Grierson & Leitch

Grierson is in Sundance, hittin' the slopes and hanging out in hot tubs with models and dogs in sunglasses, but he still has time for the show! Unfortunately, he hasn't seen Matthew McConaughey's and Anne Hathaway's "Serenity," but, also unfortunately, Leitch has. So they discuss that crazy-ass movie. The real fun is in the Reboots. First, we look at Spike Lee's 2002 masterpiece "25th Hour," which...

M. Night Shyamalan is back! The old one! The one you didn't like. His "Glass" is the third film of a supposed trilogy, and it is by FAR the worst of the three. Also, we talk about the Netflix documentary "Fyre," though we didn't talk about the Hulu one about the Fyre Festival. (It's not as good as the Netflix one.) We also preview the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and, then, in our Reboot section, w...

We're back! We're back! It's our first show of 2019. We missed you, like, a ton: More than you could possibly know! We kick off 2019 with our first review of the year, the Kevin Hart-Bryan Cranston-Nicole Kidman dramedy "The Upside." It's not as bad as it could have been! Then we give our Oscar nomination predictions. Weird year. Also: Who's hosting? We finish up with our Reboot movie, 2006's "Idi...

It's here! It's here! It's our annual extravaganza, both of our lists of the best movies of 2018. It's our favorite show every year. Let it get you through the holiday season. Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTun...

They wouldn't let us post our review of "Vice" until noon ET on December 17. So here it is, getting its own episode. We are very much in agreement on our thoughts about "Vice." Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTu...

We've come to nearly the end of this movie year, and we've got three huge releases to discuss ... and that doesn't even include "Vice," which we can't get to until tomorrow. First, it's Clint Eastwood directing himself for the first time in a decade -- with Bradley Cooper! -- in "The Mule." Then, Barry Jenkins follows up "Moonlight" with the James Baldwin adaptation "If Beale Street Could Talk." A...

Time for the dead sprint toward the end of the year, with three big releases with just a couple of weeks left until our end of the year event, Dorkfest, the release of our top 10 films of the year. So let's get to it. First, it's Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma," which won Best Picture from both the New York and Los Angeles Critics Associations. Then it's Brady Corbet's and Natalie Portman's wildly ambitio...

Mailbag time! We take advantage of a quick down week in the movie release schedule to answer all sorts of questions from you, our amazing listeners. You are the best. We could talk to you all day. Dig in: It's one of our favorite shows of the year. There's one new release, the one-night-only shock cinema freakshow that is Lars Von Trier's "The House That Jack Built." Then, in our Reboot, our final...

It's late in the movie year: It's when the bodies hit the floor! Well, they do in "Creed II," the eighth Rocky movie, though Grierson thinks it should just be called "Rocky IV II." Then we revisit our old pal Yorgos Lanthimos and his acidic comedy "The Favourite." Also, Grierson solos on the animated sequel "Ralph Breaks the Internet." If only something would. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

We've got all sorts of fun for you this week, with two big huge movies from two of our favorite Oscar-winning directors. First, it's Steve McQueen's heist thriller "Widows." Then the Coen brothers have some fun with the Western with Netflix's "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." There's a much more boring movie after that, the next wizard world flick "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald." And t...

Lots of uninspiring movies this week, we're sad to say. But hopefully you won't find the show itself uninspired. First, Grierson hammers "The Grinch" for a while, and then we both dig into the J.J. Abrams-produced "Overlord," the reboot/sequel "The Girl in the Spider's Web," and Netflix's "Outlaw King." No Reboot this week: Too many mediocre new releases to get to! Learn more about your ad choices...

This is real life, and this is just a fantasy. It's the Queen musical biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," and one of us really likes it, and one of us very much does not. Then it's into the depths of film history with a look at Orson Welles' final "film," "The Other Side of the Wind," salvaged by Netflix. We chat briefly about "Thunder Road" and "Boy Erased" before going to Reboot land with 1996's "Freewa...

One of the best reviewed movies of the year, currently only available for New Yorkers but hitting theaters nationwide soon, is Lee Chang-Dong's "Burning," based on a Haruki Murakami short story. We dig into what makes it so great. Then Grierson solos on "Suspiria," as well as a few good documentaries. And people are still talking about Shane Carruth's "Primer" 14 years after it came out. We try to...

