Aya Vs. The Big Boys

Merry Christmas Weekend! Previously only available on Patreon, enjoy a main feed premiere of one of our best episodes. Aya interviews her closest friends, the ones who've shaped & influenced her tast…

This week on the pod, Aya and Kevin dodge explosions to give you their take on the Santa Claus of Big Boys, an 80s classic, and one of the crown jewels of the John McTiernan canon, DIE HARD (1988). C…

Talk to me, Goose!

At last, the Cruise Missile crashes into Aya Vs. The Big Boys. This week, Aya, Kevin, and special guest Dorie Bailey take on TOP GUN (1986), Tony Scott's (totally not gay) airforce …

Ladies, germs, and enbies, the day is upon us: sweet, sweet MANK day. Have you MANK'd? Aya and Kevin MANK'd their MANKs so hard.

Aya's favorite director dropped a new big boy, a biopic of a B-tier Hol…

You've had your turkey, you've napped it off, you've even escaped your family. Now buckle up for a whole other kind of family drama with Edward Yang's YI YI (2000), the first official "Soft Boy" Bro …

The Sadie Brothers' breakthrough feature, and arguably the pinnacle of the A24 film bro canon, GOOD TIME (2017), is a grimy-ass movie – a film for a recognizable actor to really immerse themselves in…

Alright, alright.... Wait for it... Alright. In the wake of the 60-years-long 2020 election, Aya and Kevin retreat to an all-timer big boy comfort watch in Richard Linklater's seminal 1993 cult class…

Say it together now: MY WIFE!! Tackling one of the most influential comedies of the 21st century (and its Amazon Prime sequel), Aya and Kevin decided to format this episode to be as personally excruc…

Happy Halloween! Trick r' treating might be cancelled, but Aya and Kevin have still got a sweet-tooth for some hyper-stylized studio entertainment with Joel "The Sex God" Schumacher's THE LOST BOYS (…

Likely the movie your parents will describe as "the scariest movie ever made", this week Aya and Kevin do battle with the great, the terrible, THE EXORCIST (1973). Shocking, Catholic, and wildly popu…

The first film of Spooky Month to be described as "young, dumb and full of c**," it's 1980's FRIDAY THE 13TH, maybe the most famous of the HALLOWEEN rip-offs. Where do Aya and Kevin stand on summer c…

This is the second time Aya and Kevin have talked Ridley Scott, with much better results than BLADE RUNNER! Some of the topics discussed in this episode include all of the phallic and sapphic imagery…

Aya and Kevin debut "Spooky Month" by starting with a film set in one of the spookiest places on Earth...the world of New York finance!! That's right, the hottest film of 2000 that doesn't involve Ji…

Our Two Protagonists Aya and Kevin invert time to take on Christopher Nolan's newest justification for IMAX theaters, TENET (2020). They talk Aya's catchphrase, Robert Pattinson's hotness, certain CU…

"I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it." 

The grossest, bleakest slasher movie ever made had a revival at the Mission Tiki Dri…

"I do my own podcasting and the boys who podcast for me, podcast for me...I run a family podcast, this is my son and Big Boy,  Kevin." 

On the Mt. Rushmore of Big Boys, it is finally time to talk abou…

Look, we're still knee-deep in the pandemic (even back when this was recorded in July), there's no end in sight, there are no rules anymore.  We're wrapping up on roughly three months of Aya Vs. The …

"I love the smell of napalm and male friendship in the morning." 

It's time to unpack one of the biggest boys in all of American cinema, the war film to end all war films, the controversial, the incom…

Aya says hello WITH her little friend Kevin to Brian De Palma's SCARFACE, arguably the "genome" of the bro-cannon from way back in 1983.

SCARFACE exists more as a meme than a film in 2020, but does th…

This week Aya takes on on one of the most misunderstood members of the bro cinema cannon. The ultimate Keanu vehicle, the Wachowskis's 1999 masterpiece, THE MATRIX. Wake up from your simulation to he…