Our Halloween special is a discussion on the horror movies we've watched this year that we recommend YOU watch to wrap up this Spooky Season.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

This final chapter in the Merc with the mouth's cannon has him joining the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe while also saying goodbye to the Non-MCU Marvel films. It also gives us the unexpected return of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We review the second film in the Deadpool franchise where he links up with Cable.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We return from hiatus to wrap up our X-Men/Deadpool series with the real introduction to the Merc with the Mouth in live action. Ryan Reynolds deserves massive credit for willing this project to existence after it should have received the electric chair following X-Men Origins: Wolverine. After being diagnosed with cancer and having a treatment tha…

We come to the end of our X-Men series. In this final chapter of the Mutant saga, we follow Jean Grey who's powers become fully unlocked and uncontrollable after the X-Men save a group of Astronauts in space. This is where she is exposed to an alien force that begins turning her into the Dark Phoenix. The cast from First Class to Apocalypse make th…

BONUS EPISODE! As a thank you to our longtime listeners and all the new listeners that have recently started following the show we wanted to take a break from Superheroes to talk about maybe the most anticipated horror movie of the year! This film directed by Oz Perkins brings 2010s scream queen Maika Monroe back into the spotlight as an FBI agent …

The third film in this superhero decades saga takes us to the 1980s where we finally meet young Cyclops, Jean Gray, Nightcrawler and others as they face off against an ancient mutant by the name of En Sabah Nur, or better known to comic book fans as Apocalypse played the by wonderful Oscar Isaac coming off Star Wars: The Force Awakens.…

You wanted a First Class sequel? Sike! The follow up to 2011's X-Men reboot saw the return of original movie director Brian Singer who decided instead of continuing Matthew Vaughn's prequel film in a satisfying way, that we were going to instead get the third Brian Singer original trilogy movie featuring some of the cast of the last movie. To save …

After the cast to the original trilogy got too old and expensive, Fox decided that they were going to do X-Men origin movies... Unfortunately they picked a ridiculously atrocious Wolverine movie to launch this series. After its poor reception Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film then became a prequel/soft reboot to the original franchise by telling…

The final chapter of the original X Trilogy is controversial in many ways: New director, the departure of some beloved characters, and the first film adaptation of the Dark Phoenix storyline from the comic books. This may not be a well loved film in the franchise, but one that your hosts could not wait to discuss.…

The sequel to the 2000 hit movie re-unites the Wolverine and the X-Men after a mutant attack on the White House with a much bigger budget and facing a new grave human threat: William Stryker (Played by the always excellent Brian Cox)De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

It is the start of the new millennium, but we are stuck in the weird space in Comic Book films between the Tim Burton Batman aesthetic and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man which will usher in the next era of superhero movies. Set in this time period is the first live action adaptation of the legendary Marvel Comic about a team of superheroes trying to save a…

We want to play a game.... Listeners requested we watch the latest entry in the Saw franchise, but it made your hosts think of the fact that they hadn't seen the original is a VERY long time. From the minds of now well known horror creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell, this film mostly centers on two strangers locked in a grimy, disgusting bathroo…

A group of Gen-Zers decide to have a Hurricane party and play a murder mystery party game that becomes very real very quickly in this 2022 horror(?) comedy.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We discuss the final movie in James Gunn's Marvel trilogy. Taking place after Avengers: Endgame this time Rocket takes center stage while the rest of our heroes are also adjusting to life after the Blip.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

James Gunn, Peter Quill and his band of Marvel space misfits return to tell a story about fathers and sons.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We go back in time to 2014 and review James Gunns' surprise cosmic Marvel hit about a team of space misfits who come together to save the planet Xandar from destruction at the hands of Ronan, a disciple of Thanos.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

This week we re-watched A Chicano/Hood film classic per a listener request. This film follow the story of Miklo, and his cousins Cruz and Paco who are both brothers. These three men are reunited when Miklo moves back to East Los Angeles and we get to see how their paths both cross and split over a period of twelve years. This three hour crime epic …

