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We review movies from the best years in film. New podcasts out weekly. Made by @pmiscove @emilystjams (and formally @kneibart)
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The spider is the thing people remember about Wild Wild West. Amelia Emberwing (@thatwitchmia) is one of the movie's loudest defenders, and she will fight you on it.
We asked whether Loveless's giant mechanical spider was on purpose. Her answer is a theory: someone wanted that spider in a Superman movie, got told no, and went and made a different movie with it. "I knew it was right," she says.
Name the bad movie you'll defend to the end. Tell us below. 👇
The full Hellboy II: The Golden Army episode is out on video for Patreon members, along with our bonus episodes. Link in profile. 💜
Hellboy II with Amelia Emberwing, Phil Iscove and Emily St. James. Does it hold up?
05 Nov 2026
It's legally not Gandalf. Then the finale happens.
Amelia Emberwing (@thatwitchmia) is not a Hobbit hater. She's a Harfoot hater, and she explains why in the middle of our Hellboy II episode: a whole season of people saying it's Gandalf, her insisting it can't be for rights reasons, and a finale that left her looking like a moron. She's still waiting on an explanation from the reps she texted.
Our theory: they bought the Gandalf DLC.
Are the Harfoots the heart of Rings of Power or the reason you almost quit? Tell us below. 👇
The full Hellboy II: The Golden Army episode is out on video for Patreon members, along with our bonus episodes. Link in profile. 💜
Hellboy II with Amelia Emberwing, Phil Iscove and Emily St. James. Does it hold up?
04 Nov 2026
Hellboy II: The Golden Army is out now, with Amelia Emberwing (@thatwitchmia).
The last stop in our Guillermo del Toro miniseries, and the most crowded one. Trolls, tooth fairies, an elf prince, and a mechanical army that opened straight into The Dark Knight.
What you're getting:
- Why these movies feel like a Hellboy comic and not a Marvel or DC film.
- David Hyde Pierce as the voice of Abe Sapien, and what that says about Frasier fanfic.
- The Angel of Death, whose wings weighed about 40 pounds. Doug Jones couldn't walk in them.
- The Troll Market, which del Toro does better than anyone.
- The case for The Golden Army as del Toro finally making it up to Abe.
- A wrestling tangent and a Lord of the Rings tangent.
Full episode on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts. Link in profile.
#DoesItHoldUp #ClassicCinema #FilmCritique #HellboyII #GuillermoDelToro
02 Nov 2026
Get excited for some sci-fi courtesy of the 1997 Saturn Awards on Podcast Like It’s The 1990s Patreon next month! 👽🛸🪐🔭🚀
02 Nov 2026
The Queen of Christmas aka @emilystjams (and The Country Bears) are coming to @podcastlikeits The 2000s next month with some amazing guests! Get excited for Christmas, cancer and freakishly animatronic bears! 🎄🤖🐻
02 Nov 2026
This week on @podcastlikeits The 2000s @emilystjams and I wrap up our GDT 2000s miniseries by talking Hellboy II: The Golden Army with @thatwitchmia! We discuss an off-the-chain GDT, Luke Goss as another hot villain, Seth MacFarlane, steampunk and troll markets.
30 Oct 2026
Sonia Saraiya only knew mandrakes from Harry Potter. Then she saw the one in Pan's Labyrinth, and she's been thinking about it since: a plant that dreamed of being human, fed milk and blood while Ofelia's mother Carmen's pregnancy goes wrong.
Her case: the mandrake is where the film's two worlds, the real one and the magical one, stop being separate. It's cooler than the Harry Potter version, and a lot more insane.
So which is the best creature in the movie? The mandrake, the Pale Man, the Faun? Tell us below.
The full conversation with Sonia, Phil and Emily goes further: the ending, the Pale Man, and Phil still mad about The Lives of Others. Full video episodes are on Patreon. Link in profile. 💜
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) with Sonia Saraiya (@soniasaraiya), Phil Iscove and Emily St. James. Does it hold up?
28 Oct 2026
The first time Sonia Saraiya watched Pan's Labyrinth, she thought Ofelia was going to be okay. Rewatching it as a parent, with fascism feeling a lot more like real time, her verdict changed: she's dead.
