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I’m Everything You Ever Were Afraid Of (When We Were Young, Episode 27)
“Suck my fat one, you cheap dime-store hood.” Stranger things have happened than what happened on Stranger Things — thanks in large part to one of horror’s most prolific names. In honor of the Netflix...
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Smart, Clean, Totally Decent Human Being… Gay! (When We Were Young, Episode 26)
“Now, repeat after me: ‘Yo!'” “Yo!” “Hot damn!” “Hot damn!” “What a fabulous window treatment!” “What a fabulou—” “That was a trick!” Come one, come all, and come out already for When We Were Young’s...
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Back To The Future: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Just Might Be The Greatest Sequel...
I hate to react too quickly to any movie, because opinions settle over time. I often see a movie and have a negative reaction, only to find that it sits better over time. Sometimes, I leave a film...
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Glitter In The Dark (When We Were Young, Episode 25)
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time....
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How I Became The Prince Of A Town Called Bel Air (When We Were Young, Episode...
“You’re moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air.” Listen to When We Were Young here. In a lot of ways, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air feels like an older show than it is, because I associate it...
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‘Mother’ Lover: Aronofsky’s Defiantly Divisive Antidote To The State Of...
How to review a movie like Mother? Honestly, it’s probably best not to try… but here goes. Darren Aronofsky’s films usually inspire debate. From the manic dread of Requiem For A Dream to the...
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Take This Pink Ribbon Off My Eyes (When We Were Young, Episode 23)
“I thought I knew you I thought I knew you I thought I knew you… Oh well.” Check out the No Doubt episode here! No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom has been mentioned on the podcast several times. Romy And...
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Dirt In The Skirt (When We Were Young, Episode 22)
“Are you crying?” Did a baseball diamond used to be your playground? If so, you’re probably one of the fans who made the Rockford Peaches stars of the most successful baseball movie of all time. Penny...
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Black & Blue: Justice Takes A Holiday In Bigelow’s Brutal ‘Detroit’
Fifty years is a long time. Unfortunately, it has not been long enough to distance America from the depicted in Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit. There’s Motown music in the background and the cars look old,...
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Folie À Boo: A Bleak, Haunting ‘Ghost Story’ Refuses To Go Toward The Light
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is not really a movie. Technically, yes, it is a movie, but the experience I have watching it is something different. Upon viewing Lars Von Trier’s...
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Einhorn Is Finkle, Finkle Is Einhorn (When We Were Young, Episode 21)
“Your gun is digging into my hip.” Somebody stop us! In Episode 21, When We Were Young says “alrighty, then!” to a trip back to 1994, when Jim Carrey soared to superstar status in three back-to-back...
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You Remind Me Of The Babe (When We Were Young, Episode 20)
“You remind me of the babe.” “What babe?” “Babe with the power.” “What power? “Power of voodoo.” “Who do?” “You do.” “Do what? “Remind me of the babe.” I don’t have all that much to say about The Dark...
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You Could Never Be Jell-O (When We Were Young, Episode 19)
“Maybe Michael couldn’t commit to this marriage, so he created a delusion… produced an unconscious, psychosomatic manifestation of… I’m better with food. Okay? You’re Michael. You’re in a fancy French...
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Your Mother’s A Tracer (When We Were Young, Episode 18)
“It was a mistake. I didn’t hate her. I wasn’t disgusted with her. I was afraid. At that moment, I felt small, like… like I’d lacked experience, like I’d never be on her level, like I’d never be enough...
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Amazon Prime: ‘Wonder Woman’&‘City Of Z’ Explore Uncharted Territory
This just in: WOMEN can direct MOVIES. Despite their menstruation and inability to lift heavy things, females are either as capable or even more capable than men at making films that involve punching...
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Game Over, Man! (When We Were Young, Episode 17)
“We’d better get back, ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… mostly.” Encounter the xenomorph in our ickiest episode yet! First, the gang discusses their own personal experiences...
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Here We Are Now, Entertain Us (When We Were Young, Episode 16)
“He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he don’t know what it means…” I’m not sure any episode of the podcast will ever be as difficult...
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Businesswoman’s Special (When We Were Young, Episode 15)
“Hey, everyone — Sandy Frink just landed in a helicopter!” Is that an earthquake? In honor of the 20th anniversary of their 10 year reunion, we join the Madonna twins and a big giant girl who smokes...
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I’m Not Bad, I’m Just Drawn That Way (When We Were Young, Episode 14)
“Is there nothing that can permeate that impervious puss?” Just in time for Easter, we’re taking a trip back to visit every kid’s second (or third, or fourth…) favorite bunny! Robert Zemeckis’ Who...
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In An MMMBop, They’re Gone (When We Were Young, Episode 13)
“Life in plastic, it’s fantastic…” Heya, Barbie! Wanna go for a ride? How about all the way back to 1998, when boy bands were just starting to be a “thing” (again), we listened to music on compact...
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