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Join Steph and Jess for a Southern Gothic (SOGO) Summer with 1997’s Eve’s Bayou. We ooo and aww over the gorgeous swampy aesthetic, discuss our thoughts on“that scene”, and play a fun new game, 6 degrees of Samuel L Jackson. See ya later Pineapple Thief!

Join Steph and Jess as we wrap up springing “Back in Time” with 2000’s Frequency, starring Jesus and Randy Quaid’s brother. Steph summed up our feelings of this rewatch perfectly,” It was hot garbage, took too long to get there and doesn’t make any f*cking sense at the end.” Oddly enough, that describes most Dennis Quaid movies.. Go Mets! Enjoying the show? Buy us a popcorn 🍿 and help keep Filmgazers rolling!buymeacoffee.com/filmgazers

Join Steph and Jess as we Spring Back in Time with 1994’s TimeCop. We discuss Jean Claude’s impressive flexibility (that splits on the countertop scene!) and the utter lack of any science in this science fiction flick. Steph has a hot take about Van Damme and Jess has an interesting story of something that happened to her over Easter weekend. Also we announce the winner of the 100th episode giveaway! Have a nice day! Buy us a 🍿buymeacoffee.com/filmgazers

Join Steph and Jess for our 100th episode celebration! A little bonus minisode all about us, bebe. We got a little blooper reel to amuse you and a little movie podcast game to entertain us. We discuss our favorite and not so favorite episodes AND announce how to enter the GIVEAWAY! Listen for all the deets, and thanks for listening! Buy us a 🍿⬇️buymeacoffee.com/filmgazers

Join Steph and Jess as we wrap up March Madness and celebrate our 100th episode with 1996’s The Cable Guy, the movie that honed our sense of humor. We still agree Chip (Ernie/Larry/Ricky) looked like a good time, he just kept picking the wrong lame-o’s to stalk. Who doesn’t like Medieval Times and karaoke? How about a sequel with "Ricky Ricardo" and the helicopter medic going skydiving for their YouTube channel? This concludes our broadcast day, click.🍿 Buy us a popcorn! ⬇️buymeacoffe.com/filmgazers

Join Steph and Jess as we descend into "March Madness" with 2019's The Lighthouse. A FTW (First Time Watch) for both of us that had us saying WTF. We agree the cinematography was chef's kiss and Willem Dafoe gave a stellar performance as a lil drunk moth, but it was also bat shit crazy. Moth shit crazy? Who shit? Crazy. 🍿 Buy us a popcorn!buymeacoffe.com/filmgazers

Join Steph and Jess as we round up "Tragic Romance" with 1998's City of Angels, the movie that made Steph hate God. While we agree that on this rewatch it's defintely on the boring side, Jess still has rose colored nostalgia glasses on. We discuss THAT ending and announce what our 100th episode will be! May the nosy ass angels watch over us all.Buy Us A Popcorn 🍿https://buymeacoffe.com/filmgazers🎬 Movie Night Picks ⬇️https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls?ref_=ya_d_c_lists

Join Steph and Jess as we start Tragic Romance off with 2005's Brokeback Mountain. Yes, that gay cowboy movie. Steph has a hot take about Ennis and Jess has a hot take about the score. While we both agree it is as beautiful as it is depressing, it'll defintely be a while before we watch it again. Buy us a popcorn! 🍿https://buymeacoffee.com/filmgazers

Join Steph and Jess as we wrap up, "Are You There Aliens? It’s Us, Filmgazers” with 2002’s Signs. We agree it’s M Night’s best movie even though the dialogue is a little.. odd. We discuss the scenes that still made our stomach drop and Jess asks, which group are you in? Group one that believes in signs? Or group two that thinks it’s all random luck? Also, our “tragic romance” picks are announced!

