Millennial Movie Mob

Millennial Movie Mob Podcast about movies that stay with you long after the credits roll

09/02/2026

Hey everyone 🎬 I owe you an update — my absence was due to a move, starting a new job, and taking time for my mental health. Balancing it all took priority for a bit, but I'm back now with 2 podcast episodes already in the works! Thank you for sticking with Millennial Movie Mob through the quiet stretch 💛🍿

06/02/2026

Flower (2017) got mixed reviews and I genuinely don't understand why. It's a sneaker feel-good love story about two damaged kids finding each other in the most chaotic, tender way. The Bonnie and Clyde tonal shift that critics complained about is actually what makes the romance land — it's the moment these two fully commit to each other. Kathryn Hahn is predictably brilliant. And director Max Winkler staffed his entire key crew with women to eliminate the male gaze, and you can feel that decision in every frame.

06/02/2026

I loved this film and it genuinely hurt my heart. The Zone of Interest never once shows you the atrocities. Instead you watch this family live their charmed, comfortable life — gardening, swimming, laughing — while screams and gunfire drift over the wall and the furnace lights their bedroom orange at night. The horror lives entirely in the periphery. And Glazer did something technically wild — he hid cameras around the house without telling the actors where they were, creating this surveillance feeling that makes you feel like a witness to something you shouldn't be seeing. It's one of the most disciplined and devastating films I've ever watched. And it asks a question that is very much about right now: who are we in this story?

06/02/2026

I went into Apex fully prepared to just appreciate it from a distance — not my genre, not my usual vibe. But Charlize Theron is genuinely extraordinary in this, the villain is delightfully unhinged, and the technical filmmaking is impressive across the board. Sometimes a movie just gets you even when it shouldn't.

06/02/2026

Okay real talk — Buttercup doesn't actually do anything in The Princess Bride. She's the reason every man in the film acts, sacrifices, and schemes… but she herself is never really a participant in her own story. I get into all of it in my new episode, live now at millennialmoviemob.com or anywhere you listen to podcasts. 🌹

05/15/2026

Wicked: For Good has a lot going for it — breathtaking production design, a genuinely moving finale, and Cynthia Erivo doing the most with every single scene. But the second half rushes through emotional beats that the story really needed to sit in. It's a good film that could have been a great one. And Glinda's whole arc is basically: what happens when the pretty, popular girl realizes she's been a government mouthpiece? Heavy.

05/15/2026

Zombieland: Double Tap is the kind of sequel that exists because everyone liked the first one enough to show up for a second round — and it's perfectly aware of that. The core cast is still charming, the rules are still fun, and Zoey Deutch as Madison is genuinely one of the funniest additions to a comedy sequel in recent memory. But it's also a movie that spends a lot of energy reminding you how much you loved Zombieland instead of doing something new enough to justify a decade-long wait. It's a good time if you go in with calibrated expectations. Just don't expect it to hit the same way the first one did.

05/15/2026

Remarkably Bright Creatures is the kind of film that sneaks up on you — you think you're watching a cozy small-town mystery about a widow and an octopus, and then somewhere along the way it just completely takes you out. Sally Field is extraordinary as Tova, Alfred Molina voicing Marcellus is an absolutely unhinged and perfect casting choice, and Lewis Pullman holds his own against both of them, which is no small feat. The book spent over 64 weeks on the NYT bestseller list, and the film is already sitting at number one on Netflix after just a few days — so the people have spoken. It's warm and it's sad and it has a lot to say about grief, connection, and what it means to let someone in after loss. Go watch it, and maybe have some tissues nearby.

05/15/2026

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is one of the most quietly unsettling films I've seen — and it only gets more disturbing the longer you sit with it. Taissa Farmiga as Merricat is doing something genuinely strange and brilliant, Crispin Glover is perfectly unhinged, and Alexandra Daddario brings a fragile warmth that makes the whole thing ache. It's gothic, it's eerie, and underneath the spells and the arsenic it's really a story about two sisters and what love looks like when it's been warped by survival. If you haven't read the Shirley Jackson novel, this is a great entry point. If you have, you already know exactly why this story is impossible to shake.

05/15/2026

So Krazy House opens like a wholesome 90s family sitcom, canned laughter and all, and then Russian criminals show up and everything goes completely off the rails. Nick Frost plays the most bumbling, God-fearing dad you've ever seen slowly descending into full madness — and Alicia Silverstone is there being wonderfully unhinged alongside him. It's not for everyone (the reviews are brutal), but if you like your horror comedy weird and chaotic, this one's worth knowing about.

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