Forrest, J. Andrew World, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Alex Garland's 2018 atmospheric science fiction film Annihilation with KT Baldassaro. #natalieportman #alexgarland #annihilation #exmachina This film was based on a book by Jeff VanderMeer and was Alex Garland's second directorial project after his original Ex Machina. KT is currently voice acting in the StarWell Foundation, a scripted podcast series about a city of Super Heroes where kids start making wishes to meet Villians...
Aug 16, 2023•2 hr 27 min•Season 5Ep. 39
Forrest, Conan Neutron, J. Andrew World, and Kristina Oakes talk about Noah Baumbach's 1995 Directorial Debut Kicking and Screaming with Maple Stave & Plastic Flame Press's Christopher Williams.
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Season 5Ep. 38
Forrest, J. Andrew World, Conan Neutron and Kristina Oakes talk about Mike Judge's 1999 Office Space with No Age's Randy Randall. If you guys could tune in, that would be greeeeeeeat
Aug 02, 2023•2 hr 16 min•Season 5Ep. 37
Forrest, Conan Neutron, and DJ Andrew World talk about Bill Fishman and Mike Nesmith's 1988 MTV Parody Tape Heads with Ravencon's Michael Pederson. This movie stars John Cusack and Tim Robbins as two slacker security guards who get fired and try to pursue their creative dream: becoming music video directors.RavenCon: ravencon.com/
Jul 26, 2023•2 hr 14 min•Season 5Ep. 36
SAG-AFTRA member and frequent Movie Night Extravaganza guest KT Baldassaro joins us to talk about the strike and the future of AI in creative industries. The WGA and SAG/AFTRA are on strike right now together for the first time since 1960. However, they haven't had a contract update since we entered the Streaming Age, studios want to make use of AI, and residual checks keep getting smaller. On a macro-scale, with AI becoming increasingly inevitable, what does it mean for other creative industrie...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Season 5Ep. 35
Forrest, Conan Neutron, J. Andrew World and Kristina Oakes talk about Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985) with Rick Valentin of Poster Children, Salaryman, Thoughts Detecting Machines. Lost & Found & Rewound and Radio Zero After Hours is a forgotten independent black comedy that Martin Scorsese directed in between the King of Comedy and Last Temptation of Christ.It has recently gotten a Criterion release
Jul 19, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 34
Since Oppenheimer comes out this month, we revisit Christopher Nolan's 2014 Interstellar with KT Baldassaro
Jul 12, 2023•2 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 33
It's the Fourth of July!! (And Movie Night Extravaganza turns 2!) Forrest, J. Andrew World, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes are joined by Matt Strackbein AKA the Letterhack to talk about Roland Emmerich's 1996 Science Fiction/Action Movie Independence Day
Jul 05, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 32
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, J. Andrew World and TYT's Ben Carollo talk about Tom Hooper's the Danish Girl! It's rare that we cover a movie that nobody on the panel liked. The Danish Girl falls flat for a bunch of reasons, it's probably the most 2015 of all time, on this episode, we try to parse out some of the reasons why it didn't work!!!
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 5Ep. 31
For our third Pride Month episode, Forrest, Conan Neutron, J. Andrew World and Kristina Oakes talk about Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney's 2016 Best Picture winner Moonlight with Dan from the Internet
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Season 5Ep. 30
Forrest, Conan Neutron, and J. Andrew World discuss Sidney Lumet's 1975 Dog Day Afternoon starring Al Pacino and John Cazale as our second Pride Month episode #AlPacino #johncazale #godfather
Jun 15, 2023•2 hr•Season 5Ep. 29
Starting off Pride Month with Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden and Matt Strackbein AKA the Letterhack makes his debut!
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 54 min•Season 5Ep. 28
We are joined by Raygåun Busch from Chat Pile to talk about Robert Rodriguez's Desperado. The second part in the Mexico Trilogy. Situated in between El Mariachi, which was Robert Rodriguez's $7000 award-winning debut film... and Once Upon a Time in Mexico which was $29 Million and had Johnny Depp in a lead role shot right before the SAG strike in 2002. Desperado was Robert Rodriguez's first film with a famous cast, including Antonio Banderas, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, and Quentin...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Season 5Ep. 27
Sam Seder of the Majority Report joins to us about Sydney Pollack's 3 Days of the Condor (starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway)
May 10, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Season 5Ep. 26
It's still in theaters, so, SPOILER ALERT but tonight we're trying something new: we talked about Ari Aster's newest film Beau is Afraid.
May 10, 2023•2 hr 53 min•Season 5Ep. 25
Comedian Andy Kindler talks to us about Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar!!!!
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Season 5Ep. 24
After previously covering Wim Wenders "Paris, Texas" and "Until the End of the World," Forrest, J. Andrew World, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes discuss Wings of Desire with Joe Cannon (Resurrectionists, Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends)Get Resurrectionists Album "Now That We're All Ghosts": https://resurrectionistsmke.bandcamp.com/ And information about Resurrectionists Film Fest here: https://www.cactusclubmilwaukee.com/events/the-inaugural-resurrectionists-film-fest/...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Season 5Ep. 23
Matthew Film Guy returns to talk about Chantal Akerman's "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles"Sign up for Matthew Film Guy's Film Discussion Class: https://www.commonpointqueens.org/program/cultural-arts-and-jewish-heritage-classes/
Apr 12, 2023•2 hr 41 min•Season 5Ep. 22
We are talking to our good friend Uncle Ron AKA Ron Purtee about Rocky Balboa (2006)
Apr 05, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 21
Forrest and J. Andrew World talk about Ringo Lam's 1987 City on Fire (which inspired Reservoir Dogs) with Dr. Robert Mintz, Deputy Director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 5Ep. 20
We are joined by Nando Vila to talk about Robert Altman's 1975 Magnum Opus Nashville!
Mar 22, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 19
EPISODE 150!!! Slim from the Letterboxd Show and 70 MM Pod joins us to talk about Verhoeven's Robocop (1987)
Mar 15, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Season 5Ep. 18
We covered the Oscars LIVE.
Mar 13, 2023•3 hr 48 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Continuing in our lead up to the Oscars coverage.. we are talking about the THREE HOUR TOUR which is Babylon
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Season 5Ep. 16
In our FINAL Oscars Episode, we are talking about Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness with Zach Marsh.
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Forrest Miller, Conan Neutron, J. Andrew World, and Kristina Oakes talk about Steven Spielberg's autobiographical coming-of-age divorce drama The Fablemans #thefabelmans #spielberg #pauldano #michellewilliams
Feb 25, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Season 5Ep. 14
We are joined by Lauren Chouinard to talk about Edward Berger's German Language version of All Quiet on the Western Front!
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Season 5Ep. 13
We are talking about Todd Field's directorial return Tár and, of course, Cate Blanchett's Oscar-Nominated Performance with Renee Ruin.
Feb 18, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 12
We are talking about Rian Johnson's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery with KT Baldassaro.
Feb 15, 2023•2 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 11
We are talking to Jacobin film critic and FilmSuck Host Eileen Jones about Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin.
Feb 11, 2023•1 hr 53 min•Season 5Ep. 10
