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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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99:16

Secrets and Lies

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2025/02/14

This week's Lane's Frame is Secrets and Lies (1996) written and directed by Mike Leigh. After another loooong intro discussing some recent Oscar controversies, we talk about this movie's incredible performances, character development, and balanced treatment of adoption. Plus: is Ricky punchier when he finishes the movie 5 minutes before recording?An instagram reel mentioned in this ep that came up ORGANICALLY IN MY IG FEED: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFB9V7Ht3IU/?igsh=MXZvM2ZuamRrN2Nmbw==Join

97:45

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / Do the Right Thing

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2025/02/07

Happy birthday Ricky! This week's Rick's Picks are a double feature of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) directed by Jacques Demy and Do the Right Thing (1989) directed by Spike Lee. After a loooooong intro, we talk about our feelings towards musicals, French as a language, and how these two movies could possibly be in conversation with each other. Features the worst instance of Ricky blowing out the mic yet.

116:38

Mulholland Drive

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2025/01/31

Silencio...is what the haters would say to this podcast! This week's Lane's Frame is Mulholland Drive (2001) written and directed by the late David Lynch. After taking time to discuss the Oscar nominations that dropped earlier in the day, we try to go as long as possible without trying to dissect the plot of this movie while discussing its nightmarish vibes, the impressive cinematography, and how much we liked the cowboy lol.Plus: you wanna play a little GAME?

82:10

The Killer (1989)

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2025/01/24

This week's Rick's Pick is John Woo's 1989 crime drama, The Killer. Featuring special guest Christopher, we talk about our favorite action movies, the history of the "gun-fu" genre, and this movie's Cool Ass Vibes. Plus: we go long on tabletop roleplaying (should Christopher and Ricky start an actual play?) and I shit talk some Oscar movies for a minute.

98:20

The Piano Teacher

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2025/01/17

This week's Lane's Frame is The Piano Teacher (2001) directed by Michael Haneke. Maybe not best characterized as a fucked up movie for freaks! We go long on Erika's psychology, BDSM dynamics, menstrual blood in movies, and our writing pet peeves. Plus: Ricky's cats meow a lot in this episode, oh my god.

100:14

Reservoir Dogs

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2025/01/10

Content warning...for a bunch of cool guys! This week's Rick's Pick is Reservoir Dogs (1992) directed by Quentin Tarantino. We get into the aesthetics and glorification of violence, homoeroticism, the ear scene, and the antiblack racism that buoys this whole movie. Plus: we go long on Wallace and Gromit and dabble in a new fancasting game.

111:32

Nashville

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2025/01/03

Happy new year! We're starting 2025 with a totemic classic of American cinema, Nashville (1975) directed by Robert Altman. We get into the political landscape at the time, the movie's interesting character storytelling, and the style and setting's similarities to Boogie Nights. Tune in for lots of cat talk and a revisit of our early episode G*mergate discussion. Plus: what exactly is Ricky's position on taxing churches?

67:12

While You Were Sleeping / The Christmas Chronicles

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2024/12/27

This combo Rick's Pick/Lane's Frame episode covers two Christmas movies: While You Were Sleeping (1995) directed by Jon Turteltaub and The Christmas Chronicles (2018) directed by Clay Kaytis. We pay the Kurt Russell Netflix movie dust and instead ramble about rom coms, Phineas and Ferb, and getting hit by a train to score a girl. Happy holidays everyone!

66:04

Om Shanti Om

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2024/12/20

All the hot girls put your hands up and say: We Wanna Watch! This week's Lane's Frame is Om Shanti Om (2007) directed by Farah Khan. Our first Bollywood movie discussion covers a lot of ground, including our history with Indian cinema, the fall of the American movie star, and our Zumba proclivities. Plus: Ricky's favorite Broadway musical, Hamlet. Not to be like If I Was in An Ari Aster Movie It'd Be Different but if I peep through a keyhole and see Christopher fucking a girl on the ground in a barn

85:06

Mysterious Skin

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2024/12/13

We're starting off our year two of our podcast with a stellar Rick's Pick, Mysterious Skin (2004) directed by Gregg Araki. We discuss this movie's approach to sexuality, excellent performances, and beautiful, bittersweet ending. Digressions include internet cruelty and Ricky's apartment falling apart.Please be warned that this movie and our discussion both cover topics like sexual violence and pedophilia, so watcher discretion is advised.

100:57

2024 Gold Watches

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2024/12/06

Welcome to our first annual awarding of Gold Watches, where we honor all the films that We Wanna Watched! Join us to reflect on our 64 movies watched as we celebrate our first year of the podcast. How many people done doubted us?! Please enjoy this long, meandering hangout of an episode with lots of cat-related interruptions. Thanks to all watchers for listening! And watching, right? RIGHT??

73:24

The Great Escape

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2024/11/29

Our last movie of the fiscal year (and by that I mean it's been almost a year of the podcast!) is this week's Lane's Frame, The Great Escape (1963) directed by John Sturges. We have quite a few digressions in this episode about the banality of evil, depicting war in movies, and why the Nazi salutes in this movie seem so funky. Also, a brief intro about 2024's Look Back directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama. Also the MEOWING. Ricky's cats were really fucking loud this episode.Here's the clip of George Mackay

70:57

Fitzcarraldo

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2024/11/22

This week's Rick's Pick is a return to form for our show: a random movie he saw a viral clip of online. We watched Fitzcarraldo (1982) directed by Werner Herzog. Described by Ricky as "Herzog's Apocalypse Now" (despite Ricky having not seen Apocalypse Now nor any other Herzog movies), we talk about hubris, movies with troubled productions, and how this movie just hasn't aged very well. Plus: an episode-long appearance by my Mario desktop plant fountain, fml.

84:37

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem...

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2024/11/15

Oh Yeah! This week's Fresh double feature Lane's Frames are a blatant excuse to talk about the music of Daft Punk; we watched Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003) directed by Leiji Matsumoto, Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Daisuke Nishio, and Hirotoshi Rissen AND Daft Punk's Alive 2007 Live Concert at Lollapalooza (2007), which has no director credits because it seems to have just been some footage that was never released until like 15 years later? Anyway, we have fun Burnin' through

97:20

Smile 2

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2024/11/08

The final entry in our WE WANNA WAIL series (no for real this time) was chosen in a somewhat snap-decision to be Smile 2 (2024) directed by Parker Finn. As a carryover from the days of Kino 101 with Ricky, the first Smile movie holds a special place in our canon, so it only fits that we would scare the shit out of ourselves in theatres with the sequel. I feel like you can really hear how nervous we sound in this one lmao. Plus: a special appearance by all five (5) cats, and a sneak preview of

89:58

The Exorcist

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2024/10/31

Surprise! WE WANNA WAIL ends (😏) with a special early Halloween drop for our discussion about The Exorcist (1973) directed by William Friedkin. Here's that e-boy content you ordered.

133:28

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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2024/10/25

Much like the protagonist in the last 25 minutes of this movie, WE WANNA WAIL! This week is a very special Nick's Flick (or is it? watchers, get at us), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper. Does this movie live up to its blood-soaked reputation? We all know Ricky hates women, but does Nick hate women more? Is this episode too long? How many movies did I say to Ricky, "we'll watch that someday" about during this? (Death Proof, Safe, May December, Black Christmas, Skinamarink,

73:10

ParaNorman / Monster House

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2024/10/18

We take a little breather during our WE WANNA WAIL series to watch this week's double feature of Rick's Picks, Monster House (2006) directed by Gil Kenan and ParaNorman (2012) directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler. We talk about stop motion animation, creepy old people, and how "Prenderghast" doesn't really give Slav. Plus: a little detour to talk about THE SUBSTANCE (2024) directed by Coralie Fargeat.

63:24

Pulse

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2024/10/11

WE WANNA WAIL continues as we enter the Forbidden Room with this week's Lane's Frame, Pulse (2001) directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. We talk about ghosts, existential dread, and how scary it would be to have some guy just pop up in our Discord call. Plus, are all the jokes online about people wanting to kill themselves desensitizing us to depictions of suicide in movies?

96:42

Perfect Blue / Black Swan

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2024/10/04

Continuing our WE WANNA WAIL miniseries (not We Wanna Whale, mind you), this week's Rick's Pick was a thematic double feature: Perfect Blue (1997) directed by Satoshi Kon and Black Swan (2010) directed by Darren Aronofsky. While we compare these two films' visual and story similarities, we come to the conclusion that the similarities are far outweighed by the differences in characterization, viscerality, and emotion - though Aronofsky is not beating the ripoff allegations, either. Plus: Oreo Coke

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