You start with the movie, which itself is usually something I’ve known for many years because I saw it when I came out. But then after a few episodes, listening to Bill & Co. talk about the flicks just feels like you’re hanging out with your high school or college friends again, people you’ve known a long time. Eventually, I stopped caring if I’ve seen the movie, I just like listening to them talk about movies. As much as I like the whole cast of characters, the episodes without Bill don’t really work. It’s like if there was an episode of Seinfeld without Jerry. This podcast is my comfort food when I need a break from my serious stuff and just need to relax. For that reason, it’s the podcast I can least do without.

Boy do they phone this in so hard lately. If things get stale (they do) let’s bring in Slobbins, Horny Mal, or Van Racist. Be honestly listener, of the past 20-25 movies how many of these do you really like? I predict The Truman Show next as it’s on Pluto right now.

Get Chris Ryan on this pod sicario is the best war movie made in the last 20 years. The people are yearning for it bill i love you but please give the people what they want

Best pod ever. Simmons is the goat

van's become the racist he thinks hes defending against. just the worst

I’ve been listening to all the movie review podcasts out there and yours is the best. Format is great and the personalities really shine through. I’m waiting for “Almost Famous” and “That Thing You Do” to be reviewed. Keep up the great work!

Great show. Can you do Sum of all Fears and Charlie Wilson’s War?

It’s a skibidi rizzler low key type podcast Ohio grimace shake

No one has ever heard of this movie. How can it be rewatchable? Love this podcast, but please cover movies that people have actually rewatched! How did they chose this movie over Animal House or The Blues Brothers?? Disappointed!

Just listened to the Alien review and it was great! Five stars across the board. My favorite part was the sound clips of the actual movie, genius! I’ve never heard sound clips of the actual movie in a podcast and it was surprising. It’s one of my favorite movies and I could visually piece together the scene in my head just from hearing the audio and I loved that. GREAT natural chemistry between the hosts which is always a must for a great podcast. Very funny and genuine. Subscribed and looking forward to listening to the rest.

‘The Rewatchables’ is the podcast that includes wildly tangential convos about films with my best friends from Jersey that I NEVER had. I was introduced to this podcast while listening to Chris Ryan from ‘The Watch’ & I only was aware of Phil Simmons as a sports commentator. I only started listening at the tail end of 2023 (I believe it was ‘The Equalizer’ episode with Bill’s dad that got me hooked) and this show is easily in my Top 5 weekly podcasts listens. Thanks for all the great films and discussions.

Bill Simmons is a master of both sports and movies, a fact that all listeners can attest to. However, his greatest talent lies in his ability to assemble an incredible cast of super podcasters, each with their own distinct personalities and talents. If you haven't explored all the podcasts within Bill’s podcast empire, it's time to get in it. Keep up the great work, Bill! Jeff

I liiiiive for this podcast and tell everyone about it, so generally, please keep it up! That said, this season has been rough- lots of niche and heavy rewatches; hoping we can go back to classics, bangers, and universally loved flicks:)

Stop threatening the end of the rewatchables. This podcast is the ONLY thing that gets me thru the work week!

Big Chill has everything to do about class. It was a bit of a dud- with an amazing sound track. If your podcast was edited to an hour, I’d subscribe.

First time listening to the show. Bill Simmons is from MA but doesn’t know how MBTS got its new name. To differentiate from Manchester NH. Hosts are all smug and annoying. Talking in their own dork code and falling all over each other. Despite watching this movie 3x’s Bill gets many things wrong. Confuses the fight scenes. Forgets that Lee’s wife passed out during fire and had to be carried out. It was Lee who yelled “don’t drive drunk”. 3 annoying dorks not nearly as cleaver as they think they are.

I just listened to the Manchester by the Sea episode. As always great content from all three. However, there HAS to be a way to get CR to stop interrupting every single time somebody starts to speak. It’s a bummer because CR has great things to say so it’s not that I don’t want to hear from him. I just don’t understand why he has to cut everybody off. Bill and Sean both seem to have figured out the rhythm of when to jump in and when to let a point breathe and CR does not understand that.

NO MORE AMANDA NO MORE MALLORY PLEASE

As far as “Shot Callers” goes, common sense dictates that for a movie to be “rewatchable”, one should have probably have heard about it in the first place. Stop trying to prove how cool you guys are and actually talk about one of the 8 billion movies people have heard about.

Rewatch World War Z - please!!

It’s amazing that you STILL think people want to hear from Craig. That mic must be caked with spit.

Like, are you serious here? Harrison Ford? Sigourney Weaver? Major major oversight:

Manchester by the Sea is so unbelievably far from a “rewatchable” this show has lost the script. That movie is the definition of a one and done. In addition, the live shows are poor quality and unlistenable. And then throw in all the hate from Van who is an actual living piece of human excrement. Yuck. The white guilt and self hate emanates from Bill and his loser snowflake cronies. PASS!

For God’s sake, can you please do Tin Cup?! One of the greatest sports rewatchables ever.

No almost Famous, Pulp Fiction. Stop wasting episodes on crappy action movies

Loving all the movies they’re re-covering. (And yes, recovering!)

Bill and team, thanks so much for doing this show and talking through the so many details that are important but people tend to forget about. My favorite is Rounders but now this gives me a list of movies to watch too ;). Will you do Rush Hour and other 90’s classics???

Great pod. As always. Not a picky-nits: you guys left out the 1990 movie Nick Nolte did do: “Q&A” an at-times demented film from Sidney Lumet. I know, Lumet was never demented. But that film is close. But you brilliantly hit on a subgenre of crime films that bore fruit in the early 1990s: corrupt cops.

Worth a look

It should be sex workers month

Thanks to OG Bill and everyone that has contributed to this podcast! It’s pure entertainment, keep em coming! Go Celtics!

Have you ever considered doing an episode on The Dogs Of War?

I mostly enjoy it. It does take me out of it when the hosts loudly laugh and talk over each other, and also there are a lot of sports references that leave me alienated— I’m here for movies. Lately when I select an episode it plays a different one— not sure what’s happening.

Love this podcast and happy my friend recommended it. I’ve gone back but couldn’t find a 12 Monkeys rewatch!

Would love to hear your thoughts on Interstellar.

Live recycled episodes featuring Mallory and Van… why are you doing this to us?! Please, have mercy

Chris Ryan tries too hard as is- put him in front of an audience and he’s insufferably annoying. I like this podcast but can’t bear the live eps.

Love the pod. Just re-listened to the Axe murderer episode. Gotta mention a couple “other” instances: Scottish wedding convo has to address Braveheart. Then, the convertible also appears in the movie Sneakers?!).

So you wanna hear a discussion about one of your favorite movies? Well, get prepared for a lecture from these “holier-than-thou” podcasters who will spend the first ten minutes of any random show discussing how you should be offended by “this” movie. Seriously, I don’t want to hear a PC diatribe about how “offensive” this or that movie is to them and their fellow snowflakes. They are part of the reason why there are no more good comedies. Softer than puppy doo-doo on a Arizona sidewalk in July. I’ll take a pass on their so-called breakdowns because I am sick of PC politics infecting and destroying everything I enjoy.

I consider myself a Rewatchables “superfan.” I’m one of those psychos who listen even when I have not seen the movie, even when that movie is “Sea of Love.” Unfortunately, I think these live shows are terrible. Worse sound quality, less flow. I can’t exactly explain it, but I’ve found myself skipping these. And they’re burning movies I actually like. I wrote the review because I wondered if I’m the only one who dislikes the live show?

Lurve the show, but the episode downloads are oddly large. Why is that? It’s not a show about about fidelity in jazz reissues or something

At first I thought this meant the show had run its course but the new energy and focus on the movie with the live audience has eliminated some of the lengthy off topic detours the recorded shows have taken lately. And we’re back to true rewatchable movies. More please!

Please just stop with the live shows. A live podcast is an automatic skip for me and I hope many others. We are already listening to a conversation we cannot take part in and now we have to listen to a performance conversation? Pass. It dates the pod so much and the stops and starts because of the audience makes it worse too. I mean now the listener has to hear an audience react when the listener is supposed to be the audience. But hey more money for you and you get to feel your ego inflate as those sad souls clap on command for you.

The earliest episodes with Simmons, Ryan and Fennessey had a joy and a charm to them and the movies were actually rewatchable. As time went on and hosts were added it became banal content generation. By the time Van Lathan was added as a host the paucity of ideas was clear; let’s add a host who replaces nouns, verbs and adverbs with swear words. The occasional swear can add excitement or emphasis. I thought the Ringer was a group of writers also recording podcasts. Why all the cursing? Oh well… still a few early gems worth listening to.

The first Superbad Rewatchables is absolutely awful. Bill misses so many of the best parts of the movie and the majority of his takes on the movie are just awful. We need another go with Superbad, maybe with Craig, Fennessey, and another person or two, but Bill should be nowhere near it

I look forward to this pod every week. It’s like listening to my friends talking about movies. My one complaint? We’ve had enough of the Wayne Jenkins impression at the end of every episode. It was funny the first five times. Now it’s just loud and annoying. I mute the sound every time until it’s over. I’m not sure why they think this is still so funny.

So lively and smart and fun

I listen and then go rewatch and see so much more. Grateful for this pod!

Let it rip!

I love this show. I save it for my runs as my “treat” listen and turn to it nightly for ideas on what to watch next. But I have one critique that I hope is addressed as it could have a hugely positive impact on the show overall. It needs a feminine POV more often in the episodes themselves and also suggesting the chosen films. There are so many times when the all-make presenters are all in agreement about a critique or opinion that I feel so confident would be viewed differently if a woman were looking at that same scene or character, or when a woman might nominate an entirely different set of rewatchable scenes perhaps. I don’t mean to imply that the presenters aren’t in any way sexist, it’s really just a matter of preference and perception that can often go hand in hand with gender. Given a war movie for example, my husband will be so engaged and alert during battle scenes, whereas I will tend to want to watch more scenes with dialogue and plot development. I really hope the show is able to incorporate at least one female POV in every episode moving forward. I had to turn off an episode I was really excited to listen to the other day because halfway through, I was so frustrated by a series of comments that I am certain and would’ve had a different response had a woman been present in the conversation.