I'll Watch Anything
Henry Giardina, W.M. Akers
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A movie podcast with a sense of optimism! Mystery novelist W.M. Akers and ace film critic Henry Giardina take a rambling tour through film history, using dice to pick random movies from the silent era to today. They try to love everything they watch. It doesn't always work out.
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Dec 1, 2023
Big Business Provides Shenanigans
Big Business is a movie, kind of, in which Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin shriek and mug and produce low-key hijinks in the DCOM mode. It also features surprisingly tender characterization of a gay couple and was exactly what Henry and Will needed this week.
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And direct your pals to illwatchanything.com!
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Nov 17, 2023
The Hudsucker Proxy Is ADHD Heaven
In which Henry and Will discuss the futility of journalism, the beauty of pastiche, and Paul Newman's giant swinging, uh, clock.
Content warning! Contains frank discussion of suicide!
Read Henry's newsletter! It's called Less Art and it's about movies. Find it at henrygiardina.substack.com.
Read Will's newsletter! It's called Strange Times and it's about insane stuff that happened in 1921. Devour it at strangetimes.substack.com.
And direct your pals to illwatchanything.com!
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Nov 3, 2023
Spotlight is Fake, Fake, Fake!
According to the Hollywood establishment, Spotlight was the best film of 2015. We beg to differ! And differ we do!
Henry loathes this movie—Will thought it was fine—but we agree that a realistic depiction of journalism demands half-full Dunkin' cups on every desk and mustard stains on every shirt. Instead, Spotlight gives us triumphalism and speeches, Hallmark movie lighting and enough ugly khaki pants to outfit a convention of young Republicans. It's a movie that thinks it's smart and you're stupid. It's wrong on both counts.
Read Henry's newsletter! It's called Less Art and it's about movies. Find it at henrygiardina.substack.com.
Read Will's newsletter! It's called Strange Times and it's about insane stuff that happened in 1921. Devour it at strangetimes.substack.com.
And direct your pals to illwatchanything.com!
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Oct 20, 2023
House of Wax Melted Our Hearts
What do you get when you combine Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, and a few thousand gallons of melted wax? The 1953 3D classic House of Wax, a thoroughly unhinged movie that we love with our all the passion our waxen hearts can muster.
Read Henry's newsletter! It's called Less Art and it's about movies. Find it at henrygiardina.substack.com.
Read Will's newsletter! It's called Strange Times and it's about insane stuff that happened in 1921. Devour it at strangetimes.substack.com.
And direct your pals to illwatchanything.com!
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Oct 6, 2023
Parasite is Hard to Love
Bong Joon-ho's 2019 Oscar-winning Black comedy is a classic upstairs-downstairs tale, with a famous violent twist. It's great, but do we love it? It's complicated.
Read Henry's newsletter! It's called Less Art and it's about movies. Find it at henrygiardina.substack.com.
Read Will's newsletter! It's called Strange Times and it's about insane stuff that happened in 1921. Devour it at strangetimes.substack.com.
And direct your pals to illwatchanything.com!
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Sep 22, 2023
Earthquake Gives You Everything You Want
Will and Henry dive headfirst into the world of 1970s disaster movies with the exquisite Charlton Heston and George Kennedy epic "Earthquake," a movie that manages to be beautiful and engaging without actually being, y'know, good.
Read Henry's newsletter! It's called Less Art and it's about movies. Find it at henrygiardina.substack.com.
Read Will's newsletter! It's called Strange Times and it's about insane stuff that happened in 1921. Devour it at strangetimes.substack.com.
And direct your pals to illwatchanything.com!
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Sep 8, 2023
Blood Harvest Needs Way More Tiny Tim
Will and Henry ask the important questions: is Tiny Tim the special sauce of any movie he's in? Why does Mervo need to retreat into his clown persona? Why is Peter Krause's eye twitching uncontrollably when he's supposed to be dead?
Join us as we watch this utterly insane film and laugh the hardest we've laughed in a very long time.
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Read Henry's newsletter! It's called Less Art and it's about movies. Find it at henrygiardina.substack.com.
Read Will's newsletter! It's called Strange Times and it's about insane stuff that happened in 1921. Devour it at strangetimes.substack.com.
And direct your pals to illwatchanything.com!
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Aug 22, 2023
The Apartment is Goddamned Perfect
Join Henry (@punkgroucho) and Will (@ouijum) as they embark on the first episode of I'll Watch Anything, a podcast with a sense of optimism!
For our first movie, we tackle Billy Wilder's 1960 masterpiece The Apartment. Is it as brilliant as everyone says? The answer is a resounding yes!
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Read Henry's newsletter! It's called Less Art and it's about movies. Find it at henrygiardina.substack.com.
Read Will's newsletter! It's called Strange Times and it's about insane stuff that happened in 1921. Devour it at strangetimes.substack.com.
And direct your pals to illwatchanything.com!
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