Mashley at the Movies

Shelley Winters plays a rich, lonely woman mourning the untimely loss of her daughter in Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? Every Christmas she invites children from an orphanage to her gingerbread-like house and, this Christmas, something sinister is afoot. Ashley, Matt & Grant discuss this dark fairytale in today's 12 Days of Christmas episode.

It's Christmas in Gotham City, and Batman has his hands full with not, not two, but three villains! In this 12 Days of Christmas episode, we look back at one of Ryan's favorite movies with Batman Returns.

Boyfriend and girlfriend once again accidentally go to different places for the holidays, and hilarity ensues in this sequel to last year's Your Christmas or Mine? Ashley & Matt review this new direct-to-streaming movie in today's 12 Days of Christmas episode.

Today's 12 Days of Christmas episode is about a sweet, 50 minute Muppets special from 1977. Rachel is back with us to talk about Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas. It's about family, friends, singing, and looking out for one another. Click on the link below to listen!

A criminal (Ben Affleck) gets released from prison, and promptly hooks up with his dead cellmate's girlfriend (Charlize Theron). Things get thorny as they're roped into a Christmastime heist. Aaron joins us to talk about Reindeer Games, in today's 12 Days of Christmas episode.

A high-powered lawyer leaves NYC and returns home to "Milwaukee" for the holidays. There he stays with his mom, and maybe even finds love with an old high school classmate. Larry joins us to talk about the The Christmas Setup.

A Scrooge-like man is sent to audit the books of confectionary and, wouldn't you know it, is charmed by the small, chocolate-box town where it's located. Rosa joins us to discuss the Spanish holiday film, 1000 Miles from Christmas.

Three friends spend a wacky and heartfelt Christmas Eve together in The Night Before. Sean joins us for today's 12 Days of Christmas episode!

A screwball comedy, set between Christmas and New Years, where a woman (Ginger Rogers) finds a baby on the steps of an adoption home, and everyone believes her to be the mother. David Niven stars as the somewhat oblivious potential love interest. Will McKinley joins us to talk about 1939's Bachelor Mother in the first of our sixth annual 12 Days of Christmas series!

Godzilla wreaks havoc in post-WWII Japan in this 2023 movie featuring the classic monster. Ashley & Matt review Godzilla Minus One, which has a surprisingly compelling human storyline to go along with all the mayhem.

We review All of Us Strangers, a movie about love, grief, nostalgia, and making peace with things. Ryan joins us to talk about this unusual film, with the first-half of the episode being spoiler-free, and the back-half featuring a spoiler discussion.

Before Noirvember ends, we wanted to bring you a new episode about one of the later efforts during the peak of the film noir genre -- it's Stanley Kubrick's The Killing. This 1956 lean and mean movie follows a a cadre of fellas as they plan to pull off a heist at a racetrack. Grant joins us in this Criterion episode. Listen at the link below.

Taking its cues from the classic It's a Wonderful Knife, this movie sees Winnie (Jane Widdop) find out what life would be like if she'd never been born. And the results... aren't good. Rachel joins us to review the new Christmas slasher film, It's a Wonderful Knife.

A teacher, a cafeteria worker, and a student stay together at a boarding school over the holidays in Alexander Payne's latest film. Ashley, Matt and Rachel review The Holdovers in this episode.

Tom Hanks plays a widower living in Seattle. Meg Ryan plays a woman who is engaged, but decides that her destiny is with the aforementioned widower whom she's never met. This is the premise for a classic '90s romantic drama celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Ryan joins Matt & Ashley to talk about Sleepless in Seattle, in our latest Retro episode.

In this episode, Ashley, Matt & Ryan dive into a (spoiler) review of the new Martin Scorsese epic, Killers of the Flower Moon. It's about the life, death, love and murder on Osage Nation land in 1920s Oklahoma. 

Two old flames bump into each other at an airport 25 years after they broke up, and try to reconcile their past. In this episode, Matt & Ashley review the new movie What Happens Later.

We wrap up this year's 13 Days of Halloween with the fifth entry in the series started by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Ashley, Matt and Grant talk about Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers in today's episode. As always, thank you for listening, and Happy Halloween!

A group of amorous couples decide to stay overnight at the local mall, at the same time that the mall's new robot security force is on duty. Things... don't go well. Sean joins us again to talk about Chopping Mall, in our penultimate episode of the 2023 edition of our 13 Days of Halloween series.

That mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein is back in the lab, this time trying to create a mate for his "monster," who in this film is spending his time roaming the countryside. Ryan is back with us to discuss the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein.