Explore every episode of the podcast The Screen Hoppers with Ian and Michael

Ian and Michael wrap up the first season of The Screen Hoppers with a trip down memory lane. They chat about their favorite movies and discussions from the year of podcasts, revealing their top 5 among the movies they reviewed in 2025.

The Holiday Season is upon us, and Ian and Michael are feeling festive. Instead of competing for movie-picking supremacy, The Screen Hoppers are embracing the Christmas Spirit and gifting each other something special: Christmas movies sure to bring yuletide joy to each other's hearts.

It's May of 1996 and TWISTER is tearing through the cineplex on its way to becoming one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Ian thinks moviegoers should have seen THE BIRDCAGE instead, and Michael suggests PRIMAL FEAR. Did America make the right choice, or should they have followed the advice of The Screen Hoppers?

Ian is in Disney World, hopping from ride-to ride-instead of screen-to-screen. Inspired by his trip, he and Michael take a peek at one of the early Disney attraction to movie adaptations, 2003's THE HAUNTED MANSION to see if it shares the charm of the ride, or deserves it's ghastly reputation.

It's 1998 and Steven Spielberg is topping the box office again. This time, with his WWII epic, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Ian and Michael have tickets for a later showing, and have each picked a movie to screen hop in the meantime. Ian decided to spend time with Jim Carrey's Truman Burbank as he questions reality and existence in THE TRUMAN SHOW, while Michael went with Bruce Willis' team of oil drillers trying to ensure the future of Earth's existence in ARMAGEDDON.

It's Spooky Season and Ian and Michael are visiting 2013 to see one of the biggest horror hits of all time, James Wan's THE CONJURING. Before settling in for the scares, Ian and Michael are going to spend some time screen hopping to check out a couple of the other movies that are also playing: RIPD and PACIFIC RIM.

It's 2003 and the finale of Peter Jackson's epic LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy is Sold Out. While Ian and Michael wait for a later screening, they kill some time with an unlucky William H Macy in Michael's pick, THE COOLER, and an odd-couple romance between Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in Ian's choice, SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE.

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It's the summer of 1984 and Ivan Reitman's genre-bending GHOSTBUSTERS is sold out. So while they wait for an available screening, Ian and Michael spend the day seeing some other movies at the multiplex. Ian picks Sergio Leone's mobster epic, ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, and Michael chooses Joe Dante's horror-comedy, GREMLINS.

Ian and Michael hop in the DeLorean and travel to 1985 to see BACK TO THE FUTURE. Of course, it's sold out. So, they spend the day at the theater checking out a couple other cinematic oddities while they wait for an available showing: LIFEFORCE and RETURN TO OZ.

Ian and Michael are joined by a very special guest – star of "Nailed It Novels" and Harry Potter superfan, Rosie Paige – to discuss the biggest movie of Fall 2002, Chris Columbus' HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS.

As Ian and Michael await HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, they explore the mysterious world of Studio Ghibli's SPIRITED AWAY.

Ian and Michael travel to 2002, hoping to catch HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. But since it is of course sold out, they lose themselves in the not-quite-an-Eminem-biopic, 8 MILE.

Ian and Michael finally snag those elusive tickets for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR! While all is not well among the Avengers, will our podcast heroes find themselves in similar disharmony?

It's still 2016 and CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR is still sold out. To pass the time, Ian and Michael watch Key and Peele's KEANU.

Ian and Michael travel to 2016 to see CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, but before meeting The Avengers, they're trapped in a punk rock club's green room by some unfriendly skinheads in Jeremy Saulnier's aptly titled, GREEN ROOM.

Ian and Michael give the Time Machine a week off and check out a current blockbuster: James Gunn's SUPERMAN.

After catching FIELD OF DREAMS and ROAD HOUSE during their visit to 1989, Ian and Michael see the movie they came for: Steven Spielberg's INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.

Continuing their visit to 1989 to see INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, Ian and Michael spend a night with Patrick Swayze at the Double Deuce as they watch Rowdy Harrington's ROAD HOUSE.

Ian and Michael visit Memorial Day Weekend of 1989 to watch INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, but tickets are sold out. Instead, they see Phil Alden Robinson's baseball classic, FIELD OF DREAMS.

Success! Ian and Michael finally get to see, and review, the movie that started it all, the first ever summer tentpole: JAWS.

Continuing their quest to see JAWS, Ian and Michael discuss another movie from the summer of '75, Woody Allen's LOVE AND DEATH.

In the premiere episode of SOLD OUT, Ian and Michael travel to 1975 to watch the movie that created the summer blockbuster, JAWS. Alas, such a hit is sold out at the box office, so they check out Norman Jewison's dystopian sci-fi sports flick, ROLLERBALL, instead.

Join Ian and Michael as they revisit the biggest movie events of the last 50 years, and some of the movies overshadowed by those blockbusters.