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- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 91 minutes
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- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
The Pick: Wolf
We end this Shocktober (for the most part) with a movie that’s hard to even categorize as a horror movie, even if it tackles one of the most iconic movie monsters. 1994’s Wolf sees the odd pairing of…
01:44:48 |
Sat 28 Oct 2023
The Pick: Cat People
As we make our way through Shocktober, this week we take a look at a horror movie of sorts (or perhaps an “erotic fantasy”) with the 1982 remake of Cat People. We discuss how effectively the film exp…
01:27:59 |
Sun 08 Oct 2023
The Pick: Blue Thunder
We’re rollin’ in with another episode of The Pick, this one aimed at the helicopter-fueled action flick Blue Thunder from 1983. We discuss pretty much every aspect of its modest cultural imprint, inc…
01:29:11 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
The Pick: Mystery Men
After our usual summer break, The Pick is back with another batch of episodes that we kick off with 1999’s Mystery Men. What started as an intended tribute to the late Paul Reubens also ended up bein…
01:30:09 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
The Seventh Annual Criterion Month Draft
It’s that time of year again, when we take a break from the many blockbusters crowding our theaters and take a look back at cinema’s past and all of its various artistic triumphs and oddities. This y…
02:25:28 |
Tue 27 Jun 2023
The Pick: Mamma Mia!/Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Since this will be our last episode of The Pick for a little while, it’s overstuffed with plenty to keep you satisfied as we set our sights on Criterion Month. Not only do we review both 2008’s Mamma…
02:05:05 |
Wed 14 Jun 2023
The Pick: Boiler Room
With Fast X currently in theaters, we’re taking a look back at Vin Diesel’s early career, back when he wasn’t exclusively racing cars and being Groot in movies. However, what we didn’t expect when pi…
01:42:29 |
Fri 26 May 2023
The Pick: 42
This week we’re talkin’ baseball in honor of the plethora of sports going on now by taking a look at a movie celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, 42. It’s a movie that’s plenty likable but pro…
01:40:17 |
Mon 15 May 2023
The Pick: Willard (2003)
If for some reason you’re looking for real sickos content, then look no further than our discussion of the 2003 remake of the furry horror flick Willard. It’s perhaps the most divided response the th…
01:59:12 |
Tue 02 May 2023
The Pick: Three Thousand Years of Longing
Your wish is our command! Assuming your wish was for us to record a somewhat delayed review of an 8-month-old movie that not enough people saw in theaters. This week we’re talking about George Miller…
01:45:23 |
Fri 21 Apr 2023
The Pick: Super Mario Bros.
After our usual end-of-the-year and Oscar-induced break, we’re back with another season of The Pick! On the eve of a new Mario movie coming out this week, we take a look back at the first time Hollyw…
02:05:51 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
Most Anticipated Movies of 2023
After looking backing at 2022, we finally turn our eyes to the future. While the film industry is still in somewhat of a weird place, there is still plenty to be excited about for the coming year in …
02:26:01 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
The Eleventh Annual Mildly Pleased Awards
For the first time in what feels like a while, the year preceding our new one doesn’t feel like it would be entirely painful to revisit. In fact, it could be a mildly pleasing endeavor. That’s why we…
02:43:14 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
The Pick: Avatar: The Way of Water
We just couldn’t close out this year on Mildly Pleased or The Pick without getting wet and wild while learning the way of water. It’s a super-sized episode for a super-sized film, which includes a jo…
02:09:02 |
Sat 24 Dec 2022
The Pick: Reindeer Games
We three kings bring curiosity for Ben Affleck’s early stardom on this holiday installment of The Pick. The episode is a dive into the year 2000’s somewhat forgotten Reindeer Games, the last film dir…
01:43:54 |
Fri 16 Dec 2022
The Pick: The Money Pit
This episode took us a little while to record, since our own Sean Lemme was busy moving into a new house, not unlike Tom Hanks and Shelley Duvall in this episode’s film, albeit with less destruction.…
01:34:40 |
Fri 02 Dec 2022
The Pick: The Addams Family
With spooky season coming to a close, we spend some time in the residence of the ookiest of all families, The Addamses. We do this by first delving into the history of this fictional family that orig…
01:41:00 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
The Pick: Morbius
This time on The Pick it is, unfortunately, morbin’ time. In the midst of Shocktober season, we dive into the recent film portrayal of one of the spookier superhero villains and live to regret it. Th…
01:35:05 |
Sun 09 Oct 2022
The Pick: The Transformers: The Movie
There wasn’t any specific tie-in or reason really for us to be talking about the 1986 animated Transformers movie, other than the fact that Sean and John bought the movie on blu-ray a while ago and h…
01:57:42 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
The Pick: In The Line of Fire
After a summer break from podcasting, we’re back with The Pick to talk about one of the more acclaimed movies directed by the recently departed Wolfgang Peterson, 1993’s In The Line of Fire. It’s a m…
01:40:15 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
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