Horror month continues as we look back at the underrated Cloverfield sequel in 2016! Guy Dolbey (Film Discussion) picked the movie and we talked mainly about the blossoming career of Mary Elizabeth Winstead and the divisive third act trying to connect it to the first one
Kevin Tudor joins us for his 2010s movie pick and starts out our month of horror movies from the decade with Adam Wingard's disaster of a sequel to the classic The Blair Witch Project. We touch on why the movie failed in 2016, the production secrecy and modernizing the look of the found footage style
The wonderful Rafa Sales Ross (Little White Lies, The Skinny) joins us with her pick of the best movie in the 2010s this episode in the oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown and its uniquely told love story . Together, we get around to talking about religion, the human condition, and Riverdale
We continue our discussion on the work in the prime years of Matthew McConaughey in the 2010s in what some maybe be a career-defining performance in the quietly powerful Mud. Bryden Doyle is here with his pick, together we talk about the treatment and or sideline of female characters in the movie and the underrated director/actor combo of Jeff Nichols and Michael Shannon
Christina Tucker (Film Inquiry) is here with us to revisit 2016's "Christine", the true story of journalist Christine Chubbuck, who was the first person to commit suicide on national television by the time she was only thirty. We'll get around to talking about comparing "Kate Plays Christine" which premiered the same sundance, if Antonio Campos' portrayal is exploitative and how close Rebecca Hall was to an Oscar nomination
With the comic book movie dominance surrounded by the MCU and DCU in the 2010s, Dredd achieves immediate cult status with its poor box office. Along with having Isaac Feldberg (Boston Globe, Roger Ebert) back with us, we chat about who really directed the majority of the movie between Alex Garland and Peter Travis and how 3D was implemented here to its best capability even when it ran its course by 2012
Remember Michael Fassbender in that big paper machete head a few years ago? Kinda? Cody Corrall (Paste) is here with a pick we forgot was as poignant as it is in Lenny Abrahamson's Frank. In the ep, we delve into the more pragmatic side of being a tortured artist with mental illness and the underrated career of Domhnall Gleeson
Let's think back to one of the decade's most unique genre pictures in Ana Lily Amirpour's directorial debut. The delightful Kayleigh Donaldson (IGN, Slash film, Screen Rant) is here to rattle off past and 2010s vampire movie knowledge, the film's fierce soundtrack, and short films being adapted into features
Few years ago this month, The Meg was a movie that was dropped by a major studio and people liked then forgot about. On this ep, Sophia Karr and Kat/Dylan Shubert (Have You Heard The Good News Podcast) join Jack and Clay to give us why this is one of the blockbusters worth reexamining and the four of us talking about the oral history of shark movies and recreating B movies in the 2010s
It's the finale of our Oscar-winning documentaries series and closing us out is an investigation into late 2010s era capitalism in American Factory. Fiona Underhill (Jumpcut Online) joins us for the tenth doc to win the oscar in the decade and we talk about the issues with Obama's involvement with serving as producers here and our love for the editing, as it brings moments of unexpected comedy. Plus, Jack and Clay give their rankings!
The amazing Jaimie Rebanal (Cinema from the spectrum) is here for all things rocking climbing and toxic boyfriends in Alex Honnold's achievement we witnessed with Free Solo. We dig into the academy awarding this the oscar on behalf on National Geographic docs and our fascination with an ahelettes obessions with perfection
Zach Lamplugh (filmmaker, 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot) is with us to talk all things doping in sports with 2017's Icarus. Although we see shades of other docs we have covered here like Citizenfour and Inside Job, Icarus has enough going for it to stand out like Bryan Fogel's sly direction, how our first Trump-era oscar-winning doc affects this winning the oscar, and how Netflix pulled one of their first big wins at the academy awards
Dan Mecca (The Film Stage, The B-Side) is back for the longest movie we've ever covered in 30 for 30's damning portrait of OJ Simpson in O.J.: Made In America. Does this even count as a movie or is this a tv show? Is this the strongest set of best documentary nominees in the decade? Is OJ still as famous and beloved as he was decades ago? All this and more on this episode with jack and clay!
