“Benson… Ben’s Son!” We’re wrapping up our Double Feature Summer and closing it out with some bangers! We watched “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” and the brand-spanking new “Legacy-quel” (also titled) “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2025) with dear friend of the podcast, the always spooky, Ashley Casseday from “Keep it Weird”. We’ve decided, “I Still Know” might just be superior to the original (sorry kids). Jennifer Love Hewitt (Love to you and me) is back as the ever flustered Julie...
Jul 25, 2025•2 hr 13 min•Season 7Ep. 290
“I’m not messing around. I’m doing important stuff.” We watched “Superman” (2025) with our friend and resident Supes expert, Billy Roach, and we welcome our newest Kryptonian overlord. In a growing list of Supermen, David Corenswet has proven himself to be quite possibly the dorkiest entry, and gosh darn it, it’s so endearing! We’re not going to waste too much time answering the trolls’ review bombing this movie - instead, we’re going to celebrate what we liked about it. Not the least of which i...
Jul 18, 2025•2 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 289
"Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the Earth." It's a double feature summer at Movies That Made Us Gay, and we watched the original "Jurassic Park" and the latest entry "Jurassic World: Rebirth" with our friend and the newest member of the MTMUG Five Timers Club, Hiko Mitsuzuka. His monogrammed smoking jacket is on back order. Listen, what else can be added to the conversation about the original Jurassic Park? Yes, Laura Dern was a sexual awakening for many a young gay girl (and boy), yes the Di...
Jul 11, 2025•1 hr 51 min•Season 7Ep. 288
“Well guys, we've made it to the end of the summer in one piece, except for a few campers who are lepers.” We’re taking a trip to Camp Firewood, and watched David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer for our July 4th episode. Opening in dozens of theaters in the summer of 2001, Wet Hot American Summer gathered a loyal fan base from home video rentals and DVD sales. Set on the last day of camp, in the summer of 1981, a group of horny counselors try to complete their unfinished business of romances befo...
Jul 04, 2025•1 hr 49 min•Season 7Ep. 287
"I didn't make you do anything that wasn't in you already. People are such hypocrites. They walk through their whole lives playing innocent to the day they die, but they're not innocent. I showed you that." We watched "Bad Influence" (1990) with our friend, film writer, and author, Quatoyiah Murray, and we are all vying for President of the James Spader fan club. This may be a lesser-known entry in Spader's film resume, but it is definitely worth the watch. We all came to the same conclusion - t...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 38 min•Season 7Ep. 286
“Well, pumpkins, looks like it's the age-old dilemma. Style...or substance.” It’s Pride season, and we watched the larger-than-life drag classic “To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything. Julie Newmar,” and we need a recount of our Princess Points. Over the past 30 years, this movie has secured itself as one of the most quotable comedies of the 90s. This isn’t just a funny gay movie; this is a funny movie, period. We promise we didn’t spend the entire 90 minutes parroting our favorite quotes back and ...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Season 7Ep. 285
“It’s the witch from next door!” We take a trip to the theater to discuss the iconic filmed production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, which was recorded for PBS American Playhouse in 1989. In one of our first opportunities to discuss Sondheim and Broadway on the podcast, we are joined by Andrew Rimby from the Ivory Tower Boiler Room. Many people hold the music from Into the Woods dear, and we are fortunate that its original cast was recorded in the spring of 1989. This Fractured Fairy Tal...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Season 7Ep. 284
“I put a bird on my head.” We watched “Sex and the City” and we may have Poughkeepsied our pants laughing. Oh look, we made a little joke. The original “Sex and the City” TV show is iconic, and the jump to the big screen was everything we wanted. The wardrobe - elevated, the sex scenes - steamier, and the drama… well, the drama is top tier. We all remember the moment Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) was jilted at the altar. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) jumped to her rescue with the iconic “NO!”. Liste...
Jun 06, 2025•2 hr 17 min•Season 7Ep. 283
"More human than human" is our motto. We watched "Blade Runner" (1982) and "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) with our friend Drew Stanley, and we're in the market for one of those replicant owls. The original "Blade Runner" is a sci-fi classic, and while Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard couldn't be any more straight, the replicant Roy Batty as portrayed by Danish import Rutger Hauer is so queer-coded we're still talking about it 40 years later. Director Ridley Scott's "Cassette Punk" vision of Los Angeles...
