We're going bank robbing and exposing police corruption with Allison Picurro (Boy Movies, TV Guide) and Cassidy Olsen (The Boston Globe, filmmaker) join us for Derek Cianfrance's crime drama but really about fathers and sons in The Place Beyond the Pines ! Together we examine the big canvas Cianfrance had after Blue Valentine, how its so 2013 to end your movie with Bon Ivor, the muddled third act and the start of our Double Date month
Jul 22, 2023•2 hr 29 min
We’re just trying to get our boys back with Ricky Camilleri (BULID series, 30 Years Later podcast) as we cover 2017’s Dunkirk as we consider it the defining war picture of the 2010s. Together, we return to examine Christopher Nolan in the 2010s, the career of Hans Zimmer, comparisons to 2019’s 1917 and our favorite performances
Jul 15, 2023•1 hr 40 min
Jim Laczkowsi (Director’s Club podcast) returns for Peter Strickland’s beguiling psychological romance in The Duke of Burgundy. Together we discuss Strickland’s place in 2010s films, how the film compares to the more approachable 50 Shades of Grey films, comparing this relationship to that in 2015’s Carol and monogamy
Jul 08, 2023•1 hr 33 min
Kendall Cunningham (The Daily Beast) joins us for Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2015 comedy in The Lobster! We dig into the careers of the cast, our interpretations of the ending, and our final thoughts on Lantimos with this being the last of his American films to cover
Jul 01, 2023•2 hr 24 min
Leah Carlson Downie (Oscar’s Podcaast, Fang Club) returns to unspool all that was poor and successful in 2019’s political rom-com (poli rom-com?) Long Shot! Together we get into the careers of the two leads, that bizarre Andy Serkis why we haven’t covered too many films that deal with 2010s politics and the decline of the modern rom-com from the late 2010s to now
Jun 24, 2023•2 hr 30 min
Filmmaker Joshua Nathan Strong joins us for the divisive reimagining of Superman in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel! Together we chat about Snyder’s career, the misguided view of Superman, casting what-ifs and why the film has been criticized for more than a decade
Jun 17, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Comedian Emma Arnold stops by the pod to discuss 2014’s psychological horror in The Babadook! Together we chat about what makes this an instant classic, viewing the film as a mom and the queer legacy the Babadook itself carries on in pop culture
Jun 03, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Lyvie Scott joins us for Wong Kat Wai’s only out in the 2010s in The Grandmaster and how he expertly injects his own vision into the action genre and perfecting it. Together we get into the philosophy in the heart of the film, our relationship with these epics and what the Weinsteins did the film in 2013
May 27, 2023•2 hr 12 min
Jon Gabrus (High and Mighty podcast) joins us for Lynne Ramsay’s 2018 thriller in You Were Never Really Here. We get into Joaquin Phenix’s 2018, why we started Exiting and Ramsay’s view on violence
May 20, 2023•2 hr 4 min
Dom Sinacola (Paste magazine) joins us for Harmony Korine’s second and final film of the 2010s in THE BEACH BUM! This shaggy and delicate comedy has more than alot to say about the creative soul, depiction of Florida, how the movie never found an audience and what is next for Matt McConaughey
May 13, 2023•2 hr 36 min
Gavin Mevius (Mixed Reviews podcast) joins us this episode for Kirsten Johnson’s portrait in humanism with 2016’s Cameraperson. Together we get into the much more emotionally taxing first cut of the doc, what makes the editing so powerful and the film being right up there with some of the best docs guests have brought to the pod
May 06, 2023•2 hr 29 min
Jamie Arena joins us for Scream 4 and the creative decisions that made this ahead of its time in 2011. Together, we go over the stand-out performances of Emma Roberts and Hayden Panettiere, how Wes Craven created tension and the meta aspects of the franchise growing old or stale?
