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We Wanna Watch

Two amateurs, who are neither smart nor funny, host a comedy podcast about movie criticism.

tv & film film reviews

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75:22

Observe and Report

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2025/07/04

Maligned, misunderstood classic or a correctly discarded misfire? The first movie in our Jesse July miniseries is Observe and Report (2009) directed by Jody Hill, an underseen comedy with an outsized reputation. Join us for a discussion around this movie's attempted satire, Seth Rogen's screen persona, and the effortlessness with which Plemons assumes the energy of a character who works at a mall in 2009.

130:50

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant / Love Lies Bleeding

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2025/06/27

One HUNDRED movies! This week's wrap on our pride month miniseries includes The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) directed by Rainer Fassbinder and Love Lies Bleeding (2024) directed by Rose Glass. We get into fluffy robes, phone acting, toxic lesbian relationships, fisting, turning into your dad, testosterone (problematic?), fisting again, and, of course, a little game. Happy pride month!

99:57

Brokeback Mountain / Theater Camp

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2025/06/20

Pride month continues with this week's two pride pics, Brokeback Mountain (2005) directed by Ang Lee and Theater Camp (2023) directed by Nick Lieberman and Molly Gordon. After an extended mishap of losing Ricky's audio while talking about Mario Kart World f0r 20 minutes, we summarize Theater Camp (literal nothing movie) and get into Brokeback for the majority of the runtime. Lane gets Heath Ledger now, Ricky talks about how one of us needs to die for us to have a good podcast, and Christopher

113:53

The Birdcage (1996) / All About My Mother

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2025/06/13

Continuing in our pride month miniseries, this week's pride pics are The Birdcage (1996) directed by Mike Nichols and All About My Mother (1999) directed by Pedro Almodóvar. After talking about dick humor and keys, we discuss Robin Williams' screen persona, whether All About My Mother is a serious movie, and the timelessness of these themes. Also, a really long tangent about Frankenstein.Follow us on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/wewannawatch.bsky.socialFollow us on Letterboxd:

125:07

The Boys in the Band (1970) / Y Tu Mamá También

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2025/06/06

Happy Pride Month watchers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈‼️ We're starting a whole MONTH of LGBTQ-movies with two pride pics, The Boys in the Band (1970) directed by William Friedkin and Y Tu Mamá También (2001) directed by Alfonso Cuarón. One of us vastly prefers one of these movies more than the other, and one of us says "I liked it!" about both of them. Any guesses who is whom? We get into meanness culture, Pee-Wee Herman/Paul Reubens, and the smell of oral sex. Plus: a little game.Follow us on

69:44

Wicked City

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2025/05/30

This week's Rick's Pick was Wicked City...(1987)....directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri...............................Trigger warning in this movie and episode for all manner of sexual violence and general hentai bullshit.

94:42

Yi Yi

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2025/05/23

McDonald's again?! This week's Rick's Pick is Yi Yi (2000) directed by Edward Yang. After our usual argument about RogueLike DeckBuilders (TM), we discuss this movie's understated performances, gorgeous long takes, and the idea of a movie allowing people to see the perspectives of others. Digressions include how we hate the word "panties" and OH MY GOD A CENTIPEDE IS ATTACKING ME HELP ME PLEASE

65:31

Battleship Potemkin

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2025/05/16

This week's Lane's Frame is Battleship Potemkin (1925) directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Hard for two idiots to talk about a one hundred year old movie, but we managed to do it for a whole hour! Just ignore all the digressions about what constitutes a modern movie, Palworld, and Twilight. Also, Ricky's friendship with the KGB ended, Mormonism is Ricky's friend now.

121:29

The Thief and the Cobbler

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2025/05/09

This week's Rick's Pick is The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) directed by Richard Williams. As the movie with the longest-ever time spent in production, we go long talking about the different versions of the film, its gorgeous animation, and completely incomprehensible story. Digressions include bottled water, creative "geniuses", and Aladdin's racism. Warning! We talk about puking a lot in the first twenty minutes of this episode lol.

