Classic Movies Live!

One thing our hosts haven't talked about much on Classic Movies Live! is musicals. But on today's episode, Pierre and Jeff set out to fix that by discussing Leos Carax's latest movie and Cannes' 2021's opening film, Annette ! In Annette , Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard star as a comedian and opera singer in a surreal story written by a rock band. How is it? Well, tune in to find out!

Hot off the heels of Captain Marvel, it's time to talk about... Captain Marvel! This week on Classic Movies Live!, Jeff and Pierre pick apart David F. Sandberg’s magical superhero movie, Shazam! Does Shazam breathe new life into the DC Universe, or is he just another addition to this century’s gloomy Justice League?

Here on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts get together every week to talk about Disney movies! This week, the spiritual successor to Pirates of the Caribbean : Jungle Cruise ! Does Disney's new theme park movie starring The Rock and Emily Blunt make for a pleasant ride, or get lost in the jungle? Tune in to hear Pierre talk about the most recent movie he saw in theatres! (And Jeff's there, too!)

We've talked about a lot of Marvel movies here on Classic Movies Live! , but our very first was the titular heroine herself! For over 10 years, no one in Hollywood has been more influential than Marvel Studios. With a franchise spanning 23 movies, many of them Oscar nominees and box-office record setters, it was only a matter of time before the comic-giant-turned-movie-studio produced a self-title...

Hot off the heels of our episode about Black Widow (well, a little bit anyway), our hosts talk about the next Marvel movie, and first to feature an Asian-American superhero: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ! Simu Liu and Tony Leung both star in their first major Hollywood production! Does Shang-Chi break the mould? Or is this yet another victim of the Marvel formula? Tune in for Pierre a...

To date, we've covered the Oscars three times on this show: once per season. Check out our first Oscars episode here! This week on Classic Movies Live, Pierre and Jeff judge the 2019 Oscars! For 91 years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been the absolute authority on which films go down in history as truly classic movies, so how are their picks this year?  Also this week,...

Season 3 of Classic Movies Live! started with Old , but it didn't have to! For a while, our hosts were debating starting with A Quiet Place 2 , Black Widow , F9: The Fast Saga , or even Space Jam: A New Legacy . Unfortunately, the timing never worked out of those episodes, but rather than ignore those movies, Pierre and Jeff decided to talk about all four at once! Tune in to hear our resident film...

To date, we've only talked about one Lord/Miller movie on this show. Can you guess which one? This week on Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part". Is the latest animated movie from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller yet another masterpiece? How does it compare to the first part? Find out as Pierre and Jeff talk about another classic movie… live!

In another first for Classic Movies Live! , our hosts review a James Gunn movie! The Suicide Squad is technically a sequel to Birds of Prey , and a reboot of Suicide Squad . How does it compare to those two movies? Could it even be one of DC's best? Tune in to hear Pierre and Jeff discuss John Cena, Margot Robbie, and a Giant Starfish!

From visionary director Dan Gilroy comes the subject of the second ever episode of Classic Movies Live! In this week's episode of Classic Movies Live, Pierre and Jeff talk about the latest satire by visionary director Dan Gilroy. Is "Velvet Buzzsaw" the biting critique of modern art that it sets out to be? Or is it just another forgettable horror movie? Tune in to hear our hosts' thoughts on yet a...

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts review Jeff's most anticipated movie of 2020 (yes, you read that right!): The Green Knight ! Dev Patel stars in an Arthurian moral tale about keeping your promises. Does that sentence spoil the whole movie? Tune in to find out!

Long ago, renowned movie critics Pierre and Jeff recorded their very first episode of Classic Movies Live! To start off the series about classic movies, as they release, our hosts talked about the (now second) most recent film from M. Night Shymalan, Glass ! In this episode of Classic Movies Live, Pierre and Jeff discuss the final movie in M. Night Shyamalan’s bizarre superhero trilogy. Is Glass a...

Pierre and Jeff are back to talk about all the movies they missed out on during the summer. First on the list? The latest movie from M. Night Shymalan. What if there was a beach... that made you Old ?

