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#051-WatchThis: Assassins - GROSSE POINTE BLANK/THE KILLER/LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL Feb 06, 2015

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After an unintentional week away from the podcasting world Rick Ramos is back with a new episode of WatchThis and a Vengeance driving it. Today we talk ASSASSIN films. The Struggle, The Pain, & The Battle between Good and Evil exemplified by George Armitage's comic take on Killers for Hire, GROSSE POINTEBLANK, John Woo's Hong Kong Action Masterpiece from 1989 THEKILLER, and - finally - Luc Besson's controversial and powerful 1994 hit LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL. Take a listen and have a little bit of fun as I take us on a tour through the movies. Thanks for Listening and Thanks for the Support!

#050 - WatchThis: The Media in Cinema - Blackhat/The Insider/Network Jan 21, 2015

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Oh Yeah! On this weeks episode of WatchThis w/Rick Ramos, Rick goes after the Media with a vengeance. After a dissapointing viewing of Michael Mann's new film Blackhat, Rick takes a trip down the Rabbit Hole into Mann's filmography examining the director's criminally underseen 1999 masterpiece The Insider. Featuring brilliant performances from Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, and Al Pacino, Rick brings you one of the most powerful films of the 90's and a superb examination of the media and personal bravery. Continuing the theme he takes a look at - one of his favorite directors - Sidney Lumet & Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 Academy Award winner Network - a film that radically altered the landscape and has proven sadly prophetic. You're not going to want to miss this episode. Once Again, Thanks for Listening & Thanks for All of the Support! It Is Appreciated.

#049 - WatchThis - BingeTV: DEADWOOD/BREAKING BAD/RESCUE ME/THE SHIELD/SHAMELESS Jan 14, 2015

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This week on WatchThis Your Movie Watching Buddy, Rick Ramos, sits down to talk a little bit of John Cassavettes and the 1974 Independent Classic A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE and the struggles of sanity. He quickly moves into the Beauty & Magic of Binge Television Watching. This week we get into THE SHIELD, BREAKING BAD, DEADWOOD, RESCUE ME, and SHAMELESS. A whole lot of TV, but Ramos isn't doing much of anything else so enjoy.

#048 - WatchThis: Documentaries - Jodorowsky/Gilliam/RickyJay Jan 09, 2015

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the 1st Episode of The New Year. Rick Ramos comes out of the corner throwing haymakers to the head and body. On this edition of WatchThis Rick dishes on the beginning of the New Year. He discusses Mark Wahlberg's new film THE GAMBLER, as well as a recent screening of the BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY. Then the Jack Daniels kicks in and Ramos gets down talking about his favorite documentaries of recent years: JODOROWSKY'S DUNE (Director Frank Pavich) detailing the failed science fiction project that Jodorowsky speaks so passionately about some thirty years later. He also goes over Keith Fulton & Luis Pepe's LOST IN LA MANCHA, a heartbreaking behind-the-scenes account of one of the tragic losses of cinema, Terry Gilliam's almost quarter century effort to adapt Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE. This one will break your heart. Finally, he finishes with Molly Bernstein & Alan Edelstein’s incredible biography, DECEPTIVE PRACTICES: THE MYSTERIES AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY, easily one of Ramos' favorite films of the last ten years. Enjoy the Show and Thanks for Listening.

#047 - WatchThis: 2014 YearInReview (TheBestTimes@TheMovies) Jan 01, 2015

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In this, the Final Episode of WatchThis w/RickRamos for 2014, Rick goes over the Year and what 2014 has meant to him. The Good, The Bad, and Everything In-Between. Tonight we discuss 40 of the Best "Good Times" Rick spent at the movies. NOT the Best Films . . . The Best Good Times. Included in the Discussion: August: Osage County/The Wolf of Wall Street/The Grapes of Wrath/Baraka/Samsara/Wild at Heart/The Raid 2/The Unknown Known/Only Lovers Left Alive/Joe/Big Trouble in Little China/Tatsuya Nakadai Live – RAN/Chef/Cold in July/Lucky Them/The Immigrant/Edge of Tomorrow/Get On Up/Life Itself/Once Upon a Time in the West/Guardians of the Galaxy/Calvary/The Expendables 3/Begin Again/Let’s Be Cops/Zero Theorem/The Drop/Gone Girl/St. Vincent/Fury/Dear White People/Whiplash/John Wick/The Homesman/Hannah and Her Sisters/Bullets Over Broadway/The Imitation Game/The Babadook/Dazed and Confused/Wild/American Sniper

Enjoy the Show and Thanks for all of the support. Here's to a Great 2015.

#046 - CHRISTMAS 2014 - WATCH THIS w/Rick Ramos Dec 29, 2014

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Merry Christmas WatchThis fans. This week your beloved host, Rick Ramos, sits down on the last night of his visit with Momma and Poppa Ramos to discuss Christmas and the Movies that have come with this Wonderful Time of Year. We get down with a whole lot, but focus our attention on Joe Dante's 1984 hit GREMLINS, Terry Zwigoff's warped Christmas Masterpiece from 2003 BAD SANTA, and finally round it out with Bob Clark's 1983 Holiday Classic A CHRISTMAS STORY. Rick also rambles on for an hour and forty discussing the beauty of the Christmas Season while sucking back a few GUINNESS. Enjoy the second to last episode of 2014. A Million Thanks!

#045 - Chris Rock's TOP5 & Paul Thomas Anderson INHERENT VICE - WatchThis w/RickRamos Dec 18, 2014

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This week WatchThis host Rick Ramos cracks open a bottle of Jack Daniels and dishes on Chris Rock's recent Directorial Effort TOP FIVE as well as the Magic & Beauty of Stand-Up Comedy. He also take a look at the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson's including HARD EIGHT, BOOGIE NIGHTS, MAGNOLIA and PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE as well as - the incredibly dissapointing - INHERENT VICE. Listen in on one of the few times where Ramos allows himself to lose it over the dissapointment and hatred for a movie while at the same time extolling the virtues and his love for a filmmaker's previous work. Enjoy!

#044 - Walter Hill & The Babadook - WATCH THIS W/RICK RAMOS Dec 10, 2014

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This week WatchThis host, Rick Ramos, jumps back onto the podcast adventure with a vengeance! After a brief discussion (and apologies) of why he's been offline for the past week, Ramos gets back into the ring and starts swinging. Acknowledging the lack of quality films in theatres at this time, he expounds on the briliiance of the ONLY good film in theatres right now - Jennifer Kent's THE BABADOOK. From that point on he gets into the beauty of 70's & 80's Action Maestro WALTER HILL. Profiling Hill's '73 Directorial Debut HARD TIMES, 1981's SOUTHERN COMFORT, and the '83 Classic 48HRS. Rounding out with his Favorite Movie Monologue - The Late/Great PETER FALK - from 2002's UNDISPUTED. Have Fun!

#044 - Walter Hill & The Babbadook - WatchThis w/RickRamos Dec 09, 2014

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#043 - TommyLeeJones - w/Special Guest Mike Black - WatchThis Nov 28, 2014

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This week on WatchThis w/Rick Ramos, Rick is visited by good friend, comic compadre, and fellow fattie, Mike Black as we sit down and talk about the films of Tommy Lee Jones including his new "Feminist" Western THE HOMESMAN, as well as the MIB films and THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA. It's a conversation that races all over the place, but always - somehow - manages to get back to the point.

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