This week we review a film that comes at the tail end of the Disney Animated Renaissance of the 90s which can not be forgotten. It has great music, a villain so horny he wants to burn down all of Paris, and we talk briefly about the Festival of Foolss... But more importantly we talk about Feast of the Ass and that alone is reason enough for you to …

We’ve come to the end of Nolan Week, folks. The Academy Awards are nigh and we’re here to offer the last word on the soon-to-be-Oscar-annointed OPPENHEIMER. Join Matt and SPECIAL GUEST BRIAN BOARINI (!) for a three-hour tour of a quarter-century filmography. It’s time, folks. It’s Nolan time. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: A…

The grandaddy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Back when The Incredible Hulk and Doctor Strange only existed in dark dingy television, Marvel took its first step into feature films with this 1986 adaptation of the comic series which was produced by George Lucas. Trapped in a world he never made a made, this film follows Howard, a duck from a dista…

Why are we reviewing this... Because our listeners secretly hate us because watching this movie was not self love. This week we cover this disastrous adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's beloved musical with CGI Cats thats should only exist in nightmares.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

It’s TENET-talkdown time, team. We chat. We disagree. We rank. Sound good? Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS Donate: Thanks! Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Sound good? We chat. We disagree. We rank. It’s TENET-talkd…

It’s time to talk temporality, team. - INCEPTION (2010) - INTERSTELLAR (2014) - DUNKIRK (2017) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSSDe către Oscar Dahl & Matt Knudsen

With Nolan’s vision of Gotham City in our rearview, we’re now flashing back to the beginning of the auteur’s cinematic journey. We’ll scrutinize his dexterity with the daylight noir, his interest in self-victimizing sleuths, and his fascination with prestidigitation. - FOLLOWING (1998) - MEMENTO (2000) - INSOMNIA (2002) - THE PRESTIGE (2006) Email:…

You know them, you’ve seen them, and you certainly have opinions about them. Join us as we revisit three of the most successful, influential, and subversively political films of the 21st century- courtesy of a man who insisted that he had absolutely no political agenda in mind when he made them. We’ll [attempt to] get to the bottom of this thematic…

As we traverse the last few miles in the marathon that will end at the 96th Academy Awards, it has become clear that “foregone conclusion” is the proper term to describe this year’s Best Director race. We here at WE LIKE MOVIES could not be happier with this inevitability as we look forward to no longer living in a world in which Christopher Nolan …

This legasequel follows K, a replicant (played by Ryan Gosling) who is a Nexus-9 replicant working for the Los Angele Police Department responsible for retiring (killing) older replicants who have disappeared and gone into hiding.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

Ridley Scott's sci-fi neo-noir film stars Harrison Ford as an replicant (robot) hunter who is tasked with terminating four replicants who are on earth to find their creator in a futuristic Los Angeles.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

Original Godzilla studio Toho returns ditching the giant monster battles for a post-WWII period piece grief movie! It's interesting that in a year where may of us were watching a film about the father of the Atomic Bomb, it was a kaiju movie that probably best tackled the fallout of this man made super weapon.…

Samuel L. Jackson stars in this 2005 sports drama inspired (As always this term is used LOOSELY) by the true story of Ken Carter, a Richmond, California High School basketball coach who institutes a lockout for his undefeated team so that they could raise their grades to the necessary level to get into college.…

The first new episode of 2024 is us finally covering this 2023 standout film starring Zac Efron as Kevin Von Erich, a Pro Wreslter who is part of one of wrestling royal families. His three man tag team The Von Erichs were the stars of Texas promotion World Class Championship wrestling (WCW) run by their father, first generation pro wrestler Fritz V…

We've made it to the end of our Twilight review series! The closing chapter of this saga wraps up the story of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen with them as parents! I mean obviously theres a big battle at the end with the Voltari, vampire family reunions, vampire/werewolf politics, and Renesmee (Bella and Edward's daughter) is basically the daywalker …

The fourth film in the Twilight Saga brings us the Edward/Bella wedding and how that affects the Vampires, Werewolves Something we were expecting was love triangle melodrama from our two leads and Jacob, the wolf man-boy. Something we were not expecting: Abortion discussions, and a movie that at least makes us think of old horror movies like Rosema…

