Cinephilia

New Year New Look New Season New Theme Song and of course...New Episode! Join us for David Fincher's masterpiece of love, loss, longing and cutting edge visual effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

As a new year begins, Mike and Trevor look back at not only the best cinema had to offer in 2022 but the movies they talked about in the first 37 episodes. Who brought in the better movies? What did they pick for the best of the year? Where is Tressa's mic? Why were there so many 3 hour movies in 2022? And How did Quincy Jones get Martin Scorsese to direct the Bad video? All this and more in our f...

You guys give up or are you thirsty for more? That’s right! The second part of our Home Alone Christmas extravaganza is finally here. It’s another Christmas in the trenches with Kevin, and Mike and Trevor slowly start to lose it as they continue to record their longest episode ever but now you get two episodes for the price of one. And as always, keep the change you filthy animal

To put a bow on our “favorite Christmas movies” series of films, we will be discussing the one, the only, ultimate in Christmas entertainment and home invasion punishment, home alone. Since our love for the first two films exceeds the length of most people’s patience for a single podcast episode, we will be splitting the episode into two for your listening pleasure! Keep the change, you filthy ani...

What is the most watched Christmas movie of all time? I don't know but I'm willing to bet Bob Clark and Jean Shepherd's coming of age tale that is celebrating 25 year of 24 marathons is pretty high on that list. Travel back to 1940 and to the childhood Christmas memories of Mike and Trevor as they review A Christmas Story and relate it to their own upbrings and favorite Christmas memories but don'...

“General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends.” Kicking off our Christmas series of films, Trevor brings in one of his favo...

What's your favorite Thanksgiving movie? If you didn't say Planes, Trains and Automobiles, then what movie are you thinking of because it's the only Thanksgiving movie that matters. Unless you count Rocky with that one scene Pauly throws the turkey out the front door. The late great John Candy and comedy legend Steve Martin give the greatest comedic performances of their careers in John Hughes' bu...

 “People wanna live like this in their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin' fair really fuckin' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They w...

What is the most controversial movie of all time? It might be some of the films we've already talked about but Walt Disney's post Civil War live action/animation hybrid Song of the South is definitely part of the conversation. It hasn't been released theatrically in the states since 1986, before some of us were born. Does it deserve to remain in the Disney Vault like images from Fantasia, The Resc...

“You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray, fear of the flesh. Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma spring! Y'see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking...

“Well... you know Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. Say like... it's when someone burns toast. When some things happen, it can leave other traces behind. Not things anyone can notice, but things that only people with shine can see. Just like they can see things that haven't happened yet, sometimes they can see things that happened a long time ago. I think a lot of...

"You want to put some kind of explanation down here before you leave? Here's one as good as any you're likely to find: We're being punished by the Creator. He visited a curse on us. So man could look at...what Hell was like. Maybe he didn't want to see us blow ourselves up, put a big hole in the sky. Maybe he just wanted to show us he's still boss man. Maybe he figure we getting too big for our br...

For this week's episode, we bring you the documentary that showed us that vampires are people too, with real thoughts, emotions and needs. If you've ever been curious about how a 900 year old vampire would navigate the internet, then this episode discussing "What We Do In The Shadows" is for you.

We asked Tyler to write an episode description...we're still waiting.

In our continuing "Movies That We Loved" series, Mike and Trevor will be discussing arguably one of the greatest film noirs of all time. Who are we arguing with? What are we arguing about? Why it's the 1997 Curtis Hanson crime drama masterpiece, LA Confidential, of course! Listen in for some backstory on the book, real life characters contained within the movie and some major differences between t...

The weirdest of Als has made only one movie and it failed miserably at the box office. But after 3 decades and thousands of Twinkie Weiner Sandwiches, UHF has become a cult classic amongst polka and non polka fans alike. So the real challenge is now. Will 1989's absurdist comedy UHF fail with Mike and Trevor like it did 33 years ago or will is soar like so many poodles?

When does the good guy become the bad guy? When is revenge enough? How much pain can one person inflict on another? All good questions but not as good as the question of why do Korean directors make better films than 78.23% of American directors? Let's watch and discuss 2010's I Saw The Devil and find out! TRIGGER WARNING!!! Please be aware that during this episode we discuss disturbing and graphi...

On this week's episode, we discuss a brilliant film with one of the most deceiving titles in movie history. Join us for an episode filled with drugs, music, dance, sex and a not so thinly veiled commentary on death. IT'S SHOWTIME, FOLKS!! It's ALL THAT JAZZ!

"In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J Braddock" For this week's episode, we discuss one of Trevor's top boxing movies of all time, Cinderella Man.

Have you ever wanted to know what living in Los Angeles is like to people who weren't born in LA? On today's episode, we'll discuss the Go-To Guide for solving back masking, underground, secret message hiding, the end of the world serial killing/disappearance mysteries. Also known as the 2018 surrealist neo noir, Under the Silver Lake.

This one's for you, Rick!

We’re baaaaaaaaack! After a longer than anticipated absence, we’re back to our regularly schedule program with a discussion of the 1996 under-appreciated Tom hanks film, That Thing You Do! join us as we discuss one of the examples of why Tom Hanks is the best human ever. We may even discover the answer the age old question: “I wonder what happened to the Oneders?”

We decided to change things up and try something new...ish for this upcoming episode. For our semi-regularly newest “format”, we will be discussing films that we both know and both love deeply. And what better film to start with than the 1976 Scorsese masterpiece, Taxi Driver? Learn our true feelings, our introductions (the full one for Trevor’s scarring intro to the movie) and our overall ratings...

Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here to get through this thing called Podcast! Electric word "Podcast" and that means talking for a mighty long time. But I'm here to tell you, there's something else...His Royal Badness! For this week's episode, Trevor brings in the Cult Classic. "Purple Rain". So hang on to your frilly blouses, cuz tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999. But don't forget to puri...