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Welcome back to the fourth episode of Director Showdown! In this series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to debut since 1998 against each other in an elimination bracket to determine who will be crowned the greatest director of the last 26 years! In the last episode , we talked about ensemble films centred around crime, and the way a skilled director is able to bring large casts of characters t...

This week's Classic Movies Live is for all the seniors in the audience! We're talking about Thelma , the action-comedy starring June Squibb and Richard Roundtree that took Sundance 2024 by storm! In Josh Margolin's feature directorial debut, Thelma (Squibb) teams up with her old friend Ben (Roundtree) to get $10.000 back from a phone scammer, in a bid to prove that she's perfectly capable of livin...

We're just over halfway through the year, and our hosts might have found the best film of 2024. This week on Classic Movies Live: Twisters ! Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, Twisters is a legacy sequel -- but really more of a spiritual successor -- to 1996's Twister . If you haven't seen the first one, though, you can still watch this one! In Twisters , meteorologist Kate Carter (Daisy Edgar-Jones) re...

This week on Classic Movies Live, we're talking about the biggest movie in the world again! The 24th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Deadpool & Wolverine just took movie theatres by storm, taking up a colossal number of screens, and raking in hundreds of millions of dollars before the end of a single week! But is Deadpool & Wolverine really an MCU movie? Or is it the last gasp of t...

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live , our hosts are the last people to finally talk about Longlegs ! Starring Nicolas Cage as a serial killer and Maika Monroe as an FBI Agent, Oz Perkins' riff on The Silence of the Lambs took the world by storm with its committed viral marketing. Hailed as one of -- if not THE -- scariest movie of 2024 so far, Longlegs has gotten rave reviews praising th...

This week on Classic Movies Live, oue hosts finally devote an entire episode to A Quiet Place after briefly discussing the series as part of our Summer Round-Up all the way back in 2021! A Quiet Place: Day One has John Krasinski passing the directing reigns over to Michael Sarnoski, director of Pig , for a more intimate story in the immediate aftermath of an alien invasion. Lupita Nyong'o and Jose...

Welcome back to the third episode of Director Showdown! In this series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to debut since 1998 against each other in an elimination bracket to determine who will be crowned the greatest director of the last 26 years! In the last episode we examined juvenile tragedy through the lens of Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique and Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin ,...

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about the second Yorgos Lanthimos film in just as many years! Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemmons, and Willem Dafoe, alongside an ensemble supporting cast, Kinds of Kindness is a "triptych fable", an anthology spanning three unique stories loosely related via theme and the mysterious initials "RMF." Described by some as Lanthimos' "me...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about a new Pixar movie for the first time since Onward ! A sequel to the 2015 instant-classic about the emotional inner life of a young girl, Inside Out 2 introduces new emotions as Riley goes through puberty. During a weekend at hockey camp in her summer before high school, Riley's head is hijacked by new emotion Anxiety (Maya Hawke), whose crew...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about a Canadian Film! Billed as a slasher film from the perspective of the killer, In a Violent Nature is a meditative experience somewhere between a depraved horror flick and an ASMR video. The film follows Johnny, a terrifying force of nature, as he walks through the woods, stalks dumb teenagers, and commits acts of debauchery that would make M...

Welcome back to Director Showdown! In this series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to debut since 1998 against each other in an elimination bracket to determine who will be crowned the greatest director of the last 26 years! In the first episode , we looked at how Antoine Fuqua and Pete Docter handled institutional corruption with Training Day and Monsters, Inc. , with Pete Docter advancing to...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , the highly-awaited prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road ! In this episode, Pierre and Jeff dissect George Miller's latest tale from the Wasteland, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga . Starring Anya Taylor-Joy in the titular role, Furiosa shows the backstory of the breakout star of Fury Road . From her early days in the Green Place to her ascension to praetorian of the Citadel, Fu...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts take a look at a soft-reboot of a hard-reboot of an older series. From Maze Runner director Wes Ball, it's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ! In this mostly spoiler-free episode, Pierre and Jeff discuss the religious undertones of the latest Apes movie, as well as their experiences with the Matt Reeves movies, and hopes for the series going forward.

