Explore every episode of the podcast Movies on the Side
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| Toy Story 5 (2026) Review | 12 Oct 2026 | 00:46:18 | |
| The Odyssey (2026) Review | 21 Jul 2026 | 01:05:17 | |
Turns out, people like going to the movies when the movies are good. | |||
| Mercy (2026) Review | 10 Jul 2026 | 00:45:21 | |
A harrowing story about Chipotle Queso, and Rebecca Ferguson makes a great AI judge. | |||
| Project Hail Mary (2026) Review | 24 Jun 2026 | 00:47:27 | |
Could Ryan Gosling and Rocky be the best buddy pair in cinema? And more importantly, when to use the microwave vs toaster oven. | |||
| Materialists (2025) Review | 21 May 2026 | 00:45:31 | |
Love is a many splendid thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love! Or maybe love is a list of checkboxes and the highest compatibility between two people wins. | |||
| Eternity (2025) Review | 23 Mar 2026 | 00:42:46 | |
We spiral our contemplating eternity, love, and working on a cruise ship forever. | |||
| F1: The Movie (2025) Review | 16 Mar 2026 | 00:40:45 | |
Can't wait for the sequel: F1: Part Deux: Tokyo Drift | |||
| Wicked: For Good (2025) Review | 25 Nov 2025 | 00:35:24 | |
Can a musical with so many first-act hits...end with a bang? | |||
| Nate's Rules of Theater Etiquette | 25 Nov 2025 | 00:17:57 | |
The etymology of "brekkie," Nate handles a theater talker, and we all need more pneumatic tubes. | |||
| Superman (2025) Review: Maybe That’s the Real Punk Rock | 29 Jul 2025 | 00:36:26 | |
Sometimes it’s ok to be corny. Also, Nate and Stephen try to remember how to review movies. | |||
| Everything is Cottage Cheese | 29 Jul 2025 | 00:23:56 | |
We catch up on recent movie experiences, but more importantly, Stephen is putting cottage cheese in everything. | |||
| Gladiator II (2024) Review | 28 Feb 2025 | 00:36:23 | |
Can Denzel Washington carry an entire sequel 20+ years in the making? Nate delivers what is possibly the best dissertation on why a movie is bad, and CG monkeys are bad. | |||
| Stephen Goes to a Sportsball Game | 28 Feb 2025 | 00:25:32 | |
Stephen doesn’t understand how to attend a live sports event. | |||
| Wicked (2024) Review and Top 5 Songs | 31 Jan 2025 | 00:37:26 | |
We gush a lot about Wicked, there's singing, and we list out top 5 songs from the movie! Follow Us On: | |||
| How Famous Would You Want to Be? | 30 Jan 2025 | 00:20:36 | |
| Our Top 5 Christmas Movies with Jason Aten! | 20 Dec 2024 | 00:39:21 | |
Returning guest Jason Aten joins us to rank our top 5 favorite Christmas movies, and call out what’s clearly the worst in history! The audacity! The unmitigated gall! Follow Us On: | |||
| Holiday Traditions with a Special Guest! | 20 Dec 2024 | 00:35:53 | |
Friend of the show Jason Aten joins us to review our favorite and new holiday traditions! He loves Christmas, even though he admittedly does absolutely NOTHING to facilitate it. | |||
| Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Godfather Review! | 15 Nov 2024 | 00:30:07 | |
After 52 years, it turns out, this movie stands the test of time. It's Nate's first viewing, and we get treated to Marlon Brando impressions, infinitely quotable lines, and we dissect why The Godfather really is that good. Follow Us On: | |||
| First-Time Onion Cutting, and How Long to Be an Expert | 15 Nov 2024 | 00:38:37 | |
Yes, at 38-years-old it may be the first time Stephen has actually cut an onion. After Nate shames Stephen about his onion naiveté, they both vastly underestimate how long it takes to become an expert at: chess, figure skating, pottery, and other wildly inaccurate estimates.
