Two Takes on Film

As we enter into this year's Awards Season, we wanted to give you our thoughts on each of the Best Picture nominees. This week, we have our final two films, the two films that rocked the summer of 2023, Barbie & Oppenheimer, more affectionately known as Barbenheimer. As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts on these films, so reach out to us on Instagram @twotakesonfilm to let us kno...

As we enter into this year's Awards Season, we wanted to give you our thoughts on each of the Best Picture nominees. This week, we give you our thoughts on Killers of the Flower Moon, a Western crime drama that offers an inside look at a forgotten, or rather, overlooked, piece of American history, and The Zone of Interest, a haunting depiction of the evils of man. As always, we'd love to h...

As we enter into this year's Awards Season, we wanted to give you our thoughts on each of the Best Picture nominees. This week, we give you our thoughts on American Fiction, a thoughtful social comedy with a lot on its mind, and Anatomy of a Fall, a French courtroom drama that will leave you questioning everything. As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts on these films, so reach out to...

With the Oscars right around the corner, we wanted to offer you our predictions for *most* of this year's nominees. Let us know what you think! Do you agree with our predictions, anything you're rooting for that we're not? Let us know over on Instagram @twotakesonfilm

As we enter into this year's Awards Season, we wanted to give you our thoughts on each of the Best Picture nominees. This week, we give you our thoughts on Poor Things, a quirky sci fi film that might make you squirm, but that will hopefully pull on your heart strings. We also have Maestro, the beautiful biopic of one of America’s greatest composers. As always, we'd love to hear your thoug...

As we enter into this year's Awards Season, we wanted to give you our thoughts on each of the Best Picture nominees. To start us off this week, we give you our thoughts on The Holdovers, a cozy throwback film that is sure to become a new Christmas staple, as well as Past Lives, a quiet indie film released in the Summer of last year that captured the hearts of many. As always, we'd love to...

The one where we give you our thoughts on the latest addition to the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part One. Which Mission: Impossible is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below! Recorded on July 17, 2023.

The one where we give you our thoughts on the next chapter in the Oscar winning Spider-Verse saga. Have you seen Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse? How do you feel it compares with its Spider-Verse predecessor? Let us know your thoughts! Recorded July 12, 2023.

The one where we review a few more movies & shows that we’ve been watching this Spring! We give you our thoughts on Air, the hit show Jury Duty, Ari Aster’s newest horror film Beau is Afraid, the divisive Cocaine Bear, and last but not least, Scream VI. Have you seen any of these? Let us know what you thought of them! Recorded on May 22, 2023. Episode Timeline:  1:30-8:56: Air Review 8:56-20:2...

The one where we get straight to it & give you our thoughts on the latest MCU offering, and the last in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Have you seen it? How do you feel about its place in the MCU? Let us know! Recorded May 22, 2023.

Well hey there! It’s been a minute! This is the one where we talk about the Writer’s Strike currently happening in Hollywood, and the devastating effects that that could have on the future of television. We also catch you up on some of what we’ve been watching the past couple of months including: John Wick: Chapter 4, Beef, A Good Person, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and The Super Mario Bros...

The one where we give you our thoughts on who WILL win each of the 23 categories at the 95th Annual Academy Awards, as well as who we think SHOULD win each of the categories. Let us know if your predictions differ from ours! Recorded March 11, 2023.

As we anticipate the arrival of the 95th Annual Academy Awards, we here at Two Takes wanted to give you our thoughts on how we would rank this year's Best Picture nominees! For each movie, we give you a brief little description, what we thought about it, where you can listen to our full thoughts AND where you can watch them if you have some catching up to do before Sunday. Enjoy, and we’ll see you...

It’s the return of one of our favorite episodes! We present to you, our Overrated & Underrated movies of 2022! As we each share a movie, we’ll point you to our original reviews (if we reviewed them), and we’ll tell you where you can watch them now. There is no episode timeline this week because we don’t want to spoil our lists. Listen & see if yours matches ours! Recorded on January 26, 20...