May 30, 2025•1 hr 57 min•Season 7Ep. 282
“Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago; he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.” We watched “All About Eve” with our friend Jack Fields, and it was indeed a bumpy night. We really don’t have an answer as to how it took us this long to cover this titan of a movie, but here we are, and we had a blast. It doesn’t get any better than Bette Davis lashing out at anyone and anything with some of the shadiest lines in movie history. Anne Baxter more than holds her ...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Season 7Ep. 281
We're taking a week off of a regular MTMUG episode this week, but have a special bonus episode that gives you a taste of what you're missing on our Patreon. We're going to Disneyworld on the Patreon this week, and are taking about five ABC sticoms that brought (most) of its cast to the Happiest Place on Earth. First, we talk about Step By Step, our favorite Brady Bunch knockoff, that spent Grandma's inheritance money early by getting an all-expense trip to Disney World. Second, we talk about Boy...
May 16, 2025•2 hr 5 min
"I'm not afraid. It's the Wizard who should be afraid of me." We watched "Wicked" with our good Judy, Mitchell Anderson, and it was just as good as the first time we watched it! We knew we wanted to review this episode here on our show, and we thought there's no time like the present. Here we are, about halfway between the release of "Wicked" and her upcoming sequel, "Wicked: For Good," so we thought we'd take a look at what makes this movie work so darn well. Obviously, the casting of Cynthia E...
May 09, 2025•2 hr 10 min•Season 7Ep. 280
"Unfinished business? I have no unfinished business. I have my treasure, my mansion, I have everything. I'm just perfect!” We watched “Casper” with the hilarious Michael Valvo and we’ve got a lot of unfinished business! Let’s face it, this movie was an awakening for a lot of people. We all either wanted to be best friends with or just wanted to be Christina Ricci in this movie. Christina was the epitome of ‘90s middle school coolness and as Kat Harvey she is cool goals, and Bill Pullman as her d...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 57 min•Season 7Ep. 279
“I’ll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last.” We watched Wolfgang Peterson’s sword and sandal epic ‘Troy’ with our friend Chris Cirigliano. Based on Homer’s the Iliad , this summer blockbuster had many turning their nose up at its historical inaccuracies and poor adaptation of the epic poem. There are no Gods, or Mount Olympus to be found here, but what it does have is a beefed-u...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 46 min•Season 7Ep. 278
“There's nothing wrong with Ellen. It's just that she loves too much.” We watched “Leave Her to Heaven” with our friend Emily Ollero Jones from the podcast “Female Driven,” and we’re still trying to figure out a way to get Gene Tierney that Oscar. This Technicolor psychological thriller really has everything: melodrama, film noir, allusions to Greek mythology, and most importantly… that face! Not a soul can clock. Gene Tierney is really serving it up throughout this movie, and we just have one t...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Season 7Ep. 277
"Du Jour means seat belts. Du Jour means crash positions!" We get to an early 00s cult classic in kitten ears, "Josie and the Pussycats", this week with our friend Jessica Granger. Critics didn't really know what to do with this razor-sharp satire of the music industry and consumerism when it came out back in 2001, but we're here to say this movie still holds up. We discuss all three of our Pussycats: Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, and Rosario Dawson, early aughts MTV and the stranglehold TRL ha...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Season 7Ep. 276
"Look, I'm not one to gossip; it's not my nature. Truth? Truth! Now, that's my nature." We watched "Trick" from 1999 with our friend Jake Szczepaniak, and we need to borrow your apartment for 20 minutes... okay, maybe 45. Now, this is a movie that really made us gay! This movie instantly transports us to the '90s in New York City, pre-hookup apps, pre-“RuPaul's Drag Race", and pre-PrEP. If you got cruised on the subway, you had mere moments to make a decision that could drastically change your l...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Season 7Ep. 275
“First, he's a geek, and then you start going out with him. Then he's a geek again. Honey, I don't know what a geek is." We watched the geek-to-chic classic "Can't Buy Me Love" with our friend Ben Cheeves, and there's a $1,000 telescope at the mall with all of our names on it. This modern-day Pygmalion in high school may be well-worn territory today, but way back in 1987, this concept was fresh as a daisy. Nerdy Ronald Miller (Patrick Dempsey) uses his saved-up lawn-mowing cash to bail head chee...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 56 min•Season 7Ep. 274
“Overman was killed inside the park. The baby was caught inside the park. Its mother is inside the park.” We watched “Jaws 3-D” with our friends, the Dames of Doom themselves, Nicole and Tess from Doom Generation Podcast, and we’re cancelling our Sea World annual passes! We’d like to think there is some sort of continuity to the first two Jaws films, but the Brody brothers have been aged up faster than a baby on a soap opera. Dennis Quaid steps in as the eldest Brody bro, and he’s the head of at...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Season 7Ep. 273
"First, that fez and vest combo is much too third-century. These patches. What are we trying to say? Beggar? No. Let's work with me here." We watched the Disney animated classic “Aladdin," and we wish we could go back and watch it again for the first time. We've seen this movie countless times, and Robin Williams' unforgettable performance as Genie still makes us laugh to this day. We also have to talk about the power couple Aladdin and Jasmine. Aladdin was the first crush of many little queer b...
