Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr Falcon
by David Maccar
A movie podcast for people who grew up in an analog world of VHS tapes and rabbit ears and evolved into a digital landscape. We’re just regular dudes who watch a whole lot of movies, talk about movies, and use them as touchstones throughout our lives.
Episodes
-
WAR MOVIES! The Best and Worst and What Makes a War Movie?
We talk about that cyclic genre known as War Movies — the good, the bad, the adjacent, the satires, and the comedies.
-
The OG Incredible Hulk: TV Movie Throwback
Before there was an MCU and 30 movies with billions of dollars wrapped into it, there was an era where hardly anyone cared about seeing comic book characters on screen, except the fans that kept it on prime time TV for five seasons spanning the 1970s and the 1980s: prime Gen X territory. Elder...
-
Stranger Things Season 5: Series Wrap-Up
Dave and Vinnie expound on their very different opinions on the final season of Stranger Things and talk about the legacy the landmark Netflix series will leave behind.
-
What Makes a Good Biopic?
Happy New Year Mr. Falconers! Today we dig into what makes a good biopic as Vinnie prepares for the release of Michael (2026) and Dave reacts to seeing Springstee: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025) for the first time. Then we get into what actually separates the shitty biopics from the good ones.
-
We're Talking About Christmas Movies
You about sick of the season? Sick of the music? Sick of the shopping and the cooking and the whining and the family and the going here and getting there? There's a place where all this bullshit exists in a tidy square on a screen...that you can turn the fuck off. Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
-
Predator: Badlands - And Utter Sequel Exhaustion
Why do we do it? There are some film franchises that have strayed so far from their roots that fans of the originals have no real business keeping up with the latest installments, but sometimes, we old heads just can't help ourselves. We're junkies who will begrudgingly watch every new…
more -
Tarantino vs. Dano, Lillard, the Movie Monopoly, and the Death of Theaters
We get into some serious shit on this one, kids. Talking about Quentin Tarantino burning fuckers down for no reason, digging into what's wrong with movies today and what the pending WB buyout might mean for movie lovers. And has the theater experience finally outlived its time for most people?
-
Directors You Love and Hate
Sometimes a director's filmography is a rich tapestry of cinematic discovery that spans decades and can take almost as long to truly appreciate. And then there are other directors that make you want to claw your way back into the ether where your soul existed before you were born. We deep dive…
more -
Best Thanksgiving Movies!
This should actually be called "Best Movies to Watch on Thanksgiving," because while many of these movies are tangentially related to the American holiday of food, precious few are actually dedicated to turkey day. So if you're like us and you'd rather watch a few good flicks instead of football...
-
Kevin Smith Movies: Deep Dive from Clerks to Tusk
A couple Jersey guys take a deep dive into the movie universe of one of our favorite directors who hails from a place just a few miles away. Kevin Smith never quite became a MEGA success, and because of that, his movies, especially his early View Askew flicks, still feel like ours.
-
American Beauty, Fight Club, and Office Space - The Triumvirate of 1990s Discontent
American Beauty gets a bad rap, it's not nearly as dated as some people say it is, and along with Fight Club and Office Space, all of which came out in 1999, they create an interesting picture of the American psyche at the time and shows us a bit how we got from there to here almost three decades...
-
Best Movies of 1996
You truly won't believe how many excellent, quirky, and even legendary movies were released in 1996. We tried to do a speed run through them, but there were so many this ended up becoming a deep dive. Let's get into it!
-
The Rage: Carrie 2 - Deep Dive Into a Guilty Pleasure Flick
Vinnie is back, and for some ungodly reason, he has an unusual passion for a lesser know horror nugget from the 1990s - The Rage: Carrie 2. A movie that had the balls to call itself a sequel to the Brian De Palma classic while also calling itself "The Rage." It's a weird little time capsule, a...
-
The Best Film Trilogies Of All Time
There's something special about the trilogy, whether they're an accidental collection of sequels or a purposeful trilogy like The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, or the OG Star Wars films. In most cases, if not all, the trilogy is muddied by further sequels that ruin the original triumverate, but…
more -
Taylor Sheridan Movies and Shows - DEEP DIVE
Say what you will about the guy, he has made some awesome movies and some really fun television, if you don't mind some melodrama and a lot of gunfights. Taylor Sheridan made a go of it as an actor (Remember the sheriff on Sons of Anarchy who got killed off? That was him.), but when that stalled,...
-
The Best Zombie Movies of All Time: Top 5
They've been on the gory fringe of horror movies for a long time, and then came the great wave in the early 2000s — zombies. They're everyone's favorite apocalyptic flesh eaters, and they come in a ton of varieties, from the voodoo variety to the brain eaters of the 70s and 80s, to the...
-
Superhero Movies of the 1980s and 1990s!
