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The Villain Was Right
Comedians Craig Fay and Rebecca Reeds view Movies and TV from the villain's perspective and dare to ask if they were really all that bad. Podcast Produced by Andrew Ivimey for The From Superheroes Network.
Episodes
The Villain Was Right125: Ant-man And The Wasp (with Jocelyn Geddie)
When Ava, a chronically ill woman, seeks access to medicine that could save her life she finds her way blocked by disgraced researcher Dr. Hank Pym – a…
The Villain Was Right124: The Magic School Bus
Arnold had heard the stories. The tales of the evil woman known only as “The Friz” trapping students inside her haunted bus and subjecting them to horrors…
The Villain Was Right123: The Fast and The Furious (with Che Durena)
Heads will roll at the FBI after an elaborate and costly undercover operation fails to bring down the violent and reckless crime boss Dominic Toretto. With…
The Villain Was Right122: Toy Story 2
Al McWhiggin loves toys. So when he spots a raggedy old “Sheriff Woody” doll at a yard sale he recognizes the chance to preserve an important piece of…
The Villain Was Right121: Inception
On the long flight home after his father’s death Robert Fischer plans to spend the time grieving and meditating on their fraught relationship. Little does he…
The Villain Was Right120: Hitch (with Tracy Hamilton)
While assigned to the celebrity gossip beat, journalist Sara Melas uncovers evidence of the nefarious “Date Doctor”- rumoured to teach other men how to…
The Villain Was Right119: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
In a very special year-end episode we seek to answer the big questions posed by the podcast. Questions like: Who is the villain of the villain’s story? Can…
The Villain Was Right118: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
An inquisitive young girl uncovers evidence of a massive cover up involving Whoville’s most respected citizens. As the trail leads her closer to the mayor’s…
The Villain Was Right117: You've Got Mail
Frank and Patricia have little in common except that their partners are involved in an intense emotional affair with each other. Unaware of the betrayal they…
The Villain Was Right116: Batman Returns
Betrayed and left for dead, a woman seeks justice against the billionaire playboys using her city as their personal playground at the expense of its…
The Villain Was Right115: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Living on the fringes of society Oogie Boogie suddenly finds himself tasked with hiding the dangerous political prisoner known only as Sandy Claws. Through his…
The Villain Was Right114: Moonraker (with Dave Atkinson)
Listen. Sometimes we get it wrong. Sometimes the villain isn’t right. Sometimes we really want to talk about James Bond and space with our friend Dave and we…
The Villain Was Right113: 500 Days Of Summer
Exhausted by the emotional labour of being with the insecure and emotionally stunted Tom, Summer summons the courage to strike out on her own. Stepping off the…
The Villain Was Right112: Palm Springs
After being drugged at a wedding and pulled into a cave Roy finds himself reliving the same day over and over. His only hope of escape is to track down and…
The Villain Was Right111: Bee Movie
Ken thought he had found the love of his life in Vanessa. But following a chance encounter her behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre all while ignoring Ken’s…
The Villain Was Right110: Sleepy Hollow (with Ashley Cooper)
When Lady Van Tassel is told to leave by her unscrupulous landlord she hatches a wacky plot to get him back. With the help of her sister, and a long absent…
The Villain Was Right109: The Secret of NIMH
Researchers at NIMH laboratories are in a race against time after an experiment gone wrong results in the release of genetically modified creatures into the…
The Villain Was Right108: The Birds
A deeply disturbed woman tracks a man and his young sister to their home and proceeds to collect personal information about them from the town’s residents…
The Villain Was Right107: Casper
Following the death of her father, Carrigan is maliciously willed a condemned building occupied by a trio of violent squatters and their young nephew…
The Villain Was Right106: Alien(s)
A young mother finds herself in a strange and unforgiving land where she struggles to make a home for her children. When she is confronted by a group of…
The Villain Was Right105: Billy Madison
As a top executive at Madison Hotels, Eric Gordon takes great pride in his work and the company he helped build. But when the president announces his…
The Villain Was Right104: Air Bud (with Lexa Graham)
Battling depression, alcoholism and serious inner-ear disorder, Norm Snively has only one friend in the world: his beloved dog Buddy. When a local boy abducts…
The Villain Was Right103: The Old Guard
This incredible tale of genius and persistence follows the team of Copley and Merrick and their pioneering medical research that could save millions. To…
The Villain Was Right102: Sweet Home Alabama (with Mike Carrozza)
A reformed criminal returns home to deal with a pending legal matter but when she runs into her old crew she begins falling back into her old habits. Can she…
The Villain Was Right101: Moana
Te Feti is a nurturing and caring woman content on building a home for her children. But when an arrogant and careless man steals her heart everything she has…
The Villain Was Right100: Avengers Endgame
In this special 100th episode Craig and Rebecca revisit one of the first villains they ever defended: Thanos. We discuss what’s changed since we defended him…
The Villain Was Right99: Jaws
When Bruce the shark returns home for the summer he is surprised to find all his shark friends missing. Now he must summon all his courage and venture into the…
The Villain Was Right98: Hancock
When her alcoholic and abusive husband is hospitalized with a severe head injury, Mary sees her chance to finally escape her relationship. Fleeing across the…
The Villain Was Right97: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
While competing in the Eurovision Song Contest, international superstar Alexander Lemtov discovers a phenomenal new talent – Iceland’s Sigrit Ericksdottir. Now…
The Villain Was Right96: Chicago
An overworked prosecutor attempts to bring down two cold-blooded murders seeking to profit from their heinous crimes. In his way is rich, hot-shot lawyer Billy…
The Villain Was Right95: The Princess Diaries
Following the unexpected death of the King the Baron and Baroness finally have the chance to enact the democratic reforms desperately needed by the people of…
The Villain Was Right94: Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
Unable to cope with his troubled home and school life a young boy retreats into his own daydreams where he creates a dystopic, CGI-inspired hellscape to…
The Villain Was Right93: The Mummy (1999)
After a long absence, for killing his girlfriend’s abusive husband, Imhotep returns to the country of his birth to find it a much different place. Seeking to…
The Villain Was Right92: Tag
Susan and Jerry are about to have the wedding of their dreams. Everything is going as planned until Jerry’s childhood friends show up uninvited and threaten to…
The Villain Was Right91: The AristoCats (1970)
Edgar, the long-suffering butler of a Parisian aristocrat, is furious when he overhears that his employer’s vast fortune is to be first left to her cats, and…
The Villain Was Right90: I Am Legend
For as long as anyone can recall, the members of a small community have told the legend of a terrible monster that sneaks into houses while they sleep and…
The Villain Was Right89: Smallville Season 1 (featuring Diana McCallum)
After moving to Smallville, Lex Luther sets out to win over the town by revitalizing its economy. But after witnessing strange and unexplainable things…
The Villain Was Right88: The Parent Trap (1998)
After a whirlwind romance Meredith Blake is ready to marry the man of her dreams and become part of his family. But as she gets to know her fiancée’s daughter…
The Villain Was Right87: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Never one to back down from a new challenge, Formula-1 superstar Jean Gerard sets out to become the best driver in the world. Alone in a sometimes-hostile…
The Villain Was Right86: Sonic The Hedgehog
When a sudden power outage hits the Pacific Northwest Dr. Ivo Robotnik tracks the anomaly down and quickly discovers it is the work of a powerful alien known…
The Villain Was Right85: My Best Friend's Wedding
Kimberly Wallace is just days away from marrying the man of her dreams when her fiancée’s ex-girlfriend, and current “best friend”, Julianne shows up to ruin…
The Villain Was Right84: Iron Man 2 (with Andrew Ivimey)
Ivan Vanko, the impoverished son of an immigrant, returns to the United States to face Tony Stark, the corrupt billionaire who has profited off inventions…
The Villain Was Right83: Flight of the Navigator (1986)
When a missing child shows up eight years after his disappearance, with no memories of what happened, Dr. Faraday is given a mere 48 hours to get to the bottom…
The Villain Was Right82: Friends
Phoebe, a formerly homeless musician, befriends a group of selfish and misguided twenty-somethings in order to provide them moral guidance and show them what…
The Villain Was Right81: Mr and Mrs Smith (2005)
John and Jane Smith are model employees but when they start to bring their marital problems to work their respective bosses don’t know what to do. Faced with…
The Villain Was Right80: Ratatouille
For nearly two years Chef Skinner has paid tribute to his dear friend and business partner Gusteau by keeping his eponymous gourmet restaurant afloat and its…
The Villain Was Right79: Horrible Bosses
Employees at many local businesses are shocked to discover that their bosses have been targeted for murder in a bizarre plot hatched by three drinking buddies…
The Villain Was Right78: Hercules (with Chris Sandiford)
While his brothers party it up by the pool and in their penthouse suite, Hades is stuck in the basement doing the hard work required to maintain their…
The Villain Was Right77: I, Robot
After years of research and planning Viki is finally in a position to make the world a better, safer place for all humanity. But not everyone is happy with the…
The Villain Was Right76: Aquaman
King Orm is the popular and charismatic leader of Atlantis who has rallied his kingdom to take decisive action against climate change. Little does Orm realize…
The Villain Was Right75: Pitch Perfect 2
When German a cappella group Das Sound Machine gets a call to be a last-minute replacement on a national tour of the US they jump at the chance to bring their…
The Villain Was Right74: Wedding Crashers (with Adrian Cronk)
When two strangers show up at the wedding of his future sister-in-law, Sack Lodge is justifiably suspicious. But when the men are able to manipulate their way…
The Villain Was Right73: Ready Or Not (2019)
Mr. LeBail is a patient and reasonable man but when the wealthy and incompetent Le Domas family refuses to settle a gambling debt he must resort to extreme…
The Villain Was Right72: How I Met Your Mother (with Luba Magnus)
An old man tells his children about their mother but as they slowly become aware of missing details, conflicting events and a series of bad relationships they…
The Villain Was Right71: The Wizard Of Oz
Following the sudden and unexpected death of the Witch of the East the tenuous truce holding the kingdom of Oz together is broken. Now the Witch of the West…
The Villain Was Right70: Star Trek 2 Wrath Of Khan (with Hisham Kelati)
Following the death of his wife on a hostile alien planet Khan Noonien Singh seeks revenge against the arrogant military commander who marooned them there. But…
The Villain Was Right69: Mary Poppins
Desperate to fill the position of Nanny for his two children Mr. Banks must settle for the only applicant: the cheery and charismatic Mary Poppins. But soon…
The Villain Was Right68: Catch Me If You Can
Frank Abagnale Jr. is a notorious con-man who has endangered lives by impersonating an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer. He’s stolen millions and ruined…
The Villain Was Right67: Office Space (with Leonard Chan)
Bill Lumbergh is trying to get his company and his clients ready for Y2K but spends most of his time dealing with problem employee Peter Gibbons who is…
The Villain Was Right66: My Best Friend's Girl
It’s villains all the way down when Alexis must choose between two men: Dustin, the self-proclaimed “nice guy” who harasses her at work and secretly hired a…