I'll Watch Anything
A movie podcast with a sense of optimism! Mystery novelist W.M. Akers and ace film critic Henry Giardina take a rambling tour through film history, using dice to pick random movies from the silent era to today. They try to love everything they watch. It doesn't always work out.
Episodes
10 episodes
Reindeer Games Ruins Christmas
Henry and Will close out their first season with another singularly unimportant film—a Hollywood legend's mediocre Christmas heist picture! Starring a particularly punchable Ben Affleck, an impressively ripped Gary Sinese, and a far too good fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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59:32
200 Cigarettes is Disappointing Me!
Today Henry and Will take on 200 Cigarettes, a 1999 piece of ensemble nostalgia fluff that is hard to find and, sadly, pretty hard to watch. Learn all about Will's turn of the century crushes and how Dave Chappelle has—big surprise—always been ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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56:11
Big Business Provides Shenanigans
Big Business is a movie, kind of, in which Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin shriek and mug and produce low-key hijinks in the DCOM mode. It also features surprisingly tender characterization of a gay couple and was ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:02:45
The Hudsucker Proxy Is ADHD Heaven
In which Henry and Will discuss the futility of journalism, the beauty of pastiche, and Paul Newman's giant swinging, uh, clock. Content warning! Contains frank discussion of suicide!
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:02:13
Spotlight is Fake, Fake, Fake!
According to the Hollywood establishment, Spotlight was the best film of 2015. We beg to differ! And differ we do! Henry loathes this movie—Will thought it was fine—but we agree that a realistic depiction of journalism demands ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:10:25
House of Wax Melted Our Hearts
What do you get when you combine Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, and a few thousand gallons of melted wax? The 1953 3D classic House of Wax, a thoroughly unhinged movie that we love with our all the passion our waxen hearts can muster.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:11:55
Parasite is Hard to Love
Bong Joon-ho's 2019 Oscar-winning Black comedy is a classic upstairs-downstairs tale, with a famous violent twist. It's great, but do we love it? It's complicated.
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:10:30
Earthquake Gives You Everything You Want
Will and Henry dive headfirst into the world of 1970s disaster movies with the exquisite Charlton Heston and George Kennedy epic "Earthquake," a movie that manages to be beautiful and engaging without actually being, y'know, good.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:01:22
Blood Harvest Needs Way More Tiny Tim
Will and Henry ask the important questions: is Tiny Tim the special sauce of any movie he's in? Why does Mervo need to retreat into his clown persona? Why is Peter Krause's eye twitching uncontrollably when he's supposed to be dead?Join...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:07:45
