Or Whatever Movies

Int Style | New Light on Sunshine | 186

OWM sheds new light on Sunshine. Wes and Iris dig into Reese Witherspoon’s production company, from its Blackstone deal and film catalogue to the potentially complicated

Int Style | Inside Baseball | 185

Is Or Whatever Movies too inside baseball? Wes and Iris debate whether the show’s personal references, spoilers, and producer-level movie talk make it harder for casual l

Int Style | 2 Number or Not 2 Number | 184

Iris quizzes Wes on one of cinema’s most quietly chaotic questions: when a movie title has a number, is it spelled out or written as a numeral? Wes puts his movie-title i

Halloween 2026 at OWM | Trailer

It’s OWM’s 7th annual Halloween spooktacular! Tune in every day in October for scary movie discussions, including this year’s new collection of genre-defining horror movi

Int Style | Worth the Price of Admission? | 183

Who gets your money sight unseen? Wes and Iris debate the actors and filmmakers worth a full-price ticket on name alone, from Daniel Day-Lewis and Bradley Cooper to Nolan

THE HURT LOCKER | Or Whatever Movies | 355

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH goes out with a bang with Academy Award Best Picture winner THE HURT LOCKER, a movie about the kind of reckless adrenaline junkie the world apparent

Int Style | FMK+ | 182

Kyle Chandler, Jeremy Strong, or Bradley Cooper: who would you marry, box, or have babysit your kids? Wes and Iris take F, Marry, Kill way past its logical endpoint, incl

Int Style | Actor Tics | 181

Once you notice them, you can’t unsee them. Wes and Iris identify the signature moves (tics?) actors keep bringing from movie to movie, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s shaky fin

Int Style | Still in the Shrink-Wrap | 180

Ever love a movie enough to buy the DVD, then never watch it again? Wes and Iris confront the movies they had to own but apparently didn’t need to open, including MASTER

Int Style | When Movie Couples Break Up | 179

What happens to the movie after the movie couple breaks up? Wes and Iris revisit Hollywood romances that outlived their films, from Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to James

Int Style | Femakes and Feboots | 178

Why do female-led reboots of male-driven franchises keep struggling? Wes and Iris debate GHOSTBUSTERS, OCEAN’S 8, and whether the problem is gender swapping itself or som

STRANGE DAYS | Or Whatever Movies | 354

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH gets strange with STRANGE DAYS, her raw, sinewy, greasy, confetti-filled VR trip through the final hours of 1999. Find out why this wildly ambitious

Int Style | Fan Conventions | 177

Are fan conventions joyful celebrations of the things we love… or kind of sad? Wes and Iris debate fandom, $400 autographs, celebrity economics, and the strange power of

Int Style | The Worst Food to Eat Cold | 176

What food becomes absolutely disgusting the second it gets cold? Wes and Iris tackle one of life’s least important but surprisingly divisive questions, only to discover t

Int Style | More Movie Vanity Plates | 175

Can Iris identify a movie from nothing but a seven-character vanity plate? Wes puts her movie knowledge to the DMV test with increasingly ridiculous clues, a surprising n

Int Style | What’s My Name? | 174

How well does Iris know the people in movies they’ve already covered? Wes quizzes her on the full names of supporting characters, from Arthur Lee Allen and Benjamin Bufor

DETROIT | Or Whatever Movies | 353

KATHRYN BIGELOW MONTH gets deeply uncomfortable with DETROIT, her harrowing account of the 1967 uprising and the nightmare inside the Algiers Motel. If THE HURT LOCKER hu

Int Style | Lost in Translation | 173

What happens to movie titles when they cross international borders? Wes quizzes Iris on some of Hollywood’s strangest foreign retitlings, from the overly literal to the c

Int Style | Hits Are for Young People | 172

Do artists get worse with age, or do they just stop caring about hits? Wes confronts his own age through Spielberg, Mark Wahlberg, and Paul Simon’s observation that “hits

Int Style | Big Movie Disappointments | 171

What happens when the movie you can’t wait to see turns out to be the movie you wish you hadn’t? Wes revisits disappointments from TERMINATOR 3, which literally melted hi