Your favorite bully, loner, and nerd gather to eat a well-balanced lunch of sushi, sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies, Cap’n Crunch sandwiches, chips, and apple juice before discussing The Breakfast Club . This is a film that every high school kid should watch. We could do without the running in the halls and the unwarranted makeover of the Goth girl. Our “old age” has taught us to walk gently and not to change to please others. Maybe we are destined to be our parents like the kids in detention....
Aug 17, 2025•2 hr 3 min
We summon up some pancakes, bacon, and sausage before digging into The Conjuring (2013). The film and its successful spinoffs are an entertaining spin on the events that they are “based on.” Does that make a story more or less believable? For a group of non-believers, we find the shots and some of the story elements deserve praise. We’ll plan ahead next time and invite the Warrens and Bathsheba to be on the podcast when we discuss the next Conjuring movie. That should stir up some listeners....
Jul 29, 2025•1 hr 55 min
We escape to another planet to eat Spam, sauces, and macaroons before discussing Mickey 17 . Is this another Bong hit or pass? The premise of Mickey’s lab rat-like existence is troubling yet thoughtful. Robert Pattison is incredible as all Mickey’s one through eighteen. Although the film captures the insanity and stupidity of today’s politics, it may be a little too preachy for some and could lead to a loss of interest. Let’s face it. Most of us go to the movies to escape and not to be reminded ...
Jun 29, 2025•1 hr 35 min
What do you get when you watch and you eat? Dinner with a Movie is our favorite treat! You guessed it. We’re discussing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory after we eat tomato soup, roast beef, blueberry pie, and chocolate eggs. This romp through a psychopath’s factory is full of friendly deathtraps for naughty children. Because we’re good boys at DWAM, we can keep bringing you our golden-ticket podcast where everyone’s a winner and there’s no chance of any of us "unintentionally" falling into...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 40 min
C’mon and have some cheese wrapped in salami and ice cream before we discuss C’mon C’mon. This voyage through mental health and parenting is guided by a kid with an old soul. Brandon isn’t bothered by Joaquin Phoenix and Jose isn’t bothered by Woody Norman so this movie is a pleasant surprise for Blake. Join us for another adventure, C’mon.
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 43 min
We kindly eat cheese pizza before discussing Be Kind Rewind . Jack Black and Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) lead a great team of friends making movies and creating a community. This episode takes us on a nostalgic journey of the not-so-distant past when we were making films and memories in college. We all find the film charming after we get past the confusing beginning and the emergence of Magnetic Jerry and his magnetized pee. Adding Alma to the mix rounds out the group and adds heart to the movie. Pleas...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 33 min
In an attempt to bring you content with more substance, we eat roast chicken, shrimp, eggs, and Diet Coke before discussing The Substance . Is it a comedy or horror? Is it good or bad? Is it real or a dream? We have no idea, but we have a good time trying to figure out what is going on. Like the Diet Coke, Blake and Jose may have drunk some of the substance and Brandon is having none of it.
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Hey, Superstars! Get on the bus. We’re headed to the biblical time of Israel in the seventies to eat cucumber, bell peppers, onions, bread, grapes, and drink a little wine before we discuss Jesus Christ Superstar (1974). We all agree that you need multiple watches of the movie to understand what the hell is going on at the beginning and end. We disagree on the need to know the greatest story ever told in order to follow the plot. We all think you’re on the right path if you’re listening to the p...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 45 min
LOOK OUT! Your friendly neighborhood Dinnermen are at it again when we eat Cup of Noodles, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and Dr. Pepper before we discuss Spiderman (the Tobey Maguire one). This movie is a great watch if you aren’t paying too much attention to the strange relationships and underdeveloped characters. We agree that Willem Dafoe is wonderful as Norman Osborn and could possibly carry the film. Too bad Spiderman/Peter isn’t as well developed as Harry Osborn. As a whole, the...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 53 min
There you are, listener! This week, we eat hot dogs and colorful cupcakes before discussing Hook (1991). Captain Hook and Smee steal the show and Peter’s children. This would be a great movie about the gay power couple named after the fabulous captain. Alas, it’s loosely about Peter’s need to become a better father. The film has some moments of endearment mixed in with nonconsensual kisses and strange generational love. Watch this film as an adult and you start to see behind the creepy curtain b...
