Mashley at the Movies (Matt & Ashley)

We kick-off our fifth season with a review of the latest Roland Emmerich disaster flick. Matt & Ashley have fun talking about this mess of a movie!

Ashley & Matt review Flee, the moving, impactful and harrowing animated documentary feature about Amin, whose refugee journey we follow from Afghanistan to Russia and beyond.

In this episode, Ryan & Matt discuss the 2022 Oscar nominations!

* apologies for the echo - this is what happens when Matt is left to run the technical side of things.

Ashley, Aaron and Matt review the second feature film directed by Jordan Peele.

We look back at a horror classic, in celebration of Valentine's Day! A killer stalks a mining town as they gear-up for their first Valentine's Day dance in twenty years. Garret joins us to talk about the original My Bloody Valentine.

Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in Death on the Nile. Ashley & Matt review this star-studded adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic in our latest episode.

Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg star in this action/adventure film, based on a video game. Ashley & Matt review this new movie in our latest episode.

We review a new rom-com this week! Ryan joins Ashley & Matt to talk about I Want You Back, starring Jenny Slate and Charlie Day.

Ryan & Matt discuss the new, straight-to-Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a direct sequel to the 1974 original film. It's... bloody. And that's the tip of this messy iceberg.

Our new episode is an entry in our Criterion series. Gus joins Matt & Ashley to discuss Bill Duke's 1992 crime thriller, Deep Cover.

It's a new iteration of The Batman on film, and Ashley, Matt and Garret are here to talk about it in our non-spoiler review.

Ashley, Matt and Grant talk about the 1979 sci-fi romance classic, Time After Time in our latest episode. H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper through time -- what more can we ask for?

Simon Rex won Best Actor at the Independent Spirit Awards for his work in Red Rocket. Ashley & Matt review this late-2021 film about a washed-up porn actor who returns to his estranged wife in a small Texas town.

Our second new episode of the week is about a woman, Julie (Renate Reinsve), who impacts the lives of others while trying to figure out her own. Matt & Ashley review this Oscar-nominated film, and the discussion is deep, and Matt gets emotional! Is Julie really The Worst Person in the World?

Mark Rylance runs a small cutter shop in 1956 Chicago and, one night, things begin to spin out of control. Ashley, Matt and Aaron review this new thriller in our latest episode.

In a new, mid-week episode, Ryan & Matt go over their predictions of who will win some of the major categories at this year's 94th Academy Awards, which will be held this Sunday, March 27.

Ashley & Matt preview this year's schedule for the Roger Ebert Film Festival.

Ben Affleck is cuckold to Ana de Armas in Adrian Lyne's throwback erotic thriller, Deep Water. Matt & Ryan review this new movie, now streaming on Hulu.

Ashley & Matt are back this week with a review of the new movie, The Lost City. Hear what we think about this action/adventure comedy in our latest episode.

Matt & Ashley review the new Julianne Moore film about a woman who enjoys dancing at night clubs, and living her life.

Ashley & Matt discuss a new movie about the impact of mustang training in the Nevada prison system.

In the latest episode our RETRO series, we step back in time to 1985, when a grown man's bike is stolen, and he goes on a cross-country quest to find it. Ryan from The Coolness Chronicles makes his debut on the podcast to help us talk about Pee-wee's Big Adventure!

A Chinese-American family become involved in an impactful adventure that spans universes. Ashley, Matt and Ryan review this quirky, funny, and deeply moving film starring Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, directed by Daniels.

After a three year hiatus, the Roger Ebert Film Festival (aka Ebertfest) is back! Matt & Ashley look ahead to this year's installment with festival director Nate Kohn. Highlights include the movie Ghost World (with director Terry Zwigoff and co-star Thora Birch in attendance), and Nightmare Alley (with director Guillermo Del Toro and screenwriter Kim Morgan also attending). Lots of other great films and guests at this year's festival, as well! This year's Ebertfest is from April 20-23, in beautiful Champaign, IL.

A group of amateur filmmakers rent a guest house in rural Texas to make an adult film, and their hosts - an elderly couple - are not quite what they seem. Ashley & Matt review Ti West's latest horror movie, X, in our new episode.

Alexander Skarsgård stars as Amleth, who must avenge his father, save his mother, and kill Fjölnir.  We are joined by Jeff in this episode, as we discuss Robert Eggers' new movie, The Northman.

Rosa is back with us to talk about new, very meta, action adventure bromance movie starring Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

It's the return of Bad Movie Night, and wow... do we have a bad one! Matt & Ashley talk about Evils of the Night, a mess of a movie from 1985. Listen, if you dare!

