Lifelong friends Brad and Bob are not experts--they're just two guys who really enjoy movies and whiskey. Join them as they combine their passions into one hilarious and insightful show. Each episode, they discuss a classic movie and pair it with a new expression of whiskey. From indies to blockbusters, we offer a fresh take on movies you thought you knew. And don't worry if you're new to either of these worlds - Film & Whiskey is great for beginners or experts alike. With witty banter and…
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Bob and Brad tackle the show's first double feature, watching James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) back-to-back alongside Sagamore Spirit Bottled in Bond Rye , and end up split on nearly everything. On the original, Bob calls it a landmark rather than a great film and praising mainly its craft, while on the sequel Brad sees a campy cash grab that lampoons the first…
Bob and Brad revisit Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005), over two decades after fourteen-year-old Bob called it “about as damn perfect of a movie as you can get.” They agree that the film’s final two hours remain extraordinary, but sharply divide over whether its first hour provides essential character development or desperately needs trimming. Along the way, they examine King Kong as distinctly…
Bob and Brad revisit 1933's King Kong and find it isn't just a landmark, but the full- formed template of the adventure movie itself, right down to the Jurassic Park structural blueprint Spielberg would lift sixty years later. Plus, a genuinely strange whiskey pairing: SHĀNG Dàn Yǎ , a first-of-kind jiàngxiāng whiskey that takes sauce-aroma baijiu from China, redistills it, and ages the result in…
The first Let's Make It a Double chain of Season 11 closes with Bob's Pick, The Wild Robot , one of his favorite animated films of the last few years, and a first-time watch for guest and five-time co-host Lee Diaz of ReserveBar. The whiskey pairing is Heaven Hill's Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey, a category the show has barely explored. The conversation about what The Wild Robot does…
Bob and Brad drop a guest episode with John McCarthy, founder of the John Barleycorn Society , to walk through the full Spring 2026 Barleycorn Awards, including the biggest upset of the season in both Best Bourbon and Best Spirit of Spring 2026. John explains how Barleycorn's remote-first judging format works, reveals every category winner from Chivas 18 to Uncle Nearest to Dogfish Head to…
Season 11 rolls into Week 2 with the second film in the season's first Let's Make It a Double chain, and it's a genuine rarity: Big Hero 6 is Bob's first-time watch, only the third film in F&W history that Bob is coming in cold on (Scott Pilgrim and Secondhand Lions are the other two). Pair that with a new limited release from Green River Distillery Select — an 8-year, 115.1-proof toasted double…
Bob and Brad drop a bonus episode to react to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — Bob's seen it twice and lays out a full theory of late-period Nolan as a career-long meditation on deception scaling from the individual (Memento) to the civilizational (Oppenheimer, now this), landing at 8.5/10. Brad went on a friend's fifteen-minute-notice invitation the night before, having just reread the poem, and…
Season 11 begins, and Bob and Brad have finally cracked the format they've been chasing for ten seasons. The plan: 10 canon-level films across the year, each one kicking off a three-movie mini-program built by chaining "Let's Make It a Double" picks. They use the premiere to establish the rules, knock back a Bardstown Distillery Reserve release that lands at a rare 45/50 from both hosts, and make…
Bob and Brad sit down for one last between-seasons drop before Season 11 begins in July, and this one has real news: every film on the Season 11 slate, revealed. Along the way, they pour Hole One from Penelope's brand-new 18-bottle Architects of Golf collection, a $60 six-year MGP bourbon finished with American oak staves that lands solidly in F&W's summer-crusher territory. It's a preview that…
Bob and Brad review Green River's $25 honey-finished bourbon, then sit with new director of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, David Huffman, on why repertory cinema matters. Bob and Brad use this between-seasons drop to do three things at once: tease the format of Season 11, review a whiskey that flirts with the legal edges of what bourbon can technically be, and sit down with the new…
