In our first entry into the world of Kelly Reichardt, its the pacific northwest set acclaimed thriller in Night Moves. Jack, Clay and Saffron Maeve (Little White Lies) touch on the career of Jesse Eisenberg and Clay's own experience living in the Portland he recognizes in the movie
The delightful Carrie Wittmer (The Cut, GQ, The Ringer) joins us to celebrate what's now considered beacons of kindness and manners- that's just disguised as another "CGI animals interacting with human actors" in Paul King's Paddington series. We touch on Paddington 2's well-timed release regarding other world events, crying during movies and what Paul King did to make them as perfect as they are
Beloved playwright Kenny Lonergan has had an infamously troubled production history with his operatic tale of grief and post 9/11 NYC with failure at the box office and mixed critical reception and now it's the pick from Charlie Nash (Boson Reel, Cine Essential) as one of the 2010s very best. We get into the amount of HBO regular actors we've spotted throughout the movie, major differences between the theatrical and extended cuts, (we even get into the secret third cut) also the best depictions ...
Its the end of high school with the decade's last great coming of age story in Olivia Wilde's directorial debut and Nia Tucker is here to breakdown the movie's relatability at its core. Diving deep into cinematic sincerity, the promising young careers of Feldstein and Dever and why the movie ultimately failed at the box office
Just delighted to have Liz Shannon Miller (Collider) with us as we unpack the Magic Mike movies, which were slightly misunderstood at the time. Along with looking at the first half of Channing Tatum's career, what makes XXL such an improvement from the first and Soderbergh's particular use of the male gaze
Talking 2016's underrated contained thriller in The Invitation this ep and Abby Olcese (Cinemaholics, The Pitch) joins us to get into all things Karyn Kusama's rough career so far and how this could have the best final shot of the decade
We're happy to have culture critic Sydney Urbanek with us to revisit Sebastian Lelio's American remake of his original Spanish film in Gloria Bell. Together celebrating the careers of Julianne Moore and John Turturro, how the movie subtly slides right into trump era issues and A24's slate in 2019
Friend of the pod Joe Giordano is back to talk the first of a handful of auteur-driven space epics with Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. With pondering if Nolan is the next Kubrick, how the movie's appreciation has evolved since 2014, and Jack and Joe's possibly oldest first-time viewing experience talked about on the show!
Kyle Amato (Hawke Cast, Boston Hassle) returns to talk blumhouse’s timeloop slashers and what makes them stand out above all other modern low budgeted horror. Including praise for lead Jessica Roth, what makes getting a college setting correctly and enjoying how the movies goofy tone is successfully pulled off
Fletcher Peters (We Are The Only Girls Who Don’t Fall At Your Feet, Jezebel) is back to talk our most anticipated pick of the 2010s Razzies, Tom Hopper's musical catastrophe. Breaking it down set-piece by set-piece, with the cultural relevance the film had leading up to the release, how it instantly reaches cult midnight movie status and unadaptable material. Plus, Jack and Clay rank the worst picture winners of the decade!
We have Jesse Hassenger (The AV Club) with us this ep as we reflect on this Will Ferrell/John C Reilly led disastrous comedy. Together sharing past relationships with the Sherlock Holmes character, how Will Farrell and Adam Sandler share career commonalities and the death of the spoof movie
Julie Rhodes (Crooked Marquee, Essential Films) returns as we painstakingly trudge through 2017's Emoji Movie with its attempts to capitalize off other successful 2010s animation like Wreck-It Ralph and The Lego Movie, the irony of Sony making this then Spider-Verse a year later which goes on to win the best animation oscar and much more!
Along with the abundance of revitalizing thirty to twenty-year-old properties, we got the tone-deaf Independence Day: Resurgence. Dan Mecca (Film Stage, B-Side podcast) joins us to break down our history with the first one, what a third movie would look like and Jeff Goldblum career talk
It's possibly the most infamous disastrous production of the decade, which has aged the worst of any comic book movie of the 2010s, and it won a Razzie. Chance Ellison (notorious by chance, movie trivia schmoedown) is here to talk 2015's fantastic four with its inherent lead miscasting, overall mismarketing, and tonal inconsistencies
We're delighted to be joined by Logan Kenny (Little White Lies, The Film Stage) to breakdown the fourth installment of the Transformers franchise. Looking at the idea of vulgar auteurism, how Michael Bay still manages to be predictable and unpredictable, and Mark Wahlberg career talk
Brianna Zigler (Film School Rejects) returns as we unpack the movie star-driven sketch comedy, Movie 43. We champion the "Homeschooled" sketch, try to figure out why this failed compared to other Peter Farrelly comedies, and just what is Richard Gere doing here?