Matt, Ashley, Benny and Garret discuss the new Avengers movie with heavy spoilers.

Ashley, Benny, Garret and Matt discuss the new Avengers movie without spoilers.

Multiverses! Madness! Ashley & Matt review the latest MCU joint, where Sam Raimi directs Doctor Strange. Listen to our thoughts on this wild ride in our new episode!

Ashley, Matt and Larry review Firebird, a new movie based on a true story about forbidden love on a Soviet airbase in the 1970s. We have a lot to say about it on our latest episode.

Golden Arm is a wonderfully hilarious movie about friendship, female arm wrestling, and so much more. It was released last year, and we saw it for the first time last month at the Roger Ebert Film Festival. It was our favorite movie of the festival, and we are happy that Jenna Milly, who co-wrote the film with Ann Marie Allison, took the time to join us on this episode to discuss how the movie was made.

We rejoin the world of the Crawleys and their staff, as Downton Abbey returns! Rachel joins us to talk about the latest comfort food film.

Alex Garland is back with a new film, and Rachel is here to help us talk about it. Men is a movie about trauma, grief, the beautiful English countryside, and then some really effed-up stuff that we can't really explain. 

With its sequel a smash hit at the box office this weekend, Ashley & Matt thought they would finally catch-up with the original Top Gun in this week's episode.

The legacy sequel to Top Gun is in theaters. Does it live up to the hype? Listen as Matt & Ashley discuss Top Gun: Maverick to find out.

Grant joins us for the latest edition of our Criterion series. We discuss Akira Kurosawa's 1990 fable Dreams.

Ashley & Matt review the sixth (and final?) entry in the Jurassic movie franchise.

Emma Thompson is a lonely, unfulfilled woman, and Daryl McCormack is a sex work she hires for several assignations in a hotel room. And there we have Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, and so much more. Ashley & Matt review this new movie, available to watch on Hulu.

Philip Baker Hall stars in Hard Eight, a late-90s movie that showcases his acting talent, and Matt & Ashley talk about it in our latest RETRO episode, in honor of the actor's passing this week.

Larry joins us on our latest Criterion episode to discuss Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho. River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in this early-nineties queer cinema masterpiece. We had a great time talking about it, and hope you enjoy listening.

A 22-year-old recent college grad is trying to figure out his life, while working at a food stand at the mall, being a party-starter at Bar Mitzvahs, and spending time with an older woman and her autistic daughter. Matt & Ashley review Cha Cha Real Smooth, the new movie written & directed by, an starring Cooper Raiff.

A man dubbed The Grabber is kidnapping teenage boys in 1978 Denver in this supernatural thriller. Ashley, Matt and Aaron review the new movie, The Black Phone, in our latest episode.

Ashley, Matt and Aaron randomly select from four possible bad movies, watch one, then talk about it for your listening pleasure (or sorrow, depending on how you look it). It's the latest edition of our Bad Movie Night series, brought to you on this holiday weekend.

The Norse God of Thunder returns for his fourth solo movie, and Ashley, Matt and Garret review it in our latest episode!

A young woman named Kya, living alone in the North Carolina marshland, is on trial for the murder of a young man from a nearby town. We learn about Kya's life leading up to the trial using flashbacks, in a new adaptation of the best-selling novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. Matt & Ashley review the movie in our latest episode.

Ashley, Matt and Ryan look back at some of the movies from the first-half of 2022 that we haven't talked about yet.

A group of friends gather at a coastal mansion as a hurricane bears down, and decide to play an all-too-real murder game. Matt & Ashley review the new A24 film, Bodies Bodies Bodies.

Brad Pitt is trying to complete a snatch-and-grab job on a fast-moving train in Japan, and gets embroiled in a labyrinthine plot encompassing several dangerous characters. Ashley & Matt review the new movie Bullet Train in this episode. 

We look back at Will Penny, in our latest RETRO episode! Our friend Grant (who introduced us to the film) joins us to talk about this star-studded, 1967 underrated western.

Idris Elba plays a doctor who takes his daughters to South Africa, where they're stalked by a lion with a chip on its shoulder. Ashley & Matt review Beast in our latest episode.

We're joined by Gus to talk about the new Jordan Peele movie, Nope. And, because we're a bit late on getting around to it, and because there's so many layers to the film, it's a spoiler-filled episode. Heads up!

Ashley & Matt review a new romantic comedy Netflix movie starring Noah Centineo and Lara Marano. 

Matt & Ashley review the new Charlize Theron/Seth Rogen comedy about love and politics.

