Popcorn For Dinner
By Jeff And Kelly
Popcorn For DinnerMay 17, 2024
#237 - "Little Monsters" -or- Teddy McGiggles Gotta Go
Halfway to Halloween Month heads back to the land down under in Week 3 with the horror/comedy "Little Monsters"!
#236 - "The Menu" -or- Some Fourth Wahlberg
Halfway to Halloween Month gets delicious - and hilarious - with the black comedy/horror movie "The Menu"!
#235 - "Talk to Me" -or- Who Done Did It and to Whom?
Popcorn For Dinner goes down under to start Halfway to Halloween Month with the Australian A24 horror hit "Talk to Me"!
#234 - "Encanto" -or- Cool It with the Bruno Talk!
Big, Huge, Gigantic Family Movie Month comes to a close with the musical magic of the Family Madrigal in "Encanto"!
#233 - "Yours, Mine & Ours" -or- You Continued to Not
Big, Huge, Ridiculously Giant Family Movie Month brings us way, WAY too many kids in the Dennis Quaid/Rene Russo comedy "Yours, Mine, and Ours"!
#232 - "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" -or- John Corbett's Long Hair
Big Huge Giant Family Movie Month moves away from a gaggle of children and towards a gaggle of overbearing relatives with the 2002 independent rom-com "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"!
#231 - "Cheaper by the Dozen" -or- Oprah Got Beef Canceled?
Big, Giant Family Month gets started with Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, and way too many kids in the 2003 comedy "Cheaper by the Dozen"!
#230 - "Bodies Bodies Bodies" -or- A Dick Until They're Dead
Women Director's Month gets modern with the Gen-Z skewering pseudo-slasher "Bodies Bodies Bodies"!
#229 - "Clueless" -or- Bosstone and All
Women-Directed Movies Month goes ultra-90s with a killer cast in the California comedy classic "Clueless"!
#228 - "Big" -or- Is He Gonna Leave Me Somewhere?
To honor the women behind the scenes, this March Popcorn for Dinner is watching films directed by women. We kick it off with the classic Penny Marshall comedy "Big"!
#227 - Popcorn For Dinner Writes a Movie: Part 3
Popcorn For Dinner takes another stab at pitching a movie with talk of body-snatching, gangster ghosts, and other general nonsense!
#226 - "Runaway Bride" -or- Julia Roberts Fights a Church Bell
Julia Roberts Month continues with the critically-reviled but loved-by-America screwball rom-com "Runaway Bride"!
#225 - "My Best Friend's Wedding" -or- Send This, Will I?
Popcorn For Dinner finally does Julia Roberts Month, and to kick things off we start with the not-quite-what-we-expected 1997 rom-com "My Best Friend's Wedding!"
#224 - "The Boogeyman" -or- This Monster's Mouth is Hands
Movies We Missed in 2023 Month comes to a close with the paint-by-numbers Stephen King adaptation (sort of)... "The Boogeyman"!
#223 - "Barbie" -or- The Fenway Park of Barbie Baseball
Movies We Missed in 2023 Month might've peaked in Week 3 with the Margot Robbie/Ryan Gosling near-perfect "Barbie"!
#222 - "Cocaine Bear" -or- Reignite Their Bud-Flame
January 2024 has been retroactively deemed "Movies We Missed in 2023" Month, and as such, Week 2 brings us the Liz Banks-directed horror comedy "Cocaine Bear"!
#221 - "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" -or- Keep Never Giving Up
Popcorn For Dinner starts off the new year with the delightfully unchallenging adventure of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie"!
#220 - "Noelle" -or A Weird, Silly Christmas Goose
Holiday and Holiday-Adjacent Movie Month gets a little more Christmas-y with the Anna Kendrick/Bill Hader Christmas romp "Noelle"!
#219 - "Gremlins" -or- Chaos and Movies
Jeff and Kelly talk about the first Holiday Adjacent movie of the month with the Spielberg classic, "Gremlins".
#218 - "The Santa Clause" -or- The Sad Single Dad Dinner at Denny's
December is the month for holiday - and holiday adjacent - movies, and we kick things off this year with the Disney/Tim Allen classic (?) - "The Santa Clause"!
#217 - "Spiral: From the Book of Saw" -or- The Rookie Was Skinned?!
November is Serious Comedians Month on Popcorn For Dinner and we kick it off with the baffling combination of the Saw franchise and... Chris Rock?
#216 - "Child's Play" -or- He's Getting Mugged!
Scary Movie Month: Classic Slashers Edition comes to a close with voodoo, child acting, and one disgusting looking puppet in the original 1988 slasher "Child's Play"!
#215 - "A Nightmare on Elm Street" -or- Of Course They Must Die
Scary Movie Month: Classic Slashers Edition brings us the FIRST scary movie franchise pioneered by the late, great Wes Craven - the OG "A Nightmare on Elm Street"!
#214 - "Friday the 13th" -or- "Nickel-and-Dime" Old
Scary Movie Month: Classic Slasher Edition takes on the only movie that makes sense for the 13th of October: the classic, original "Friday the 13th"!
