Explore every episode of the podcast Two Thumbs Down with Mike and Ryan

There can only be three mini episodes! First up is Highlander, the first in the franchise. The boys talk Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and even discuss In The Grey and Backrooms

Time to grab a drink and BE NICE. This week the boys bring back best boy River Butcher to talk all things Roadhouse, with Patrick Swayze, and The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. The fellas also talk about Fight Club, Sorry Baby, Hamnet, Widows Bay, and Carolina Caroline

As Alan Jackson once said, the hosts of the Two Thumbs Down podcast have gone country! The fellas discuss two country themed movies. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, starting Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, and Gary Busey. And Pure Country, starring actual country star George Strait and of course punk legend John Doe. And no country podcast would be complete without a large Borat discussion!

You want another episode? You got it Mister! We’ve got two romantic comedies with Mr. in the title. Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and even a bit of James Gandolfini. And Mr. Wrong starring Ellen Degeneres and Bill Pullman. The boys also talk The Drama, Alana Haim, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, and Sheep Detectives!

It’s the 25th anniversary of Hudson Hawk! Everyone is talking about it! It’s all over the news! This week the fellas talk some caper heist movies Disorganized Crime (1989) and Hudson Hawk (1991), packed full of stars like Bruce Willis, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ed O’Neil, Andie Macdowell, Richard E. Grant, and so much more!

We use one whole episode to figure what is better: one GOOD cop or one TOUGH cop. Well maybe neither one is better. But we do talk a whole lotta 90’s power houses like Michael Keaton, Anthony LaPaglia, Stephen Baldwin, Chris Penn. And we also review the new Renny Harlin Deep Water shark movie and The Devil Wears Prada 2

It’s a sci fi/fantasy episode so we had to bring in resident sci fi/fantasy nerd Seth Robert Babb! We talk Krull, an actual movie that is both sci fi and fantasy. Then we move over to straight fantasy with Red Sonja, starring Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger! Don’t miss the boys discuss their recent movie watches, Seth’s recent album faves, and all three boys try to recollect two movies that make almost no sense whatsoever!

It’s our 100th episode (we think [we’re pretty sure])! And we’ve got a very special double feature for the Siskel & Ebert fanatics. First we’re talking about the only movie either of the duo were actually involved in making: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Written by Roger Ebert and directed by Russ Meyer. Then we talk about Gene Siskel’s favorite movie: Saturday Night Fever. A movie he loved so much he bought the famous white Travolta suit! Here’s to 100 more!

QUACK QUACK QUACK it’s Duck time! This week we bring back Ilana Winter to talk all things Mighty Ducks! Is D2 better than the original? Who is a Hawk and who is on Team Iceland? And how is Coach Bombay getting from Malibu to Downtown LA EVERYDAY?!

It’s superhero week on the podcast! We bring back pal and superstar of The Pitt (for one scene) Mark Schroeder to talk The Meteor Man and Batman & Robin. We also talk all things Batman, The Drama with current Batman Robert Pattinson, and we rank our favorite Batman movies!

Let’s learn how to commit murder together! This week’s episode is all black comedies about killing someone else! First is Throw Momma From The Train, starring Billy Crystal in Danny DeVito’s directorial debut. Then it’s Dan Ackroyd, Jack Lemmon, and Lily Tomlin in Getting Away With Murder, a movie so difficult to find you have to hear it to believe how the fellas were able to watch it!

This week, the boys bring on Lexi Amoriello (@movierecsbylex) and discuss two movies of women taking back the power! First is Shirley Valentine, a British theater adaptation filled to the brim with bit after bit. Then it’s onto Party Girl, a Parker Posey led trip through New York’s chic underground. They also talk Ryan Gosling, Project Hail Mary, Forbidden Fruits, and so much more!

New episode of more people on the run! This time the boys talk about Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane (HAGRID!) as nuns and Nick Nolte and Martin Short as bank robbers. Find out which actor is throwing a million mph fastball in one of these movies along with some Oscar talk, Hamnet talk, Conan O’Brien talk, and so much more!

Stay inside and listen to Two Thumbs Down! This week the guys have a stuck-in-the-house double feature with one of the movies being a hidden gem and the other being a hidden turd! Stay tuned to find out what they about that, Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Bride!, Los Angeles vacationers, and more!

The boys are on the lam! Or just watching movies about it. This episode is all about nerdy actors turning into their dark side in Anthony Michael Hall and Patrick Dempsey. The guys are also talking Siouxsie Sioux, some intense movie deaths and stunts, and a big tangent to talk about The Beatles’ Get Back documentary bringing back beautiful memories of band practice

This week, it’s all about our tribute to Robert Duval in our own two thumbs down way. We’re reviewing the ONLY two Robert Duval movies on the list in Convicts and The Scarlet Letter. We’re talking our favorite Duval movies, along with a whole lotta Terminator talk and, somehow, a big Sydney Sweeney chunk

Enough about romance, it’s time to get rich! This week the guys are talking some money movies in Outrageous Fortune and Million Dollar Mystery. They’re talking Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin, and even Terminator, Baz Luhrmann, and Moulin Rogue!

