A24 On The Rocks

Tommy likey, Tommy want a top 20 90s comedy blind ranking! This is what happens when five dude's get together and try to blind rank their favorite 90s comedies. It's chaotic, it's slapstick, it disregards cinematic taste, and it creates debates about if Fargo belongs on the list. How many Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, and Jim Carrey movies can they fit on here? It is a true race to the b...

False Positive is a 2021 psychological horror film starring Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, and Pierce Brosnan. It's about a woman named Lucy who's having trouble conceiving with her husband Adrian. They go to a fertility doctor named Dr. John Hindle who promises Lucy that she will become pregnant. Little does she know, this will turn into the pregnancy from hell. The A24 Rocks crew debates...

From the A24 on the Rocks podcast- in light of A24’s recent AI research partnership with Google Deepmind where they’ll be taking a $75 million investment from Google to develop AI powered filmmaking tools, we have decided that we’re going to finish out reviewing the 2021 year of A24, then we will pivot to a different podcast idea. This podcast idea will keep the same spirit of the podcast, where w...

On this A24 vibe discussion, Eric's sister Amy (a Hans Zimmer fanatic) joins the A24 Rocks crew in blind ranking the top 16 best original film scores of all time. This doesn't include soundtracks, or musicals, just original film scores. Ludwig Goransson, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Bernard Hermann, Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross... all the best film composers will duke it out to nudge their way...

The A24 Rocks crew reviews another "American Dream" story in Minari, a film about a Korean family that moves to rural Arkansas while Jacob (the dad, portrayed by Steven Yeun) tries to make it as a farmer growing Korean vegetables. The family adjusts to this new life in Arkansas while Jacob and his wife Monica struggle with their relationship. When Grandma Soonja moves in, she brings pieces of home...

The much anticipated Euphoria Season 3 was finally released this year, after four years of waiting. Much has happened since season two was released back in 2022. The production of season three seemed plagued from the start with scheduling conflicts, Sam Levinson taking a break to direct The Idol with The Weeknd, and rumors of Zendaya nixing scripts for poor writing. Meanwhile, Sydney Sweeney went...

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We have officially reviewed and watched 100 A24 films! Hooray! On this long, strange journey, we meet a familiar foe: a horror film about a woman with mental health issues. Saint Maud is about a Roman Catholic woman named Maud (portrayed by Morfydd Clark) with a traumatic past who comes to nurse for a woman named Amanda (Jennifer Ehle). Maud has hallucinations and constantly feels the presence of...

On this A24 vibe discussion: Eric, Ray, and romance authors Tana Jenkins and Beth Gelman blind rank the top 16 romantic comedies of all time. Kevin sadly got hit in the head with a baseball at a Brewers game and spent the night in the emergency room. Sappy, screwball, seductive, serendipitous... what direction will these four take, and how will their own personal experiences effect the overall rom...

The A24 Rocks crew finally gets to the namesake of their podcast, Sofia Coppola's On The Rocks (said in a whisper) starring Rashida Jones, Bill Murray, and Marlon Wayans. Rashida Jones plays Laura, a new mom and author with an eccentric dad named Felix, and a husband named Dean who is getting his start-up off the ground. One strange move by Dean leads Laura down a path of suspecting Dean is cheati...

The A24 Rocks crew delves further into the Alex Garland universe, continuing their reviews of the 28 "Blank" Later series. This time, it's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple starring Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Erin Kellyman, and Jack O’Connell. We left off at the end of 28 Years Later with Spike finding a gang of Jimmy's, and quickly learning in The Bone Temple that they're a sadistic group of Sa...

As we continue our trek through the lost year of 2020, the A24 Rocks crew reviews their fourth A24 documentary: Boys State. This documentary covers a group of 1,100 teenage boys creating a mock government in Austin, Texas. The prestigious camp has previously hosted politicians and politco personalities such as Dick Cheney, Cory Booker, Bill Clinton, and Rush Limbaugh. The difference between those...

On this week's A24 vibe discussion, the A24 Rocks crew is back with another blind ranking, this time they take on the top 16 Catholic films of all time. They're joined by cradle catholic film-buff Bill Holland from Morally Offensive, a podcast that reviews movies deemed morally offensive by the Catholic church (https://www.morallyoffensive.com/). The crew digs deep into the history of Cath...

And WE'RE BACK! The A24 on the Rocks crew goes back to the year we'd all like to forget... 2020. Due to the Covid 19 Lockdown, there were only three films distributed by A24 in 2020, and the first one was First Cow. Directed by Kelly Reichardt, First Cow is about two men named Otis Figowitz and King Lu trying to hustle in 1820s Oregon. When Otis and King Lu figure out the Chief Factor have a cow,...

96 films and 159 podcasts later, Eric and Kevin have made it atop the A24 mountain after watching every single A24 film from the 2010 decade of A24. Three fellow podcasters quit in the process of this arduous journey, yet Eric and Kevin somehow kept their eyeballs fresh and their vocal boxes running. In this intimate conversation, Eric travelled all the way to Wisconsin to record this podcast in p...

Every year these cinephiles get together to decide what movies, actors, actresses, writers, and directors get to take home a golden-coveted Oscar Isaac statue that is as big as Oscar Isaac himself. After the 21 A24 films in 2019, it was the toughest competition yet for the A24 Rocks crew to decide who should win (and lose). 7 Oscar Isaacs, and 1 bronze piece of poop, up for the taking. Who will wi...

Unccccuuuutttttt Jaaaaahhhhhhmmmmms. In our final review of the 2019 year of A24, the A24 Rocks crew has finally reached The Safdie Brothers' gambling New York City anxiety rollercoaster Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Lakeith Stanfield, and Kevin Garnett. Uncut Gems is about a gambling addict named Howard who owns a gem shop in New York City's diamond district. When Howard im...

For the holiday celebration this year, these cinema lovers rewind to 1999 and review the crime-comedy Go starring Sarah Polly, Katie Holmes, William Fitchner, Jay Mohr, Timothy Olyphant, and Scott Wolf. These film reviewers invite on Lamb, who rented out a movie theatre this past year and imported the film reel for "Go." In this triptych tale, Ronna needs to make her rent... and that's all you nee...

On the second from last film review for the 2019 year of A24, these A24 film reviewers discuss the 2019 horror-comedy In Fabric, written and directed by Peter Strickland. In Fabric starts with a woman named Sheila Woolchapel (portrayed by Marianne Jean-Baptiste) who works as a bank teller at a British bank. She is a single middle-aged lady with a dismissive son, and one day, she scores a date with...

The A24 Rocks crew looks back at the first feature film Harmony Korine directed, the controversial Criterion classic Gummo. Korine directed one of the most famous A24 films in Spring Breakers, so these film reviewers wondered what kind of filmmaking themes Korine established early in his career. And to say the least, controversy was always in his wheelhouse. Gummo is a non-linear story about Xenia...

Today on the A24 on the Rocks podcast, these film reviewers review the third Trey Edward Shults film in the A24 catalog: Waves starring Kelvin Harrison Jr and Taylor Russell. Waves focuses on an African-American family in southern Florida tackling themes such as family trauma, forgiveness, toxic masculinity, and race in America. It's unique storytelling structure has divided some critics, but...

The A24 Rocks crew goes back to Jane Schoenbrun's debut film, the psychological horror movie We're All Going to the World's Fair. When Casey participates in an online World's Fair Challenge, she starts to see disturbing changes in herself. A middle-aged man named JLB watches her videos and reaches out to her. Is Casey actually experiencing changes from the World's Fair Challenge, or is it all an M...

The Kill Team is a 2019 "war" drama starring Nat Wolff and Alexander Skarsgaard that is a based on a true story of the war crimes of a U.S. military platoon in Afghanistan. Nat Wolff portrays U.S. Army member Andrew Briggman who joined the military believing he would serve his country valiantly. But soon after Sergeant Deeks (portrayed by Alexander Skarsgaard) takes over as leader of his...

In this A24 vibe discussion, these film reviewers discuss what many critics are calling "the film of the decade" in One Battle After Another. Paul Thomas Anderson directed this Thomas Pynchon adaptation while Leonardo Dicaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, and Chase Infiniti star in it. It revolves around a revolutionary group named the French 75, and a love triangle that forms between two...

For the fourth documentary in the A24 distribution chronology, the A24 Rocks crew visits the African Savannah and a herd of elephants. Narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this nature documentary is about a 50 year old Elephant Queen named Athena and her family who are struggling through a historic drought. The family searches for water while also attempting to maintain milk for their children, who need...