The Cross Cut

This week! We are predicting the outcome of the above-the-line awards for this year's Academy Awards, and also throwing in who we'd like to win. I'm sure we'll be disappointed! We pair that with Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, a semi-autobiographical film that centers around both the love of movie making and the irrevocable breakdown of a marriage. It's a good movie! Rate, review, and subscribe...

This week! We continue our march towards the 2023 Oscars with another best picture nominee: Elvis! Will Forest's general distaste for Baz Luhrmann influence his commentary on this film? Will Jesse's general apathy for Elvis as a person and musician influence the amount she cares about the film? Probably! But we do it anyway! We pair this with a discussion of Ed Sheeran and his most recent legal tr...

This week! We are talking cruises and old people, in film and in real life. As we discuss aging Boomers turning to the sea in their later year, you can literally hear Forest's soul leave his body. Much in the same way the bodily contents leave the body of the old billionaires in the movie Triangle of Sadness ! Honestly, I can't state enough how much this new story bummed Forest out. Enjoy! Rate, r...

This week, we dig into our first Best Picture nominee of our month long series - Top Gun: Maverick! Tom Cruise is back in the pilot seat and flying the audience to a bright beautiful San Diego sunset in one of the most successful movies of the year. We pair this conversation with a look at what is going on in our own skies, where the US government has had to shoot down four separate unidentified a...

We're jumping in with a quick update episode during our vacation to give you the schedule for the next few weeks. Hope you're excited! Rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on social at: Instagram: @thecrosscutpod Twitter: @thecrosscut Newsletter: https://thecrosscut.substack.com/

This week we take a look at the unethical treatment of workers in the world of haute cuisine using the film The Menu . Will this episode satisfy your cravings for food puns, or will you leave starved for more? Bready or not, here we go-gurt! Rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on social at: Instagram: @thecrosscutpod Twitter: @thecrosscut Newsletter: https://thecr...

So, there's a dumbass out there who's trying to fill the stratosphere with sulfur in order to reflect the light of the sun. There's no way that could go wrong, is there? OH WAIT! There was a whole movie about a very specific, locomotive related way that could go wrong! So this week we are talking Snowpiercer , the 2013 Bong Joon-ho film that takes Chris Evens from the back of the train to the fron...

Welcome to 2023! I'm sure everything is better this year, right??? Oh, well shit... This week we are taking on the country’s childcare crisis with the help of the Christina Applegate cult classic Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. The dishes are done, man! Rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on social at: Instagram: @thecrosscutpod Twitter: @thecrosscut Newslet...

Happy New Year! We're taking this opportunity to rewind and celebrate a full year of weekly podcasts. How did we manage it? Are we extremely exhausted? Do our children remember our names? All questions we will not be answering on this episode! Instead, we'll highlight some great takes on: - Supply Chain Crisis - Law School Rankings - The James Webb Telescope - Roe v. Wade - NFTs - Adnan Syed Not o...

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! To celebrate a year of podcasts, we tune in to the Christmas Classic (tm) Home Alone. The film that unleashed both Macaulay Culkin (yay!) and Chris Columbus (ugh) upon the world, as well as the idea that torture can be a fun holiday tradition! We pair this with the recommendations of things to look out for this holiday season from the list of biggest hazards fro...

Stuck inside on these cold, dreary winter days? Well then grab your bathing suit and NOTHING ELSE and meet us on Fire Island ! This adaptation of of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice shakes things up by being set on a gay vacation in a beautiful location and also by being actually funny. We pair this with the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that enshrines the rights of currently ma...

This week, we're looking into how some of the literal worst people in the world, but trying to combat them with some of the best people in the world. While drag shows all across the country are being accosted by right wing nutjobs, we watched the film To Wong Fo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar to dig into the world of drag. Turns out, the good people are actually good and the bad people are b...

