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| Titre | Date | Durée | |
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| Stand By Me | 10 Feb 2026 | 01:14:56 | |
If there’s no pie vomit or leeches in unfortunate places, is it even a coming-of-age story? Somehow, we middle-aged ladies are still moved by dumb boys doing dumb things. We also tip our hats to Rob Reiner, who gave us some of our most beloved cultural touchstones — including this movie. Rest in peace. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Gremlins | 22 Dec 2025 | 01:10:55 | |
It's not Christmas until mom throws a gremlin in a blender. We revisit what might be the first holiday horror movie to enter the chat and at least one of us wasn't a grinch about it. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (RE-RELEASE) | 15 Dec 2025 | 00:56:29 | |
We are re-releasing our top listened to episode which asks the question "what if Santa was a d*ck". We discuss just how far nostalgia can go for a movie to live up and what an interest in dentistry can be a euphemism for. This was our 2nd ever episode so excuse the amateur audio! Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Planes, Trains & Automobiles | 24 Nov 2025 | 01:09:56 | |
Gird your loins, fellow road warriors — we’ve got some travel anxiety for you! We revisit this classic holiday buddy comedy with Steve Martin and John Candy and ask: is it as funny as it should be or have the good times gone a bit off the rails? Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Beetlejuice (RE-RELEASE) | 30 Oct 2025 | 01:05:58 | |
This October we are re-releasing our favorite spooky season episodes and BEETLEJUICE had a prescient prediction for the yet-to-be-released sequel (please excuse the amateur audio). Who invited a pervy demon to our first encounter with death's beaurocracy? We found new things to appreciate about characters not named Beetlejuice and have some notes we're sure the producers of the sequel will take seriously... Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Ladybugs | 20 Oct 2025 | 00:58:45 | |
This movie is an abomination. Some therapy via podcast was needed to process the cringiest movie we've reviewed yet and perhaps answer why Jess actually LIKED this movie as a kid. Why did we watch this, you ask? Well listeners, we were required to activate the self -imposed "The Ladybugs" clause, which stipulates that we watch this movie after we deem five movies in a row as living up. We have regrets. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| The Addams Family (RE-RELEASE) | 09 Oct 2025 | 00:59:13 | |
This October we are re-releasing our favorite spooky season episodes and THE ADDAMS FAMILY goes way back to the fourth one we published (please excuse the amateur audio). In this episode we ask whether host Amanda Treat is a real life Wednesday Addams, and whether the movie experience boils down to basking in the essence of Anjelica Huston as Morticia. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| The Lost Boys (RE-RELEASE) | 02 Oct 2025 | 01:18:14 | |
This October we are re-releasing our favorite spooky season episodes starting with THE LOST BOYS. In this mid-stakes vampire movie a hot guy and a couple of Coreys run amok while we all secretly root for Kiefer Sutherland. Amanda also tries really hard to convince Jess why THE LOST BOYS is appealing to the ladies. This was our second 'After Dark' selection where we take a look at the movies we absolutely should not have been watching as kids. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Batman | 22 Sep 2025 | 01:15:46 | |
We love our villains and urban hellscapes here on the Live Up Pod and Gotham's Joker gave us so much to discuss that at least one of us wondered whether we needed Batman at all. Also, we've been so generous lately with our Yes-It-Did-Live-Up designation that we added a little extra consequence for ourselves because we love low stakes drama. (And in case you're wondering this is for the 1989 version starring Michael Keaton) No context link here for Prince's Batdance video. If you're thinking WTF then that's about right. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| A League of Their Own | 06 Aug 2025 | 01:11:59 | |
In our defense, we were only cranky because we cherish this movie so much. We love our sportsball and strong female characters here on the Live Up Pod so complaints were registered and newfound heroes were anointed. #TeamKit Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Jaws | 26 Jun 2025 | 01:16:30 | |
We are shocked to discover how close we are in age to unhinged ship captains and ancient moms. The 50th anniversary of the theatrical release of Jaws could not possibly go by without discussing whether it deserves the iconic status as the OG summer blockbuster. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| The Breakfast Club | 27 May 2025 | 01:15:03 | |
Teens confess their trauma because what else do they have to do on a Saturday. We wonder who we relate to now and how much bullying is acceptable to enjoy watching this classic 40 years later! Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Willow | 28 Apr 2025 | 01:19:24 | |
We go on a classic 80s quest and try to unsee the Lord of the Rings parallels. Also on the agenda are trauma scenes (you know the one) and Amanda once again needing to explain the appeal of a sexy leading man to the resident lesbian of the podcast. Side note that we recorded this episode prior to Val Kilmer passing away. Rest in peace Madmartigan. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Twins | 31 Mar 2025 | 01:07:12 | |
The most memorable mismatched pair gets put to the nostalgia test and ONE of us was a little pearl clutchy about the premise. We present the case of whether our generation's love for Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger can overcome the cringe parts Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Wayne's World | 03 Mar 2025 | 01:07:16 | |
