Jun 12, 20261h 6mS2
Donnie’s challenge was SciFi and he went all the way back to childhood to talk about a film he and his dad watched constantly. Time for an Oil Job!
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I Like to Watch
Hosted by Don Hall · tv · EN
About this Podcast:
Hosts Don Smith and Don Hall choose a classic film to unpack, discuss other films influenced by it, and tease each other with trailers for upcoming movies they really want to see.
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What is I Like to Watch about?
Hosts Don Smith and Don Hall choose a classic film to unpack, discuss other films influenced by it, and tease each other with trailers for upcoming movies they really want to see.
Who hosts I Like to Watch?
I Like to Watch is hosted by Don Hall. The show has published 115 episodes to date.
What has I Like to Watch covered recently?
Recent episodes include "I Like to Watch Ep. 114—Forbidden Planet (1956)" (12 June 2026, 66 minutes), "I Like to Watch Ep. 114 — True Grit (2010)" (29 May 2026), and "I Like to Watch Ep. 113 — Saving Private Ryan (1998)" (15 May 2026, 79 minutes).
How often does I Like to Watch publish?
I Like to Watch publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 79 minutes across 115 episodes.
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Booking probability for I Like to Watch is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. I Like to Watch requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. I Like to Watch's contact route on record: verified email.
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Don Hall hosts I Like to Watch, a tv podcast with 115 episodes published.
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I Like to Watch
I Like to Watch Ep. 114 — True Grit (2010)
May 29, 2026—Donnie’s challenge was to pick a remake that Don liked to watch. The challenge wasn’t as easy as it appeared.
May 15, 20261h 19mS2Donnie is challenged this week to find a cinematographer he likes to watch and, man, did he pick a doozy!
Episode #112
I Like to Watch Ep. 112—Footloose (1984)
May 1, 20261h 33mS2The challenge was a movie with a song written specifically for that movie. Hall picks a movie with NINE songs written for it and a callback to his most important high school days!
Episode #111
I Like to Watch Ep. 111—Face/Off (1997)
Apr 5, 20261h 6mS2A foreign-born director? So many to choose from. Donnie goes for a classic: Face/Off with Travolta and Cage.
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Mar 21, 20261h 20mS2The Challenge? Steve Zallian. The response? Gangs of New York. Can DeCaprio’s middling accent bring down Day Lewis’s extraordinary Bill the Butcher?
Mar 6, 20261h 7mS2The challenge took Donnie through embarrassment of cinematic riches of 1984! He landed on an iconic performance by an iconic actor (plus a lot of laughs).
Episode #108
I Like to Watch Ep. 108—Backdraft (1991)
Feb 20, 20261h 6mS2The Challenge? Firefighter movies. Really the only choice? 1991’s Backdraft.
Feb 6, 20261h 20mS2Donnie embraces the Dustin Hoffman challenge and lands on a film that speaks to us in the present which foments a long discussion about what that film tells us about the world today. Isn’t that what great movies should...
Jan 16, 20261h 11mS2The challenge? Cars. The response? Only the most badass case movie ever made.
Jan 2, 20261h 40mS2The boys roundup all of 2025’s trailer geeks with a few stinkers, a few winners, and a host of ‘meh.’
Episode #104
I Like to Watch Ep. 104 - The Shining (1980)
Dec 12, 20251h 28mS2The Challenge? Kubrick. The response? The most unsettling film of the twentieth century.
Episode #103
I Like to Watch Ep. 103 - Touch of Evil (1958)
Nov 28, 20251h 13mS2The Challenge? Any noir from 1940 - 1959. Hall goes to the very edge with 1958’s Touch of Evil.
Episode #102
I Like to Watch Ep. 102 - Suspiria (2018)
Nov 14, 20251h 30mS2For the very first I Like to Watch Challenge, Don tossed Tilda Swinton Donnie’s way. He chose the bizarre reimagining that is 2018’s Susperia.
Oct 31, 20251h 11mS2In this second half, the movies get a bit threadbare. Donnie then offers up an absolute must-see list of scary films to watch guaranteed to make you wet yourself!
Oct 24, 20251h 29mS2Donnie levels the ultimate Halloween task: watch all twelve of the Friday the 13th movies and then podcast about all of them! This first episode the boys cover the first six films in the franchise.
Oct 10, 20251h 17mS2It’s Halloween Month—Donnie’s favorite of the year! This episode Hall picks one of the greatest horror classics ever made: The Exorcist!
Sep 28, 20251h 4mS2Donnie goes for a Big Swing with a Stacked Cast that improbably is a Great Movie: Con Air!
Sep 12, 20251h 24mS2Hall likes the weird stuff; Donnie not so much. Thus we engage about Julie Taymor’s Beatles juke box epic, Across the Universe.
Aug 29, 20251h 35mS2The pod’s good friend George Gallo pulls out all the stops with his choice of Sydney Pollack’s Castle Keep.
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