Then she explains why she believes the other ending too, the one where Ofelia is a princess in a weird haunted world, and why del Toro never meant this as a triumphant movie. (Ending spoilers.)
So which is it? Comfort, fantasy, or both? Send this to the person who has a theory.
The full conversation with Sonia, Phil and Emily goes further: the Pale Man, the mandrake root, and Phil still mad about The Lives of Others. Full video episodes are on Patreon. Link in profile. 💜
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) with Sonia Saraiya (@soniasaraiya), Phil Iscove and Emily St. James. Does it hold up?
27 Oct 2026
Pan's Labyrinth is out now, with Sonia Saraiya (@soniasaraiya).
Fourth stop in our October Guillermo del Toro run, and the one where everything he tried in The Devil's Backbone lands at once. Brutal, tender, and certain the fairies are real.
What you're getting:
- Why Vidal works as a fairy-tale monster who is also a real fascist.
- The idea that fascism is its own fairy tale, about making the world what it "should" be.
- The Pale Man, the Church critique under the prosthetics, and the mandrake root as the whole thesis in one wriggling prop.
- Stephen King squirming in his seat, ranked next to the Oscar as del Toro's proudest moment.
- The ending, argued from both sides.
- Phil, still relitigating The Lives of Others.
Sonia joined Phil and Emily for the first time since Charlie Wilson's War.
Full episode on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts. Link in profile.
#DoesItHoldUp #ClassicCinema #FilmCritique #PansLabyrinth #GuillermoDelToro
26 Oct 2026
We asked a simple question on our Gattaca episode: has anyone actually talked to Ethan Hawke? Carrie Wittmer had a lot to say.
He lives in her neighborhood. He goes to her gym. He's been at the same bodega while she was buying nothing but toilet paper and Gatorade. He's seen her walk her dog. And then there's the wine bar, where the real encounter happened: a very small bar, a squeeze past a stranger's shoulder on the way to the bathroom, an "excuse me," and a corduroy blazer so good she still can't get over the texture. The stranger turned out to be Alessandro Nivola, who played Calvin Klein in Love Story. That's the most she and Ethan Hawke's neighborhood have ever talked, and she's sticking to it.
Carrie (@carriesnotscary) carries the story, Phil (@pmiscove) keeps the commentary coming, and Emmy Potter (@emmylanepotter) drops in exactly when she needs to.
#Gattaca #EthanHawke #DoesItHoldUp #FilmCritique #PodcastLikeIts
22 Oct 2026
Imagine monsters have unionized and the only way to fight them is the power of love. 🤖
That's Pacific Rim, according to Lin Codega (@lincodega), who made the case mid-way through our Hellboy episode when the conversation wandered over to the other big del Toro monster movie. "This is not the topic of the podcast," somebody says. Lin keeps going.
In 78 seconds:
Two brothers with a bond that won't quit, one of them dies, and grief becomes the plot of a giant robot movie.
The person who refused to share a mental space with Lin, and who did not want to climb into a robot together.
Why the kaiju are more human than they look: they have a plan, a reason, and a dying world they're trying to leave.
How all of it connects to what runs through every del Toro movie.
This is what happens when a guest gets off the leash. The full Hellboy episode has plenty more, including who should have played the third corner of that love triangle.
Full video episodes live on Patreon. Link in profile. 💜
Hellboy (2004) with Lin Codega, Phil Iscove and Emily St. James. Does it hold up?
20 Oct 2026
Hellboy (2004) is out now. 😈
Guillermo del Toro's first big swing at the comic: a demon raised by the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, a Rasputin who won't stay dead, and a guy deciding whether he's the apocalypse or just tired of everyone assuming so.
Lin Codega (@lincodega) joins Phil and Emily to keep our del Toro mini-series going.
What's in the episode:
Steampunk, and who it was actually for.
Abe Sapien's spot in the del Toro monster-crush canon. Yes, there are opinions.
What 2004 casting could have made the love triangle work. Tom Hardy gets pitched. So does Noah Wyle.
Hellboy as a movie about a guy handed a destiny who tears it off along with his own horns.
Weird, warm, and a little nerdy, same as the movie. Does it hold up? 🔗 in profile.
19 Oct 2026
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