Always See Everything - A Criterion Movie Podcast

The undisputed. The undeniable. Ladies and gentleman, the wait is over. WC Fields has arrived. In our most anticipated outing yet, we tackle the greatest works of this giant of the medium, this titan of comedy, this deity of all things entertainment. I won't waste your time by struggling to capture the enormity of his achievements in the feeble trappings of the written word: this simply needs...

If you like Pokemon and semen, boy do I have an episode for you! Anthony and Sean's respective reactions to The Element of Crime are so in character as to make the discussion a formality. And God Created Woman gives us so little to talk about that we are FORCED at GUNPOINT to think about using Ditto as a...I won't say it here. You can just listen to the thing. I totally forgot that we watc...

Watch along with the episode on YouTube here! The harrowing finale to a year of thrills, chills and spills. Anthony invokes the Nostalgia Critic. Sean learns the true meaning of Christmas and Star Wars. Itchy jacks off. Tyler reckons with The Mind Of George. And Boba Fett. Featuring cameos from Björk, Stan Lee, and George Lucas, a reading of an exclusive leaked script, and a roundtable discussion...

It's quite a grab bag this week as we mix Kevin Smith, David Lean, martial arts, and Yugoslvian sex cinema. You know what they say, four great tastes that taste great together! Everybody always says that, especially about these specific four tastes! Our ostensible review of Chasing Amy is much more focused on a psychoanalytic deconstruction of Kevin Smith, but we pull it together for the gothi...

If there's something strange...in your neighborhood...it's probably a young woman reckoning with her inevitable death and decay/mirroring the flaws and hypocrisies of her society/discovering her sexuality/contextualizing the art of filmmaking and creativity in general as a disruptive and collaborative process over the course of three hours and ten minutes. Anthony and very special guest Bj...

UUUUUUuuuuugggghhhh, GOD. Another week of this crap? I hate movies so much man. I'm going to go insane someday and something terrible is going to happen and it'll be everyone else's fault. Ingmar Bergman channels the magic of the stage to unleash upon us the vibrant and musical The Magic Flute! Le Million offsets its natural Frenchness by innovating the screen musical! Thief is cool! I...

This week, it's a straight shot through spines 66-70 as we tackle the various pretensions of Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy before squaring up in single combat against the son of God himself! Blood of a Poet begins us on a delightful journey of impeccable effects and fairy-tale whimsy, and the roller coaster peaks with Cocteau's reimagining of the Orpheus myth. By Testament of Orpheus w...

"Ah! I'm late!" Sean blasts into the street on his bike, seifuku and mouth-toast billowing in the wind. So focused is he on making it to the first day of class at Stan Lee Memorial High that he neglects to look around the corner as he turns-and slams straight into Oleszkiewicz-senpai! Ahn, how embarrassing! But the upperclassman is gracious, and assures the frantic Sean that no harm...

We are breaking new ground this week. Finally, after 30 episodes, we decide to go where no movie podcast has ever gone before, and cover a black and white film (or four). Yes, we know, they’re OLD and BORING, but through our incredible cinematic insight we allow you to parse the hidden value of these dusty, crusty old relics of cinema’s past. Take our hand, we have such sights to show you… The Pas...

The leaves they are a-falling, the wind it is a-chilling, and the ASE boys are bringing in the season with some autumnal cinema! Autumn Sonata sees a Bergman crossover the likes of which have never been seen, while Life of Brian affords both hosts the ability to flex their knowledge of the good book. Our selections double down on the pumpkin spice spooky season vibes: the rich color and sweeping m...

Like magicians bisecting their lovely assistant, we’re splitting this week's ep in half! Horror is the name of the game this time, and on the ASE feed we’ve recruited Brent and Dan of Shriek Previews to help us talk about two of our favorites: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House and Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace. We get down to business with plenty of discussion about what makes a horror movie and...

We broadcast this episode from our deathbeds as we recall the halcyon days when we would climb inside a little wet portal, engage in thrilling spy adventures with Cary Grant in tow, and also talk about movies or whatever. Hitchcock continues to whelm us with “spy” “”thriller”” the 39 steps, which we don't…hate? Charade picks up the pace quite a bit, much to our surprise and delight, all for Benjam...

