Do You Even Movie?

Henrique Couto offers a heartfelt closing message after ninety Do You Even Movie? conversations about cinema, friendship and the films that shape our lives. He thanks everyone who listened, wrote in and joined the discussion, emphasizing that the audience made the podcast possible for nearly two years after Henrique and David Denoyer completed their Freddy’s Nightmares series. This farewell is about gratitude rather than loss. Henrique assures listeners that he and David remain friends and movie

Henrique and David revisit Air Bud (1997), the 1990s Disney family sports comedy set in Fernfield, Washington. Kevin Zegers plays Josh Framm, a grieving new kid who struggles to fit in after moving with his mother and sister. At an overgrown basketball court, he befriends a stray golden retriever, names him Buddy and discovers the dog can sink baskets. Their bond gives Josh the confidence to leave the bench, join the Timberwolves and face the question that made the movie famous: is there actuall

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit BLADE (1998), the R-rated Marvel vampire action film that introduced movie audiences to Wesley Snipes’ Eric Brooks: the Daywalker with a vampire’s strength, a human conscience and none of the undead’s sunlight vulnerability. Director Stephen Norrington and screenwriter David S. Goyer turn a comic-book adaptation into a martial-arts-heavy horror thriller, and the hosts place its success between the fallout from Batman & Robin and the superhero boom that fo

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Freaky Friday (2003), Mark Waters’ Disney body-swap comedy starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan and Mark Harmon. They debate whether this is the best screen version of Mary Rodgers’ story, explain why Curtis seems born to play therapist and mother Tess Coleman, and consider how the movie became an early-2000s Disney nostalgia favorite without losing its comic timing or emotional core. The plot follows widowed Tess as she prepares to marry Ryan while h

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer dive into Point Break (1991), Kathryn Bigelow’s surf-crime thriller starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. Rookie FBI agent and former Ohio State quarterback Johnny Utah is paired with veteran Angelo Pappas to hunt the Ex-Presidents, disciplined bank robbers who wear presidential masks and never touch the vault. A trace of surfboard wax sends Utah undercover among the beaches of Southern California, where Tyler teaches him to surf and t

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer climb aboard Captain Ron (1992), director Thom Eberhardt’s Touchstone Pictures comedy starring Kurt Russell, Martin Short and Mary Kay Place. Martin Harvey inherits the Wanderer, a neglected yacht once associated with Clark Gable, and brings wife Katherine, daughter Caroline and son Ben to Puerto Rico. Their plan is to sail the boat to Miami and sell it; hiring the one-eyed, rum-loving Captain Ron turns the trip into an unpredictable family adventure. David expla

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), Danny Cannon’s rain-soaked slasher sequel starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer, Matthew Settle and Jeffrey Combs. One year after the murders of Helen and Barry—and two summers after the original hit-and-run—Julie James is in college but still living with guilt and trauma. Ray Bronson visits, hoping she will return home for the Fourth of July, but she declines. When ro

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer unpack Malibu High (1979), Irvin Berwick’s Crown International exploitation film starring Jill Lansing as Kim Bentley, with Tammy Taylor and Garth Pillsbury. What initially resembles a raunchy high-school comedy becomes a daylight crime story: after a breakup, conflict at home, academic failure and unresolved trauma surrounding her father’s death, Kim becomes determined to graduate and radically change her circumstances. Kim enters transactional relationships wit

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer plunge into JAWS: The Revenge (1987), Joseph Sargent’s fourth and final entry in Universal’s original shark series. Lorraine Gary returns as Ellen Brody, whose deputy son Sean is killed during a Christmas attack in Amity. Ellen retreats to the Bahamas with marine-biologist son Michael, played by Lance Guest, only for the seemingly vengeful great white to follow. Michael Caine joins the Brody orbit as pilot Hoagie, while Mario Van Peebles plays Michael’s research

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Surviving the Game (1994), Ernest R. Dickerson’s lean action-thriller adaptation of Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game. Ice-T stars as Jack Mason, a homeless Seattle man shattered by the deaths of his family, his friend Hank and a stray dog. After Walter Cole, played by Charles S. Dutton, interrupts Mason’s suicide attempt, he recruits him as a wilderness guide for Thomas Burns, Rutger Hauer’s cultivated leader of a wealthy hunting party. The promi

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer revisit Ready or Not (2019), the Radio Silence horror thriller directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. Samara Weaving stars as Grace opposite Mark O’Brien, Adam Brody, Andie MacDowell, Henry Czerny and Nicky Guadagni. A foster child longing for a permanent family, Grace marries Alex Le Domas and discovers that joining his old-money dynasty requires one wedding-night game chosen by a mysterious puzzl

Henrique and David answer multiple listener requests with The Karate Kid (1984), John G. Avildsen’s coming-of-age martial-arts classic. Ralph Macchio stars as Daniel LaRusso, an angry but likable teenager uprooted from Newark to Reseda with his mother. A beach encounter with Ali Mills puts Daniel in the path of Johnny Lawrence and the Cobra Kai, whose escalating bullying exposes how little Daniel’s YMCA karate can protect him. Apartment handyman Mr. Miyagi intervenes—and recognizes a boy who nee