Mar 14, 2025•2 hr 1 min•Season 7Ep. 272
“I know I'm not one of your favorites. I'm not even welcome in your house. But I could use a little attention.” Pete’s sister Amy joins us to talk about our favorite leading man, Keanu Reeves, in "Constantine", which just had its 20th anniversary last month. We know this movie is hardly perfect, but this cast, though. Keanu Reeves was directly after he made the Matrix sequels, and Rachel Weisz has a face card that none of us can deny. We’d gladly go to Hell and back for these two. Truly a fever ...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Season 7Ep. 271
“Trilogies are all about going back to the beginning and discovering something that wasn’t true from the get-go. Godfather, Jedi, all revealed something we thought was true that wasn’t true.” We watched “Scream 3” with our friend, author Wesley Thomas, and we’ve all been seriously considering getting bangs. Our friends from Woodsboro are back, and yet again, someone is trying to un-alive everyone in Sidney Prescott’s (Neve Campbell) orbit. Yes, Sid is living way off in the canyons answering a he...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 53 min•Season 7Ep. 270
We're rolling out the red carpet this week on the podcast! It’s our annual Oscar episode, and we're being joined by our award show pals Joshua Clement and Harper Thomson to talk about this years nominees. It’s been a wild ride this year full of controversies, body horror, and comeback stories! It’s no surprise the biggest nail bitter this year is over in best actress. Will Demi Moore's career best performance in the Substance be a win for horror fans everywhere? Will our girl Mikey Madison be th...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 58 min
"No, I've never heard of air rights. What are air rights?" We watched "Burlesque with our friend Paul Caiola from "That Aged Well," and we would like 3 tickets for tonight’s floor show at the Burlesque Lounge. We're willing to look past this pop-up book version of Hollywood, the questionable business practices of the venue, and even the legality of these so-called "air rights," but we will not sit idly by while Cher gets upstaged by "a tacky farm girl from Iowa." Listen, this movie is a whole bu...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 51 min•Season 7Ep. 269
"There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand." We're back with a brand new season and we watch "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" directed by Tim Burton and even after all these years we can't contain our joy after viewing this comedy masterpiece. We really lost an icon when Paul Reubens passed so we're celebrating his legacy reviewing Pee-wee on his quest to find his prized bicycle....
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 49 min•Season 7Ep. 268
You've got mail! Before we get start recording the new season, Reba the Mail Lady stopped by our apartment with some listener questions. We talk about our deathbed movies, the 2025 Oscar race, our favorite episodes since we recorded the last mailbag episode, the Fanning sisters, and much much more! We'll be back next week with our season seven premiere! Thanks for listening and don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! www.patreon.com/moviesthatmadeusgay Facebook/Instagram...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 34 min
“Lucy, you are born into a family. You do not join them like you do the Marines.” It’s the Season Six Finale, and we watched “While You Were Sleeping” with our favorite gal pal, Moranne Keeler, and boy do we love us some Sandra Bullock. We spend a good portion of the pod pondering over that certain quality Sandra possesses that draws us to her every time. She’s been America’s Sweetheart since the ‘90s when she drove that bus right down the freeway, straight to our hearts. That X-factor quality r...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Season 6Ep. 267
“It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags.” It’s our official Christmas week episode, and what better way to get into the holiday season than to watch the millennial favorite Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, directed by Ron Howard, with our friend Jessica Delgadillo. We aren’t saying this movie doesn’t have its problems, but there’s just something about it that gives us the Christmasy feels and keep us coming back to it every year. Is it m...
Dec 20, 2024•2 hr•Season 6Ep. 266
“Why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nitwit. You can't fire me, I quit! Seems I don't fit in.” It’s a Rankin/Bass “Animagic” Christmas Spectacular here at Movies That Made Us Gay, and we watched “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” “The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus,” and “Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey” with our friend Harper Thomson and we still want to visit the island of misfit toys. These charming stop-motion animation TV specials from the ...
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr 57 min•Season 6Ep. 265
“Children can be nasty, don't you think?” We watched the camp classic “The Bad Seed” from 1956 this week with Emily Ollero Jones from the podcast “Female Driven”, and what will you give us for a basket of kisses? Of all the bad-ass bitches in cinema history, there isn’t anyone quite like Rhonda Penmark, played by Patty McCormick. Rotted to the core, Rhonda is a child serial killer and psychopath who manipulates all the adults around her. We wouldn’t have Damien Thorn from “The Omen”, Esther from...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Season 6Ep. 264
