ADHD-DVD

ADHD-DVD

ADHD-DVD is a movie podcast about physical media, with hosts Justin Morissette & Hayley Leier. Each week we convene to discuss a movie we’ve long owned but never actually seen… until now. Watching the movies we bought and forgot. New episodes every Friday.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #74: Phantom Thread

P.T.August rolls on with the only PTA movie neither host had seen before embarking on this month-long odyssey, a 1950s period piece set in the London fashion world that seems on the outside like a stuffy Oscar drama but packs some hidden humour in its dramatic depths. It's 2017's Phantom Thread!

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #73: The Master

This week, it's the first week of P.T.August as we're set to spend the next five Fridays indulging in the works of Paul Thomas Anderson, beginning with a Blu-ray J Mo's been carting around for 11 years now without having ever actually watched before now. It's 2012's The Master.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #72: Twister (1996) / Twisters (2024), with Ashley Olson

This week, it wouldn't be the final episode of July if we weren't talking about a huge new theatrical release, but we're doing it a bit differently this time around as for the very first time (officially anyway) we review two movies at the same time! July's canon consideration is 1996's Twister, but we spend just as much if not more time discussing 2024's Twisters!

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #71: Real Steel

We're teeing up next week's big return of the MCU with Deadpool & Wolverine by looking back at the first collaboration between director Shawn Levy and the Huge Jacked Man, a futuristic underdog sports movie about robot boxing. It's 2011's Real Steel!

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #70: Beverly Hills Cop

This week, after a 40th anniversary sequel went straight to Netflix, we're winding it back to a 23-year-old Eddie Murphy's breakout smash as a capital-M Movie Star. It's 1984's Beverly Hills Cop.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #69: Jumper

This week, we're getting dragged by the anchor-cable into an ancient war between angry bureaucrats and aloof teleporters as we jump in to the 2008 forgotbuster Jumper.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #68: Speed Racer

This week, we don't step behind the mic to be an audio driver... we do it because we're driven, as we go under the hood with the Wachowski sisters' much-maligned avant garde anticapitalist art film (for kids!), the 2008 anime adaptation Speed Racer.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #67: Zodiac

This week, we're heading down to the basement with no regard for our own well-being as an impromptu theme emerges from our weeks-long run of perfect pictures and Masterpiece Month continues with 2007's Zodiac.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #66: Casablanca

This week, it's the start of a beautiful friendship, as of all the gin joints in all the world, this movie had to walk into ours... Yes, Hayley is finally pulling one of the all-time greats down off the shelf as we watch 1942's Casablanca.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #65: Sorcerer (with Rory Dunn)

This week, we discover fear pays poor wages as we're joined by comedian and good old Saskatchewan boy Rory Dunn for an unseen classic from his extensive physical media collection, about desperate men on a dangerous mission. It's 1977's Sorcerer!

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #64: Mad Max: Fury Road

This week, put this podcast in your earholes and I will carry you to the gates of Valhalla myself, as we die historic inducting a new entry into the podcast canon. It's 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road!

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #62: Life (2017)

This week, as Ryan Reynolds rides into theatres with the big screen release of I.F., we wind it back a few years to another movie he's in that adds a couple extra letters to that pair: 2017's Life!

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #60: Domino (2005)

This week, we return to the fuzzy, high-contrast world of Tony Scott, as the late great Scott brother cranks his signature style to the max in service of a bored rich girl becoming a bounty hunter. It's 2005's Domino.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #59: The Mummy (1999)

This week, no harm ever came from reading a book, and we test out if the same is true of watching a movie as we discuss 1999's The Mummy on the day it returns to theatres for a 25th anniversary re-release.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #58: Along Came Polly

This week, we're back on the rom-com train with another selection from Hayley's collection, as we raise a blind ferret and get down with the scuba man. It's 2003's Along Came Polly.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #57: The Patriot

This week, we're taking up arms against the British and making moves on our dead wife's sister as we get downright independent with 2000's The Patriot.

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ADHD-DVD, Episode #55: TENET (with Matt Pollock)

This week it gets lonely at night, as we live in a twilight world and there are no friends at dusk. We welcome Matt Pollock (Matty's Movie Burner) back to the program on the final Friday of the month to induct a new entry into the podcast canon: 2020's Tenet.

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