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| Pixar Movie Ranking and Inside Out 2 Review! | 26 Oct 2024 | 00:35:47 | |
We wax poetically how Inside Out 2 is both a great movie, and an important movie. After, Nate utterly fails a ranking a top 5 Pixar movie list. Follow Us On: | |||
| Nate Goes to the Symphony | 26 Oct 2024 | 00:41:24 | |
Turns out, live orchestral music is pretty great, and Stephen tries to explain how it all went wrong.
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| Emily Blunt is Already Taken: The Fall Guy Review! | 27 Sep 2024 | 00:22:41 | |
We review a movie about movie making, Emily Blunt is married to John Krasinski in every movie in our minds, we discover all the titles on a movie set, and Nate has the most incredible knock-off AirPods Max. Follow Us On: | |||
| Dealing with Rejection | 27 Sep 2024 | 00:29:40 | |
Rejection is tough, but Stephen advises Nate on a strategy to help cope.
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| Fast X Review: Vin Diesel May Actually Become a Car | 04 Sep 2024 | 00:27:40 | |
Physics don’t exist, John Cena drives a gadget mobile, and somehow, Vin Diesel may morph into a car before this franchise is over. Enjoy our review of Fast X! Follow Us On: | |||
| Pre-Sliced vs Deli Cheeses | 04 Sep 2024 | 00:23:05 | |
Stephen may have bought too many pre-sliced cheeses, and Nate attempts to persuade that bespoke deli cheese ordering is superior.
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| Did ChatGPT Star in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning? | 09 Aug 2024 | 00:32:57 | |
Tom Cruise is currently 62 years old, how many more Mission Impossibles you think he has left? Also, “The Entity” is basically AI, let’s be real. Bonus Episodes Follow Us On: | |||
| Olympics and Musicals | 09 Aug 2024 | 00:28:41 | |
Despite not caring about sportsball, Stephen is oddly moved by the Olympics. Plus, musicals.
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| The Trilogy Meter and Terminator (1984) Review! | 10 Jul 2024 | 00:28:57 | |
Is The Terminator just one long chase scene with bad makeup and a weak love story? Appears so, but more importantly, we judge the qualities of various trilogies, like Jurassic Park, X-Men, Indiana Jones, and do the important work of recasting a Terminator reboot! Bonus Episodes Follow Us On:
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| Valet Parking and the Indignity of 15¢ Bags | 10 Jul 2024 | 00:28:19 | |
Stephen was forced to use valet parking, Nate believes in reusable bags, and most horrific ending concerning nail clippings. | |||
| Don't Taint the Chocolate: Wonka (2023) Review! | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:34:07 | |
Is the charisma of Timothée Chalamet enough to recede Gene Wilder? What about Pure Imagination variations? And what exactly is a hall pass? We review the 2023 musical movie: Wonka! Pure Imagination Variations Bonus Episodes Follow Us On: | |||
| Rubber Snakes, Cereals, and Raw Milk | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:27:11 | |
What do you do with mischievous acquaintances at a birthday party, we might get arrested for drinking raw milk, and the top 5 cereals we would bring to a desert island.
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| Dune: Part Two (2024) Review! Nate Couldn’t Be More Wrong | 07 Jun 2024 | 00:32:08 | |
Thankfully, I do all the publishing for this podcast and can definitely say that Nate has the worst take on Dune: Part Two that one can have. Videos on Dune: Part Two Music | |||
| The Fall of Chipotle, and Stephen Almost Joined a Cult | 07 Jun 2024 | 00:33:29 | |
One false step and Stephen could have been knee-deep in a vicious fitness ring, Nate talks some sense in to him, plus the Chipotle portion fiasco, and we basically solve capitalism. | |||
| Einstein Stole the Show...Oppenheimer (2023) Review! | 24 May 2024 | 00:19:30 | |
The vibes are great in this movie, even though Stephen only saw half of it. We review the 2023 Christopher Nolan movie: Oppenheimer! Follow Us On: | |||
| Dewey Decimal and Watermelon Disdain | 24 May 2024 | 00:29:56 | |
Apparently, Melvil Dewey wasn't a great dude, we diverge into more AI talk, but both agree that watermelon are terrible. Follow Us On: | |||
| The Henry Cavill Bait-and-Switch, Argylle (2024) Review! | 01 May 2024 | 00:35:58 | |
A star-studded cast, $200 million budget from Apple, how could this movie possibly fail? Turns out, Argylle beats all odds, and does in fact, fail miserably. Follow Us On: | |||
| Dropping Things, Deciding on a Phone Pocket, and Ai Gadgets | 30 Apr 2024 | 00:30:42 | |
Stephen literally hates dropping things, we brainstorm better pithy sayings than the usual tropes, but fail, Nate is wondering in which pocket he should keep his phone, and turns out, Ai gadgets are useless.
