Skye & Evan In The Morning

Today we talk about Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Julia Roberts. The quintessential heist movie, Skye watches it for the first time and talks about her experience with it.

Today we talk about Bo Burnham's directorial debut, his feature film Eighth Grade, released 2 years after Make Happy and 3 years before Inside.

Today we have a movie discussion about another classic, Brian De Palma's 1983 masterpiece Scarface, starring the one and only Al Pacino. Has the film aged well?

Today we talk about The Godfather and its two sequels, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Is The Godfather really the greatest film of all time? Is The Godfather Part II better than the first? Is Part III not actually that bad? Tune in and find out.

Today we talk about Adam McKay's Don't Look Up, a film ostensibly about climate change, satirizing current day politics, and how, after five years of the film's release, it may have aged better than most people expected at the time.

Happy 100, everybody! To celebrate our 100th episode, and two years of podcast, enjoy this two-hour discussion of one of Evan's favorite shows, X-Men 97.

Today we talk about one of the greatest films of all time, Lawrence of Arabia.

Today we talk about Stephen King's adaptation of his own book, Pet Sematary, released in 1989.

Is Dark City (1998) the true inspiration for The Matrix? We break down the sci-fi movie review and discuss why it remains a cult classic.In this episode, we revisit the 1998 sci-fi film Dark City. Evan brings this recommendation to the table, sparking a conversation about its visual style, narrative themes, and how it holds up decades later. We look specifically at the frequently cited similarities between this film and The Matrix, analyzing whether the parallels hold water or if they are merely coincidental.

Today we talk about M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, a lot of people's favorite film from him, about an alien invasion.

Today we talk about the film that took the world by storm in 2024, Conclave.

Today we talk about Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, arguably his most popular film, and how we may not like it as much as everyone else.

Today we talk about Disney's Mulan!

Today we talked about Markiplier's feature film debut Iron Lung, and the larger youtuber to filmmaker trend in current day filmmaking.

Today we talk about last year's horror sensation: Zach Cregger's Weapons. Is it as good as people think?

Today, in uncharacteristic fassion, we talk about a newly released film, The Devil Wears Prada 2, the legacy sequel 20 years after the original and how it might actually be surprisingly decent.

Today we talked about a faux biopic called Loving Vincent, exploring Vincent Van Gogh's death and his impact on many people, as shown via beautiful hand painted animation.

Today we talk about David Fincher for the first time on the podcast and his 2002 home invasion thriller Panic Room, starring Kristen Stewart, Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto, and how this might just be his most underrated film.

Today we talk about a 1976 film that may as well have been made this year, Network, by Sidney Lumet, the director behind the masterpiece 12 Angry Men.

Today we watched the 1997 Sci-Fi film Gattaca, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law, and we were very pleasantly surprised.

Fifty years ago, the iconic Sylvester Stallone film Rocky released in theaters and changed lives. Skye watches it for the first time as Evan remembers growing up with this film.

If you're a fan of Lynchian films about death and deep character explorations, you MUST watch Stay, an extremely underrated film starring Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.

The Last Temptation of Christ might be Martin Scorcese's most interesting film.

We watched Lord and Miller's Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling, and we LOVED IT.

Today we talk about Gore Verbinski's new film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, starring Sam Rockwell, and how it is the most bizarre and weirdly necessary film for the current era of movies.

Today we talk about Code 3, starring Rainn Wilson, a film about paramedics.

Today we talk about Hellraiser, the weird 1987 horror film by Clive Barker, based on his own novel named The Hellbound Heart.

Today we talk about the 2019 horror comedy film Ready or Not, starring Samara Weaving.

We are both huge fans of John Carpenter's The Thing from 1982, so we decided to check out the original version of his film that inspired arguably the BEST horror film of all time, The Thing from Another World.

Today we talk about the new film from Kléber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent, or O Agente Secreto, starring Wagner Moura, and why its nominations at the Oscars are fully deserved.

Today we talk about a Marvel movie, in uncharacteristic fashion. Captain America: Civil War came out ten years ago and today we look back to see if it was actually good and talk about its impact on the MCU at large.

Today we talk about the 28 Days Later legacy sequels, 28 Years Later and The Bone Temple, directed by Danny Boyle and Nia DaCosta respectively, starring Ralph Fiennes.

Today we talk about the Indiana Jones movies! Not just Raiders of the Lost Ark but every film, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny.

Today we talk about the two Incredibles films, the amazing masterpiece from Brad Bird that the first one is and the awfully bland and generic long awaited sequel that came out in 2018 and disappointed its fans.

Today we talk about Perfect Blue, the 1997 Japanese animated pyschological horror film, which was one of the most influential anime movies of all time, inspiring many great films like Black Swan and The Substance.

Today we talk about The Princess Bride, the Rob Reiner fantasy adventure film from 1987 that became a classic for every American child. Somehow, this is Skye's first time ever watching this movie!

Today we talk about Barry Levinson's directorial debut film, the 1982 movie Diner, starring Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke, Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Tim Daly and Paul Reiser, a film that deserves way more credit than it gets in conversations about 1980s filmmaking.

Merry Christmas! To celebrate the holidays, we decided to talk about a classic Christmas film, Home Alone (1990), starring Macaulay Culkin, written by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. Happy holidays, everyone!

Merry December, everyone! To kick off our Christmas films arc of 2025, we decided to cover a Christmas horror movie from 1972, Tales from the Crypt.

Evan decided to torture me and we unfortunately watched Madame Web (2024). It is indeed the worst film ever.

I want to play a game... I watched every Saw film and today we look back at the long running horror franchise started by Leigh Whannell and James Wan, all ten films (yes, including Spiral: From the Book of Saw), and how much it's changed over the years.

Today we talk about one of Christopher Nolan's most underrated movies, Tenet.

Today we talk about Ang Lee's action film starring Will Smith and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gemini Man. Is it actually good???

Today we talk about a Japanese horror classic, Cure (1997) - a movie from Kiyoshi Kurosawa - and how we may be too stupid to understand the film.

Today we talk about a found footage horror film that I remember to very scary! Is it actually that scary? Is it even good? We'll see.

Today we talk about Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the original from 1956, the remake from 1978 and the other remake from 2007 called "The Invasion". Each film is a product of its time, it was a very interesting discussion.

Today we talk about the Brazilian classic City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund.

Today we talk about a Pierce Brosnan James Bond film, 1992's GoldenEye 007.

In 2021, Katie Mitchell changed the world (my world).

Today we talk about Ingmar Bergman's classic The Seventh Seal.