Is It for Reel

Three friends dive into the movies of their youth and try to see if they still make us laugh, cry, sing, or cringe. We discuss and decide if it holds to the test of time to be called FOR REEL!

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187 episodes
Updated June 22
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Sep 16, 2021 · 1 hr 26 min
IIFR E63: Kindergarten Cop
It’s back to school time so better check with the experts on what you need to put in your backpack. If your expert of choice is an Austrian body builder who is somehow an undercover LAPD officer then you’re ready for Kindergarten Cop. So get ready for illegal ferrets, all the wet poneytails you can handle, and way more violence than you remember. Get to the chopper!!!!!
Sep 10, 2021 · 1 hr 34 min
IIFR E62: She‘s All That
Just in time for the remake, our podders travel back to 1999 and party with the classic teen romp She's All That. Will they survive this return to high school where the Real World ruled, glasses were the most hideous thing, every school had their own DJ, and everyone was apparently awful. Is she all that? Lets's find out...right about now.
Sep 3, 2021 · 1 hr 39 min
IIFR E61: Now and Then
Our podders put on their BFFs forever bracelets and watched Now and Then. Cuz what's better than friendship? If you even started to answer that question, just get out! Without faking their own death, they dive into this tale of mysterious murder, young love, grandma's on coke, and stormwater. BFFS 4EVA!!!!!!
Aug 27, 2021 · 1 hr 17 min
IIFR E60: Weekend at Bernie's
To honor Labor Day, our industrious podders watched the quintessential ode to the working Man, Weekend at Bernie's!!! So grab a corpse, forget everything you learned from CSI about decomposition, and partay!!!!! (Is It for REEL actually does not condone partying with a corpse. Everything you learned on CSI was true. Everything!!!!!!!)
Aug 20, 2021 · 1 hr 32 min
IIFR E59: The NeverEnding Story
Our brave Podders are back from Summer Break!!! They threw away their summer reading lists (reading is for the nerds) and instead watched a movie about reading books. It's The Neverending Story, y'all!!!! So be sure to ration your sandwich, saddle up your luck dragon, and book a therapy session, because we're diving into some childhood trauma. Ain't no party like a Falkor party because a Falkor party never ends!
Jul 9, 2021 · 1 hr 28 min
IIFR E58: Road House
Our brave podders are continuing the summer of Swayze with a little movie we like to call Road House. I've just been told everyone calls it that. We're entering a world where bouncers are rockstars, things like arson, murder, and monster trucking are never investigated, also pants are optional. So put your medical files in a binder, bust out your nicest karate shirt, and warm up your throat ripping hand. Road House!!!!!!!!
Jul 1, 2021 · 1 hr 27 min
IIFR E57: Flight of The Navigator
Our brave podders jumped into their space ships and zoomed back in time to watch the 1986 classic Flight of The Navigator. Does bending space and time affect your memory? Thanks to our astro physics experts, we'll find out. So polish your spaceship till it shines, bust out your favorite 80's wig, and bring along your mail robot (because it's the 80's). Compliance!!!!!
Jun 24, 2021 · 1 hr 26 min
IIFR E56: Dirty Dancing
Now I've.....had.....the time of my life. That's right. It's time to get dirty, Dirty Dancing. Make sure your armpits aren't ticklish, your hula game is on point, and you keep baby out of any literal or metaphorical corners. Join your hearts and hands and voices and watermelons and get ready for installment two of the Summer of Swayze!!!
Jun 17, 2021 · 5 min
IIFR E55 Point Break Bonus
Point Break deserves a bonus episode. Enjoy some songs, reenactments and an audio puppet show (probably, who can tell).
Jun 11, 2021 · 1 hr 46 min
IIFR E55 Point Break
You think I like this hair, you think I like these clothes, you think I like Point Break? Little hand says it's time to rock and roll! So bust out your black satin sheets, hike up your midrift tank top, and prepare to get radical or is it spiritual? Surf-Robbing cults are confusing!!! Welcome to seaworld, kid!!!!!
