Watch This With Rick Ramos

From Cute & Cuddly to Killer: Joe Dante's Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch

This week Mr. Chavez & I continue our stroll through the 1980s with a look at a stange kind of Comedy/Puppetry/Action/…

What's Out There: Ridley Scott's Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing

This week we take a look at two of the greatest Science-Fiction/Horror films in the History of Cinema: Ridley Scott's Alien (1979…

A Safe Alien for the Box Office: Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

This week Mr. Chavez & I shift our focus from the dangers of extra terrestrial life to the cute and cuddly alien that ca…

Paradise Lost - Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant

This week brings us to the end of our look into the Alien franchise with a discussion of Ridley Scott's final journey into the world he introduced audie…

F*cked Around and Found Out: Ridley Scott's Prometheus 

It's rare that a director can tell a story, go on to fabulous critical and commercial success, and return to his origins, answering questions t…

Dead on Arrival: John-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection

Closing in on the end of the month brings us to the end of the original Alien franchise. 1997s Alien Resurrection is a ridiculous mess of a fi…

Dragon, Mother, Queen: Not David Fincher’s Alien 3 

Continuing our descent into the world created in 1979's Alien and continued with 1986's Aliens, this week Mr. Chavez & I find ourselves crash lan…

Unfinished Business: James Cameron's Aliens 

This week Ibrahim & I return to LV-426. 57 years later - but feeling more like seven - James Cameron takes over the reins for the masterpiece created by S…

Crew Expendable: Ridley Scott's Alien 

Might as well not screw around and start 2024 with a bang . . . This month Mr. Chavez and I dive into the world of Ellen Ripley and the Xenomorphs. At this poin…

L.A. After Midnight: Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler

Finishing December and starting 2024. (Sorry, we're a bit late getting this one out.) A continuation and closing out of Ibrahim Chavez's Los Angeles. We…

Bukowski's Drunken Streets: Marco Ferreri's Tales of Ordinary Madness

Continuing our exploration of The City of Angels, Mr. Chavez & I dive into the great Los Angeles novelist, short story writer, po…

Down These Dark Streets: James Ellroy - Feast of Death

Continuing our travels through Los Angeles, Mr. Chavez & I focus our discussion on the great LA Crime (Historical Crime) Novelist, James Ellroy.…

Another Lost Angel: Paul Schrader's Hardcore

This week we continue our descent into Ibrahim Chavez's Los Angeles with a look at Taxi Driver screenwriter, Paul Schrader's blunt and brutal examination …

At Night and From a Distance: Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself

We're starting the month of December (and ending 2023) with a dive into Los Angeles in a month of programming curated by our own…

Beyond Laughter: Richard Pryor - Live in Concert & Live on the Sunset Strip 

This week Mr. Chavez & I close out November with a look at - arguably - the greatest stand-up comic the craft has ever pro…

Ransom: Akira Kurosawa's High & Low

There are no shortage of names that define our undersrtanding and foster our enjoyment of Cinema. Scorsese, Fellini, Bergman, Leone, Eisenstein, Spielberg, Chaplin…

When a Promise Meant Something: Sean Penn's The Pledge 

November is the month of Rick Ramos and this week we continue - following Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon and Walter Hill's Hard T…

Oil & Blood: Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Take a listen as Mr. Chavez & I kick off the month of November with a series of films curated by your host and producer, Rick Ramos. We begin…

1933 . . . Words Didn't Buy Much - Walter Hill's Hard Times 

On this week's episode, Mr. Ramos celebrates his 49th birthday looking at the purpose and drive of WatchThis W/RickRamos, some of his favo…

Your #1 Fan: Rob Reiner & Stephen King's Misery

This week Mr. Chavez & I close out October and Halloween with one of the great Horror/Thrillers of the 1990s, Rob Reiner's adaptation of Stephen King's…