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Or Whatever Movies

Wesley and Iris Ichishita

Or Whatever Movies podcast is a weekly entertainment discussion between real-life brother and sister duo, Wesley and Iris Ichishita. At under 30-minutes a pop, each episode is a quick, no-holds-barred discussion of a movie, television show, or video. The siblings mix the water cooler chat with the dinner table debate and invite you to listen in. Curious what others are saying about the latest release? Wes and Iris’ve got your back. Open, honest, unpretentious, and opinionated, they may change the

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32:55

SHORT CIRCUIT | Or Whatever Movies | 284

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2025/05/15

What does this movie have in common with SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER? Want to know the best robot burns? Grab your shrimp toast and cavi-R and listen to this week’s discussion on SHORT CIRCUIT! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:13

THE TRIAL (1962) | Or Whatever Movies | 283

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2025/05/08

What does it mean? The siblings discuss this and more in their listener-requested discussion of Kafka’s Orson Welles's THE TRIAL, also known as the pine cone jam of classic Cinema. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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36:53

GREASE | Or Whatever Movies | 282

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2025/05/01

Do you know whose jugs are bigger than their neck? Who is a dancing machine and dancing to win? What it means to be a defective typewriter? These answers and more in this week’s discussion on the classic, Wesley’s #2 musical, GREASE. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:08

MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS | Or Whatever Movies | 281

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2025/04/24

Do you get THE chills when you think about MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS? Wes and Iris do because these characters speak the truth. Revisit the FOREST GUMP of music movies in this week’s discussion, the culmination of TEACHER MONTH at OR WHATEVER MOVIES! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:47

LEAN ON ME | Or Whatever Movies | 280

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2025/04/17

Is Joe Clark from LEAN ON ME Mr. Miyagi, Rocky, and Anton Chigurh all rolled into one? Relive Wesley’s second favorite Morgan Freeman-goes-to-prison movie in this, the penultimate discussion of TEACHER MONTH. Because we all need someone to lean on, or whatever. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:42

DEAD POET’S SOCIETY | Or Whatever Movies | 279

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2025/04/10

It’s the height of Kids Are Idiots Month–also known as Teacher Month–here at OR WHATEVER MOVIES with DEAD POET’S SOCIETY, a movie, not about desk sets, but throwing desk sets and letting desk sets find their intended purposes. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:18

WHIPLASH | Or Whatever Movies | 278

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2025/04/03

Is the movie WHIPLASH your tempo? Do you hate JK Simmons because of Fletcher? Do you love musical iterative torture? It doesn’t matter because you are going to listen to this second episode of TEACHER MONTH if you want to stay in Shaffer core. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:07

THE HUNT | Or Whatever Movies | 277

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2025/03/27

The siblings kick off TEACHER MONTH at OR WHATEVER MOVIES with a Danish flick that will shake you up, THE HUNT. Who threw the rock through the window? Killed the dog? Took a shot? These questions and more in this week’s discussion and www.orwhatevermovies.com! Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:23

HERETIC | Or Whatever Movies | 276

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2025/03/20

Check out this week’s discussion about a movie that–though not gorey, still–yucked Iris’s yum, HERETIC. In the gap between award’s season and this OWM Teacher month, the sibling’s discuss this PowerPoint from Hell. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:31

A REAL PAIN | Or Whatever Movies | 275

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2025/03/14

This week, the siblings close out awards season at OR WHATEVER MOVIES with a little low-budget, Academy Award-winning talkie where a lot is happening – A REAL PAIN, the only movie that Wesley watched twice. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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36:11

THE SUBSTANCE | Or Whatever Movies | 274

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2025/03/06

Whether you have fond/fuzzy feelings about THE SUBSTANCE or you are put off by the gallons of deformed horror-butt, can we agree that THE SUBSTANCE is a movie that heck’n goes balls out? Check out the siblings’ discussion on the Academy Award-nominated best film in this last awards-season episode at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:12

I’M STILL HERE | Or Whatever Movies | 273

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2025/02/27

Is I’M STILL HERE a quiet and powerful or boring movie? It depends on if you’re reading between the lines in this Academy Award-nominated Best Picture. Check out this week’s discussion here and at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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31:13

NICKEL BOYS | Or Whatever Movies | 271

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2025/02/20

Check out this week’s discussion on Academy Award-nominated Best Picture NICKEL BOYS also known as “Nickel Boys based on the novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, Which Forces Us to Examine Art in Moviemaking.” Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:56

CONCLAVE | Or Whatever Movies | 271

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2025/02/13

This week the siblings talk a serious, atypical Pope Movie, CONCLAVE, including finding the Super Pope and naming the cardinal hat. Check out the Academy Award-nominated best picture and then listen to their discussion here or on orwhatevermovies@gmail.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:44

THE BRUTALIST | Or Whatever Movies | 270

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2025/02/06

It may be a European thing, but Academy Award-nominated best picture THE BRUTALIST, directed by Brady “Jim Bob Jenkins” Corbet, is about Jewish Hungarians in America. Is Laszlo Toth a real guy? Or is this Lydia Tár all over again? Listen and find out. Contains spoilers. Thank you! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:53

ANORA | Or Whatever Movies | 269

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2025/01/30

Listen as the siblings discuss the movie where a merry band of adventurers go on a quest to destroy a ring. No, not Fellowship of the Ring; it’s ANORA! The screamy, low-budget Academy Awards dark horse that asks you to think twicely about Mikey Madison. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! www.orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:01

EMILIA PÉREZ | Or Whatever Movies | 268

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2025/01/23

Is the Vaginoplastia song supposed to be funny? Is the story all in Zoe Saldaña’s head? Does the Terminator weigh 800 pounds? Find out in this week’s important discussion of EMILIA PÉREZ here and at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:15

NOSFERATU | Or Whatever Movies | 267

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2025/01/16

If you turned NOSFERATU into a drinking game and then took a shot every time Willem Dafoe said, ‘cock crow,’ you'd be so drunk. But in all seriousness, since this is supposed to be a serious horror movie, if you want to hear about how people bone each other to death, listen to the siblings’ discussion here or at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:32

WICKED | Or Whatever Movies | 266

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2025/01/09

This movie defies gravity. It is, as we know by now, very pop-you-hoo-ler. So, get on board the train to the Emerald City and check out the siblings’ discussion of WICKED PART 1 here and 300+ more episodes at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:35

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN | Or Whatever Movies | 265

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2025/01/02

Bob Dylan is enough, folks. But if you want more, check out what the siblings have to say about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, including the second coming of Timothee Chalamet, Emmy-nominated Edward Norton, Long-Looks Elle, and a scene-stealing Boyd Holbrook at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening! 818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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