The 90s vibe is on point as we Party On through this episode. We remind ourselves of the wonders of cable access television and discuss how much of the humor still lands to our middle-age ears. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| When Harry Met Sally | 03 Feb 2025 | 01:00:14 | |
We revisit the OG of neurotic New York romantic comedies and wonder whether ugly wagon wheel coffee tables and fake diner orgasms are still funny. We reference this muppet diner scene parody and oh my it's worth a watch. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| The Year Without a Santa Claus | 23 Dec 2024 | 00:49:34 | |
The annual tradition of Amanda making Jess watch unhinged Christmas movies she's never seen continues with another Rankin-Bass classic that makes us wish we were watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer instead. Our Christmas spirit may need a lift after seeing how whiny Santa can get. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Scrooged | 16 Dec 2024 | 01:04:42 | |
It was the best of Bill Murray, it was the worst of Bill Murray, it was the age of VCRs....nope, wrong Dickens novel. Happy holidays to all the cynics out there. We give to you another class warfare story full of nostalgia for at least one of us. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| BONUS: Field trip to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me | 02 Dec 2024 | 00:09:34 | |
Amanda takes a field trip to a recording of legendary news quiz show Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and spills the tea on what the live audience gets to hear! Wait Wait episodes Amanda was present for: Eric Idle talks Elvis impersonations and the bright side of funerals & Their Thanksgiving weekend special episode Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Spaceballs | 25 Nov 2024 | 00:52:24 | |
A generation's first experience with satire sure has a lot of d*ck jokes. We had a classy discussion over much our humor has or has not evolved 30+ years later. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | 11 Nov 2024 | 01:04:10 | |
Who DOESN'T want to put a creepy instagram filter on Christmas sometimes? Jess and Amanda see Jack through midlife eyes and perhaps relate a bit too much. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | 24 Oct 2024 | 01:08:46 | |
Amanda's middle school English class meets Francis Ford Coppola's interpretation of Bram Stoker's gothic classic. Yes we both have read the book and yes we had some notes for Mr. Coppola. This is our third 'After Dark' selection where we take a look at the movies we absolutely should not have been watching as kids. You know we had to do one of these for Halloween. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| BONUS: A Merry Yom Kippur | 11 Oct 2024 | 00:11:32 | |
We atone for our Live Up Pod sins in celebration of Yom Kippur. We list the movies we each regret tanking....and are perhaps defiant about the ones that totally deserved the rating we gave. Happy Yom Kippur everyone! Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Labyrinth | 07 Oct 2024 | 01:10:50 | |
Don't all tweens have to navigate their own personal labyrinths? We revisit the exquisite world of Jim Henson armed with metaphors and booze to discuss the ultimate 80s movie. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 16 Sep 2024 | 01:12:47 | |
The movie that birthed a franchise and cawabunga'd into our 90s hearts is also our most requested title. Does our love for human-like turtles and yoda-like rats feel as rad as it did when we were kids? Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Field of Dreams | 12 Aug 2024 | 01:07:28 | |
How much nostalgia has to live in our middle-aged hearts to be moved by a boomer with daddy issues listening to the voices in his head? Also, Jess and Amanda have a giant disagreement about what happens to Terrence Mann out in that cornfield. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Airplane! | 23 Jul 2024 | 01:07:01 | |
We debate whether satire still lands 44 years later and if there is ever a good week to quit your vices. SURELY you will enjoy our takes. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Tremors | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:59:06 | |
Some phallic puppets go on a bender of human flesh as Jess and Amanda are divided over whether the B-movie vibes are still entertaining. Plus stick around for a very special 12-year old guest who tells us all to wash our mouths out with soap! Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Aladdin | 10 Jun 2024 | 01:01:22 | |
Is this classic Disney road to marriage story still one jump ahead of the breadline? We weigh the memorable creep vibes from Jafar against the GOAT of sidekicks and one of the GOATs of Disney soundtracks. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| BONUS: Baseball Fan Trauma | 21 May 2024 | 00:09:48 | |
While recording our "Major League" episode we revisited our earliest baseball memories and the crushing feeling of a playoff loss. Jess also cackles just a little bit at Amanda's Red Sox trauma (because it's funny). Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Major League | 13 May 2024 | 01:06:32 | |
Was Major League a series of "pitch perfect" sports montages, or about how acceptable it was to stalk your ex-girlfriend in the 1980s? We go juuuuust a bit outside the acceptable amount of baseball puns as we revisit this classic underdog team. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| The Lost Boys | 22 Apr 2024 | 01:15:39 | |
In this mid-stakes vampire movie a hot guy and a couple of Coreys run amok while we all secretly root for Kiefer Sutherland. Amanda also tries really hard to convince Jess why THE LOST BOYS is appealing to the ladies. This is our second 'After Dark' selection where we take a look at the movies we absolutely should not have been watching as kids. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| An American Tail | 25 Mar 2024 | 01:04:23 | |
Is this still the classic American immigration story or a cartoon in need of a better soundtrack? Unlike Fievel, we hit the high notes of this movie as well as the low. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Teen Wolf | 07 Mar 2024 | 01:01:19 | |
