Are You Movie Mad? Is the podcast that asks the most difficult question one man has ever faced. Cinephile Andrew Jones is perpetually flabbergasted that Johnny Ellis uses the online moniker 'Movie_Mad' yet at any given moment seems not to understand any movie references. Join Andrew as he journeys through a collection of films to educate Johnny and ask if Johnny is Mad about the movie he watched or remains Movie Mad.
Fredtempber curses the cast with an imaginary friend making every situation worse, including Johnny and Andrew talking The Life Of Chuck, Eddington, Materialists, Nobody 2, Book Club: The Next Chapter, Long Story Short, the new Toxic Avenger and a Will Smith Concert! Plus trivia games, contemplations on Rik Mayall’s career and Carrie Fisher - A Legacy.
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August continues in that end-of-summer way as Andrew insists on making Jones Month a full-on thing, bringing a Gal Gadot-Jon Hamm Handsome Mann action comedy to the table to see if Johnny regrets not being born into the family Jones and not taking Andrew’s name when the podcast began like old traditions of yore. But before that finally the duo get down to talking the 2025 version of The Naked Gun, an unashamedly spoiler-heavy discussion of Zach Cregger’s Weapons, Freakier Friday and former-landlord Jim Broadbent’s horror icons - his mannequins.
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Andrew runs his giant ego by making this month a celebration of his lineage, Jones Month, starting with the David Duchovny/Demi Moore capitalist satire, leading to talk of the old days of cinema, TV adaptations and product placement. Somehow there’s time to talk Dexter, Taskmaster New Zealand and the continuing adventures of Cliff Booth because like Chuck whose Life is told in a recent film, we contain multitudes.
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The end is nigh, well actually it’s fully here for the first Spy Kids trilogy (the only full trilogy thus far). Johnny’s setting the game up to capture Andrew and make him suffer ThumbThumbs forever and ever. But before all that they have to discuss Marvel’s latest Fantastic Four movie, First Steps, and the London production of Sing Street on stage. Lots to play for, who will win and what will be left of them?
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Yes, we’re in sequel mode but that doesn’t mean just the film we’re watching, we’re also looking at the new Jurassic World and James Gunn’s new take on Superman, so you know there’s talk of Krypto abound. Johnny attempts to remember anything about the second Spy Kids movie and, in failing, discovers through watching whatever was even in The Island Of Lost Dreams (spoilers, it’s Steve Buscemi and CG animals).
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Johnny is having a nostalgia month, taking Andrew through his Robert Rodriguez trilogy that feature Antonio Banderas, Cheech Marin and Danny Trejo, just decidedly less blood and guns than the El Mariachi trifecta. Andrew talks From The World Of John Wick Ballerina, Rachel Zegler on stage in Evita and Sondheim’s final work Here We Are at the National, high art and low blows, plus plenty of Cumming.
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June’s strange theme of early-00s tech thrillers starring A-list Scientologists that also briefly feature William Mapother concludes with the Huge Act-Man/Halle Berry movie Swordfish, a film illegal to watch on anything other than a very ragged previously-rented VHS or scratched up DVD straight from the Blockbuster remainder sale. What delights will be discovered in the filmography of Skip Woods, the imdb page of Thomas Jefferson and the 2002 Critics Choice Award winners? And good god is there anything even in this film to grab on to?
No.
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Everybody Runs, some simply run their mouth. We dive into Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning before jumping to Spielberg and Cruise’s first feature together, the sci-fi noir that has Tom Cruise calling Colin Farrell a twink. And other elements, but mainly that.
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Well, we’ve run fast through the Frank Drebin cinematic experience before August’s big legasequel, and whilst finding time to talk Thunderbolts* and Final Destination: Bloodlines, we also take a trip to the 1994 Academy Awards, the box office of OJ Summer and Neil Jordan’s filmography. Everything the Police Squad franchise was meant to invoke.
At some point Andrew heard Johnny say “I never saw Tim Hill’s 2007 live-action/animation hybrid Alvin And The Chipmunks” so this episode exists. Johnny discusses seeing Six and Drop, there’s a deep-dive into the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and someone says “Alviiiin” like there’s a paycheque waving offscreen.
It’s Andrew’s almost-birthday, we’re a day early so May The 4th Be With You and us talking over the classic George Lucas film about tariffs and taxation falling into fascism, he’s so smart!
Games, comedy, trivia, gungans. We talk all about the franchise and tie it in to Andrew’s new book The Ferryman Upon The Plains, a western saga about violence and generations of devastation through small acts. Order your copy now!
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Commentary begins from 5 seconds into the film at: 00:12:08
Spoilers For Sinners In This Episode!
