Are You Movie Mad?

It’s the Country Music Awards and everyone in Nashville has some claim to stake, but more importantly a storyline about a missing child brings Andrew and Johnny to open up about tales from their own pasts in this very funny, hopeful episode

Second go around with the legend of Robin Hood and this time it’s Disney’s crime to answer for, stealing from The Jungle Book to give to the poor, animation-wise. We take a dive into the formation of furries, and other cultures over the recent generations, discuss who could voice the live action-ish redux, and if Robin Hood is capable of being a cinematic adventure at any point.

In a horny episode of the podcast, Andrew thirsts for Daddy Gunnar, Johnny examines the wonder of Scarlett helping Terry, and best friend Colt makes out with Maddie to get on the cover of Rolling Stone. Also examined: the pre-release festival cycle of Juliette Barnes’ new biopic.

Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland star in this very early take on the cinematic legacy of Robin Hood, as we begin a month of Robin Hood films. Andrew reminisces on his time in college, Johnny talks Irish cinema experiences, trips to Wales for Gavin And Stacey locales, and a lot is made of Flynn’s life and… terrible terrible deeds. Also, I guess, something about taking from the rich and giving to the poor.

Gunnar’s got a kid, Juliette’s in the hospital, Deacon’s written a song and Maddie’s making out with her soon-to-be step-brother. Nashville is a very normal drama where humans are coping with life and music through actively discussing their problems and finding reasonable solutions.

Halloween Kills Ends and we’ve saved the scariest for last, a documentary on creepypasta, the legacy of virality, child trauma, a rise in clown hauntings just before the world fell apart, and the serious work that goes into being a funny, kind, hopeful clown performing artist. We bring positivity and hope into a world feeling low and broken, and wave adieu to scary clown halloween.

What is Road Happy? Is it discovering you have a child? Is it learning that a stranger can finish your song for you? Is it getting two celebrity families together on set of a car commercial? Well, in this Nashville recap where the show is set in many non-Nashville locations, we really dig into road happiness, and how you, too, can achieve it.

Halloween Kills Month carries on with another scary franchise’s rebooting experience. Johnny digs into his childhood memories of the original Wrong Turn, and an adult run in with the final in the first phase of the franchise, and Andrew discusses watching later Halloween films over the past week as a friend gave updates on their own Wrong Turn marathon, all leading to a screening of this nearly 2-hour revamp of the entire concept.

Johnny’s birthday celebration this year means he’s watching Steven Spielberg’s 2004 comedy drama The Terminal, with Andrew in tow for fun and games. Talk of airport nostalgia, product placement, the never-aging beauty of Diego Luna AND Zoe Saldana, the horniness of imdb keywords and… Shanksville? What is that? Come spend over 2 hours stuck in an airport of cinema with the Are You Movie Mad gang. Film begins at 00:10:39

Episode 50 is upon us, and the Bluebird is dressed to impress with an epic episode about tour busses, adoption agencies, surprise parties and an extended nostalgia for the Christian Bale Terminator Salvation tape. Classic Backstage At The Bluebird shenanigans.

As Halloween Kills prepares to take a stab at the big screen, Johnny takes Andrew back to Haddonfield for the follow-up to the original Halloween movie. Everyone knows the big reveal, but what else is there waiting for them? What are their takes on the franchise, compared to other slasher features, and working out the timelines of this particular set of movies?

After a break, Andrew and Johnny are back to talk Season 3 Episode 3 of Nashville, with Juliette’s Camera test, Luke and Deacon’s Hollywood rivalry, Maddie and Scarlett at a party and, of course, Teddy Conrad, Mayor of Nashville and Blockbuster Member. We create several Marvel-style Nashville What If? Episodes too!

October is, of course, the spookiest month, Halloween Kills month itself, and Johnny has once more taken the reins to show Andrew a series of scary motion pictures. We begin with the Matthew Lillard-starring ‘I remember this from back at school’ movie 13 Ghosts, where Johnny reads descriptions for each of the Ectocean’s gang, and the duo discuss No Time To Die, a film they had definitely watched before recording.

Johnny is prepping for a holiday to Ireland, escaping the Bluebird and leaving it in the grasp of downtrodden Andrew, but before that comes to pass it’s time to watch Season 3 Episode 2 of Nashville. This week’s episode introduces us to Nadine, Drawdrobes and the mean bean team of Benton Media, whilst the Conrad/Clayborne/James/Hampton clan really spend time bonding and bonding and bonding.

Johnny is forced back into the fantasy lore of Russian trilogy-turned-two-film-franchise Nochnoy Dozor, and he’s being at his best behaviour, but will he last the 2 hour follow-up? Andrew discusses the death of cinema, at least as he waves goodbye to a Cineworld Unlimited card, and the Comic Con hunt for a DVD of Day Watch in 2006.

Season 3 of Nashville is here, and in the aftermath of Will Lexington’s coming out, Deacon AND Luke Wheeler’s proposals to Rayna James, and Juliette telling Avery about her affair with Jeff Fordham, Johnny and Andrew tackle the drama, the music and the epic roadtrip that commences this run of the TV show.

Andrew takes the reigns of the nostalgia-buster-fantasy-action programming this week, with Timur Bekmambetov’s weird Russian piece of cinema. Will it hold up? Probably not. Will Disney+ offer kinetic subtitles? Of course not. What will be left of hope when the film comes to an unthrilling climax?

Ending the season in true BATB fashion, Johnny takes Andrew through the second season’s second soundtrack release. Join the two as they go track-by-track through the highs, lows and mids of Nashville’s rocking, harmonising music.

It’s EPISODE 250 and Johnny’s dream from 150 episodes ago is finally coming true. Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod is on the podcast as we watch the extended, and only-available, cut of Highlander’s infamous sequel. Will Andrew take to a second film to a franchise he doesn’t care for? Will Johnny’s nostalgia be busted by a new look and a different edit? Will Queen create a whole new soundtrack using Christopher Lambert’s chuckle? What kind of party would it be without Michael Ironside anyway? Come for the sword fighting, stay forever because you’re an immortal human or alien or something.

It’s the Season 2 finale and the air-con is busted backstage, so Andrew and Johnny melt and sweat whilst touching on Livin’ With Lex ‘n’ Layla, Deacon’s recovery concert, Jeff Fordham’s bean-counting relationship, Rayna’s album release and, of course, Why Is Gunnar Scott? What will happen in the dramatic, climactic finale of this second run of the show?