The Low Ceiling

Death Becomes Her! A movie about a love triangle of freaks and Bruce Willis with hair. First, we talk about the straightest, most virile movie, Gladiator 2 and our super masculine viewing experience of it. Then we discuss divisive topics like Meryl Streep being a good actress and then Pri insults all our listeners who may be komodo dragons. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and...

Happy Holidays! As a respite from your horrible relatives we break down the only British film worth talking about, Love Actually. The ensemble cast stars Keira Knightley, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, and Hillary Clinton's wig. We discuss jokes that haven't aged well (and make a few ourselves) and the two Richard Curtii struggling for dominance inside Britain's most iconic rom-com writer. Then Pri ru...

To celebrate the release of Mufasa, we cover The (live action) Lion King by the dude who was Chef. Pri confesses her attraction to a rug then we talk about ugly animals and Guillermo Del Toro's stop-motion animation remake of Titanic. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and follow wherever else you want to listen

An episode that starts with Pri trying to burn down the studio before we talk about our viewing experiences of Rebel Ridge, Blitz, and Anora. Then, we talk about a movie starring fellow high-performance athletes, the fireman's calendar of casts (also Ben Affleck), Triple Frontier, to celebrate JC Chandor's upcoming Kraven the Hunter. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and follow...

Schrader is back with a film bizarrely titled Oh Canada. Pazuzu possessed Jon's sinuses for this episode, so he's extra sniffly while we talk about Paul Schrader's Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, a movie so good they had to make it twice. We discuss the turbulent post-production of the movie, Gabriel Mann's bravura performance getting his neck broken by Brian Cox in The Bourne Supremacy, and as...

Shutter Island, a movie about a duly appointed, whack job federal marshall who can't do sh*t. Jon gives a succinct review of The Amityville Horror and I Saw the TV Glow before we talk about Martin Scorsese's burgeoning career as a young up-and-coming filmmaker and take a detour into The Departed, a movie that needs no changes or critique. Join us for this masterclass on forgetting the names of mos...

To celebrate Gladiator: Folie a Deux we are talking about the undersung, underseen, cripplingly depressing Ridley Scott film, The Counselor. Dipping our toe back in the pool of Scott, we discuss Cormac McCarthy's writing, directors serving sentences in director jail for shooting out of bodily orifices, and the performance of Wet Wendy the cheetah. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, revie...

Chart a course for an adventure film called Uncharted. Mark Wahlberg appears in this movie but Jon does a better job of being him this episode. We launch our new podcast, The Low Fleischer, and talk about video game adaptations, Tom Holland's career, and the Daniel Radcliffe film, Farting Corpse. This sh*thole's got more leaks than the Filipino navy. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, re...

First and foremost, Jon continuously misnomers Louisa May Alcott and is apologetic for it, but it doesn't mean she's not literally in Hell. That's just a taste of this wide-ranging discussion that sort of features Robert Zemeckis' shockingly expensive Hitchcockian ghost thriller, What Lies Beneath. We talk about the Hindi remake, Raaz, being traumatized by Oz and The Exorcist, and our plans to rev...

It's only bye for now Eddie... Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and follow wherever else you want to listen.

Bane returns and so does Woody's terrible wigs. Venom: Let There Be Carnage is on deck. The titular carnage was mostly in the second act, which they apparently excised from the film with extreme prejudice, making this 90 minute masterpiece a true test of one couple's willingness to sit through a sequel. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and follow wherever else you want to liste...

Venom! The first in a shocking trilogy of films. First, we break down our viewing experience of The Substance, before talking about Eminem's tie-in song and the film J. Edgar. Then, we try to figure out why it's so hard to adapt Venom to the big screen, Jon does a bunch of Bane impressions, and it all mercifully ends. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and follow wherever else yo...

From the literal cinema seats, we're recording our instant reactions to Megalopolis, the film most like Spy Kids 3D you'll see this year. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and follow wherever else you want to listen.

