Chris discuss the uncanny valley recreation of your childhood that has no reason to be other than to make over a billion dollars at the box office. Was there a way this movie could have been done ...
59.5 – The Nice Guys
August 24, 2020 04:00 - 47.7 MBNo, we didn't forget how to count, but we ARE going a bit off schedule this week to feature our final episode of Why Don't We Watch This. This week we talk about Shane Black's The Nice Guys, a rollicking mystery comedy adventure set in the 1970s if your average film reviewer or podcaster named Chris is to be believed! Turns out when you watch a great movie that gives you great laugh per minute mileage, you don't always have a lot to talk about! In two weeks we'll back to semi-normal with our ...
58.5 – Why Don’t We Watch This – Strange Days
August 10, 2020 04:00 - 37 MBIn this continuation of our mini mini-series Why Don't We Watch This, we discuss Strange Days. No, not the prolonged Kafka-esque fever dream that is 2020, the 1995 Kathryn Bigelow directed cyberpunk neo-noir film starring Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett. Heads up, this movie is Intense with a capital I, as in the optical organs you may want to avert, as we did, during some of the more violent and unpleasant scenes. If you are not okay with graphic depictions of physical and sexual violence, ...
58 – The Commuter
July 27, 2020 04:00 - 62.5 MBIt’s been over four months since we all started working from home, and it’s leaving us nostalgic for the things we used to be able to do, like physically touch our loved ones and ride public transportation to our places of work. Accordingly, we decided to put ourselves back in that state of mind by watching Jaume Collet-Serra‘s 2018 thriller The Commuter, starring an especially haggard-looking Liam Neeson as the titular character and Vera Farmiga as the woman who won’t stop trying to talk to ...
57.5 – Why Don’t We Watch This – The Lady Eve
July 13, 2020 04:00 - 35.6 MBIn which we continue our summer of watching things that are good but we haven't all seen by watching Preston Sturges's 1941 screwball comedy The Lady Eve, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda and a cartoon snake. Also we use this movie as a jumping off point to talk about our thoughts on screwball comedies (good!) and the weird way Nancy Meyers structures her movies so that you can't tell where you actually are in the plot (I mean, your mileage may vary!). Also next episode we'll do a co...
57 – The Nanny Diaries
June 29, 2020 04:02 - 61.4 MBWhat could be more timely than a comedy where a millennial sacrifices her entire identity to fulfil the mad whims of a wildly wealthy older white couple? Don't worry! She's white and kind of well off and doing this voluntarily, so it's fun!!! Yes, it's The Nanny Diaries, a film à clef based on the chick lit beach read where recent college graduate Scarlett Johansson for some flimsy reason chooses to be the live-in nanny to Laura Linney and part of Paul Giamatti while being wooed by privileged...
56.5 – Why Don’t We Watch This – Fatal Instinct
June 15, 2020 04:00 - 27.3 MBWe continue our miniseries of indeterminable length with another movie that we enjoy watching JUST BECAUSE, Carl Reiner's 1993 sex thriller parody, Fatal Instinct. Also we talk about parody movies in general and why some of them work better than others. And this one doesn't always even work all the time! But hey, where else can you get Armand Assante and Sean Young screwing recklessly while spinning plates? Also we're doing a summery chick-lit movie adaptation next, so get ready for that. Con...
56 – DragonHeart
June 01, 2020 04:00 - 56 MBAs the disgraced knight Bowen says, "Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust." Similarly, when some of us revisited the 1996 fantasy / CGI test feature Dragonheart, we also found that our memories of a beloved childhood film had also turned to dust. Take away the once-impressive (?) computer-generated costar and you're left with a pretty trite story bogged down with vague world-building and Dennis Quaid's Irish (?) accent work. Can Leigh, Brendan, and...
56 – Dragonheart
June 01, 2020 04:00 - 56 MBAs the disgraced knight Bowen says, "Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust." Similarly, when some of us revisited the 1996 fantasy / CGI test feature Dragonheart, we also found that our memories of a beloved childhood film had also turned to dust. Take away the once-impressive (?) computer-generated costar and you're left with a pretty trite story bogged down with vague world-building and Dennis Quaid's Irish (?) accent work. Can Leigh, Brendan, and...
