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Science Month sling shots a frick’n black hole with this week’s discussion of Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTEALLAR. The siblings dissect the tesseract and whether the movie’s big emotional payoff matches its ambitious setup. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris quizzes Wes on his claimed ability to quote the entirety of PULP FICTION, including the famed Ezekiel 25:17 passage and Royale with Cheese exchange. Can he ace part one and level up to part two? Contains spoilers.  orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to OR WHATEVER MOVIES’ Brutal Rankings of Four game, where Iris ranks four related movie things, including Batman actors, Ridley Scott films, and iconic movie cars. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Test your movie title precision with this quiz: To the or not to the, complete with second-guesses, IMDb checks, and AI mistakes. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seven characters, 400+ movies to choose from! Try out OWM’s first-ever vanity license plate movie quiz. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OR WHATEVER MOVIES ranks all 13 of CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’s films in today’s daily dose of whatever. How do the siblings compare to Rotten Tomatoes? Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Find out why APOLLO 13 is bros bro-ing down in space, including a never-before-heard real life encounter with none other than Buzz Aldrin (AKA the second dude), and a space history quiz. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inspired by a rewatch of BACK TO THE FUTURE, Wes and Iris debate what they'd do with a single-use, one-week time travel button in today’s daily dose. orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When was your best screening of Jurassic Park? Bet it wasn’t thanks to a crowd of die-hard fans shouting lines, cheering for shirtless Jeff Goldblum, and fireworks literally overhead. RIP Sam Neill. orwhatevermovies.com 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dream of the day when you can sit down and watch your favorite movie with your kid? When is the right age to watch THE HANGOVER? Is there ever a right age for ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE? Find out at orwhatevermovies.com. 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes spirals into an existential crisis over fake movie franchise GAIL DAUGHTRY, furious that a marketing stunt tricked him into IMDb-searching Jon Hamm’s dong. Bonus: mom out-Netflixes him in today’s daily dose of whatever. 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s daily dose puts the whatever in OR WHATEVER MOVIES, where the siblings discuss, of all things, self-control and digestive health. Read: FARTS. 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Portmanteaus: Best and Last. Even more portmanteau titles that you didn’t know you needed! Contains spoilers!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings kick off SPACE MONTH, with Andy Weir and Ridley Scott’s Matt-Damon-rescuer THE MARTIAN, a kind of mathy space-family movie, complete with a quadfecta of movie nerd references. Contains spoilers!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More portman-titles, featuring movies covered at orwhatevermovies.com or wherever you get podcasts! Is Iris any good at determining Wesley’s bad titles?  818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris play a "movie portmanteau" game, where Wes describes plots of two films combined and Iris tries to guess the mashed-up titles (Martha Marcy May Mar-Lean On Me, anybody?). This and more in this almost spoiler-free daily dose of whatever.  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who writes these things? Play along with OWM's movie tagline guessing game. Brilliant, baffling, misleading, or surprisingly perfect, these taglines all belong to films covered on orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers!  818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can long and involved setups really pay off in satisfying ways like in ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION? Contains spoilers!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can Iris change Wesley’s mind in today’s daily dose of whatever? Find out her response to some of the Internet’s greatest complaints about her favorite movie. Contains spoilers!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobody is fast or furious yet the movie endures. How did a chaotic production, off-screen tensions, and last-minute rewrites turn an assembly-line movie into a classic with enduring appeal? Find out in this week’s discussion of CASABLANCA. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do story telling conventions work because we’re used to them? Or are we used to them because they work? The siblings debate deeply ingrained cultural frameworks and formulaic commercial filmmaking in today’s interview style.  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s daily dose, Wes sounds off on box-office flops, past and future. Could he be the first at-home executive? Find out in today’s daily dose of whatever.  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings may disagree about fantasy movies, but ultimately connect over how relatable, self-award humor makes fantasy work well. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It may come as no surprise that a perfect day at OWM involves–well–watching a movie! But how would you round out the 24 hours on your own?  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out this week’s discussion of the PG-rated TOY STORY 5: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, the quintological follow-up in the Pixar franchise, including the Jessie/Emily nut punch, Blaze's innovation, and the usual spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maybe you can sell a movie on a mashup concept–BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 2, anyone? But can high concept pitches support their own weight in execution? Find out in today’s daily dose of whatever. