Companion piece with the movie: Crystalis for the NES. A post-apocalyptic forest filled with bugs, and a castle in the sky? Two Miyazaki themes in one game!

Actual picture of the band Garbage. Scott Johnson shows us this officially pre-Ghibli Miyazaki film.

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the pacifist princess with mystical powers fends off an evil empire in while trying to discover the way to return health to the land. Episode 234 - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

Reggie goes to New York youtube.com/shorts/4Bd_B...

Three short films about New Yorkers: the relationship of an artist and his assistant falls apart; a very young rich girl has adventures; a lawyer’s relationship falls apart when his mother disappears during a magic show. Episode 234 - New York Stories sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

An eccentric weatherman falls for a British journalist in the magical city of Los Angeles, where the people are beautiful, the muggers are polite, and the sun is always shining. Episode 233 - L.A. Story sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

Pittsburgh’s basketball team is the worst in the league, so a 14-year-old towel-boy goes to an astrologer and convinces the team to only have players who are Pisces, while twin brothers battle over the fate of the team. Episode 232 - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

Dr. J was known for his dunks and his style , but he could trash talk with the best of them.

Sorry folks, no episode this week, will be back soon with THE FISH THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH

Physical media lives in Hal Hartley’s the Unbelievable Truth. Come for the brilliant Adrienne Shelley, stay for the sassy young Edie Falco. Fellow Hal-fan and movie dude Stephen joins us in this one. I loved it so much, I recorded over Robocop 2 to put it after The Hunt For Red October.

We welcome Canadian critic/journalist Stephen Cooke @swac.bsky.social to the show to talk about Hal Hartley’s debute film, the story of a misanthropic girl who falls in love with a mysterious ex-con in the suburbs of Long Island. Episode 231 - The Unbelievable Truth sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

I am REALLY behind on my podcasts so just listening to this one which is just so so so fun and an all time episode of MvtM. Do you guys think that in England they call it “Liza with a Zed”?

This weekend, aside from our usual show, we are also covering the Ambler Theater 35mm Film Festival for the patreon!

An FBI criminal profiler is on the trail of a serial killer, and enlists the help of a dangerous psychopath to track him down. No, it’s not Silence of the Lambs, it’s Michael Mann’s thriller that introduce us to the infamous Hannibal Lector. Episode 230 - Manhunter sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

sweet charming film with an excellent soundtrack by Mark Knopfler

An American oil company offers to buy a Scottish village, but things don’t go as planned in this comedic fairy tale about lonlieness, community, and the wonders of the natural world. Episode 229 - Local Hero sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

These guys are judging all the comments above this post. We were not ready for how good Local Hero was. Watch it already.

This film is a miracle. I have seen it about 20 times and it is always charming, funny, and heartfelt. 10/10 from me.

An American oil company offers to buy a Scottish village, but things don’t go as planned in this comedic fairy tale about lonlieness, community, and the wonders of the natural world. Episode 229 - Local Hero sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

We’re gonna need a bigger Jazz. Julie Klausner joins us to talk Fosse and Broadway in a fun episode.

Grab the Visine and Dexedrine, folks, it’s showtime! We welcome writer, actress, and comedian @julieklausner.bsky.social to the show to discuss Bob Fosse’s autobiographical exploration of death, sex, and creative obsession. Episode 228 - All That Jazz sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

*sigh* I’m gonna have to add this to the schedule, aren’t I.

GREEN KNIGHT!! GREEN KNIGHT!!! GREEN KNIGHT!!! IT TOTALLY COUNTS!!!! We stretch the limits of Arthurian movies yet again in this (2) months Hollywood Avalon

Francis Ford Coppola’s epic about the Vietnam War draws as much from J.G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough and Jessie Weston’s landmark Arthurian study From Ritual to Romance as it does from Joseph Conrad’s novel of African colonialism Heart of Darkness. www.patreon.com/posts/154471...

