Have You Ever Seen

• Barry Lyndon

  Nearly every Stanley Kubrick film has been featured on Have You Ever Seen now that we're spending about an hour reviewing Barry Lyndon. In this 663rd episode, we analyze the gold-digging, underwhelming dueler played by Ryan O'Neal, an Irish soldier (turned gambler) who also turns out to be a terrible stepfather. Even though he's good as the opportunistic Redmond Barry, he's outshone by Patrick Magee, Steven Berkoff and particularly Leon Vitali as his lordly stepson. Barry Lyndon is one of the best-looking movies of 'em all, so it appropriately won Oscars for the look and the design. The pace is deliberate and the story is a very blow burn in this episodic epic. So enjoy Cinco de Mayo by hearing us throw it back and forth about these ordinary people in extraordinary times as we play some games of chance with Barry Lyndon. Sparkplug Coffee sponsors Have You Ever Seen. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Use that "HYES" promo code and enjoy a onetime 20% discount. Subscribe to our channel in your app, but also on YouTube (@hyesellis in YouTube's search bar). Rate the show and write a review, but also do some commenting, liking and following on the 'Tube. Respond to us with a message on Twi-X (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis) or Bluesky (ryan-ellis and bevellisellis). We're always eager to read an email too: [email protected].

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• National Velvet

  Clarence Brown's family classic National Velvet is what's on tap in the 662nd edition of Have You Ever Seen. A pre-teen, horse-obsessed Elizabeth Taylor sheds tears from time to time, but she's remarkably optimistic all the same, especially about her beloved equine chum, "The Pie".  Anne Revere won an Oscar for playing Taylor's preternaturally calm mom, while top-billed Mickey Rooney was starting to grow out of his annoying "I'm always overdoing it" phase. He's actually pretty good in this, playing a young loner with horse PTSD. They're the main players in this classic sports film, even if the horse-training and the steeplechase sequence at the end represent all the sportiness. So don't be a screechy kid brother. Just walk down an English road to make some friends while you ear up Ryan's one-man-show about the emotionally satisfying National Velvet. Our sponsor: Sparkplug Coffee. Their website: "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Their offer: a onetime 20% discount if you use our "HYES" promo code. Subscribe to our channel, but also rate this podcast in your app and maybe write a review too. Contact us via email ([email protected]) or on social media (Twi-X: @moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis or Bluesky: ryan-ellis and bevellisellis).

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• Nine To Five

  To put a finishing touch on this year's Revenge Month, our 661st episode has some fun with Colin Higgins' feminist comedy where a mediocre man gets major comeuppance for treating the women in his office so badly. If only Nine To Five was as funny as its reputation says it is. The tonal problems are partly because this started out as a serious look at how hard women have it in the workplace. Flawed or not, we DID enjoy the flick. It helps that Higgins knows how to tell a good story and his 3 stars make a great team. Jane Fonda was at her peak of stardom in this period (although she gave herself the worst role of the 3 main characters), while Lily Tomlin is the ultra-competent heart of the group. It's Dolly Parton's charm and effervescence that steal the movie though. So don't poison your boss' coffee, even if he IS a sexist, lying, egotistical, hypocritical bigot. Just dial up Have You Ever Seen's back-and-forth about Nine To Five. Well, Actually: at the 15:40 mark, the line "Roz imagines" should have been "Vi imagines". Pour yourself a cup of ambition known as Sparkplug Coffee and get yourself a 20% discount by using our "HYES" promo code. Go to "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Rate our podcast and write a review, but also subscribe. Find us on YouTube (@hyesellis in the 'Tube's search bar) and subscribe/comment/like there as well. We'd be happy to get an email from you. It's "[email protected]". On social media, Ryan is "@moviefiend51" on Twi-X and "ryan-ellis" on Bluesky, while Bev is "@bevellisellis" on Twi-X and "bevellisellis" on Bluesky.

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• The Revenant

  As Easter weekend comes to an end, Ryan posts a solo show about another intense blood-feud here in Revenge Month. Leonardo DiCaprio went through hell and finally won his Oscar while auteur Alejandro G. Iñárritu won his 4th in 2 years for their work on The Revenant, a violent, gory, grueling and beautifully-photographed survival story. There's a running theme of racism against Native Americans in here too, who are on their own vengeance quest. Tom Hardy is fantastic as Leo's antagonist, who earns the enmity of a man nearly killed by a bear after he kills that man's son. And the hunt is on. So grab your musket & your knife and eat some raw fish & even some raw liver as this lengthy monologue about The Revenant represents Have You Ever Seen #660. We're sponsored by Sparkplug Coffee. They offer our listeners a 20% discount. Our "HYES" promo code will achieve that. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Rate and review our podcast in your favourite app (subscribe too), but also seek us out on YouTube ("@hyesellis" goes in the search bar on YouTube). Drop in a comment about the episode, but also like it and subscribe. Contact us by email: [email protected]. Or contact us on Twi-X (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis) or on Bluesky (ryan-ellis and bevellisellis).

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• Munich

  Posting a podcast about Munich on Easter Weekend wasn't a deliberately provocative choice. Posting this mostly-effective "you'll pay for that" procedural during Revenge Month WAS intentional. Episode #659 of Have You Ever Seen is a Ryan monologue about Palestinian terrorists kidnapping and then assassinating Jewish athletes at the 1972 Olympics...and then the Israelis siccing a hit squad on those who planned it. Upbeat blockbuster filmmaker Steven Spielberg isn't squeamish about showing viciousness and bloodshed when he makes an Important Movie. Trouble is, he gets so heavy-handed in the last half-hour, as Eric Bana struggles with the moral ramifications (and blowback) after what he & his team have done. A pre-stardom Daniel Craig is part of that team, as are Geoffrey Rush & Ciaran Hinds. There's no quibble with their performances. It's just the 9/11 parallels and the politics of the unending conflict in the Middle East that repeatedly smack you in the face. In any case, there's much to discuss about what Black September did (not so much the PLO by the way, but that specific terrorist group) and then what the Jewish hit squad did as payback. Grab a bag of beans from Sparkplug Coffee. Our listeners can enjoy a onetime 20% discount by using our "HYES" promo code. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Not only should you subscribe to our channel in your app, but we hope you'll rate and review our podcast too. Also, look for us on YouTube (@hyesellis in the search bar). Like the episode, comment about it, you know. Share your own feelings about the films we discuss. On the media that is toxically social, find us on Bluesky (ryan-ellis and bevellisellis) and Twi-X (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis). Our email address is "[email protected]".

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