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Watch This With Rick Ramos
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Comedian Rick Ramos sits down and talks current theatrical releases and offers suggestions for additional movie watching choices. A film fans dream come true, WatchThis is about the art, beauty, and possibilities of cinema. Each week Ramos discusses the greatest films ever made (including those that you may have missed) as well as the artists that have created these films. He also goes further in discussing how much these films mean to him and how much they will - hopefully - mean to you. Enjoy!
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#623 - The Fly (1986): Cronenberg's Sci-Fi Body Horror Remake - WatchThis W/RickRamos
David Cronenberg's The Fly In 1958 Director Kurt Neumann would direct a classic of the horror genre, the Vincent Price led, The Fly. A Horror Classic in the Mad Scientist genre, the film would be re-made (re-imagined?) almost three decades later, by the great Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg....
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#622 - Child's Play (1988): Chucky Doll Horror - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Tom Holland's Child's Play In 1988 Director Tom Holland introduced movie audiences to Chucky, a Good Guy Doll who was meant to be Your Friend to the End. Possibly the last time Horror films would create an icon, the evil and possessed Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif), would embody a strange late…
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#621 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: Slasher Comedy Special - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 "After a Decade of Silence . . . The Buzz is Back" And with that tagline audiences wer re-introduced to the Sawyer Family: The Cook, Chop-Top, and Leatherface. In 1986, Director Tobe Hooper would return to Texas for a sequel to - arguably - the greatest...
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#620 - I Spit on Your Grave (1978) Revenge & R4pesploitation - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Meir Zarchi's I Spit on Your Grave (AKA Day of the Woman) In 1978 Meir Zarchi's I Spit on Your Grave (originally titled Day of the Woman) was released in theatres and would become infamous as one of the most polarizing and controversial films ever made. A rape and revenge picture following a…
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#619 - Last House on the Left (1972): Wes Craven's R4pe and Revenge Remake - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Wes Craven's Last House on the Left This week we begin an examination of Violence in Cinema, but primarily Violence Directed Against Women in Cinema, beginning with a look at West Craven's 1972 Grindhouse "Classic" Last House on the Left. An infamous and controversial cult film, Craven's...
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#618 - The Vanishing (1988): Missing Girlfriend Thriller - WatchThis W/RickRamos
George Sluizer's The Vanishing Imagine Not Knowing. Imagine the struggle to move on if the person you love disappears from your life. In 1988 Dutch filmmaker George Sluizer would make one of the most subtle, tense, and troubling Thrillers cinema has known. The Vanishing (originally released with...
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#617 - Faces of Death (1978) Shockumentary Cult Classic - WatchThis W/RickRamos
John Alan Schwartz's Faces of Death Few films have live in the minds and memories of Gen X like 1978s Faces of Death. Presented as a documentary examining the fears, fascinations, and cult surrounding death and dying, John Alan Schwartz's film is a controversial and legendary exploitation…
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#616 - The Bridge (2006): Golden Gate Suic1de Documentary - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Eric Steel's The Bridge This week Mr. Chavez & I continue our dive into challenging films examining difficult subjects. In 2004 director Eric Steel and his crew focused his camera - day and night/7 days a week - on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Since it's opening in May of 1937, the bridge...
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#615 - Zoo (2007): The Enumclaw Horse S3X Case - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Robinson Devor's Zoo listener discretion advised Sometimes a documentary is simply facing an uphill, unwinnable, unsatisfying battle. Such is the case with Robinson Devor's 2007 investigation into the strange and perverted network of zoophiles (those people sexually attracted to animals)....
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#614 - SICK (1997): Cystic Fibrosis Masochist Documentary - WatchThis W/RickRamoas
Kirby Dick's SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan - SuperMasochist Listener Distrection Advised: There are a number of films that burrow into the hearts and minds of its viewers. In 1997 the Los Angeles poet, writer, performance artist, comic, and BDSM celebrity, Bob Flanagan would succumb - at...
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#613 - Fetishes (1996): Dungeon Documentary - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Nick Bromfield's Fetishes This week we dive into the world of High-End S&M/Bondage through the lens of provocateur director Nick Bromfield - Fetishes. A 1996 HBO documentary in the American Undercover series, Bromfield's camera walks into New York's exclusive, expensive, and fascinating world of...
