Episodes

Henrique and David travel to London for The Long Good Friday (1980), John Mackenzie and screenwriter Barrie Keeffe’s hard-edged British gangster film. Bob Hoskins stars as Harold Shand, a crime boss preparing to transform the Docklands through a lucrative partnership with American investors. His carefully staged holiday weekend begins to collapse when bombs, murders and missing associates expose a threat that money and intimidation may not be able to contain. The hosts trace Harold’s investigati...

Party on with Henrique and David as they revisit Wayne’s World (1992), the Saturday Night Live comedy that brought Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar from a basement cable-access show to the big screen. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey play the Aurora, Illinois friends whose homemade program attracts slick television producer Benjamin Kane, played by Rob Lowe. A lucrative contract threatens their independence, Wayne’s relationship with Cassandra and the friendship at the center of the show. Director Penel...

Henrique and David head to the woods for Bad Moon (1996), Eric Red’s compact werewolf thriller based on Wayne Smith’s novel Thor. Michael Paré plays photojournalist Ted Harrison, who survives a terrifying attack and parks his trailer near the home of his sister Janet and her son Brett. Mariel Hemingway and Mason Gamble anchor the family, but their German Shepherd, Thor, senses that Ted brought something dangerous home long before the humans understand what is happening. The conflict makes the fa...

Henrique and David return to fictional Urbania, Ohio for Little Giants (1994), the underdog family comedy about two brothers, two peewee football teams and one town-sized sibling rivalry. Rick Moranis plays gentle gas-station owner Danny O’Shea, who forms the Giants after his daughter Becky—better known as Icebox—is rejected by the elite Cowboys coached by Danny’s celebrated older brother Kevin, played by Ed O’Neill. Their misfit roster gets one chance to prove it belongs. When the town can supp...

Henrique and David head to Colombia for Romancing the Stone (1984), Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Diane Thomas’ romantic adventure about novelist Joan Wilder. Kathleen Turner plays Joan, whose quiet New York life is overturned when her sister Elaine is kidnapped. A treasure map draws her into the jungle, where she meets mercenary adventurer Jack Colton, played by Michael Douglas, and races to find a priceless emerald before corrupt commander Zolo and squabbling smugglers Ralph and Ira can tak...

Henrique and David return to Westerburg High for Heathers (1988), Michael Lehmann and screenwriter Daniel Waters’ razor-edged teen black comedy. Winona Ryder stars as Veronica Sawyer, a smart student trapped inside the school’s ruling clique of three girls named Heather. Her attraction to charismatic outsider Jason “J.D.” Dean, played by Christian Slater, turns dangerous when cruel fantasies become murder, deaths are staged as suicides and J.D.’s campaign against the school escalates toward mass...

Henrique and David descend into Valentine Bluffs for My Bloody Valentine (1981), George Mihalka’s Canadian mining-town slasher. Twenty years after a deadly colliery accident and a survivor’s murderous revenge, the town prepares to revive its abandoned Valentine’s Day dance. A warning arrives in a heart-shaped candy box, but the celebration continues—and a killer in mining gear begins stalking the townspeople as returning local T.J., his old flame Sarah and her new boyfriend Axel become entangled...

Henrique and David open a complicated family manuscript with Stuck in Love (2012), writer-director Josh Boone’s romantic drama originally titled Writers. Greg Kinnear stars as acclaimed novelist Bill Borgens, who remains emotionally fixed on his ex-wife Erica, played by Jennifer Connelly. Their children are writers too: Lily Collins’ Samantha protects herself with cynicism as her first novel is published, while Nat Wolff’s Rusty longs for experience and falls for Kate. Across one year, the Borge...

Henrique and David enter the frozen Sierra Nevada for Ravenous (1999), Antonia Bird’s genre-bending Western horror film written by Ted Griffin. In 1847, traumatized Mexican-American War veteran Captain John Boyd is exiled to remote Fort Spencer after an act of survival is mistaken for heroism. When a stranger named Colqhoun arrives with a horrifying account of a stranded wagon party and cannibalism, the soldiers mount a rescue mission that exposes a threat more dangerous—and more seductive—than ...

Henrique and David bundle up for Grumpy Old Men (1993), Donald Petrie and screenwriter Mark Steven Johnson’s Minnesota comedy about friendship, rivalry and late-life possibility. Jack Lemmon plays retired teacher John Gustafson and Walter Matthau plays former television repairman Max Goldman, neighbors whose decades-long feud has hardened into an elaborate daily ritual of insults and pranks. When free-spirited Ariel Truax, played by Ann-Margret, moves across the street, competition for her affec...