This week we have a special guest on the podcast, our good friend Devin Landin (tw: @devinlandin) joins us to share his knowledge of the LSAT and law schools generally. Of course Jesse brings here experience in this area as well, and Forest does his best to keep the podcast close to an hour. Does he succeed? No! Led by Yale and Harvard, law schools are walking away from the US News and World Repor...

Do you live in the South? If not, you might have a hard time getting the best biscuit possible. At least that is the hypothesis presented in our most recent episode, where we take a deep dive into what makes a good biscuit and why it's so hard to do outside the South, based in The Atlantic' s article by Amanda Mull. We even do a test bake with two kinds of flour discussed in the article to determi...

The world is a cruel sick place and someone has to stop those who would seek to harm us! Such is the state of our world, which is why we chose to cover the midterm elections. To be clear, the future of American government is on the line. Do you want minority rule and the entrenchment of power in an unelected group? Or do you want to vote for Democrats? The choice is that easy. The world is a cruel...

This week, individuals from the Chinese government have been formally charged by the US Justice Department with espionage in three different cases. We dive into the implications of each one and what it means for the ongoing turbulence between the two countries. To assist us in understanding the sheer insanity of the times we are now living in, we discuss the classic film The Manchurian Candidate (...

The British Prime Minister Liz Truss decided to resign on the very day we recorded a podcast about her inauspicious start at the job. Hurray for us, we actually have breaking news! From a brief overview of how the British government works to a in depth look at Ms. Truss’ past and present, we dive into the completely mundane and ordinary actions she took that made her a pariah in her party and nati...

You every listen to podcasts? You ever listen to podcasts... on weeeeeed? This week, we look into the federal pardons from the Biden administration for those convicted of marijuana possession on the federal level. On one hand, it's great news for those it helps, while on the other, could we be doing more? And is the current state of public opinion on marijuana usage anyway. Of course we had to pai...

As you might have heard, the planet is getting hotter! While this means that we're all probably doomed, it also means we have to ability to uncover a lot of history that had been lost in frozen glaciers. Not exactly a fair tradeoff, but as our son says, "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit!" So here we are instead talking about Viking artifacts that have been recently discovered in the...

The United States government just asked us to save the world. Or at least to podcast! This week, NASA successfully completed their DART mission, which tested the ability of the agency to launch a spacecraft that could knock a threatening asteroid off its course, thereby saving the Earth from imminent doom. So if you read all that and didn't think we'd talk about Michael Bay's Armageddon , I'd have...

Hey! You like podcasts, right? Have you heard of a little podcast called Serial??? Yeah you have, and today we are getting into the conversation about the release of the protagonist of that very popular podcast, Adnan Syed. After over 20 years in prison, he was released after the prosecution determined they could no longer stand by the evidence of their original case. To understand what this means...

We promise we are giving 110% on this week's podcast! But not everyone is apparently, as an epidemic of "Quiet Quitting" is sweeping the nation. Rather than chasing the dream of hustle culture, employees are choosing to do the bare minimum to get through the day and absolutely nothing more. Some would argue this isn't quitting at all and instead just called "doing you job" but we dig into where th...

George Clooney is the eponymous Michael Clayton in a film that covers everything from corporate misdeeds to lawyer malpractice to actual assassination! We watched this film to help us get a better handle on the New York Times report regarding the legal practices of Abbott Labs and how they pressured families who sued them for bacteria-infested baby formula to prevent cases going to trial. It's a r...

We're back! As we return from our summer streaming series, we look to the news and find... what's this?... a glimmer of hope? That's right, Joe Biden issued an executive order to cancel student loan debt for up to 43 million borrowers and we are going to TALK. ABOUT. IT. Not only that, we are going to do something very few people ever do. We look at the amount of student loans we (read: Forest) ar...

Are you ready for a movie about real estate? Oh, um, ok how about a movie about union regulation! No? Okay then, how about a movie that has vampires? And also action? And also comedy?!?! There you go! This week, we check out the Netflix original Day Shift staring Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, and Snoop Dogg. And we give you 4 reasons why you should do the same! Rate, review, and subscribe wherever you...