Watch This With Rick Ramos

Skynet AI 2029: James Cameron's The Terminator 

If you grew up in the 1980s, you were living in a decade that would be controlled by raunchy teen sex comedies (Porky's, My Tutor, Private Lessons), Jo…

Gonzo Hellscape: Terry Gilliam's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

In 1998 Director Terry Gilliam - a director whose cinematic career has been fraught with difficulty on the level of Job (see 2002s Lost i…

This week we continue digging through the archives to remember the past ten years of WatchThis W/RickRamos. (Episodes #395 - #410) Great Episodes . . . Great Discussions.  We dive into Mr. Chavez's F…

Godzilla, the 60s, Hopes, & Monsters 

A return to 10 years of WatchThis W/RickRamos (Episodes #384 - 394) - This week we return to the vault to look at one of the greatest movie monsters of all time …

Cynicism, Rogan, & What Would Carlin Say? - Remembering 500 Episodes

We come back to this celebration as we look through the archives and reminisce and what these episodes have meant to us. Take a li…

Carry the Fire, Get to the Coast: John Hillcoat's The Road 

Bleak & Dark, Hopeless & Beautiful . . . On this week's episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos, Mr. Chavez & I sit down to discuss one of the mos…

Dumbing Down the Future - Mike Judge's Idiocracy

This is an especially fun one! This week Mr. Chavez & I take a trip into a very funny, very frightening, and very likely future. In 2006 20th Century …

Dreams with Gilliam, The Rolling Stones Through the Years,  The Silent Voice, The Magic of Tarkovsky, Zappa, A Trio of Very Different Noir

On this week's episode Mr. Chavez & I return to reminiscing …

Cinematic Karma - Stanley Kubrick's                     A Clockwork Orange 

WatchThis fan and BuyMeACoffee contributor, Alan Lamberg, suggests this week's title, Stanley Kubrick's 1971 controversial …

Whitey Saves the Day, Jake Won't Go Down, The Beatles Break Up, & More

This week Mr. Chavez & I return to a project that began in the middle of last year, releasing an episode recorded many months ag…

David Lynch: The Art of Dark Dreams 

This week Mr. Chavez & I remember and say farewell to one of the greats of Cinema - David Lynch (01/20/46 - 01/15/25). Goodbye, Mr. Lynch; we were fortunate to ha…

When Evil Men Remember: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christina Cynn, & an Anonymous Indonesian Director's The Act of Killing

This week Mr. Chavez & I go up river for one of the most powerful, depressing, and …

Angry White Male: Joel Schumacher's Falling Down

Looking at the world - past, present, and future - this week Mr. Chavez & I sit down to watch and discuss Joel Schumacher's 1993 look at American male…

Detective or Pervert: David Lynch's Blue Velvet 

This week Mr. Chavez & I dive into The World of David Lynch. Amazingly, Lynch has been able to survive and thrive in the Hollywood System for over fou…

Dracula Done to Death - Robert Egger's Nosferatu

This week Mr. Chavez & I run to our local movie theaters to watch, contemplate, and bring to you Robert Egger's end of the year re-imagining of the F.…

Time Destroys Everything - Gaspar Noé's Irreversible

We're closing in on our two final films in our  "Dark Cinema" showcase. This week we look at Gaspar Noé's 2002 controversial and troubling film, I…

Perv with a Pen - Terry Zwigoff's Crumb

This week we race back to 1994 with one of the great documentaries of the modern era, Terry Zwigoff's portrait of underground comic artist, Robert Crumb. A sim…

Blood, Metal, C*m - David Cronenberg's CRASH 

For Darkness in Popular Cinema it's difficult to find a director that reaches deeper and more disturbing images than Canadian auteur, David Cronenberg. 1…

To Neither Have Nor Hold - Tod Browning's The Unknown

On this week's episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos, Mr. Chavez & I look back to 1927 for one of the great Actor/Director collaborations - Lon Chaney…

Wall Street Chainsaw Massacre - Mary Harron's American Psycho

On this week's episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos, Mr. Chavez & I take a look at director Mary Harron's 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Elli…