Apr 29, 2023•2 hr 54 min
Matt Cipolla (The Spool, The Film Stage) joins us this week for Brady Corbet’s Twenty-First Century Portrait with Vox Lux, Corbet’s response to America in the perspective of a pop star after he had an impressive run in the 2010s as an actor. Together, we look at our memories of iconic American moments of the 00s, imaginative biopics, and how the movie was neglected in 2018
Apr 22, 2023•3 hr 3 min
Jihane Bousfiha (Vulture, Paste) returns to the pod for the romantic tragedy in Blue Valentine. Together we dissect the behind the scenes approach to the Williams and Gosling marriage, the 2011 best actress line up and the early 2010s Ryan Gosling era
Apr 15, 2023•2 hr 19 min
Bailey Herdé returns for the beloved cult comedy classic in 2016’s Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. We dig into our memory with discovering Lonely Island, why the movie bombed and what makes this one of the great achievements in 2010s comedies
Apr 08, 2023•2 hr 31 min
Brandon Streussnig (The Playlist, Vulture) returns for Oliver Assayas’ haunting portrait of grief and loneliness in 2017’s Personal Shopper. Together will breakdown texting on film in the mid 2010s and believing in ghosts
Apr 01, 2023•2 hr 6 min
Josh Polanski (The Boston Hassle) joins us for a retrospective on the finale of the PWSA films for the much-maligned Resident Evil franchise in 2012’s Retribution and 2016’s The Final Chapter. Together, we examine Michelle Rodriguez’s career, updating video games into films, viewing the franchise through a theological lens and what we watched on January 6th
Mar 25, 2023•3 hr 44 min
Izzy from Be Kind Rewind joins us for Christian Petzold’s Transit ! We discuss the use of a period piece setting, the chemistry between Paula Bear and Franz Rogowski and oppression in Petzold’s filmography
Mar 18, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Veronica Phillips (Filmdaze, The Daily Beast) joins us for Sarah Polley’s dissection into monogamy with Take This Waltz! Together we dive into the careers of Seth Rogan and Michelle Williams, this idiosyncratic vision of Toronto on film, marrying young and Barry Jenkins’ The Lion King 2
Mar 11, 2023•2 hr 23 min
Author/critic Matt Pais (Talk 90s With Me, Zach Morris Lied 329 Times) joins us to cover Noah Baumbach’s crowning achievement of the 2010s in 2019’s MARRIAGE STORY! We dive into the economic screenplay, awards season, online discourse, divorce movies and much more
Mar 04, 2023•2 hr 33 min
Phil Iscove (Podcast Like Its, Sleepy Hollow) returns for an instant cult classic that still holds a strong cultural footprint in Scott Pilgrim v the World ! Together we go through its sensational ensemble, misinterpreted nice guy protagonists of the early 2010s/late 00s, differences from the comics, where is Edgar Wright's career going and the real life Toronto shooting locations
Feb 25, 2023•3 hr 16 min
Mitchell Beaupre (Paste, Letterboxd) is back and brought 2010’s and 2015’s HOT TUB TIME MACHINE and HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 to us to examine a surprisingly heartfelt studio comedy, an abhorrent one. Together we once again look at our favorite 2010s comedies, Marion Cotillard, how the film was labeled with comparisons to THE HANGOVER and what makes a comedy sequel so difficult to match with their first outing
Feb 18, 2023•2 hr 44 min
Wes Muszynski (Filmdaze) returns for Pedro Almodovar’s personal melodrama in 2019’s Pain and Glory ! Together we rank the best foreign language Oscar winners of the 2010s, Antonio Banderas in the 2010s and Oscar clips
Feb 12, 2023•2 hr 8 min
Andrew Kendall returns for 2018’s phenomenon in Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma ! Together we get into why it lost best picture, our favorite Netflix original films, and how it began a trend of auteur auto fiction in the years following
Feb 04, 2023•3 hr 6 min
Valerie Keaton (The Odd Pod, We Need To Talk About Kevin) returns for Sebastián Lelio’s social realist drama in A Fantastic Woman ! We get memories from film classes, discovering our love of film in the age of the internet, and misdirections Lelio has that prevent the film to be truly great
Jan 28, 2023•2 hr 52 min
Roxana Hadadi (Vulture, Crooked Marquee) returns for Asgar Farhadi’s tense thriller and second winner in the 2010s for Best International Feature Oscar winner with THE SALESMAN! Together we get into Farhadi’s central obsession with living with ambiguity, GLASS ONION corner and the movies Clay saw over Christmas vacation
Jan 21, 2023•2 hr 59 min
We continue on with the best international feature Oscar winners and welcome Conor O’Donnell (The B-Side podcast, The Film Stage) for Lazlo Nemes’ directorial debut in SON OF SAUL! Together we focus on the reputation surrounding the film’s perspective on the Holocaust, how it sneakily inspired films to use similar formal techniques, and the film ends up feeling like more MUNICH than SCHINDLERS LIST
Jan 14, 2023•2 hr 42 min
Rafa Sales Ross (Little White Lies, Variety, Letterboxd) returns as we continue the best International feature Oscar winners, this episode for Paolo Sorrentino’s meditative THE GREAT BEAUTY! Together we compare the film to The Fabelmans and its views on creativity, Clay starts a project going through Denzel Washington’s filmography and Italian cinema’s greatest strength as carrying pathos through its location
Jan 07, 2023•1 hr 55 min
Megan Brady (I’m Screaming podcast) returns for Pawel Pawlikowski’s understated meditation on grief and loneliness in 2014’s Ida. Together we get into the 2023 Oscar race, how Agata Trzebuchowska was cast in the film and how close Pawlikowski almost made it into the best director race
Dec 31, 2022•2 hr 29 min
Jordan Raup (The Film Stage) joins us as we continue the Best International Features Oscar winners series with 2012’s Amour . Together we’ll discuss that THR writters roundtable with Michael Haneke discussing the moral dilemma of filming the holocaust with Judd Apatow and John Krasinski sitting next to him, the arresting performances from Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva and Best International feature nominees making it into the Best Picture lineup
Dec 17, 2022•1 hr 47 min
