We Drink & We Watch Things

Mackenzie & Lemar

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Movie talk with drinks, detours, and sharp takes.

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We Drink & We Watch Things pairs Mackenzie and Lamar in fast, familiar conversations about movies, from Cate Blanchett roles to messy romantic dramas and Oscar-adjacent picks. Each episode mixes a warmup question, plot basics, craft talk, side tangents, and blunt verdicts without losing its hangout energy.

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About We Drink & We Watch Things

We Drink & We Watch Things is a film discussion show built around repetition in the best sense. Mackenzie and Lamar have a clear episode rhythm, and that rhythm keeps the show grounded even when the conversation runs sideways. A typical installment starts with banter and a question keyed to the movie. Then come the facts, the plot frame, the opinions, and the inevitable tangent. The recent run shows how flexible that format can be. Cate Blanchett Month moves from Thor: Ragnarok to Bandits and Elizabeth, using one performer as a doorway into superhero spectacle, screwball crime romance, and period power games. Love Stinks! Month turns romantic films into blunt conversations about commitment, soulmates, attraction, heartbreak, ambition, and the strange stories people tell themselves about love. Oscar Nominees Month brings in awards talk, original songs, and the pleasure of arguing over what sticks in memory. The show is casual, but it is not empty chatter. Mackenzie and Lamar pay attention to performance, tone, script problems, CGI, genre balance, and what a movie seems to think it is doing. They are also willing to call out when a film cannot decide whether it wants sincerity, camp, drama, or comedy. That directness is part of the appeal. A conversation about Bandits can become a debate over whether the movie should lean harder into its zany premise. A conversation about La La Land can pause on how humiliating auditions feel when judgment arrives before the scene even starts. A conversation about Elizabeth can compare royal intrigue to fantasy power struggles without pretending the comparison is academic. The show has a friendly, quick back-and-forth energy, with one speaker often launching into a detailed aside while the other punctures, clarifies, or redirects it. Its jokes can be blunt, and its relationship talk can get personal, but the overall mood stays warm. It is best for listeners who enjoy film criticism with looseness, personality, and recurring rituals rather than polished distance. The charm is in the combination: themed viewing, sincere movie affection, sharp complaints, drink-show structure, and two voices clearly used to chasing the same argument from different angles.

Made for: Best for film fans who like conversational criticism, themed watchlists, and personal tangents that connect movies to relationships, ambition, and genre habits.

What sets it apart: The show stands out through its ritual format and month-long themes, which make even casual banter feel serialized. Its criticism lives in the space between casual movie chat and genuinely attentive craft discussion.

In their own words

Follow us on Instagram and YouTube!Introducing, We Drink and We Watch Things, with your hosts Mackenzie & Lemar. Join these two movie fans, film aficionados, and semi-professional talkers to chat about all things movies.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Mackenzie and Lamar pair lively disagreements with precise attention to performance, genre, effects and the choices that make a film cohere.

Mackenzie and Lamar turn each film into an argument that starts before the plot summary. A question about ambition frames La La Land, relationships open Bandits, and superhero rankings lead into Thor: Ragnarok.

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Mackenzie and Lamar turn Hela's CGI into the movie-night argument you wish your group chat could sustain.

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a film conversation that notices Amy Adams's smallest physical choices, not just the plot machinery
personal warm-up questions that make room for love, ambition, or aliens before the criticism

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Thor: Ragnarok (Cate Blanchett Month)Apr 15, 2026

A Marvel power-ranking chat that turns into a colorful Ragnarok rewatch.

The episode circles the old Marvel question of who comes out on top, Thor or the Hulk, and uses that setup to move into a brisk Avengers character guide.

Bandits (Cate Blanchett Month)Apr 8, 2026

A lively tonal argument about a movie that never quite settles on its own balance.

Bandits starts with a love question tied to the film's odd relationship setup, then moves into a sharp argument over whether it can carry action, romance, and silliness at the same time.

Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett Month)Apr 1, 2026

A loose Blanchett-focused listen that stays breezy while still having enough context to matter.

We Drink & We Watch Things gives Elizabeth a clean way into Cate Blanchett, using her as both the hook and the excuse to think about why an early career role still matters.

La La Land (Love Stinks! Month)Mar 25, 2026

A clear La La Land discussion about choosing between a dream and a relationship, with close attention to Sebastian and Mia.

The La La Land conversation starts with the film's central tradeoff: a dream or the person you love. That tension stays in view, and the discussion uses Sebastian's club set and Mia's auditions to show how ambition can curdle into frustration when people are judged before they…

Arrival (Fan Jan)Jan 28, 2026

A playful Arrival chat that lands on language, alien contact, and a quietly powerful lead performance.

The episode starts with a joke about speaking the language from Arrival, then moves into whether a language like that could really be learned, with the written system and the hard-to-make sounds getting most of the attention.

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I, Tonya (September Snubs)

The Social Network

First Reformed

2001: A Space Odyssey (September Snubs)

Fatal Attraction (September Snubs)

That Thing You Do!

Bo Burnham: Inside

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Snatch

THE ODYSSEY

Disclosure Day

Obsession

Backrooms

Mortal Kombat II

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Pride Month)

Y Tu Mamá También (Pride Month)

The Birdcage (Pride Month)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Pride Month)

War of the Worlds 2025 (Space MAYhem)

Independence Day (Space MAYhem)

No One Will Save You (Space MAYhem)

Project Hail Mary (Space MAYhem)

The Aviator (Cate Blanchett Month)

Tár (Cate Blanchett Month)

Thor: Ragnarok (Cate Blanchett Month)

Bandits (Cate Blanchett Month)

Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett Month)

La La Land (Love Stinks! Month)

500 Days of Summer (Love Stinks! Month)

Wuthering Heights (Love Stinks! Month)

The Rules of Attraction (Love Stinks! Month)

Marty Supreme (Oscar Nominees Month)

KPop Demon Hunters (Oscar Nominees Month)

One Battle After Another (Oscar Nominees Month)

Hamnet (Oscar Nominees Month)

Arrival (Fan Jan)

Remember the Titans (Fan Jan)

O Brother Where Art Thou? (Fan Jan)

Sicario (Fan Jan)

Chicago (Musical Month!)

Singin' in the Rain (Musical Month!)

Cabaret (Musical Month!)

Wicked: For Good (Musical Month!)

Funny Girl (Musical Month!)

Interstellar (Nol-vember)

The Dark Knight (Nol-vember)

The Prestige (Nol-vember)

Memento (Nol-vember)

The Ring (Spooky Szn)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Spooky Szn)

Shaun of the Dead (Spooky Szn)

Vertigo (Spooky Szn)

Scream (Spooky Szn)

Network (Satire September)

American Psycho (Satire September)

This Is Spinal Tap (Satire September)

The Truman Show (Satire September)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Auuuugust Racing Month)

Baby Driver (Auuuugust Racing Month)

F1 (Auuuugust Racing Month)

Ford v. Ferrari (Auuuugust Racing Month)

Angels in the Outfield (Let's Play Ball!)

Major League (Let's Play Ball!)

61* (Let's Play Ball!)

Moneyball (Let's Play Ball!)

Field of Dreams (Let's Play Ball!)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Just June)

Palm Springs (Just June)

Lilo & Stitch (Just June)

Sinners (Just June)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Kilmer Classics Month)