Sally Darr Griffin and Andrew Van Heusden (Club C-47 podcast) are back to chat about Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 and the franchise as a cultural phenomenon. Like how Twilight's success inspired a myriad of YA novel adaptations, Kristen Stewart's need to break out of the role of Bella Swan and toxic fandoms
Luke Larson (L Squared podcast) returns for Dennis Dugans' Adam Sandler razzing winning comedy. Together breaking down Sandlers' decades-long appeal, Al Pacino's fascinating performance and several of the deranged cameos throughout the film
With beginning 2020 with the best picture winners of the 2010s, we're now concluding the year with the worst picture winners in the 2010's Razzies! Starting us off with M Night Shyamalan's colossal failure and Zachary Margason (The First Watch podcast) is here for it. Together talking about how general feelings about the Razzies as a concept, how it fails to capture the magic of the original cartoon, and the despicable trend of whitewashing in blockbusters this decade
We loved having Bilge Ebiri (Vulture, New York Magazine) on for Terrence Malik's magnum opus. With it being regarded as one of the decades greatest achievements, we ended up talking about Malik's ultimately unique career over four decades, if the film was ahead of its time even with winning the Palme d'Or in 2011 and movies about "everything"
We have Jaysen Sneed with us to crack into one of the most culturally relevant event films of the 2010s and possibly the 21st century in Jordan Peele's taught and timely thriller. Touching on how the film has an underrated ensemble, confidently saying its the decades best original screenplay and if this is the greatest decade of all time for Black cinema
With Jack Hendrix returning, we unpack David Lowery's personal love letter to our place in the universe and handle on time. Diverging into our favorite scores of the decade, A24's highs and lows and the career trajectory of Rooney Mara
Shea Vassar (Hardcout Hunnies podcast) returns as we breakdown Park Chan Wook's enthralling erotic thriller. Examining our favorite cinema studies classroom viewing experiences, how the movie perfected the three-act structure screenplay, and how this unexpectedly became Wook's most accessible work to date
Fletcher Peters (One Perfect Shot) joins us to chat about 2012's beloved Silver Linings Playbook. We talk about everything like Jenifer Lawrence's popularity through the first half of the decade, the portrayal of bipolar disorder, and the film's success at the Oscars
We welcome Roxana Hadadi (AV Club, Roger Ebert) this week to unpack Jeremy Saulnier's 2016 riveting thriller. Discussing along the way modern-day Nazism, the accurate depiction of the pacific northwest, and the late Anton Yelchin
Returning with us we have Vinnie Mancuso (Collider) as we break into the world of Quintin Tarantino and his most recent output in a love letter to a fantasy tinsel town. The discussion ventures over to Brad Pitt's reinvigorated career, movies about movies and, if we think its Tarantinos swan song
Paul Oyama returns as we revisit Paul Danos's delicate directorial debut in Wildlife. We'll cover the quietly powerful and career-best performance from Carey Mulligan and a kind of validation from earning a criterion release
We're thrilled to have Mary Beth McAndrews (Scarred For Life podcast) this week and crack into the found footage subgenre. Talking about how the location of the Paris catacombs are perfectly imagined, the future or low budget horror and how Dante's Inferno makes the movie stand out from the rest
Yazz James (Haloscope) is here this week to chat about the Jenny Slate anchored comedy. Together talking about Jake Lacey owning the modern "nice guy" type, how Slate's Netflix comedy hour "Stage Fright" acts as a companion piece to the film and what romantic comedies look like in the 2010s
Kathia Woods (Awards Watch) joins Jack and Clay to reflect on Christopher Nolan's acclaimed dream heist thriller. Talking about how the movie acts as a metaphor for filmmaking, the strength of Nolan's casting for an ensemble and Hans Zimmer's career-defining score
