24 episodes
Bring Your Own Movie Tonya Narvaez, Sam Bertken and Ryan Lee Short
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4.9 • 19 Ratings
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Everyone has that one movie they could talk about for hours, days, an entire lifetime, because they just love it so darn much.
In each episode of BYOM, Tonya Narvaez, Sam Bertken and Ryan Lee Short invite a guest to bring their own movie for a boozy chat, taking a conversational scalpel to the movie, bombing at movie trivia, throwing out hot-seat rapid-fire questions and sharing the wise insights people on the Internet have to say about this specific entry into the history of cinema — all while drinking each other under the microphone with the guest’s favorite libation.
If you are a movie fan who wants to relive your favorite films, find out what the fuss is all about when it comes to certain flicks, or are just someone who enjoys hot takes, Freudian slips and remarkable remarks wrapped up in celluloid, you will love to sip along to BYOM.
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I Would Take That Before I'd Take a Mallet to the Face
MIDSOMMAR (2019) - The Internet does its best to sabotage our spooky season recording, but we push through to talk about a oft-mentioned favorite of at least one of our hosts. Admissions are made, feelings are explored, and if you can make it through some audio quality issues to the end, some genuine realness is achieved.
New episode of some kind inbound for some time next month, you better believe it! -
ALL Women Are Scorned, I’ll Tell You That!
SECRET SCHOOL-THEMED MOVIES (2000, 1998, 2017 [AND SORT OF 1986]) - September is here and since nobody is back-to-school shopping here in the EndTimes, we thought we’d bring a trio of movies that do, indeed, technically involve school in some way. Plus, a bonus fourth movie?!? Strange days, indeed.
Come back in October for another mystery theme! -
Am I Losing Friends Today?
SECRET MOVIES (2008, 2020, 1954) - Join Tonya, Sam, and Ryan as they explore what it means to forgo prep work for watching more movies in a little format swich-up to celebrate crossing the 150-day mark of not being allowed to record in person.
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We've Been Wild For a While
BLINDSPOTTING (2018) - We continue to hunker and enjoy movies from 2018, this time the much more grounded and personal love letter to Oakland and its denizens across time and space.
Come back the second Friday of every month for new episodes, whether or not we're ever allowed to see each other in person again! -
Laughs In His Dick, Actually
MANDY (2018) - We hunker down and find something to love during this pandemic/social justice turning point. Come escape with us for a minute, but then it’s back to work for everyone.
Bring Your Own Movie drops on the second Friday of every month, even when nothing else makes sense. -
The Long-Short-Long-Short Honk
BRICK (2005) - Kelly Groth helps us find the love even in a vicious read over assorted socially distanced drinks with Tonya, Sam, and Ryan.
Join us the second Friday of every month for an all-new episode, sheltered-in-place or not!
Customer Reviews
Better than a punch in the face, WAAAAY better actually.
Two episodes in and I’m already hooked! A casual fun podcast talking about movies, with little bits of trivia and alcohol thrown in, saluté!
(Love to hear the first ration as anyone brings up something that was supposed to be a trivia question LOL)
Funny and interesting
It's like Netflix and Wine night with your friends! Hilarity ensures.
Improv meets movie reviews
This long-form podcast is like being at a party late at night, when a few somewhat inebriated friends are hanging around, and then they start spitballing about their favorite movies. Younger movie buffs will feel right at home, while older listeners will get to see what growing up with movies-on-demand has done to the psyches of Gen Xers and millennials. As a podcast, it is best for long rides and cooking!
The show consistently makes me laugh and helps me to see movies that I mostly have either never seen or never liked from a new perspective. I appreciate the spontaneity of it, the trivia games, the trivia game buzzers that use movie quotes, and the way the whole show demonstrates how connected we can feel to movies, storytelling, and other people.
The podcast is still a work-in-progress, and I think sometimes the energy and ideas bubble over the top in awkward and even cringe-worthy ways, but you sense that they are on to something real here. There’s a rhythm that works better each time. The various segments are taking shape: the intro to the show cocktail, the guest’s “elevator pitch,” the hosts’ reaction “round robin,” the spitballing around fav movie moments, the review of “serious” reviews, the review of Rotten Tomatoes reviews, the trivia game, and the guest lightning interview. It works best when there is a rotation of hosting duties, and the guests get supported to share insights and memories about their movies.
The host personas are taking shape well: Sam’s random entertaining observations and occasional flub, Tonya’s thoughtful research and good-natured guidance of the whole enterprise, and Ryan’s unvarnished honesty and occasional corrections of Sam’s flubs.
There’s something fresh here for the art of movie reviews—which traditionally focus on oh-so-rehearsed movie erudition and oh-so-packaged celebrity PR. This opens up the movie review genre to a much wider set of connections—more Id and less Ego. Keep going BYOM team!
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