The Silver Screenings

Like a comet hurling towards Earth, Nate and Matt clash over Mimi Leder's 1998 disaster drama, "Deep Impact." Watch out for inexplicable car explosions!

"Rounders" hit theaters on September 11th, 1998. It's the second most noteworthy thing to happen on that day in history.

The 1954 Japanese classic "Godzilla" is now considered a masterpiece of Cold War, nuclear fear drama. For some reason, Matt and Nate decide to talk about the 1998 American remake from Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin instead. Check out our episode on the actual classic over at our flagship podcast, The Criterion Chat.

Matt and Nate boldly go back to 1998's "Star Trek: Insurrection"--perhaps the most uninspired movie in the entire series! Nate forgets to mention his name in the introductions he's so excited, or else he is trying to keep it on the DL that he actually enjoys Trek.

Long before he became a household name, Christopher Nolan produced this "no budget" film that launched his career and garnered him an instant, er, following. Check out Nate and Matt's thoughts on "Following" as it celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Moonwalk back to 1998 as it plays a mix tape of ’80s hits in “The Wedding Singer.” Matt and Nate are now older than everyone who headlines this movie.

As 1997 comes to an end, Matt Peterson, Nate Meyers, and Bryan Piras take a look back at Andrew Niccol’s dystopian sci-fi film “Gattaca” and wonder if they can get some genetic modifications in their middle age.

Another podcast on movies? That's right! Check out The Silver Screenings, where we focus solely on films celebrating their 25th anniversary. For our inaugural episode, Nate and Matt reminisce over Curtis Hanson's adaptation of James Ellroy's neo- noir novel L.A. Confidential . Noir November anybody?