We are reviewing the third chapter of the Twilight Saga with Eclipse. There is a group of vicious vampires called "Newborns" killing people in Seattle who may also be heading to Forks looking for revenge on Edward and the Cullens. We also get to continue the Love triangle (?) between Edward, Bella, and Jacob. But everyone else move out of the way b…

Hey we're back in Forks! We have decided to wrap 2023 up by coming back to one of the most popular reviews of the year which was Twilight. In this second part to this saga we rejoin Bella and Edward as they try to navigate the challenges of a human/vampire relationship? Oh and we also get to know the Quileute werewolves too. Let's cliff dive into T…

The power of Christ (And David Gordon Green) has brought us back to the franchise based on the William Peter Blatty's groundbreaking novel and William Freidkin's horror masterpiece. 50 years after the original Exorcist, we follow the families of Angel and Kartherine, who experience both the disappearance and reappearance of their daughters after go…

Our second movie in our Spooky SZN festival goes into the Alien Abduction horror subgenre. We follow Brynn, a young shut-in living in her childhood home where she has been shunned by everyone in the small town she lives in. In addition to dealing with the grief of losing her childhood friend and mother, she is forced into survival mode when an Alie…

We're finally back! After a lengthy hiatus we've returned just in time for spooky season to cover this 2012 found footage horror anthology movie. We follow a Droog-like group of scumbags who are paid to break into to a stranger's home to collect a VHS tape. What they find is a collection of bizarre and horrifying experiences.…

The third movie in our Oakland Film Festival is this 2018 film directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada. We follow Colin who witnesses a black man being killed by a police officer on the last week of his probation. This incident leaves him shaken up and causes him to evaluate his life post incarceration and his relationship with his white childhood best fr…

The second movie in our Oakland on Film festival is this 2018 surrealist comedy from activist/musician turned Director Boots Riley. It revolves around Cassius Green, an Oakland telemarketer who discovers a major key to success in his job, and later has to choose between his own financial gain or joining his friends who are try to form a union.…

We spent two weeks praising Ryan Coogler for his Black Panther films and it has led us to finally go back to where it all began. This 2013 debut film from Coogler chronicles the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22 year old man who was shot and killed on New Years Eve by a BART Police officer in Oakland. Our proximity to the the real life event and t…

Ghostface takes Manhattan? After rebooting the popular 1990s meta slasher last year, the good folks of Radio Silence bring us another chapter in this long running horror franchise. We pick up one year after the evens of 2022's Scream where our new "Core Four" has now moved New York City, but unfortunately, a familiar white masked killer has now fol…

Do We Like Scary Movies? In 1996, the slasher craze of the 80s was long gone and movies series like Halloween, Hellraiser, and Child's Play were considering the move to home video. Oddly enough it took the director of Nightmare on Elm Street, and the guy who created Dawson's Creek to bring us the great 90s comeback of horror movies. This film is th…

“My ancestors would often say only the most broken people can be great leaders” - Namor The death of star Chadwick Boseman left a huge hole in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that may never be filled. Ryan Coogler decided that instead of recasting his hero, that his follow up to the 2018 Best Picture nominated film would be a film that dealt directly…

For Wakanda? Without question. We return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first of two Black Panther films starting with Ryan Coogler's 2018 superhero epic. The late Chadwick Boseman stars as the titular hero and king of the fictional African nation who must ascend to the throne after the death of his father in Captain America: Civil War (2…

Ready for some 2020 nostalgia? Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson along with Katelyn Crabb bring us this pandemic era slasher movie. It's April 2020, the world is locked down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Best friends Parker and Miri decide to quarantine together at Parker's family vacation home where they will be terrorized by an intruder who is…

We're finally at Episode 150! This highly requested movie based on the popular book series from Stephanie Meyer follows rural Washington high schooler Bella Swan and her romance with the mysterious teenaged(?) vampire, Edward Cullen.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

On Wednesday we wear pink... and podcast.De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez

We kick off the New Year with this streaming rom-com about two "20-somethings" that decide to avoid the awkwardness of casual dating by spending each holiday together without catching feelings for each other (Good Luck!)De către Angel Figueroa & Javier Lopez