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#612 - The Last Seduction (1994): Fiorentino's Femme Fatale - WatchThis W/RickRamos
John Dahl's The Last Seduction Continuing with an idea that we started a few episodes back focusing on Lena Olin in Romeo is Bleeding, this week Mr. Chavez & I take a look at an overlooked neo-noir, erotic thriller from 1994 featuring a stand-out performance from Linda Fiorentino. Our basic idea…
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#611 - Dogs Don't Wear Pants: Finnish Fetish - WatchThis W/RickRamos
J-P Valkeapää's Dogs Don't Wear Pants This week Mr. Chavez & I explore Finnish Cinema with a look at J-P Valkeapää's Dogs Don't Wear Pants. A brave and troubling look at emotional trauma, BDSM, and auto-ertotic asphyxiation, Valkeapää's 2019 erotic black comedy is an exploration of the erotic...
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#610 - Romeo is Bleeding (1993): Under-Watched 90s Neo Noir - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Peter Medak's Romeo is Bleeding In the 1990s low-budget studio films on the periphery (in this case Polygram Filmed Entertainment) were being made with casts that - in some cases - would become mainstream stars throughtout the decade and the upcoming milennium. 1993s Peter Medak directed Romeo is...
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#609 - Wild at Heart (1990) David Lynch's Oz Thriller - WatchThis W/RickRamos
David Lynch's Wild at Heart This week we return to a World of Dreams and the Land of Oz through the dark and chaotic eyes of David Lynch (January 20, 1946 - January 16, 2025). A Homage/Love Letter to the classic MGM masterpiece, Lynch's 1990 Wild at Heart is a pulsating cinematic shotgun blast.…
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#608 - The Wizard of Oz (1939) Judy Garland Production Fantasy Nightmare - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Victor Fleming's (w/Directorial Contributions from George Cukor, Richard Thorpe, and King Vidor) The Wizard of Oz A long time coming, this week's episode focuses on the 1939 MGM Technicolor Classic The Wizard of Oz. In the early days of the studio system, each studio focused on a specific genre,...
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#607 - The Never-Ending Story (1984) 80s Dark Fantasy Classic - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Wolfgang Petersen's The Never Ending Story This week we look into the cinematic psyche of Mr. Ibrahim Chavez. Our path is Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 Childrens' Dark Fantasy, The Never Ending Story. A childrens' adventure/heroes journey of youth battling nihilism (in this case The Nothing), bullies,...
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#606 - Big Trouble in Little China (1986) John Carpenter Martial Arts Comedy - Watch This W/RickRamos
John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China When I first saw John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China, it was a Pan & Scan VHS copy from my local video store. I immediately fell in love with one of the strangest and most imaginative films of the 1980s. The fourth collaboration between Horror...
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#605 - Cop Land (1997): Stallone's Police Crime Drama - WatchThis W/RickRamos
James Mangold's Cop Land Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, and Sylvester Stallone in one of the most highly-anticipated films of the 1990s . . . Springing from the headlines of the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and today, James Mangold's 1997 police corruption drama was released to critical acclaim...
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#604 - Dazed & Confused: 70s Soundtrack - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused (70s Soundtrack) This week Mr. Chavez & I return to Richard Linklater's 1993 "Hang-Out" Masterpiece, Dazed & Confused, focusing on the importance and use of its soundtrack. Featuring Aerosmith, KISS, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, WAR, ZZ Top, Edgar Winter Group…
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#603 - Killing Them Softly: Blue Collar Crime Drama - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly It's becoming increasingly difficult to find straight-forward, honest, and personal stories at the movie theater. The low to medium budget films that populated the 1970s have cast a shadow that continues to excite and inspire modern audiences. In the wasteland...
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#602 - Clerks (1994): 90s Sh!t Job Comedy - WatchThisW/RickRamos
Kevin Smith's Clerks The 1990s were a strange, wondrous, and hopeful decade for Cinema. Three decades later we look back on those mid 90s attitudes, trends, screams, and shouts. With the emergence of Sundance, The Weinsteins, and voices such as Tarantino, Fincher, Rodriguez, and others…
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#601 - Dazed & Confused (1993): Linklater's 70s High School Film - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused On this week's episode we explore 1976 through the eyes of 1993, with Richard Linklater's slacker/high-school masterpiece, Dazed & Confused. Linklater's love letter to high school coming-of-age films is one of the stand-out productions of early 90s independent...
