Classic Movies Live!

In 2019, one of the ideas floated around by two friend who would later become beloved hosts of the greatest movie podcast of all time* was to invite experts to suggest a movie, then host a discussion with said expert live after showing the movie. It could be thought of, in a way, as a sort of discussion of a Classic Movie, Live!, if you will. While the format has since changed, the idea lives on i...

Another year, another Year In Review! On this episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about 5 of their favourite movies from 2022, excluding any already discussed in their own episode! If you've been dying to hear Pierre and Jeff discuss the year's horror heavyweights, or festival favourites, you're in for a treat! This is a spoiler-light episode for all films involved! A full list of the...

Back in 2019, co-hosts Pierre Frigon, p.g.a and Jeff Bulmer, p.g.a. were recording episodes of Classic Movies Live! while waiting with baited breath for a few movies to release that, at that time, seemed like they would never come out. New Mutants , Top Gun: Maverick , and Avatar 2 were all stuck behind so many delays, they seemed distant dreams. But now, at the end of 2022, not only have each of...

Last week, you heard an oral history of Heatwave Radio , but you only got to hear pieces of each interview! In this special Bonus Episode, you can hear each of the interviews we conducted in full, with the only editing done in service of removing radio silence, ums, and ahs. Timestamps for each interview are below! 01 - Interviewee: Meredith Lister, Interviewers: Pierre and Jeff - 0:03:44 02 - Int...

It's the season 3 finale of Heatwave Radio's Classic Movies Live! , this week! But while you certainly know all about classic movies, you may not be as familiar with Heatwave Radio! In an episode months in the making, Pierre and Jeff are about to take you through 8 years of behind-the-scenes with a definitive (unofficial) history of UBC-Okanagan's premiere campus and community radio station! This...

After almost 60 episodes, it's almost time to wrap up this season of Classic Movies Live! , but not before we talk about the epic near-conclusion of the MCU's Phase Four: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ! In the sequel to the smash hit from 2018, Wakanda is at a crossroads. Still grieving the death of their heroic king T'Challa, the formerly isolated African nation suddenly finds itself at the cent...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about Martin McDonagh's latest film, The Banshees of Inisherin ! Starring The Batman -star Colin Farrell alongside the legendary Brendan Gleeson, Banshees is a lot of things. It's a film about loss and friendship, the breaking of seemingly unbreakable bonds, daily life and legacy. But more than anything, it's a movie about an awkward situation tha...

The hierarchy of the DC Universe is about to change. This week, our hosts talk about Black Adam , the most important movie Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has ever made! Tune in as Pierre and Jeff talk about the origins of this incarnation of Black Adam, the faithfulness of The Rock's character to the one in the comics, and the current state of the DC Universe! Also in this episode: our hosts ponder the...

Today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , it's the finale of Season 1! On this week's episode, our hosts talk about Nicolas Winding Refn again, but this time, his best-known movie: Drive ! How does Drive stack up against Valhalla Rising ? What can this movie tell us about Ryan Gosling? And what's ahead for our hosts in Season 2 (you already know this, Season 2 started over a year ago!) Tun...

Do you miss October? Well, you're in luck, because on this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts are talking about two very Fall-vibes television specials! First off, Pierre and Jeff take on Kid Cudi's Entergalactic , an animated romantic comedy that was released on Netflix at the end of September. Then, it's time for yet another entry in Marvel's Phase Four: Werewolf By Night ! Full...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , it's another choice by the Wheel of Movies! A few weeks after reviewing her father's most famous movie (well, one of them), Pierre and Jeff talk about the debut feature of Sofia Coppola! Starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and Kathleen Turner, The Virgin Suicides paints a fascinating portrait of a suffocating suburbia in the late 20th century. Effective in it...

This week on Spooky Movies Live! , it's our annual-ish Halloween episode! One year ago, our hosts took on Halloween Kills , the second movie in the trilogy of David Gordon Green's Halloween reboot. This year, Green's series Ends with the eponymous third movie! Will Halloween end on better note than Kills ? What is the legacy of Michael Meyers?