We're joined by Sydney Urbanek (The Guardian) again while we revisit the tragedy of one of the 21st century's most iconic musicians with Amy Winehouse in Asif Kapadia's Amy. You'll hear us dig into the media's vicious attacks on Winehouse's behavior while she was with us, our different experiences with her music and the unique way the film was constructed with subtracting talking head interviews
Bilge Ebiri (New York Magazine, Vulture) returns to revisit Citizenfour with us, the doc which gives us an intimate look at whistleblower Edward Snowden and which also happened to be one of the most celebrated Oscar-winning docs of the decade. With topics including how our public relationship with Glenn Greenwald has evolved over the years and Poitras' decision to put herself in the film, for better or for worse Citizenfour is one of the docs defining the 2010s
We're welcomed by the great Valerie Faye (We Need To Talk About Kevin) to dissect "20 Feet From Stardom", the award-winning doc pulling back the curtain on the role of best backup singing in many decades of music. We'll touch on the career of Morgan Neville, mistakes Neville made in making the singers distinct from one another, and how different all our taste in music is
Arlin Golden (Wiseman podcast, Video Project) joins us to reflect on the sensation of Rodigeuiz in "Searching for Sugar Man", a movie that reveals itself to be a love letter to a musician in a bygone era more than anything else. We all agreed in the ep this would make a perfect episode on "Documentary Now" and the specific stigma that comes with winning best doc feature
We have Tyler Harford here with us to talk Undefeated, a pretty good documentary about high school football that just so happened to win the oscar. Even though there's not much to go into with the doc itself, topics include the toxic masculinity that football brings out of American men and the awkward absence of race found within Coach Courtney's relationship with the players
It's the start of a new 2010s award winners miniseries this time with the oscar-winning documentaries, starting off in the year 2010, its Inside Job. The lovely Roxana Hadadi (Vulture, Roger Ebert) is back with us to talk about Charles Ferguson's take on current event issues rather than Aaron Sorkin or Adam McKay, the use of Matt Damon as narrator, and starting our ten episodes long conversation into what makes an Oscar-winning documentary
Who is considered to be one of the most versatile actresses we currently have, Charlize Theron, continued to increase her stock in the 2010s and then helmed Atomic Blonde in 2017 with the co-director of the already popular John Wick series in David Leitch. With us is Emily Jacobson (Film Daze) to talk about the lack of conspiracy spy thrillers nowadays and poor needle-drop uses we see here
We welcome Abby Monteil (Elite Daily, Insider) to an episode about a very important movie in the last year of the decade in Celine Sciamma's swooning romance. Examining the female gaze, NEON's dominant 2019 slate and Sciamma's process into the meticulous planning with all aspects of the film
We have Peyton Robinson here to chat about 2014's moody thriller with Dan Gilroy's directorial debut. Leading us to talk more about our love of jake gyllenhaal and if this is his best performance of the decade or his entire career. Other portrayals of the newsroom in cinema and careers of the Gilroy brothers
We welcome the wonderful Jonah Koslofsky (The Spool) for his pick in The Master and its elusive nature nine years later. We gave a tribute to the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, how the oscar failed to celebrate the film and what could just be one of Jack's favorite first time viewing experiences
Lucy May returns to chat about David Fincher's perfectly crafted thriller and all the right and wrong lessons we look from it after 2014. While also talking about Rosamund Pike's career post her nomination here and writer and novelist Gillian Flynn's rise to popularity in film
Jen Johans (Film Intuition, Watch With Jen) is here as we use James Mangold's globe-trotting thriller as an in to talk the action stars as an endangered brand in the 2010s. With looking at the careers of Cruise and Diaz and movies that are destined to play on FX
The delightful Carrie Courogen (Bright Wall Dark Room) brought Mistress America to us, which leads us to gush about Greta Gerwig even more than we already have before for two hours. As well as the more discussions on New York on film, Baumbach's homage to screwball comedies and how underrated is Lola Kirke
We welcome Brad Avery on to deconstruct the third collaboration between Pete Berg and Mark Wahlberg in the decade and the second in 2016, focusing on the tragedy at the Boston marathon. Taking a look at Wahlberg inserting himself into modern American true stories, how soon is too soon to tell a true story on film Jack and Brad's connection to Boston
Cassidy Olsen (Little White Lies, Boston Globe) joins us to chat about the provocative world of Harmony Korine in the neon-drenched and Florida set Spring Breakers. Three of us get into Harmony's fascinating appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman in the late 90s, a sly commentary on cultural appropriation seen underneath all the drugs and guns as well as Franco being considered up there one of the decades great supporting performances
We put our whole chest into Abba tunes with the amazing Emmy Potter (Bright Wall Dark Room) in another sequel from the decade that nobody really asked for. Getting into the deceptive marketing with promising Meryl Streep's return, how the restrained sexiness hurts the movie overall, and what directors do we wanna see make a musical
Joe Wright's 2010s work is uh, interesting! If you're an apologist of his work like guest Andrew Kendall (Stabroek News) or think he is just another banal, awards season friendly filmmaker, we're starting to talk about his career with his adaptation of Anna Karenina. We'll dissect the career of Kiera Knightly, bringing classic literature to screen and segues into the 2012 oscars and why it was snubbed overall
