Are You Movie Mad? Is the podcast that asks the most difficult question one man has ever faced. Cinephile Andrew Jones is perpetually flabbergasted that Johnny Ellis uses the online moniker 'Movie_Mad' yet at any given moment seems not to understand any movie references. Join Andrew as he journeys through a collection of films to educate Johnny and ask if Johnny is Mad about the movie he watched or remains Movie Mad.
Last ep was for Johnny but this one’s Andrew taking the bike and riding it hard. What if an NFL star did Point Break in a Commando violent explosive fest featuring a komodo dragon, Lance Henriksen, a January 6 riot and every possible vehicle becoming a fireball in a single touch?
We also redo previous episodes on the Bad Boys franchise and talk Ride Or Die, Inside Out 2, The Pope’s Exorcist and announce July’s theme month!
Hitting the mark at the end of the trilogy, Johnny cannot understand why he signed up to seeing all three, and Andrew is hesitant about a Bay-less installment, and what the legacy of Joe Carnahan will be to the third film.
Coming in to the 21st century and a vulgar auterist creation lambasted and weirdly lauded, Johnny finds himself questioning the franchise as a whole, and specifically the purpose of action cinema in an incomprehensible manner. Andrew, meanwhile, attempts to deconstruct, to find meaning, in the bayhem unleashed.
What you gonna do? We’re gonna watch Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, IN THAT ORDER, debut Michael Bay to the world, as the third film prepares to release. Will the cinema auterism of Bay be seen? Will Will Smith like Miami? Will Tea Leoni in black hair never not look like Kat Slater?
Keep tracking the target as Andrew and Johnny hunt for Tony Scott’s paranoia thriller, and another Will Smith turn that sparks the magic of the genie. We’re tied to Aladdin and boy is it hard to find Will Smith films Johnny hasn’t seen.
Happy Mayday! It’s time to step into the ring and take the mantle of the world’s greatest with Will Smith’s big Oscar-hope, whilst discussions veer towards documentaries over biopics and Avengers: Endgame because of course.
Andrew brings out the hot, sweaty late-summer indie gem with Sir Ben Kingsley rapping, and Johnny learns a lesson in hip-hop, and Mary-Kate Olsen for good measure.
