HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan to induct 'Heat' into the Movie Hall of Fame. They discuss whether De Niro vs. Pacino was worth the hype, if this was peak Michael Mann, whether this is one of the greatest ensemble casts ever, the 10 most important lessons from Heat, Pacino’s best line, and who ultimately won this movie—Pacino or De Niro.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan and Juliet Litman to induct ‘Jerry Maguire’ into the Sports Movie Hall of Fame. They discuss Rod Tidwell spin-offs, Tom Cruise Oscar snubs, the opening montage, Jonathan Lipnicki’s pinnacle, “show me the money”, the best Cruise movies, the birth of the modern sports movie, and Cruise’s romantic-lead chops.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan to induct ‘Moneyball’ into the Sports Movie Hall of Fame. They cover the state of Brad Pitt’s career, the past 20 years of sports movies, the making of ‘Moneyball’, their favorite moments from the film, and the future of sports movies.
HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan to induct 'Any Given Sunday' into the Sports Movie Hall of Fame. They break down Oliver Stone’s bizarre editing, Cameron Diaz’s underrated ownership chops, Al Pacino’s last great performance, the Tao of James Woods, the eye-opening concussion/painkiller subplots, Jamie Foxx’s breakout role as Willie Beamon, the craziest cameos, and where the “Inches” monologue ranks in the pantheon of great sports movie speeches.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan and Rembert Browne to induct ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ into the Sports Movie Hall of Fame. They cover Woody Harrelson’s hustling tactics, Wesley Snipes’s height, Rosie Perez’s polarizing character, the essence of pickup basketball, Woody’s fashion, Wesley Snipes’s career trajectory, the black-actor championship belt, ‘New Jack City’ power rankings, and the premise of the planned remake.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Mark Titus and Chris Ryan to induct ‘Blue Chips’ into the Sports Movie Hall of Fame. They cover film's most ridiculous moments, Nick Nolte’s intense coaching style, Bob Knight’s mystique, point-shaving scare tactics, Shaq’s final college game, the player cameos, rebooting ‘Blue Chips’, post-retirement Larry Bird, and the best college basketball movies.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan and Amanda Dobbins to celebrate and appreciate 1992’s ‘A Few Good Men’ in the inaugural episode of 'The Rewatchables' by discussing what they love about the movie, which scenes have aged the best and worst, and whether Jo Galloway was a good lawyer.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan to revisit and examine the Oscar-winning ‘The Departed,’ directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio. They break down everything from who was in the original intended cast to the film's most memorable moments, as well as what the movie is trying to say about society through DiCaprio’s and Damon’s characters. And, of course, they unpack Jack Nicholson’s memorable Boston accent.
Hot takes fly as The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, Jason Concepcion, and Mark Titus dive deep into 1991’s 'Point Break' by debating which scenes have aged the best and worst, where 'Point Break' ranks among bank robbery films, and who won the epic showdown between Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins deep dive into the 1998 romantic comedy ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. They discuss Tom Hank’s epic acting run in the '90s, the hallmarks of a Nora Ephron movie, the formula for a successful romantic comedy, how this movie predicts the future and hints at modern catfishing, and more.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan lead us deep into the inner recesses of 1991’s Oscar-winning psychological thriller ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. They pay tribute to Ted Levine’s iconic performance as Buffalo Bill, wonder what would have been with the movie's originally intended cast of Gene Hackman and Michelle Pfeiffer, and rehash their favorite and most haunting moments.
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Jason Concepcion, Shea Serrano, and Donnie Kwak to relive the 1994 nonstop thrill ride ‘Speed’ starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. They consider the perfect formula for 'Die Hard' remakes, expose the improbability of driving fast through L.A. traffic, and break down the film's critical bus jump. Learn more about your ad choices.
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and K. Austin Collins sing Celine Dion and let the disaster jokes fly as they go deep on 1997’s Oscar Award–winning blockbuster ‘Titanic’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. They discuss DiCaprio’s "cute factor," James Cameron’s obsession with the actual Titanic, and whether Rose would have chosen Jack if the ship hadn’t sunk. Learn more about your ad choices.
The Ringer's Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and K. Austin Collins pick out their trendiest '90s outfits and head to Beverly Hills to revisit the 1995 teen classic ‘Clueless,’ starring Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Shea Serrano, K. Austin Collins, and Jason Concepcion take a stab at analyzing the 1996 meta-horror classic ‘Scream,’ starring Neve Campbell and Drew Barrymore. They go deep on the shocking nature of killing your star in the opening scene, the rules and tropes of horror film, and the killers' ridiculous plan to stab each other at the end.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Jason Concepcion all undergo “experimental surgery” to assume each other’s identities and execute the perfect live show as they dive deep into 1997's action-sci-fi blockbuster 'Face/Off,' starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion are the heroes we need right now, but not the ones we deserve, as they dig deep into Christopher Nolan’s gripping 2008 'Batman' sequel, ‘The Dark Knight,’ starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.
The Ringer’s Donnie Kwak, Hannah Giorgis and Justin Charity hit the sunny side of South L.A. to celebrate the seminal 1995 comedy ‘Friday’ and discuss Ice Cube’s comedic turn, Chris Tucker’s breakout role, and all of the highs of a hood stoner classic.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan team up to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the original buddy-cop movie, 1982’s 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.
The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, and Andy Greenwald head to San Francisco to analyze handwriting and discuss David Fincher’s 2007 noir thriller Zodiac, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr.
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Andrew Gruttadaro throw on their Sketchers and Prada backpacks and return to high school to rewatch the '90s teen classic ‘10 Things I Hate About You,’ starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey go see about a girl and rewatch the 1997 classic Good Will Hunting, starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Robin Williams. They also discuss alternate endings, sequels, and whether Good Will Hunting is the best Boston movie of all time.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, Jason Concepcion, and Mallory Rubin head to Texas wearing shoulder pads and whipped cream bikini’s to rewatch the high school football drama ’Varsity Blues,’ starring James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight, and Paul Walker.
The Ringer's Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan hop in a speedboat and head to Cuba to celebrate the overlooked and largely misunderstood cult classic 'Miami Vice,' starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and K. Austin Collins and The New York Times' Wesley Morris are lured deep into the suburbs under false pretenses to discuss the pivotal social thriller ‘Get Out,’ directed by Jordan Peele and starring Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, Jason Concepcion, and David Shoemaker lace up their bowling shoes and make themselves a batch of White Russians to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1998 cult classic ‘The Big Lebowski,’ starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman and directed by the Coen brothers.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and K. Austin Collins and The New York Times’ Wesley Morris head to Philly to sprint up and down the Rocky steps and revisit 2015’s instant boxing classic ‘Creed,’ starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone and directed by Ryan Coogler. They also go deep on Jordan's and Coogler's career choices and the current state of movies.
The Ringer’s Jason Concepcion, Mallory Rubin, Sean Fennessey, and Andrew Gruttadaro dream big and embark on the ambitious task of recording a podcast within a podcast within a podcast to capture the essence of Inception, Christopher Nolan’s 2010 visual spectacle starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Justin Charity, and Lindsay Zoladz are not miracle workers, they’re janitors looking to delve into ‘Michael Clayton,’ the 2007 legal thriller starring George Clooney and Tilda Swinton and directed by Tony Gilroy.
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and David Shoemaker celebrate the release of Ringer Films’ Andre the Giant documentary on HBO by revisiting the 1987 classic fairy-tale adventure The Princess Bride, starring Andre the Giant, Cary Elwes, and Robin Wright and directed by Rob Reiner.
With their hoodies and f***-you flip-flops, HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan “aren’t coming back for 30 percent”—they are coming back to recap and celebrate 2010's ‘The Social Network,’ starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake; directed by David Fincher; and written by Aaron Sorkin.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Shea Serrano “didn’t know you liked to get wet,” but they did know you liked to rewatch the 2001 crime thriller ‘Training Day,’ directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington in an Oscar-winning performance for the ages and Ethan Hawke.
The Ringer’s own Rat Pack is back together. Chris Ryan, Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins head to Vegas to take on a job—to rewatch and celebrate 2001's 'Ocean’s 11,' starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Hold onto your butts! The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey, David Shoemaker, and Bryan Curtis are taking their helicopter back to 1993's mesmerizing blockbuster ‘Jurassic Park,’ starring Velociraptors, a T-rex, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and Sam Neill, and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Life is like a box of chocolates … especially when The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey revisit 1994's seminal classic 'Forrest Gump’, which won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Tom Hanks), and Best Director (Robert Zemeckis).
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey are gonna need a bigger boat to celebrate the 1975 Academy Award–winning shark-attack thriller starring Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss and directed by Steven Spielberg.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey just became best friends and are off to the Catalina Wine Mixer to rewatch 2008’s hilarious comedy Step Brothers, starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly and directed by Adam McKay.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan got two words for you as they rewatch 1988’s iconic buddy film Midnight Run, starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin and directed by Martin Brest.
The Ringer's Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey and Jason Concepcion revisit the 1996 action/thriller 'Mission: Impossible' starring Tom Cruise and Jon Voight and directed by Brian De Palma.
Yippee ki-yay motherf-----! The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Jason Concepcion, and Sean Fennessey go shoeless to a holiday party interrupted by terrorists to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 1988’s classic action film ‘Die Hard,’ starring Bruce Willis and directed by John McTiernan.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins set off to disrupt a nuptial and rewatch the classic 1997 rom-com ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding,’ starring Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz and directed by P. J. Hogan.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey toast to the 2005 raunchy comedy classic ‘Wedding Crashers,’ starring Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Bradley Cooper and directed by David Dobkin.