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| Too Many Frames, Not Enough Plot, and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Review! | 12 Apr 2024 | 00:30:48 | |
Stephen thinks this movie is one, long, video game cutscene, while Nate tries to dissect the spiritual worldview of the Na’vi. Also, what is happening? Follow Us On: | |||
| Seeing Totality, Stephen Goes to Hollywood | 11 Apr 2024 | 00:20:25 | |
Nate was in the path of totality, but it didn’t change his life. Stephen brought MOTS to Hollywood, and talks to a stranger. Follow Us On: | |||
| The World of The Creator (2023) | 26 Mar 2024 | 00:42:17 | |
A unique and compelling dystopian world, all filmed on a camera you can get at Best Buy. We review our third John David Washington film, with music by Hans Zimmer and the same DOP as Dune, The Creator! Follow Us On: | |||
| Sunburn to Sun Tzu | 26 Mar 2024 | 00:26:35 | |
Stephen’s first beach trip and inevitable sunburn, we make a hard pivot to discuss military philosophers like Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, and Nate compares parenthood to being at war. Follow Us On: | |||
| Maybe We Don’t Like Superhero Movies Anymore | 08 Mar 2024 | 00:32:36 | |
Nate and Stephen recorded this episode LIVE and in-person, after consuming paralyzing amounts of cheesecake. We review the terrible 2023 movie, The Flash, and Stephen still stands by Man of Steel. Follow Us On: | |||
| Parent Trap and Getting Older | 07 Mar 2024 | 00:37:07 | |
Nate has concerns about a rather old Lindsay Lohan movie, and we ponder out own mortality as we discuss getting older.
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| We Don’t Know How to Say “The Marvels” | 23 Feb 2024 | 00:25:49 | |
We’re a little rusty, but we managed to review the next installment in the demise of the MCU, The Marvels! Tune in to our bonus episode for thoughts on AI generated video, hoarding, and those storage wars videos. Follow Us On: | |||
| AI Generated Video and What to Do with Storage Bins | 23 Feb 2024 | 00:30:41 | |
We discuss the existential crisis of AI generated video, and what we would do with all the storage bins in the garage.
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| Get Your Papes, Pulitzer-Winning Plot Holes, and Newsies (2017) Review! | 26 Jan 2024 | 00:39:42 | |
MOTS returns with a Top 5 songs, questionable mustache performances, and review of the 2017 musical movie: Newsies! Follow Us On: | |||
| Nate Loves Weddings, Stephen’s Just Here for Toasted Ravioli | 26 Jan 2024 | 00:23:57 | |
Chicken, steak or fish? What’s your dancing etiquette? And how many pieces of untouched cake do you claim by the end of the night?
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| Bad Haircuts, Tragic TV Deaths, and Lessons in Chemistry (2023) Review! | 05 Jan 2024 | 00:39:07 | |
Stephen has an existential crisis about his hair, Nate is trying his best to hold it together, and we return to TV on the Side as we review the Apple TV+ original series: Lessons in Chemistry! Follow Us On: | |||
| Late Night Shenanigans, Cheesecake, and New Year’s Resolutions | 05 Jan 2024 | 00:34:20 | |
Yes, we recorded this episode after 10pm — welcome to MOTS After Dark! Nate is bribing his child with cheesecake and popcorn, and we share our “themes” for the New Year! Follow Us On: | |||
| MacGuffins Galore, Time Travel Sphincter, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Review! | 15 Dec 2023 | 00:45:52 | |
We take issue with CGI young Indiana Jones, this movie has one too many MacGuffins, and we touch on the time travel sphincter as we review The Dial of Destiny!
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