Howard Beale has been fired from television, but not before he has a mental breakdown live on-air. What could be better for ratings? Episode 227 - Network sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

A bullied boy finds a magic book, bringing him into a fantastical world under threat of annihilation. Dennis Vs the Movies month continues with the movie that scarred millions of millennials. Episode 226 - The NeverEnding Story sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

The movie that inspired one of my favorite Lionel Hutz quotes! youtu.be/NL_pRiXov7Q?...

Mary: “They’re two gnomes living in the middle of nowhere. Which, also, by the way: goals.” 🤣💯 One of my favorite movies.

A bullied boy finds a magic book, bringing him into a fantastical world under threat of annihilation. Dennis Vs the Movies month continues with the movie that scarred millions of millennials. Episode 226 - The NeverEnding Story sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

Excuse me, I was told there are *no* cats in America?!? bsky.app/profile/garf...

Listening to this while working and when @zizpa.bsky.social said “Kids need knives to defend themselves” I laughed so hard and unexpectedly that I got the hiccups.

Apparently the guy who animated the Dragons Lair arcade made movies. Who knew? Mary continues her cinematic onslaught against me with An American Tail

The story of a mouse who emigrates to America, is separated from his family, and has to find his way in 1880s NYC is a lushly-animated, sometimes grim story about assimilation, discimination, and the false promises the US makes Episode 225 - An American Tail sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

When you’re done watching Moonstruck on TCM (#tcmwatchparty), come and listens to our episode (our third! Of 224!) maryvsmovies.com/2021/04/02/e...

Dennis Versus the Movies month kicks off with a favorite from Mary’s childhood, the Philadelphia-set romantic comedy about a department-store window-dresser and the five-thousand-year-old Egyptian mummy spends her days as mannequin. Episode 224 - Mannequin sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

TEAM REGGIE

Reggie is training for the next Olympics

English and Russian spies join forces to take down the rich. The 70s were a different time.

We’re back watching James Bond, this time teaming up with a sexy Russian spy to take down a deranged Swedish shipping magnate who wants to blow up the world so that he can live under the sea. Episode 223 - The Spy Who Loved Me sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

The story of the Jamaican bobslead team is a family-friendly comedy that hits all the hoary old sports movie underdog beats. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though it means they have to completely fictionalize an historical event. Episode 222 - Cool Runnings sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

Fresh out of Dogra-La: bsky.app/profile/rodg...

It’s sports! It’s animals! It’s animation! It’s celebrity voices! It’s... a weird riff on Lost Horizon and I guess Saturday Night Fever with an alligator? From the creator of Tron! Music from 10cc! I’m sure it made sense in 1980. Episode 221 - Animalympics sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

Squid Games! It’s Olympic time, even for critters. Harry Shearer, Gilda Radner, and Billy Crystal vamp in a series of animals doing sport stuff.

It’s sports! It’s animals! It’s animation! It’s celebrity voices! It’s... a weird riff on Lost Horizon and I guess Saturday Night Fever with an alligator? From the creator of Tron! Music from 10cc! I’m sure it made sense in 1980. Episode 221 - Animalympics sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

A young man loses his father and home, falls in love with his boss’s daughter, and captures a rogue horse. It’s corny as a paperback romance, and has more horses than a twelve-year-old girl’s notebook. Episode 220 - The Man from Snowy River sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

A bland office drone has an affair with his married coworker and becomes obsessed with her, while juggling his suicidal mother and unemployed best friend; did we mention it’s a comedy? Episode 219 - Chilly Scenes of Winter sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

A bland office drone has an affair with his married coworker and becomes obsessed with her, while juggling his suicidal mother and unemployed best friend; did we mention it’s a comedy? Episode 219 - Chilly Scenes of Winter sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

Me getting roasted by an onstage comedienne. We go on a cup hunt with Parsifal in this 1912 flick. Our earliest, I think.

A silent film of an opera sounds like a joke, but it’s quite real—and honestly pretty dull, playing more like highlights of Wagner’s opera about the Holy Grail than a film in its own right. We also discuss Catholic theology, transubstantiation, incels, and Happy Days. Episode 33 - Parsifal (1912)