Reel Talk & Banter
Omari Williams & Jay Richardson
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Ever wanted to just sit around and make fun of an old movie with your friends? That's exactly what Reel Talk & Banter is all about. Join best friends Omari Williams and Jay Richardson as they rewatch movies that came out at least a decade ago. It's a mix of a film review and a comedy roast, where they discuss everything from the plot to the terrible acting, and even if the film has stood the test of time. Get ready to laugh and hear some hot takes on your favorite (and least favorite) classic films.
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Disney’s Darkest Friendship Tale: The Fox and the Hound (1981)
A fox and a hunting dog promise they’ll be friends forever, then adulthood shows up with a leash, a shotgun, and a job description. We’re rewatching Disney’s The Fox and the Hound (1981) and treating…
A Classic Sci-Fi Rewatch Reality Check: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
A movie can be legendary and still not be an easy watch. We finally sit down with Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and come away torn: the practical effects, cinematography, and…
When Science Outruns Humility What Breaks First: Jurassic Park (1993)
A dinosaur theme park sounds like pure childhood wish fulfillment until you remember one detail: it’s built by humans. We’re revisiting Jurassic Park (1993) with grown-up skepticism and the same…
Certainty is an Emotion, Not a Fact: Doubt (2008)
You can feel the temperature drop the moment Doubt (2008) begins. A Catholic priest delivers a sermon on doubt, and within minutes we’re watching a 1964 Bronx school tighten into suspicion,…
The Pinky Toe Shot Heard Round Harlem: Harlem Nights (1989)
Harlem Nights should be an automatic win: Eddie Murphy on the director’s chair, Richard Pryor as the veteran counterweight, and Red Fox walking in and stealing oxygen from every room he enters. Then…
[MEGA POD] Happy Mother's Day!: Bad Moms (2016)
A PTA bake sale shouldn’t feel like a battleground, but Bad Moms turns school politics, mom guilt, and the pressure to “do it all” into a full-blown comedy war and we had to talk about it. For our…
When Cloudless Skies Thunder, Stand Fast: Immortals (2011)
Stand your ground. Fight for the people beside you. Fight for a future worth remembering. We start with the rallying words that Immortals wants to burn into your brain, then we ask the question the…
Everyone Guard Your Loins And Take Notes: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Miranda Priestly walks into Runway and an entire floor panics, and that alone tells you what kind of movie The Devil Wears Prada really is. We rewatch the 2006 film with fresh eyes and realize it…
Belly Feels Like A Mixtape With Cameras: Belly (1998)
Belly has a reputation that travels on pure memory: iconic lighting, a hard soundtrack, two hip hop giants on screen, and that feeling you had the first time you saw it. Then you hit play again and…
Shadow the Leader, Sassy the Charm, Chance the Heart, and Bob the Villain: Homeward Bound (1993)
That moment when Chance crests the hill and sprints toward Jamie still gives us chills, and we’re not even pretending otherwise. We grew up on Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, so coming back…
Fred Willard Explains Dogs Like He Just Met One: Best In Show (2000)
A movie about a dog show somehow turns into a full-on personality test, and our reactions could not be more different. We’re talking Best in Show, Christopher Guest’s mockumentary where the dogs are…
...Mean Bastards You Need to Hang!: The Hateful Eight (2015)
Snow, paranoia, and eight strangers who all feel guilty of something. We go back to Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and review it the way it begs to be watched: as a chaptered Western mystery…
A Cult Classic In Heels: Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
Three larger-than-life movie stars. Full drag. A bright yellow Cadillac. And a 1995 road trip comedy that still sparks arguments nearly 30 years later. We’re revisiting *To Wong Foo, Thanks for…
When The Government Picks You For Target Practice: Enemy of the State (1998)
We revisit Enemy of the State and realize it hits even harder nearly 30 years later, once you map its paranoia onto today’s surveillance reality. We track how a random tape turns Will Smith’s life…
How Scream Revived The Slasher And Birthed A Meta Horror Era: Scream (1996)
What happens when a slasher knows you know the rules? We dive back into Scream (1996) and unpack why that opening phone call still rattles the nerves, how the film smuggles a satire inside a…
Four Friends, One Plan, And The Cost Of Survival: Set It Off (1996)
We revisit Set It Off to celebrate Black History Month and unpack why a 90s heist film still cuts close today. We balance the laughs and chemistry with the film’s gutting realism on policing,…
Unpacking Sex, Power, And 80s Brooklyn : She's Gotta Have It (1986)
A black-and-white indie that still feels loud. We dive into Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It and sit with the shockwaves it sent through 80s cinema: a black woman who won’t apologize for desire, three…
[MEGA POD] Sit Your Five Dollar Ass Down: New Jack City (1991) with The Relly and Delly Podcast
We revisit New Jack City with Relly & Delly to explore how a quotable crime saga doubles as a sharp look at addiction, power, and community. Style meets substance as we debate bad policing, a…
Great Score, Mid Colonel, Maximum Denzel: Glory (1989)
The cannon smoke hasn’t cleared on Glory, and maybe that’s the point. We’re diving back into the 54th Massachusetts to ask a simple but uncomfortable question: whose story does the film truly tell?…
Ranking Holiday Classics With Heart, Humor, And Heat
We trade top five Christmas movie lists and dig into what makes a holiday film last: belief, chaos, nostalgia, and the way December magnifies joy and loneliness. The debate gets loud, the jokes get…
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