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Leonardo DiCaprio is known for many things, including his frequent partnership with acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese. To date, Leo has starred in 5 Scorsese movies, with more on the way as of 2020. But, as with everything, it had to start somewhere! That somewhere was 2002's Gangs of New York , a $100 million passion project about Irish immigrants in New York City at the time of the America...

This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about current events! Of all the movies that have come out this year, few will be as influential as the one-two punch of Trolls: World Tour and Scoob! Tune in and find out why!

With Leo's 90's rise to stardom behind them, our hosts turn to Leo's middle period! Between 2000 and 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio starred in some of the best movies of his career, starting with an unforgettable performance in Steven Spielberg's 2003 film Catch Me If You Can ! Featuring Leo as legendary scam artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. alongside Tom Hanks as FBI agent Carl Hanratty, Catch Me If You Can s...

In today's very special out-of-order episode, Pierre and Jeff discuss the hotly-anticipated sequel to 2006's Borat ! Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey for Make Benefit Recently Diminished Country of Kazakhstan , or more simply Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm , was written, filmed, and released almost entirely inside of one year. With such an unprecedentedly quick turnaround, did Sacha Baron Cohen and...

In 1997, James Cameron released a movie so monumental it would go on not only to be nominated for the most Academy Awards of any movie up to that point (tying 1950's All About Eve ) and win the most as well (tying Ben Hur ), but also perform so well with audiences it would hold the record for best box office performance for almost 12 years. That movie was the disaster/romance epic Titanic , featur...

For the first time in this show's history, Pierre and Jeff talk about a Nicolas Cage movie! Releasing in 2020, Color Out of Space is a sci-fi horror movie based on the classic H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name. Does it live up to the legacy of its source material? Tune in to learn the answer to this question, as well as hearing our hosts' thoughts on other eldritch horror films like Ann...

At the end of the 90's, Leonardo DiCaprio was best known for two movies he made within a year of each other. The first of those movies, starring the young heartthrob in what could be considered his breakout role (if you don't already consider that to have been Gilbert Grape ), was Baz Luhrmann's visionary take on William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet . Uprooting the story from medieval Italy and tr...

Here on Classic Movies Live! , we like to talk about movies that are in theatres. Today, that means The Personal History of David Copperfield , the latest adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel starring Dev Patel!

The Basketball Diaries , Leonardo DiCaprio's third movie, and the subject of this week's episode of Losing It Over Leo! Featuring his first onscreen appearance alongside Mark Wahlberg, Basketball sees Leo in the role of teenage drug addict Jim Carroll. As Leo once again dons the persona of a struggling youth, we're left to wonder: how does Basketball stack up against the actors first two movies? C...

After almost 30 years, the final movie in the Bill & Ted franchise has arrived! Was there ever a movie more obviously destined to be a classic? This week on Classic Movies Live! , franchise newbie Pierre and lifelong fan Jeff discuss Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's return to the roles that made them famous! After so much time in development hell, does Bill & Ted Face the Music live up to ex...

In the second episode of Losing It Over Leo, Jeff and Pierre talk about What's Eating Gilbert Grape . Leo's second movie is also his first Oscar nomination! Tune in to hear our hosts' thoughts on Leo, as well as remarkable early performances from Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenbergen, and Crispin Glover!

This week on Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff watch the latest movie from renowned screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman! Based on the novel by Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a surreal, abstract experience that's almost more Lynchian than Kaufman-esque. Does this work in the film's favour? Tune in to find out!

In the pilot episode of Losing It Over Leo , Pierre and Jeff discuss Leonardo DiCaprio's first movie: This Boy's Life . The only movie to feature both Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, This Boy's Life has largely fallen out of the public conscience. That said, is it worth your time? Also, how is the first silver-screen performance from our boy Leo? Tune in to find out!

This week on Classic Movies Live! , we talk about the very last movie to release in Fox's X-Men cinematic universe: The New Mutants ! After years of troubled development, the Maisie Williams/Anya Taylor-Joy Superhero vehicle has finally released! Is New Mutants a glorious last hurrah for the franchise? Or will its legacy instead live in infamy? Tune in as Pierre and Jeff discuss John Hughes, psych...

For the Spotify debut of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts tackle Christopher Nolan's latest masterpiece: Tenet ! Heavily featuring what can most scientifically be called "time shenanigans", Tenet is Nolan at his Nolan-est! But does it pay off? Tune in to hear what our hosts think of this soon-to-be-enduring classic!