Today Maren and Martha take on the 2021 teen Groundhog Day Scenario flick, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (dir. Ian Samuels).

Love Ya! The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Martha and Pete talk about how archival footage is used in two recent movies that both deal with the same time period: "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and "Judas and the Black Messiah". How are the primary source materials woven into these fictionalized depictions of historical events? Are they effective? Let's talk about it!

Episode 103: Archival Insertion

We've come to the end (for the moment) of our drawn-out conversation on Westerns, and we hope you have had as much fun as we have! To cap everything off, we're talking about the Neo-Western - the Western set in modern times, with more cars than horses but just as many cowboy hats.

Homework for the episode: No Country for Old Men (2007, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen) and Hell or High Water (2016, dir. David Mackenzie)

Episode 107: The Neo-Western

This is your reality...or is it? Pete and Martha take a look at some mind-bending media intent on destroying the line between the real and the imagined.

Homework for the episode: The Game (1997, dir. David Fincher), RABBITS (2017-current)

Episode 112: Altered Reality

We're living in a hellscape, so Pete and Martha are breaking down media that puts a macabre, game show spin on gladiatorial entertainment. We're talking about Squid Game (2021, dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk) and The Running Man (1987, dir. Paul Michael Glaser).

Episode 117: Dystopic Game Shows

We trace the origins of the 'historically anachronistic' film from its nebulous origins with A Knight's Tale (2001, dir. Brian Helgelund) up through the current Hulu series The Great (2020-, created by Tony McNamara). Pete finally gets an episode as self-indulgent as Martha has for years and years. Will Martha pronounce the word "anachronism" correctly? You'll have to listen to find out!

Episode 119: Historical Anachronisms

Maren and Martha are back in your ears to discuss the brand new, Amazon Prime original I Want You Back (2022, dir. Jason Orley). The big takeaway? Put Charlie Day and Jenny Slate in more romances!

Love YA! I Want You Back

Pete and Martha sure did read a book for this episode. We take a dip back into the early aughts, when conspiracy theories were fun and fake news was about the Illuminati hiding treasure in tombs and not about lizard people sex traffickers.

Homework for the episode: The Da Vinci Code (2003, auth. Dan Brown) and National Treasure (2004, dir. Jon Turteltaub)

Episode 128: Conspiracy Theories of the Aughts

Martha finally watched John Wick, so we had to talk about it! Lots of spoilers within!

Episode 135.5: John Wick Addendum

Martha and Maren check out the brand spanking new RYE LANE (2023, dir. Raine Allen-Miller). Check out their thoughts on these two crazy kids!

For next time: the Netflix original DO REVENGER (2022, dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson)

Love YA! Rye Lane

Maren and Martha are here to give due to the 2022 BROS (dir. Nicholas Stoller) and the comedic voice of Billy Eichner. We discuss what makes a rom com, what makes a romance (the answer may surprise you!), and ruminate on who is allowed to be raunchy in Hollywood these days.

Love YA! Bros

Netflix continues to be top dog in adapting charming YA books into questionably awkward movies! Today, Maren and Martha are looking at the 2022 adaptation, Love & Gelato (dir. Brandon Camp).

Love YA! Love & Gelato

We've got a brand new one for you! Maren and Martha dig into the 2023 Netflix adaptation Happiness for Beginners (dir. Vicky Wight). Listen to find out how we feel about Ellie Kemper's foray into being a (semi) dramatic lead, her chemistry (??) with co-star Luke Grimes, and all the Patagonia advertising you could ask for.

Love YA! Happiness for Beginners

It's a DYDYH/Love YA crossover! Maren and Martha have referenced Richard Linklater's BEFORE movies about 800 times, so we decided it was time to do a deep dive. Pete, Martha and Maren get together to share their experiences and relationships to this trilogy, and how that may have evolved the same way that Jesse and Celine have.

For next time: a Poe extravaganza! We're getting ready for Mike Flanagan's FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, and to prepare, we're reading the source material and watching the Vincent Price adaptation from 1960. Additional topics of discussion may also include The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Mask of the Red Death.

Episode 140: Richard Linklater's BEFORE

All three of your DYDYH network regulars are here to share their best of lists for 2023!

Episode 144: Best of 2023

Will we ever run out of excuses to talk about Dune? Not likely! Pete and Martha take a deep dive into the oeuvre of Denis Villeneuve, including his early English-language works, and discuss what excites us about his future.

Discussed on this episode: Enemy (2013), Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Dune Part 2 (2024). For a deeper discussion on Dune Part 1 (2021), check out our episode 116!

Episode 146: Denis Villeneuve

Objection! Drop what you're listening to and check this out instead! Pete and Martha look at legal thrillers and courtroom dramas, and ask the question: are they back? Why did they leave? Why are production companies cowards about mid-budget adult dramas?

Homework for the episode: My Cousin Vinny (1992, dir. Jonathan Lynn); Runaway Jury (2003, dir. Gary Fleder), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023, dir. William Friedkin), Anatomy of a Fall (2023, dir. Justine Triet)

Episode 147: In the Courtroom

Pete and Martha stay up too late talking about Concert Films! In this once in a lifetime episode, they take on the weight of nearly 50 years of cinematic concert experiences. 2023 was a banner year for concert films, and your intrepid hosts set out to figure out why, while talking about two of the best ever made, and a new contender for that title.

Homework:
The Last Waltz (1978), directed by Martin Scorsese
Stop Making Sense (1984), directed by Jonathan Demme
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023), directed by Sam Wrench

Episode 148: Concert Movies

What exactly IS a heist movie? It is impossible to say, but Pete and Martha take a crack at it (it's not impossible, Martha is correct and since Pete doesn't write these descriptions, I get to say whatever I want).

Homework for the episode: Ocean's 11 (2001, dir. Steven Soderbergh); Inside Man (2006, dir. Spike Lee); Inception (2010, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Episode 149: Heists

It's happening - we're talking about Martha's hyperfixation and special interest, Godzilla! (Mothra makes an appearance, natch). We discuss the old, the new, the good, the bad, the Japanese and the American. 

Homework for the episode: Godzilla (1954, dir. Ishirô Honda), Godzilla (2014, dir. Gareth Edwards), Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno); Godzilla Minus One (2023, dir. Takashi Yamazaki)

Episode 150: GODZILLA

Today we turn our eye to that most iconic of sad street-level heroes, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Starting with Tobey McGuire in 2002, Pete and Martha dig into the screen iterations of Spidey, and discuss what makes one successful.

Homework for the episode: look, it's a whole lot of Spider-Man, but we dig in deep on Spider-Man (2002, dir. Sam Raimi), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012, dir. Mark Webb), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017, dir. Jon Watts) and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018, dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman)

Episode 151 - Spiders Man

What does it mean to make your setting a starring player in your story? Pete and Martha talk it out, through a cinematic master and a science fiction virtuoso author.

Homework for the episode: Collateral (2004, dir. Michael Mann), The City & The City (2009, auth. China Mieville)

Episode 152: Locations as Character

It's the most wonderful time of the year - our annual crossover event with Catching Up David! We're taking a deep dive into two popular prequels and asking ourselves...do we need this? D

Homework for the episode: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023, dir. Francis Lawrence) and The First Purge (2018, dir. Gerard McMurray). 

Episode 153: Prequels! Do We Need Them?

It's our last episode of the year! Pete and Martha dig into the most passionate of passion projects, the movies that almost-but-not-quite get made. Movies die in Hollywood all the time, but some are such powerful ideas that they leave an impression in our imaginations. And sometimes, decades later, they do get made! But should they? Let's find out...

Homework for the episode: Jodorowsky's Dune (2013, dir. Frank Pavich), Lost in La Mancha (2002, dir. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe), The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018, dir. Terry Gilliam)

Episode 154: Films That Never Were

We're going back to cinema history, baby! In light of Robert Eggers' new gothic horror fantasy NOSFERATU, Pete and Martha take the opportunity to watch it in the context of its predecessors. How does it stack up? Listen to find out...

Homework for the episode: Nosferatu (1922, dir. F.W. Murnau), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, dir. Werner Herzog), Nosferatu (2024, dir. Robert Eggers)

Stay tuned for our next episode, our Best Ofs for 2024!

Episode 155: Nosferatoos

It's that time of year, when every pop culture/movie podcast gets to merrily nitpick the selections from the Academy of Motion Pictures. What do we like? What do we not? We get into everything on this bonus episode!

