TOMMY 'N' JACOB'S MIX TAPE

TOMMY 'N' JACOB'S MIX TAPE

We are decade long friends that love film and all they entail. In this podcast we review movies and also discuss other forms of media entertainment. Please enjoy! https://linktr.ee/TJsMixTape

Episodes

October 31, 2025 66 mins
Happy Halloween! Join us today for a review of 1978’s Halloween, as well as a discussion of the evolution of Horror Slasher films over the years.

A young woman must fight off an obsessive killer that preys on unexpecting victims in a small town.


Happy Spooky Season!


Directed by: John Carpenter

Written by: John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence

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October 24, 2025 53 mins
Today we finish off the Universal Monster Reimaging block with a review of 2025’s Wolf Man!

A family is terrorized on an isolated farm by an aggre
ssive, blood thirsty creature as the father combats a destructive and transformative disease.

Happy Spooky Season!


Directed by: Leigh Whannell

Written by: Leigh Whannell and Corbett Tuck
Starring: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, and Matilda Firth

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October 17, 2025 53 mins
Today we continue our ‘Universal Movie Monster reimagination block’ with a review of 2020’s The Invisible Man.

A woman combats her abusive husband who has designed an invisibility suit. 


Happy Spooky Season!


Written and Directed by: Leigh Whannell

Loosely based on the novel ‘The Invisible Man’ by H. G. Wells
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Aldis Hodge

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October 10, 2025 63 mins
Today we continue our Universal Monster Reimagined Block with a review of 2017’s The Shape of Water. 

A mute custodian makes an unsuspected connection with an aquatic humanoid. 


Happy Spooky Season!


Directed by: Guillermo del Toro

Written by: Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, and Richard Jenkins

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October 3, 2025 59 mins
Happy Spooky Season one and all! Today we kick off the first episode of our sixth season with a review of 2014’s Ex Machina!

A man is taken to a high-tech research facility to ascertain the consciousness of an advanced A.I.


Written and Directed by: Alex Garland

Starring: Domhall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander


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September 26, 2025 37 mins
Join us today for our end of the season show with the MOGWAI (Movies of Great Worth and Infamy) Awards. 

We will be discussing some of the films we reviewed over the course of the year and reopen discussion, reexaminations, and reflections on some of our favorite (and not so favorite) movies. 


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Today we have our first guest, Dahveed Bullis! He is a good friend of the podcast and a great friend to us personally. We gave him the honor of choosing this week's movie, so we will be reviewing 2023’s American Fiction. 

A disillusioned author writes a farce novel to make a point about race, only for it to gain unforeseen traction and fame. 


Written and Directed by: Cord Jefferson

Based on the novel ‘Erasure’ by Percival Everett
Starr...
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Hello everyone! Today we are taking a break from our usual movie reviews and will be having a little chat about various media we have been enjoying and just hanging out. Come join us!

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September 5, 2025 61 mins
Today we discuss a movie that both of us remember enjoying from our childhood to finish off our Clone Block with a review of 1996’s comedy Multiplicity. 

An overworked family man uses a new technology to create copies of himself and uses the clones to divvy up his responsibilities with disastrous results. 


Directed by: Harold Ramis

Written by: Chris Miller, Mary Hale, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel
Starring: Michael Keaton and Andie M...
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August 29, 2025 58 mins
On a more serious note we continue our Clone Block with a review of 2010’s drama Never Let Me Go.

A trio of childhood friends tackle love, tragedy, and life with an ever looming crisis of what their purpose is and what it means to really live. 


Directed by: Mark Romanek

Written by: Alex Garland
Based on the novel by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, and Kiera Knightley

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August 22, 2025 54 mins
Join us today as we try to figure out who is who in our Clone Block with a review of 2005’s The Island. 

Two people in a hightech medical facility escape once they find out their sinister fate. 


Directed by: Michael Bay

Written by: Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Bean, Djimon Hounsou, and Steve Buscemi

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August 15, 2025 62 mins
Today we start off our Clone Block with a review of 2025’s Mikey 17.

A colonizing mission goes awry when an expendable clone is duplicated illegally. 


Written and Directed by: Bong Joon Ho

Based on the book “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, and Toni Collette

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August 8, 2025 54 mins
Let’s go huntin’ today as we finish our Bloodsucker Summer with a review of John Carpenter’s Vampires. 

The leader of a group of vampire hunters goes on the war path to eliminate a vampire master responsible for murdering his team.


Directed by: John Carpenter

Written by: Don Jakoby
Based on the book “Vampire$” by John Steakly
Starring: James Woods, Thomas Ian Griffith, Daniel Baldwin, and Sheyl Lee

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August 1, 2025 51 mins
We continue our Blood Sucker Summer with a review of 2009’s Thirst. 

After a botched medical procedure, a man of God finds himself a vampire and must navigate his new found life and desire for human blood. 


Directed by: Park Chan-wook

Written by: Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung
Inspired by Émile Zola’s “Thérèse Raquin”
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin, Kim Hae-sook, and Shin Ha-kyun

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July 25, 2025 59 mins
Today we’re starting a bloodsucker summer block with a review of 2025’s Sinners! 

Twins with a sordid past return home to open a bar but come face to face with a supernatural evil. 


Written and Directed by: Ryan Coogler

Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Miles Canton, Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku, and Jack O’Connell

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Hello friends! Today we will be taking a break from our usual movie reviews and will be talking a bit about a few video games we have been enjoying, Death Stranding 2 and Expedition and Expedition 33. 

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We finish off our “must-see” pairing this week with 1964’s dark comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

A disturbed American military officer takes it upon himself to attempt a bombing of Russia to protect the American people from Soviet control.


Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George
Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern
Starring: Peter Sell...
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July 4, 2025 63 mins
Today we are reviewing a “must-see” on a list of all cinephiles, 1985’s dystopian dark comedy Brazil.

An employee of a dysfunctional dystopian bureaucracy becomes disillusioned after a clerical error brings to light the faulty system. 


Directed by: Terry Gilliam

Written by: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeow
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, and Michael Palin

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June 27, 2025 59 mins
Today we review one of Jacob’s favorite films that Tommy has never seen, 2004’s dark dramaedy Garden State.

After a death in his family, a twenty something year old man must return home to attend the funeral and partake on a journey of self discovery.


Written and Directed by: Zach Braff

Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Ian Holm


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June 20, 2025 56 mins
Today we review one of Tommy’s favorites that Jacob has never seen, 2002’s apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later. Considered the revival for ‘zombie’ movies in the 2000s, we follow a group of survivors twenty eight days after an aggressive rage virus has ravaged the United Kingdom. 

Directed by: Danny Boyle

Written by: Alex Garland
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naome Harris, Brendan Gleeson, and Christopher Eccleston

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