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The Wilder Ride is a podcast where we look to explore and celebrate the films of Gene Wilder, using the ​movies by minutes format. Your hosts are Alan Sanders and Walt Murray, getting Wilder by the minute.

Mar 31, 2020

In an effort to give our listeners some suggestions for movie binge watching or podcast binge listening, we decided to chat about some of our favorite pandemic and disaster films. We also discuss things new to Netflix and close with some podcast recommendations.

Pandemic films discussed: Day After Tomorrow, The Walking Dead, World War Z, Andromeda Strain, I Am Legend, Omega Man, Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, 28 Day Later, 28 Weeks Later, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Young Frankenstein.

New to Netflix items we discussed: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Blade Runner, Cloverfield, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, side discussion of Avatar, The Dark Knight, Dolemite is My Name, Donnie Brasco, El Camino, another side discussion on Breaking Bad, Goodfellas, Groundhog Day, Jeep commercial set in Groundhog Day, side discussion of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Another Me with Paul Rudd, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Raging Bull, The Shawshank Redemption.

Alan's Honorable Mentions: Daredevil seaasons 1-3, Polar, Mads Mikkelsen, Hunters, Heat, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Justified.

Podcast shoutouts: Radio Labyrinth, 60 Minutes With, Bad Cop Bad Cop Show, The Real Queens of Queens, The Rocky Minute, Superego, Indiana Jones Minute, Rocketeer Minute, Apollo 13 Minute, Hitchcock Minute and North by Northwest, Small Town Murder, Tronologically Speaking and visit moviesbyminutes.com for more!