It’s our last episode of love! To close out February we’re bring back Christina Laskay to the studio and talking about 80’s and 90’s defining movies with St Elmo’s Fire and Reality Bites. We talk about Ethan Hawke, Winona Rider, the giant cast of St Elmo’s Fire, and if Primate (2026) is a romance movie

Are you feeing romantic yet? Well the fellas aren’t done! This week they bring back ultra friend Lauren Hamlett to lighten the mood to talk some romantic COMEDIES. They also talk about the great Catherine O’Hara, George Clooney, Michelle Pfeiffer, Disneyland, and some Sam Raimi!

The guys are jumping full steam into romance flicks this week. It’s all romance period dramas, starting with the story of Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and the vacation that spawned Frankenstein. Then they move over to North Carolina with Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis in an Appalachian drama about rival mountain families. They’re also talking Chris Columbus, Lloyd Bridges, THE BORG, animal stunts, AND THE WORST MOVIE EITHER OF THE HOSTS HAVE EVER SEEN

Are we feeling romantic? It’s the month of love so the boys are diving into all things romance! Well sort of, this episode is all about the oft-forgotten ACTION ROMANCE genre. They’re talking Goldie Hawn, Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, 90’s Xanax, and a MONKEY WITH A GUN

It’s time to put on your big boy pants and be a man! We bring back guest Matt Babb because he wanted to celebrate MANUARY with us by watching a Bruce Dennehy and Bruce Willis movie. We’re also talking Walter Hill, Bill Paxton, Joey Pantoliano, crazy action stunts, and how much we love movie guns that make people going flying off their feet

We love money! And movies about money! Or maybe not…find out in this week’s episode when we talk all things Rick Moranis, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, and so much more!

Let’s hit the slopes! We’re in the thick of winter so we’ve got a couple of ski comedies coming your way. We’re talking wet t-shirt contests, a guy named Lester the Molester, and inappropriate sex pests of 80’s comedies. We’re also talking what we thought of Steven Spielberg’s new Disclosure Day, the Coen Brothers, The Mastermind, and The Running Man

In our second year in review episode, we’re celebrating our favorites of 2025! Was it a great year? What genre reigned supreme? Where will we rank One Battle After Another? Sinners? RETURN TO OZ?! Listen and find out!

It’s time for our year in review episodes! In this episode, we’ve got lists for our stinkers of 2025. We’ve got the worst of lists of movies released in 2025 and what we had to review from Siskel and Ebert this year. Are we talking about The Smashing Machine? Eddington? LITTLE MONSTERS?! Listen and find out!

It’s the last Christmas episode of 2025 (maybe ever) and we’re bringing on special guest Ilana Winter to chat all things Jonathan Taylor Thomas! We talk All I Want For Christmas and I’ll Be Home For Christmas. There’s also discussions about Eddington, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Oh. What. Fun., and some HOT takes on Polar Express

We’ve got even MORE Christmas magic coming at you! This week the boys talk about the classic tale of Mickey’s Christmas Carol and the not-so-classic One Magic Christmas. There’s also some discussion about Disney, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Steenburgen, and one of the weirdest most depressing movies we’ve ever seen on the podcast

This is the third and FINAL mini Nutcracker episode and it’s much different than the others. The fellas are very surprised at this animated adaptation of the Tchaikovsky ballet and they also talk upcoming 2025 movies, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter O’Toole, Phyllis Diller, and one the best characters they’ve come across yet: PANTALOON

In this second Nutcracker mini episode, the guys discuss Macaulay Culkin’s role in this adaptation, the merits of child vs. adult actors, and the bane of Ryan’s existence: unnecessary narration

Since our old friends Siskel and Ebert reviewed 3, count em THREE, different Nutcracker movies, Mike and Ryan have decided to break them up into their own mini episodes! In this first one the boys discuss the movies they’ve watched that week, Maurice Sendak, and how dark this version of The Nutcracker is

We’re covering two comedy JUGGERNAUTS in this episode: Chris Farley and Pauly Shore! Listen as we discuss Son In Law, Black Sheep, staples of 90’s comedy, which movie Ryan thought was one of the best movies he’s reviewed so far, and which comedian Mike has never had the pleasure of watching perform

It’s NFL season! Well it’s been football season for a while, but the boys are on it this week with two football classics (are they classics?): Wildcats and Little Giants. They also get into some Frankenstein and Guillermo Del Toro talk, some football talk, LL Cool J’s football rap, and one of the best comedic performances we’ve seen on the podcast yet!

