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Sammy, Will and Av are back for the first regular episode of 2020. We break down our favorites (and least favorites) of the year so far, ruminate on the state of movies in the age of Coronavirus and much more. Movies discussed on the episode: The Invisible Man, The Banker, Bacarau, The Platform, Birds of Prey, Onward, Downhill, The Hunt, The Whistlers, Beanpole, Fantasy Island, Call of the Wild, T...

The Sports Movies Tournament of Champions finale is here – after watching and bracketing ~300 sports movies over the past ten months, it all comes down to the remaining 16 movies as they contend for the crown of best sports movie of all time. Here is the tourney bracket updated through Sweet 16. Here is the clean bracket from the start of the 64-movie tourney. Our guest judges for the finale are t...

Bull Durham, Any Given Sunday and the movie that may be your only chance at enjoying the Olympics in Tokyo are three of the sixteen movies of the Miyagi Region facing off in this episode, Part 4 of the Sports Movies Tournament of Champions. Joining us is a true sports movie connoisseur, Kyle Bandujo ( @kylebandujo ), host of Big Screen Sports ( @Big_ScreenSport ), a podcast dedicated to sports mov...

Part 3 of the Sports Movies Tournament of Champions arrives, and to tackle the 16 movies in a region named after a sports movie legend like Rocky Balboa – home to movies like Miracle, Remember the Titans, Cool Runnings and Major League - we are joined by baseball writer and movie buff Cliff Corcoran ( @CliffCorcoran ).  For more from Cliff, go read his baseball writing at The Athletics and hi...

The Sports Movies Tournament of Champions continues with Part 2, running down the 16 movies in the Bambino Region, including favorites such as Raging Bull, Enter the Dragon, Caddyshack, Field of Dreams, White Men Can't Jump ... and even Hoosiers. Joining us to select the 4 movies that will advance to the Sweet 16 is movie critic and sportsman Daniel Goodman ( @DanRossGoodman ). Check out the compl...

Ten months and 300 sports movies later, the Tournament of Champions has arrived – the 64 best sports movies are going head to head to decide the title once and for all, in a bracket so grand it needs five episodes. On part one, the host of our legacy podcast 32 Fans , Alex Chester ( @achester99 ), joins Av and Sammy to tackle the 16 movies in the Bombay Region (Rocky, Hoop Dreams, Uncut Gems... it...

Will, Sammy and long-time listener Nolan Rossiter ( @Nrossy ) decide the best martial arts sports movies of all time, joined by a bonafide expert, the host of Kung Fu Movie Guide ( @KFMovieGuide , and website ) Ben Johnson. See all the (movie) contestants, from Enter the Dragon to Mortal Kombat and yes, A Knight's Tale , here . You can check here to see the winners to date in our nine-month sports...

Av and Sammy are joined by the host of the Boxing Trivia Guy ( @boxingtriviaguy ), Jim Marshall ( @LairdJimi ), to crown the best boxing movie of all time. Check out the bracket here and let's get ready to rumble!  You can check here to see the winners to date in our sports movie marathon, plus explore all the boxing movie rankings we aggregated to seed this episode's bracket. Next month, the...

Sammy, Will and Av conduct a 32 movie bracket and declare the official podcast #1 movie of 2019. Thanks to all our listeners and friends who sent in clips of their choices.  The bracket can be found here . You can view each of our top 32 ranked movies of 2019 here . Av's full 2019 movie rankings can be found here .

2020 is an Olympic year and to select the best movies made about the Olympics, we went right to the source, inviting the host of 32Fans (our gender neutral sibling pod) and noted Olympics pundit Akiva Wienerker to join us in deciding the best movies ever made about the Olympics, and while we are at it, also Wrestling and Climbing. The ten best movies will go on to compete in the 64 sports movie gr...

Is watching a movie alongside a 32Fans Movies host a surefire way to introduce you to your new favorite movie of all time? The answer so far is yes, as Jared Jerome is now the second person in successive months to see a movie with Av and name it perhaps his all time number one.* That movie is the new World War One epic 1917, which we convene an emergency episode with Jared to discuss post-haste. W...

Av stops by the main 32 Fans pod to visit Keev and Alex to discuss the best movies of the decade. Click here  to see the full lists from all 3 plus listener lists. 

Av, Sammy and Will are joined by Justin Patridge of Newsarama and DIS/MEMBER.  We start out talking about some movies from 2019 that we think have been overlooked before making our way into recent watches (25:44), followed by extensive spoiler-filled discussions of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (47:19) and Uncut Gems (1:07:00). We end the podcast with Classics Corner (1:31:30) and, as a sp...

