Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Episode 482: Most Meaningful Movies

In the latest Deucecast Movie Show, Mikey & Dave give #TwitterlessDrEarl the night off to go handle some sort of neurosurgeony things, longtime friend of the show, author/singer/blogger/supermom/Carnagie Hall headliner Jenn Kaufman returns!!!

Some chit chat and catch up moments, including the latest films Kaufman has watched, then a Kaufman themed Rotten Tomatoes game, which leads into the Top Five of the show.

And the top five is Most Meaningful Films... those movies that might be amazing, might be terrible, or somewhere in between, but hold a special place in the hearts of the three on the show.  Mikey, d$, and Kaufman all share anecdotes about kids, lifelong fandom, recent films that really stuck with them and more. 

Plus an extended stinger because everyone on the show loves to hear themselves talk. 

Movies discussed and where to stream them at the time of episode recording:

  • Black Dog (Starz)
  • Bridget Jones Diary (Starz)
  • Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
  • Dr. No (TubiTV)
  • Can't Hardly Wait (rental)
  • Cuba & the Cameraman (Netflix)
  • Evil Dead II (rental)
  • Iron Man (Disney+)
  • Miracle (Netflix; Disney+)
  • The Muppets (2011) (Netflix; Disney+)
  • The Muppet Movie (Disney+)
  • Rio (Amazon Prime; Disney+; Hulu)
  • Star Wars (Disney+)
  • Titanic (Starz)
  • The Untouchables (Showtime)

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Episode 481: The 2021 Deucie Awards and 2020 Top 10

The spectacle! The glitz! The glamour!  The Deucecast hosts in sweet-tuxes and their best sportscoat t-shirts!  It's the 8th Annual Deucie Awards!

Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl finally reveal the winners, and best choices, of 2020's best Animated film... Ensemble cast... the acting awards... Song & Score... and of course, Best Picture, from six worthy movie films. 

Plus, the guys give their own personal Top 10 films of 2020, with some overlap, and some out of left field.  What wins big tonight? What goes home empty handed? Will Kevin James' BAFTA nominated epic "Becky" even get a mention from d$?  Only one way to find out!  Listen!!

Movies discussed, and where they are streaming at the time of recording:

  • Another Round (Hulu)
  • Bad Education (HBO Max)
  • Boys State (AppleTV+)
  • Emma (HBO Max)
  • Greyhound (AppleTV+)
  • I Care a Lot (Netflix)
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
  • The Invisible Man (HBO Max & Cinemax)
  • Jasper Mall (Amazon Prime)
  • Judas & the Black Messiah (HBO Max)
  • Kid Detective (Starz)
  • Mank (Netflix)
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Netflix)
  • Minari (rental)
  • News of the World (rental)
  • Nomadland (Hulu)
  • On the Rocks (AppleTV+)
  • Promising Young Woman (rental)
  • Soul (Disney+)
  • The Sound of Metal (Amazon Prime)
  • Swallow (Showtime)
  • Tenet (HBO Max)

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Episode 480: Chicken Soup for the Soul ReFlicktions

The summer season approaches! And if it's Mid May, we know that means... May ReFlicktions!  Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl take on the movie reviews from all the films they've seen in the last several weeks.

Topics include more Streisand... a couple of terrible films... Cynthia Rhodes Updates... Terrible Andy Dick... Earl's Malick excitement... and Bong Joon Ho's filmography... 

  • Nobody (in theaters)
  • Escape Plan 2: Hades (Amazon Prime)
  • Escape Plan: The Extractors (Amazon Prime
  • Far From the Madding Crowd (rental)
  • Division III: Football’s Finest (Amazon Prime)
  • Barely Lethal (Showtime)
  • Spontaneous (Amazon Prime; Hulu; Epix)
  • Yentl (TubiTV)
  • Diabolique (Amazon Prime)
  • A Hidden Life (rental)
  • Blitz (TubiTV; Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle)
  • The New Mutants (HBO)
  • Thunderforce (Netflix)
  • Barking Dogs Never Bite (Hulu; TubiTV)
  • Mother (Hulu)
  • Mortal Kombat (HBO)
  • Unhinged (HBO)
  • The Courier (rental)
  • Love & Monsters (rental)
  • I Used to Go Here (HBO)
  • A Week Away (Netflix)
  • Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
  • In the Earth (in theaters)
  • Battleship (HBO Max)
  • Runaway (Amazon Prime)
  • Life After Flash (Amazon Prime)
  • Identity Theft of Mitch Mustain (Amazon Prime)
  • Stowaway (Netflix)
  • Wild Mountain Thyme (Hulu)
  • The 13th Warrior (Hulu)
  • Crown Vic (Hulu; Crackle)
  • Fences (for rental)
  • Dreamgirls (HBO Max)
  • Ray (HBO Max)
  • Get On Up (Netflix)
  • American Wedding (Peacock)
  • Marshall (for rental)
  • Fatman (Hulu)
  • Synchronic (Netflix)
  • Without Remorse (Amazon Prime)
  • Kid Detective (Starz)
  • Marie Antoinette (HBO Max)
  • The Beguiled (HBO Max)
  • At Eternity’s Gate (Netflix)


Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Episode 479: Bad Movie Moms

It's Mother's Day and Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl want to give a nod to their own moms and those moms out there we love. And what better way to honor those moms than to look at the movies... and see which moms to totally avoid.

First, a Mother (F***) themed version of The Rotten Tomatoes Game, taking on the films of the Mother dude himself.

Then, a look at the worst moms in movies, from Shirly MacLaine to Ally Sheedy to telekinesis to Goonies to even some animated bad Disney matriarchs. 

A quick discussion on the Oscars that just happened, and finally, #TwitterlessDrEarl gives his take on this year's SpirituEarl films -- Mary, Joseph, some musical numbers, and whatever crap Burgess tossed up. 

Here's where to find the films discussed, at the time of this recording:

American Pie (Peacock)
Back to the Future (Netflix; Amazon Prime)
Bad Moms (FXNow)
Carrie (1976) (Showtime)
Cinderella (Disney+)
Friday the 13th (Starz)
The Goonies (not streaming)
The Graduate (HBO Max)
Little Sister (Amazon Prime)
Mommie Dearest (Amazon Prime)
Mother (Hulu)
Mrs Doubtfire (for rental)
Rapunzel (Disney+)
Terms of Endearment (Starz)
Tommy (for rental)