Note: as of recording, your friendly podcasters were not aware of the malicious social media posts from Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón. We regret that we were not able to touch on that, as we certainly do not endorse their sentiments, and would like to remind all celebrities everywhere that you can just say nothing - no one ever has to be a racist asshole. 

Bonus: Oscar Nominations

It's finally here, our Best of the Year 2024! As always, what qualifies is a nebulous concept, but that's why it's our show and not yours. 

Next episode: Oscars recap!

Episode 156: Best of 2024

It's the discussion Martha looks forward to all year - our Oscars breakdown! Find out what we liked, what bummed us out, what fits we appreciated and what bits worked best. We recommend listening to this episode whilst watching a sandworm play a harp for no reason.

On our next episode: it's a Michael Mann deep dive! We're talking about The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, and Miami Vice.

Episode 157: The Oscars

Are you a Mann or aren't you? We've touched on Michael Mann here and there but it's time to put him under the microscope.

Homework for the episode: The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Heat (1995), The Insider (1999), and Miami Vice (2006). Also discussed: Ferrari (2023), Collateral (2004)

Episode 158: A Mann Amongst Men

Remember when science was cool and good and we all wanted to be Sam Neill in Jurassic Park? So do we! That's why we're bringing you a whole episode on science movies, why we love them, and how OPPENHEIMER became an absolute box office behemoth.

Homework for the episode: Jurassic Park (1993, dir. Stevie Spiels); The Martian (2015, dir. Ridley Scott); OPPENHEIMER (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Episode 159: When Science Was Cool

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to listen to Martha and Pete yell about Mission: Impossible for approximately 90 minutes. Martha made a timeline of action movies , but to what end? Will you agree with their rankings of the movies? Will Tom Cruise perish doing a ridiculous stunt? There's only one way to find out.

Episode 160:  Missions Impossible

It's Halloween in July! Pete has once again allowed Martha free reign to talk about her nonsense, so we're doing a horror episode. Homework discussed: House on Haunted Hill (1959, dir. William Castle); Poltergeist (1982, dir. Tobe Hooper); His House (2020, dir. Remi Weekes)

Join us next month when we're all about the man himself, Superman!

Episode 161: Haunted Houses

Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's our newest pop culture character deep dive!

Joined by friend of the show and brother of host Mark, we dig deep on the Man of Steel, what we love and what's not so great. We're talking about the new James Gunn flick, but also get into the 1979 OG Superman, the 2013 Man of Steel, as well as the comics All Star Superman by Grant Morrison and A Superman for All Seasons by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

Episode 162: All About Superman

It's here! Our debut episode, in which we discuss how identity functions as a narrative tool, get used to the flow of conversation in a podcast, and Martha gets a little cranky about what people see as "feminist" narratives.

The homework for the episode:
Martha: Sense8 holiday special (Netflix streaming)
Pete: The VVitch (film)
Calee: The Orphanage (film)

Episode 1: Who Am I? Identity As a Story Tool

We're back! We have returned from our hiatus with a fully packed episode, starting with what's stuck in our heads this week and a deep dive on the Starz documentary America to Me, which happens to be the high school we all went to. Return guest Bill joins us to talk about the documentary, our experiences, and our feelings re: our hometown

Next episode we're joined by friend of the show Joel from 40 Going on 14 to discuss problematic faves. The homework for next episode will be: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Breakfast Club, and The Cosby Show.

Episode 1: America to Me

It's so nice to watch a movie unambiguously set in Chicago! Martha and Maren are examining The Last Summer, something KJ Apa apparently filmed in between whatever is happening on Riverdale.

Love YA: The Last Summer

Welcome to the third semester of Did You Do Your Homework! Pete and Martha are sharply aware of the date this episode drops, so they turn their eye towards historical influences in pop culture - specifically, turning history into pop culture. The homework for the episode: The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow; Remember Me, directed by Allen Coulter.

Third Semester, Episode 1: In Living Memory

It's time to finally discuss the movie that started it all. With the sequel's release date announced (February!), Martha and Maren take on the Netflix original adaptation, To All The Boys I've Loved Before. Is it the perfect teen rom com? You'll have to listen to find out.

Love YA! To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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