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All the Mildly Pleased podcasts in one convenient feed. Hear the gang make lists about random topics in pop culture on Top Ten Thursdays! Listen to them come up with bizarre screenplay pitches on Pitching Tents! Try to understand the intricate differences between the three movie review podcasts Good Movie/Bad Movie, Some Kind of Movie, and Stream Police. And just generally try to have a good time.
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- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 91 minutes
- Episodes
- 317
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
The Pick: Josie and the Pussycats
Slip-on those cat ears because this week we’re talking about the 2001 cult classic Josie and the Pussycats. Listen as we delve into the world of Archie Comics and how they’ve shaped teen culture. Als…
01:17:38 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
The Pick: Phone Booth
After talking about Changing Lanes last week, we’re heading back to New York (and thriller territory) as we talk about 2002’s Phone Booth. The film’s long road to production is discussed as well as t…
01:18:42 |
Sat 11 Apr 2020
The Pick: Changing Lanes
For a long time, the three of us have had a mild fascination with the movie Changing Lanes. Like, what’s its deal? It stars two actors that have had a surprising amount of longevity in their careers …
01:39:46 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
The Pick: The Hunt For Red October
The world may have shut down, but we’re still intent on delivering episodes of The Pick. I mean, what else better do we have to do? This week we dig into a movie that’s sort of about social distancin…
01:12:49 |
Mon 23 Mar 2020
The Pick: Contagion
Looking for a respite from thinking about the coronavirus? Well… sorry. This week, we’re indulging the chaotic state of things by talking about Steven Soderbergh’s timely Contagion. In addition to th…
01:27:21 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
The Pick: An American Werewolf in London
Capping off our three-part “body horror” series that included The Invisible Man and the skin-crawling 1996 classic The Nutty Professor is John Landis’ 1981 horror-comedy An American Werewolf in Londo…
01:35:28 |
Sun 08 Mar 2020
The Pick: The Invisible Man
Just in time for a new remake hitting theaters today, we’re talking about the original 1933 Universal Monster movie The Invisible Man. Much like the film itself, it’s a bit of a shorter episode, but …
01:06:07 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
The Pick: The Nutty Professor
After a long holiday- and list-induced hiatus, The Pick is back! This week we’re practically overflowing with things to say about a movie that just seemed like a fun one to talk about. The Nutty Prof…
01:32:13 |
Sat 22 Feb 2020
Top Ten Anticipated Movies of 2020
2020 is cooking up something in that lab. We got a new Ghostbusters on the way, a new Top Gun, and a live-action Mulan. We’re not talking about any of those movies but we are talking about other bett…
02:06:00 |
Mon 27 Jan 2020
Mildly Pleased’s Top Ten Movies of 2019
Now that you’ve seen our individual lists, it’s time for us to put together an overall list of the top ten movies of 2019. This year was undoubtedly a good year for movies, so much so that we didn’t …
01:43:15 |
Mon 20 Jan 2020
The Eighth Annual Mildly Pleased Awards
Another year in the books, another year of mildly pleasing pop culture. Though we may be living in a world of extremes, here we take a look each year at the most middling things that the year had to …
02:24:26 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
The Pick: The Rise of Skywalker
Ever since The Force Awakens came out 4 years ago, we’ve reviewed a Star Wars movie almost every year in podcast form (sorry Solo). And almost every time, our takes have been fairly cold, seeing as t…
02:12:08 |
Fri 03 Jan 2020
The Pick: Love Actually
It’s that yule time of year, so we of course had to talk about a Christmas movie on The Pick. What John picked was Love Actually, a “Christmas classic” that he’s long had a beef with. This movie’s ma…
01:25:15 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
The Pick: Training Day
In this penultimate episode before we go on a little hiatus from The Pick, we bring things full circle by talking about a film we all admitted to not having seen in the very first episode. Yes, we’re…
01:40:16 |
Mon 16 Dec 2019
The Pick: The Irishman
If Martin Scorsese’s new film The Irishman was a little too long for your tastes, here we offer a more abbreviated, 95-minute conversation to give you all you need to know about the film. That said, …
01:35:02 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
The Pick: TRON: Legacy
Hope everyone’s Thanksgiving and Black Friday were pleasant and free of family fighting. This week we’re talking about a different kind of family – a cyber family. Yes, after talking about the origin…
01:52:59 |
Sat 30 Nov 2019
The Pick: Tron
This week, we’re hackin’ into Master Computer as well as Disney+ by reviewing 1982’s Tron. It’s a film that’s far from perfect, but also far ahead of its time in terms of its visuals and emphasis on …
01:41:33 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
The Pick: Frozen
Just in time for the weather to get a little more frigid and a Frozen sequel to blow into theaters, we’re talking this week about the original Frozen. While its popularity is unquestioned, the boys t…
01:41:36 |
Fri 15 Nov 2019
The Pick: Universal Soldier
Roland Emmerich has blown up the White House (twice!), ravaged Earth (twice!), and unleashed a giant lizard on Manhattan (once, that we know of). But Universal Soldier is where his road to action mov…
01:40:47 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
The Pick: Parasite
After a month of writing about people trapped in spooky houses with Shocktober, on this latest episode of The Pick we talk about the spookiest house of all. A house that’s a byproduct of capitalism!…
01:24:16 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
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