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#600 - Heat (1995) Michael Mann's L.A. Crime Thriller - WatchThisW/RickRamos
Michael Mann's Heat On this week's episode we celebrate our 600th episode with a look at one of the most important films of our generation, Michael Mann's Crime-Thriller, Heist Film, Masterpiece . . . the coming together of two of the greatest and most important actors of their generation, Al...
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#599 - Go: Late 90s Pulp Fiction Style Comedy - WatchThisW/RickRamos
Doug Liman's Go (1999) This week, we revisit an underseen/little-discussed comedy from 1999, Doug Liman's Go. In the 1990s cinema was overwhelmed by the influence, financial, and critical success of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction; any number of copycats and knock-offs would flood theaters....
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#598 - The Doom Generation (1995): Araki's Bisexual Teen Movie - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Greg Araki's The Doom Generation This week Mr. Chavez & I explore the 1990s with a cult film that is remembered as an early classic of New Queer Cinema. Greg Araki's The Doom Generation is remembered as a violent and trashy exploration of 1990s alternative cinmea. A Gen X Bisexual Bonnie &...
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#597 - We Were Once Kids: Kids Exploitation Documentary - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Eddie Martin's We Were Once Kids In a continuation of last week's episode on Larry Clark and Harmony Korine's 1995 Kids, Mr. Chavez & I discovered a documentary peeling back the layers of that problematic and controversial film. Although we continue to believe that the earlier film is - in many...
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#596 - Kids: Drugs, Sex, 90s Teens - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Larry Clark's Kids This week Mr. Chavez & I travel back to the mid-1990s to look at a difficult, troubling, and polarizing film that raises questions concerning good taste, artistic license and victimization, as well as exploitation. Few films have caused the uproar that Larry Clark's Kids did in...
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#594 - The Good Shepherd: DeNiro's C.I.A. Spy Film - WatchThis W/rickRamos
Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd This week we springboard off of Robert DeNiro's 2006 spy film, The Good Shepherd, profiling the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency and its role throughout the second half of the 20th Century. From its origins during the end of World War II thru The Cold…
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#595 - Sicario: Day of the Soldado - Cartel C.I.A. Sequel - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Stefano Solima's Sicario: Day of the Soldado This week we discuss the struggle between the United States, its neighbors, allies, and enemies depicted in the Taylor Sheridan scripted, Stefano Solima directed, 2018 C.I.A. action thriller detailing border wars, fabricated criminal kidnappings…
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#593 - Ben Affleck's White-Washed Political Spy Thriller Argo (2012 - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Ben Affleck's Argo (2012) In 2012 Ben Affleck would co-write and direct Argo, winning the Best Picture of the Year at at that year's Academy Awards celebration. Although a skillful and professional job it's - quite simply and obviously - a hack job, typical of the US's need to paint itself in the...
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#592 - Wag the Dog (1996) Barry Levinson's Political Black Comedy - WatchThisW/RickRamos
Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog Nothing's Changed/Nothing's New and we learned that in 1996 with Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog. As important 30 years later as when it was released, this week Mr. Chavez & I sit down to understand a film that predicted its own time (being released a few weeks before…
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#591 - Arrival (2016) Alien Political Sci-Fi - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Denis Villeneuve's Arrival Since the beginning of this new century Popular Cinema has become increasingly obvious and simplistic. It is rare that a major studio will take a chance with "challenging, thought-provoking" material. In 2016 Denis Villeneuve would adapt Tony Chiang's 1998 novella…
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#590 - Tokyo Story: Ozu's Post-War Family Drama - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story Recognized as "The Greatest Film of All Time" in the 2012 Sight and Sound Magazine poll, Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 masterpiece is a quiet, contemplative examination of generational conflict, modernization, and aging in Post-War Japan. Masterfully directed and beautifully…
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#589 - Eyes Wide Shut: Kubrick, Epstein, & Conspiracy - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut In 1999 filmmaker Stanley Kubrick would shoot his final cinematic statement. Adapting a 1926 Freudian novella, Kubrick would (seemingly) explore the dark mysteries of sexual trafficking, secret societies, infidelity, and the paranoia inherent in all of it. A...
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#588 - Saló, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - Italian Fascist Abuse Film - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) For most serious cineastes, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom is a bridge that we all arive at and struggle with crossing; a cinematic rite of passage that challenges each of our ideas of art. Is Pasolini's final film…
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#587 - Modern Times (1936) Chaplin's Industrial Class Struggle - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times In 1936 Charlie Chaplin (arguably the most iconic figure of Silent Films) would produce his final (mostly) silent masterpiece, Modern Times. This week Mr. Chavez & I continue our look at Cinema that challenges the status quo, with a film that examines the...