96:10

Pride & Prejudice

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2025/05/02

This week's Lane's Frame is Pride & Prejudice (2005) directed by Joe Wright! A canonical Lane's Frame, this movie charms the pants off of us both, even though I was sick and Ricky was tired during this record so we sound a lot more muted than normal. A shockingly short episode. I can't believe we forgot to talk about the sounds of birds chirping!

76:44

In the Mood for Love

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2025/04/25

This week's Rick's Pick is In the Mood for Love (2000) directed by Wong Kar-wai! Part movie discussion, part ethical argument about romance and fate, this episode gets into the psychology of the two leads, the sumptuous colors and cinematography, and whether roleplaying as your spouse's affair partner with your spouse's affair partner's spouse counts as cheating. Plus: fuck Blue Prince and the house it built, and rebuilt, and rebuilt.

89:34

A Minecraft Movie

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2025/04/18

This week's new release episode is A Minecraft Movie (2025) directed by Jared Hess. With friend of the show and special guest Sy, we go long on the Minecraft of it all and talk very little about the movie, which is deeply fine and not really remarkable in any way. Plus, a continued conversation about what "cis" means.Follow Sy (l0nech3f) on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/l0nech3f/videos

110:11

Super Size Me

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2025/04/11

Who picked this dogshit movie? Unfortunately, this week's Lane's Frame is Super Size me (2004) directed by Morgan Spurlock. Pizza Hut! Pizza Hut! Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut!Content warning: We talk pretty explicitly throughout this episode about eating disorders, fatphobia, calories and calorie counting, weight measurement and loss, body image, and basically everything to do with those subjects. Watchers beware!

110:30

Escape from New York

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2025/04/04

This week's Rick's Pick is Escape from New York (1981) directed by John Carpenter! This episode is basically unlistenable by the end because we're both drunk.

80:50

Tokyo Story

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2025/03/28

We're idiots after all! This week's Lane's Frame is Tokyo Story (1953) directed by Yasujirō Ozu. We discuss this movie's impressive cinematography, our difficulty connecting to its plot, and just how they managed to pull off those neat background shots almost seventy years ago. Plus: a debrief about Lane's trip to NYC to see the new Glengarry Glen Ross revival.

121:37

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly / Unforgiven

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2025/03/21

This week's double feature of Rick's Picks were The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) directed by Sergio Leone and Unforgiven (1992) directed by Clint Eastwood. We get into the former's iconic soundtrack and closeups, the history of the cowboy archetype in film, and whether or not Clint Eastwood is hot. Digressions include Nintendogs, blocking people on social media, and our new podcast We Wanna Eat.

96:31

Michael Clayton

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2025/03/14

LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! This week's Lane's Frame is Michael Clayton (2007) directed by Tony Gilroy. We get into this genre of conspiracy/legal/courtroom thriller, indulgent movies, and Karen's fuckass outfits. Also at one point Ricky can't remember the name of the protagonist lmaooo. Plus: fan submitted Nosferatu content 😍

139:46

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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2025/03/07

A long tangent about making our beds AND sleeping in them. Our favorite fabrics. Pee-Wee's Playhouse's dog. Killing men. Cooking ASMR. It's our Jeanne Dielman episode! This week's Rick's Pick is Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) directed by friend of the show Chantal Ackerman. We go loooong talking about this movie's psychological impact, the characterization of Jeanne Dielman, and Ricky's favorite thing: face acting.Plus a FUN KITCHEN GAME: play along here.

90:06

The Apartment

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2025/02/28

Is it one of the greatest movies of all time? Maybe! This week's Lane's Frame is The Apartment (1960) directed by Billy Wilder. We talk about this movie's tight screenplay, cool old tech, and treatment of transgressive topics like adultery, suicide, and eating without Youtube. Plus: we have long digressions about being sad at Christmastime, argue about what the Grinch's tulip head is made of, and reveal Ricky's identity as the Kremlin Gremlin.Join our Oscars prediction league here with the password

92:29

Excalibur

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2025/02/21

This week's Rick's Pick is inexplicably Excalibur (1981) directed by John Boorman. We have a pretty bugnuts episode today, with topics including all the movies Ricky watched this week (!), our feelings on Monty Python, and the worst Zumba instructor of all time.Join the WWW Oscar league with the password "Plemons": https://tinyurl.com/8nswn3cz

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