55.5 – Why Don’t We Watch This – The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
May 18, 2020 04:00 - 49.4 MBLook, we really enjoy watching a bad movie but sometimes even we have limits. So while everything in the world is going to hell, we thought maybe we should watch a GOOD movie that not all of us have seen. Ergo this exceedingly wordy minisode miniseries, Why Don't We Watch This. And for our inaugural ep, we got some food and drinks and decided to watch the 1966 Cold War comedy, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. For some reason, a comedy about people panicking over impending doo...
55 – The Mothman Prophecies
May 04, 2020 04:00 - 55.3 MBNothing better reflects the state of the world right now than a bunch of ominous and spooky events that have no real relation to each other and keep getting worse and worse, and boy, does The Mothman Prophecies have that in spades! Leigh, Brendan, and Chris try to make sense of the vague supernatural nonsense, piece together what the hell is trying to be accomplished by the weird-for-weird's-sake direction, and like, what's Mothman's deal anyway? Also like who is Indrid Cold? How's he connect...
54.5 – Director Swap
April 20, 2020 04:00 - 62.2 MBOne way to get through your social distancing quarantine to watch a lot of movies, and another way is to wildly speculate about how these movies could have been changed in some way. That's our whole thing! This time, we tweak that whole thing a little bit by speculating about what movies would have been like if they had a different director behind them. Join Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as they speculate about what The Death of Stalin, The Country Bears, and Birdman would have looked like with s...
54 – V.I. Warshawski
April 06, 2020 04:00 - 59.2 MBWhat better way to spend your COVID-19 quarantine than by listening to a podcast about a 1991 Kathleen Turner movie that no one remembers? Join hard-drinking gumshoes Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as they dredge up the celluloid carcass of V.I Warshawski from the Chicago River and conduct a post-mortem to determine what killed the whole endeavor. Could it have been the lack of a compelling mystery, the crux of any ostensible detective story? Perhaps it was the movie's constant need to trot out "c...
53.5 – Gender Swap ‘Til You Drop
March 23, 2020 04:00 - 62.3 MBTruly, there is no easier way to shake up a movie industry mired in the safe and predictable AND enrage a certain sector of the Internet than by swapping the gender of one or more of your film's characters. It is, literally, the easiest way to increase the representation of women or make male characters mildly less dull- all you have to do is some simple find+replace in Final Draft. So what movies would have benefitted from such a switcheroo? Leigh, Brendan, and Chris rattle off a few such ch...
53 – The Day the Earth Stood Still
March 09, 2020 04:00 - 58.3 MBNo, no, not that one! The 2008 remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic where an alien shows up and warns us all to knock it off with all the nuclear warfare global warming. Except in this one the alien Klaatu doesn't really warn us so much as he just... scowls and runs arounds. Klaatu is certainly portrayed by Keanu Reeves, who adds another notch next to "emotionless cypher who looks really great in a suit" on his checklist of performances. Also Jennifer Connelly and Jaden Smith are here too. Join ...
52.5 – The Beautician and the Beast
February 24, 2020 05:00 - 61.1 MBWhat better way to celebrate the final days of February the Month of Love than by discussing a rom-com that finally pairs up Fran Drescher and Timothy Dalton, the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks of February 1997? That's right, at long last someone is giving The Beautician and the Beast the attention it shrilly demands. After all, what could be more romantic than traveling to a small formerly-USSR country, falling in love with their oppressive leader, and doing it all in garish stilettos and midriff-be...
52 – Made of Honor
February 10, 2020 05:00 - 56.6 MBHold on to your monocles, dear listeners, because this 2008 rom-com is about to flip your preconceived notions of what a bridal party can be like so many mini kilts during the Highland games! Just imagine this- what if maid of honor... but a MAN? If that concept just split your sides, then suture them back up again because you're most assuredly the target audience for this bland and conventional piece of cinematic fluff. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris enjoy a very Scotchy cocktail while covering t...
