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NOTE: Brendan's laptop crashed half way through recording the podcast so we had to use the backup audio for the back half. So it won't be our normal audio quality. Sorry! We are down a Conor this week but Brendan and Ryan are here to talk about Oscar hopeful Conclave. Does this thriller set in the Vatican work for us? Come back next episode for our review of Flight Risk finally!

There's something in the water! It's our review of Jaws! We wrap up our look back at 1975 with the "original blockbuster". Does it hold up for our hosts? We'll be back next week with probably an Oscar contender, we need to figure that out. Then Flight Risk soon after!

It's late summer in Brooklyn and we are sweat-y. We review another Best Picture nominee from 1975, Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon! Come back next week as we wrap up our 1975 series with Jaws!

Conor and Ryan finish their look back at the films of 2024 with their Top 10s! Come back next week as we review Dog Day Afternoon as a part of our 1975 retrospective.

It's January, and you know what that means?! Best of the year time! In this part one, Conor and Ryan go over their awards (not serious) for the year along with a bottom 5 of the year, honorable mentions, and our picks for the 20-11th best films of the year. Come back next time for our Top 10s! NOTE: We recorded and edited this before yesterday's news that The Brutalist used generative AI....

Brendan, Logan, and Ryan chat about losing one of the best to ever do it, David Lynch.

Oops. We forgot to mention this was our 150th episode. Oh well! We continue our 1975 series with the Best Picture winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. No 70s series is complete without a Nicholson performance so we made sure to have one. Come back next week when we review one of Conor's favorite films of all time, Dog Day Afternoon!

Note: There was an issue with one of the audio tracks, so we had to use the backup recording for some of the time. It won't sound as good as our normal shows, sorry! That being said, we kick off 2025 with a look back at 50 years ago in 1975. Jeanne Dielman, the best movie of all time according to the 2022 Sight and Sound Critics Poll kicks us off. The three and a half hour film contains very littl...

We bring in the new year with Robert Eggers' new imagining of the Dracula classic tale through the lens of the unofficial adaptation from 1922. Did Eggers' vision work for us? Come back next week as we start our look back at the year 1975 with the film that was #1 in the Sight and Sound poll in 2022, Jeanne Dielman!

The Rock, Chris Evans, and Amazon got something for us all this holiday season; Red One! But was it a present or a sack of coal this year? We'll be back next week with our review of Robert Eggers' new reimagining of the 1922 German classic Nosferatu! Then join us in the New Year as we start a look back at the year 1975 for some film's 50th anniversaries.

After delays by the strikes, Challengers slammed its way into theaters this past April to rave reviews and modest, but real, box-office success. Despite not getting any Oscar buzz due to the early release, we are here to give it some flowers at the end of the year. At the end of the podcast we said we'll be reviewing The Brutalist next week, but unfortunately being able to see the film in time for...

This whole podcast is a Trap! We're back for Dan's pick in our 2024 wrap-up series, M. Night Shyamalan's Trap. While not a hit with general audiences, did it work for us? We'll be back next week for our last pick in this series, Challengers!

We start our look back on 2024 releases with Conor's pick, The Fall Guy! The Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt romantic action film didn't land at the box office, but did it work for us? Come back next week for Brendan's pick, Trap!

24 years after Best-Picture-Winning film Gladiator hit the screens, 86-year-old Ridley Scott returns to the film that won him a gold statue. Paul Mescal steps into the lead role, and the star-studded supporting cast includes Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal. Did the gap in time cause Scott to lose the juice between films? Come back next week as we start our 2024 picks series with Conor's pick, T...

Are you not entertained?! The crowd was in 2000, when the Ridley Scott directed film won Best Picture at the Oscars. Now, with the new film in theaters this week, we look back to see if we enjoy the original today. Stay tuned to the end of the show where we discuss what we'll be reviewing next after Gladiator II next week!

The Forrest Gump creative team has reunited over thirty years later to bring us Here! And Brendan and Conor wanted to review it so...here...we are. We'll be back with the start to our Gladiator quick series with the original Best Picture winner!

On the eve of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, we here are looking back on to a film that (very briefly) covers the closest in American history, Vice focusing on former VP Dick Cheney. Adam McKay's controversial film still secured eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture. Did the satirical portrayal of Cheney and the Bush Administration work for us? Come back next week for our review of...

Happy Halloween! We're here with a bonus review of Brendan's favorite movie of all time, Haunted Mansion (2023)! We hope you enjoy our review of the second movie adaptation of the theme park ride. We will be back on Monday with our review of Vice, leading up to the US elections on Tuesday...totally not freaking out.

For the first time ever, a podcast solely reviews Vile (2011) for an entire episode (as far as we know)! Why? It's a Conor movie. Did it work for Brendan and Ryan, though? We'll be back on Thursday with a bonus review for Haunted Mansion (2023), and then Vice on Monday next week!

Would It Kill You 2 Smile? Would have been a better title. But instead, Ryan, Brendan, and Conor venture back into theaters to review the #1 movie of the weekend at the box office, Smile 2! The first one was divisive among the hosts, but did this one impress us all? Come back next week when we review the Taylor Sheridan horror movie Vile!

In 2022, Parker Finn's directorial debut made Paramount very happy making over $200 million. Two years later, we're getting a sequel! Which means we have to go back and review the original before we head to theaters this weekend. Come on back next week for our review of Smile 2!

Oh, boy. Joker is back in theaters and people definitely aren't smiling this time. But did it work for us? Come on back next week as we review Smile before covering the new sequel the week after!

Almost 40 years in making, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is here! Although I don't think they told anyone it was coming out. We found our way to the theaters and to our mics to review the last film in our Grand Finale series. Did this divisive film work for us? Come back next week as we pick back up with the Joker with Joker: Folie a Deux!

David Lynch's incredible career in theatrical feature filmmaking seemingly came to an end in 2006 with the release of Inland Empire (yes, some consider Twin Peaks: The Return a film). His most experimental film to date, Empire is often listed as one of the most underrated films of all time, but did it work for us? Next week we wrap up our Grand Finale series with Francis Ford Coppola's new...

We're back with a quick extra review in our Grand Finale series with Alfred Hitchcock's second to last film, Frenzy. While the film is not often discussed with his earlier works, it does still fit with his major motifs, this time without the restrictions of the production code. But does this still equal a good film today? Come back next week for our review of David Lynch's last theatri...