Bad movies, fast riffs, no patience.
They Called This a Movie turns bad and bizarre movies into loose group comedy. The show recaps plots, argues over details, and follows every odd choice until it becomes a running joke.
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They Called This a Movie is a bad-movie podcast built around fast chemistry and deeply questionable viewing choices. The show covers films that seem to dare people to explain them out loud. Sometimes that means a giant yeti movie with shifting scale and fish logistics. Sometimes it means a Cynthia Rothrock movie where everyone notices how often the ending belongs to someone else. Sometimes it means a religious college comedy where the basic dorm-room premise becomes the main source of disbelief. The conversation tends to start with banter, wander into a complaint, and then land on a sharper point almost by accident. That looseness is part of the appeal. The episodes do not sound like essays being read into microphones; they sound like friends comparing notes while the movie keeps giving them stranger material. Recaps are less about clean plot summary than about pressure-testing the film's logic. A throwaway detail can become the whole room's problem. The speakers will argue about pants, prosthetics, books, college rules, giant breathing tubes, and whether anyone in a film understands normal human behavior. The tone is dry and irreverent, but not locked into one mode. The People's Joker discussion shows the show can recognize when a messy movie has an emotional engine, especially around identity, family, and the value of different kinds of comedy. Even then, the conversation keeps its bite. Episodes also carry the feel of a community show, with Discord, Patreon, polls, and movie suggestions treated as part of the regular machinery. It is not polished prestige criticism. It is a quick, familiar, occasionally chaotic movie hangout that finds comedy in bad craft, strange premises, and the exact moment a film's choices stop making sense.
Made for: For movie fans who enjoy oddities, chaos, and review shows that feel more like sharp group banter than formal criticism. Best for listeners who like sarcasm, interruptions, and plot logic being picked apart in real time.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its rhythm: quick corrections, mock arguments, and jokes that grow directly out of the recap. It can laugh at broken filmmaking while still noticing when a strange movie has a real idea underneath.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sharp group banter turns unruly movies into detailed conversations about broken logic, memorable choices, and the better film hiding inside.
They Called This a Movie turns eccentric, frequently inept films into a three-host conversation about how movies succeed, fail, and become entertaining for unintended reasons.
A killer's mullet rivals the martial arts for attention, if that's your kind of movie night.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, thoughtful panel review finds the film's tension in gender, family fear, and comedy's legitimacy.
The conversation around The People's Joker is strongest when it stays with the film's tangled mix of gender identity, family fear, and comedy as a serious vessel.
A Cynthia Rothrock discussion finds its real pull in a mulleted, eye-stealing killer.
They Call Us A Movie frames Undefeatable around the odd pull of a Cynthia Rothrock vehicle where the figure who sticks hardest is not the hero, but Stingray, the stiff, Terminator-like killer with a glorious mullet and a grim habit of taking victims' eyes.
A changing-size Yeti gives the episode a sharp, funny way into the film's practical absurdities.
Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century gives They Called Us a Movie an easy but durable target: a giant whose size appears to shift whenever a scene needs a different effect.
A dorm-room premise turns into a sharp test of the movie's logic and the panel's patience for absurdity.
Gramps Goes to College gives the panel a premise it can keep worrying from every angle: a 65-year-old man moving into a college dorm with an 18-year-old roommate.
A fairy-tale leprechaun movie gets tangled in coma dreams, foreclosure, and a how-to book nobody wants.
Warwick Davis's unlucky leprechaun comes with a hundred-year four-leaf-clover problem, a collapsing world, and Molly as the friend who might help him get his luck back.
A podcast panel tests a failed body-experiment thriller and imagines the sharper ending it never reaches.
Anthony DelVecchio, Dan Aquino, and Mark Myers review The Soldier Protocol as a sci-fi premise that keeps promising a bigger idea than it can quite support.
A taxidermy bear, an unlikable grandma and a wasted home-invasion setup keep the panel arguing.
A home-invasion comedy involving Michael Jai White, an abrasive grandmother and a valuable taxidermy bear gives the panel plenty to argue over. The strongest point lands on the grandmother.
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
A podcast episode analyzing the 2002 film 'Crossroads' starring Britney Spears, focusing on its themes of friendship, dreams, and a road trip to California.
Hosts Anthony Del Vecchio, Dan Aquino, and Mark Myers review the 2024 Tubi Original film 'Don't Mess with Grandma', starring Michael Jai White.
The hosts of 'They Called This a Movie' review the 2019 film '2099: The Soldier Protocol'.
A comedic recap of the 2000 film 'Ready to Rumble' about two wrestling fans helping their hero Jimmy King reclaim his title.
Anthony Del Vecchio and co-host discuss the 2021 film New York Ninja on their podcast They Called Us a Movie.
Ant introduces the podcast and the movie Geostorm (2017) for review.
They Called This a Movie reviews Scanner Cop (1994), a film about rookie cop Sam Staziak and psychic powers.
They Called Us a Movie covers Vera Drew's 2022 film The People's Joker, a $100,000 Gotham-set parody that the hosts say earned a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score and only $4,000 at the box office.
They Call Us A Movie covers Undefeatable (1993), where Cynthia Rothrock plays Christy Jones and the hosts frame the film around a killer called Stingray.
Dan, Mark, and Anthony review Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century (1977) as an Italian King Kong ripoff from Gianfranco Parolini with Antonio-style monster-movie excess.
The panel reviews "Gramps Goes to College" (2014), a Chip Rossetti film starring Donald James Parker as Ty Bounds, and points out its 1.5 IMDb score and 14% Rotten Tomatoes audience rating.
A comedic episode about the joys of owning a cat, with a surreal twist involving a cat taking down the criminal underworld.
Tim Matheson says his daughter is in the wrecking-ball zone while the crew keeps working.
A comedic podcast episode where a group discusses a movie involving an old lady and a dog confronting burglars.