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 44 min
We’re back in the Colosseum to eat bread, olive oil, grapes, and pomegranate before discussing Gladiator II (2024). Is this a better film than the original or a less effective carbon copy that no one needed? Lucius’s unwarranted change from revenge to forgiveness makes the film shallow while the inclusion of a Colosseum naval battle, even with sharks, makes it spectacular. Macrinus’s deception of the Emperors Timmy and Tommy and pulling their strings is a great addition that needed to be played ...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 46 min
We’re off on another pirate adventure this week when we eat crab, coconut water, melon, pineapple, and apple before discussing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006). The addition of Elizabeth thirsting for Jack’s pirate booty is out of character for a person who just had her wedding to Will Turner ruined. There may be too much silly sword-fighting in the film, but Bootstrap Bill and Davy Jones make this continuing story better. Now we’re off to go save Jack with help from a demon mon...
Jan 06, 2025•2 hr
We were looking for a good dinner to have with a movie and stumbled upon kimchi gumbo and Searching (2018). Everyone becomes a suspect in this story full of twists, turns, and dead ends that have you on the edge of your seat up until the final reveal. John Cho and Debra Messing are brilliant. It’s a little cliché in places, but a suspenseful ride that’ll make you want to turn the car around and go back to the scene of the crime.
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 49 min
We take a ride to a galaxy far, far away to eat sushi and talk about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story . Is this the best Star Wars movie? We think it is. It has everything from a smart-assed droid to a non-Jedi blind guy. A couple of CGI cameos and misplaced droids brings it down, but just like the Death Star nothing’s perfect. The prequel that nobody asked for delivers the hope for the Star Wars universe that we all need.
Jan 06, 2025•2 hr 1 min
We eat some grocery store deli food and discuss the movie Funny People (2009) this week. Is it nostalgic brilliance or a half-acted mess? We’ll let you decide. One thing we can agree on is that the love story part of the film drags on way too long. With too many comedian cameos to count, this film may be an ode to the past that Judd Apatow thinks is funny more than the audience does.
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 50 min
We took a break from the jar this week to watch something new. Was it a joke or was it Joker: Folie a Deux ? The world didn’t need another jukebox musical or another Joker movie, so we decided it was more of a gag than a movie. What didn’t make us gag was the talent of the actors and their ability to make something from the lackluster writing. That wasn’t enough to get high praise from us. We have to say that the folie in this is definitely number two.
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 47 min
This week, we are taking a ride down the river Nile as we eat Mediterranean food, possibly with bugs, and discuss The Mummy (1999). We are in love with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz as much as Imhotep is in love with Anck Su Namun. This film is full of entertainment if you can get over the ability to teleport to and from locations with ease and silly effects that may be as cool as a face in a sandstorm but are ill-used when it comes to plot and the rules of magic. Who wouldn’t wait dead for ye...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Papa, can you hear us? We eat some unburnt fish and baked apple before discussing the movie Yentl . This musical, with songs sung only by the title character, is an anthem for feminism and women’s rights. The stars shine brightly in this film, especially with Mandy Patinkin’s full moon out for everyone to see.
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 44 min
After some well-deserved time off we gathered at the beginning of the school year to eat some trash pizza and discuss Monsters University . In this prequel to Monsters Inc ., we get to know Mike and Sulley a little better and find out why they’re such a good team for churning out power for Big Scream. Although it doesn’t have Boo, it has a college feel all its own. Like Mike and Sulley, your college friends at DWAM are staying together to make you laugh and scream. If only we could just bottle t...
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 56 min
We lock ourselves inside separate rooms and eat birthday cake, peanut butter toast, cereal, milk, and grapes before we discuss Room . We make it perfectly clear that this movie is not to be confused with the movie The Room . When we began the podcast, we only knew small movies and dinners, but now we’re almost four and we know great movies and dinners. This is a truly great movie that we all agree you should watch. Just remember it’s named Room not The Room ....