We sometimes think of the superhero-movie era as beginning with the Marvel Phase 1 films, specificaly Iron Man (2008). But the truth is, folks who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s had more superhero movies at their disposal than you might think. Here are the best, from the first big screen (sort…
more -
Monsters U: Teaching Kids About The Monster Squad, Wolf Man, and the Gill Man
There is seriously hope for the next generation. Find out what some brand spanking new horror fans thought of their first viewings of The Monster Squad (1987), The Wolf Man (1941), and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). This is the perfect wayt o kick off the Halloween season.
-
Best Boxing Movies That Aren't Rocky Movies
While there is a particular series of films, and a spinoff series, that most people think of when they hear "boxing movie," there are a hell of a lot of great flicks in this subgenre of sports movies. Some of them are even classics. Does the sweet science of pugilism truly make for the best…
more -
Best Movies of 1994 - A Landmark Year in Cinema
It's kind of astounding how many amazing, lasting classic movies came out in 1994. Dozens, far too many to mention one by one - but we try our damn best! Take a nostalgic tour through one of the best years in movie history.
-
The Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time
Some movies are just as memorable for the songs backing the imagery and the score weaving it all together. There have been some epic movie soundtracks from the past few decades, and they show the power a really good mixtape can have. What's your favorite movie soundtrack of all time? Let us know…
more -
Why You Should Buy 4K Movies
There's a growing movement of movie fans who are committing to buying physical media so they are no longer at the mercy of streamers. But we were doing it before it was cool — because it was all we had. Now, recollecting movies on 4K is becoming an awesome way of watching movies you love with new...
-
The Most Radical Movies of 1987
There are a few years that are landmarks in cinema for the sheer volume of awesomeness that was released in theaters between January and December. One of those years...is 1987.
-
Dante's Peak vs. Volcano
Yes we have another one of those mysterious occurrences from the 1990s where two movies with extremely similar subject matter tackled in very different ways were released right on top of each other: Dante's Peak and Volcano, both from 1997. Which movie about molten magma spurting from the earth's...
-
Terminator Fan Theory: The Wrong Sarah Connor Survived
The Terminator film series is a wild mess of continuity, but this super interesting fan theory only focuses on the original The Terminator (1984) and also helps explain away some of the weirdness of the legendary Terminator 2. And most importantly, the theory actually holds up and doesn't require…
more -
Bikers, Bond, and Burroughs - BONUS GRAB BAG
We were having a weird day and bounced around from a tribute to the late Michael Madsen to potential new James Bonds, William S. Burroughs, and weird old biker movies, and a new one, too. Sometimes, we're just, like, not super focused or whatever. "What are you rebelling against, Johnny?"…
more -
Sinners and The Best Vampire Movies of All Time
People have been making movies about vampires literally since the advent of the medium, and they've been reinvented and the stories retold with different twists and turns and takes, and sometimes, even some originality, through every era of film. Sinners is the latest and extremely welcome entry…
more -
Back to the Future vs. TimeCop - and Other Vintage Time Travel Flicks
Whether it's a strange old man's DeLorean or Superman flying around the globe backwards, time travel mechanisms were a big deal in the movies of the 80s and 90s. So of course we have to pit one of the best — Back to the Future — against one of the...least adored — TimeCop. Sort of. And we get…
more -
The Many Faces of Batman
Everyone has THEIR Batman, depending on which one they grew up with. For our parents, it was the goofy, campy, weird, and sometimes extremely creepy Adam West groovy Batman. For a lot of us, there will be none other than the 1989 Tim Burton Batman with Michael Keaton in the batsuit. For a…
more -
Is Star Trek...Better Than Star Wars Now?
For eons, the Star series knew their place. Trek was serious sci-fi, and there was a lot of it, and a huge amount of it was kinda lousy. Comparatively, for a long, long time, there were only three Star Wars movies — and then six — and most of them were pretty great. But times have changes. The…
more -
Zorro and Robin Hood: From the 1930s to the 1990s, and Beyond, Unfortunately
From Tyrone Power, to George Hamilton, to Antonio Banderas, and from Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner to Russel Crowe, they're two classic characters that have been on the silver screen since the beginning of film, and they both played a big part in the 1990s movie landscape.
-
Retail Store Movies - BONUS
If you know the particular hell of working retail, or if you're currently in said hell, this episode is for you.
-
The Godfather - Yeah, It's Still Amazing
What is there to say...it's one of, if not the greatest piece of American cinema ever made. It changed the way movies were made and how people thought of the organized crime in the 1940s and 50s, while also weaving one of the greatest family sagas ever put to film. Find out what it's like for…
more -
Grandview, USA - A Forgotten Classic from 1984
A shitsplat town where the biggest attraction for the young locals is a dilapidated demolition derby track run by a super young Jamie Lee Curtis, who is in a semi-sordid love triangle with Patrick Swayze (who is married to Jennifer Jason Leigh) and C. Thomas Howell playing an 18-year-old HS grad...
