Sibling movie talk with bite and warmth.
Or Whatever Movies pairs Wesley and Iris in quick, opinionated conversations about films, awards, sequels, movie lore, and stray movie-adjacent mysteries. The mood is casual and funny, but the best moments often land on a sharp reading of a scene, performance, or theme.
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Or Whatever Movies is a compact, conversational film show centered on Wesley and Iris. Their dynamic is the point. One starts from a scene, a theory, a memory, or a stray bit of trivia, and the other pushes back, sharpens it, or knocks it sideways. The pace is brisk. The feeling is lived-in. A Princess Bride conversation can begin with affection for the movie, drift into Fred Savage and The Wonder Years, detour through family memories of Columbo, and still come back to why the film has such durable warmth. That looseness is not the same as aimlessness. The show often finds its best ideas by talking around them first. In the Brokeback Mountain episode, a question about whether a scene is memory, dream, or continuation turns into a sincere reading of forbidden love, money, family gatherings, and constrained emotion. Then the tone snaps back to teasing. That balance matters. Or Whatever Movies can be silly about impressions from Aliens or the name of Newt, but it can also notice when a children's adventure like Holes is more structurally tricky than it looks. The interview-style episodes give the pair room to argue definitions and odd corners of film culture. What makes a sequel? Are James Bond films sequels or simply franchise entries? Are the Razzies funny, cruel, or both? The show likes those middle spaces where a casual question becomes a real opinion. It also has a taste for movie-adjacent curiosities, including the Patrick Kim McDermott disappearance and Oscar-night behavior around Conan O'Brien, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sarah Murphy, and Ryan Coogler. Nothing about it feels sealed off from personal reaction. That is the appeal. It is movie talk with quotes misremembered, points revised midstream, and jokes that sometimes open the door to something more thoughtful.
Made for: For film fans who enjoy casual criticism, actor trivia, awards chatter, and scene-level arguments without a formal critic posture. It fits listeners who like quick conversations that can be funny one minute and genuinely attentive the next.
What sets it apart: The sibling back-and-forth gives the show a loose, corrective energy that polished review podcasts often smooth away. Its tangents are part of the analysis, turning memories, misquotes, and side trivia into a route back to the movie.
Or Whatever Movies podcast is a weekly entertainment discussion between real-life brother and sister duo, Wesley and Iris Ichishita. At under 30-minutes a pop, each episode is a quick, no-holds-barred discussion of a movie, television show, or video. The siblings mix the water cooler chat with the dinner table debate and invite you to listen in. Curious what others are saying about the latest release? Wes and Iris’ve got your back. Open, honest, unpretentious, and opinionated, they may change the way you think about movies.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scene-level scrutiny and sibling disagreement give familiar films fresh contours without turning the conversation into a lecture.
Iris and Wesley turn movie talk into a lively sibling argument, moving between new releases and familiar favorites while keeping individual scenes at the center.
Wesley and Iris turn your movie-night certainty into a sibling appeal before the credits cool.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A *Princess Bride* rewatch where sibling memory keeps tugging a favorite movie into family history.
The Princess Bride plays here as a rewatch shaped by expectation, sibling memory, and the odd pressure of meeting a beloved movie after years of inherited affection.
A close, emotionally wary discussion of love, money, and ambiguity around Ennis and Jack.
Or Whatever Movies frames Ennis and Jack's story around the gap between love and the lives available to them. Iris and Wesley sit with a scene that might be memory, dream, or the next night, returning to the image of the men holding each other without looking at each other.
A Holes conversation follows lizards, onions, sploosh, and a dried lake into the movie's layered mystery.
Or Whatever Movies treats Holes as a family film that reveals its history one clue at a time. Iris and Wesley start with a small but sticky question: why the lizards spare Stanley and Zero.
A 25th-anniversary rewatch weighs Training Day's moral pull against the gaps that repeated viewing makes harder to miss.
Or Whatever Movies revisits Training Day on its 25th anniversary by treating the film's reputation as something still worth testing. Iris and her brother spend time with Jake's fight through the Hillside House, where tables turn, Smiley is struck in his own place, and a key…
A Dracula conversation keyed to the divide between Oldman's theatrical predator and Skarsgard's stripped-down survivor.
Iris and Wesley sit down with Anthony and James from Raiders of the Lost Podcast for a Dracula and vampire discussion shaped by how each screen version remakes the monster.
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
Wes and Iris Ichishita discuss subliminal imagery in film and television, questioning whether hidden elements like demon faces in 'The Exorcist' or sound design tricks are cheap manipulation or artistic craftsmanship.
The hosts of Or Whatever Movies introduce their discussion of the 2001 film Training Day with humorous banter and insults.
Wesley and Iris discuss the 2025 Academy Award-nominated film 'Train Dreams' on their podcast 'Or Whatever Movies'.
Siblings Iris and Wesley Ichishita host a bonus episode with Anthony and James Devaney from Raiders of the Lost Podcast to discuss Dracula and vampire films.
Or Whatever Movies revisits The Princess Bride (1987) through Iris and Wesley's family watch, after Paloma suggested the movie and Bean left during the second Pit of Despair scene.
Or Whatever Movies spends its Brokeback Mountain episode on Ang Lee's adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story, with Wesley calling it "a goddamn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation." Iris says she reread Proulx through the story-to-screen book and rewatched the film with subtitles because Heath Ledger's Ennis Del Mar is hard to follow.
The hosts debate what defines a movie sequel, using James Bond and Jurassic Park as examples.
A discussion about the Razzies awards, their history, and notable moments like Sandra Bullock accepting her award in person.
A discussion about the mysterious disappearance of Patrick McDermott, Olivia Newton-John's boyfriend, who vanished from a chartered fishing boat in 2005.
Iris and host discuss and perform movie quote impressions, including Daniel Plainview and Sigourney Weaver lines.
Wes and Iris treat Holes as a 2003 Disney adaptation that starts with a juvenile detention camp, yellow spotted lizards, and a family curse tied to Green Lake.
Or Whatever Movies opens with Iris and her co-host reacting to Training Day, a 2001 film they frame as Ethan Hawke's big turn opposite Denzel Washington.
Iris and Wesley review the 2026 film Project Hail Mary, focusing on Ryan Gosling’s Ryland Grace, Rocky, and the adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel.
Wesley and Iris review the A24 film 'If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You', a 2025 movie about the nightmare of motherhood starring Rose Byrne.
Wesley and Iris review the Neil Diamond-inspired film 'Song Sung Blue', discussing performances and the movie's earnest tone.
Wesley and Iris discuss their chaotic experience watching a movie set in 1970s Brazil, with Wesley needing a break to watch another film.