Have You Ever Seen

Ryan and Bev Ellis are partners in film nerdery who share their often humorous musings on the AFI's 1998 & 2007 lists of the greatest 100 American films ever made. But we finished with that in December 2015, so now we just review anything we feel like!

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Update frequency: every 5 days
Average duration: 45 minutes
Episodes: 685
Years Active: 2013 - 2025

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The Defiant Ones

For the 2nd time this week, Have You Ever Seen talks about escaped convicts. And just 3 days before Martin Luther King Day, Ryan offers up an oral essay about 2 on the run while dealing with '50s-era…

00:30:12 | Fri 13 Jan 2023

Out Of Sight

What happens when a federal marshal---who just happens to love the bad boy---is kidnapped by an immensely likable thief when he's breaking out of prison? Well, in Out Of Sight, it's a blend of comedy…

00:57:15 | Mon 09 Jan 2023

Sherlock Jr.

A Buster Keaton film hasn't been reviewed on this channel in going on 10 years, so Sherlock Jr. seemed like the perfect way to end that drought. It's an acclaimed pratfall comedy done by the stone-fa…

00:23:47 | Fri 06 Jan 2023

A Star Is Born

It's a new era for this podcast, although the only things that really change are our name, our logo and our theme music. The first episode of "Have You Ever Seen" and our first show in 2023 looks at …

00:56:25 | Mon 02 Jan 2023

The Poseidon Adventure

We wrap up 2022 and we also end a long era of calling ourselves the "Top 100 Project" with this thorough gab about one of the most-successful disaster pictures ever made. When the topic of game-chang…

00:53:30 | Mon 26 Dec 2022

The Shop Around The Corner: You've Got Snail Mail

Bonus episode! As the holiday season envelops us all and the end of 2022 draws near, Ryan turns his eye to an 82-year-old (supposed) Christmas movie starring Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart. The …

00:23:39 | Fri 23 Dec 2022

Jackie Brown

The dark comedy and intricate heist film that is Jackie Brown got lost in the late-December movie rush when it came out a quarter of a century ago, particularly because of the frenzy over Titanic. St…

01:00:25 | Mon 19 Dec 2022

Meet Me In St. Louis

Believe it or not, the best-reviewed Christmas movie on Rotten Tomatoes is this Judy Garland musical about love, family and home. As sweet and fun as Meet Me In St. Louis is though, making it wasn't …

00:36:22 | Mon 12 Dec 2022

An Officer And A Gentleman: And A Drill Instructor

Bonus episode! This time, Ryan tries to figure out what the real love story is in An Officer And A Gentleman. Sure, Richard Gere and Debra Winger are hot for each other in this famously passionate bo…

00:31:51 | Fri 09 Dec 2022

The Bishop's Wife

The 469th Ellises' Analysis and our first episode in December has us asking you to appreciate the irony of an atheist and an agnostic discussing a Christmas movie about a religious man and an angel. …

00:39:49 | Mon 05 Dec 2022

The Bourne Identity

Doug Liman wasn't the obvious person to direct The Bourne Identity and Matt Damon was an even less-obvious choice to play an assassin with a brutal case of amnesia, but their underdog thriller kicked…

00:45:36 | Mon 28 Nov 2022

Bambi: The Unbearable Hypocrisy Of Meat-Eating

Bonus episode! It's become a habit to release a "one Ryan show" on or around holidays, so how about some incendiary thoughts about what people put on their plates during Epic Eating Season? It took s…

00:18:59 | Fri 25 Nov 2022

Basic Instinct

There was a time when Michael Douglas and sex thrillers went together like ice and picks, but Paul Verhoeven's steamy whodunnit belongs to Sharon Stone. She's an ultra-wealthy, often-naked, mystery n…

00:51:43 | Mon 21 Nov 2022

Throne Of Blood

Whether you call it the Scottish play or whether you just call it Macbeth (because you don't worry about silliness like believing saying words is bad luck), this notorious Shakespeare work has been t…

00:35:30 | Mon 14 Nov 2022

A Few Good Men: Sympathy For The Jessup

Bonus episode! On this Veteran's Day (or Remembrance Day, if you're a fellow Canadian), Ryan offers up another unexpected vocal essay, this time about a marine who's killed during a hazing that goes …

00:31:31 | Fri 11 Nov 2022

The Candidate

It's one thing to be an underdog who isn't expected to win when running for political office, but what if your increasingly-bland message wins over more people than your idealistic views ever did? We…

00:39:53 | Mon 07 Nov 2022

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

This is the rare time we've ever posted an episode on Halloween, so to put an appropriately freaky bow on Scary Movie Month, we've chosen to discuss a film that's always frightened at least one of us…

00:52:36 | Mon 31 Oct 2022

Halloween: Defending Rob Zombie's Remake

Bonus episode! In addition to the 4 horror pictures that we chose to discuss during Scary Movie Month, Ryan got inspired to sit down alone and produce more October talky time by looking back at Hallo…

00:21:59 | Sun 30 Oct 2022

Freaks

Step up, step up to hear our chat about a movie that focuses on the, let's say, more unusual circus performers...although Freaks isn't actually about the show the public gets to see. In fact, Tod Bro…

00:37:37 | Mon 24 Oct 2022

Evil Dead II

Deadites and Kandarian demons, we're back after a week off with a PG-rated talk about the extremely R-rated Evil Dead II. Director Sam Raimi, star Bruce Campbell & their friends were able to pull off…

00:39:50 | Mon 17 Oct 2022

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