This week is all about our QUEEN. Diane Keaton. We discuss her filmography and her only two movies on this list: Look Who’s Talking Now and First Wives Club. We also talk some child actors, the stacked cast of First Wives Club, and what you should do with a dog as bad as the one in Look Who’s Talking Now

Spooky Season is officially over, and the boys are trading ghouls and goblins for birthday cake! It’s Ryan’s birthday, and he got to pick any two movies he wanted. Staying true to his Siskel & Ebert roots, Ryan went bold, choosing two of the only three movies Gene Siskel ever walked out of. (Don’t worry, we’re saving the third one for a couple weeks from now!) Neither of these movies are officially on the Two Thumbs Down list, but they still capture the spirit of Siskel the curmudgeon.

The trees are out to get us on this week’s episode! We talk a whole lot of Sam Raimi, Mike just saw One Battle After Another so some more Leonardo DiCaprio talk, and the greatest movie best friends of all time

Everyone loves horror, and everyone loves a sequel. Well except for ol Gene and Roger. This week we bring back Austin Wolf-Sothern to discuss some slashers, some queer reading into a Freddie Krueger movie, and whether or not Dream Warriors is the greatest movie of all time

Spooky is sexy and sexy is spooky. This week we have some sexual horror flicks, a large chunk of Paul Thomas Anderson, some insane deaths in They’re Playing With Fire, another week of Timothy Hutton, and maybe the most crazy on screen pizza ever: mustard and anchovies

They're Playing with Fire (26:55)

The Temp (1:02:54)

Spooky season has STARTED. We kick off October with returning guest Mark Schroeder to talk some Halloween adaptations, Stephen King, John Carpenter, and what it takes to be a real on screen BADASS

The Dark Half (25:41)

In the Mouth of Madness (57:35)

It’s all about 90’s treasure hunters this episode. These movies and episode are packed with so much 90’s! I’m talking Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Ice T (with a mullet) and Ice Cube (with a gold front tooth) as East St. Louis gang members, and, of course, stunts that may or may not have put some stunt people in their graves

Trespass (15:35)

Gunmen (44:30)

This week it’s all about MOMs. We have Don’t Tell Mom, The Babysitters Dead (15:59) and Trading Mom(48:14), a Sissy Spacek lead movie that’s been lost to time(maybe for good reason??). We also talk Spike Lee, what kind of mom is the coolest mom, and what might be the worst movie mom in cinema history

Another kids week! This time we’re talking ghouls with Little Monsters (13:15) and a story about toys with Small Soldiers (47:20). We also talk Joe Dante, Phil Hartman, Tommy Lee Jones, the challenge of eating a peanut butter and onion sandwich, and how a character in Little Monsters knew his apple juice got switched with monster urine

We got some big ones on the pod this week! We bring back Christina Laskay to talk about Brian De Palma’s Bonfire of the Vanities (23:53) and Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (57:47). We talk a whole lot about special effects, Meryl Streep’s brand of comedy, almost every miscast character in Bonfire of the Vanities, and one of Ryan’s top movie cardinal crimes: Unnecessary Voice Over!

What’d you call me?! This week we talk about a Mexico period piece, Old Gringo(22:20), and a New York Italian comedy, Kiss Me Guido ( 49:00). We talk about all the usual: man ass, Wet Hot American Summer, possible incest, and one of the strangest horse stunts we’ve ever seen!

Hey buddy, let’s listen to a podcast! This week it’s all about buddy cop movies in Renegades (21:00) and Tango & Cash (47:38). We talk Stallone, Kurt Russell, Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips, some insane stunts and even more insane sex scenes, and more importantly: BOOT GUNS

The guys are going into hiding! They watch a double feature of people who have to go on the run with Hiding Out (19:47) and For Richer or Poorer (46:21). How believable are these movies? Is Jon Cryer’s romance in Hiding Out legal? Is there any chemistry between Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley? Is Wayne Knight and Michael Lerner the best 1-2 combo in movie history? Find out on this episode!

This week, the dudes bring Wayland McQueen on for a trip back in time! The gang gets medieval with it and discuss Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (23:00) and a Three Musketeers adaptation with The Man in the Iron Mask (01:05:20). They talk Kevin Costner’s accent, the almost total lack of French people in The Man in the Iron Mask, and there’s also a quick conversation about how amazing Happy Gilmore 2 is!

In a totally cowabunga episode, the boys bring back River Butcher to talk two 90’s powerhouses: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (18:50) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze! (01:01:22) They talk about things turtles, ninjas, Casey Jones, April O’Neil, Shredder, and somehow someway even Ralph Nader

It’s an unfortunate fact of life that sometimes…the boys gotta talk about Bill Cosby. This week, the gents talk about a classic movie genre: a ghost that comes back to Earth to help someone out. They also talk about movies like Superman, The Devil Wears Prada, F1, and Jurassic World: Rebirth and find out the best place to take your date after a makeover montage: SBARRO

Two thumbs down to Rick Moranis?! How could they?! In this week’s episode, the duo discuss Rick in both Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (31:15) and Honey I Blew Up The Kid (01:07:10). They also talk growing up with Rick Moranis, his filmography, and finally learn what Ryan thought about M3GAN 2.0