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Do banned books make good movies? TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE COLOR PURPLE, and LORD OF THE FLIES seems to suggest so. Find out why great stories survive the movie game of telephone? 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OR WHATEVER MOVIES dons a flannel in honor of CAMERON CROWE MONTH’s discussion of SINGLES, a happy-crappy love story featuring a lot of music and the world’s most upsetting rotten salad. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  orwhatevermovies.com @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Which of the highest-grossing films of the 1980s does OR WHATEVER MOVIES cover in its 400+ episodes? Help the siblings find their blind spots! Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes confronts Iris about a growing preoccupation with mortality in today’s daily dose of truly whatever.  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OR WHATEVER MOVIES podcast’s “superpower” is its ability to inspire people to watch more movies, which enables them to listen to more podcasts, which enables the siblings to watch more movies and make more episodes!  818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What makes a onesheet or movie poster work? Can it really make or break a movie opening? Shoutout to the late, great Drew Struzan, the man behind some of the best art in the biz.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris hoist their boomboxes to Cameron Crowe’s heartfelt classic about one of cinema’s all-time good guys, SAY ANYTHING. Lloyd Dobler, all right. Find out why this endlessly quotable coming-of-age romance still hits harder than a kickboxing match at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris remains skeptical while Wes justifies watching movies everyday via his dubious “controversial naked diagram theory.”  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iris remains skeptical while Wes justifies watching movies everyday via his dubious “controversial naked diagram theory.”  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The siblings have genuine food enthusiasm, real recommendations, and some movie tourism tips in today’s daily dose of whatever. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do celebrities like Anne Hathaway, Keanu Reeves, and Jared Leto navigate the shifting tides of popularity and ride the waves back to prominence? @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sibs define the “punchable face” in today’s daily dose of whatever, working through a list of actors and dissecting what makes their faces “punchable.” OR WHATEVER MOVIES does not condone actually dissecting or punching faces.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are you nostalgic for? The simpler era of STAND BY ME? The pre-tech era of SINGLES? Or the pure 90s cluelessness of CLUELESS?   @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CAMERON CROWE MONTH kicks off with the Cameron Crowe-written, “based on his book,” high school classic, CLUELESS precursor, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. Cue the Nic Cage trivia. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com. @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether CGI was ahead of its time, ushered us into the future, or both, it sure did work for movies like JURASSIC PARK, SPACEBALLS, TOY STORY, FOREST GUMP, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and STARSHIP TROOERS. Contains spoilers!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did THE HANGOVER ruin Vegas like JAWS ruined sharks? The siblings discuss movies’ world-changing impact on culture.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are movie characters that deserve to die and then there are those that don’t AND their deaths do NOT advance the plot. Contains an impromptu quiz and HEAVY SPOILERS. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is a “time and place” movie in OR WHATEVER MOVIES parlance? A movie with enormous cultural impact at the time of its release that may seem dated or unremarkable to younger viewers today. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From notorious mondo films, to new-age cryptids, to the dominant 46th annual Razzie Awards-winner, this daily dose will take you wherever! Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slip into something sheer and expensive, revisit the 90s classic in anticipation of Michael B. Jordan’s forthcoming remake, and check out this week’s discussion on THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR.   Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris discuss the notorious VHS series that ‘80s kids rented to prove their toughness before the Internet made shock content readily available. Find out why OWM will never cover it and other reveals. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special shoutouts to the directors of some of the best feature film debuts in this daily dose of whatever. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Find out how Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch used thier clout to change the theatrical movie-going and home video DVD experiences in this almost spoiler-free daily-does of whatever. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris discuss their fav scores and soundtracks, debating classics–JURASSIC PARK, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS–with relentlessly dissonant modern films–UNCUT GEMS, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Then segue into…music as torture? Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OR WHATEVER MOVIES drifts into quieter waters with ON GOLDEN POND, an interminable yet unflinching look at aging and family, both on and off the screen. Find out why this film, like Bill Sr., is hairy in all the right places. Contains spoilers. @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are two types of people in the world: ones that find naming 10 Tom Hanks movies easier than naming their favorite Tom Hanks movie. And then there’s Iris. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the debate at OR WHATEVER MOVIES: do big budgets make better movies? But, in this daily dose, the siblings also question Hollywood mentality and Disney Bloat.  Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes producers need to put out metaphorical fires on set. Find out how this Beef User handled studio execs like Seth Rogan. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This daily-dose has a content warning for emetophobics and shoutout to special effects artists! The siblings are talking movie puke. Yes, puke–vomit, barf, emesis. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What age-inappropriate scary movies do you share with the kids in your life? Movies that scared you when you were young, good scary movies, or the scariest scary movies? Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you remember WINTER'S BONE’s Random Squirrel Halftime Show? It may stick out like a sore thumb but does it have deeper meaning? Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The heels are higher, the glares are colder, and somehow the stakes are even more expensive as we return to Runway in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2. Find out why this long-awaited sequel earns its cerulean vest from “Jior.” Contains spoilers. @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like movie celebrities, Wes and Iris share their fantasy last meals, replete with eclectic fare and personal favs. Also, avocados are a main ingredient. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever leave a movie and ask, “Why?” At OR WHATEVER MOVIES this is known as “The Dreaded Why" — the feeling you get when a movie–good or boring–leaves you less than satisfied, and questioning your or its existence. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s daily-dose is a freeform thought experiment that starts with #GiveVannaHerMonday and evolves (devolves?) to #SteveHarveyCheeseburger. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From California to Oregon, here’re some top movie sites for your summer road trip! Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharpen your stilettos and step into this week’s favorite, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. Find out why this glossy, cutthroat classic about cerulean sweaters and butt pads deserves its sequel at orwhatevermovies.com. Contains spoilers. @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In anticipation of JACKASS BEST AND LAST, Wes runs through a laundry list of real on-set injuries from movies — broken hands, toes, ankles, and worse. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.   @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you watch THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE on repeat? How do you choose what you watch repeatedly? The siblings consider the irony of watching good movies only after you’ve forgotten them–in today’s daily dose. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening, @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does your READY PLAYER ONE avatar look like? Whether a non-silly goth or an lovable animal, all avatars are welcome in the Or Whatever Movies metaverse! Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening.   @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you the type to pay $30+ to see a 50-year-old movie on the biggest screen possible? Wes is. Do you want more IMAX concert docs? Iris. Thanks for listening to this daily-dose of whatever. @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check in for more as Wes runs Iris though a rapid-fire movie quiz that will test your instincts and pop culture knowledge. Contains spoilers; thanks for listening! @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether you were overwhelmed by or found comfort in this next fixture in the Super Mario franchise, there is something for everyone in THE SUPER MARIO (and Luigi) GALAXY MOVIE, including easter eggs, plumbing, and the best puppet show–by the greatest puppeteer–ever! Contains Spoilers! Thanks for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check in as Wes runs Iris though a rapid-fire movie quiz that will test your instincts and pop culture knowledge. Contains spoilers; thanks for listening! @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s riff on some of the worst movie storytelling cheats, including ones that plague movie favorites like BACK TO THE FUTURE and Stephen King’s IT. Contains spoilers; thanks for listening! @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes and Iris discuss which film set they’d most want to visit as a fly on the wall. And if you’re a fan of OWM, you might not be too surprised with which sets they choose. Contains spoilers; thanks for listening! @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 ⁠[email protected]⁠ ⁠www.orwhatevermovies.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can’t quit Brokeback? Here’s your daily dose. Contains TITANIC, BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, and of course, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN spoilers.  Checkout the main discussion of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: https://chrt.fm/track/89624G/traffic.megaphone.fm/ECM4419834484.mp3 @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you a completionist that has to see every Jurassic or Terminator movie? Do movies that spinoff sequels? Or do they fall into a movie grey area? Contains spoilers. @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two people. The passage of time. Stories about identity and emotional tragedy. No, this episode is not about OR WHATEVER MOVIES. It’s about BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN! A movie where much is left unsaid, in a podcast that says it all! Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  www.orwhatevermovies.com @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the Razzies a humanizing, roast-like, institution, where fun-loving, self-effacing celebrities can play along? Or are they just plain mean? Let’s discuss in today’s daily-dose of whatever.  @orwhatevermovies 818-835-0473 [email protected] www.orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices