HeyJaredMovies with My Dad
Welcome to the podcast where I, a film critic, take my dad, the most opinionated person I know, to the movies. This is the car ride home.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 8, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest episodes
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Episode 104: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas The world lost a truly wonderful spirit this week. We do our best to give Dolly Parton a film tribute by watching The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. It’s hard to explain how a film about Texas sex workers can be turned into a wholesome musical, but that’s the magic of Dolly. There are some great performances throughout, but Charles Durning stands out as the dancing/singing governor of Texas. He almost steals the entire show. Tina gives us all a
Idiots (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Episode 103: Idiots When a movie has a title like Idiots, you go in wondering if you should even bother to see it. Writer/director Macon Blair wanted to make a comedy about two hapless losers who get hired to transport a delinquent rich kid to rehab. On its face, that seems like a strong premise for all kinds of hijinx, but what we get instead is just not funny, and that’s a real problem for a comedy. To be fair, there were a couple of dudes in the theater who really seemed to enjoy the show, bu
Tony (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Episode 102: Tony Tony is the superhero origin story for one of the culinary world’s greatest personalities, Anthony Bourdain. Dominic Sessa plays Tony, who spends the two-hour runtime sulking in the corner of every room he enters. He’s a sad, scrawny little guy, and that’s normally all Tina needs to enjoy a film, but this one just doesn’t deliver. Somehow they missed all the charisma and personality that Bourdain's fans know from his many shows and books. Stratis didn’t have much good to say ei
The End of Oak Street (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Episode 101: The End of Oak Street Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor take us back to the ’80s, but then they get flung straight into the Jurassic age in this time-traveling wormhole of a movie. Tina and Stratis discuss the important question of whether dinosaurs are red or white meat and how these weird sci-fi movies are just metaphors for the ills of humanity. Given that this movie had both wormholes and dinosaurs, you would think that would have been enough to pull Stratis in, but he still wante
One Night Only (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Episode 100: One Night Only This is our one hundredth episode and we couldn’t be happier. If you ask Google AI about this podcast, it says, “Tina provides professional critical insight, while Stratis offers hilariously candid, unfiltered reactions.” Who can argue with an algorithm? As for this week’s movie, if you’ve ever wondered what a rom com would be like in a dystopian world where sex was illegal except for one day of the year, this one’s for you. One Night Only is a mash-up of Sleepless in
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.