Andrew’s 30th birthday celebrations are isolated to watching films with friends, and Johnny’s plan to surround Andrew with many furry ones has succumbed instead to popping on Disney+ and watching the Glenn Close live-action comedy. Andrew hasn’t seen the film, has no connection to the work, it is not a meaningful choice by any stretch, but come watch the film with Andrew and Johnny. Fun, games, furs and frivolities included.
187 - GODS AND MONSTERS
The quarantine has adjusted everything somewhat, but no worry, there’s always a Brendan Fraser film to fall back on, and plenty of memories of Ian McKellen’s days feline up London with this Frankenstein of an episode where puns are always at play.
186 - GOTTI
Oh gotti, protect us. Andrew insists on watching a film directed by E from Entourage, and brings Johnny down with him. John Travolta plays a mob boss, but the real crime is against cinema, as the duo work out if films are bad or the isolation is just driving insanity further and further into our skulls.
185 - KNOCKED UP
Andrew throws on one of his all-time comfort comedies, and Johnny’s expectations are completely subverted as Seth Rogen puts a baby into our hearts. Snippets of The Irishman meeting It and ideas for additional sort-of sequels within the Apatowverse are presented to warn off insanity mid-quarantine.
184 - IMPRACTICAL JOKERS - THE MOVIE
Johnny takes the stage in an impromptu schedule shift, as The Tenderloins’ hit TV show reaches the big screen (A digital release because there are no ‘big screens’ anymore, up is down, cats and dogs are marrying my mother!), and insists we watch Impractical Jokers - The Movie just after its worldwide April Fool’s Day release. Andrew finds understanding in quality TV-To-Film adaptations and reality-meets-sketch hybrid creations, whilst Johnny hurts himself laughing.
181 - A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Robert Altman’s final film comprises death, country music and a huge cast. Are You Movie Mad?’s episode on Robert Altman’s final film comprises watching films, not singing music very well and two people in a room. It’s like yin meets yang!
180 - INSIDE MAN
The perfect bank robbery film deserves the perfect podcast episode. But for now, this’ll have to do, as Johnny gets another Spike Lee Joint under his belt, and Andrew remembers the wonderful times of 2006 cinema, when Clive Owen could do just about anything, except be Bond.
179 - THE AFRICAN QUEEN
What other podcast can go from 2019 to 1951 in such a smooth move? Johnny’s not seen maybe any Katherine Hepburn picture before, and Andrew is forced to listen to Billie Eilish for the first time. Johnny then delves into time travel more as he explains the manifestations of DC’s TV shows.
178 - SMOKIN' ACES
Ryan Rodney Reynolds and the fridge seller-turned stand-up Jeremy “Plugs” Piven join on Joe Carnahan’s contract killer It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, the final episode in 18-rated month. Andrew reminisces about college, Johnny satisfies himself with his music collection.
175 - RAMBO: LAST BLOOD
After covering every Rambo movie years ago, it was destined that Stallone would return once more to the podcast, and after poisoning Andrew he takes co-hosting duties to share with Johnny the insanity of his latest angry-old-man-murders-an-ethnic-group movie.
174 - NATIONAL SECURITY
Rounding off Bad Boys month with a Martin Lawrence action comedy vehicle, Andrew pines for the days of economy in storytelling, and Johnny remembers the glories of iSpy, a film nobody had talked about since the day it premiered.
168 - A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS
Tis the season to be 3D, fa-la-la-la-la la-la la-la!
Andrew discusses the importance of Wafflebot, and 3D cinema, in the Christmas experience and Johnny finishes off his run of Harold & Kumar adventures in the most festive way possible.
165 - A SERIOUS MAN
A storm is brewing, and cultures clash, as Andrew and Johnny explore Judaism, Richard Kindness and the power of Michael Stuhlbarg, rounding off CoeNovember and exploring the power of the cycle, the visions of the Coens and the potency of Jefferson Airplane.
164 - BURN AFTER READING
Someone is always listening, watching, waiting, as CoeNovember continues with an underrated comedy that Andrew adores, and Johnny is about to witness for the first time round. Will they become spies too? Or will a swing in the sex chair finish them off?
163 - O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
Folk music, fables and fancy leading men, it’s time for the Dapper Dan men to go down to the South and experience some form of… odyssey. In only the way the Coen Brothers could do.
159 - DEADWOOD THE MOVIE
Andrew has the consumption and Johnny has just finished watching the whole series of Deadwood prior to the movie. But topics focus almost as much on the idea of a Friends movie that would actually work.
157 - GET SMART
Alan Arkin for some reason joins the gang as they watch the Steve Carell-led action comedy farce, and discuss the ever-evolving career of Dwayne Johnson.
155 - MACGRUBER
This week a Saturday Night Live sketch becomes a full motion picture, will Johnny fall for the mulleted one’s charms? Become obsessed with KFBR392? Will Stallone promote Rambo: Last Blood?
153 - MIAMI VICE
Taking it to the limit one more time, Andrew opens a series on TV-to-Film adaptations with a personal favourite, and hypes Johnny up. Will Johnny become a fiend for Mojitos or will he go so undercover he won’t know which way is up?
151 - BUGSY MALONE
What if a kid-starring musical about gangsters starring Dexter Fletcher and MAGA’s own Scott Baio? Johnny brings his childhood to the spotlight and Andrew ponders how chickens can grow old but children cannot.