#213 - "Prom Night" -or- You Gotta Dip, Man
Popcorn For Dinner makes our triumphant return - just in time for Scary Movie Month - with the 1980 slasher classic "Prom Night"!
Popcorn For Dinner Takes a Break
After four years of weekly episodes, Popcorn For Dinner will finally be taking a brief break. We'll see you in October!
#212 - "The Princess Bride" -or- Bookend Cary Elwes
Alternate Fairy Tale Month comes to a close with quite possibly the most famous Fairy Tale Movie of all time - "The Princess Bride"!
#211 - "Sleepy Hollow" -or- Ick-Abod
Alternate Fairy Tale Month Week 3 confounds and confuses with our first Tim Burton/Johnny Depp joint - "Sleepy Hollow"!
#210 - "Disenchanted" -or- I Have a Sword, There's a Dragon, Let's Do This!
Alternate Fairy Tale Month gets "Badder" with the decades-later sequel "Disenchanted"!
#209 - "Ella Enchanted" -or- Curb Stomp the Snake
Alternative Fairy-Tale Month starts off with Anne Hathaway, Cary Elwes, and the most ridiculous curse in the world in "Ella Enchanted"!
#208 - "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" -or- Full-On Felonies
Summer Movie Month comes to a close with the return of the Fisherman in the grammatically incorrect sequel - "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer"!
#207 - "Us" -or- Who the Fuck Was Danny?
Summer Movie Month gets creepier - and funnier - with the Jordan Peele horror-comedy "Us"!
#206 - "The Great Outdoors" -or- Why is This?
Summer Movie Month takes a disaster of a vacation with the 1988 Akroyd/Candy "comedy" - "The Great Outdoors"!
#205 - "Dirty Dancing" -or- Dance Party at Club Hump
Summer Movie Month gets started with the classic coming-of-age tale "Dirty Dancing"!
#204 - "Twister" -or- The Gaping Maw of This Windbeast
Disaster Movie Month comes to a close with the mother of all tornado movies - the 1996 action-thriller "Twister"!
#203 - "Cliffhanger" -or- Die Hard on a Mountain
Disaster Movie Month stays on the mountain with the star-studded Sly Stallone rock-climbing thriller "Cliffhanger"!
#202 - "Dante's Peak" -or- Mountains Care Not For Your Life
Disaster Movie Month Week 3 gives us James Bond and Sarah Connor Vs. A Volcano in the 1997 action thriller "Dante's Peak"!
#201 - "Vertical Limit" -or- Terrified, Dangling Climbers
Disaster Movies Month takes you to the limit with the mountain-climbing survival thriller "Vertical Limit"!
#200 - "Night of the Twisters" -or- Grandma Got Run Over By a Twister
Popcorn For Dinner celebrates our 200th episode with the start of Disaster Movie Month - the 1996 made-for-TV tornado flick "Night of the Twisters"!
#199 - "Peter Pan & Wendy" -or- This Was Your Neverhouse
Live Action Disney Remake Month comes to a close with the most recent adaptation of a story done to death - "Peter Pan & Wendy"!
#198 - "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" -or- He is Karate Chopping Everyone
Live-Action Disney Remake Month takes a bit of a left-turn with the sort-of-adaptation of "Fantasia", the 2010 Nic Cage adventure movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"!
#197 - "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" -or- Queen Whoopi
Live Action Disney Remakes Month stays in the 90s with the made-for-tv adaptation of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" starring Brandy and Whitney Houston!
#196 - "101 Dalmatians" -or- She Had That Lion Murdered
May begins Live-Action Disney Remake Month and we kick it off with one of the earliest examples - the 1996 live-action version of "101 Dalmatians"!
#195 - "Uncharted" -or Dude Raider
Video Game Movie Month: Part 3 comes to a close with the long-gestating video game adaptation "Uncharted"!
#194 - "Alone in the Dark" -or- You Wanna Eat This Eel, Baby?
Video Movie Month: Part 3: Week 3 brings us one of the worst films of all time - the 2005 Uwe Boll trainwreck "Alone in the Dark"!
#193 - "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" -or- How Did Owls Build This?
Video Game Movie Month continues with another trip to Green Hills to visit Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles in the super-sequel "Sonic the Hedgehog 2"!
#192 - "Resident Evil" -or- Why Don't You Know Who You Are?
It's Video Game Movies Month once again on Popcorn For Dinner, and we start off spooky with the 2002 action-horror video game movie - "Resident Evil"!
#191 - "The Bob's Burgers Movie" -or- The Grover Monologues
We close out March with the theatrical version of one of Popcorn For Dinner's favorite TV shows ever - "The Bob's Burgers Movie"!
#190 - "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" -or- Good for Charlie, He Gets to Die
YA Adaptation Month ends forever with the final installment of the Twilight Saga - the absolutely bonkers "Breaking Dawn - Part 2"!
#189 - "Mockingjay - Part 2" -or- Feed 'em Bombs
It's Game Over for the Hunger Games Saga as we finish what "Mockingjay - Part 1" started in - wait for it - "Mockingjay - Part 2"!