Down To Watch

DTW is back to guns and kicking this week, heading back to theaters for Atomic Blonde! Cold war skullduggery, 80s tunes and old fashioned fisticuffs fill this flick's runtime but does it blow up the good way or the bad way? Cuz it's atomic, like a bomb, like in the title... Go listen! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

DTW in theaters caught the indie darling The Big Sick this week and this episode is about that! Is it a comedy or a dramedy or a romance or what? Maybe the Down to Watch crew figures it out while discussing the movie-fied story of how Kumail Nanjiani, star of the film, ended up with his real life wife. You gotta listen to find out... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

This week in TV, the Watchers take in a season of Dear White People, just in time to be socially relevant! The conversation obviously gets somewhat socio-political but they also discuss some changes between the film and the Netflix series, what they thought of the performances and believe it or not they even go off topic! Listen to this show! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Down to Watch goes back to the cinema to check out Luc Besson's latest space adventure, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets! Does an interstellar race to steal a pearl pooping critter, a military mission to the center of an alien filled city and what maybe two kids in love add up to a good time at the movies? Podcast will tell ya! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

DtW went to see Baby Driver, Edgar Wright's new musical car chase love story, and now they have opinions about it! Listen in to find out if this slick, stylized song and dance got their hearts racing or some other car metaphor that means they didn't like it. Wordplay! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Throwing back to 2002, the DtW fellas and guest watcher Tatiana basked in the awkward romance that is Punch Drunk Love! Dan, Raul and their guest have a great time talking about this movie, Mike says and bye bye to the conversation early, and we're all doing very food! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

After a short break from recording, the DtW team throws back to another Mel Brooks classic, Young Frankenstein! We have a special guest in studio to help break down the Gene Wilder led spoof, allowing of course for a couple of tangents. Werewolf? There wolf. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

It's as if someone has the DTW team in a lasso of truth because they've got opinions on DC's latest, Wonder Woman! Listen in to Dan, Jonnie and Raul talking about the Amazonian princess and her adventures in the world of men. Did they notice her invisible plane in the background? Maybe! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Down to Watch TV ventures into the mind bendy world of Legion this week as we try and make sense of the latest Marvel series. Listen in to hear what we thought of the adventures of maybe Professor X's son and his friend April Ludgate. It's all in the mind, you know... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Holy throwback podcast, Batman! We saw the 1966 campy classic Batman the Movie starring Adam West. Listen in as the DTW crew has different degrees of fun with this goofy flick. It's a real scrap! Bam! Pow! Zot!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Action! Story! Fonts! DTW saw King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, in theaters and everything, and then talked into microphones about it! The Guy Richie directed flop might have under-performed at the box office but did it fail... in our hearts? Time to find out! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

The DTW crew is back with a throwback about a dude, playin a dude... Disguised as another dude! We watched Tropic Thunder and we have some things to say about it. Does it still hold up? Listen and find out what we think! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Down to Watch throws back to a time when family movies could be about monsters causing havoc all through small town America. We watched 1984's Gremlins, and had a pretty good time with it too! Come have a listen, we eventually talk about the movie even! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

DTW TV heads over to the award winning FX show Atlanta this week to meet some of the weird folks who populate the town in the minds of creator Donald Glover and his team. Listen as we discuss the ins and outs of the show, what we love about it and then veer wildly off topic! Best of both worlds! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Hey there, bubs! DTW went to the theaters to watch Wolverine get old in Fox/Marvel's Logan. What does it look like to be over a hundred years old living like Wolvie does sometime in the near future? We'll tell ya, so come listen! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Down to Watch went back to 1974's Mel Brooks classic (cult?) Blazing Saddles! Groundbreaking in its time, brazen against bigotry and also a real dumb movie (Mel said it!) , this one took some of us back to inappropriate childhood viewing and was a first for the others. Wanna know how to lure some kkk members over to steal their costumes? We'll show ya! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Bonus DTW nTheaters for you guys! We definitely had to watch Get Out and talk about it, and you should too! This movie is great, and we had a fun time talking about all the performances, themes of the movie and how it played with cliches and tropes of the horror and comedy genres. Be warned, it's all spoilers so just go watch the movie! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Sci-fi cowboys and philosophical musings abound this week! The DTW team rides into HBO's Westworld this week and shucks howdy they sure had a lot to say about it. Plenty of commentary about the show overall but the podcast covers some of the twisty plot so it's gonna sound crazy if you haven't watched yet. Go ahead and take a listen, and try doing the robot, maybe you're a host too! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

The DTW crew goes farther into space than ever before in this week's throwback movie, 1997s Contact! Join Jodie Foster and company on an interstellar adventure to discover dead dad aliens? Spoiler what? Check it out! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

This week In Theaters has the DTW crew talking about John Wick Chapter 2. Thats right, the Boogeyman, Baba Yaga himself. It's a little tangent heavy at first and the end gets a little socially conscious but that middle section, hoo boy! Just listen to the whole podcast, it'll be great! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message