It's another round of the Wheel of Movies on today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live! Today's movie: Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising . Tune in as our hosts fumble their way through trying to say nice things about Refn's deeply personal Viking epic! Also in this episode: our hosts discuss Sofia Coppola, date the current episode by talking about episodes yet to come, and Pierre makes a...

Since October 26th, 2022, it's been a dream of our hosts to talk about every single movie in James Cameron's Avatar series on the show! Towards that goal, this week's episode sees Pierre and Jeff discuss the recently re-released 2009 movie that started it all! Cameron's 3D, CGI, IMAX, 4DX, etc. extravaganza was lauded at the time for revolutionizing cinema. In the years since, it's been constantly...

In a special, bonus-sized classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff talk for the first time about Michael Bay! Bay, a renowned blockbuster director, has two movies in the Criterion Collection -- essentially the Hall of Fame of movies -- and we'd like to know: why? Tune in as our hosts talk about Armageddon , Bay's epic doomsday disaster movie from 1998 starring Bruce Willis and Ben...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , we're going to talk about two movies! First off, we discuss Justin Long's New Movie -- also called Barbarian -- one of the best examples of trailers giving nothing about the movie away in a long time! There's so much to talk about with Barbarian , but in the spirit of the movie, our review is entirely spoiler-free! Barbarian was previously mentioned in Pierre's...

When it comes to classic movies, who could forget Judd Apatow? In this classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff discuss Apatow's latest movie: a semi-biopic of Pete Davidson, written by the actor himself!

The Wheel of Movies has spoken! This week: Funny Girl! Based on the Tony-nominated musical of the same name, Funny Girl features the film debut of singer/actress/renaissance-woman Barbra Streisand! Chronicling the life of early 20th-century comedienne Fanny Brice and her complicated romance with swindler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif), Funny Girl perfectly recreates the experience of going to a musi...

When it comes to animation, it's hard to beat Disney and Pixar. That said, there's one Japanese studio that consistently challenges the great Western masters. In today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff give their thoughts on Castle in the Sky , the first movie officially released by Hayao Miyazaki's company: Studio Ghibli. Also in this episode: Our hosts introduce the Whe...

On this week's episode, we preview the year to come as Pierre interviews Jeff about his experience at TIFF! Which movies are destined to be this year's greatest? Which highly anticipated movies are actually kind of bad? And generally what's it like to go to a film festival in person? Jeff's full list from TIFF, ranking all the movies he saw, can be found here . This episode also contains clips fro...

Everyone who talks about movies eventually has to talk about Charlie Kaufman. As one of the greatest screenwriters of our time, Kaufman is responsible for indie darlings like Synechdoche, New York, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , and today's movie: Being John Malkovich . In this classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff discuss the deeply psychological, gloriously messed-up...

For the second week in a row, our hosts talk about Adam Sandler! This classic episode of Classic Movies Live! is about one of Jeff's favourite movies of 2019. After Reign Over Me , can Adam Sandler redeem himself as an actor? (Spoiler alert: yes!)

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff finally bond over their shared love of Akira Toriyama's Dragonball ! With a new movie in theatres, our hosts talk about the legacy of Dragonball , as well as the effect of the series on their own lives! And of course, our hosts also talk about that new movie: Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero ! Itself a celebration of the many storylines...

After some heavy episodes like Eyes Wide Shut, Apocalypse Now, and Mulholland Drive , our hosts decided to go a bit lighter with episode 38. Hailed by many as one of Adam Sandler's best performances ever, Reign Over Me features Sandler as a 9/11 widower suffering from PTSD. After reuniting with his college roommate, played by Don Cheadle, Reign follows the two friends as they deal with their perso...

Neil Minow of Common Sense Media wrote in his review of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive : "If you like movies that make sense, "Mulholland Drive" isn't for you." A modern classic of abstract cinema, Mulholland Drive is adored by critics, and generally ignored by mainstream audiences... but not by our hosts! In today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff attempt to talk about on...