Episodes

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...

Henrique and David celebrate a listener-requested birthday pick with Wishmaster (1997), Robert Kurtzman’s gleefully gruesome supernatural horror film. Tammy Lauren plays gem appraiser Alexandra Amberson, whose appraisal sends a fire opal for lab testing, accidentally releasing an ancient Djinn. Andrew Divoff gives the creature both aristocratic menace and wicked humor, then adopts the human identity Nathaniel Demerest while twisting casual wishes into traps. If Alexandra makes three wishes, the ...

Henrique and David honor Val Kilmer by revisiting MacGruber (2010), the R-rated action comedy built from Will Forte’s Saturday Night Live sketch. Directed by Jorma Taccone and written by Taccone, Forte and John Solomon, the film sends its spectacularly unqualified hero after Dieter Von Cunth, Kilmer’s straight-faced supervillain, before a stolen nuclear warhead can destroy Washington, D.C. Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe and Powers Boothe play the increasingly exasperated professionals caught in Ma...

Henrique and David revisit Carrie (1976), Brian De Palma’s landmark adaptation of Stephen King’s first published novel. Framed as both a listener request and a tribute to Piper Laurie and Priscilla Pointer, the discussion follows bullied teenager Carrie White from the Bates High locker-room humiliation to a prom-night nightmare. Sissy Spacek makes Carrie’s fear, hope and explosive telekinesis painfully human, while Piper Laurie gives religious fanatic Margaret White a frightening but emotionally...

Henrique and David continue their May They Rest in Peace tribute series with Final Destination (2000), James Wong’s supernatural horror thriller about fate, anxiety and survivor’s guilt. Devon Sawa stars as Alex Browning, a teenager whose premonition of Flight 180 exploding gets him and six others removed from the plane moments before the disaster. Ali Larter’s Clear Rivers believes him, while Kerr Smith’s volatile Carter Horton resists the idea that an invisible design now controls their lives....

Henrique and David honor Michelle Trachtenberg with Harriet the Spy (1996), Nickelodeon’s first theatrical feature and a thoughtful adaptation of Louise Fitzhugh’s novel. Directed by Bronwen Hughes, the film follows 11-year-old aspiring writer Harriet M. Welsch as she studies New York through a spy route and records unsparing observations in her notebook. Trachtenberg’s curious, impulsive Harriet is joined by Rosie O’Donnell as mentor Ole Golly, Gregory Smith as Sport and Vanessa Lee Chester as ...

The episode’s April Showers rain motif finds its perfect match in The Crow (1994), Alex Proyas’s gothic superhero revenge film. Brandon Lee stars as musician Eric Draven, murdered with his fiancée, Shelly, the night before their wedding. One year later, a crow guides Eric out of his grave and back into a devastated Detroit to punish the gang responsible. Michael Wincott’s Top Dollar rules that underworld, while Ernie Hudson’s Sergeant Albrecht and young Sarah give Eric human connections beyond v...

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer plunge into Crawl (2019), Alexandre Aja’s lean hurricane-survival creature feature, produced by Sam Raimi and written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen. Kaya Scodelario stars as Haley Keller, a University of Florida swimmer, opposite Barry Pepper as her estranged father, Dave; Morfydd Clark appears as Haley’s sister, Beth. When a Category 5 storm changes course, Haley ignores the evacuation route to find Dave and the family dog, Sugar, at their old Coral Lake home. ...

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer travel to 1931 Illinois for Road to Perdition (2002), Sam Mendes’ Depression-era gangster drama adapted by David Self from the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner. Tom Hanks plays Irish mob enforcer Michael Sullivan opposite Tyler Hoechlin as his surviving son, Michael Jr.; Paul Newman, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Stanley Tucci fill out a remarkable crime-film ensemble photographed by Conrad L. Hall. After Michael Jr. ...

Henrique Couto and David Denoyer crack open The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Dan O’Bannon’s punk-rock zombie classic set over July 3 in Louisville, Kentucky. Clu Gulager, James Karen, Thom Mathews, Don Calfa, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Beverly Randolph and Linnea Quigley lead an ensemble split between weary working adults and young cemetery punks. The hosts trace how O’Bannon’s fast dialogue, gallows humor and apocalyptic horror created something distinct from George A. Romero’s Dead films. At Un...

Henrique and David launch their rain-soaked movie theme with Hard Rain (1998), an ambitious hybrid of 1990s action thriller, disaster movie and armored-truck heist. Christian Slater plays Tom, a security guard transporting three million dollars through an evacuated Huntingburg, Indiana, as floodwater swallows the streets. After Jim’s crew ambushes the truck, Tom hides the cash and races through a town where the rising water is every bit as dangerous as the armed thieves. Morgan Freeman gives Jim...

Henrique and David close their Into the Dark spotlight with A Nasty Piece of Work (2019), a Christmas horror-comedy that turns corporate ambition into a deadly contest. Kyle Howard plays Ted, an overlooked employee invited to his boss Steven’s elaborate home alongside rival Gavin and both men’s partners. What begins as a possible promotion becomes a cruel series of tests involving humiliation, money, weapons and the question of how much each candidate will sacrifice to join the executive class. ...

Henrique and David continue their Into the Dark discussion with I’m Just F*cking With You (2019), Blumhouse Television’s vicious April Fools’ Day motel nightmare. Keir O’Donnell plays Larry, a bitter online troll traveling to the wedding of a woman he secretly targets through an anonymous social-media persona. A stop at the rundown Pink Motel introduces him to Chester, an aggressively friendly clerk whose endless practical jokes turn humiliation, distrust and isolation into something lethal. Hay...