Oh, what a day, what a lovely day. The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, Micah Peters, and Jason Concepcion ride dirt bikes through a post-apocalyptic wasteland to revisit 2015’s Academy Award–wining ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy and directed by George Miller.
The Ringer's Bill Simmons and Shea Serrano have "a very special set of skills" that allow them to rewatch and celebrate 2008's action thriller 'Taken' starring Liam Neeson and directed by Pierre Morel.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey set off to “go play some f*cking cards” and relive the 1998 poker classic ‘Rounders,' starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton and directed by John Dahl.
The Ringer's Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey honor the 25th anniversary of the action-packed romantic black comedy 'True Romance' starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, and many more, and written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey came here to do only three things: “kick some ass, and drink some beer” and rewatch the 1993 high school classic ‘Dazed and Confused,’ starring Milla Jovovich, Adam Goldberg, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Jason London. and many more and directed by Richard Linklater.
The Ringer‘s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan dive deep to uncover the details of the Watergate scandal as they rewatch the 1976 political thriller All the President’s Men, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman and directed by Alan J. Pakula.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan take a trip to the Cayman Islands to talk about the 1993 thriller ‘The Firm,’ based on the book by John Grisham and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, and Holly Hunter.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Chris Ryan hijack the podcast to discuss 1997 action thriller 'Con Air' starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and John Malkovich, directed by Simon West. Welcome aboard.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan join Wyatt Earp and the gang as they rewatch the 1993 Western classic ‘Tombstone’ starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, and Sam Elliott, directed by George P. Cosmatos.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Sean Fennessey and Chris Ryan to make you an offer you can’t refuse as they honor one of the greatest films in American cinema history, The Godfather, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey relive the glory days as they rewatch the 2003 comedy ‘Old School,’ starring Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Will Ferrell.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Shea Serrano live their lives a quarter mile at a time as they honor the 2001 action film that started it all, ‘The Fast and the Furious,’ starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Michelle Rodriguez.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan head down to the South American jungle to rewatch the 2000 action thriller ‘Proof of Life,’ starring Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Sean Fennessey come out to plaaaaaaay to rewatch the 1979 action thriller ‘The Warriors,’ starring Michael Beck and James Remar. Can you dig it!
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Sean Fennessey are off the deep end as they rewatch the 2018 sensation ‘A Star Is Born’, starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, directed by Bradley Cooper.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins take a seat in the Oval Office on Presidents Day to celebrate the 1993 comedy ‘Dave,’ starring Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, and Frank Langella.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Chuck Klosterman only need a couple smokes, a cup of coffee, and some good conversation about the 1994 coming-of-age dramedy Reality Bites, starring Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, and Janeane Garofalo. Stick around at the end of the episode to hear Bill Simmons talk to Ethan Hawke about his experience and interpretation of Reality Bites 25 years later.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey take a trip to Hawaii to try and get over the 2008 hit comedy ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall,’ starring Jason Segel, Mila Kunis, and Kristen Bell.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey deliver the hard-hitting facts as they rewatch the James Brooks directed comedy classic ‘Broadcast News,' starring Holly Hunter, William Hurt, and Albert Brooks.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin take the field to face Roy Hobbs and the New York Knights as they rewatch the 1984 classic The Natural, starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, and Robert Duvall.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins book a room in the penthouse suite to rewatch the 1990 rom-com ‘Pretty Woman’ starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Shea Serrano reunite with Dom and Brian on the streets of Brazil to rewatch the 2011 action hit ‘Fast Five’ starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Dwayne Johnson.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Rembert Browne try to bring a pennant to Cleveland as they rewatch the 1989 baseball classic ‘Major League,’ starring Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan and Mallory Rubin to build a podcast studio in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa to rewatch the 1989 baseball classic ‘Field of Dreams,’ starring Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins try to make “fetch” happen as they rewatch the 2004 comedy Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams and written by Tina Fey.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan are forced out of retirement (again) to rewatch the instant classic, John Wick: Chapter 2, starring Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, and Common.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey try to figure out what happened last night as they talk about ‘The Hangover’ starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifinakas.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Chris Ryan seize the day as they rewatch the 1989 classic Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, and Ethan Hawke.
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Andrew Gruttadaro live out their love story as they rewatch the 2004 summer romance The Notebook, starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are joined by Bill Hader to flip a coin and await their fate as they rewatch the 2008 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, No Country for Old Men, starring Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins will have what she’s having, which is the 1989 classic When Harry Met Sally, starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin wait for the cream before they eat their strudel as they rewatch Quentin Tarantino’s seventh major film, ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ starring Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt, and Diane Kruger.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Mallory Rubin, and Jason Concepcion have lost that looooovin’ feeling as they rewatch Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, and Kelly McGillis.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan argue over who has to be Mr. Pink as they rewatch Quentin Tarantino’s directorial debut, ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ starring Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, and Tim Roth.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Ryen Russillo think they’re betta than you as they revisit the Boston classic The Town directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and featuring Jeremy Renner and Jon Hamm.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan hop in a cab with a contract killer to rewatch ‘Collateral,’ starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx and directed by Michael Mann.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Jason Concepcion head to Hong Kong to fight alongside Frank Dux as they rewatch ‘Bloodsport’ starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, and Leah Ayres.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, Mallory Rubin, and Sean Fennessey fake their own deaths to watch ‘Gone Girl’ starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike and directed by David Fincher.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin and The New York Times’s Wesley Morris hop up on the kitchen counter to rewatch the 1987 thriller ‘Fatal Attraction,’ starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer.
The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey and The New York Times’s Wesley Morris record this podcast on the hottest day in Brooklyn to rewatch the 1989 classic, ‘Do The Right Thing,’ starring Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, and John Turturro, and directed by Spike Lee.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin escape to Bolivia after a train heist gone wrong to rewatch the 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, and written by William Goldman
Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan and 'The New York Times'’s Wesley Morris head to Beverly Hills to solve the murder of their childhood friend as they rewatch the 1984 comedy, ‘Beverly Hills Cop,’ starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, and John Ashton.
Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Bill’s dad get busy living or get busy dying by rewatching ‘The Shawshank Redemption,' starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Rembert Browne will do up-downs until Bill is no longer tired as they rewatch ‘Remember The Titans,’ starring Denzel Washington, Will Patton, and Wood Harris.
Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins become stay-at-home podders as they rewatch the 1983 comedy ‘Mr. Mom’ starring Michael Keaton and Teri Garr.
Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Chris Ryan really don’t appreciate you poppin’ off as they rewatch the 2018 action crime drama, ‘Den of Thieves,’ starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, and O'Shea Jackson Jr.
All work and no play makes Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan dull boys as they rewatch Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic, ‘The Shining,’ starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins are joined by Kari Simmons to swap studios for a much-needed break as they rewatch ‘The Holiday’ starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Jack Black, and directed by Nancy Meyers.
Now, The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins only eat rat after rewatching the 2012 hit ‘Skyfall’ starring Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, and Judi Dench.
The Ringer's Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, and Ryen Russillo see a pay stub for $72,000 and quit their jobs to rewatch Martin Scorsese's box office and critical smash hit ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,' starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey are joined by the directors of Uncut Gems, Josh and Benny Safdie, to tap it in, just tap in, give it a little tappy, tap tap taparoo after rewatching Happy Gilmore, starring Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, and Christopher McDonald.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins would rather be a fake somebody than a real nobody after they rewatch the 1999 psychological thriller ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley,' starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey and Chris Ryan are joined by writer-director Quentin Tarantino to rewatch the first movie in a three-part Rewatchables series handpicked by Quentin Tarantino. To begin the series, they set out for the coast of France to retrieve their men to rewatch Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, and Kenneth Branagh. Where does it rank on Quentin’s best movies of the decade list?
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are joined by Quentin Tarantino for the second movie in our three-part 'Rewatchables' series curated by Quentin Tarantino. Up next, we try to prevent a half-mile-long freight train from barreling into a city as we celebrate Tony Scott’s 2010 action thriller, ‘Unstoppable,’ starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson.
For the 100th episode of 'The Rewatchables,' Quentin Tarantino returns for the third and final movie in his three-part series with us. In the final episode, we return from prison to reclaim our spot atop the New York criminal underworld as we rewatch the 1990 crime thriller ‘King of New York,’ starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, and David Caruso, and directed by Abel Ferrara.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan feel the heat around the corner and decide to rewatch the movie that started ‘The Rewatchables,’ the L.A. crime thriller ‘Heat,’ starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, directed by Michael Mann.
Live from the Sundance Film Festival, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and his stunt doubles Sean Fennessey and Chris Ryan are a gang of has-beens trying to keep the magic alive in the Golden Age of Hollywood when they rewatch 2020 Best Picture nominee Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and The New York Times’ Wesley Morris spend their Saturday in detention rewatching the 1985 classic ‘The Breakfast Club,’ starring Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall, directed by John Hughes.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and The New York Times’ Wesley Morris enroll in Columbus University to revisit the first film in our series of Flawed Rewatchables, ‘Higher Learning,’ starring Omar Epps, Michael Rapaport, Kristy Swanson, and Ice Cube, directed by John Singleton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Ryen Russillo take a jog in their rubber jumpsuits to drop to 168 pounds to revisit the 1985 wrestling classic ‘Vision Quest,’ starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins thought they all agreed to call it "the Bellagio job" before they rewatched ‘Ocean’s 12,’ the third movie in our Flawed Rewatchables series, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
The Ringer's Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan reexamine Steven Soderbergh's 2011 thriller ‘Contagion,' starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, and Jude Law.