This week, we review Three Thousand Years of Longing, where a literary scholar (Tilda Swinton) unwittingly unleashes a djinn (Idris Elba) who wants to grant her three wishes. Ashley & Matt talk about what they liked and didn't like about it in our latest episode.

On this long holiday weekend (at least here in the U.S.), we introduce a new segment to the show! Mashley Movie Trivia is exactly what it says on the tin - trivia with your favorite amateur film critics. Our first contestant is Ashley. You'll have to listen to the episode to hear how he fares.

Ashley & Matt review this delightful movie about a sentient shell and his grandmother, who live in an Airbnb, whose lives are filmed by Dean, the latest lodger.

An Airbnb with a dark tunnel in a creepy basement can't be good for the people who stay there. Matt & Ashley review this new horror movie.

Ashley, Matt and Ryan review the new prequel to X. It's called Pearl, starring Mia Goth, and we've got a lot to say about it in this week's episode!

Matt & Ashley review the new horror movie, Smile, in this week's episode.

In our latest Criterion episode, Ashley & Matt discuss the French 1960 classic body horror film, Eyes Without a Face. It's a good movie to watch in October!

Saoirse Ronan and Sam Rockwell are on the case to try and solve a fictional murder at the real-life production of The Mousetrap in London's West End. Ashley & Matt are also on the case, reviewing this whimsical new mystery movie.

Laurie Strode and Michael Myers are back at it, and this time there are some new twists to the story of Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois. Ashley, Matt and Garret review Halloween Ends in this week's episode.

We're back with the second edition of our trivia show! This time, it's a special horror edition, featuring stalwart guest, Garret, as the latest contestant. How does he fare? Listen and find out!

13 Days of Halloween returns to Mashley at the Movies! We start things off this year with what has become an annual tradition - a Hammer Horror film! Grant joins us to talk about 1964's The Gorgon.

Stay tuned, as every day leading up to Halloween we'll be discussing movies in the horror/thriller/mystery genre.

Our 13 Days of Halloween series continues, as Rosa returns to the show to discuss the 2017 Mexican horror movie, Tigers Are Not Afraid. It's been big-upped by Guillermo del Toro and Stephen King, and features Namor, himself - Tenoch Huerta - so we're expecting good things!

A masked killer stalks a graduation party in this 1981 horror film. Ashley, Matt and Sean talk about The Prowler, as 13 Days of Halloween continues here at Mashley at the Movies.

It's the 100th anniversary of a silent era horror cinema classic! Ryan joins Ashley & Matt to discuss F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. 

Four old men hold a dark secret, and the past is coming back to haunt them in this 1981 adaptation of the popular, labyrinthine Peter Straub novel. Grant is back to talk about Ghost Story, as our 13 Days of Halloween series continues.

As 13 Days of Halloween continues, Larry joins us to talk about Homicidal. It's a psychological thriller, directed by the great showman, William Castle.

Four friends spend the night at a traveling carnival, and not all of them live to regret it. Ashley, Matt and Sean review the '80s horror movie, The Funhouse, as part of our 13 Days of Halloween series.

A 1960s movie that took voyeurism to a new - and deadly - level, Peeping Tom was met with disgust by audiences of the time, but has since gained an appreciation by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Roger Ebert. Ashley, Matt and Garret discuss this horrific psychological thriller in today's episode.

In today's edition of 13 Days of Halloween, Ashley, Matt and Gus discuss the first two entries in the Massacre series. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) and Slumber Party Massacre II (1987) both feature slumber parties and massacres, but the similarities mostly end there. It makes for what we hope is an interesting discussion.

You know things are pretty bad when find yourself raising the son of the Devil. That's the situation Gregory Peck finds himself in in The Omen. Grant joins us to talk about this classic 1970s horror movie.

A family moves into an old country house, there are strange lights in the nearby woods, a young girl who went missing 30 years earlier, and Bette Davis lives next door. It can only be the oft-overlooked Disney film, The Watcher in the Woods. Ashley, Matt and Rachel discuss this movie in our latest 13 Days of Halloween episode.

The penultimate entry in our 13 Days of Halloween series features the 1982 horror classic, Pieces. Set on a college campus in Boston, filmed in Spain, dubbed in post-production, co-starring Bluto from Popeye, and featuring a chainsaw-wielding killer who dresses-up like The Shadow, Pieces is an experience like none other. We had tremendous fun talking about this mess of a movie with our friend Sean.

We of course finish our run of horror, thriller and mystery movies with a film set on the holiday, itself -- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Ashley, Matt and Grant discuss this '80s sequel to the John Carpenter classic.