-
Jaws: The Good, The Bad, The Revenge
This year is the half-century mark — the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's original summer blockbuster: Jaws. You can hear the music, can't you? It changed the way we watch movies and the way movies were made. It was full of happy accidents and success out of necessity — and it was followed…
more -
Leon: The Professional - The Director's Cut Gets Kinda...Weird
Sometimes a director's cut is the filmmaker's vision more fully realized, sometimes it's just a bunch of lousy alternate takes and extended scenes cut back into a movie that was well paced and tight, and other times, it adds some seriously moral ambiguity that makes you feel a little queasy, even...
-
Rambo: From First Blood to Last Blood
Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win, for somebody who wouldn't let us win! Then I come back to the world, and I see all those maggots at the airport, protestin' me, spittin', callin' me a baby...
-
Buried Alive (1990) - Forgotten Classic
Back in the heydey of TV movies — flicks with low budgets and no cursing with "adult themes" that aired on ABC or CBS late at night. As a kid you would see them, or parts of them, and be irrevocably scarred. Here, we examine the TV movie classic Buried Alive (1990) starring Tim Matheson, Jennifer...
-
The Matrix vs. Dark City - Fake Reality Face-Off!
They came out fairly close together, and both tackle the subject of synthetic realities, simulations in which a society of people are living without being away of their situation. One takes the techno-futurist route — The Matrix (1999), and the other takes a more surrealistic sci-fi approach, and...
-
Total Recall and RoboCop - OG vs. Remake
Two of Paul Verhoeven's most revered films of the 1990s, Total Recall (1990) and RoboCop (1987), got horrible, shitty, utterly forgettable remakes in the 2010s. But can we learn something more about these beloved originals by examining some of the many ways in which the remakes absolutely sucked?...
-
Giant Killer Animal Movies of the 90s - Congo, Anaconda, Lake Placid...
It was a thing, for a while. Back in the ol' 1990s. Filmmakers got so turgid with the cheapo possibilities of early CG that they went mad and made a spate of giant killer animal movies. Giant gorillas, giant alligators in misnamed features, giant snakes vs. JLo...and so many, many more.
-
Movies of Val Kilmer: Faces We Grew Up With
He was one of the biggest movie stars of the 80s and 90s, and the roles he played have left a lasting impact on movies and the people who grew up with them. From playing Madmartigan in Willow and outshining Tom Cruise as Iceman in Top Gun, to resurrecting Jim Morrison and hunting lions with…
more -
Shoot To Kill (1988) - Hidden Gem from the '80s
Every once in a while, buying an old movie with a great cast and an intriguing plot pays off, even if you've never heard of it before. Shoot To Kill (1988) is an action/adventure/mystery/crime/survival flick starring Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown and the legendary Sydney Poitier, who...
-
Best Fake Movie Bands of All Time
They're not real bands, but their songs are real, and they kinda sorta performed them. Some of their songs even made it to the radio and into the cultural fabric. These are your favorite fictional bands from your favorite music movies from the Blues Brothers and Eddie and the Cruisers to Spinal…
more -
Daredevil: The Man Without Playground Fights
From the old TV movie Trial of the Incredible Hulk to the Ben Afleck CG bombfest to the current Man Without Fear, Charlie Cox, the superhero Daredevil has had a strange presence on the screen over the past 40 years. We take a look at the good things that have been done with the character, and…
more -
Strangeland (1998): A Cinematic Marvel
What happens when you take an aging hair metal frontman who can't act, cover him with fake tattoos and piercings in 1998, put him in a violently low-budget horror movie, and feed him some of the worst dialog ever written? You get Strangeland, a Seven wannabe that hits on all the most important...
-
#030 - The Sixth Sense vs. Stir of Echoes (1999)
It's another case of two movies with extremely similar plots being made right on each others heels in the 1999, but in completely different ways. Marvel at Bruce Willis' weird hairpiece, at how damaged the young Haley Joel Osment appears, watch Kevin Bacon dig a big goddamn hole in his yard while...
-
#029 - Highlander: There Can Be Only...Well, Another One is On the Way
A remake/reboot of the somewhat bizarre, Queen-scored, yet wonderfully endearing 1980s fantasy flick Highlander is apparently on its way, for real this time. The original really shouldn't have work, NONE of the sequels worked, and the TV show spinoff had a rabid, but small fanbase. But Henry…
more -
James Bond Should Be Retired
Look, it was a really good run — 27 movies over seven decades is nothing to sneer at. But as producers of the James Bond films quest once again to find a new actor to step into the 007 tux, one must ask the question: In the 2020s, do we really need a new Bond? Must the epic series continue, or...
-
#028 - Nosferatu (2024) vs. Wolf Man (2025)
Ah the cinematic experience that was Wolf Man (2025) — we waited months and months through delay after delay for a werewolf movie that...wasn't actually a werewolf movie because it had a similar but really different monster, but it was also trying to be a cabin-in-the-woods movie, and a boring…
more
About this show
A movie podcast for people who grew up in an analog world of VHS tapes and rabbit ears and evolved into a digital landscape. We’re just regular dudes who watch a whole lot of movies, talk about movies, and use them as touchstones throughout our lives.
Hosted by
David Maccar