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 44 min
We surrender after being “accidentally” left in Shanghai where we’re forced to eat potatoes, eggs, chocolate, butter biscuits, and milk before discussing Empire of the Sun . Blake finally gets a film about a boy’s loss of innocence. We’re grateful that we didn’t have to watch any of our friends die trying to cut a mango for us.
Sep 15, 2024•1 hr 38 min
We go undercover this week in Boston to eat croissants, cold cuts, and cranberry juice before we discuss The Departed . Everyone’s a rat in this entertaining Scorsese film, but we’re left to answer some big questions. Does everyone in Boston have a bad Boston accent? What’s in Billy’s envelope? Is Colin a repressed gay man? Who is Madolyn’s baby daddy? We try to get to the bottom of what’s going on with our determination to uncover the reason for killing almost every character in the movie witho...
Jul 27, 2024•2 hr
After speaking with the Bobfather, we cover ourselves with magic and sparkly dust and eat a dirty lunch of sushi, French fries, dates, baby dill pickles, gummy worms, and chocolate chip cookies before discussing Rugrats in Paris: The Movie . Where is the adult supervision of all these babies running unaccompanied around a foreign amusement park and city? Chuckie’s adventure to find a new mommy that’ll last for eber and eber makes this movie great for everyone. He reminds us that we gots to be br...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 34 min
This week, we eat foot-long sandwiches from a chain that must not be named before we discuss Terminator 2: Judgement Day . Are Skynet’s Terminators precise killing machines or are they bad at their jobs? With tons of action and some mixed moments of not-so-good voiceover, we can say that Robert Patrick as the overpowered T-1000 makes this film stand out from the original and anything that’s come after in the franchise. It’s too bad his prototype character never returns in the sequels. Hasta la v...
Jul 07, 2024•1 hr 57 min
We’re at the garage in the city living large this week as we eat pizza and cookies then discuss The Babysitter . We agree that some of the filmmaking choices detract from the film’s likability, but it's still a good watch. With laughs all the way through, this film is fun, entertaining, and uncomplicated. Watch it. Don’t be a P*$$Y.
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 34 min
This week, we get all dressed up in our furry suits and eat hot dogs and “rocket ship” shaped cookies before discussing Death to Smoochy . This behind-the-scenes look into a crazy world of depraved children's show entertainers is made even more entertaining with the great Robin Williams as Rainbow F-ing Randolph. It may not be the best-constructed story, but the comedy more than makes up for it. RIP Spinner. We love you, champ.
Jun 16, 2024•1 hr 41 min
Bleep, blurp, bleep, bloop is Robot for breakfast burritos and cupcakes which is what we eat before discussing The Mitchells vs The Machines . This animated family road trip – robot Armageddon – father/daughter bonding – coming of age movie almost has it all. Functional dysfunction can save the world as long as there’s love and memes. We learn to treat our phones with respect so they don’t turn against us and always pick up the phone when mom calls. Mom mode is not something you want to deal wit...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 46 min
We’re traveling to Mother Russia this week to eat a charcuterie buffet of cheese, chocolate, tomatoes, lettuce, apples, and bread before discussing The Death of Stalin . We can’t help but root for a bad guy in this power grab for control over the lives of so many comrades. It’s nice to know that we live in a world where we can watch a good satire of Russian politics and not get
May 15, 2024•1 hr 38 min
After trading our virtues for a meatball in our spaghetti, finding a cockroach in our salad, and smearing éclair cream into our nose hair; we discuss Victor/Victoria . In this crazy gay Parisian world, the accents may be all wrong, but we agree that the messages of acceptance and feminism are perfect until the second half where King’s arc outshines Victoria’s friendship with Toddy. It’s a great example of comedy filmmaking in the 1980s that even the shady dame from Seville would enjoy....
Apr 20, 2024•2 hr 7 min
We woke up this morning not knowing what we were doing so we decided to eat Chinese food, chocolate chip cookies, and clementines before discussing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . Do we really want Joel and Clem to make it? Are they nutso enough to give it another try? We don’t know where they’re headed, but it’s the journey that matters. We all agree that Patrick has no rizz. Stealing panties and a trashbag of memories is not the way to a woman’s heart.
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 49 min
