Two Thumbs Down with Mike and Ryan

Meet our new podcast episode! This week it’s a double feature of meeting with Meet the Applegates, starring Ed Begley Jr. and Stockard Channing, and Disney’s Meet the Deedles, starring Paul Walker and Dennis Hopper. The boys also met the new Christopher Nolan flick The Odyssey!

It’s finally time to have the boys to have the sex talk. To help them out they watched Body of Evidence, with Madonna and Willem Dafoe, and Color of Night, with Bruce Willis and Jane March. The boys also discuss Minions & Monsters, Evil Dead Burn, and more sex with Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

WHOOPI WHOOPI WHOOPI! In this week’s episode it’s a Whoopi Goldberg double feature with Jumpin' Jack Flash and Burglar. The guys also talk about Tuner, Toy Story 5, and so much more!

It’s all about friendship on this episode because we bring on old friend and filmmaker, Freddy Gaitan to discuss some HUGE 80’s sequels in Ghostbusters 2 and Gremlins 2. We also talk Jackass Best and Last, Obsession, Backrooms, and the GOD Peter MacNicol

It’s Macaulay Culkin day on the podcast! Today we’ve brought on DOCTOR Justin Gautreau to talk about his past book, The Last Word, about old Hollywood novelists and screenwriters and his upcoming book about W.R. Burnett, author of Little Caesar (the very first gangster movie ever made). These oft overlooked 90’s movies feature Ted Danson, Elijah Woods, and one of the most shocking movie endings from a child star ever

It’s the last mini episode and it’s Highlander III: The Final Dimension. Or maybe it’s Highlander III: Sorcerer? Or perhaps Highlander III: The Final Conflict? Will adding Mario Van Peebles cement this as the greatest movie trilogy of all time? There’s just one way to find out!

In the second mini episode it’s Highlander II: The Quickening! Hailed as one of the worst movies ever made, will the boys agree or maybe discuss this misunderstood MASTERPIECE

There can only be three mini episodes! First up is Highlander, the first in the franchise. The boys talk Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and even discuss In The Grey and Backrooms

Time to grab a drink and BE NICE. This week the boys bring back best boy River Butcher to talk all things Roadhouse, with Patrick Swayze, and The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. The fellas also talk about Fight Club, Sorry Baby, Hamnet, Widows Bay, and Carolina Caroline

As Alan Jackson once said, the hosts of the Two Thumbs Down podcast have gone country! The fellas discuss two country themed movies. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, starting Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, and Gary Busey. And Pure Country, starring actual country star George Strait and of course punk legend John Doe. And no country podcast would be complete without a large Borat discussion!

You want another episode? You got it Mister! We’ve got two romantic comedies with Mr. in the title. Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and even a bit of James Gandolfini. And Mr. Wrong starring Ellen Degeneres and Bill Pullman. The boys also talk The Drama, Alana Haim, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, and Sheep Detectives!

It’s the 25th anniversary of Hudson Hawk! Everyone is talking about it! It’s all over the news! This week the fellas talk some caper heist movies Disorganized Crime (1989) and Hudson Hawk (1991), packed full of stars like Bruce Willis, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ed O’Neil, Andie Macdowell, Richard E. Grant, and so much more!

We use one whole episode to figure what is better: one GOOD cop or one TOUGH cop. Well maybe neither one is better. But we do talk a whole lotta 90’s power houses like Michael Keaton, Anthony LaPaglia, Stephen Baldwin, Chris Penn. And we also review the new Renny Harlin Deep Water shark movie and The Devil Wears Prada 2

It’s a sci fi/fantasy episode so we had to bring in resident sci fi/fantasy nerd Seth Robert Babb! We talk Krull, an actual movie that is both sci fi and fantasy. Then we move over to straight fantasy with Red Sonja, starring Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger! Don’t miss the boys discuss their recent movie watches, Seth’s recent album faves, and all three boys try to recollect two movies that make almost no sense whatsoever!

It’s our 100th episode (we think [we’re pretty sure])! And we’ve got a very special double feature for the Siskel & Ebert fanatics. First we’re talking about the only movie either of the duo were actually involved in making: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Written by Roger Ebert and directed by Russ Meyer. Then we talk about Gene Siskel’s favorite movie: Saturday Night Fever. A movie he loved so much he bought the famous white Travolta suit! Here’s to 100 more!

QUACK QUACK QUACK it’s Duck time! This week we bring back Ilana Winter to talk all things Mighty Ducks! Is D2 better than the original? Who is a Hawk and who is on Team Iceland? And how is Coach Bombay getting from Malibu to Downtown LA EVERYDAY?!

It’s superhero week on the podcast! We bring back pal and superstar of The Pitt (for one scene) Mark Schroeder to talk The Meteor Man and Batman & Robin. We also talk all things Batman, The Drama with current Batman Robert Pattinson, and we rank our favorite Batman movies!

Let’s learn how to commit murder together! This week’s episode is all black comedies about killing someone else! First is Throw Momma From The Train, starring Billy Crystal in Danny DeVito’s directorial debut. Then it’s Dan Ackroyd, Jack Lemmon, and Lily Tomlin in Getting Away With Murder, a movie so difficult to find you have to hear it to believe how the fellas were able to watch it!

This week, the boys bring on Lexi Amoriello (@movierecsbylex) and discuss two movies of women taking back the power! First is Shirley Valentine, a British theater adaptation filled to the brim with bit after bit. Then it’s onto Party Girl, a Parker Posey led trip through New York’s chic underground. They also talk Ryan Gosling, Project Hail Mary, Forbidden Fruits, and so much more!

New episode of more people on the run! This time the boys talk about Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane (HAGRID!) as nuns and Nick Nolte and Martin Short as bank robbers. Find out which actor is throwing a million mph fastball in one of these movies along with some Oscar talk, Hamnet talk, Conan O’Brien talk, and so much more!