Join Steph and Jess in the first installment in the series, Are You There Aliens? It's Us, Filmgazers, with 2005's War of the Worlds. The movie that even Spielberg admitted has a lame-o ending. While we agree Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning were the stars of the show with their acting, the plot holes and blink and you miss it ending make this film miss the mark. Tom looks good running though. Also February's theme is announced! https://linktr.ee/filmgazers

Join Steph and Jess as we wave the white flag and end our War on Christmas with this stinker of all stinkers, 1994’s Miracle on 34th Street. Nothing says Christmas like a court case? Steph feels totally vindicated on her hatred of this film and Jess agrees, Christmas with the Kranks ain’t looking too bad now. In the words of little Susan, “Nothing left to see but horse poop, and that doesn’t thrill me at all.” Indeed.

Join Steph and Jess on our “ War on Christmas” with 2004’s Christmas with the Kranks, and spoiler alert: Jess still hates it. We agree it had some humorous parts- a botox’d Tim Allen eating peaches still made us chuckle. But the thought of anyone telling us what to do with our holiday still grinds our gears so we’ll keep this movie on the naughty list. And who tf spends $6000 on Christmas?!

Join Steph and Jess in the field - or rather- in the woods as we take you with us on our meander down a forest trail, discussing our top 3 Steven Spielberg movies from childhood and today. Also some crunchy leaves ASMR.

Join Steph and Jess for the finale of Fantasy and Fellowship with the Gentry family staple, Willow! While Steph proclaims it’s no Lord of the Rings, she does agree the combination of special effects and acting between the effervescent Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis are what make the film memorable. Jess still considers it a solid fantasy staple. What say you, peck?

Join Steph and Jess for some Fantasy & Fellowship with 2001’s Lord of the Ring : The Fellowship of the Ring. Extended Version. Basically the perfect movie, the end. Seriously, we agree that once you watch the extended version you’ll never go back to the theatrical ones. Jess proclaims Peter Jackson is now synonymous with Lotr and Tolkien and will never watch any other remake. Unless it’s an Aragorn + Arwen romance..directed by Peter Jackson… So come let us fire up that longbottom leaf, snack on some lembas bread and be glad we don't have to fight an orc today.

Join Steph and Jess as we wrap up Fangs for the Memories with 2025's Sinners, a beautiful drama with a splash of vampires. While we agree the horror aspect is greatly over hyped, the storytelling, acting, costumes and music is very well done. We could've actually done without the vampires altogether and just focused on the whole SmokeStack twins escaping Chicago crime bosses aspect. Maybe we'll just write our own fan fiction...

We're back in the saddle again! Join Steph and Jess after an impromptu health hiatus with the first installment in the Fangs for the Memories, 1998's Blade. We discuss the epic soundtrack, the man candy, the Badassery of it all..we just want to be naughty vampire gods, dammit.

Join Jess for a spooky season minisode special! A review of 2025's Final Destination: Bloodlines and a rewatch of 2000's Final Destination, plus an update on Steph and her husband!

Join Steph and Jess in the final installment of Jess's Fantastical Voyage with 2025's Death of a Unicorn. Also known as Paul Rudd's worst role ever as a piece of shit dad. We agree there's zero comedy in this horror/comedy, unless you count the CG unicorns. We just expected a little more camp from a revenge unicorn flick.

Join Steph and Jess in the first installment of Jess's Fantastical Voyage with 1995's Powder. Disclaimer: We had no idea of the heinous charges the dirtbag director was convicted of when Jess picked this one. We watched it for free and don't recommend you paying to watch it either. Jess will still always think of Powder whenever she sees lightning, but we'll never watch this one again.

Join Steph and Jess in another episode of “Steph gets two movies confused” where she thought Red Dawn was actually Toy Soldiers. We agree its 80’s war propaganda at it’s finest and Steph can feel her blood turning more ‘Merican red by the end of it. Wolverines!

Join Steph and Jess as we bunker down for July and wait for WW3 with some war-adjacent movies, starting with 1994's The War. Rewatching makes us rethink what we considered "entertainment"as kids.. still a badass treehouse though.