As soon as Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan thought they were out, 'The Rewatchables' pulls them back in. For the fourth movie in our series of Flawed Rewatchables, we revisit ‘The Godfather: Part III’ starring Al Pacino, Talia Shire, and Andy Garcia and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons crash-lands in a podcast studio and has no choice but to record an episode with no one but himself. The only movie available in the studio is Robert Zemeckis’s ‘Cast Away,’ starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt.
Live, pod, repeat. The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey and Chris Ryan record the same episode of ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt over and over again to save the world from an audio invasion.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo wax the car, paint the fence, and sand the floor to capture the true essence of the iconic film ‘The Karate Kid,’ starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, and Elisabeth Shue.
It’s never goodbye when The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Shea Serrano fire up the 2015 action thriller ‘Furious 7,’ the seventh installment in the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Michelle Rodriguez.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Cousin Sal are just a couple of fat guys in little coats trying to save their father's company after they rewatch 'Tommy Boy' starring Chris Farley, David Spade, and Rob Lowe.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Jason Concepcion head to Mars to try to recall whether this week's episode, on 'Total Recall,’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, was reality or an implanted memory.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan are on the run after their podcast on Tony Scott’s ‘Enemy of the State’ starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, and Jon Voight ends up in the wrong hands.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin grab their ice picks and record the pod of the century on the 1992 erotic thriller ‘Basic Instinct’ starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Jemele Hill are just a couple of childhood friends striving to be professional basketball players rewatching the 2000 sports drama ‘Love and Basketball’ starring Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, and Dennis Haysbert.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan aren’t feeling too well, so their parents let them stay home to rewatch the 1986 classic ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan never walk into a place they don’t know how to walk out of after they rewatch the 1998 action thriller ‘Ronin,’ starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, and Natascha McElhone.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Chris Ryan record this pod from the inside of a maximum security prison after rewatching John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi adventure ‘Escape From New York’ starring Kurt Russell and Lee Van Cleef.
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins were asked when they fell in love with this movie and they said ‘While You Were Sleeping’ starring Sandra Bullock, Peter Gallagher, and Bill Pullman.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Shea Serrano, and Jason Concepcion defy the Roman Emperor by rewatching ‘Gladiator,’ starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and actress and writer Issa Rae tell us if we can expect six more weeks of winter or an early spring by rewatching the 1993 classic ‘Groundhog Day’ starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan do not concur, and therefore must stage a mutiny to rewatch Tony Scott’s thrilling 1995 film ‘Crimson Tide,’ starring Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, and Viggo Mortensen.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin enter the war room of the Cleveland Browns to try to rebuild the franchise as they rewatch 'Draft Day,’ starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, and Denis Leary.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan fire up the flux capacitor and hop in Doc Brown’s DeLorean to revisit Robert Zemeckis’s 1985 classic ‘Back to the Future,’ starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
NASA hires an unlikely crew of Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Shea Serrano, and Jason Concepcion to record a podcast about Michael Bay’s 1998 action-thriller ‘Armageddon’ starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, and Billy Bob Thornton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan are joined by the New York Times’ Wesley Morris to give you their mack-daddy vibe in all its splendor after rewatching the 1992 comedy ‘Boomerang’ starring Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Halle Berry, and David Alan Grier.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan, and writer-director Judd Apatow don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. They would rather rewatch the 1989 Cameron Crowe classic, ‘Say Anything’ starring John Cusack, Ione Skye, and John Mahoney.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan charge it all to the Underhills' account after rewatching 'Fletch,' the 1985 comedy starring Chevy Chase, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, and Joe Don Baker.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan set sail on the Andrea Gail to catch some fish and to rewatch the 2000 biographical disaster drama ‘The Perfect Storm,’ starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and John C. Reilly.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan just broke your heart. Then again, they break everyone’s hearts. It’s time for the 1985 classic ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,' starring Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, and Rob Lowe.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan always double down on 11 as they revisit the 1996 classic ‘Swingers,’ starring Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan recount a childhood memory of watching the 1986 classic Stand by Me, starring River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell, directed by Rob Reiner, and based on the Stephen King novella The Body.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Wesley Morris of The New York Times to spend their last day together watching Spike Lee’s 2002 film, 25th Hour, starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Rosario Dawson.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan investigate a farmhouse with suspicious activity after rewatching the 2013 horror film ‘The Conjuring’ starring Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Vera Farmiga, and Patrick Wilson.
The spirits of The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Amanda Dobbins come back to earth to rewatch the 1990 romantic thriller ‘Ghost’ starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin and ESPN’s Mina Kimes lose a baseball signed by some lady named Babe Ruth after rewatching the 1993 classic ‘The Sandlot’ starring Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, and Patrick Renna.
It’s a full moon, and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt howl into their microphones after they rewatch the 1985 fantasy comedy ‘Teen Wolf’ starring Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, and Susan Ursitti.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan try to stay alive no matter what occurs as they rewatch the 1992 American epic The Last of the Mohicans, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe and directed by Michael Mann.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Logan Murdock hop in Mike Lowrey’s Porsche and head to Miami to rewatch the 1995 action comedy ‘Bad Boys’ starring Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, and Téa Leoni.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey are just a couple of former assistant groundskeepers about to become Masters champions. It looks like a miracle, it’s a … it’s a … it’s Caddyshack, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Andy Greenwald eat their cereal with a fork and do their homework in the dark after they rewatch the 1990 coming-of-age film ‘Pump Up the Volume,’ starring Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan “yah mo burn this place to the ground” after rewatching the 2005 hit comedy ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ starring Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Romany Malco, and Paul Rudd and directed by Judd Apatow.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan step behind the bar to rewatch the 1988 hit Cocktail, starring Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, and Elizabeth Shue. It’s Coughlin’s law.
Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Van Lathan try to figure out who Mr. Tambourine Man is after rewatching ‘Dangerous Minds,’ starring Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, and Renoly Santiago.
The greatest trick The Ringer's Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist. We head to the docks of San Pedro to rewatch ‘The Usual Suspects,' starring Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, and Stephen Baldwin.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and the New York Times’ Wesley Morris don’t make mistakes, there are no mistakes, only things you do, and don’t do. We rewatch the romantic drama ‘Unfaithful’ starring Diane Lane, Richard Gere, and Oliver Martinez.
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano fake rock your world after rewatching one of the last great teen movies, ‘Easy A,’ starring Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, and Penn Badgley.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan talk about what’s in the box after rewatching 'Se7en,' starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan make their lives more fun by rewatching David Fincher’s mysterious drama ‘The Game’ starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, and Deborah Kara Unger.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Andy Greenwald are nostalgic for conversations they had yesterday after revisiting Noah Baumbach’s first film, Kicking and Screaming, starring Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, and Olivia d’Abo.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan science the sh*t out of this episode after revisiting the 2015 hit ‘The Martian,’ starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directed by Ridley Scott.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Ryen Russillo take a trip to The Boston Globe to revisit the Best Picture Oscar-winning 2015 film Spotlight starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams. Directed by Tom McCarthy.
If The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Cousin Sal, and Kyle Brandt can change, you can change! We head to Russia to rewatch the 1985 classic ‘Rocky IV,’ starring Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, and Dolph Lundgren.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan are compelled by the power of Christ after being repossessed by the 1973 classic ‘The Exorcist,’ starring Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, and Max von Sydow.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Van Lathan are calling the organization of the United Brotherhood of It’s None of Your Damn Business as they revisit the 1995 film The American President, starring Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, and Martin Sheen. Directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin.
You’ve got a friend in The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey, Mallory Rubin, and Shea Serrano. That’s right—it’s time for the 1995 Pixar classic ‘Toy Story,’ featuring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Don Rickles.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey and ESPN’s Mina Kimes made their parents disappear after rewatching the 1990 classic ‘Home Alone’ starring Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O’Hara, and Joe Pesci.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan are hired to uncover whether the very podcast they are on is real or just smoke and mirrors. We revisit the 1999 mystery thriller ‘8MM’ starring Nicolas Cage, James Gandolfini, and Joaquin Phoenix.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons takes a young stockbroker named Brian Koppelman under his wing to teach him the tricks of the trade. We take the subway to downtown Manhattan to revisit the 1987 Oliver Stone film ‘Wall Street,’ starring Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, and Martin Sheen.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Kyle Brandt “put the women and children to bed and go lookin’ for dinner” after rewatching the 1993 sports drama ‘The Program,’ starring Craig Sheffer, Omar Epps, James Caan, and Halle Berry.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Liz Kelly join Kelly Canter on the tour bus as they revisit the 2010 drama ‘Country Strong’ starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Garrett Hedlund, Leighton Meester, and Tim McGraw
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan have forgotten everything about this podcast and must discover its true identity by rewatching ‘The Bourne Identity,’ starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente, and Chris Cooper.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan take a seat in Mr Holland’s music-appreciation class to rewatch the 1995 drama “Mr. Holland’s Opus,’ starring Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, and Jean Louisa Kelly.
Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Mina Kimes really want you to leave but don’t know how to say it without sounding like a dick. We revisit the 2011 hit comedy Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, and Melissa McCarthy.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald know that Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this podcast presupposes is … maybe he didn’t. We dive into Wes Anderson’s 2001 hit ‘The Royal Tenenbaums,’ starring Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman join John Rambo in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest to wage war against their pursuers as they gear up for ‘First Blood,’ starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and Brian Dennehy.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano are sent from the future to stop an indestructible cyborg and save humanity so we can revisit James Cameron’s 1984 hit ‘The Terminator,’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle to rewatch one of the most important action movies ever made, James Cameron’s 1991 hit ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day,’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Patrick.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo and screenwriter and producer Bill Lawrence hop in the trunk with Jack Foley and Karen Sisco to rewatch Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 film ‘Out of Sight,’ starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, and Ving Rhames.
Are you talking to me? The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey are joined by actor Bill Hader to talk about Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic ‘Taxi Driver’, starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, and Cybill Shepherd.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan set sail off the coast of Cape Cod in order to find a missing 1991 movie called ‘Sleeping With the Enemy’ starring Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, and Kevin Anderson.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan are joined by the New York Times’ Wesley Morris to pick up a shift at McDowell’s and revisit the 1988 classic ‘Coming to America’ starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, and John Amos.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan politely request that the guys at Sigma Nu keep it down as they revisit the 2014 comedy ‘Neighbors,’ starring Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, and Dave Franco.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are joined by Klosterman to head to the desert and open up their minds as they revisit the 1991 biopic ‘The Doors,’ starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, and Kyle MacLachlan.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Logan Murdock are talkin’ about combinating and consolidating as they revisit the 1991 crime drama ‘New Jack City,’ starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, and Chris Rock.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan revisit Spike Lee’s 2006 crime drama ‘Inside Man’ starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, and Christopher Plummer. Why? Beyond the obvious financial motivation, it’s exceedingly simple … because they can.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan realize it’s not the house that’s haunted, it’s the pod. They head deep into the Further to rewatch the chilling horror film ‘Insidious,’ starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Ty Simpkins.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Kyle Brandt sneak out of a flight to Val Verde to record the 1985 action classic ‘Commando,’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, and Bill Duke.
You better bring The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan their money or you will wear your ass as a hat. We head to the streets of Chicago to rewatch Michael Mann’s first theatrical film, ‘Thief,’ starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, and Robert Prosky.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are getting too old for this shit. They revisit the 1987 classic ‘Lethal Weapon,’ starring Danny Glover, Mel Gibson, and Gary Busey.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan come out of retirement to search for the Tooth Fairy as they revisit Michael Mann’s Manhunter, starring William Petersen, Brian Cox, and Dennis Farina.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Amanda Dobbins commit a run-by fruiting as they rewatch the 1993 classic ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ starring Robin Williams, Sally Field, and Pierce Brosnan.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Shea Serrano, and Kyle Brandt ain’t got time to bleed while rewatching the 1987 action classic “Predator,’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, and Bill Duke.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan head up to Lake Winnipesaukee to annoy Dr. Leo Marvin as they revisit the 1991 comedy ‘What About Bob?’ starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan break free from the straitjacket to rewatch ‘Lethal Weapon 2’, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Joe Pesci.
As far back as The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey can remember, they always wanted to be a gangster. We take a seat right up front at the Copacabana to revisit Martin Scorsese’s 1990 classic ‘Goodfellas’ starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Lorraine Bracco.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are joined by the only podcaster to escape Alcatraz, ESPN’s Mina Kimes, to rewatch the 1996 box office hit ‘The Rock,’ starring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris, and directed by Michael Bay.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan rush to the nearest tattoo parlor to remind themselves to rewatch Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento,’ starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey narrowly escape from a Peruvian temple to rewatch the 1981 classic ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and Paul Freeman, and directed by Steven Spielberg.
Yesterday, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey were podcasters. Today, they are cowboys. We revisit the 1991 comedy ‘City Slickers,’ starring Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, and Daniel Stern.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and showrunner Brian Koppelman join the Army! We revisit the 1981 comedy ‘Stripes,’ starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Van Lathan, and Logan Murdock revisit the 1991 classic ‘Boyz n the Hood’ starring Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Ice Cube. Directed by John Singleton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano don’t smoke cigars until the fat lady sings. And until after they rewatch the 1996 hit ‘Independence Day’ starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins are totally comfortable using legal jargon after rewatching the 2001 classic ‘Legally Blonde’ starring Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, and Luke Wilson.
The Ringer‘s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan break the first rule of Fight Club after rewatching David Fincher’s 1999 classic Fight Club starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan will always love you after rewatching the 1992 hit ‘The Bodyguard,’ starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan return to the stadium to finish the second half of the game after rewatching the 1981 film ‘Victory’ starring Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, and Pelé.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey sit and eat their dessert alone like they’re fucking Steven Glansberg to celebrate 200 episodes of 'The Rewatchables'. They rewatch the 2007 comedy classic ‘Superbad’ starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse
This is the best bad idea that The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan have had, by far. They rewatch Best Picture Academy Award winner ‘Argo,’ starring Ben Affleck, John Goodman, and Alan Arkin and directed by Ben Affleck.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey got the rose bushes, they definitely got the rose bushes. They rewatch Rain Man, the 1989 Academy Award winner for Best Picture starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan are just looking for the Bulls to cover the spread as they rewatch the 2001 sports drama ‘Hardball’ starring Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, and John Hawkes.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan put on their white linen suits and head to South Beach to rewatch the two-part episode “Calderone’s Return” from Season 1 of ‘Miami Vice,’ starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo left Mick and Polly at home to rewatch the 2011 sports drama ‘Warrior’ starring Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy, and Joel Edgerton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey celebrate the late Norm Macdonald by rewatching a comedy favorite, ‘Dirty Work,’ starring Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, and Jack Warden.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald choose life after rewatching the 1996 British black comedy-drama ‘Trainspotting’ starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle. Directed by Danny Boyle.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey have got this rat—this gnawing, teething rat—and need to rewatch the 2006 Best Picture–winning film The Departed, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, and directed by Martin Scorsese.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt are the disease, and this podcast is the cure. We rewatch the 1986 action-horror film ‘Cobra’ starring Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, and Reni Santoni.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey have got too much balls and not enough brains to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money, starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan return to Haddonfield, Illinois, after 15 years to rewatch John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic, Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence.
For The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan, the action is the juice. They are joined by the director of Heat, Michael Mann, to once again revisit the 1995 crime drama starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan double the reward to $4 million after rewatching Ron Howard’s 1996 box office hit ‘Ransom,’ starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, and Gary Sinise.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and The New York Times’s Wesley Morris can convince anyone of anything after rewatching the 2015 comedy crime drama ‘Focus,’ starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo are way past big speech time after rewatching the 1986 classic ‘Hoosiers,’ starring Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, and Barbara Hershey.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are joined by Brian Koppelman to discuss a movie that is a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma. We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oliver Stone’s ‘JFK,’ starring Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, and Joe Pesci.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Jimmy Kimmel to blow all of their money at the disco after they revisit the 1977 hit ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney.
This is the ’90s. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan don’t just go around punching people. They have to say something cool first. We revisit Tony Scott’s 1991 action film, ‘The Last Boy Scout,’ staring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins fill out their RSVPs as they revisit the 1991 rom-com Father of the Bride, starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, and Kimberly Williams.
It’s time for The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano to shake up the free world and get things done. They pop their NZT and revisit the 2011 hit ‘Limitless’ starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.
The Ringer’s Bill SImmons, Van Lathan, and Wosny Lambre get the wind behind their back and go out in a blaze after rewatching the 1992 crime drama ‘Juice’ starring Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, and Jermaine Hopkins.
Do you believe in Rewatchables?! The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan head back to Lake Placid in the 1980 Winter Olympics to rewatch ‘Miracle,’ starring Kurt Russell.
That’s the truth about The Rewatchables. We’re the only winners. The listeners don’t stand a chance. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey revisit Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film ‘Casino,’ starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone.
Welcome to F’ed Up Family February, a new series in which we’ll dive into dysfunctional family movies that are all rewatchable in their own unique way. To start, The Ringer‘s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin dive into the 1980 Best Picture Academy Award–winning drama Ordinary People, starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton, and directed by Robert Redford.
It’s the second installment of F’ed Up Family February and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Wesley Morris will be your harbingers of doom for the evening as they revisit director Jonathan Demme’s 2008 family drama, ‘Rachel Getting Married,’ starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Bill Irwin.
In the third installment of F’ed Up Family February, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan realize that there is no end zone. You never cross the goal line, spike the ball, and do your touchdown dance. They revisit Ron Howard’s 1989 hit ‘Parenthood’ starring Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, and Rick Moranis.
In our fourth installment of F’ed Up Family February, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin cannot eat ice cream until they finish rewatching Robert Benton’s 1979 Best Picture-winning drama ‘Kramer vs. Kramer,’ starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, and Justin Henry.
In the fifth and final installment of F’ed Up Family February, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey drop their car keys in the bowl and fire up Ang Lee’s 1997 family drama ‘The Ice Storm,’ starring Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, and Christina Ricci.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey dance with the devil in the pale moonlight after rewatching Tim Burton’s 1989 hit ‘Batman,’ starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Kim Basinger.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan are the kings of the world after revisiting James Cameron’s epic hit and Best Picture Academy Award winner ‘Titanic,’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano calculate humidity, elevation, temperature, wind, and spindrift to rewatch the 2007 action thriller ‘Shooter,’ starring Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, and Kate Mara.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey recap the Will Smith–Chris Rock incident from last night’s Academy Awards before cutting the phone lines and locking themselves in a concrete box to revisit David Fincher’s ‘Panic Room,’ starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, and Jared Leto.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are pissing in somebody’s pool, and they’re fresh out of chlorine. They celebrate Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard 2, also starring William Sadler and Dennis Franz.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and The New York Times’ Wesley Morris were just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the podcaster from the podcasting process. They revisit Robert Altman’s satirical film The Player, starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, and Fred Ward.
