Why Did We Watch This

29/04/2024

Listen up as we discuss 2023's The Portable Door, a fantasy movie that truly indulges in flights of fancy (goblins, doors that are actually towels, office supplies)

https://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/107-the-portable-door/

01/04/2024

04/03/2024

For our next episode, we visit 2005's Domino, a movie ostensibly based on reality that has the dual distinction of being perhaps the most directed movie we have ever watched and the most yellow.

https://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/105-domino

05/02/2024

Plop yourself down on a comfortable couch and listen in as we discuss 2005's Just Like Heaven, a high-concept romcom about the subletter's greatest fear: your new apartment being haunted by the nagging ghost of Reese Witherspoon.

https://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/104-just-like-heaven/

11/12/2023

As the holidays draw nearer, join us as we discuss a movie that celebrates the true meaning of the season (being trapped in an elevator with a bunch of insufferable as****es).

https://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/102-christmas-eve/

30/10/2023

The only thing more terrifying that a n**e Robert De Niro squelching around covered in amniotic fluid is the thought that we've watched 100 movies for this thing. Happy Halloween!

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/100-mary-shelleys-frankenstein

20/09/2023

Is your romcom's premise feeling a little slight? Why not try jazzing it up with a high concept, like a framing device where you have to deduce who the main character will marry or showing five different possible romantic interests or showing the story out of chronological order? Well, if you're I'm with Lucy, you're doing all three and not very well.

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/99-im-with-lucy

21/08/2023

Our Summer of Murder Mysteries ends with 1985's Young Sherlock Holmes, a movie that seeks to answer questions such as "How did Sherlock Holmes get his hat?" and "How egregiously can you rip off Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom if Spielberg is also producing your movie?"

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/98-young-sherlock-holmes

24/07/2023

Kenneth Branagh returns as a mustache who solves crimes in a computer-generated Egypt with a cast that couldn't have been more cursed if they desecrated a pharaoh's tomb in 2022's middling Death on the Nile!

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/97-death-on-the-nile

26/06/2023

Much like The Stranger's Meursault, we too can only turn our thoughts to murder when the weather gets hot and humid, which explains our Summer of Murder Mystery! First, we start with Radioland Murders, a 1994 screwball murder mystery comedy farce from the mind of George Lucas starring anyone who wandered by the soundstage that day.

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/96-radioland-murders

29/05/2023

Men will literally go to the electric chair upon being framed for murdering their wife with a pair of scissors and then be reincarnated as a mute amnesiac woman identical to their beloved dead spouse instead of going to therapy

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/95-dead-again

01/05/2023

Just in time for wedding season, we tackle the nuptial industrial complex head on with Bride Wars, a dismal and disappointing exercise in excess.

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/94-bride-wars

03/04/2023

Jesus Christ, that's not Jason Bourne.

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/93-the-bourne-legacy

06/03/2023

In which we return to that fertile well of 1980s fantasy movies and pull out a big sloshy bucket of Willow, George Lucas’s long-gestating story about a little person who wants to be a wizard and some other magic s**t as filtered through the generically-competent lens of Ron Howard.

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/92-willow/

08/02/2023

WOMEN OF NEW YORK, FROST YOURSELVES!
..well, we didn't like it.

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/91-how-to-lose-a-guy-in-10-days

09/01/2023

What if we kissed 💋 at the Magnolia jazz club 🎹 at midnight 🕛 on New Year’s Eve 🎉 as part of an elaborate lie 😳 designed to boost our radio talk show's profile 📻 but it was in actuality not a lie 🙈 because we have been in love 💘 our entire lives 🥰?

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/90-midnight-at-the-magnolia

12/12/2022

No, despite what the name would suggest, this is not a movie about a young lady trying to find a date for Christmas, but rather a movie about a young lady who works for a holiday-themed dating app and is given magic powers by a h***y Mrs. Claus to alter reality by changing people as she sees fit and yet somehow it's meant to be a charming bit of Christmas frivolity and not a nightmarish look into the recesses of our darkest desires.

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/89-a-date-by-christmas-eve

14/11/2022

Journey with us back to the dark ages (a period that in this case refers to both medieval England and much of Disney's '60s animation output) as we watch The Sword in the Stone and drink as heavily as they did in ye olden times while discussing the dull wet sock that is Wart, the weird lack of an overarching plot, and what we were supposed to learn by being turned into a squirrel (except that fat h***y old squirrels are funny I guess).

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/88-the-sword-in-the-stone

19/09/2022

What happens when three cute good boys move into recently-single forty-something mom Reese Witherspoon's beige Californian guest house? Well... less than you'd think, really. Check out our latest episode as we discuss the pleasantly dull spawn-of-Nancy-Meyers movie Home Again!

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/86-home-again

25/07/2022

If you've ever wanted to see a supernatural teen movie adaptation where the highlight is a country-fried Jeremy Irons insulting Emma Thompson's hat in a church, then do we have an entry in our Sweet and Sour Summer of YA Angst for you!

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/84-beautiful-creatures

11/07/2022

Turn your clocks forward or back depending what age group you're currently part of and check out our episode on 13 Going on 30, a movie that ended up being mostly pretty delightful despite an aggressive pro-Razzles agenda.

http://www.dratpack.com/whywatch/83-13-going-on-30