We watched both Davis Ayer’s Suicide Squad and Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn to discuss everyone’s favorite Clown Princess of Crime! Does the male gaze matter or does everyone still treat her lik

S02E07 - Kung Fu Panda 1, 2 & 3 (2008-2016)

Feb 18th, 2021 1h 9m

’Twas the day before Valentine’s Day when the podcasting girlfriends discussed the Kung Fu Panda trilogy! We go over Orientalism, first cinema experiences, Puss in Boots versus Dead Poets Society, how Glee can help you learn English better than

S02E06 - Watchmen (Director’s Cut) (2009)

Jan 12th, 2021 47m 11s

My girlfriend stayed mostly awake for three hours to watch Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of Watchmen! We discuss the deconstruction of superheroes as pathetic, the many shades of moral grays in all its characters, the threat of nuclear war and t

S02E05 - Rocketman (2019)

Jan 8th, 2021 47m 9s

Come and witness the first structured episode of Stealing the Remote! My lovely girlfriend Mijntje has notes and we barely get off-topic while discussing the trippiest biographical musical out there, Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman! We dissect my l

S02E04 - Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Dec 31st, 2020 52m 50s

My girlfriend had somehow never seen Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman despite living on this planet as a person of the female variety, so what better occasion to get her caught up than the release of its sequel, Wonder Woman 1984? She fawns over Chr

S02E03 - The Holiday (2006)

Dec 24th, 2020 53m 5s

My girlfriend made me watch Nancy Meyers’ The Holiday and we decided to record an episode about this pure feel-good romcom on the night of the week with the highest number of cargo trains possible passing my dorm! She gushes about Jack Black an

S02E02 - Shazam! (2019)

Dec 16th, 2020 48m 53s

It's my turn again! My lovely girlfriend Mijntje watched David F. Sandberg's Shazam! along with me so I could prove to her that DC Films had a fun, funny, festive Christmas movie in its catalogue. Depressing, my ass. We cover the Fawcett Comics

S02E01 - Megamind (2010)

Nov 21st, 2020 51m 56s

Welcome back to the new and possibly improved but probably equally middle-of-the-road Stealing the Remote! For season two I have asked, manipulated, and/or bribed my lovely girlfriend Mijntje to join me on my quest to make people watch movies I

S01E26 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Aug 6th, 2019 54m 19s

We return with the fifth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom! In our second take on this movie, we decide whether to let nature take its course or save the dinosaurs, I wonder if Hollywood is

S01E25 - Girl (2018)

Mar 1st, 2019 58m 59s

After an unplanned hiatus, we return with a movie nobody has heard of: Lukas Dhont’s Girl! We discuss the casting controversy while I’m breathing heavily from running up and down a single flight of stairs before recording, Mom remembers the mus

S01E24 - Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

Aug 28th, 2018 37m 12s

Back for another comic book movie, I lure Mom in with promises of Colin Firth without spoiling/warning that he violently kills dozens of people! In our episode on Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service we talk for a bit about my mom’s le

S01E23 - X-Men (2000)

Aug 20th, 2018 50m 41s

We make our triumphant return to form with a superhero film that requires me to explain the history of the genre in order to make Mom understand this wasn’t actually that mediocre for the time it was released: Bryan Singer’s X-Men! Having been

S01E22 - Trainspotting (1996)

Apr 28th, 2018 1h 10m

We’re back with a movie that’s my own age! We explain where we’ve been for a month – the answers are disappointing, I assure you – and dive into Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting. We earned the Explicit rating on this one. Mom brags about her memory

S01E21 - The Avengers (2012)

Mar 29th, 2018 54m 5s

Welcome back to your regularly scheduled episode where Effie is in charge! (Well, almost regularly scheduled.) Mom talks about our recording time for a bit, as well as those other Avengers you may have heard about, and her childhood Halloween d

S01E20 - Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Mar 21st, 2018 1h 7m

It’s Mom’s turn again in this episode! We know she promised a funnier film, but what you got is David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago. After joking around about Mom’s new boyfriend wrecking our recording schedule, we get into the credits, the music, and

S01E19 - Children of Men (2006)

Feb 26th, 2018 59m 59s

This time we discuss Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men, yet another dystopian vision of the future, because the ultimate goal of this podcast, as it turns out, is to depress Mom. She shares some childhood memories and we conclude I am a likeable

S01E18 - Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Feb 19th, 2018 58m 29s

This week we get around to Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, the most expensive arthouse sequel ever! I was suffering from a sore throat and had no voice after a night out; don’t worry, I edited out most of the painful coughing I had to dea

S01E17 - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Feb 12th, 2018 1h 9m

Welcome back for our episode about Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri! If in your culture it’s still acceptable to wish you a happy New Year in February, happy New Year; if not, have a nice Tuesday, I guess. After putti

S01E16 - Thor (2011) & Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Dec 11th, 2017 1h 13m

Today mom and I discuss Kenneth Branagh’s Thor and Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger! After the shortest coming out I’ve ever done, given how there’s no room for asking questions immediately in this one-way street of a medium, w

S01E15 - Justice League (2017)

Nov 20th, 2017 1h 30m

Right on time for our latest episode, Zack Snyder’s (or let’s be real, Joss Whedon’s) Justice League is finally here! I took my mom along for my third viewing and we’re here to give our opinions: mom was glad that she liked one of my comic book

S01E14 - Batman Begins (2005)

Oct 10th, 2017 1h 20m

In this episode we finally get to Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins! That is to say, after we talk about protecting your children from scary movies, my little brother’s school trip, and our own future traveling. We also confuse Mr. Beanand John

S01E13 - The Incredible Hulk (2008) & Iron Man 2 (2010)

Sep 27th, 2017 1h 7m

We continue the MCU with Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk and Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2, and as if mom didn’t have a hard enough time trying to remember two films she slept through parts of, she’s also getting sick. To cheer her up, I try t

S01E12 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) (2001)

Sep 9th, 2017 1h 3m

We get started on The Lord of the Rings epic with Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring! First I had to say sorry for misrepresenting the movie I showed Mom, then we recap all our experiences with The Hobbit trilogy and the Harry Potter oc

S01E11 - Iron Man (2008)

Aug 22nd, 2017 56m 44s

We finally tackle a Marvel movie, starting off with the MCU and therefore Jon Favreau’s Iron Man! As we discuss the film that kicked off the cinematic universe craze, I struggle to keep mom from switching to other films she happens to have seen

S01E10 - Stand By Me (1986)

Aug 11th, 2017 1h 3m

As mom gets to host her first episode, she steals the remote to make me watch Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me! She also assumes “an Android” is just as clear of a description as “an iPhone” for listeners who want to know what kind of phone she has, do