With great podcast power comes great responsibility. The Ringer’s Van Lathan and Charles Holmes take over ‘The Rewatchables’ to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘Spider-Man,’ starring Tobey McGuire, Willem Dafoe, and Kirsten Dunst.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin try to lay off the high ones as they revisit the 1992 classic ‘A League of Their Own’, starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, and Madonna.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey wish they were never artificially created in a lab! It’s time for ‘Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,’ starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan fracture an occasional law to rewatch the 1987 comedy ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, and Brigitte Nielsen.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin hop on their bikes and head to the forest to rewatch Steven Spielberg’s iconic ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, and Drew Barrymore.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Cousin Sal, and Gus Ramsey have one prediction for this podcast: pain. They revisit the third installment in the Rocky franchise, Rocky III, starring Sylvester Stallone, Mr. T, and Talia Shire.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons offered Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey a chance to be real podcasters and they BLEW IT!!! They revisit James Mangold’s 1997 film ‘Cop Land,’ starring Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta, Harvey Keitel, and Robert De Niro.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck use the dice move a bit too much as they celebrate the 15th anniversary of Judd Apatow’s ‘Knocked Up,’ starring Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, and Leslie Mann.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt are taking you to the bank … the blood bank! They collect their superior attitudes and superior minds to revisit 1990’s ‘Hard to Kill,’ starring Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, and William Sadler.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are nothing but a lot of talk and a badge after revisiting Brian De Palma’s 1987 crime drama ‘The Untouchables’ starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro.
The parents are gone for the weekend, and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, David Jacoby, and Craig Horlbeck try to host the most epic podcast of all time. They head to North Pasadena to rewatch ‘Project X’ starring Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, and Kirby Bliss Blanton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman are the no. 1 fans of Rob Reiner’s Misery, starring James Caan and Kathy Bates and based on the novel by Stephen King.
It’s not the podcast, it’s the podcaster. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan take a seat at the Hard Deck to revisit the instant classic Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wosny Lambre play ball without a ball as they revisit the 1994 sports drama ‘Above the Rim,’ starring Duane Martin, Leon, and Tupac Shakur.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan get all liquored up and head over to the peach tree dance after revisiting Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 masterpiece ‘There Will Be Blood,’ starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey have killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another, and now it’s time to rewatch Clint Eastwood’s Academy Award-winning classic ‘Unforgiven’, starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Morgan Freeman.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Juliet Litman go from totally geek to totally chic after rewatching ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Mallory Rubin use this podcast to get into Harvard after rewatching the 1992 classic film School Ties, starring Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O’Donnell, and Cole Hauser.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins record the most systematic, hydromatic, and ultramatic podcast ever after rewatching the 1978 classic ‘Grease’, starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, and Stockhard Channing.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan celebrate 250 movies on The Rewatchables by dancing the tango and driving a Ferrari better than anyone has ever seen, as they revisit Al Pacino’s Oscar-winning role in ‘Scent of a Woman’, which also stars Chris O’Donnell and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Shea Serrano have an aversion to getting FUBAR after rewatching the 1989 action classic ‘Tango and Cash’ starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell.
With every movie Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey rewatch, the farther away they feel from home. They revisit Steven Spielberg’s 1998 American epic war film ‘Saving Private Ryan’ starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Ed Burns, and Matt Damon.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan were just nowhere near your neighborhood, so they decided to rewatch Cameron Crowe’s 1992 romantic comedy ‘Singles,’ starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, and Kyra Sedgwick.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman are left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism after they rewatch the 2011 financial drama ‘Margin Call’ starring Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, and Jeremy Irons.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are blessed with one special thing: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, and John C Reilly. In Part 1, the guys break down why they love the film, dive deep into the characters, and discuss the history of how the film was made.
In Part 2, Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey run through the categories for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights. This is a high-fidelity podcast, you know what that means? That means this is the highest-quality fidelity. Hi-fi. Those are two very important things to have in a podcast.
Aca-scuse me? The Ringer’s Juliet Litman, Jodi Walker, and Kate Halliwell cause treble as they revisit the 2012 musical comedy ‘Pitch Perfect’ starring Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Brittany Snow, and Anna Camp.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey have got brass balls to rewatch the 1992 American drama film adapted by David Mamet, ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, and Alec Baldwin.
The Ringer’s Craig Horlbeck, Danny Kelly, and Danny Heifetz feel like a … like a slice of butter melting on top of a big ol’ pile of flapjacks after rewatching ‘Pineapple Express,’ starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan never feel sorry for a man who owns a plane as they rewatch the 1997 survival thriller ‘The Edge’ starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.
It doesn’t matter how much, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin will always pay more after rewatching Paul Schrader’s sleek and sexy 1980’s neo-noir crime drama ‘American Gigolo’ starring Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, and Bill Duke.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan and The New York Times’ Wesley Morris put on their aviators and leather jackets to rewatch William Friedkin’s Cruising, starring Al Pacino, Karen Allen, and Paul Sorvino.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris head to Philadelphia in search of the perfect scream as they revisit Brian De Palma’s 1981 thriller ‘Blow Out,’ starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen, and John Lithgow.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and the New York Times’ Wesley Morris wipe the sweat off their brows and grab a snow cone as they revisit Lawrence Kasdan’s sweltering neo-noir erotic thriller ‘Body Heat,’ starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Ted Danson.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan try to make it home before Thanksgiving so they can rewatch John Hughes’s ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,’ starring Steve Martin and John Candy.
‘The Rewatchables’ is between you and god. It’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan’s job to arrange the meeting. They revisit Tony Scott’s 2004 action thriller ‘Man on Fire,’ starring Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, and Christopher Walken.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are not paid to do their best, they’re paid to win, and to rewatch Sidney Lumet’s 1982 masterpiece, The Verdict, starring Paul Newman, Jack Warden, and James Mason. Written by David Mamet.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan are survivors living in New York City, and they will be at the South Street Seaport everyday at midday to rewatch the 2007 postapocalyptic action thriller ‘I Am Legend’ starring Will Smith and Alice Braga.
The movie, if Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck choose to rewatch it, is the 2018 action thriller Mission: Impossible—Fallout, starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and Henry Cavill.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt scale the Rocky Mountains to revisit the 1993 action-thriller Cliffhanger, starring Sylvester Stallone, Michael Rooker, and John Lithgow.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are not drinking any f---ing Merlot while rewatching Alexander Payne’s 2004 comedy-drama ‘Sideways,’ starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, and Sandra Oh.
If we’re going to die, we’re going to die rewatching. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck bundle up and head to the highest altitudes of the Andes Mountains to rewatch the harrowing and biographical survival drama film ‘Alive’ starring Ethan Hawke and Josh Hamilton.
Bill, Mal, and Van get their wish granted and rewatch ‘Big,’ starring Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, and Robert Loggia.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Ryen Russillo grab their banjo and hop in the canoe to rewatch the 1972 adventure drama ‘Deliverance,’ starring Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan must drink the coffee to experience what it’s like to rewatch ‘The Vanishing,’ starring Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock, and Nancy Travis.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins head to the top of the Empire State Building to rewatch Nora Ephron’s classic romantic comedy drama ‘Sleepless in Seattle,’ starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Rosie O’Donnell.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey determine whether they’re rushers or draggers after rewatching Damien Chazelle’s 2014 classic ‘Whiplash,’ starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey only know what people tell them, and that is to rewatch Steven Spielberg’s 2002 hit ‘Catch Me If You Can,’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are blessed by the New Founding Fathers, who let them purge and cleanse their souls of their takes as they rewatch ‘The Purge,’ starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are the new barn bosses of the Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility after revisiting the 1983 crime drama ‘Bad Boys,’ starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, Eric Gurry, and Clancy Brown.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Juliet Litman put on their “Games Games Games” T-shirts and clock in at the carnival to rewatch the 2009 comedy ‘Adventureland,’ starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, and Martin Starr.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are as large as God, and he is as small as they after rewatching Martin Scorsese’s ‘Cape Fear,’ starring Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, and Juliette Lewis.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Logan Murdock head to Coney Island to check out the top-ranked basketball prospect in the country, Jesus Shuttlesworth, as they rewatch Spike Lee’s sports drama ‘He Got Game,’ starring Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, and Rosario Dawson.
The Rewatchables is for sale; Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin are not. We take John Gage up on his offer and spend one night with the 1993 romantic drama Indecent Proposal, starring Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, and Robert Redford.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality as they rewatch Ridley Scott’s science fiction horror classic Alien, starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit, and Harry Dean Stanton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt sit ringside at Game 7 of the 1995 Stanley Cup finals to rewatch 1995’s ‘Sudden Death,’ starring the Muscles From Brussels, a.k.a. Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Powers Boothe.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan would rather be feared and respected after revisiting the Marvel movie that started it all, Jon Favreau’s ‘Iron Man’ starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jeff Bridges.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Dave Chang get caught up in some Twitter beef and decide to open up their own pod truck after rewatching Jon Favreau’s delightful road comedy ‘Chef,’ starring Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, and Sofia Vergara.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan buy low on frozen orange juice and sell high on pork bellies after rewatching the 1983 classic ‘ Trading Places,’ starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by John Landis.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey skip the line to the night club and sneak in through the back as they relive ‘The Last Days of Disco’ starring Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, and Chris Eigeman.
Do The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins look like they give a damn if their martini is shaken or stirred? They put on their tuxedos to revisit the first installment in the ‘James Bond’–Daniel Craig franchise ‘Casino Royale,’ starring Daniel Craig, Mads Mikkelsen, and Eva Green.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and actress Jennifer Lawrence hop in the Shaggin’ Wagon with Lloyd and Harry as they rewatch the 1994 classic Dumb and Dumber, starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
It’s not bling-bling, it’s bling-bang when The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan revisit the 2006 political action thriller ‘Blood Diamond,’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, and Jennifer Connelly.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey set off in search of eternal life as they rewatch the third installment in the Indiana Jones franchise, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, and Alison Doody. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck specifically bought a Milky Way to eat after rewatching the 2013 comedy ‘This Is the End,’ starring Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson.
The job of The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey is not to talk, it is to sit there and look innocent. The guys kick off Courtroom Month on ‘The Rewatchables’ by revisiting the 1996 mystery-drama ‘Primal Fear,’ starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and Edward Norton.
"All rise!” as The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Wesley Morris revisit the 1996 legal drama ‘A Time to Kill,’ starring Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sandra Bullock.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris look to answer the question of “What is a yute?” by revisiting the 1992 comedy ‘My Cousin Vinny,’ starring Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, and Fred Gwynne.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey and The New York Times’s Wesley Morris are out of order in their revisit of the 1979 mystery-drama ‘And Justice For All’ starring Al Pacino, Jack Warden, and John Forsythe.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan revisit the 1997 mystery-drama ‘The Devil’s Advocate’ starring Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, and Charlize Theron.
Live from the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are in the business of saving lives. They revisit one of the first movies they covered on ‘The Rewatchables,’ nearly 300 episodes ago, Rob Reiner’s ‘A Few Good Men,’ starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. Written by Aaron Sorkin.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan pack up the station wagon and head to Walley World to rewatch Harold Ramis’s 1983 classic ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation,’ starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, and Anthony Michael Hall.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin form an unnamed secret society to rewatch the 1999 psychological drama Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins take a ride to the Upper East Side in their 1956 Jaguar Roadster to rewatch the 1999 thriller ‘Cruel Intentions,’ starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair.
The Ringer‘s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan and Bill’s dad revisit the 2014 action-thriller The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, and Chloë Grace Moretz.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins head down to the hotel bar at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo to rewatch Sofia Coppola’s ‘Lost In Translation,’ starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johannson, and Giovanni Ribisi.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are doing the time, the time isn’t doing them. In the ultimate “One for Them,” the guys rewatch Micahel Mann’s 2015 film ‘Blackhat,’ starring Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, and Viola Davis.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan would rather be feared than loved after rewatching Robert De Niro’s directorial debut film, ‘A Bronx Tale,’ starring Chazz Palminteri, De Niro, and Lillo Brancato Jr.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey spend the weekend in South Carolina to reminisce about college, listen to their favorite records, and rewatch Lawrence Kasdan’s comedy-drama ‘The Big Chill,’ with Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Tom Berenger, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Kay Place, and JoBeth Williams.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt sneak down to the basement for a shot of mouthwash before rewatching the 1991 action film ‘Toy Soldiers,’ starring Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, and Louis Gossett Jr.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey obey, conform, and consume John Carpenter’s 1988 science fiction action-horror film ‘They Live’ starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey head to San Francisco for a night of slam poetry with Charlie Mackenzie as they revisit the 1993 comedy ‘So I Married an Axe Murderer,’ starring Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, and Anthony LaPaglia.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan have a rendezvous with death after rewatching the 1993 political thriller ‘In the Line of Fire,’ starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, and Rene Russo.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan recorded this podcast just for Damien. It’s all for you, Damien! It’s time for Richard Donner’s 1976 horror film, ‘The Omen’—starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, and Harvey Spencer Stephens.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan steal from the rich and pod for the poor as they kick off “Wait, this movie made HOW much money?” month with a rewatch of ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,’ starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey rewatch the 1982 classic ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ because they’ve got nowhere else to go! They continue “Wait, This Movie Made HOW Much Money??” month by rewatching the romantic hit starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossitt Jr. and directed by Taylor Hackford.
After five to six years of podcasting, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Amanda Dobbins head to podcast therapy to reignite their stagnating love of podcasts. To keep the spark alive in “Wait, This Movie Made HOW Much Money?” Month, they rewatch the 2005 action-comedy ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith,’ starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey continue “Wait, That Movie Made HOW Much Money?” Month by rewatching a movie as good as apple pie: the 1999 hit comedy ‘American Pie,' starring Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott.
Come the wet-ass hour, Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wosny Lambre are everyone’s daddy!! They rewatch the 1989 neo-noir thriller ‘Sea of Love,’ starring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, and John Goodman.
Everyone Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins have told about this podcast is dead. But that doesn’t stop them from rewatching the 1993 American legal thriller ‘The Pelican Brief,’ starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. The film is based on the 1992 novel by John Grisham and directed by Alan J. Pakula.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan have a good old-fashioned Christmas with the Griswolds as they rewatch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, and Randy Quaid.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons hires Kyle Brandt, an ex-Navy SEAL turned podcaster, to rewatch the 1992 action thriller ‘Under Siege,’ starring Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, and Gary Busey.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Charles Holmes are better at rewatching movies than you will ever be at anything! They bring out their queen to rewatch the 1993 sports drama ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer,’ starring Joe Mantegna, Laurence Fishburne, Joan Allen, Max Pomeranc, and Ben Kingsley.
The banana boat’s a-coming for Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan as they prepare for liftoff with Robert Zemeckis’s 2012 drama, ‘Flight,’ starring Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle, and John Goodman.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Andy Greenwald, and Zach Baron order Raisin Bran so there wouldn’t be any mistaking it for a date as they rewatch David O. Russell’s 2012 romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook, starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert De Niro.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are joined by The New York Times’ Wesley Morris as they look to be a part of justice and discuss what that case is really all about by rewatching Jonathan Demme’s 1993 drama, ‘Philadelphia,’ starring Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey take down Big Tobacco as they rewatch the 1999 drama ‘The Insider,’ starring Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, and Christopher Plummer.
Live from every warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in Chicago, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin kick off the ‘Rewatchables’ Cold Weather Tour by revisiting the timeless classic ‘The Fugitive,’ starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
Live from a park bench, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin rewatch the 1994 classic ‘Forrest Gump,’ starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise
Live from Philadelphia, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan revisit the first installment in the ‘Rocky’ spinoff franchise, ‘Creed,’ starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, and Tessa Thompson and directed by Ryan Coogler.
You know what cheers Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan up when they’re feeling down? Rolled-up kings over aces and rewatching the 1998 poker classic ‘Rounders,’ starring Matt Damon, Edward Norton, and John Malkovich.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Kyle Brandt be nice until it’s time to not be nice after rewatching the 1989 classic ‘Road House,’ starring Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, and Sam Elliott.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan quit playing it safe and trade in their microphones to deal in human fulfillment after rewatching 1983’s Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan are too fucking macho after rewatching the 1990 crime-thriller ‘Internal Affairs,’ starring Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, and Nancy Travis.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey revisit Kenneth Lonergan’s 2016 drama ‘Manchester by the Sea,’ starring Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, and Michelle Williams.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are forced to become warriors or victims after rewatching the 2017 crime thriller ‘Shot Caller,’ starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell, and Jon Bernthal.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins definitely advise skipping the fish after rewatching the 1989 black comedy ‘The War of the Roses,’ starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito and directed by Danny DeVito.
It’s raining frogs in the studio as Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey rewatch the 1999 film Magnolia, starring Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Julianne Moore and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey leave their Midwestern hometowns in search of their favorite runaway film, ‘Hardcore,’ starring George C. Scott, Season Hubley, and Peter Boyle and directed by Paul Schrader.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt don’t want to be the only assholes in heaven after rewatching the 1987 action sci-fi film ‘The Running Man,’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson, and María Conchita Alonso.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey threw up 19 times in 48 days after revisiting the 2004 romantic comedy ‘Along Came Polly,’ starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Live from YouTube, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan learn that it’s not show friends, it’s show business after rewatching Cameron Crowe’s 1996 classic, Jerry Maguire, starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Renee Zellweger.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Cousin Sal hop back in the DeLorean to place a couple bets after rewatching ‘Back to the Future Part II’ starring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
All The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and they’re fine after rewatching the 1982 classic ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Phoebe Cates.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan travel all the way to Charlestown to see the toughest team in the Federal League after rewatching the 1977 sports classic ‘Slap Shot,’ starring Paul Newman.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey qualify for the Little 500 race in Bloomington, Indiana, after rewatching the 1979 coming-of-age comedy-drama ‘Breaking Away,’ starring Dennis Quaid, Dennis Christopher, and Daniel Stern and directed by Peter Yates.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan agree to shave 21 minutes off this podcast in order to rewatch the 1974 classic The Longest Yard, starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, and Ed Lauter.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em right up your ass after they rewatch the 1976 classic ‘The Bad News Bears,’ starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Joe House, and Sean Fennessey join the Scuba Squad as they rewatch the 1999 hit comedy ‘Big Daddy’ starring Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, and Dylan and Cole Sprouse.
No matter how silly the idea of rewatching ‘The Naked Gun’ might be to Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt, as Americans, they must be gracious and considerate podcast hosts. The guys revisit the 1988 classic ‘The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!’ starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, and Ricardo Montalbán.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey travel back to the ’60s to reclaim their mojo and rewatch ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ starring Mike Myers, Mike Myers, and Mike Myers.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan take shelter from an F5 tornado to rewatch ‘Twister,’ starring Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin take the mound for their final game as they rewatch the 1999 baseball classic ‘For Love of the Game,’ starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan take the ice trays out of the freezer before rewatching James Cameron’s 1994 action comedy ‘True Lies,’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Arnold, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins are just two girls recording a podcast asking you to listen as they talk about the 1999 rom-com ‘Notting Hill’ starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey have no idea what men of power can do after rewatching the 1987 neo-noir action thriller ‘No Way Out,’ starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, and Will Patton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd after rewatching Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 masterpiece ‘Pulp Fiction,’ starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, and Uma Thurman. In Part 1, the guys break down why they love the movie, discuss the story of how the movie was made, and dive deep into the iconic characters.
The Rewatchables! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. In Part 2, Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey run through the categories for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction.’
The Ringer’s Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly remember to dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge as they rewatch the 2004 comedy classic ‘Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,’ starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Christine Taylor.
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Andy Greenwald apply a few squirts of L’air de Panache before rewatching Wes Anderson’s 2014 hit comedy adventure ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel,’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, and Adrien Brody.
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Kyle Brandt as they dust off their Notre Dame jackets to chase their dreams after rewatching the 1993 sports classic ‘Rudy,’ starring Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, and Charles S. Dutton.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to rewatch a movie called ‘Purple Rain.’ The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Wesley Morris dive deep into Prince’s 1984 acting debut, starring Prince, Apollonia, and Morris Day.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are just a couple of ideas men trying to rewatch the 1982 comedy ‘Night Shift,’ starring Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, and Shelley Long and directed by Ron Howard.
The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, and Jason Concepcion WERE DEAD THE ENTIRE TIME as they rewatch ‘The Sixth Sense’, starring Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, and Haley Joel Osment. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano are thinking they’re back after rewatching the 2014 action-thriller hit John Wick, starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, and Alfie Allen.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt meet each other halfway to rewatch the 1987 sports drama Over the Top, starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, and David Mendenhall.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, to rewatch the 1999 horror phenomenon ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard.
They’re heeeeeere. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan run to the light to rewatch the 1982 classic, ‘Poltergeist’—starring JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson, directed by Tobe Hooper, and produced by Steven Spielberg.
Live from inside a hospital for the criminally insane, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin revisit the award-winning 1991 film ‘The Silence of the Lambs,’ starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Ted Levine.
A grieving Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences in the podcast studio after rewatching Ari Aster’s 2018 film, ‘Hereditary,’ starring Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Milly Shapiro, and Alex Wolff.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan awaken on Halloween Eve and return to Haddonfield to rewatch 1988's 'Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers,' starring Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, and Danielle Harris.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey head to the adult section for a copy of 'Holly Does Hollywood' on VHS after rewatching Brian De Palma’s 1984 erotic thriller ‘Body Double,’ starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons hosts Kyle Brandt for a weekend away to play some indoor pool volleyball and rewatch the hit 2000 comedy ‘Meet the Parents,’ starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner.
Pain heals, chicks dig scars, and 'The Rewatchables' lasts forever. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan revisit the debatable cult classic 2000 sports movie ‘The Replacements,’ starring Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, and Brooke Langton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan head to Key West to fulfill their lifelong dream of rewatching the 1986 buddy-cop comedy ‘Running Scared,’ starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wosny Lambre pour themselves a glass of 1991 Pahlmeyer Chardonnay as they rewatch the spicy 1994 corporate thriller ‘Disclosure,’ starring Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, and Donald Sutherland.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan record this podcast from a position of “fuck you’ after rewatching the 2014 high-stakes thriller ‘The Gambler,’ starring Mark Wahlberg, Brie Larson, John Goodman, and Michael K. Williams.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt rack up the room service bill at The Plaza Hotel as they rewatch the 1992 comedy ‘Home Alone 2: Lost In New York,’ starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern.
After this pod, it's just babies and memories. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin must be perfect as they rewatch the 2004 classic ‘Friday Night Lights,’ starring Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, and Garrett Hedlund.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan didn’t appreciate the sold-out crowd in Los Angeles popping off like that after rewatching the 2018 heist film ‘Den of Thieves,’ starring Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr., 50 Cent, and Pablo Schreiber.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey get lost in Vienna for the day after rewatching Richard Linklater’s 1995 romance classic, ‘Before Sunrise,’ starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin have one day to find out if they should pod together forever after rewatching Richard Linklater’s 2004 romantic drama ‘Before Sunset.'
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and they’re wearing sunglasses as they rewatch the 1980 classic ‘The Blues Brothers,’ starring Jon Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt party on and rewatch the 1992 comedy classic ‘Wayne’s World,’ starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey … NOT!
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Joanna Robinson revisit one of the most controversial Best Picture–winning films of all time, Paul Haggis’s ‘Crash,’ starring Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Thandiwe Newton, Sandra Bullock, Terrence Howard, and Michael Peña.
It ain’t about how hard you watch. It’s about how hard you rewatch and keep moving forward. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan revisit the 1976 classic ‘Rocky’ starring Syllvester Stallone, Talia Shire, and Carl Weathers.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Joanna Robinson love soup, the outdoors, snow peas, and Christopher Guest’s 2000 comedy classic Best in Show, with Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, and Michael Hitchcock.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Kyle Brandt are more afraid of being nothing than they are of being hurt after rewatching Tony Scott’s 1990 sports action classic, Days of Thunder, starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Michael Rooker, and Nicole Kidman.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan owe them this rewatch … WE OWE IT TO ’EM! The guys shave a few points for Western University as they revisit the 1994 sports classic Blue Chips starring Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J.T. Walsh, Shaquille O’Neal, and Penny Hardaway. Directed by William Friedkin.
Live from the House of Blues in Boston, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey gotta see about a pod after rewatching the 1997 Boston classic, Good Will Hunting—starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Robin Williams.
Kyle Brandt joins The Ringer’s Bill Simmons to honor the late Val Kilmer in The Saint. Kilmer stars alongside Elisabeth Shue and Phillip Noyce.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Joanna Robinson call Barry Manilow from a phone booth at 2 a.m. before rewatching the cult teen classic Can’t Hardly Wait, starring Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Seth Green.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan are charged with taping a podcast before rewatching Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi thriller Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, and Samantha Morton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan spend the night in the Upper East Side with Mike and Claire as they rewatch Ridley Scott’s 1987 crime thriller Someone to Watch Over Me, starring Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, and Lorraine Bracco.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a trio of Ringer movie lovers—Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan—use the Force to get their galactic leader Bill Simmons to revisit one of the most iconic films of all time, George Lucas’s Star Wars: A New Hope, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher. In Part 1, the guys break down why they love the movie, how it got made, and the enormous impact it had on Hollywood at the time and to this day.
The Rewatchables is what gives a movie lover his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. In Part 2, Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan run through the categories for George Lucas’s Star Wars: A New Hope.
If the police don't rewatch movies, maybe we ought to do it ourselves. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan revisit the original ‘Death Wish’ from 1974, starring Charles Bronson and Vincent Gardenia.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are compelled by some indescribable force to rewatch Steven Spielberg’s 1977 spectacle ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan return back to earth to rewatch one last movie, Warren Beatty and Buck Henry’s 1978 film ‘Heaven Can Wait,’ starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin, and Dyan Cannon.
Has anybody seen Richie? The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt need to find Richie before rewatching the 1991 action classic ‘Out for Justice,’ starring Steven Seagal and William Forsythe.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson hop on the Staten Island Ferry and pop on their tennis shoes to revisit Mike Nichols’s 1988 classic, ‘Working Girl,’ starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, and Sigourney Weaver.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan have one question for you: Is it safe? The guys sit down in the dentist chair to revisit the 1976 crime thriller ‘Marathon Man,’ starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, and Roy Scheider.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan are called back to action to play a lethal game of Simon Says. The guys put down their five-gallon jugs and cover the 1995 action classic ‘Die Hard With a Vengeance,’ starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jeremy Irons.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey really want to see a Plaster of that Paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight before rewatching Martin Scorsese’s 1985 neo-noir black comedy film, After Hours, starring Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette.
Just when you thought it was safe to listen to The Rewatchables again, Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey revisit the hit sequel ‘Jaws 2’, starring Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and ESPN’s Mina Kimes are having an affair with Agnes Adler’s husband as they revisit Nancy Meyers's 2009 romantic comedy ‘It’s Complicated’—starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan are just a couple of empaths looking for a killer alien seductress in Los Angeles as they revisit the 1995 science fiction horror film ‘Species,’ starring Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley, and Forest Whitaker.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Wesley Morris drive 14 hours from Texas to Wyoming to rewatch Ang Lee’s 2005 masterpiece ‘Brokeback Mountain’ starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, and Anne Hathaway.
Dead or alive, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt revisit Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic ‘RoboCop’—starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, and Kurtwood Smith.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman record the first podcast without penalties, substitutions, or time limit as they revisit Norman Jewison’s 1975 classic ‘Rollerball’ starring James Caan, John Houseman, and John Beck.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wesley Morris pop open a cold bottle of Irish beer as they revisit Ryan Coogler’s instant classic, ‘Sinners,’ starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, and Miles Caton.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Mallory head to Amish country to revisit the 1985 crime thriller ‘Witness,’ starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, and Viggo Mortensen.
We celebrate movie no. 400 on The Rewatchables by revisiting Ridley Scott’s 2007 crime thriller, ‘American Gangster,’ starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan shave their heads and go on the lam after revisiting the 1985 “one-for-us” hall-of-famer ‘The Legend of Billie Jean,’ starring Helen Slater, Christian Slater, and Keith Gordon.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Joe House, and Craig Horlbeck pull out the 3-wood to clear the water after revisiting the 1996 classic ‘Tin Cup,’ starring Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Don Johnson, and Cheech Marin.
Looks like we picked the wrong week to quit rewatching movies. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by actor, writer, and director Bill Hader to revisit an all time comedy classic, ‘Airplane!’ starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, and Robert Stack.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey pull off the big con and revisit The Sting to kick off Redford Month in honor of the late, great Robert Redford. The Sting also stars Paul Newman and Robert Shaw and was directed by George Roy Hill.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan, plus Bill’s dad, give it all up to become three podcasting mountain men after rewatching Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson, also starring Will Geer and Allyn Ann McLerie and directed by Sydney Pollack.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Kyle Brandt, and Joanna Robinson crank up the studio to 98.6 degrees to rewatch Robert Redford in Sneakers, alongside Sidney Poitier, Mary McDonnell, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, and River Phoenix.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman hop into their soundproof booths as they rewatch Robert Redford’s 1994 Best Picture–nominated Quiz Show, starring Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Paul Scofield. Directed by Robert Redford.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan don’t know what death is after rewatching the 1981 return of Michael Myers in Halloween II, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are joined by actor Glen Powell to rewatch Jim Carrey’s 1998 classic, The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir and starring Laura Linney and Ed Harris.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan are the kings of the sewer after rewatching Brian De Palma’s Snake Eyes, starring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, and Carla Gugino.
There’s going to be sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, chips, dips, chains, whips … your basic Rewatchables episode. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt revisit John Hughes’s 1985 hit Weird Science, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, and Ilan Mitchell-Smith.
Uh-oh, The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Cousin Sal are gambling again! The guys fire up their favorite Monday night parlay after revisiting the 2005 sports thriller Two for the Money, starring Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino, and Rene Russo.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan feel like a Kentucky Fried idiot after rewatching their 12th Sylvester Stallone movie on The Rewatchables, Rocky II, also starring Carl Weathers and Talia Shire.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey are joined by writer-director Cameron Crowe to discuss one of his favorite movies, Shampoo, starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Jack Warden, and Goldie Hawn.
What came first, the music or the misery? The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Joanna Robinson, and Rob Mahoney pick up a shift at Championship Vinyl to revisit High Fidelity, starring John Cusack, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Iben Hjejle, and Todd Louiso.
Bill and Chris honor Rob Reiner by revisiting one of their favorite ’80s movies, The Sure Thing, starring John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga and directed by Rob Reiner.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan revisit one of the best movies of 2025, Joseph Kosinski’s F1, starring Brad Pitt, Kerry Condon, Damson Idris, and Javier Bardem.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin sail up to Vermont for a sleepy weekend at the Spencer residence to rewatch the 2000 horror mystery What Lies Beneath, starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Joanna Robinson are joined by Kyle Brandt to pursue a career in journalism after they revisit the 1985 teen comedy Just One of the Guys, starring Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, and Billy Jayne.
When you’ve been in prison as long as we have, you remember every last quote from Another 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey pick up a shift at the SF Chronicle as they revisit David Fincher’s mystery-thriller Zodiac, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr.
If Bill, Zach, and Craig aren’t back in five minutes … just wait longer. The guys head down to Miami to investigate Jim Carrey’s breakout film, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, also starring Courtney Cox, Sean Young, and Tone Loc.
Half of everything is luck, the other half is The Rewatchables. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey revisit the first James Bond film with Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye, also starting Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, and Famke Janssen.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan are joined by Mina Kimes and David Lindhagen to revisit the 2011 classic ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love,’ starring Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, and Emma Stone.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey form a special task force and head to El Paso to revisit Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 crime thriller, ‘Sicario,’ starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin.
CR Month rolls on with a trip to the Twin Cities to revisit Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 crime thriller ‘Fargo’ starring William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, and Steve Buscemi.
It’s CR Month, which means it’s time to crank up Wang Chung and take a ride on the wrong side of the road in Los Angeles to revisit William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A., starring William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, and John Pankow.
Bill, Chris, and Rob play a little game called shut up unless you’re me after rewatching Shane Black’s 2016 cult classic The Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe.
As we close out CR Month, the guys gather together for one more pod that is all very off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush. They take a trip to the Formosa Cafe and revisit Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential, starring Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, and Kim Basinger.
The dark side's callin' now nothin' is real. The guys head to the Jersey Shore to watch Eddie, Wordman, and the gang in ‘Eddie and the Cruisers' starring Tom Berenger, Michael Paré, and Ellen Barkin.
Have you ever rewatched a movie on cocaine, Nick? Live from San Francisco, Bill, Chris, Mal, and Van record the pod of the century after revisiting Paul Verhoeven's 1992 erotic thriller ‘Basic Instinct’ starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and George Dzundza.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt just need to know one simple thing: Who is your daddy, and what does he do? The guys head to Astoria, Oregon, to revisit Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘Kindergarten Cop,’ also starring Pamela Reed and Richard Tyson.
This pod is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan each carry an unlicensed nuclear accelerator as they rewatch the 1984 comedy classic ‘Ghostbusters’ starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Ivan Reitman.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey try to figure out how Ted got the frank above the beans after rewatching the 1998 comedy classic ‘There’s Something About Mary,’ starring Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, and Matt Dillon.
You never go full rewatch. The guys head to the jungles of Vietnam to revisit Ben Stiller’s 2008 action comedy, ‘Tropic Thunder,’ starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Cruise.
Comedy month continues as Bill Simmons is joined by Kyle Brandt, who is no. 4 rewatcher in all of Kazakhstan, to revisit Sacha Baron Cohen in ‘Borat.'
The Ringer's Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan go on double-secret probation after rewatching the 1978 classic 'Animal House' starring John Belushi, Tim Matheson, and John Vernon.
Bill and Sean open up the pod bay doors with director Steven Spielberg to revisit one of the greatest films of all time, Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, and William Sylvester.
The Ringer's Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Mallory Rubin bunk up in a classy New York City apartment to revisit the 1992 thriller 'Single White Female' starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
From Hell Month continues with Bill, Chris, and Joanna revisiting the nanny from hell in the 1992 thriller 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,' starring Rebecca De Mornay, Annabella Sciorra, and Matt McCoy.
From Hell Month continues with a trip to Southport, Maryland, to attend the wedding of Rick Barnes and Susan Morrison in the 2001 thriller 'Domestic Disturbance,' starring John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Steve Buscemi, and Teri Polo.
From Hell Month rolls on with a visit to Rock Harbor, Maine, where little Henry is up to no good! The guys revisit the 1993 psychological thriller 'The Good Son,' starring Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood.
From Hell month continues with a visit to San Francisco, where Carter Hayes is wreaking havoc on a Victorian home in 'Pacific Heights' starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton.
The Rewatchables ain’t easy. The Rewatchables is real. And real … is a motherfucker. Bill, Chris, and Van revisit Michael Mann’s 2001 film, Ali, starring Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, and Jon Voight.
Three frustrated Irish Catholics head to Long Island and share a couple of beers while revisiting Ed Burns’s 1996 romantic comedy, She’s the One, starring Ed Burns, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, and Mike McGlone.
Bill, Chris, and Joanna make a wish to revisit Curry Barker’s 2026 phenomenon, ‘Obsession,’ starring Inde Navarrette and Michael Johnston.
Bill and Kyle take a trip to Okinawa after winning the All Valley Tournament to revisit 1986’s ‘The Karate Kid Part II,’ starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita.
Bill, Chris, and Van hop in the Mini Cooper and dress up as cable guys to revisit the 2003 heist action film The Italian Job, starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, and Jason Statham.
Bill, Chris, and Mal head on over to Mother’s for a quick boilermaker or two after revisiting the 1986 romantic comedy About Last Night, starring Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jim Belushi, and Elizabeth Perkins.
This pod has no shot of dipping below 50 mph; it’s all gas, no brakes as we revisit the 1994 action thriller ‘Speed,’ starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, and Dennis Hopper.
If they could get a washing machine to fly, Bill, Amanda, and Rob could record a pod about it. We head to Houston to rewatch Ron Howard’s ‘Apollo 13,’ starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon.
The guys say a prayer to 8-pound, 6-ounce newborn infant Jesus before rewatching Adam McKay’s 2006 comedy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Bill and Kyle are tasked with a secret mission to rewatch Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II, also featuring Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, and Julia Nickson.
After 10 years of intense preparation and strategizing, Bill, Van, and Craig are ready to revisit Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx in the 2009 crime thriller Law Abiding Citizen.
Bill and Juliet just want to be thirty, flirty, and thriving after revisiting the 2004 classic 13 Going on 30, starring Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, and Judy Greer.
It’s October, which means it’s time for a road trip to Texas for some gas station barbecue and to revisit the 1974 classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, directed by Tobe Hooper.
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