51.5 – Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
January 27, 2020 05:00 - 34.9 MBTHE WHY WATCH CREW SPEAK! One month after Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker premiered to a resounding critical "Oof," Leigh, Brendan, and Chris finally do what every other podcast did like two weeks ago and gather together to try to make sense of whatever the hell that movie was supposed to be. Spoiler alert: it's not great! There's a lot of J.J. Abrams nonsense to sift through here, like the nebulous time-wasting questing and what the hell the Emperor is doing here alive and why ...
51 – Brotherhood of the Wolf
January 13, 2020 05:00 - 56.8 MBDans notre dernier épisode de Why Did We Watch This, nous tournons notre regard critique vers la France et leur film Le Pacte des Loups de 2001, qui présente de nombreux acteurs français et une monstruosité générée par ordinateur recouverte d'une armure de cuir. Et apparemment, ce n'est pas un film de loup-garou! Quel titre trompeur! Rejoignez Leigh, Brendan et Chris alors qu'ils sirotent du vin chaud (très bien!) tout en discutant du rythme bizarre, de la parodie qui est la perte de Mani et ...
50.5 – The Closing of the Year III
December 30, 2019 05:00 - 53.9 MBAs always at this time of the year, we are tired and have a bunch of other stuff to worry about, like shopping for presents and the distressingly low box office intake of Cats. So, we present for you all our annual year in review where we talk about our favorite and least favorite movies and drinks. Also since we forgot to mention in the actual episode, we're kicking off 2020 with Brotherhood of the Wolf. Oops. Well, happy new year to you all regardless. Continue reading →
50 – Let It Snow
December 16, 2019 05:00 - 57 MBSnow hides a lot. It's like the Spanx of weather. And ironically, no amount of snow (and there ain't much) can hide the problems of Netflix's 2019 holiday ephemera offering, Let It Snow. Yes, friends, it's yet another direct-to-streaming Christmas movie, this time a baby Love Actually set in a midwestern town that seems to shut down in a panic upon receiving two inches of snow. Cozy up with a mulled cider cocktail as Leigh, Brendan, and Chris take an in-depth look at every segment of the movi...
49.5 – The 2019 Streaming Christmas Garbage Festival
December 02, 2019 05:00 - 62.8 MBAt what point is a mini episode no longer a mini episode? Probably at this point. This point, when you have what is ostensibly a "mini" episode that's longer than some of our actual episodes. In our defense, there's a lot to cover here! With the Christmas season upon us, Leigh, Brendan, and Chris gather in front of a roaring fire to discuss the glut of direct-to-streaming-service holiday movies available at your fingertips. From the twisting supernatural romantic thriller The Spirit of Christ...
49 – Maleficent
November 18, 2019 05:00 - 61.3 MBFor this episode, we take you back to the halcyon days of 2014, when it seemed like a novel idea to make a live-action adaptation of a Disney animated movie but a slightly more stale idea to make it like Wicked but Sleeping Beauty. That's right, we're talking about Maleficent, Disney's revisionist fairy tale starring Angelina Jolie's prosthetic cheekbones and that guy from District 9 who we were all kinda into for a brief period. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris all find out that despite what they i...
48.5 – Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
November 04, 2019 05:00 - 52.7 MBIn our latest mini-episode, we we cover the sequel to a movie we'll be doing for our next full-length episode. It's like Memento, but instead of your favorite Christopher Nolan trappings it's got Angelina Jolie and her prosthetic cheekbones. That's right, we paid money to see Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in theaters, which is more than most of America is doing. Join Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as we discuss a whole secret island full of Maleficents, Michelle Pfeiffer's underdeveloped and vague ...
48 – Crimson Peak
October 21, 2019 04:00 - 58.4 MBFor our Halloween spooktacular this year, we're not going to be a ghost movie podcast, but a podcast with ghost movies in it. And if that means anything to you, you may be familiar with Crimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro's 2015 half-written love letter to gothic fiction that Universal Studios would really rather prefer you to think was a horror movie. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris whip up a tea cocktail that is certainly NOT poison and an accompanying tray of high tea terrors while they discuss the...