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#586 - Metropolis (1927): Silent German Sci-Fi - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Fritz Lang's Metropolis In 1927 Cinema was still in its relative infancy. The great German auteur, Fritz Lang would revolutionize the film industry with his first masterpiece, Metropolis. Nearly eleven years earlier D.W. Griffith had established the "grammar of cinema" with his epic masterpiece,...
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#585 - Manchurian Candidate (2004): Brainwashing Denzel Washington - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Remakes, Re-Imaginings, Expansions. In 2004 Director Jonathan Demme would explore the world of Politics, Espionage, and Cold War Brainwashing with a new and novel take on John Frankenheimer's 1962 Cold War Classic The Manchurian Candidate. Demme would expand and manipulate Richard Condon's source...
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#584 - The Manchurian Candidate (1962): Cold War Politics and Mind Control - WatchThis W/RickRamos
John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate On this week's episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos, Mr. Chavez & I sit down to discuss a classic of Cold War, Political Cinema, John Frankenheimer's groundbreaking 1962 The Manchurian Candidate. Based on the 1959 novel by Richard Condon, Frankenheimer's...
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#583 - Tetsuo: The Iron Man - Body Horror Japan - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man 2026 finds us digging into the Beautiful, Strange, and Challenging filmography of auteurs unafraid of being misunderstood or the offensive nature of the stories and images they deliver. It would be difficult to find a film that challenges it audience more...
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#582 - Ran - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Akira Kurosawa's Ran Happy New Year WatchThis Fans. Depending on Your Perspective, 2025 was a horrible year or the beginning of a grand awakening, returning America to its rightful place as Leader and Benefactor of the Unwashed Ignorant Masses. There are many ideas of what 2026 can and will be.…
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#581 - New Year's Noir - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Robert Wise's Odds Against Tomorrow & James Foley's After Dark My Sweet This week Rick Ramos flies solo for a new episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos and the last new episode of 2025. After a heartfelt look at the past year, dreams, the job, and making sense of the art, we look at two Noirs that…
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#580 - Black Dynamite - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Scott Sanders's Black Dynamite We're finishing out the month of December - two more weeks left in 2025 - and having a great time exploring the world of Cult Cinema and Midnight Movies. This week we take a look at one of the best comedies of the 21st Century . . . a film that should have been...
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#579 - The Holy Mountain - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain This week we continue our love for Midnight and Cult Movies. For this episode we return to the great Chilean-French filmmaker, Alejandro Jodorowsky. A Visionary Artist and Poet of the Cinema, Jodorowsky has created some of the most beautiful and…
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#578 - Office Space - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Mike Judge's Office Space Recorded some time ago, we've been holding onto this episode until the right time. As we move into our second month of Midnight & Cult Movies it is clear that Director Mike Judge (creator of Beavis & Butthead, Idiocracy, and King of the Hill) is a director whose...
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#577 - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Robert Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Not a "Midnight Movie" but certainly one of the great Cult Classics, 1962s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? was an audience's dream pairing. The coming together of Oscar winners Bette Davis and Joan Crawford - two of the greatest stars the medium…
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#576 - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! If you allow it to do so, Cinema will take you to strange, hypnotic, and brilliant places. For close to forty years I have known about Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) and have assiduously avoided it. Cinematic Snobbery stopped this...
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#575 - Eraserhead - WatchThis W/RickRamos
David Lynch's Eraserhead This week we continue our look into Midnight/Cult Movies. One of the earliest films to find an audience (and build its directors career) was 1977s Eraserhead. A film that baffles description, this weeks episode takes the angle of describing the "feelings" and memories…
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#574 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show Cinema is art, Viewing Cinema is an artistic experience. We sit in the theater and drift into the beauty of a story that either entertains, explains, or enlightens. Sometimes all of these and even more. In 1975 20th Century Fox would distribute a film...
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Comedian Rick Ramos sits down and talks current theatrical releases and offers suggestions for additional movie watching choices. A film fans dream come true, WatchThis is about the art, beauty, and possibilities of cinema. Each week Ramos discusses the greatest films ever made (including those that you may have missed) as well as the artists that have created these films. He also goes further in discussing how much these films mean to him and how much they will - hopefully - mean to you. Enjoy!
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