You Have to Watch This Movie
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA movie podcast on which host Drew Mackie and Tony Rodriguez talk to the people they love about the movies they think more people should see.
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See You in Season Two!
January 31, 2019 19:23 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBThat's it for the first go-around for this little podcast, but we will be back later this year with new friends who demand that you agree with their cinematic choices. Catch Drew (and occasionally Tony) on Gayest Episode Ever, a podcast about the LGBT-themed episodes of classic sitcoms: https://www.gayestepisodeever.com/ Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gayest-episode-ever/id1357463744 Tony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetonyrodrig Drew on Twitter: https://twit...
17: Nicole Byer Loves What’s Love Got To Do With It
January 23, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBIn the last episode of the first season, professional cake-taster Nicole Byer presents the 1993 Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It, which features great music, Oscar-worthy performances by Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne, and a rather liberal take on factual events. But does historical accuracy matter much in the face of the majestic perfection that is Tina Turner? Nope. Special appearance by Glen Lakin, a.k.a. Roommate Glen. Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at http:...
16: Dhruv Uday Singh Loves Hausu (or, you know, House)
January 16, 2019 08:10 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBHey, do you like abstract paintings? If you do, we’ve got the world’s best surreal Japanese horror-comedy that features a demon cat puking a deluge of blood: Hausu, a.k.a. the horror movie House that isn’t the American one. Dhruv Uday Singh joins Tony and Drew to explain a movie that defies explanation. Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at http://www.jungalow.com to get a 15 percent discount on your purchases. Dhruv’s weed podcast, I’m Too Effing High: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast...
Quiz Show Challenge: Is That a Real Soap Opera?
January 11, 2019 21:15 - 7 minutes - 6.5 MBThis week we discussed Soap Dish, a movie about a fictional soap opera. As a result, this week’s quiz pits Tony against Michael to see who, if given a soap opera title, can guess if it’s something that actually aired on TV or if it is merely a thing opera that exists in the universe of a movie or TV show. General Hospital? A real soap opera. The Sun Also Sets? No, that’s just the soap opera from Soapdish. See? You get it. Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at http://www.jungalow.com to get...
15: Michael Bourret Loves Soapdish
January 09, 2019 08:33 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBSoapdish features not only one of Sally Field’s best performances but also one of the best comedic performances ever in a movie. And while it’s not uncommon for a gay guy who came of age in the 1990s to love the film, that love has to contend with a surprise ending that reads very problematic in 2018. Literary agent and avowed book-reading person Michael Bourret joins Drew and Tony to talk through this one. Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at http://www.jungalow.com to get a 15 percent d...
14: Tony’s Mom Loves National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
December 19, 2018 08:05 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBOur most special guest yet is Joyce Kerkhoff, mother of a Florida state senator and also Tony. For our final episode of 2018, we’re giving you the first episode we ever recorded: Tony and Joyce talking about their relationship with the Griswolds, Cousin Eddie and a hateful couple named Todd and Margo. Yes, it’s the movie that’s probably playing around the clock this time of year, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at http://www.jungalow.com to get a 1...
Quiz Show Challenge: Tony vs. Alonso
December 17, 2018 03:51 - 9 minutes - 8.58 MBWe interrupt our regularly schedule podcast for a bonus episode. Because Alonso’s episode was about a movie called different things in just about every country, we made a game where Tony and Alonso have to guess the movie based only on the titles used in foreign territories. It’s a ten-question quiz. And yes, it’s Christmas-themed. Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at http://www.jungalow.com to get a 15 percent discount on your purchases. Alonso on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ADuralde T...
13: Alonso Duralde Has Strong Feelings About the Scary French Home Alone
December 12, 2018 08:01 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBAlone in a house on Christmas eve, a kid is the victim of a home invasion, so he resorts to booby traps to save himself. That’s Home Alone, right? It is, but it’s also a bonkers French thriller known as 36.15 code Père Noël, among many other names. Film critic and Christmas movie expert Alonso Duralde comes in to talk about this oddity, which was released a year before Home Alone and the director of which alleged that Home Alone’s creators had plagiarized his work. (They didn’t, we decide.) A...
12: Janie Haddad Tompkins Loves The Prince of Tides
December 06, 2018 06:38 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBYou might think the 1991 Barbra Streisand-starring, Barbra Streisand-directed film The Prince of Tides is typical mom fare along the lines of The Bridges of Madison County. You are wrong. Guest Janie Haddad Tompkins gets Tony and Drew to realize why this film is deeper, darker and more profound than any misty watercolored-memories you might have in mind. Trigger warning: This film concerns a violent home invasion rape, so if that is something that is not your thing, don’t listen beyond the 44...
11: Beth Dover Loves The Big Lebowski
November 28, 2018 10:35 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBHey! We got Beth Dover — star of Orange Is the New Black, Burning Love, Children’s Hospital and a lot of other stuff — to come in and talk to us about romcoms, bald caps, Kenan & Kel and also The Big Lebowski, a legitimately great film that some people might have overlooked because it has a hardcore dude-bro following. But ignore that! Because this is one of the best movies of the 1990s and it hold up on repeat viewings, if for Julianne Moore than for nothing else. Use the code THISMOVIE upo...
10: Justin Young Loves The Host
November 19, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBWe landed a doctor! Justin Young, filmmaker but also real-life Dr. Doctor, comes by to talk up The Host, which is not the 2013 Stephenie Meyer adaptation but the far-better 2006 South Korean feature by Bong Joon-ho. This movie hops between horror and family drama and creature feature and even manages some broad comedy and pointed criticism of the American military-industrial complex, yet despite all that going on, it still works. All this plus a story about childhood rooster shenanigans! Use...
9: Connie Shin Loves The Love Witch
November 14, 2018 08:01 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBThe newest film we’re doing this season is one you’d be forgiven for thinking was a lost, decades-old classic: The Love Witch, a 2016 dark comedy that is a showcase for star Samantha Robinson as well as writer-director-everything else-er Anna Biller. Connie Shin, UCB performer and host of the podcast Indie Darlings, explains why the movie explores sex, gender, love and magic like maybe no other film, and how it does it all the while with a vintage Technicolor sheen. Use the code THISMOVIE up...
8B: Jeffrey McCrann Loves Fright Night (Longer and Gayer Version)
October 31, 2018 08:13 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBIn 1985, little gay fans of horror got two amazing gifts: Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and Fright Night. Horrormonger Jeffrey McCrann joined us to talk about the latter, a thoroughly entertaining and thoroughly queer vampire featuring Stephen Geoffreys, Amanda Bearse and Herman’s Head himself, William Ragsdale. This version of the episode is the longer and gayer one, for listeners who prefer discussion of Fright Night plus hot takes on Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway and Bernadette Peters. Use t...
8A: Jeffrey McCrann Loves Fright Night (Shorter Version)
October 31, 2018 07:52 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBIn 1985, little gay fans of horror got two amazing gifts: Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and Fright Night. Horrormonger Jeffrey McCrann joined us to talk about the latter, a thoroughly entertaining and thoroughly queer vampire featuring Stephen Geoffreys, Amanda Bearse and Herman’s Head himself, William Ragsdale. This version of the episode is the shorter one, for listeners who prefer more of a focus on the movie and less on Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway and Bernadette Peters. (Yes, we aim to cat...
7: Lennon Parham Loves The Silence of the Lambs
October 24, 2018 07:28 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBPrimo funny lady Lennon Parham discusses her favorite thriller but oh so much more, including but not limited to hypercolor shirts, the NBC series Profiler, Brigadoon, Cyd Charisse’s sex life, Jodie Foster being teeny-tiny, the old lady who dies in the motorized chair in Gremlins, how kids learn what cannibals are, Katharine Hepburn being the inspiration for Hannibal Lector’s accent, the tragically inept way this film handles trans issues, and walking by Cate Blanchett without telling her how...