47.5 – Why You Not Watch
October 07, 2019 04:00 - 42.9 MBIt's finally happened. We've run out of things to say about scary movies for Halloween. It's a real kick to the shins, it is! Anyhow, in lieu of that and springing from a tangent about horror films, we all talk about the things in film that make us not want to see a movie with no further information needed. No matter how open minded we try to be about these things, there's always a genre, director, or actor who will stop us in our tracks and make us cry to the heavens "WILL NOT WATCH!" Also w...
47 – A Life Less Ordinary
September 23, 2019 04:00 - 57 MBFor our extra special forty-seventh episode (sure, why not?), we're trying something no podcast has surely ever tried before- having two special returning guests to total FIVE white people talking over each other about a movie. It's okay, though, since three are women and that's still more than any other podcast has ever had on together at the same time. And what a movie for us all to discuss! We tackle Leigh and special guest Meg's nostalgic fave, Danny Boyle's 1997 romantic (?) screwball (?...
46.5 – Nostalgia Goggles
September 09, 2019 04:00 - 58.1 MBFriends, nostalgia is the most dangerous drug and none of us can get enough of it! But, for about forty minutes anyway, Leigh, Brendan, and Chris will doff their nostalgia goggles and discuss times they revisited a movie they loved growing up and later revisited. Will it hold up like so many movies broadcasted incessantly on Comedy Central in the early 90s? Or will it be more like rewatching the 1995 classic Mighty Morphing Power Rangers: The Movie, a feat so deeply upsetting that all you can...
46 – Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List
August 26, 2019 04:00 - 57.2 MBNothing says instant chemistry like the classic pairing of a heterosexual woman and a gay man, the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of our modern complicated times. And nothing makes a more compelling case for why this premise alone is not enough to hang a story on than 2015's Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, a movie that's as wildly unlikable and messy as the millennial burdens at its peanut butter center. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris play an equally juvenile drinking game while discussing the movie's ...
45.5 – Talkin’ Tone
August 12, 2019 04:00 - 61.4 MBFinally, an entire episode dedicated to the songs and performances of Tone Loc! Whether it's "Funky Cold Medina" or showing up for one scene in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Tone Loc has- oh, wait, never mind. It's about tone. Tone in cinema. Like movies feeling "big" or "intimate" and the cultural and critical baggage that entails, that kind of thing. Also our upcoming back-to-school movie and a game we're playing with various nips and mixers to make it a lot more watchable (because boy is...
45 – The Time Machine
July 29, 2019 04:00 - 56.7 MBIn Hollywood, nothing is a more surefire hit than an adaptation of a book from the 1890s that the majority of your audience probably haven't read but are maybe familiar with just from cultural osmosis. Once you've locked in this successful blockbuster, be sure to alienate fans of the source material by also removing any sort of subtext or metaphor that the original novel had so that no one ends up getting exactly that they want. Mix that all up with some bronze filters and you get 2002's The ...
44.5 – Time Troubles
July 15, 2019 04:00 - 60.3 MBWhether telling an impossible ad intellectually-stimulating tale using the realities available to us through science fiction or wringing jokes from a mom wanting to fuck her son who was sent back in time by his elderly scientist friend using wildly unsafe experiments funded by aiding international terrorists, time travel movies have been an important part of film history for decades. As a prelude to our upcoming episode with deals with a certain MACHINE that can travel through TIME, Leigh, Br...
44 – The International
July 01, 2019 04:00 - 59.1 MBWith all the political turmoil that surrounds us every waking moment of our lives, what better way to forget your troubles than an action movie with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts where, uh, it turns out it's not really an action movie but a windy conspiracy thriller about how a large untouchable bank is making the entire world miserable just for the sake of profits? Yes, it turns out The International is not the gun-shooting cross-country trip we were made to believe it was by the advertisements...
