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WAY BACK in May 2022, then cohosts Sam & John invited Paco Uybarreta - an experimental test pilot and USAF pilot - to unpack aerial thrills and frills of Tom Cruise's blast from the past, Top Gun Maverick. FFW to 2025 and after the episode was mistakenly deleted, we've blasted this back from the past as a 2025 Matinee.

WAY BACK in 2020 June, then cohosts Sam & Av discussed Spike Lee's latest, Da 5 Bloods, before sharing their 5 most impactful movies on police racism from this list of 20+ on the subject. After the EP was mistakenly deleted, now republishing as a "Matinee." Outre is 1971's What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

WAY BACK in 2019 October, then hosts Will & Av invited on Zach Brooks to discuss the newest DC release, JOKER. Little did they know a bad sequel would follow OR that Spotify would mistakenly delete this original episode, prompting a republishing ("Matinee") now in August 2025.

The bracket to determine the best movie of 1975 - joined by Allix⁠ and special guest Justin Purwitsky , along with listener callouts naming their favorite of 1975. See the bracket featuring the 18 movies competing, see here . Mild SPOILERS for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Barry Lyndon, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Story of Adele H. and 3 Days of the Co...

Classics Corner takes over the podcast for a special episode devoted to the Apu trilogy, the three celebrated Indian movies directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu. Joining us from Asia is Prof. Shai Chester for a spirited debate on experience vs purpose and a competitive draft of best characters from across the ACU (Apu Cinematic Universe) . Outre is Ravi Shankar...

The new summer blockbuster F1 needs Brad Pitt and we need movie superfan Benji Gotfried - alongside The Movie Ladder Podcast cohost Zach Brooks and listener John to cover new releases from June 2025, headlined by the formula one flick as well as The Phoenician Scheme, The Life of Chuck, Materialists, and a bunch of murder movies: Echo Valley, 28 Years Later, Predator Killer of Killers and I Don&#3...

With a megastar like Tom Cruise bringing back his 8th Mission Impossible movie, we call upon a major guest in ⁠Zach⁠ of the ⁠Movie Ladder Podcast⁠ (+ Allix!) to unpack the summer blockbuster + recent releases like the comedies Mountainhead and Friendship and very different takes on "action" with MCU's Thunderbolts* and the Iraq War portrayal Warfare. Mild SPOILERS for Mission Impossi...

Sammy's three siblings join him to highlight their favorites from the "40 at 40" list he prepared for his 40th birthday: choosing one movie that was released in each of the past 40 years that most resonates with him today. For the full list of 40 movies over 40 years, see: https://letterboxd.com/gosnowso/list/40-at-40/ Outre: 40 Years Old, 2018, Casey Lowry ft. Rothwell

A24 superfan Aaron of ⁠⁠Why We Love Horror⁠⁠⁠ returns to figure out once and for all which of the two arthouse movie studios has produced the best of the bunch. We run through a bracket -- see here for the bracket visual! -- featuring 16 movies, 8 from both A24 and Neon. As the kids say these days, Who Will Win? ALSO, we highlight a few April movies: Sinners, Freaky Tales, The Assessment, Bring He...

2025 has begun with a BONG and so back is Kyle King - cohost of the gaming and movie podcast ⁠Board Game Box Office⁠ - to unpack the modestly mid and mildly mid movies from the first 3 months of the year, and 24m into this ~30m episode, a deep dive into the followup to Parasite, Mickey 17. Movies discussed: Captain America Brave New World, Death of a Unicorn, Holland, Grand Theft Hamlet, Last Brea...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we released 4 separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket. These episodes reduced the bracket to 8 movies, an Elite 8, and in this episode we roll to the end and name the bracket champion! At the end, all the listener clips are included naming their favorite 2024 movie. The bracket was also released as...