Our adult mindsets are tested as we weigh our nostalgia for low-stakes werewolving against the eye-roll inducing 80s high school tropes. Amanda also dusts off her referee whistle to call some fouls against the sport of basketball while Jess imagines what the characters would be doing these days. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Listen to episodes on the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 20 Feb 2024 | 01:04:34 | |
We put the most beloved movie archaeologist on a performance improvement plan. Did Indiana get more charming (maybe)? Or did Sean Connery do all our pearl clutching for us (also, maybe)? Also, listen to our earlier review of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Visit the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Groundhog Day | 31 Jan 2024 | 00:51:17 | |
We revisit the OG of time loops and debate whether Bill Murray reaches peak Bill Murray humor. And if you genuinely like rhinestones, French poetry and ugly 90s vests this episode may offend you. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Visit the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Die Hard | 31 Jan 2024 | 01:02:06 | |
We Yippee-Ki-Yay through this classic manly man story and wonder if it's also a secret romantic comedy. We also ask whether our favorite type-cast villain actor is as cool as we remember. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Clue | 16 Jan 2024 | 01:03:38 | |
We discuss our favorite endings (Miss Peacock!) and whether some Tim Curry chaos is enough to put this movie into Live Up territory. Stay listening at the end for a bonus chat about childhood games we shouldn't be playing anymore because old. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog Visit the Live Up Pod YouTube channel | |||
| Babes in Toyland (1986) | 12 Dec 2023 | 01:01:30 | |
The annual tradition of Amanda making Jess watch unhinged Christmas movies she's never seen continues with this low rent Wizard of Oz. We are both amused and puzzled by how life-sized teddy bears and a complicated cookie economy somehow make their way into a Christmas movie. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Home Alone | 04 Dec 2023 | 01:15:02 | |
Will our adult selves still delight in the shenanigans of Kevin McCallister? And just how much do our backs hurt by proxy at the injury count Harry and Marv rack up in this Christmas classic? Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 13 Nov 2023 | 01:14:16 | |
Naughty foxes forget they're British in the quintessential Robin Hood movie of our childhoods. We debate whether Alan Rickman's mastery of villainy and Christian Slater's 90s style teen angst can overcome everyone else's American accent. See also a previous episode of the 1973 Disney classic Robin Hood. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Silence of the Lambs | 30 Oct 2023 | 01:06:44 | |
The movie that made serial killers intriguing for tweens in the 90s. Only now as adults are we picking up on the sneaky plot of a woman making her way in a man's world. The lady themes are subtle and go over a smooth as lotion from a basket. This is our first 'After Dark' selection where we take a look at the movies we absolutely should not have been watching as kids. Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Ghostbusters | 12 Oct 2023 | 01:01:15 | |
Do we really remember the original Ghostbusters from 1984 or have we let pop culture airbrush its cringier edges? Either way, we take you back to a time when a music professor could afford a corner penthouse apartment on Central Park West. Pay no mind to the demon living in the fridge... Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Beetlejuice | 02 Oct 2023 | 01:03:29 | |
Who invited a pervy demon to our first encounter with death's beaurocracy? We found new things to appreciate about characters not named Beetlejuice and have some notes we're sure the producers of the sequel will take seriously... Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 18 Sep 2023 | 01:14:39 | |
We debate whether Pee-wee is still funny or is he now a punchable man-child giving us low-level creep vibes. And just how large is Marge inside our childhood nightmares? (hint: very) Follow us: @liveuppod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Adventures in Babysitting | 28 Aug 2023 | 01:05:05 | |
This is the joyride through Chicago we wanted Ferris Bueller to be. As we rummage through this 1980s time capsule, we wonder whether urban hellscapes still resonate and why no one dared "fool" with the babysitter. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Robin Hood | 08 Aug 2023 | 00:54:56 | |
We go back to the OG of class warfare stories with Disney's 1973 classic interpretation. Is Robin Hood still a dashing fox who befriends rabbits, or does this movie amount to nothing more than an introduction to the concept of taxes? And don't miss Amanda's most epic fun fact as her closing thought, which certainly makes you look at our hero fox a wee bit differently. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Overboard | 20 Jul 2023 | 01:03:21 | |
We debate how much gaslighting can ruin a good love story and whether perfect casting can keep this movie in every 80s kid's heart. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 27 Jun 2023 | 01:08:31 | |
Two hosts enter, one host leaves. Our senses are obliterated as we revisit the dustiest leather-filled hellscape yet. We discuss whether the iconic Thunderdome and Tina Turner's epic role as auntie are thrilling enough to overlook all the nonsense. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||
| Bonus: Peter Pan (1953) | 12 Jun 2023 | 00:11:12 | |
Inspired by our viewing of Hook we went further back in time to Disney's Peter Pan from 1953 and discovered a whole lot you don't want your kids repeating on the playground. Also, we still love the Hook - Smee dynamic which may be the best part of this movie. Listen to the Hook episode for a full Live Up assessment of Indiana Jones. Follow us: @liveuppod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Visit the Live UP podcast blog | |||