6: Mano Agapion Loves Hunk
October 17, 2018 08:52 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBThis 1987 body swap fantasy suggests a Freaky Friday remake if everyone behind the camera was gay. UCB comedian and Greek homoprince Mano Agapion tells Tony and Drew why this movie is a pretty mess that everyone needs to see… but then the conversation devolves into a discussion about boys. Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at https://www.jungalow.com/ to get a 15 percent discount on your purchases. Website: https://www.youhavetowatchthismovie.com Facebook: facebook.com/pg/havetowatchpod...
5: Joan Ford Loves Gremlins 2: The New Batch
October 10, 2018 08:55 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBThe sequel to the 1984 hit Gremlins didn’t recapture the success of the original, but Joan Ford — comedian, actress and Emmy-nominated writer — makes the case that the second outing is bigger, weirder and maybe also more relevant to certain trans narratives. Also, Phoebe Cates, come back. The world needs you more than ever. Use the code THISMOVIE upon checkout at https://www.jungalow.com/ to get a 15 percent discount on your purchases. Website: https://www.youhavetowatchthismovie.com Facebo...
4: Spencer Alcorn Loves The Last of Sheila
October 03, 2018 09:50 - 1 hour - 96.5 MBIf trapped on a boat, wouldn’t you want to murder someone? A game of high bitchery turns deadly in 1973’s The Last of Sheila in a plot that plays out exactly how you’d expect of a plot written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. Movie person and noted ex-boyfriend Spencer Alcorn joins Tony and Drew to talk Dyan Cannon, Raquel Welch and James Coburn. Website: https://www.youhavetowatchthismovie.com Facebook: facebook.com/pg/havetowatchpod Twitter: twitter.com/havetowatchpod Instagram: in...
3: Tess Paras Loves Billy Jack
September 26, 2018 06:39 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBA 1971 indie feature that taught the nation to cheer for a man who kicks racists in their faces, Billy Jack is the cinematic lovechild of its stars, Tom Laughlin and Delores Taylor. It's A LOT, but actress Tess Paras joins Drew and Tony to talk about how this film has its heart in the right place and might be more relevant to life in 2018 than you realize. Website: https://www.youhavetowatchthismovie.com Facebook: facebook.com/pg/havetowatchpod Twitter: twitter.com/havetowatchpod Instagram:...
2: Katherine Spiers Loves Strictly Ballroom
September 19, 2018 16:38 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBKatherine Spiers, food journalist and host of the podcast Smart Mouth, grew up watching movies with a high camp sensibility, Baz Luhrmann’s 1992 cult hit Strictly Ballroom being foremost among them. In this episode, Katherine joins Tony and Drew to talk about star Paul Mercurio’s shining moment in the Hollywood limelight, the towering wonder that is Tina Sparkle and how “Time After Time” is one of the most moving pop songs ever. Website: https://youhavetowatchthismovie.com Facebook: https://...
1: Tony Rodriguez Loves Big Business
September 12, 2018 07:15 - 1 hour - 104 MBComedian and actor Tony Rodriguez grew up adoring funny women on screen, and though this 1988 Bette Midler-Lily Tomlin comedy performed well at the box office, he's found too often that it's an iconic '80s film that many haven't seen. It's the first-ever episode of You Have to Watch This Movie! Marvel as you hear its origin story! Website: https://youhavetowatchthismovie.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/pg/havetowatchpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/havetowatchpod Instagram: https://instag...
Trailer: You Have to Watch This Movie
September 11, 2018 22:33 - 2 minutes - 2.9 MBHosts Tony Rodriguez and Drew Mackie explain their new podcast, You Have to Watch This Movie, and what will be in store for the show's first season. Of course, if you're reading this text now, you probably already know about the show. That's neat! Website: https://youhavetowatchthismovie.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/You-Have-to-Watch-This-Movie-Podcast-246422515919290/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/havetowatchpod Instagram: http://instagram.com/havetowatchpod Patreon: https://www.pa...