The Streaming Wars began in November and we are enlisting this month with Netflix (and Amazon Plus) as we discuss The Irishman and Marriage Story . With movie man Will From America back from Disney World, we also run down what hit or miss as you make a run at catching up on what to watch before this year ends. Movies covered in Recent Watches: Knives Out, The Report, American Factory, Charlie’s An...

Running may be the original sport but to determine the best racing movies of all time, we culled together humanity's finest achievements in running, jockeying and driving on the silver screen. Running icon Bart Yasso ( @BartYasso ) joins us for the running films (first 33 minutes). All together we run down 21 racing movies -- and yes, we included Ricky Bobby -- with seven earning pole position to...

Sammy saw Bong Joon-ho's Parasite earlier this year at the Jerusalem Film Festival and, after months of waiting, finally gets the chance to talk about it with Will and Av. A spoiler-filled deep dive into the film that has electrified critics and audiences alike begins at the 20-minute mark. That, plus recent watches and a Halloween version of Classic Corner, on the October episode of 32 Fans Movie...

All Hallows' Eve and the World Series are the perfect backdrop as we decide the best baseball movie of all time. FanGraph’s Jason Martinez ( @mlbdepthcharts ) joins us, with Josh Kanter subbing in for regular host Will Seamon. Together we run down 24 baseball movies, with six earning tickets to the 64 all sports movie tournament we are hosting in March 2020. You can check here to see the winners t...

In this episode we bracket together the best sixteen football movies of all time, crowning a champion and sending six deserving movies onto the 64 movie tournament 32Fans Movies is hosting in March 2020 composed of the best movies from every sport. Joining us is Texas football coach Robbie Wilkinson ( @robwilkinson777 ), taking a sabbatical from the holy grail of midlands peewee ball to discuss An...

In which Av slams Rambo, Will admits Jennifer Lopez from the recently release Hustlers reminds him of his mom and Sam presents a radical fix to vastly improve our feature review: Ad Astra (hint: Rufus!). Segment Times (spoiler discussions): Hustlers: 6:10 Ad Astra: 21:40

Sammy Chester and Will Seamon are joined by Av Sinensky to discuss new releases of August 2019 and Blinded by the Light, as well as their favorite box office bombs. 0:00 Intro 1:50 Sidewalk Film Festival (incl. The Nightingale) 14:00 New Releases (incl. Good Boys and Ready or Not?) 25:33 Luce 35:55 Blinded by the Light 59:46 Favorite Box Office Bombs 1:10:29 Classics Corner

If you want the "dark gritty raw truths" of basketball movies, this episode is for you. As Team USA battles it out in China, ESPN's Eddie Maisonet III ( @edthesportsfan ) joins us to determine the best basketball movies of all time, the first made in America sport we are tackling in our year long sports movie marathon. You can check here to see the winners to date in the sports movie marathon, plu...

After crowning the best soccer and hockey movies in our first sport movie marathon episode , we turn now to GOLF (8:55) and TENNIS (35:30) movies, joined by film critic Chris Nashawaty (@ChrisNashawaty), author of the award winning book Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story .  Also - you do not want to miss co-host Will's acoustic rendition (30:50) of the hit song Dead Solid...

Sammy, Will and Av take a trip down memory lane to review Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, the 9th film from Quentin Tarantino. At the start of the show, we run down recent releases, including a bunch that Sammy saw at the Jerusalem Film Festival before going into our spoiler-filled review of  Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (36:35), share our favorite movies about Hollywood (1:11:30) and, as alw...

32 Fans Movies will be hosting a 64 sports movie tournament in March 2020 to crown the best sports movie ever. To decide which Soccer and Hockey movies will earn entry to that dance, we are joined this month by Lee Jutton (follow her at @leiladaisyj) a professional film critic and passionate soccer and hockey fan, to decide the very best soccer movies (6:00) and hockey movies (31:34)  of all...

We discuss two early July releases: Spider-Man: Far From Home and Midsommar. Episode Start: Av discusses Spider-Man: Far From Home with Zach Brooks and Josh Kanter (With Spoilers) 40:00 Mark: Av discuses Midsommar with Zach Brooks and Will Seamon 48:40 Mark: Midsommar Spoilers Check out Av’s rankings of all the Spider-Man movies at https://letterboxd.com/asinensky/list/spider-man-movies/