Exiting Through The 2010s

Oscar Goff (Boston Hassle) is back for Adam Wingard’s You’re Next! We go into his mixed output in the 2010s, the filmmakers acting in the film, how the film is compared to the last time we talked about Winged (Blair Witch) and how 2010s horror can be compared to the 70s in horror

Mitchell Beaupre (Letterboxd, Paste) returns for JASON BOURNE and BOURNE LEGACY as known flawed continuations of the beloved action franchise. We discuss the career of Jeremy Renner and Matt Damon, Tony Gilroy’s misguided script, if we are more a Ben or a Matt, that Treadstone tv show and the Bourne Legacy’s horrible ending 

Would it help if we podcasted? Emily Diaz and Andy Germuga (Cannes I Kick It podcast) join us for 2015’s Bridge of Spies! We talk for the first time Tom Hanks (!) and his interesting 2010s, Mark Rylance’s Oscar win, Spielberg’s dad cinema trilogy this decade, what could “Bulit” looks like and how we took the movie for granted at the time 

Billy Ray Brewton (The Incinerator) comes to the pod for John Carney's 2016 coming-of-age comedy Sing Street. Together we discuss 2010s Irish cinema, the films muted reception, the state of Star Wars and Clint Eastwood

Jesse Hassenger (Paste magazine) returns to chat with us with all things T2: Trainspotting and what the film meant in 2017. We’ll discuss Ewan McGregor’s 2010s, Jesse seeing the first one as a teen compared to seeing T2 as an adult, our favorite performances, and how Boyle managed to differentiates the film from other legacy sequels 

Greg Hill Turner and Logan Kenny return to cap off double date month along with the 200th episode of Exiting! Together we unpack what makes The Other Guys so good all these years later, dissecting Mark Wahlberg, the fallout of Farrell and McKay leading to McKay’s more dramatic work and the perfect support cast 

Peyton Robinson and Emily Jacobson (Filmdaze) return for Sam Levinson’s polarizing satire with 2018’s Assassination Nation! Together we talk generational differences with looking at the internet as cuspers, movies our parents like, Euphoria and The Idol 

Emmy potter and Carrie Wittmer return for a reunion of Winona Ryder and Keanu Reaves in Destination Wedding. Together, we discuss how the Gen X icons have evolved in the 2010s, Winona’s ridiculous shoplifting scandal, how the movie compares to other films we have covered like Bridesmaids and Bachelorette and 90 minute movies 

We explore class inequality in 1800s Manchester with Dan Mecca and Conor O'Donnell (The Film Stage, The B-Side podcast) and Mike Leigh's latest work in 2019's Peterloo. Together we talk Amazon studio some more, Leigh's decision to have a cast of unrecognizable character actors, Rory Kinnear's excellent performance and how Dan and Connor friendship through movies

We're going bank robbing and exposing police corruption with Allison Picurro (Boy Movies, TV Guide) and Cassidy Olsen (The Boston Globe, filmmaker) join us for Derek Cianfrance's crime drama but really about fathers and sons in The Place Beyond the Pines ! Together we examine the big canvas Cianfrance had after Blue Valentine, how its so 2013 to end your movie with Bon Ivor, the muddled th...

We’re just trying to get our boys back with Ricky Camilleri (BULID series, 30 Years Later podcast) as we cover 2017’s Dunkirk as we consider it the defining war picture of the 2010s. Together, we return to examine Christopher Nolan in the 2010s, the career of Hans Zimmer, comparisons to 2019’s 1917 and our favorite performances 

Jim Laczkowsi (Director’s Club podcast) returns for Peter Strickland’s beguiling psychological romance in The Duke of Burgundy. Together we discuss Strickland’s place in 2010s films, how the film compares to the more approachable 50 Shades of Grey films, comparing this relationship to that in 2015’s Carol and monogamy 

Kendall Cunningham (The Daily Beast) joins us for Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2015 comedy in The Lobster! We dig into the careers of the cast, our interpretations of the ending, and our final thoughts on Lantimos with this being the last of his American films to cover

Leah Carlson Downie (Oscar’s Podcaast, Fang Club) returns to unspool all that was poor and successful in 2019’s political rom-com (poli rom-com?) Long Shot! Together we get into the careers of the two leads, that bizarre Andy Serkis why we haven’t covered too many films that deal with 2010s politics and the decline of the modern rom-com from the late 2010s to now 

Filmmaker Joshua Nathan Strong joins us for the divisive reimagining of Superman in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel! Together we chat about Snyder’s career, the misguided view of Superman, casting what-ifs and why the film has been criticized for more than a decade 

Comedian Emma Arnold stops by the pod to discuss 2014’s psychological horror in The Babadook! Together we chat about what makes this an instant classic, viewing the film as a mom and the queer legacy the Babadook itself carries on in pop culture 

Lyvie Scott joins us for Wong Kat Wai’s only out in the 2010s in The Grandmaster and how he expertly injects his own vision into the action genre and perfecting it. Together we get into the philosophy in the heart of the film, our relationship with these epics and what the Weinsteins did the film in 2013

Jon Gabrus (High and Mighty podcast) joins us for Lynne Ramsay’s 2018 thriller in You Were Never Really Here. We get into Joaquin Phenix’s 2018, why we started Exiting and Ramsay’s view on violence 

Dom Sinacola (Paste magazine) joins us for Harmony Korine’s second and final film of the 2010s in THE BEACH BUM! This shaggy and delicate comedy has more than alot to say about the creative soul, depiction of Florida, how the movie never found an audience and what is next for Matt McConaughey

Gavin Mevius (Mixed Reviews podcast) joins us this episode for Kirsten Johnson’s portrait in humanism with 2016’s Cameraperson. Together we get into the much more emotionally taxing first cut of the doc, what makes the editing so powerful and the film being right up there with some of the best docs guests have brought to the pod

Jamie Arena joins us for Scream 4 and the creative decisions that made this ahead of its time in 2011. Together, we go over the stand-out performances of Emma Roberts and Hayden Panettiere, how Wes Craven created tension and the meta aspects of the franchise growing old or stale?

Matt Cipolla (The Spool, The Film Stage) joins us this week for Brady Corbet’s Twenty-First Century Portrait with Vox Lux, Corbet’s response to America in the perspective of a pop star after he had an impressive run in the 2010s as an actor. Together, we look at our memories of iconic American moments of the 00s, imaginative biopics, and how the movie was neglected in 2018

Jihane Bousfiha (Vulture, Paste) returns to the pod for the romantic tragedy in Blue Valentine. Together we dissect the behind the scenes approach to the Williams and Gosling marriage, the 2011 best actress line up and the early 2010s Ryan Gosling era

Bailey Herdé returns for the beloved cult comedy classic in 2016’s Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. We dig into our memory with discovering Lonely Island, why the movie bombed and what makes this one of the great achievements in 2010s comedies 

Brandon Streussnig (The Playlist, Vulture) returns for Oliver Assayas’ haunting portrait of grief and loneliness in 2017’s Personal Shopper. Together will breakdown texting on film in the mid 2010s and believing in ghosts