John and Bethany are joined by Mike from Green Mountain Mysteries to discuss Logan, a sad superhero movie that hits the mark...except with its non-white characters. Come on, Mangold, can't you make characters of color multi-dimensional?
John and Bethany dive into the 2014 Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt military sci-fi time loop adventure, Live. Die. Repeat. - Edge of Tomorrow. And lemme tell ya, a movie with a title that long really does drag on once it abandons the comedy that made it work, huh? Can we get a crumb of women? Or non-white people? Please?
John and Bethany take a look at Greta Gerwig's sophomore feature, 2019's Little Women, with all the love they can muster for Dern, Ronan, Chalamet, Watson, Pugh....this cast is stacked y'all. And who's that hot professor?
John and Bethany watch a (barely) spooky movie they wanted to like and really, really didn't. Next episode, they get back on to a much more comfortable track with Little Women (2019).
John and Bethany dig in to Greta Gerwig's 2017 debut, Lady Bird, a coming of age movie that feels way too much like actual high school. Did John remember way too much about Catholic School? Were John and Bethany both Beanie Feldstein? Did Laurie Metcalf deserve an Oscar for this?
John and Bethany jump into Damien Chazelle's not-quite Best Picture winner, La La Land, a movie that they love and hate all at once. Can Ryan Gosling save jazz, or is he just keeping it from moving forward? Is Emma Stone one of the best comedic actresses of our generation? Do white people actually know what they're talking about? Follow us on Twitter @HomeViewingPod for our soundtrack giveaway, and other fun updates. Next episode: Lady Bird!
John and Bethany are all over the place in the intro in this one, as they try to fill 30 minutes talking about an all around good Colin Firth Oscar Vehicle, The King's Speech.
Alex and JD from Sorted are taking over for PPN's Show Swap month, and are here to talk about the Back to the Future trilogy - that's right, all three films in one go. Great Scott, this is heavy! Does the classic trilogy hold up five years after the futuristic vision of 2015? Only time will tell! John and Bethany are covering The West Wing over on Sorted. Home Viewing's theme music is Oil Waves by The Organ Machines. Find their music wherever you listen. Next time, it's The King's Speech!
John and Bethany dig into Matt Vaughn's comedy action spy flick. Is it actually a neoliberal hellscape though? Does Matt Vaughn hate poor people? Is Colin Firth a class enemy? Next time, it's show swap! And after that, we're going to watch The King's Speech.
John and Bethany take a look at Key and Peele's Keanu, a movie about a cat that is coveted by several drug dealers. It's pure popcorn, but we had fun. Our intro and outro music is by The Organ Machines. Find them wherever you stream music.
We got into some Dino Digs, like that old Zoo Tycoon expansion. We discuss Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (which John contends is a perfect film) and Colin Trevorrow's far from perfect reboot, Jurassic World. Our intro music is by The Organ Machines. Listen to their music wherever you stream. While you're here, donate to the Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid Fund. https://www.atlantamutualaid.org/make-a-donation
John and Bethany welcome Britty Lea for PPN's guest month, to discuss Christopher Nolan's take on hard (ish) Sci-Fi and also familial love. Even Bethany likes this one...until the last thirty minutes.
Check out other shows as part of PPN's guest month! John guests on Sorted, Bethany's on Them's the Facts, and you can hear more of Britty's work on No Dice!
Daniel joins John and Bethany to both celebrate and dunk on the hit horror adventure of 2017. WHERE ARE THE TURTLES, SIGNOR MUSCHIETTI?! Next time, it's guest month! It's also our birthdays! What could possibly happen with all this fun stuff?????!!!!
CW: Discussions of Suicide and Mental Illness. John and Bethany dive into 2010's It's Kind of a Funny Story, a movie where young adult actors play off of middle aged character actors. Also: montages!!!
Bethany and John dive into the oceans surrounding Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson's delightful stop-motion dog movie. It's a fun one, it's an emotional one, and it has....problems.
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In this bonus episode, John and Bethany dive into the scientifically accurate Steven Soderbergh drama, Contagion. What commonalities exist between this fictional story and the pandemic that we are currently living through? Is the lab equipment real? What surprise comedians show up in minor roles? If talking about pandemic stuff stresses you out, skip this one.
Bethany and John butt heads as they take on Christopher Nolan's Inception. Does one of John's nostalgic favorites stand up to a ten year retrospective, or will Bethany's legitimate criticisms reveal the mansplainer hiding inside of him? The moving image is profane, and none of us should partake in it.
Next episode: It's Kind of a Funny Story. WASH YOUR HANDS!!!
Paul Rudd and Jason Segel are the main topics of discussion in our episode on I Love You, Man. Hear us talk about this generally pretty positive comedy with a truly STACKED cast. Next time, get your totems ready, because we're going several layers deep on Inception.
John and Bethany rhapsodize over one of their favorite movies, featuring one of their favorite actors and one of their favorite bands on the soundtrack. It's I time, baby!! Listen to us get into the Coen Brothers once more, before we kick off a nice run of movies. Next Time: we get into buddy comedy with I Love You, Man! Intro and outro music by The Organ Machines. Find them wherever you stream music.
John and Bethany take on 2017 Awards Season Contender Hidden Figures, and ask the question: was the racism really that pure and neat back then, or does the Pharrell soundtrack just make it seem like that?