43.5 – Haven’t Seen It
June 17, 2019 04:00 - 57.1 MBFor this mini episode, we decided to do something a little different and play a game that would lead to discussion. Well, it's kind of a game and kind of a discussion, but not like in the strict sense of either. Well, there are actually aspects of both to it, but- look, we work from a list of capital-I Important Films and ask those amongst us who have NOT seen the movie in question to try their best and guess what the movie is actually about based off what they do know of it. Look, why are yo...
43 – Meet Joe Black
June 03, 2019 04:00 - 60.4 MB"I'm here to reap souls and eat peanut butter, and I'm all out of peanut butter!" says Brad Pitt as Death as he shows up at Anthony Hopkins's door, shortly before macking on his vacant-eyed daughter and mocking old Jamaican ladies. Or something like that. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris pour some classy cocktails and sit through all three hours of this ponderous meditative slog, then discuss the source material, what exactly the movie is trying to say, and why the hell it's so damned long. At the e...
42.5 – Movies That Move You
May 20, 2019 06:00 - 56.8 MBWith the impending summer movie season upon us all, Leigh, Brendan, and Chris decide to kick it off with a mini episode about when movies make you cry and scared and feel stuff. Mostly the first one, I think because we were all in a certain mood seeing how the movie we're doing next is a delightful romp about death and life and all that frivolity. Also we prepare a recipe for a classy cocktail that can hopefully get us all through a movie with a three-hour runtime. You can probably all guess ...
42 – Prom
May 06, 2019 04:00 - 59 MBAs the weather becomes more pleasant and your social media timelines are full of endless memes about how it's gonna be May, only one thing is on the mind of America- unquestionably, the prom! Whether you're a high school senior, some sophomore who really shouldn't be involved in all this anyway, or a lumpy and uncompassionate adult, the prom is probably the thing around which your entire life has revolved. And frankly, that's all the reasoning Disney needed to make a movie about it, with very...
41.5 – Mary Poppins Returns
April 22, 2019 04:00 - 61.9 MBDisney took an old film of great acclaim / Can you imagine that? / And made a sequel that's more of the same / Can you imagine that? / New actors but a similar plot / In some ways charming but sort of not / There's decent choreography but also BMX / What was with those guys biking on the ramps? / When Leigh saw that sequence on a plane she said we had to chat / So we all watched this Poppins pic / Then we recorded this right quick / Can you imagine that? Continue reading →
41 – Ladyhawke
April 08, 2019 04:00 - 60.8 MBFor this episode, Leigh, Brendan, and Chris discuss a stirring biopic that tells the story of Ethan Hawke's mother Leslie and the struggles of raising a young child alone while- wait, sorry, it's not that, it's a very 80s medieval movie with all the perils of a fairy tale adaptation despite not actually being based on any existing one. We talk about the rules of the world, the many paper-thin characters, and oh god that score, that score. In keeping with the duality of the movie, we also have...
40.5 – What a Wonderful Worldbuilding
March 25, 2019 04:00 - 54.1 MBWhether you're a movie maker, a dungeon master, or just some kid who is haphazardly slapping together some Legos without any sort of regard for the instructions and DAMMIT TEDDY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE TAJ MAHAL DOES THAT LOOK AT ALL LIKE THE TAJ MAHAL TO YOU???, world building is a big thing to consider. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris talk about world building as it relates to movies, from good ones that do it well, bad ones that do it well, and the different ways to dump loads of exposition o...
40 – Murder on the Orient Express
March 11, 2019 04:00 - 62.4 MBLadies and gentlemen! We have gathered you all here in the accusing car because there has been a murder! Thankfully, we only lost Johnny Depp, so... don't strain yourselves trying to work out who may have done it. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris don their mustache guards to discuss 2017's Murder on the Orient Express, directed by / starring / production designed within an inch of its life by Kenneth Branaugh. We discuss the bizarrely convoluted mystery (which is dependent upon 13 people from variou...
39.5 – Whoseenit?