After one of the craziest Oscars seasons in recent memory, our hosts needed a bit to cool off. But Pierre and Jeff are back and ready for Season 3 of Classic Movies Live! Before we get started on the third season, our hosts decided to do a quick episode dedicated to one of the show's biggest fans. Tune in while Pierre and Jeff discuss a film from the Sundance Official Selection, John and the Hole...

You've heard their thoughts on the Best Picture nominees for 2020, now listen to Jeff and Pierre give their rundown of the first major contender for Best Picture for 2021: Steven Soderbergh's astounding, narrative-driven Oscars Ceremony! Instead of an intro for this, we opted to simply recreate our favourite moment from the Ceremony to start off the episode. Are you ready?

In this year's final episode before the Oscars, our hosts discuss the last Best Picture nominee: Sound of Metal ! When heavy metal drummer Ruben Stone (Riz Ahmed) abruptly loses his hearing, he just as suddenly finds himself entrenched in a community he knows nothing about and isn't ready for. Sound of Metal is an emotional story about a pivotal moment in a man's life, and why even when it looks l...

Nominated for six Academy Awards (that's not the last time we'll write that!), Promising Young Woman is one of two directorial debuts up for Best Picture at this year's Oscars! With such incredible competition as Nomadland, Sound of Metal, and The Father, how will Emerald Fennell's first movie fare? Promising Young Woman is a bold movie that handles the topic of sexual assault in a way thoroughly...

It's the second of our dedicated Best Picture nominees episodes! This time, our hosts discuss Judas and the Black Messiah , a biopic starring Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Nominated for six awards, Judas is one of the latest releases up for Oscars. Despite that, Judas will be going into the Oscars having won Best Supporting Actor for K...

Now that the Oscars nominations are officially announced, it's time to talk about this year's Best Picture nominees! Our hosts have already talked about Trial of the Chicago 7 , Minari , Nomadland , and Mank , leaving four episodes until the big day! On our first Best Picture episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about The Father , an adaptation of Florian Zeller's play of the same name starring Anthony H...

On the last episode, our hosts talked about a black-and-white Oscar winner. In the next episode, they'll talk about a nominee for this year's Best Picture. In this interim episode, our hosts will talk about a snub for Best Lead Actress: Malcolm & Marie ! From Sam Levinson, director of the television show Euphoria comes the first film produced entirely during the 2020 pandemic. But is Malcolm &...

In the final episode in their journey through past Best Picture winners, Pierre and Jeff circle back to one year after The King's Speech to review 2011's most awarded movie! In 2011, The Artist made history as the first silent movie to win Best Picture since Wings at the very first-ever Oscars, as well as the first time a French actor would win the coveted Best Actor in a Leading Role award. Direc...

On this very special episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff go through all the nominations for the 2021 Academy Awards! What was nominated? What shouldn't have been nominated? What should win? Maybe most importantly, which of these nominated movies will go down in history as timeless classics? The answers to all these questions and more on today's episode of Classic Movies Live! Today's...

The earliest movies our hosts have covered on this show are from 1941, and today they tackle that year's Best Picture! In a year that included Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon as Best Picture contenders, John Ford's How Green Was My Valley took home the ultimate prize! How does this masterpiece of cinema hold up? And how does it compare, 70s years later, to its competition? The answers to these...

This week, our hosts turn their attention to recent Golden Globe winner Nomadland ! Chloe Zhao's third movie looks at the subculture of American nomads through the eyes of Fern (played by Frances McDormand), a woman who recently turned to living on the road. As if its two Golden Globe wins weren't already an indication, Nomadland is a serious contender for awards this year. But which ones, and wil...

The 81st Academy Awards, honouring the films of 2008, was notable for many reasons. Benjamin Button became the ninth movie to get 13 nominations (of which it won 3), Heath Ledger became the second actor to win an award posthumously (and the first for a superhero film), and Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire became the eleventh movie to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. This week on C...