A24 On The Rocks

In the 1999 cult classic Fight Club, Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt) asked: if there was any historical figure you could fight, who would it be? The Narrator's answer was Gandhi. On today's A24 Vibe Discussion, the A24 rocks crew asks: if there was any A24 character or actor they could fight, then who would it be? Also, if there was a gigantic royal rumble with every A24 character, then...

In 2016, the Academy Award winning producers of Amy (a previous A24 film about Amy Winehouse) focused their filmmaking prowess on the 90s Britpop band Oasis. Many know Oasis from hits such as Wonderwall, Don't Look Back in Anger, and Champagne Supernova. Others also know them as a dysfunctional band who couldn't make their way out of the tabloids due to feuds between brother's Liam Gal...

As Kevin would say: mind f*ck ahoy! Continuing our A24 vibe discussions: Black Mirror Season 6 came out last month, and these indie movie fans are here to give you a spoiler-free review of the famed Netflix Sci-Fi show. We discuss the themes of each episode and debate which one was our favorite, and the differences between this season and season's past. What were some of the best performances this...

In 2016, A24 produced their first full length film in "Moonlight," and it ended up winning three Oscars including Best Picture. Almost no film studio’s win Best Picture with the first movie they produce, but many knew Moonlight was special the day it was released. Written and directed by Barry Jenkins and based off a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney: Moonlight brings us into the world of Little, Chir...

We're premiering a new segment today called "A24 Vibe Discussions." These will be shorter 30-45 minute podcasts where we discuss films that are related/adjacent to A24. It'll be our way of having more general film discussions while also looping in A24 while we can. This week's topic: Kevin, Cole, and Eric give their Top 10 favorite 80s films and discuss what cinematic masterpieces from the 80s may...

Just in time for July 4th week: today these A24 fans review the 2016 film "American Honey" written and directed by Andrea Arnold. Starring Sasha Lane and Shia LeBeuof: American Honey is about a woman named Star. We drop into her life as she takes care of her half brother and half sister. When Star is getting food at a supermarket: she meets a man named Jake (played by Shia Lebouf) who of...

The Sea Of Trees is a 2016 A24 film starring Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts. Directed by Gus Van Sant (Director of Good Will Hunting and Milk), The Sea of Trees is about a man named Arthur who goes to Japan’s infamous Aokigahara Suicide Forest to kill himself, before a similarly troubled Japanese man named Takumi crosses his path. Arthur decides to help Takumi find his way out of the forest,...

Morris From America is a 2016 coming-of-age comedy starring Markees Christmas and Craig Robinson (The Office, This Is The End) about an African-American father and son living in a small town in Germany, while the father coaches soccer. Morris deals with being a fish out of water by holding onto his American roots as an avid hip-hop lover, but it isn't before long that he meets a teenage girl n...

What will you do when all the lights go out? That is what this 2016 A24 film starring Elliot Page and Evan Rachel Wood asks. Directed and written by Canadian New Wave Director Patricia Rozema and based on a 1996 book by Jean Hagland: Into The Forest explores the bonds of family when all the electricity goes out and you're living in a cabin in the woods. Is it a Sci-Fi or is it a indie drama? H...

Equals is a A24 Dystopian Sci-Fi film starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart (who was only a few years removed from the Twilight saga) about a post-apocalyptic world where emotions are essentially outlawed. Directed by Drake Doremus and written by Nathan Parker, this film is filled with brutalist architecture and bland tones while asking the question: if we could have no war and have fantasti...

In 2016, Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan premiered their first full length feature film called "Swiss Army Man" at Sundance Film Festival starring Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood, Little Miss Sunshine, The Batman) and Daniel Radcliffe (the Harry Potter series). It was about a man named Hank intent on killing himself before he finds a farting corpse on the beach and a bag of cheese puffs....

For the A24 Rocks crew's 35th movie review, they take on the 2016 documentary "De Palma," directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. They also invite fellow postman and world-renowned Brian De Palma expert Ray Neeman onto the podcast, who has seen and lived De Palma's whole filmography. This documentary is an autobiographical look into every single Brian De Palma film (director...