The one where we talk about the potential of a Benoit Blanc/Muppets crossover, where we find out which Muppet matches Wyatt’s personality, and where Heather gets confused about how coconuts work. This is also the one where we give you our thoughts on two Netflix originals, Glass Onion and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. How do you feel about Muppets? Recorded on January 17, 2023. Episode Timeline:...

The one where we kick off the new year with a new season! We catch up with y’all on how we ended 2022, we chat about the Golden Globes, and, in light of today’s movie, Heather gives you some hard hitting facts about water. Wyatt takes some time to honor the career of James Cameron & then we dive into our review of Avatar’s long awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. What’s your favorite thi...

The one where we talk about bones, what are they, what do they do, why are they important, and is Wyatt a “Bone Whiz” or a “Bonehead?” As always, play along with us. This is also the one where we review our next two new releases, The Fabelmans and Bones and All. What’s your favorite food? Recorded on December 15, 2022. Episode Timeline: 0:00-23:20-Bones Bones Bones (This section does have some adu...

The one where we look into Wyatt’s soul to find out which Disney Animated film he is deep down. We also give you a couple of mini reviews on Strange World and Armageddon Time, as well as some more in depth thoughts on She Said and The Menu. Which Disney movie are you? Recorded on December 1, 2022. Episode Timeline: 0:00-18:17-Which Disney Movie is Wyatt Deep Down? 18:17-31:04-Strange World Mini Re...

The one where Wyatt quizzes Heather on her MCU knowledge…an MCU quiz for dummies…or something like that. Play along to see if you do better than she does. This is also the one where we give you our thoughts on Causeway, a little film released on Apple TV+ and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a big movie released in theaters everywhere. Have you seen Wakanda Forever yet? Let us know your thoughts! R...

The one where Heather shares a couple of hard hitting news articles from the week. One involves chicken and the other involves emojis. Both are important conversations that we’d encourage you to engage with! This is also the one where we review 2 more incredible films, one of which may be Wyatt’s favorite of the year, Tár and  The Banshees of Inisherin. What is your favorite emoji? Recorded o...

The one where Heather quizzes Wyatt on his Letterboxd review knowledge. This segment features some crowd sourced Letterboxd reviews of movies that we’ve reviewed over the past couple of months, so after you guess the movie, go listen to our review of it! We also talk about 2 new, and heavy, films, Till and All Quiet on the Western Front. Although both of these movies are pretty heavy, we don’t get...

The one where we announce the winner of the first ever Two Takes on Film Best Horror Film of the 2010’s Tournament! But before we tell you who won, we take some time to chat with a few friends of the pod about their love for horror films, for our tournament, and for us. A huge thank you to Gi, Matthew, and Michelle for joining us! Let us know, did your pick win? Do you agree with the outcome? Than...

The one where we celebrate the life of a comedian turned internet sensation, where Heather quizzes Wyatt on his knowledge of Halloween history, and where we review our next two films, Black Adam and Halloween Ends. Both of which, you could say, were not good, but were better than expected. Listen to hear more of our riveting thoughts! Recorded on October 26, 2022. Episode Timeline: 0:00-18:49-Hall...

The one where we’re back…again…we catch up on some recent travels and talk about the Two Takes on Film Horror Film Tournament currently taking place over on our Instagram @twotakesonfilm ! We also finally get around to reviewing two highly anticipated movies, Don’t Worry Darling & Amsterdam. We of course, also cover the drama surrounding both films! Do you like candy corn? Let us know! Recorde...

The one where we record in Heather’s car in a mall parking lot. This is also the one where we tell you more about our first ever Two Takes on Film Horror Movie Tournament, AND where we have 2 guests on. This is also the one where we kick off spooky season with 3 new horror film reviews, Smile, Barbarian, and Pearl. Cheers to spooky season! Recorded on September 29, 2022.