Join Jess in this summer break minisode! Enjoy more butchering of the English language and cracking each other the f*ck up. So many outtakes, so little time.

Join Steph and Jess as we wrap up ‘You Talkin’ to May?’ with 1999’s Analyze This. Steph fangirls over Billy Crystal, we both agree that Bob Deniro is looking mighty fine in '99 and bad mobster/Joe Pesci impressions galore, oh my!

Join Steph and Jess for 'You Talkin’ to May?' with 1998’s Mafia! Starring Bella’s dad and Jay Mohr. While we agree it’s no Hot Shots Part Deaux, it’s a solid “ok”. Well, the first half anyway. Especially if you like fart jokes. Mama mia!

Join Steph and Jess in the last episode of April Animation with 1994’s The Swan Princess. Not The Princess and the Goblin, in case you were confused like Steph was. Although this was not the movie Steph originally thought she was choosing, we both agree the animation is still beautiful and the first half is pretty delightful. Its the lame villain, aka Janitor Willie, and the meh second half that brings it down. Stick around for May’s movie picks!

Join Steph and Jess in this early childhood fave, 1994's A Troll in Central Park. Where everything is absolutely green and absolutely average. We agree the animation is still beautiful, and if you're in the 1-6 age range, ya know, the targeted audience, you'll probably think its fine.

Join Steph and Jess in this very special finale to Mary Jane March as we get to interview the writer, producer and director of 2023's The Last Deal, Jonathan Salemi! We deep dive with Jonathan into the making of this guerrilla shot, gritty crime thriller and get all the fun facts our listeners deserve. Thank you so much again Jamie for reaching out and to Jonathan for being our very first interview! We hope everyone has as much fun listening as we had making this episode. Fortune Favors the Bold, or as Stephanie says, Go Big or Go Home!

Join Steph and Jess for Mary Jane March with 2014’s Inherent Vice. Somehow this one slipped by us, but who even knows where they were in 2014? This one definitely deserves another watch as you have to not take your eyes away for one second or you’ll miss something. And by you, we mean Jess. Come pop a squat, take a toke, and let’s get groovy, man.

Join Steph and Jess in 2002's The Mothman Prophecies, as Stephanie faces her bridge collapsing fear. She realizes maybe she's actually more afraid of America's crumbling infastructure and faith in things made by man than the actual bridge falling down thing. We discuss Mothman theories and legends and how much we wanted to like this movie..but didn't.

Join Steph and Jess in the grand finale of The Twillight Saga: The Minisodes. How does Steph feel now that the Saga is over? We discuss how a movie made for teenage girls sure has a lot of vampire f*cking in it, and how a whole franchise can be ruined by one line.

Join Steph and Jess in the first installment for Face Your Fears February. Jess faces her fear with 1990’s Arachnophobia, the movie that gave her arachnophobia. Steph is disappointed in how it pales in comparison to her memories and is actively rooting for the spiders, while Jess still had the heebie jeebies just talking about it days later. Jess reveals America’s top 7 phobias and March’s theme is announced!

Join Steph and Jess in the last episode of Jam Packed January (subcategory: Aliens: Almost Done Waiting?) with 1998's The Faculty. Or; The Breakfast Club with Aliens, as we have dubbed it. We reminicse over our childhood crushes, Josh and Elijah, respectively. Also, we announce whats going on for what's shaping up to be an equally jam packed February!

Join Steph and Jess in the third minisode of the Twilight Saga, Eclipse. Steph is appalled at the way Bella is treated by both Edward and Jacob and is now Team No One. We come to the conclusion that Bella isn't really in love with Edward, she just wants to be a vampire.

Join Jess and Steph while we await the aliens with 1997's Alien: Resurrection. You know the drill, Ripley warns everyone, no one listens, everyone dies. We agree Sigourney Weaver is the best thing about this movie..besides the alien hybrid getting sucked into space, butthole first.

