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Robert chooses the fate of a man who travels to space to escape some kind of coup. And Ellen chooses what happens to a troubled high school girl who's dating a teenage cop. Pour a drink and try to follow along as we choose our own (mis)adventures this time on Make Mine a Double Feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

Robert tells Ellen what happens when Kevin Spacey gets all biblically diabolical in David Fincher's Seven. And Ellen tells Robert about Christian Bale's go as Patrick Bateman in Marry Harron's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. It's spaghetti, body parts, Huey Lewis & The News, and things in boxes this week on Make Mine a Double Feature. Pour a drink and enjoy. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

Robert tells Ellen about the baby theft and prison break in the first half of Raising Arizona, and Ellen tells Robert about the baby returns and prison...unbreak in the second half. Then, Ellen tells Robert about fires faced by a studio executive throughout the first part of Hail Caesar, and Robert tells Ellen how that executive puts out all those fires by the end. We're talking Coen brothers crime capers one half at a time this week on Make Mine a Double Feature. Pour some whimsical whiskey and enjoy. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

We keep it clean and family friendly as Robert tells the story of a woman who leaves behind power and a prince in order to live a modest life with her family in Allerednic and Ellen tells the story of a young woman who discovers and embraces her under-water past in Diamrem Elttil Eht. It's two animated Disney classics backwards for tonight's Double Feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

We've cut our movies into pieces and now we're splicing them back together all willy nilly. Robert tells the story of a California surfer dude who has to find friendship and love in the frosty city of Cincinnati. Ellen tells the story of a guy traveling through time to get life right. Pour a drink and enjoy. It's time for tonight's double feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

Robert tells the story of a shaved-headed assassin running around...Russia, probably...doing assassin things that don't always make a lot of sense. Ellen tells the story of a talented street racer with a helicopter-flying buddy and a need...to drive fast. Pour yourself a drink and enjoy. We're playing tag with a couple of bad video game movies this week on Make Mine a Double Feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

We try to tell each other action movies from memory. Ellen does okay with the spilled cans and decapitations of Speed, but Robert can't remember anything about what the Sandman's up to in the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Death Warrant. Plus he's pretty obviously drunk. Pour yourself a little something. Here's to roundhouse kicks & faulty memories! Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

Usually, movies based on Saturday Night Live sketches aren't great, but the movies for tonight's double feature are no exception. Ellen tells the story of two head-bobbing brothers who listen to one song a lot. There's fake plants and real lamps in that one. And Robert recaps MacGruber, celery sticks and all. Pour a couple of drinks and enjoy. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

Here's the first MMADF episode we ever said into microphones. It's got a couple Toms traveling abroad to chase ladies and do stuff like build bridges and play baseball. Specifically, we're talking about America's sweetheart Tom Hanks volunteering to be killed by communists in the jungles of 1960s Thailand and America's mustache Tom Selleck driving in runs for a 1990s Japanese baseball club. Pour yourself a quadruple and enjoy! Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

We're taking turns talking Norm Macdonald as the old chunk of coal passes out poolside and produces pornography. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

We're talking Spielberg backwards as Robert tells Ellen about Indiana Jones putting artifacts back where they belong, and Ellen tells Robert about Jurassic Park being repaired for a grand opening. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

It must be 1999 because we're afraid of Y2K and don't want no scrubs while we talk Schwarzenegger and Muppets. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

We're talking about a couple of British slasher movies--kind of. Ellen tells Robert about a disgruntled stage actor taking out critics in 70s London, and Robert tells Ellen about a nice young couple who move to Scotland just to have a bunch of pig-masked scary guys...do not much and get themselves a little bit killed. We have 20 minutes each, plus the rest of the minutes we need to tell stories of dogs, sex in the woods, trampolines, torches, and faked death this time on Make Mine a Double Feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

We play choose your own adventure and end up sending one Jenny or another out on boats, onto stages, into treachery, and off on missions. Do you want Jen hatch and enact a stupid plan or fail? Do you want Jen to ___________? Join us for a drink and find out what we choose and how we end up with letters, glass, Jupiter, musical numbers, hooks, mops, and so many Jennies this time on Make Mine a Double Feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

Once upon a time, not so long ago, Robert told Ellen about Ghost, a movie that stars Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick "Definitely Has a Normal-Sized Human Head & Body" Swayze. Then, whoa, we were halfway there, and Ellen followed Patrick Fugit to suicide land to tell the story of the actually good Wristcutters: A Love Story. Join us for drinks and tales of floorboard holes, subway cars, wrists, cuts, love, scumbags, money, and cartoon demons this time on Make Mine a Double Feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

Jennifer Aniston may have made pretty fun movies like Office Space and Horrible Bosses, but Robert's gonna go ahead and tell Ellen about a bunch of 80s Tiger Beat cover kids eating pantyhose fish in the woods. For her turn, Ellen tells Robert about one ridiculous shenanigan after another in the somehow unnoticed Matt LeBlanc film Lovesick. Soak a marshmallow in rum and toast it because it's all campfires, Tuscany, sweaters, and voyeurism this time on Make Mine a Double Feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.

Our hearts will go yawn, but we’ll still get some laughs as we talk about boring romantic movies. Ellen tells Robert about a long Anne Hathaway music video called Song One, and Robert tell Ellen about a supposed movie featuring sexless Aussies called Lust for Love. We’re taking turns, telling only little parts of the stories at a time, so both movies build toward un-incredible, anti-climactic final scenes. Pour some whiskey and join us for a coma, an owl, several montages, probably a train, and at least one song this time on Make Mine a Double Feature. Make Mine a Double Feature is a Synopsish show. Here’s the thing I say about that: Hi, I’m Rob. With my friends and family, I celebrate pop culture, creativity, and possibility in podcasts and blog posts at synopsish.com. We have things about movies, sports, TV, trivia, music, and so on. Hope you’ll take a look.  Thanks for listening. Take care.