The venerable General Sean E. Lee inducts this pioneering episode where we explore the frontiers of space, the human heart, the American West, and the depths of evil itself. We ooh and aah at the sights and sounds of Al Reinert's record of man's trip to the moon in For All Mankind, and then hem and haw over our feelings for Philip Kaufman's romantic epic The Unbearable Lightness of Bei...

Sword Saint Sean of the Tiger Knee Yozansen school holds court with the ronin Anthony, who swiftly disembowels himself due to the humiliation of mispronouncing every Japanese word he comes across. Thankfully, we’re able to get him patched up and we have a lovely discussion about four samurai classics! Our fealty to lord Kurosawa doesn't stop us from feeling lukewarm about Yojimbo and Sanjuro....

It's business as usual with Anthony and Tyler, the co-hosts of Always See Everything, as they tackle a quadruple dose of Terry Gilliam to close out another director spotlight! There's another guy there too, but don't worry too much about him. We REALLY wish Jabberwocky was Holy Grail instead, and boy do we let you guys know it. We perk up for Brazil, widely seen as Gilliam’s best, though Anthony a...

We thought this was going to be a short one, we swear. A mentally exhausted Anthony teams up with the Liberator of Rubicon to power through two pivotal Fellinis in the heartbreaking Nights of Cabiria and the Augustus Gloop-featuring And the Ship Sails On. Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman does a good job speaking for itself, so we mainly just talk about the monkey, because we know what good fucking ra...

With Anthony fresh off the physical and mental torture that is the Always See Everything 4D Experience ™ and Sean freshly unemployed, the fellas are more than ready to stumble their way through another banger of a week! Black Orpheus serves up the classic combo of delightful dance parties and post-colonial guilt while Insomnia hooks us with the icy thrills only a true Nordic procedural can provide...

Anthony and Sean roll critical successes on their “talk about movie” checks on this very special, Mountain Dew Gamefuel sponsored episode of everyone’s favorite Stan Lee commemoration podcast. That's right, family game is underway, so pick your piece and get ready to play! No, not the thimble, that's mom’s. She always picks the thimble. Come on man. What The Most Dangerous Game lacks in th...

Grab your best rod, don that khaki vest with all the little pockets, and get ready to ignore your wife’s increasingly frantic texts to come home, because this week on Always See Everything the boys are gone fishin’! Their first catch is Peter Brook’s adaptation of Lord of the Flies, featuring an all star cast of grade-A child actors. Fishing with John is next on the line, the first and last TV sho...

Hark and forsooth! This week we tackle the contributions of one of the deftest and most masterful artists in the history of the English language, whose immortal wit and technical perfection have set the standard for his medium forevermore…and also Shakespeare too, I guess. We come out the gate with Armageddon, which features a stacked cast helmed in part by perhaps Steve Buscemi's most evil ch...

After disposing of their Loopers, stealing clothes from hoodlums, and finally completing a flow chart of what happens in Primer, the ASE boys are ready to learn what Pitbull meant when he said “to understand the future we have to go back in time.”  Sean’s battle with the British continues in the equal parts whimsical and distressing Time Bandits, followed by a check in with our good friend Seijun...

From Sex-revenant Stan Lee to rage comics, we’re playing the hits this episode! Sean’s battle with the French continues as we cover the classic girlboss thriller, Diabolique. Then, we get another Clouzot (for the boys this time) with the classic guyboss thriller Wages of Fear! The double dose of black and white French movies is a little much, so we return to our roots with some good old fashioned...

Getting a little too toasty this summer? Well, Always See Everything is here to cool you off with some of the Criterion Collection's iciest offerings...that was the plan, at least. We frankly overestimated the amount of snow in some of these, but they're still (mostly) pretty great! We struggle to find much to say about the proto-documentary Nanook of the North, but things pick up with the...

This week, Anthony and Sean are hitting the books as they tackle some literary adaptations! Channeling every cent of student debt their English majors saddled them with, they start with David Lean’s Great Expectations and Oliver Twist for some good old fashioned British whimsy, lightly seasoned with anti-semitism (from the movie, not the hosts). Next up is the (very) loosely Henry IV/V based My Ow...

BONUS EPISODE! Anthony and Sean take a break from the Criterion Collection to talk about the cinematic event of the summer: seeing Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig's Barbie! Always See Everything is an AnthonyReviews film podcast. For movie reviews and more, you can go to ⁠⁠⁠ AnthonyReviews.com ⁠⁠⁠ or check us out on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ , and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠ .