Back at the Movies

On today’s episode, which aired February 9th 1991, we try not to let Siskel kill our buzz too much as we delve into two "woman in peril" movies: the iconic The Silence of the Lambs and the less-iconic Sleeping with the Enemy. We also discuss Steve Martin’s LA Story and if the traffic jokes still land 30 years later. So put the lotion in the basket and rearrange those kitchen cupboards like a proper stalker, and join us Back at the Movies.

The summer of 1989 at the multiplex was all about Batman and Honey I Shrunk the Kids, but by August 5th it was time to make room for the grown-ups, with two very different movies about adults: sex, lies and videotape and Parenthood. We couldn’t wait to revisit future Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh’s Cannes sensation, and future Oscar-winner Ron Howard’s multigenerational dramedy. What’s it like revisiting the movie that kickstarted the independent film movement of the 90s? And does the movie that introduced us to the “diarrhea song” still tug at our heartstrings? Join us as we dive into this and more Back at the Movies.

On today’s episode from December 26th, 1987, we spend time with Siskel & Ebert and two comedy legends, Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy. Both Good Morning, Vietnam and Eddie Murphy Raw were huge hits that year and were built around their stars’ personas, further cementing Williams and Murphy as two of the biggest stars of the decade. Do their brands of humor hold up all these years later? Can topical humor from back then work today? We get into all that as well as a Bill Cosby movie that most certainly does not hold up. We also look at a movie with a much different vibe starring Christine Lahti.

Madonna may sing “You Must Love Me” at the end of Evita, but… must we? On this episode from December 21st 1996, we’re focusing on two movies from genres that were flailing in the mid 1990s: musicals and horror. Thirty years later, was Madonna as bad as we remember in Evita? And what did the guys think of Scream, which no one at the time was expecting to be the sleeper hit it ended up being that winter? We’ll also hit the road with cult slackers Beavis and Butthead as they do AMERICA, and discuss the surprising thumbs on this one. Join us as we dive into a bizarre 1996 holiday season Back at the Movies.

Welcome to Back at the Movies with Meranda Broder and Dylan Wilcox. The balcony is open.

On the weekend of September 23rd 1995, it was auteur vs. auteur, with Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls and David Fincher's SE7EN. Both movies live on for very different reasons, and we can’t wait to see what Siskel & Ebert thought of these two movies back in the day. Join us as we explore the Seven Deadly Sins in Sin City… Back at the Movies.