O.K. Video
Ryan and Nathan were video store clerks who had their comfort jobs taken away when society transformed. Kindly pull up a chair or a car-seat or a crate or a couch and listen as these two Canadians wax about the media of yesteryear. Each batch of episodes focuses on films that have something in common which are then ranked by each of the O.K. Video Staff. A new movie every week. Watch and listen as we search for the next undiscovered gem.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Episodes
- 158
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
O.K. Video Spotlight on the Coen Brothers 5 The Hudsucker Proxy
Ryan and Nathan were invited to Hudsucker Industries to examine the new Extruded Plastic Dingus. Could be a big hit. Unfortunately the movie it was in, The Hudsucker Proxy, was not, and we try to fig…
Tue 23 Apr 2024
O.K. Video Spotlight on the Coen Brothers 4 Barton Fink
Welcome to the Hotel Earle. Ryan and Nathan are checking in to meet Barton Fink, the writer from New York who is trying to break into Hollywood. He doesn't really understand his first assignment thou…
Wed 17 Apr 2024
O.K. Video Spotlight on the Coen Brothers 3 Miller's Crossing
Ryan and Nathan are back to discuss one of the Coen Brothers' most complex screenplays, Miller's Crossing. Is it a masterwork or a flawed gem? Bit of both? We delve into it in our latest spotlight on…
Tue 09 Apr 2024
O.K. Video Spotlight on the Coen Brothers 2 Raising Arizona
The story of Nathan Arizona Jr and his lovable kidnappers, Ed and H.I., are the subject of the Coen Brothers second feature, Raising Arizona, a wacky comedy that is very different from their debut. T…
Tue 02 Apr 2024
O.K. Video Spotlight on the Coen Brothers 1 Blood Simple.
The Assistant Editor on The Evil Dead can direct and write films of his own? Who knew? Ryan and Nathan kick off their first ever director spotlight with Blood Simple. The debut feature of the Coen Br…
Tue 26 Mar 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 10 Ranking Good Stuff
Another long batch of films has come to an end. But which of these "Good" movies was the goodest? Nathan and Ryan have very different takes on that, as revealed here in our Ranking episode, where eac…
Tue 12 Mar 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 9 Spring Breakers
Despite comparing it to a vomit-covered bathroom stall, Ryan and Nathan maintain that Spring Breakers is a good movie. You just have to be ready to look in the mirror a bit and see the dubstep obsess…
Tue 05 Mar 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 8 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
After a pretty extensive discussion about the current state of the Academy Awards, Ryan and Nathan discuss an overlooked contender from 2012, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. It's a good movie, so s…
Wed 28 Feb 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 7 Big Fat Liar
To start the celebration of Paul Giamatti's imminent Oscar win early (don't screw this one up Academy), Ryan and Nathan are taking a look back at one of the roles that helped him shake off the "chara…
Tue 20 Feb 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 6 Judge Dredd
Turns out everyone was wrong for 29 years, Judge Dredd was a good movie this whole time. Who knew? Ryan McCulloch. And he is here to share that wisdom with all of us. Thanks for joining us. If you'd…
Tue 13 Feb 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 5 Halloween III Season of the Witch
Michael Myers? Who even is that? This is a Stonehenge movie about killer robots and evil masks. Way cooler. Ryan and Nathan discuss the divisive third film in the hallowed horror franchise as part of…
Wed 07 Feb 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 4 The Sitter
Ryan and Nathan take a fond look back at one of Jonah Hill's most underappreciated efforts in The Sitter, from beloved indie filmmaker turned pot and horror wizard David Gordon Green. They then rumin…
Tue 30 Jan 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 3 My Favorite Martian
As we were deciding upon which movies to cover in this Movies that are Good batch, one film rose to the surface. One movie was at the centre of all our ideas around this batch. That movie is My Favo…
Tue 23 Jan 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 2 The 6th Day
Ryan and Nathan take a trip back to the year 2000 for The 6th Day, a movie we are asserting is at least "good" by our metrics. We then talk about the political era of the time as far as we can recall…
Wed 17 Jan 2024
O.K. Video Movies That Are Good 1 The Cable Guy
Ryan and Nathan begin a new batch of movies that didn't click with audiences, critics (or both) when they first came out. The Cable Guy got a lot of press for how much money they paid Jim Carrey, but…
Tue 09 Jan 2024
O.K. Video Bad Investments 11 Ranking
Well this is it, we've reached the end of our Bad Investments batch. Hopefully Hollywood isn't listening and can continue to release face palm movies forever (some of them are kind of fun). Hopefully…
Tue 26 Dec 2023
O.K. Video Bad Investments 10 The Flash
Whoops, Barry Allen broke reality. Spaghetti is everywhere. The broccoli has spoiled in the fridge. Pandemonium. Can Ryan and Nathan make sense of the mess that is The Flash before large, CG orbs cra…
Wed 20 Dec 2023
O.K. Video Bad Investments 9 Battleship
Battleship may be a product you've heard of, but is that enough of a justification for a 220 million dollar movie? Ryan and Nathan discuss this in the latest look at Bad Investments Hollywood has mad…
Wed 13 Dec 2023
O.K. Video Bad Investments 8 Morbius
Ryan and Nathan discuss that other Marvel Universe Sony has going on with Morbius, the story of normal science man Michael Morbius and his metamorphosis into the living vampire. It is the latest in o…
Tue 05 Dec 2023
O.K. Video Bad Investments 7 The Lone Ranger
Disney manages to outdo itself in the box office bomb category with The Lone Ranger, a grand throwback to simpler times that has its charms, but boy did they bet several farms to make it. Ryan and Na…
Tue 28 Nov 2023
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