Aaron joins Ashley & Matt to review the latest chapter in the John Wick franchise.

Ashley & Matt review the new Martin McDonagh movie about life on a small, isolated island off the coast of Ireland, where two friends are feuding. 

Matt & Ashley review the new movie about a love triangle in the 1950s, that holds ramifications decades later.

Ashley, Matt and Bruce talk about the new MCU film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in a spoiler-free episode.

Ashley, Matt and Bruce talk about the new MCU film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in our ALL-SPOILERS episode.

2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Godfather. We are joined by filmmaker Jenna Milly in our latest episode, to talk about this classic of cinema.

Ryan helps us decipher Ingmar Bergman's opaque story of two women -- one mute, the other a nurse -- who spend time together at a seaside cottage.

Matt & Ashley review the follow-up to Knives Out in our latest episode! Glass Onion features Daniel Craig, once again playing private detective Benoit Blanc, as he is out to solve another convoluted murder mystery. The movie is in theaters for one week only, then heads to Netflix on December 23.

Guillermo del Toro brings his own vision of the story of Pinocchio to the silver screen. Ashley, Matt and Ryan review this new Netflix original, which manages to walk a fine line between grimness and warmth.

A group of wealthy people looking for an evening of fine dining bite off more than they can chew when the kitchen staff have more than food on the menu. Matt & Ashley review this new thriller starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy.

A young woman travels across the country in search of her mother. Along the way she meets a cute young guy and an older creepy man. Oh, and they're all cannibals. Ashley & Matt review the technically great, but materially disturbing, new movie Bones and All.

The Fabelmans is sort-of-about the life of young Steven Spielberg, directed and co-written by the man, himself. Listen to our latest episode to hear what Matt & Ashley thought about this new film.

We've got a lot to say about the 1938 classic Holiday in our latest episode! Will joins us again (becoming an annual December tradition), and we talk about the Depression-era dramedy about mismatched lovers, what we want out of life, and the importance placed on money. It's a long discussion, so settle in and give our latest Criterion episode a listen! 

We're in the thick of the holidays, and 'tis the season to talk about some awful films! Matt & Ashley are joined by Aaron as they watch and then discuss a really bad Christmas movie. It all goes down in our latest edition of Bad Movie Night (and maybe a visit by Santa!).

We're kicking-off our annual 12 Days of Christmas series with a 1940 classic!

Ryan joins us to talk about The Shop Around the Corner, where Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play co-workers at a gift shop during the holidays. They can't stand each other, but are falling in love via anonymously written correspondence.

Sound familiar? Why yes, this is based on the same source material as 1998's You've Got Mail. 

Brittany Snow plays a woman dumped by her boyfriend, but is invited to spend Christmas with his mom and dad. She agrees, and ends up meeting Justin Long. So, yeah, a meet cute, a wishing tree, a cute little village during the holidays, romance, oh... and vulgarity. A fair bit of vulgarity. Ashley & Matt talk about this new Christmas movie, on the latest installment of our 12 Days of Christmas series.

Jesper is a spoiled young man whose father sends him to Smeerensburg, a village near the Arctic Circle. There he is to be the postman for a year. He ends up dealing with a hodge podge of locals, and meets an old, reclusive toymaker with a bushy white beard...

We talk about Klaus today with Rosa, as our 12 Days of Christmas continues.

12 Days of Christmas jingles along here at Mashley at the Movies, as Aaron joins us to talk about the 1994 holiday crime comedy, The Ref.

Will Ferrell is the Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ryan Reynolds is a supposedly irredeemable person who Present tries his best to redeem. Does he succeed? Are the songs any good? Rachel joins us to talk about this and more on our latest 12 Days of Christmas episode. It's a Spirited discussion!

Justin Hartley is a best-selling novelist, and Barrett Doss is a woman looking for her birth mother. The two of them meet cute around the holidays, and the story goes from there. Ashley & Matt talk about the new Netflix movie, The Noel Diary, in our latest 12 Days of Christmas episode.

Things take a dark turn on our 12 Days of Christmas journey, as Ashley, Matt and Grant discuss the controversial 1984 horror movie Silent Night, Deadly Night.

What's up next on our 12 Days of Christmas series? Another Netflix movie (womp womp).

Seriously, though, it's a cute story (that borrows a bit from Overboard). It's nice to see Lindsay Lohan in a starring role, and if you're wanting a romantic holiday film, this will suffice. Garret & Kirsten join Matt & Ashley to talk about Falling for Christmas in our latest episode.