We've got the biggest October opening of all-time this week with "Halloween," both a sequel and homage to the classic John Carpenter film. But then Grierson has to go solo on three new movies, all of which are fascinating in their own way. Then, in our Reboot segment, we look at Bong Joon-ho's "Memories of Murder," from all the way back in 2003. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

We are jam-packed with movies this week: It is clearly that time of the year. The big release of the weekend is Damien Chazelle's "First Man," a look at Neil Armstrong and the moon landing. Grierson likes it, but Leitch LOVE it. We also dig into Paul Greengrass' "22 July," the Drew Goddard genre-hopper "Bad Times at the El Royale" and Maggie Gyllenhaal in "The Kindergarten Teacher." And Grierson s...

It's a "Star Is Born" world: The rest of us just get to live here occasionally. Bradley Cooper's and Lady Gaga's big musical melodrama dominates the screens this week, but we've got tons of other releases, from the comic book oddity "Venom" to Tamara Jenkins' great "Private Life" to the YA adaptation "The Hate U Give." And with the baseball playoffs going on, we look at 1989's "Major League" in ou...

We've got a David Lowery film that also might be Robert Redford's cinematic swan song, a Netflix thriller from the guy who gave you "Blue Ruin" and "Green Room" and a Kevin Hart comedy with this month's co-star Tiffany Haddish. No time for Reboots. This is serious, people! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have so many new movies to talk about this week that we have no time for an intro! The weirdest thing about all of these movies is that hardly any of you saw any of them. But somehow a ton of you watched Eli Roth do a kids movie. Also, we have a reboot of a very strange 1981 movie called "Student Bodies." It's an odd show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn mor...

We're back, baby! We took a week off, but don't you worry: We're back flooring it with four new releases this week. There's a Predator reboot/sequel, a true life crime drama with Matthew McConaughey has a crappy dad, a Paul Feig would-be noir and, perhaps most thrillingly, a crazy-ass Nicolas Cage movie called "Mandy." We also talk about the best films that Grierson saw at the Toronto Film Festiva...

Happy Labor Day weekend! Grierson is about to head up north for the Toronto Film Festival, so we sit down and preview the big event, with each of us picking the films we're most looking forward to. Then, in our Reboot section, we look at 1998's "The Thin Red Line," Terrence Malick's big return after 20 years away. And then we tell you that we're taking a week off. So enjoy your holiday, and we'll...

The summer is almost over, which means two things in our movie world. One is that we to recap our summer movie season. The other? That a bad movie is buried at the end of August. That would be "The Happytime Murders," which is bad and also upsetting. Fortunately, there is enough greatness to go around with our Reboot: 2004's breathtaking "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." That movie still ki...

The big smash of the weekend was "Crazy Rich Asians," the adaptation of Kevin Kwan's best seller, and one of us likes it a lot more than the other. But boy, "Mile 22," that's quite a dumb little movie. Then Grierson schools Leitch on "Juliet, Naked." Then, in our Reboot section, we go BACK in time to discuss 1985's "Back to the Future." 1.21 Gigawatts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

We are not going to let the ridiculousness of "Best Popular Film" at the Oscars distract us from the excitement of a new Spike Lee movie ... but we can't ignore that inanity either. So we kick off this week's show with the Academy's dumb new category, before getting down to business with Spike Lee's electric new film "BlacKkKlansman and the Jason Statham snorer "The Meg." Then we look at the 2010...

It's a quiet movie week in the theaters, which is why we spend the first 10 minutes talking about the great "Better Call Saul." But then we get down to business with "Christopher Robin" and "The Miseducation of Cameron Post." But the real work this week involves pulling up our sleeves and digging into David Fincher's 2007 masterwork "Zodiac." Mentions of Ted Cruz are fleeting. Learn more about you...

It's going to be a slow August, folks, and the main reason: "Mission: Impossible -- Fallout" is going to dominate the rest of the month. We look at the sixth installment of Tom Cruise's signature franchise, and we agree: It's one of the best ones. Then in our Reboot segment, we look at Peter Berg's "Friday Night Lights" and Nicole Holofcener's "Please Give." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...