Today, a totally normal movie comes out: Joker: Folie a Deux. In the spirit of the season, we discuss a past Todd Phillips effort, War Dogs. Jonah Hill laughs! Miles Teller acts! We talk about the procurement process, fraud, and preparing a tight five standup routine during company Scrum meetings. Then we debate whether Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, a film about hard drugs, is a comedy. If you...

Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola's long awaited epic, is probably, finally here so to celebrate we watched The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. We do what no one else has ever done and talk about Sofia Coppola's performance and lament that she hasn't gone on to do anything notable with her life. Then, Jon briefly mansplains Coppola's career and we learn about how Cop...

The first ever full episode that is one big hot take because this is A GOOD (and hella ACAB) MOVIE. Transformers, a modern Michael Bay classic. We share our thoughts on Alien: Romulus and Pri drops the scorching take that Barbie only kind of works. Then Jon revises his thoughts on The Eternals (for the worse) because he's a normal person who thinks about normal things. The only thing hotter th...

Bad dog! We're here to say what a man with two penises would say when his tailor asks him if he dresses to the left or to the right: Lucky Number Slevin. A movie about Jewish organized crime, made up names, and crazy wallpaper. We discuss The Bald Actor Hall of Fame, Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy (still hasn't found it), and the dynamic Hartnett-Liu-Tucci trifecta. This movie has...

After Earth! A story about fatherhood and ghosting. We discuss the critically derided film brought to you by the Smith-Smith-Shyamalan trifecta. We talk about the poor reception of this movie that mostly consisted of everyone telling a famous child how bad he was, the difficulty of making successful soft sci-fi, and whether Judge Dredd f*cks. This episode is brought to you by the audiobook for Dia...

Man of Steel is Jon's first Superman film so naturally we talk about Black Widow and period products. We discuss the poptimism era of superhero movies following The Avengers, review the the incredible trailers for this movie, and maintain that Krypton is a bummer. This episode is dedicated to the farmers of the world, except Diane Lane. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and...

To celebrate the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games we bring you the greatest Paris film besides Breathless: Taken. In full Olympic enthusiasm and spirit Jon gives a treasonous Olympic take, we start a sexy rumour about Slovenia, and try and fail to not spoil Stillwater. This episode stars French Frank Underwood and Liam Neeson, the greatest athlete of his generation. Follow us @thelowceiling on Inst...

**STRONG CONTENT WARNING** We continue our examination of films about unsafe chainsaw use with Fede's Alvarez's remake of Evil Dead. We discuss recent viewings of MaXXXine and Longlegs, Diablo Cody's touch on the film, and real life evil books. Remember, the only thing scarier than a demon is a demon on meth. Follow us @thelowceiling on Instagram. Rate, review, and follow wherever else...

**STRONG CONTENT WARNING** Today we celebrate the Borat of Slovakia: Eli Roth's Hostel. We dive into horror subgenres, the names of which we can't really say here, and a bunch of movies you shouldn't watch, explain Quentin Tarantino's influence on the film, and chat about Europe's Top Tit Destination. This is the first official anti-9/11 podcast and we don't think you shoul...

Oooooh boy, yes you should be worried! This week, Don't Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde's trenchant critique of...something! A movie that's basically Mad Men except Harry Styles goes down on his wife all the time. We talk about Kinds of Kindness, the absurd twist of this movie, and a certain college professor who cries really easily and loves Russian healthcare. Follow us @thelowceiling on...

We continue our celebration of Deadpool & Wolverine by catching up with our favourite Canadian icon in Japan (!?). We cover James Mangold's The Wolverine, which was almost a Darren Aronofsky film. Aside from going nucks deep on a good, Bechdel-test-passing film, Pri names every NHL team and we talk about feminism in Pacific Rim. Hey look babe, I'm The Bear! Follow us @thelowceiling on...

In preparation for Deadpool & Wolverine, we talk about Canada's most famous fictional character besides Wayne Gretzky and Gandalf. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Super Bones is a Gavin Hood film that's not Ava DuVernay's Origin. In a loopy episode Jon and Pri discuss taking ten needles straight to the face, big, dumb katana arms, and the power of having a hard fist and touching stuff. T...