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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, Fivers! Since it’s that time of year where everyone comes together with joy and happiness in their hearts, we decided to release our most divisive episode yet. In this very special Holiday Other Stuff Too, we discuss two movies we’ve seen together within the past week: Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World and Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi….
Christmas horror movies are a gift from above, like manna from Hellven (yeah, that’s a combo of Heaven and Hell, you get it). For as long as there have been Christmases and movies about murders on Christmases, there have been Christmas horror movies. Q and J open the gifts of which movies they watched last week, ending with a discussion about Better Watch Out, the newest Yuletide frightener….
You may not know this, but between the two hosts of this show, one likes to read a lot (J) and one doesn’t (Q), but one thing we both agree on is that the book Ready Player One is balls-to-the-wall amazing. The feeling of most after reading Ernest Cline’s breathtaking debut novel was that it could never be adapted into a film because getting the rights…
When it was announced that Jurassic World was getting a sequel, we weren’t sure how we felt about that. Sure, the Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt led film was enjoyable, but it had its problems and possibly didn’t need any sort of follow-up. Then we heard J.A. Bayona was stepping behind the camera to direct and we got a little more excited. If nothing else, Jurassic…
Come on down, Fivers! It’s time to take your positions behind your podium for an all-new Top 5 episode dedicated to everyone’s favorite guilty pleasure past time, game shows! J & Q spend some time buying vowels and picking giant boogers to once and for all decide which 5 game shows are taking home the Big Showcase and which ones are the weakest links, goodbye….
The inspector paces the room, piecing together the clues of the murder mystery, when suddenly he turns dramatically to the camera and exclaims, “I know who did it!” On this suspenseful new episode, J & Q have gathered the suspects into the library of the mansion they are squatting in and are finally ready to reveal the clues that led them to their Top 5…
If you’ve listened to our Most Rewatchable TV Shows episode, you know that here at High Five: The Podcast, we are HUGE fans of Rick & Morty. It’s a masterclass in writing for comedy and sci-fi, and the layers of jokes in each episode is mind-boggling. It feels like we’ve been waiting for season 3 of Rick & Morty to begin for 5 years now (it’s…
Let’s be honest, 1989 was a pretty great year. The Nintendo Gameboy was introduced to the world, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, people used the word “bombdiggity” a lot more than they do now, and…oh yeah, it was pretty much the best Summer movie season in cinema history. On this very special Other Stuff Too, J & Q dive into the Summer movies of 1989,…
We’ve seen it all before, and again……and again again. In this episode that demands repeat listens, J & Q are counting down their Top 5 Rewatchable TV Shows. You know the ones. These are the shows you always come back to, like chocolate cake or your very embarrassing past, you freak! Like sand through an hourglass, so are the TV shows on our lists (and,…
Batman, Wonder Woman, The Joker, Green Lantern……..what could go wrong? When you have some of the most adored comic book properties in history, it’s a given that movies based on those properties are guaranteed to be fantastic, right? Well, so far, the DCEU (DC’s cinematic universe), consisting of Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Suicide Squad, has taken that challenge and proven…