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You don’t have to love the world in order to love the movie. But do you sometimes have to experience the world in order to fully appreciate it? This and other questions about movies and their worlds in today’s daily dose of whatever!   818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though–spoiler–the siblings don’t make any progress on the topic, check out this daily dose on women flirting and the movie SINGLES.  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is story important to making a quotable movie? Or is it just elevated nerd-speak? Which is the most quotable between JURASSIC PARK, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, and DIE HARD?  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can you guess the movies described by these IMDb-style synopses? Hint: they’re all of movies the siblings have covered at orwhatevermovies.com or wherever you get podcasts. Iris gets about 8 out of 12 for the record.  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hug your mom, follow the Nine Steps, and dance like everyone is watching while listening to this week’s episode of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, where there’s a little bit of something for everybody, unexpectedly. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does shielding children from spooky content only leave them unprepared for the real world's darkness? This and other movie-adjacent debates in today’s daily dose of whatever.  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s businesses first, tax write-offs second, and art third when it comes to BATGIRL and the forthcoming  COYOTE VS. ACME.  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings debate which celebrity would best survive a zombie apocalypse in today’s daily dose of whatever.  818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following his retirement announcement, let’s take a moment in today’s daily-dose of whatever to celebrate Clint Eastwood's prolific, take-risks career… because #YOLO. 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris recaps her Goonies-themed summer roadtrip to Astoria, Oregon with a shoutout to the Blue Scorcher Bakery. Check out the siblings’ discussion of THE GOONIES at www.orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes succumbs to CG-animal fatigue, arguing filmmakers should’ ve used real or practically trained animals instead in this summer’s blockbusters. Contains spoilers.  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE blurs the line between what's real and imagined, past and present, safety and paranoia, when to wear shoes and when to go barefoot. Find out why this chilling slow burn leaves you wondering whether anyone ever truly escapes. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 [email protected] orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does language add a “Y” to the journeys of Odysseus, the Jabberwork, and Professor Nag? Where does the quote "no questions, just drive" come from? One of these questions is answered in today’s daily-dose. Thanks for listening.  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris discuss the box office rivalry between AVATAR and AVENGERS, including James Cameron's playful notes to Marvel and the upcoming re-release of ENDGAME ahead of DOOMSDAY. Genuine box office power play or just Doomsday storyline retconning? Contains spoilers.  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come play the magic button game with Wes and Iris and decide if you’d watch these alternate reality Eric Stoltz, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Jeremy Sisto movies. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How are movies like a California roll? The answer to this riddle and a shining sibling example of agreeing to disagree in today’s daily-dose of whatever. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Come back to PROJECT HAIL MARY in today’s daily-dose of whatever! Implausible plot moments aside, this movie about trust, connection, and sameness is worth the revisit. Contains spoilers! Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ ⁠⁠www.orwhatevermovies.com⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Westley and Iris tackle Rob Reiner's beloved fairy tale classic, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, including albino villain tropes, Peter Falk's fake eye, and whether Fred Savage is secretly the greatest actor of the '90s. Complete with Andre the Giant impressions. Inconceivable? No. Just Thursday at OR WHATEVER MOVIES. Contains spoilers! 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first superfan interview-style appreciates a super villain–the late, great Alan Rickman. Which of his infamous characters should be in the George Washington spot of Mount Rickman? Find out! Contains spoilers!  818-835-0473 ⁠[email protected]⁠ ⁠www.orwhatevermovies.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Int Style | Six Degrees of Whatever | 121 Can Wesley perform under the bright lights and pressure of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? Can you connect these four actors before he does? Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who plays Lieutenant Dan’s fiancee in FOREST GUMP? The siblings know. Who plays the InGen worker on Isla Nublar in JURASSIC PARK? They don’t know! So help OR WHATEVER MOVIES out! 818-835-0473, [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have any truly great, rewatchable, quotable movies been made in the last 10 years? Join the siblings for a cocktail of nostalgia and existential dread in today’s daily dose. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ALMOST FAMOUS, CAMERON CROWE’S MONTH’S big finale, unpacks Penny Lane’s tragic orbit, Russell Hammond’s ongoing bad decisions, William Miller’s impossible innocence, and why this honest, earnest time capsule feels both timeless and completely impossible to make today. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening! orwhatevermovies.com @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While traditional Hollywood is contracting, streaming continues and YouTube-style creators boom. How else should the siblings face the bleak landscape — editors driving Uber, documentary arms shutting down, and teams disappearing — except with dark humor? Thanks for supporting indie podcasts!  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices