Two Thumbs Down with Mike and Ryan

Happy birthday Ryan! To celebrate the birth of the most important host, the boys are reviewing the first movies that Siskel and Ebert ever reviewed. Galia, a French drama from 1966, and Rascal, a live action Disney movie from 1969 about a boy and his new raccoon!

It’s the end of spooky month and the boys end it on a banger. This week Austin Wolf-Sothern is brought back in to talk sci fi horror movies Screamers, starring Peter Weller of Robocop, and Event Horizon, with Laurence Fishburne and the late great Sam Neill. The fellas also talk The Bone Temple, Hope, Steven Soderbergh, and The Batman 2

The time has come to put these European directors in their place. The guys have pal River Butcher back on the pod to talk all things European directors remaking their own movies in America in The Vanishing and Nightwatch. The dudes also talk Digger, Andrew Garfield and The Uprising, The Weight, Primetime, Resident Evil, and The Social Reckoning

It’s the thumbs of the living dead! This week the fellas bring back friend Danny Ross to talk about a remake of a George A. Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead and the third in Romero’s trilogy, Day of the Dead. The boys also talk more Michael Myers, John Wilson’s The History of Concrete, and The Drama

Spooky season is here and we’re starting with a bang! The boys bring back Mark Schroeder to talk Halloween 2 and Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. They talk all things Michael Myers, The Odyssey, and just in time for scary season the men go on a deep dive into Resident Evil

It’s basketball time! The new NBA season is right around the corner so the lads are talking all things basketball (on the confines of Siskel and Ebert)! They talk some Billy Crystal, Kevin Bacon, Gheorghe Mureșan, and some even Steven Seagal

It’s finally time to touch grass. This week the boys bring in Emerson Dibley to talk some 80’s comedy classics. First is Harry and the Hendersons, the Bigfoot flick starring John Lithgow. Then the boys go to The Great Outdoors, starring John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, and Annette Bening. The boys also discuss Obsession, Spider-Man Brand New Day, I Want Your Sex, Sheep Detectives, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

Our very special Dolly Parton episode! This week we bring back Ilana Winter to talk all things Dolly, share memories and stories, and watch some incredibly unique movies in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, featuring Burt Reynolds, and Rhinestone, featuring Sylvester Stallone

It’s our impromptu Tim Curry farewell episode. This week we bring in Phil Del Costello to say RIP and discuss Clue, with an all time great comedic performance from Curry, and Three Amigos, another 80’s classic comedy. We also talk a bit about The Odyssey, Dune 3, Tony, Obsession, and Bob Odenkirk’s Normal

This week it’s all about the courtroom. First up is the murder thriller Criminal Law, with Gary Oldman and Kevin Bacon, then the biopic Ghosts of Mississippi, with Alex Baldwin and Whoopi Goldberg. But more importantly, the boys discuss the absolute monstrous accents from everyone from James Woods to William H. Macy

Meet our new podcast episode! This week it’s a double feature of meeting with Meet the Applegates, starring Ed Begley Jr. and Stockard Channing, and Disney’s Meet the Deedles, starring Paul Walker and Dennis Hopper. The boys also met the new Christopher Nolan flick The Odyssey!

It’s finally time to have the boys to have the sex talk. To help them out they watched Body of Evidence, with Madonna and Willem Dafoe, and Color of Night, with Bruce Willis and Jane March. The boys also discuss Minions & Monsters, Evil Dead Burn, and more sex with Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

WHOOPI WHOOPI WHOOPI! In this week’s episode it’s a Whoopi Goldberg double feature with Jumpin' Jack Flash and Burglar. The guys also talk about Tuner, Toy Story 5, and so much more!

It’s all about friendship on this episode because we bring on old friend and filmmaker, Freddy Gaitan to discuss some HUGE 80’s sequels in Ghostbusters 2 and Gremlins 2. We also talk Jackass Best and Last, Obsession, Backrooms, and the GOD Peter MacNicol

It’s Macaulay Culkin day on the podcast! Today we’ve brought on DOCTOR Justin Gautreau to talk about his past book, The Last Word, about old Hollywood novelists and screenwriters and his upcoming book about W.R. Burnett, author of Little Caesar (the very first gangster movie ever made). These oft overlooked 90’s movies feature Ted Danson, Elijah Woods, and one of the most shocking movie endings from a child star ever

It’s the last mini episode and it’s Highlander III: The Final Dimension. Or maybe it’s Highlander III: Sorcerer? Or perhaps Highlander III: The Final Conflict? Will adding Mario Van Peebles cement this as the greatest movie trilogy of all time? There’s just one way to find out!

In the second mini episode it’s Highlander II: The Quickening! Hailed as one of the worst movies ever made, will the boys agree or maybe discuss this misunderstood MASTERPIECE

There can only be three mini episodes! First up is Highlander, the first in the franchise. The boys talk Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and even discuss In The Grey and Backrooms

Time to grab a drink and BE NICE. This week the boys bring back best boy River Butcher to talk all things Roadhouse, with Patrick Swayze, and The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. The fellas also talk about Fight Club, Sorry Baby, Hamnet, Widows Bay, and Carolina Caroline

As Alan Jackson once said, the hosts of the Two Thumbs Down podcast have gone country! The fellas discuss two country themed movies. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, starting Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, and Gary Busey. And Pure Country, starring actual country star George Strait and of course punk legend John Doe. And no country podcast would be complete without a large Borat discussion!