What The Flicks Podcast
Film, TV & Pop Culture
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We watch movies, we love or hate the movies and we discuss the movies. And that's half the fun. Join Susie, Patti, Lon, Jorge and Shawne as they break it down. Go team fun!
Episodes
- WTF 89 “Project Hail Mary” (2026)
Ryland Grace, a middle school teacher, played by Ryan Gosling wakes up and finds himself on a spaceship with amnesia and alone. This is how Project Hail Mary begins, taken from a hard Sci-Fi novel written by Andy Weir who also wrote The Ma…
- WTF 89 “Sisu: Road to Revenge” (2025)
Our favourite soldier Aatami Korpi returns to seek revenge for his brutally murdered family and retrieve his family’s home, log by log to a safe place in their honour. Starring Jorma Tommila, Stephen Lang and Richard Brake.
- WTF 88 "98th Academy Awards Predictions: Directing / Best Picture" (2026)
Join us in our discussion of the 98th Annual Academy Awards. In this third episode we discuss who we think is the most deserving in the categories of Directing and Best Picture. A category full of amazing films.
- WTF 88 "98th Academy Awards Predictions: Leading Actress/Actor" (2026)
Join us in our discussion of the 98th Annual Academy Awards. In this second episode we discuss who we think is the most deserving in the categories of Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Leading Role. "A very competitive cat…
- WTF 88 "98th Academy Awards Predictions: Supporting Actress/Actor" (2026)
Join us in our discussion of the 98th Annual Academy Awards. In this first episode we discuss who we think is the most deserving in the categories of Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role. “A very competitiv…
- WTF 87 “The Son of a Thousand Men” (2025)
A Brazilian film about lonely fisherman, Crisóstomo (Rodrigo Santoro) yearning for a son leads him to form an unconventional family with others that have been hiding their deepest secrets.
- WTF 87 “One Battle After Another” (2025)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro star in this black comedy action film about an old group of revolutionaries that must reunite to defend their past that has finally caught up with them.
- WTF 87 "Frankenstein" (2025)
Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro directed this compelling and classic story of a brilliant and ambitious scientist who creates a living monster from different parts of the dead. But who is really the monster.
- WTF 87 “Wake Up Dead Man” (2025)
A “Knives Out” mystery starring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc teaming up with Father Judd (Josh O’Connor) to investigate an impossible crime in a small-town church.
- WTF 87 "Free Guy" (2021)
Ryan Reynolds stars as Guy, an NPC (non-player character) in a video game who starts to become aware of his reality in this action, comedy, sci fi. Reynolds as a charming action hero is a given, but the film actually has a lot of interesti…
- WTF 85 “Enemy” (2013)
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this psychological thriller about a college professor who meets his actor doppelganger, which throws both their lives into a very dark place.
- WTF 85 "Black Bag" (2025)
Who is loyal and who is the traitor, is the dilemma in this suspenseful spy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Kate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender
- WTF 86 Holiday Special: "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)
George Bailey is about to find out that his life has value and how one person’s life can touch so many, even those you have never met. While George is attempting to jump off a bridge on Christmas Eve Clarence, an angel who is trying to ear…
- WTF 86 Holiday Special: "Boy Called Christmas" (2021)
Aunt Ruth (Maggie Smith) is charged with caring for Eve, Andrea and Patrick on Christmas Eve. She gets them to behave by telling them the tale of Nickolas (Henry Lawfull), who begins a quest to elfin city of Elfheim in search of his father…
- WTF 86 Holiday Special: "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947)
After hiring a nice old man with a beard (Edmund Gwenn) to play Santa in the Macy's Christmas parade, Doris Walker, the parade's director (Maureen O'Hara) is surprised to find that he really believes himself to be Santa.
- WTF 86 Holiday Special: "Elf" (2003)
Buddy (Will Ferrell), raised as an elf in the North Pole receives shocking news about his real origins. He leaves the North to seek his biological father (James Caan).
- WTF 86 Holiday Special: "Oh What Fun" (2025)
A Christmas Comedy that features Michelle Pfieffer as Claire Cluster who spends the entire year trying to prepare the perfect Christmas day for her family. All her plans are not appreciated, and this Christmas is about to take a dark turn.
- WTF 85 "Stardust" (2007)
Following in the footsteps of The Princess Bride, this star-studded Romantic Fantasy is narrated by Ian McKellen and is a wonderful tale of a small countryside town that borders a magical land. A young man must venture into the magical wor…
- WTF 85 "Nobody 2" (2025)
Assassin and family man Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) takes his family on a much-needed vacation to his favorite childhood theme park resort in Plummerville. He can't seem to scape his job.
- WTF 85 "Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues" (2025)
The iconic fictitious rock group Spinal Tap reunites for its final concert after fifteen years in this sequel to the great comedy mocumentary. Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer reconcile for Spinal Tap II: The…
- WTF 84 Halloween Special: "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975)
A cult classic. The wholesome and chaste couple Brad and Janet (Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon) take refuge from a storm in the castle of the charismatic sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania, Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry).
- WTF 84 Halloween Special: "The First Omen" (2024)
The First Omen is a supernatural / horror film. In this prequel to the Omen, Margaret Daino (Nell Tiger Free) is an American novice nun in Rome. She serves in an orphanage before taking her vows and here she encounters a darkness that caus…
- WTF 84 Halloween Special: "Dark Skies" (2013)
Supernatural Horror / Sci Fi. In a suburb of a small American town, a family is slowly being unsettled by a series of disturbing, escalating events.
- WTF 84 Halloween Special: "The Dead Don't Die" (2019)
Don't miss this Zombie comedy starring Bill Murray and Adam Driver as a small town police force that must fight a Zombie invasion with a star-studded supporting cast.