Henrique and David face the Alaskan wilderness in The Edge (1997), Lee Tamahori’s survival thriller written by David Mamet. Anthony Hopkins stars as billionaire intellectual Charles Morse, who joins fashion photographer Bob Green, played by Alec Baldwin, on a flight into remote country. After the plane crashes, Charles, Bob and Stephen must navigate exposure, hunger and uncertainty while a relentless Kodiak bear tracks them. Knowledge may keep the survivors alive, but suspicion about Bob’s relat...

Henrique and David bundle up for Snow Day (2000), Chris Koch’s Nickelodeon family comedy starring Chevy Chase, Chris Elliott, Mark Webber and Zena Grey. An unexpected storm closes schools in upstate New York and gives the Brandston family several intersecting adventures. Teenager Hal chases popular classmate Claire while overlooking his loyal friend Lane, young Natalie organizes the neighborhood children against the fearsome Snowplowman, and television meteorologist Tom tries to prove that a riv...

Henrique and David open their winter favorites with Dead of Winter (1987), Arthur Penn’s snowbound psychological thriller starring Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall and Jan Rubeš. Steenburgen plays struggling actress Katie McGovern, who accepts a mysterious audition at an isolated country mansion. The courteous Mr. Murray and wheelchair-using Dr. Joseph Lewis claim they need her for a film, but photographs, costumes and a missing finger reveal that Katie is being reshaped to impersonate a murdere...

Henrique and David ring in New Year’s Evil (1980), Emmett Alston’s Los Angeles holiday slasher starring Roz Kelly, Kip Niven and Grant Cramer. Kelly is Diane “Blaze” Sullivan, host of a televised punk and new-wave countdown called Hollywood Hotline. A caller identifying himself as Evil promises to murder someone whenever midnight reaches another American time zone, record each killing on cassette and play the evidence over the telephone before coming for Blaze at the West Coast celebration. Rath...

Henrique and David unwrap Just Another Christmas (2020), Roberto Santucci’s Brazilian holiday time-loop comedy starring Leandro Hassum and Elisa Pinheiro. Hassum plays Jorge, a family man whose birthday falls on Christmas and whose resentment of the holiday spills onto everyone around him. After a rooftop fall, he wakes on the next Christmas Eve with no memory of the year between. The pattern repeats, forcing him to experience his life only one holiday—and one disorienting annual jump—at a time....

Henrique and David carve into Mercy Christmas (2017), Ryan Nelson’s pitch-black independent Christmas horror comedy starring Steven Hubbell, David Ruprecht and Gwen Van Dam. Hubbell plays Michael Briskett, a lonely, relentlessly agreeable office worker who loves the holiday even as his boss Andy exploits him. When Andy’s sister Cindy invites Michael to Christmas dinner, the promise of belonging collapses: his eggnog is drugged, he wakes among prisoners in a basement and learns that the smiling f...

Henrique and David spend Christmas in 1980s London with Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984), a grimy Euro-slasher built around a killer who targets anyone dressed as Santa Claus. Edmund Purdom stars as Chief Inspector Harris, whose investigation moves from holiday parties and street performers to peep shows, crowded clubs and a sinister dungeon. The victims, quirky suspects and varied murder methods create a barrage of seasonal mayhem long before the killer’s identity becomes difficult to miss. Ala...

Henrique and David take a first-class trip to France with If Looks Could Kill (1991), William Dear’s teenage spy comedy starring Richard Grieco and Roger Rees. Grieco plays Michael Corben, a high-school slacker sent abroad to earn the French credit he needs to graduate. A British agent using the same name has just been killed. Michael claims the man’s premium airline ticket, and British intelligence later mistakes this unimpressive student for its operative. The mistaken identity drops Michael i...

Henrique and David hit the road with Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), John Hughes’s quintessential Thanksgiving comedy starring Steve Martin and John Candy. Martin plays Neal Page, a tightly wound advertising executive desperate to reach Chicago for dinner with his family. Candy is Del Griffith, a gregarious shower-curtain-ring salesman whose good intentions repeatedly complicate the journey. A snow diversion to Wichita begins a gauntlet of motels, stolen money, broken trains, buses, renta...

Do You Even Movie? brings filmmaker Henrique Couto and movie aficionado David Denoyer together for a different kind of movie podcast. Their conversations revisit films that left a lasting impression, from new discoveries to classics from decades past, with room for hot takes, humor and the stories that made each title personal. Henrique and David are film enthusiasts rather than detached reviewers. They celebrate the movies that make audiences laugh, cry and keep talking after the credits, pairi...