Jun 3, 2021 · 1 hr 40 min
IIFR E54: My Best Friend's Wedding
It's wedding season y'all and you know what that means. Time to put on your best 90's vest, memorize the words to all your favorite songs, and try to ruin a multi-million dollar wedding. That's right, we watched My Best Friend's Wedding. So come along and hang out with Dermil McDermey, evil Julia Roberts, and the Mouth Kissers Association of America. KIMMY....kimmy...KIMMY...kimmy!!!!
May 28, 2021 · 1 hr 23 min
IIFR E53: Necessary Roughness
Our brave podders are just normal people. They put their bluejeans on one leg at a time, then they put on a denim shirt, a denim jacket, denim socks, and then they watch Necessary Roughness. See, just like you. You know the drill, grab a motley crew of misfits, have a cooky training montage, and then play the big climactic game against some anonymously evil team. It may sound like pretty well worn territory, kinda trite, but it's gold I tell ya. Also it has Kathy Ireland and I think we broke Bridget. Time to par-tay!!!!!
May 20, 2021 · 1 hr 26 min
IIFR E52: Short Circuit
As we wait for the singularity, our brave podcasters watch Short Circuit in an attempt to appease our new robot overlords. Will they succeed or will they get bogged down in robot love triangles, crazy cultural appropriation, and Steve Gutenberg's luscious mullet? Time to find out, stat!! Your mother was a snowblower!!!!
May 6, 2021 · 1 hr 35 min
IIFR E51 Drive Me Crazy
Put your seatbelts on, because we're jumping into our vintage cars and driving back to 1999 to party like it's the Time Zone Centennial Extravaganza. That's right we watched Drive Me Crazy, the movie that has something for the slobs with their beds on the floor, the populars with their Gap fashion, and of course the psycho best friends who just want to see the world burn. Time to date your neighbor!!!
Apr 29, 2021 · 1 hr 43 min
IIFR E50: The Goonies
It's the 50th episode, y'all!!! Our brave podders went straight to the center of all things 80's and watched The Goonies. Will they make it out alive or will they be impaled by the stabby jabbies, be bored to death by one too many monologues, or just fall into the deadly Astoria death well? What actor gets their IIFR smoking jacket? Which podder personally knows one of the goonies? Listen and find out.
Apr 22, 2021 · 1 hr 29 min
IIFR E49: InnerSpace
Outerspace is dumb and for nerds. That's why our podcasters watched InnerSpace. You see, InnerSpace is for drunken test pilots, hypochondriac grocery store clerks, and cowboy themed arms dealers. Astronauts can keep their boring missions to the moon. We're doing shots, scattering our loose leaf paper, and getting injected right into Martin Short's butt. InnerSpace, y'all!!!
Apr 15, 2021 · 1 hr 31 min
IIFR E48: Batman
Put on your best Smylex makeup, flouf your hair, and make sure your henchmen brought the big boombox. That's right our podders became the night (knight?) and watched Batman. And not the millennial's lame version. Our batman can't move his neck, wears glasses, and weighs 160 lbs soaking wet. This is 1989 Tim Burton's Batman. You want to get nuts!!!!!
Apr 8, 2021 · 1 hr 28 min
IIFR E47: Nine to Five
Our brave Podsters jump in a time machine back to 1980 to take a look at life when sexism, wage gaps, and glass ceilings were all the rage. What's that you say? These are still major issues?! Well then, Dolly Parton for President 2024, y'all!!! That's right we watched Nine to Five so bust out your best desk kimono, kick the copier, and ask yourself: What Would Dolly Do?
Apr 1, 2021 · 1 hr 36 min
IIFR E46: So I Married an Axe Murderer
This week we find out love is dangerous whether you are a plumber, a lounge singer, a russian martial artist, or whatever Mike Meyers does. That's right, we watched So I Married an Axe Murderer. So get the honeymoon chair ready, practice your beat poetry, and make sure the bag pipers have health insurance. Woman!!! Wo-man!!!
Mar 25, 2021 · 1 hr 36 min
IIFR E45: Dogma
Have you ever thought if god was one of us, man? Well our brave podcasters put on their baggy jeans, puffed a jay behind the video store, and watched DOGMA. Will this violent dark comedy hold up. Only Silent Bob knows and he's not talking. So throw on a hoodie and a blazer and get ready to examine the dogma....oh I get it now!