Sorry this one's a little late, life and the holidays happened! Maren and Martha are hashing out the 2020 Netflix original, Love, Wedding, Repeat. Where they charmed or turned off? It sure was a movie we watched!

Love YA! Love, Wedding, Repeat

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

Yeehaw! It's the start of Westerns Month over here at the DYDYH Ranch. Too much? Probably! We're kicking the summer off with our first episode all about Westerns; specifically, about how Westerns engaged with the idea of a vanishing Frontier.

Homework for the episode: Deadwood, episodes 1-5 (2004, created by David Milch), and The Wild Bunch (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Episode 105: How the West Was Lost

It's still Westerns month, and on this episode, Martha gets to fully wallow in the nexus point of several of her interests: critiquing masculinity, cowboys, and the films of Kelly Reichardt. Pete is a general good sport about all of it.

Homework for the episode: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone) and First Cow (2020, dir. Kelly Reichardt)

Episode 106: Masculinity in the West

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

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

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

As promised, our spoiler-filled discussion of the Mike Flanagan adaptation, Fall of the House of Usher! Spoilers for the series up through episode 7.

Episode 141b: Fall of the House of Usher

Happy Love YA Day! We're discussing an episode I would have sworn was a Netflix original but somehow actually got a theatrical release! Probably because Priyanka Chopra Jones is so great.

On this episode: Love, Again (2023, dir. Jim Strouse)

Love YA! Love Again

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

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?

Did that really just happen? We come out of our hiatus (still maintaining that it's temporary) to bring you a movie that does not fit within our normal parameters at all, but that we're desperate to talk about. Martha and Maren go deep on their personal histories with WICKED and their feelings about part 1 of John M. Chu's fantasy epic. 

Episode 83: WICKED

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

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

New guest Kim joins us to discuss coming of age stories: their appeal, universality, and sneaking diverse experiences into stories easily consumable by white people. We discuss Call Me By Your Name, Persepolis, and The House on Mango Street.

Episode 9: Coming of Age

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

It's a brand new episode of Love YA! Things start out a little rocky because Maren and Martha both needed their coffee, but we get rolling pretty quick. We're here to discuss the book-to-film adaptation A Wrinkle in Time.

Love YA! A Wrinkle in Time

It's a fun romp for your holiday weekend! Maren and Martha enjoy the fluffy adventure Enola Holmes, a 2020 Netflix original directed by Harry Bradbeer and starring Millie Bobby Brown, Helena Bonham Carter, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, and Louis Partridge.

Love YA! Enola Holmes

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