February 25, 2019 05:00 - 24.8 MBAs a prelude to our Mystery March episode (which is a thing we just made up now), Leigh, Brendan, and Chris talk about detectives in pop culture, be they Sherlock Holmes or, uh, other. Also there's some stuff about whether or not you should be able to solve a mystery while watching / reading it and a lot of stuff with TV procedurals. Anyway, you've got two weeks to start growing a ridiculous mustache for our next episode's mystery movie. Continue reading →
39 – Kate & Leopold
February 11, 2019 05:00 - 61.1 MBWhat could possibly be more charming than having a late 19th century duke show up in your Manhattan apartment, offering you all of that 1870s class with none of that 1870s misogyny / racism / chauvinism? Very little aside from perhaps the scent of warm brioche smothered in marmalade and fresh creamery butter, posits James Mangold's 2001 romcom Kate & Leopold. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris watch their annual Valentine's Day movie with a drink worthy of a mid-tier budget television commercial and d...
38.5 – All the Screen’s a Theatre
January 28, 2019 05:00 - 39.6 MBBecause we spent our last mini episode doing our customary new year nothingness, we bumped a discussion about Shakespeare adaptations to this mini episode instead. It still works! Anyway, Leigh leads a group discussion about the various movie versions of Shakespeare plays, be they mostly faithful to the text and setting or something set in a high school with the great sounds of the 90s permeating throughout. We also determine our Valentine's Day romcom and an appropriately dairy-based drink t...
38 – The Tempest
January 14, 2019 05:00 - 56.2 MBFinally, a film adaptation that combines the quiet contemplations of William Shakespeare's final play with the visual goofiness of Julie Taymor! Taymor brings her trademark sense of "how many effects can you add in post before the screen melts" to this 2010 take on The Tempest, most notable for casting Helen Mirren in the gender-bent role of Prospera and maybe also for covering a naked Ben Whishaw's junk with a flat Ken doll-esque mound. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris discuss the changes that resu...
37.5 – The Closing of the Year II
December 31, 2018 05:00 - 15.9 MBAs is our wont, we were feeling very lazy at the end of the calendar year and just recorded us talking about our favorite and least favorite movies and drinks of 2018. Two weeks from now we’ll be ready to work again, we promise. Happy New Years! Continue reading →
37 – The Christmas Chronicles
December 17, 2018 05:00 - 57.1 MBNow that December is well upon us, there's little better to do than make some sort of hot alcoholic drink and watch pleasant Christmas nonsense while your brain goes into a stupor until 2019. Keeping that in mind, we decided to pick some new vague Christmas nonsense to cover for our annual holiday episode, the Netflix original movie The Christmas Chronicles, which has Kurt Russell as Santa and that's about all that's noteworthy here. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris sip their piping-hot Santa Daddie...
36.5 – Pitcher’s Mound – An Original Christmas Movie
December 03, 2018 05:00 - 57.7 MBNow that it's well past Thanksgiving, we're at the glorious time of year where Christmas movies are being thrown at the you like some festive, pleasantly bland spaghetti against a wall. Be they movies about journalists who meet a prince on Christmas or bakers who meet a prince on Christmas or kids who meet a fuckable Santa on Christmas, the options abound and yet for the most part aren't all that good. SO, we said to ourselves, why not try to come up with a pitch for our own Christmas movie a...
36 – Odd Thomas
November 19, 2018 05:00 - 56.5 MBIn a world where supernatural young adult series were flying off the shelves of a Borders near you, your dad's second-favorite airport novelist thought "Hey, why not more money for Dean Koontz?" Then the director of The Mummy and Van Helsing had a similar thought with the name "Stephen Sommers" in place of Koontz's, and that's how we got the underwhelming 2013 supernatural mystery movie Odd Thomas. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris continue their trend of doing semi-spooky movies each November by dri...
35.5 – The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
November 05, 2018 05:00 - 63 MBIt's November, and as all these posters of Keira Knightley topped in cotton candy indicate, the Christmas movie season has well and truly begun! When Leigh, Brendan, and Chris sat through The Nutcracker in 3D two years ago, they mentioned a Disney adaptation of the story currently in pre-production. Now, in 2018, this movie has somehow become The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and boy is it somehow both exactly what you'd expect and also not really at all. Fresh out of a screening, the crew t...