The bracket to determine the best movie of 2024 is here - after releasing the bracket in separate episodes, here you can tackle the ENTIRE (3 hour!) bracket! Joined by guests including Allix , Zvi, Grace Leeder of Parade⁠⁠ and the Brooks Brothers, Zach of The Movie Ladder Podcast and Aaron of ⁠Why We Love Horror⁠⁠ , as well as many clips from listeners naming their favorite of the year. SPOILERS o...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing 4 separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating with a final episode compromising the entire bracket! The 4th and FINAL bracket corner welcomes Grace Leeder and Aaron Brooks . Grace writes about movies and pop culture for Parade and cohosts the podcast The Tastemakers . Aaro...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing 4 separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating with a final episode compromising the entire bracket! The third bracket corner - joined by Zach of the Movie Ladder Podcast and Zvi who went to see Dune 2 in theaters 2x in one week - has no shortage of contenders: The Brutalist, Dune...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing 4 separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating with a final episode compromising the entire bracket! The second bracket corner - joined by Aussie Adam - is chock full of 'adult' animations like Robot Dreams, The Wild Robot, Inside Out 2, Flow and pseudo animations l...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing 4 separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating with a final episode compromising the entire bracket! The first bracket corner - joined by movie pros Allix and Zvi - includes movies like Anora, A Real Pain, Challengers, A Complete Unknown, Babygirl, Hundreds of Beavers, The...

TWBP comes back from hiatus to run down the most disappointing movies of 2024, those that we had such high hopes for... and failed us ;-( No Spoilers in this episode. This episode was recorded on Dec 30 and due to complications, uploaded only in Feb 2025.

32 movies from 2023 face off head to head to determine the (second) best movie of the year, as this year we gave Oppenheimer the title to enable a competitive bracket. The irregularities do not end there as this off-the-cuff bracket breakdown was open-mic with several guests joining the host to determine the (second) best movie of the year. The episode is (pretty much) spoiler free. The Bracket ca...

Physics prof Jim Crumley and OG guest ⁠ Zach Brooks ⁠ join for the biggest movie month....ever? Oppenheimer (4:15) is the main dish, plus Barbie (19:45), Biosphere (25:50), They Cloned Tyrone (27:25). And then quick thoughts on I Like Movies (30:15), Asteroid City (31:00), Chile '76 (32:30), Falcon Lake (33:10), The Night of the 12th (33:45), Disco Baby (33:55), Talk to Me (34:10), Mission: Im...

Is this the first podcast ever recorded between man and AI? And is it even possible to notice who is Sam and who is the AI movie expert that has been trained on movie Reddit?  Mr. M the AI movie guru steps in for this podcast’s ever declining co-hosts to discuss some of the best and worst movies released over the last three months, including, Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse (3:35), Guardians of...

Gaming is the story of 2023 movies so far so board-game expert Kyle King - cohost of the gaming and movie podcast Board Game Box Office - joins us to debate the best IP, erm, movies of 2023 so far -- and those you can skip. Movies discussed include: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Tetris, Pacifiction, Godland, Saint Omer, Kill Boksoon, Close, Rye Lan...

32 movies from 2022 face off head to head to determine the best movie of the year. John and Sammy are joined by Aaron Brooks , Grace Leeder , Av Sinensky , Alex Orvitz and Mark Geneson , plus audio picks from friends and fans worldwide. The episode is spoiler free. The Bracket can be found here . See here for John, Sammy and the critics 32 favorite 2022 movies. Outro is from the soundtrack of the...

December gets a bonus episode as John and Sammy make sense of the Avatar sequel, The Way of Water, call out the most disappointing movies of 2022 and hash out which bubble movies qualify for the 4th annual best movie of the year bracket, coming next episode! We also catch up and give a passing mention to EO, Thirteen Lives, Women Talking, The Woman King and To Leslie. Our next episode will be a 32...

2022 was a bottom-heavy year for movies so between watching the new and catching up on past eleven months, John and Sammy have a busy episode, hitting favorites like The Banshees of Inisherin and Glass Onion as well as The Menu, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Armageddon Time, Del Toro's Pinocchio, Funny Pages, This Place Rules, the WW1 duo of All Quiet on the Western Front + Benediction, Good Luck to You L...

After a few dry months, November brought quality and John and Sammy are here for Todd Field’s Tar (7:30) and Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans (29:00), as well as a few other hits and misses like Paris 13th District (3:30), Fresh (43:30), She Said (46:33) and Causeway (50:30), plus documentaries like Fire of Love (39:50) and Riotsville USA (41:30) + Classics Corner (53:00). Outre: Monster Hunter Wo...