Out of all the dystopian sci-fi future's we've seen in film, did you ever think you'd see one where people are turned into an animal if they can't find a significant other within 45 days? The Lobster (starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz) creates a world that writer’s Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou could only envision. David (played by Colin Farrell) is a lonesome man whose wife just le...

The Adderall Diaries is a 2016 Crime-Drama based off a autobiographical book by Stephen Elliott. Stephen Elliott is an author struggling with Adderall addiction when he is exposed as a fraud by his own father, the same man who beat him as a child, it isn't long before his life begins to implode. Through flashbacks from Elliott's childhood, we see his troubled adolescence and ponder how Elliott bec...

The A24 cult classic "Green Room" follows a D.C. punk band called “Ain't Rights" on a pacific northwest road trip, where financial problems force them to play at a less than savory Nazi skinhead bar. Shortly thereafter... a madhouse of terror ensues. Directed and written by Jeremy Saulnier while starring Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, and Alia Shawkat: Green Room has turned into a A24 indie favor...

Trey Edward Shults became an acclaimed A24 director with indie favorites such as It Comes At Night and Waves, but he got his start on the big screen with the heartbreaking addiction drama Krisha. Starring longtime T.V. and movie actor Krisha Fairchild, Stults pulled from an amalgam of people in his own life to write this film that was funded from a kickstarter campaign. Krisha was also filmed in S...

"Remember" is a 2016 A24 suspense-thriller starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau about a Holocaust survivor with dementia on a mission to seek vengeance before he can no longer remember his life. Directed by Atom Egoyan and written by Benjamin August, we follow Zev Guttman throughout the U.S. and Canada as he rereads a letter to remind himself exactly who he must lay his vengeance upon. D...

Wouldst thou podcast listener like to live... deliciously? Then prepare your ears for an hour in a half trek into the New England wilderness with a film review of one of A24's most famous film's: The Witch. It birthed the career's of actress Anya Taylor-Joy and director Robert Eggers even though this 2016 Horror-Thriller and period piece didn't have the best treatment of babies. The Witch is consi...

A24's first distributed film of 2016 was the crime thriller "Mojave." Starring Garrett Hedlund and Oscar Isaac, this film follows a chaotic film director named Tom that decides to go on a drunken escapade in the desert. It isn't long before he runs into trouble in the form of an enigmatic drifter named Jack, which causes Tom's whole life to spiral. Written and Directed by William Monahan (writer o...

The A24 Rocks gang has now reviewed every A24 film from 2015, and you know what that means... IT'S AN AWARD SHOW! Join in as we discuss and vote on who will win an Oscar in six categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay. A24 On The Rocks will also be taking a break until January 2023, more than enough time...

A24's final film from 2015 garnered its most mainstream success in its three years of existence. Room, starring Brie Larson who won the academy award for best actress for her performance, is about a woman who had been abducted before birthing a child from her abductor and sexual assaulter Old Nick. Jacob Tremblay plays Jack, a child who only knows the 10x10 room that he and his mom have been force...

Written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Mississippi Grind is a movie about a lonely and depressed gambling addict named Gerry (played by Ben Mendelsohn) who meets a charismatic wandering soul at a poker tournament in Iowa named Curtis (played by Ryan Reynolds). After a night out where Curtis and Gerry get along famously: we figure out Gerry owes money to a bookie, he hates his job, and...

It's Halloween week, and the A24 Rocks gang has quite a spooky review for you: Dark Places starring Charlize Theron and Christina Hendricks. In the 25th film A24 distributed, was this the creepshow you wanted? That's ok, there is still plenty of great horrors to be had. Satanism and true crime is the theme for this film, amongst things like Chloe Grace Moretz convincing you to runaway with her to...

In 1996 following the release of the critically-acclaimed post-modernist Magnus Opus "Infinite Jest," Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky (played by Jesse Eisenberg) set out to interview author David Foster Wallace (played by Jason Segel). David Foster Wallace nears the end of his book tour and is dealing with newfound fame and respect from the literary world. Over those days, Lipsky finds a per...

The first documentary distributed by A24 was Amy, a poetic tragedy of a film that documents the life and music of British singer/songwriter/pop icon Amy Winehouse. Directed by Asif Kapadia, Amy went on to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards. Kapadia decided to mostly use found footage to depict Winehouse's life, and give fans and viewers a window into what she was...