- WTF 84 Halloween Special: "Abigail" (2024)
A group of six professional criminals are hired to abduct a 12-year-old ballerina and take her to a secluded mansion. It becomes very obvious that this isn't an ordinary little girl, and they have bitten off more than they can chew. Horror…
- WTF 83 "Thunderbolts" (2025)
A very intelligent and entertaining superhero movie where a group of anti-heroes trapped in a death snare must confront the darkest sides of their pa
- WTF 83 "Superman" (2025)
A more classic an old fashioned Superman (David Corenswet) fighting for truth, justice and the American way against an ultra modern and techie Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult). Can Superman adapt and thrive?
- WTF 83 "Weapons" (2025)
What is going on in teacher Justine Gandy's classroom? All except one student has disappeared without explanation. The town struggles to understand what has happened in this really scary, surprisingly funny, mystery horror
- WTF 83 "The Visitors" (1993)
A French fantasy comedy film starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier about a medieval knight and his servant accidentally being sent to the 21st century by a rusty wizard.
- WTF 82 "Fandango" (1985)
This 1985 film about a group of 5 University of Texas college buddies going on a final road trip over the Mexican border before entering adulthood the Army and the Vietnam War. Stars a very young Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson.
- WTF 82 "Penguin Lessons" (2024)
It's hard to know who rescued who in this true-life comedy drama about a disenchanted English teacher (Steve Coogan) who starts a new job in Argentina at a prestigious boy's school in 1976. An orphan penguin adapts him and transforms his l…
- WTF 82 "Kneecap" (2024)
When faith brings disillusioned music teacher together with the unlikely heroes Naoise and Liam Og, the Irish Gaelic language is liberated with new life and meaning from the local Belfast youth in this true-life dark comedy.
- WTF 82 "Sinners" (2025)
In 1932, twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) return home to Clarksdale, Mississippi after a war and cavorting with Al Capone in Chicago. Meeting up with their young Blues guitar player Sammy, they try and open a Speakeasy dee…
- WTF 82 "Paint" (2023)
Who knew Vermont’s Public Access Show “Paint” starring Carl Nargle (Owen Wilson) could be so filled with repressed passions and complicated relationships. Paint is a quirky film full irony and dry humour.
- WTF 81 "The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion" (2018)
A South Korean Action Horror Sci Fi. When Koo Ja-yoon (Kim Da-mi) enters a national talent contest to help her struggling family, she attracts a lot of weird attention from some mysterious and dangerous strangers, and her life is turned up…
- WTF 81 "Nonnas" (2025)
A biographical comedy drama about Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn), who after losing his mother wants to open a restaurant using her recipes and hires a cast of veteran all-stars nonnas (Lorraine Bracco, Susan Sarandon, Talia Shire) who steal…
- WTF 81 "Leave The World Behind" (2023)
An apocalyptic psychological thriller starring Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke focusing on a family vacation that turns very strange indeed.
- WTF 81 "One of Them Days" (2025)
Roommates and best friends Drew (Keke Palmer) and Alicia (SZA) travel on a hilarious journey across L.A. trying to get their rent together before 6pm.
- WTF 80 "Speak No Evil" (2024)
James McAvoy does this remake of a Danish film by the same name, justice. A vacationing family gets sucked in to Paddy’s (McAvoy) delusional mind inch by inch and I was squirming on my seat from beginning to end.
- WTF 80 “Late Night With The Devil” (2023)
It’s October 31, 1977 and Jack Delroy’s (David Dastmalchian) talk show “Night Owl” puts on a Halloween Special that is shocking.
- WTF 80 "The Beekeeper" (2024)
Over the top Jason Statham action thriller just the way we like them. An all-star cast helps Adam Clay (Jason Statham) dish out some action-packed justice.
- WTF 80 "My Dead Friend Zoe" (2024)
Comedy - Drama based on true events of an Afghan Army Vet. Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green) has a complicated relationship with her deceased and very irreverent friend Zoe (Natalie Morales). This film brings levity, humour and some tears to un…
- WTF 79 "The Last Showgirl" (2024)
Shelly (Pamela Anderson), the oldest showgirl on the Vegas strip must adjust to her new future with an amazing supporting cast, Annette (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Eddie (Dave Bautista).
- WTF 79 "Heretic" (2024)
Hugh Grant is diabolical as Mr. Reed, your friendly neighborhood psychopath whose door, 2 young missionaries have the misfortune of knocking on. A cat and mouse suspense thriller
- WTF 79 "The Electric State" (2025)
The Russo brothers' dystopian Sci-Fi Adventure film about an orphan girl (Millie Bobby Brown) who teams up with a robot and questionable stranger (Christ Pratt) to search for her brother.
- WTF 79 "PK" (2014)
If possible, Aamir Khan has upped his game from 3 "Idiots". Aamir plays an alien who has landed on Earth and loses his only device with which to contact his mothership. He must try and figure out this Earth place from a position of complet…
- WTF 78 "Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" (2024)
When one of Wallace's high-tech inventions goes rogue, Gromit must save his master from a series of crimes that he is being framed for, and criminal penguin Feathers McGraw is behind it all.
- WTF 78 "Anora" (2024)
Exotic dancer and escort Anora (Mikey Madison), impulsively marries Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), the rich immature son of a Russian oligarch. Her fairy tale comes to a sudden halt when Ivan's mother will have none of it. Palme d'Or and Academy…
- WTF 78 "Mumford" (1999)
An off beat little comedy about an unorthodox approach to the small town's neurotic locals by the newly arrived therapist.
- WTF 78 "Emilia Pérez" (2024)
Manitas, a Mexican drug lord (Karla Sofía Gascón) wants to escape his violent life. He hires attorney Rita Moro Castro (Zoe Saldaña) to help him arrange his new life as a woman.