We’re still running with the gimmick of Tom Cruise Films That Aren’t Action Films During His Action Star Run theme, this time with Doug Liman’s true-life drama about Barry Seale, pilot for the TWA, the CIA, the Cartel and the White House, but who is the most corrupt? (It’s Reagan, it’s always Reagan)
Johnny has thoughts on the latest Doctor Who and thrusts it in, the two talk A Minecraft Movie now Andrew’s witnessed it, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, The Amateur and Warfare too, just a hodgepodge of cinematic discussion around the other forgotten Tom Cruise film from The Summer Of The Dark Universe.
Remember 2007? When Hollywood wanted to state they didn’t like what was happening, but also didn’t want to upset the concept of democracy that led to here because America rah rah even if erm-ooh-eck? Well, of course not, nobody could remember, it was a rough time for art. So we’re watching a series of actors-in-rooms-talking-tediously-about-not-much.
Here’s the carrot - Johnny watched A Minecraft Movie and Death Of A Unicorn, and the two discuss Jason Statham in A Working Man, plus The Naked Gun teaser chat and Andrew reminds you his first novel The Ferryman Upon The Plains is available to pre-order now at one bookstore, not a good one (amazon).
It’s the other asteroid picture of 1998, and a host of actors cannot save Johnny’s boredom. Andrew details a notable incident of deep impact that the doc Zoo was based around and the two talk Black Bag, The Last Breath, In The Lost Lands, The Alto Knights, Snow White and Kraven The Hunter. Plus Andrew finally saw Wicked, was he a convert?
It’s the post-Oscar episode, a little late but as a movie show we HAVE to talk about it, that moment, of course, when… erm… Hey, Conan. Still prepping for August’s reboot of The Naked Gun, we’re driving into Washington D.C. of 1991 Bush-era first time around and contemplating David Zucker’s pivot to clear Republican sensibilities, mocking his own brother’s success with Ghost and what the hell a Scary Movie could be anymore. At least 2 people involved in this film were ignored from the In Memorium of this year’s ceremony and only one killed their ex and her partner.
I Recorded My Podcast… Prove It!
Johnny is a licensed driver and has taken to spending most of a week in the cinema, going Movie Mad. He brings with him thoughts on Captain America: Brave New World, The Monkey, Companion, Heart Eyes, A Complete Unknown, Flight Risk and Grand Theft Hamlet. All Andrew has to counter this is aunty Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, and that really cannot compete.
But Ryan Gosling, Anthony Hopkins and some nostalgia for early 00s middle-of-the-road adult-contemporary cinema takes hold, will Andrew recall his love for serious law drama? Will Johnny enjoy the non-courtroom-drama parts of this thriller? What contraptions is Anthony Hopkins drawing during the trial anyway? Is he Jigsaw? Prove it.
It’s almost Galentine’s Day and Valentine’s Day, so it’s the perfect time to hang out and watch a movie about love, loss, the power of friendship and Kevin Smith in a rare acting role that isn’t a cameo or self-referential, besides the jerseys. Andrew weighs in on recent releases Wolf Man, September 5, A Complete Unknown and Presence, whilst Johnny remembers the time he went and tried to fish, did he catch? Did he release? Did he ever go again (Spoiler on that last one, no). Somehow this becomes a checklist of connections that prove Madame Web was right all along.
We’re on the run with the sequel to 1993’s The Fugitive and 2017’s The Fugitive AYMM episode. Tommy Lee Jones takes centre stage after winning an Oscar for the role years prior, and what follows is forgettable and sluggish, so we’re finding things to grab onto like, yup, more Cars-lore contemplation, as well as talking The Bank Of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger, A Real Pain and Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial career in full. What IF he played Mark Wahlberg though?
EPISODE THREE HUNDRED!
Wow!
Woah!
What?
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Yep, we made it. Finally. Here is a big extravaganza and Andrew is all-singing-all-dancing through Johnny’s second-favourite film of 2024, a sequel to a film Andrew truly despised. Will Johnny convert Andrew to the Todd Phillips Joker sequel or will Andrew’s brain melt trying to make it through the panned flop film?
All will be revealed (as it is every episode).
We live in a post-Gavin & Stacey world and superfan Johnny wants to talk all about the show, whilst Andrew, who recently witnessed every episode, only brings suffering by turning the screws on Johnny and the audience, making us all witness the maligned horror comedy starring Matthew Horne and James Corden that wanted so much to be Shaun Of The Dead for the Gavin & Stacey fandom. Cue games galore, trivia of the BBC sitcom and conversations about the state of comedy and cinema in Britain so as to avoid the on-screen atrocities.
The commentary syncs 5 seconds into the film and starts 20 mins 4 secs into the episode.