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts discuss another film re-releasing in celebration of an important anniversary! Twenty-five years ago, the world finally got to lay eyes on George Lucas' grand vision of the backstory for his blockbuster series Star Wars . Starting with The Phantom Menace , Lucas presented a new vision of a Galaxy Far Far Away, which would prove controversial among fans...

100 years ago, Harry and Jack Cohn, along with Joe Brandt, founded Columbia Pictures. 20 years ago, Columbia Pictures would be responsible for distributing Spider-Man 2 , the sequel to Evil Dead director Sam Raimi's movie about the Marvel superhero that would be hailed as one of the greatest superhero movies of all time. Just this year, Sony, the parent company of Columbia and license-holder for t...

On October 31st, 1992, BBC1 aired a special news program about a haunting. It would air only once. Ghostwatch is often held up alongside War of the Worlds as one of the most successful pranks in the history of broadcast entertainment. An hour and a half television movie starring famous newscasters aired as a special report, Ghostwatch successfully fooled many in the UK into believing they'd just w...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts get apolitical talking about the second American Civil War! The fourth directed feature from Alex Garland, Civil War stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny and Steven McKinley Henderson as journalists in a near-future documenting the final days of a second American Civil War. Is the war a possible future for the United States? In a bold move,...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts discuss Dev Patel's directorial debut, Monkey Man ! Drawing inspiration from Korean action movies, John Wick, and most importantly the myth of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as n underground boxer intent on getting revenge on the man who stole his childhood. But more than a simple revenge thriller, Monkey Man is a political statement on the state of m...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts take a more detailed look at one of Jeff's favourite movies of 2023, Late Night With the Devil ! Centred around the fictional talk show "Night Owls with Jack Delroy", Late Night stars David Dastmalchian as one of the only variety show hosts ever to give Johnny Carson a run for his money. With his show at risk of getting cancelled, Jack Delroy devises a...

Happy Easter, everyone! This week on Classic Movies Live! , we talk about Sidney Sweeney's latest film about a virgin birth: Immaculate ! Immaculate stars Sweeney as Sister Cecilia, an American nun transplanted to an Italian convent, who becomes pregnant through an apparent miracle. As Cecilia's pregnancy progresses, it quickly becomes clear that all is not as it seems at this isolated nunnery in...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about the movie Jeff famously called "the best movie nominated for anything at the Oscars"! Pablo Berger's Robot Dreams , based on the graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon, is about a lonely Dog and his Robot friend. After spending a wonderful summer together, the two are separated and must find their ways back to each other, or move on wi...

After a mad dash to complete the rest of the Oscars nominees before the ceremony, it's time for our hosts to slow down a bit and talk about some of the great films they missed in 2023. First on the list: Saltburn ! Emerald Fennell's second feature has been described as The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Brideshead Revisited . Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver Quick, an Oxford scholarship student who become...

The culmination of our Best Picture episodes! Having now talked about everything nominated for Best Picture at the 2024 Academy Awards, our hosts discuss the event itself. Did Jimmy Kimmel nail it yet again? How about that John Cena moment? What did we think about the winners? Also in this episode, our hosts talk about the awards show they hosted: The 4th Annual Deathies! You can watch the replay...

It's the week before the biggest night in Hollywood, and our hosts are talking about the final Best Picture nominee: Anatomy of a Fall . Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars, Anatomy just won all five of those awards and more at this year's Cesar Awards! Justine Triet's Palme d'Or winning legal drama dissecting a couple's...

In this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff discuss Cord Jefferson's universally-acclaimed directorial debut American Fiction . Frustrated by his lack of authorial success and the expectations imposed on black writers, and dealing with expensive family tragedies, Thelonious "Monk" Ellison (Academy Award nominee Jeffrey Wright) writes a cliche-ridden parody of the kind of black...