Movies have been sources of entertainment for many years, and, for three Indiana University Southeast students, it’s a passion.

Brad Anderson, finance senior, Charlie Gonzalez, communication and advertising junior, and Jesse Rasmussen, communication and advertising junior, run the movie review Web site, MovieFanHouse.com, where they have their podcast.

“Brad and I worked together and used to listen to podcasts, but they never talked about anything we liked,” Gonzalez said.

“We wanted to try and make our own podcast to talk about movies we like and put out a show for people like us that didn’t have a chance to see some movies,” he said.

Gonzalez and Rasmussen had a class together and, after Gonzalez asked him a few times to participate, Rasmussen finally agreed to try out one show.

“The show and the site are fun that’s why I like to do it,” Rasmussen said.

“I think the show works because we all complement each other really well.”

The show was first launched in June 2009 and the word spread through their Facebook fan page and Twitter account.

“We were listed in a podcast directory and you have to basically get bigger podcasts to mention you on their show to get your show out there,” Anderson said.

“It is a lot of networking and talking to people just to get the show out,” he said.

They said they would consider their first few podcasts poor even though they did receive a lot of listeners, and, after the initial few, they changed how they do the show plus its length and format.

Once people started responding to the podcasts through e-mail and voicemail with their comments the guys were surprised.

“We were shocked,” Gonzalez said. “We wanted it to happen but we didn’t expect it because the shows weren’t good.”

They said one of their biggest shows was their second one where they reviewed “The Hangover.”

“We decided we’d literally get drunk the night before and then talk about it on the show the next day, which was our worst idea ever,” Gonzalez said.

After seeing the big numbers for the review, Gonzalez was shocked that people would want him to talk about a comedy while hung over.

They are trying to get a bigger fan base by having special guests on their shows recently.

“We met a guy at a convention that runs bloodygoodhorror.com, and we got him to come and discuss ‘Halloween II’ on our show,” Gonzalez said.

“It got us more numbers because people knew him from another podcast so they tuned into our show to listen,” he said.

All of them are full-time students with jobs also. The podcast is their side project and they record it on Sunday. They try to have meetings and work around each other’s schedules.

“Since we are so busy, we look at the movie schedule a month ahead of time and plan out who can see what and when,” Gonzalez said.

“We all try to see the movie together or at least all of us see it so we can discuss it,” Rasmussen said.

The guys did admit that since they’ve been doing the podcast they have grown to know each other’s movie preferences and may call another guy and tell him to skip the movie because he may not enjoy it.

“We’ll be the first to admit that it is kind of a nerdy thing to do podcasts but we enjoy it,” Anderson said.

They each have something they bring to the show.

Anderson does quite a bit of the actual technical work on the Web site, while Gonzalez does the editing.

Anderson and Gonzalez said while it seems like they handle the bigger portions of making the show, Rasmussen brings energy.

The guys hope to continue the show in the future.

“We are kind of going moment to moment on the future,” Gonzalez said. “We’re having fun right now.”

They all said they plan to move away once they graduate but, with technological advances, they should be able to continue the show.

“In the nearer future, we would hope to get sponsored so we don’t have to pay for movies, but we aren’t ready to make such a pitch to a theater,” Anderson said.

They all have high hopes for the site and the podcast. They hope to get more listeners in the near future.

“If we suddenly become that show that every geek in the land knows and has the t-shirt, that’s cool too,” Rasmussen said.