Category Archives: Fat Guys at the Movies

Episode 502 – Love and Horror for the Holidays

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This Week: Kevin heads into the full-on holiday season without a slate of holiday movies. So he turns to love and horror to fill in the gaps. After commenting on the Critics Choice Movie Awards nominations, he looks at a couple new trailers. Then he reviews Incarnate, Man Down, The Eyes of My Mother, Loving and The Love Witch. Later in the show, he takes a look at the possibly dismal box office for this weekend and offers a few home cinema suggestions.


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Episode 501 – The Nazis Are the Bad Guys!

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This Week: Kevin puts on a frilly bib and gets ready to gorge himself with food over Thanksgiving Weekend. But before he falls into a turkey coma, he reviews the new films Moana, Bad Santa 2, Rules Don’t Apply and Allied. Kevin also interviews documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock at his maybe-real-maybe-not fast food franchise opening in Columbus. Later, he gives some suggestions for home cinema viewing, including Kubo and the Two Strings and Mystery-Science Theater 3000: Vol. XXXVII. Gobble gobble!


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Episode 500 – Fantastic Breasts

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This Week: Kevin pulls out his magic wand and transports himself to 1920s-era New York to enjoy this week’s new movies. He rattles through some smaller movie news and takes a look at some new trailers. Then he talks about the films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Edge of Seventeen, Bleed for This and Christine. Later, he has a chat with Disney animator Andy Harkness, takes a look at the box office and offers up some suggestions for home cinema viewing.


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Episode 499 – With Apologies to Jehovah’s Witnesses

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This Week: Kevin leaps into some swift movie news and gives a quick preview of some MST-3K Turkey Day activities. Then he reviews the films Arrival, Almost Christmas, Shut In, Moonlight and Peter and the Farm. He also offers some keen insight into this week’s box office and some nice home cinema recommendations, including a love letter to Red Dwarf.


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Episode 498 – Trolling Doctor Strange

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This Week: Kevin starts off the early holiday season by wrapping up some thoughts on the horror movies he watched throughout October. Then he looks at a couple trailers, but saves some commentary about the Wonder Woman trailer for later in the show. He reviews the new films Doctor Strange, Hacksaw Ridge, Trolls, The Eagle Huntress and Closet Monster before looking at the box office and giving some home cinema recommendations.


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Episode 497 – The Big, Fat Halloween Special 2016

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This Week: Kevin gets out the crazy clown make-up and plans to scare oodles of children this weekend as he warms up to the Halloween festivities. He starts off with some movie news as well as sounding off about the Walking Dead hubbub. Then, after the trailer park, he reviews The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again, Inferno, Gimme Danger and Certain Women. Later in the show, he offers a Fat Guy Five about his favorite movies to watch on Halloween. It’s a big, fat, scary time in the Magical Studio in the Sky. Boo!


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Episode 496 – Woody Allen as Jack Reacher

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This Week: Kevin relaxes a bit from contention and nasty news items to talk about some humdrum but fun development news and look at some exciting Marvel trailers. Later, he skips the unscreened Halloween releases and reviews Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Keeping Up with the Joneses, In a Valley of Violence, Fear Inc. and Miss Hokusai. Later, he discusses a giveaway from the good folks at Drive-In Horrorshow as well as offering some insight into the box office and home cinema!


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Episode 495 – Beware!

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This Week: After talking a bit about the Doctor Strange IMAX preview, Kevin gives his thoughts on the sexual assault accusations rattling the online movie journalism world. After that, it was on to lighter topics, including reviews of The Accountant, Kevin Hart: What Now?, Max Steel, American Honey, Command & Control and Under the Shadow. Then he finishes off his plate like a good little boy with some box office predictions and home cinema recommendations.


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Episode 494 – You Crazy!

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This Week: Kevin takes a few detours in this episode, taking a look at a kind listener email as well as finally getting back in the swing of things to talk about a listener recommendation. He also covers the new movies The Birth of a Nation, The Girl on the Train, Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life and Phantasm: Ravager. Finally, he wraps up the show with a vintage review of Wonder Boys before offering some box office wisdom and home cinema recommendations.


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Episode 493 – Halloween Kick-Off

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This Week: Kevin gears up for Halloween with the first weekend of October (even though it starts in September) with a review of the new horror flick Clowntown, set to the dulcet tune of Petula Clark’s “Downtown.” He also sounds off about the upcoming Lion King remake before reviewing the other new films: Deepwater Horizon, Masterminds, Queen of Katwe and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Finally, he rounds out the show with some home cinema recommendations as well as a contest for people to win a DVD of Dinesh D’Souza’s film Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Demoncratic Party. (Hint: To enter, email fatguys@fatguysatthemovies.com and include “Hillary” in the subject line.)


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Episode 492 – The Magnificent Kevin

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This Week: Kevin wails at the sky and gnashes his teeth about the break-up of Brangelina. Boo hoo hoo! He also looks at some new genre trailers for both Christmas and next summer. Later in the show, he reviews The Magnificent Seven, Storks, The Hollars, I.T., Demon and Rob Zombie’s 31. Finally, as things wind down, he touts his box office awesomeness and offers a few home cinema recommendations.


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Episode 491 – Don’t Say This On the Radio

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This Week: Kevin runs through some geeky development news before becoming super horny while watching the trailer for Fifty Shades Darker. Later, he reviews a slate of new movies, including Snowden, Blair Witch, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Hillsong: Let Hope Rise, Finding Altamira and White Girl. He then wraps up the show with a look at the box office and some suggestions for the home cinema this weekend.


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Episode 490 – War on Halloween

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This Week: Kevin stares September in the face and dares it to show him its movies. September, of course, does not flinch, so he’s only had a chance to see a couple of them. (What might they be hiding.) Fortunately, he was able to see Sully as well as Complete Unknown and Our Little Sister. The films that hid from him this week are the sure-to-be-bad The Wild Life, When the Bough Breaks and The Disappointments Room. Kevin also takes a look at the encroachment of other holidays on Halloween, and later he talks about the box office and the home cinema recommendations.


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Episode 489 – Science Gone Horribly Awry

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This Week: Kevin celebrates Labor Day weekend with smaller movies as well as movies no one wants to see (including the studios, sometimes). After bidding a fond adieu to legendary comic genius Gene Wilder, he reviews The Light Between Oceans, Morgan, The Sea of Trees, Zoom, Germans & Jews and Breaking a Monster. He also offers some insight into this week’s box office and some home video selections people might enjoy. Happy Labor Day!


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Episode 488 – Perfectly Enjoyable Crap

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This Week: Kevin kicks things off by weighing in on the Leslie Jones hack, then takes a look at why Biblical epics are no longer a big deal with audiences. Later, he reviews the new films Don’t Breathe, Mechanic: Resurrection, Hands of Stone, Southside with You, Equity and Don’t Think Twice. Finally, he looks at the box office and offers some home cinema selections, including the favorites of The Nice Guys and Ash vs Evil Dead.


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