Join Jess and Steph in the continuation of The Twilight Saga: The Minisodes with movie number two, New Moon. Same premise, different monster. Steph learns the meaning of more classic Twilight memes and Jess asks the age old question; are you team Jacob? Or team Edward?

Join Steph and Jess in the first minisode of the Twilight Trilogy Saga. Will Steph hate it as Jess predicted? Is she still willing to go along with a whole ass saga? Can they indeed cram 5 movies in before the new year? Stay tuned to find out!

Join Steph and Jess on this fine Cannibal Christmas Eve with 1999’s Ravenous. We reminisce our love of the quirky soundtrack and Steph dishes some draaaama behind the scenes of said soundtrack. We recap our year on FilmGazers and Steph poses an interesting question: If you could live any character’s life from any movie, who would it be? Tune in to find out the answers! Happy Holidays everyone!

Join Steph and Jess for an aperitif before the main course on this Cannibal Christmas with 1982’s Living Dead Girl. We agree it’s more vampiric than cannibal, but c'est la vie! Steph discovers the director’s spicy side gig whilst researching fun facts, and we discuss that while this is kind of a boring horror flick, it's actually a lovely lesbian tragedy. L’amour la mort..

Join Steph and Jess as they trudge through the last offering of Big Back November, 2010’s Eat Pray Love. An hour too long and plenty of fat shaming, you’ll feel just like you're at home for the holiday dinner! Put on your “big lady pants”, Julia’s words, not ours; and gobble til you wobble with us. Happy Holidays!

Join Steph and Jess at the big back table with 1999's Simply Irresistible! Steph explains how researching the fun facts led her to stumble upon why this movie sucks so bad. And it ain't the magic crab. Christmas Theme finally announced!

Join Jess for a review of 1963's The Birds! Will it still be as terrifying as she remembers from childhood? Spoiler- it's not..

Part of the Spooky Season Minisode Double Feature! Steph's run down of her Spooky watchlist with overall thoughts and star ratings, from Netflix's new film Tarot to 1989's Intruder with a crew of horror movie legends and more! Have a Happy Halloween!

Join Steph and Jess in this final installment of Spooky Shalhouby, 2001's Thirteen Ghosts. Although we think it should've been titled, Glass Puzzle House to Hell With, Like, 4 Ghosts in the Basement. Jess gets this and another movie's ending confused and Steph realizes her memories are actually of the dvd's special features. Also, November's line up is announced!

Join Steph and Jess as they dive into Spooky Shalhouby month with this surprisingly dark and twisty tale. 2023’s Mr Monk’s Last Case is filled with ghosts, murder most foul and an obvious bad guy. (looking at you James Purefoy) It’s a jungle out there folks, a jungle out there.

Join Steph and Jess for the last installment of “Sinful September” with 2001’s Frailty. A, if we’re being totally honest, a huge disappointment from our 14/17 year old mind’s memories. We discuss the key points we remember, which was not really much come to find out, and how this is the second movie starring Mathew M that barely had him in it. And once again, are we sure this is coming from God? Plus November’s theme is announced!

A special minisode introducing Steph's husband Andrew and our thoughts on the latest M. Night flick!

Join Steph and Jess as they take a journey back to 1999 for Stigmata, the movie that probably contributed to Steph’s departure from catholicism. We discuss Patricia Arquette’s peak Y2K fashion and bringing back giant acrylic rings, please. WWJD? Probably not watch this movie.

Join Steph and Jess, deep in the throes of Leo Season, near mad from the relentless Florida heat, as we discuss 1998’s The Man in the Iron Mask. Steph uncovers just how easy misinformation gets spread around while Jess wonders why no one in Versailles has a french accent.. Also September’s theme and flick picks are announced!

Join Steph and Jess for a new release minisode! We review 2024’s Longlegs, featuring our man, Mr Nic Cage. We discuss our fave parts, headscratchers that call for a rewatch, and the journey it took just to go see the d*mn thing. SPOILERS