Classic Movies Live

Dev Patel stars in an Arthurian moral tale about keeping your promises. Does that sentence spoil the whole movie? Tune in to find out!

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 worthy successor to Unbreakable and Split? Is it even a good movie? Find out as our hosts tackle their first classic movie… live!

What if there was a beach... that made you Old?

This very special episode goes out to friend of the show Andy! Tune in starting next week for season 3!

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…

Promising Young Woman is a bold movie that handles the topic of sexual assault in a way thoroughly unlike any other movie that's come before. Several years after her college best friend Nina was assaulted, Cassie Thomas (Carey Mulligan), now a med-school dropout, spends her nights finding and punishing sexual predators. When she finally discovers Nina's abuser, she sets in motion a plot to avenge...

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 Kaluuya at nearly every other awards show so far! Can Kaluuya expect to walk away with an Oscar this year? What about surprise entrant Lakeith Stanfield? Find out on today's episode of Classic Movies Live!

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 Hopkins. Nominated for six awards, which ones can it win? Could Zeller's debut take Best Picture?

From Sam Levinson, director of the television show Euphoria comes the first film produced entirely during the 2020 pandemic. But is Malcolm & Marie just a quarantine film, or something actually worthwhile? Find out on today's episode of Classic Movies Live!

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. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist is a feature-length celebration of Old Hollywood through the eyes of silent film star George Valentin! As "talkies" become increasingly...

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: How Green Was My Valley!

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.

This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about Boyle's Mumbai-set game show drama. How good is it? Is it an accurate portrayal of India, or even Indian cinema? Come to think of it, why don't we talk about Indian cinema more? The answers to all these questions and more on this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!

In 2005, critics all over the world predicted that Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain would win the 78th Academy Award for Best Picture. Imagine their shock when Crash won instead!

Since earning his Oscar with The Revenant, Leo has only been in one other movie that's released. That movie is none other than his second collaboration with Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood!

Fitting with our theme of Oscar-bait movies leading up to the 93rd Academy Awards, Hillbilly Elegy seems designed to win awards. Will it?

BREAKING NEWS: The Golden Globe nominations for 2021 are out! In this special episode, our hosts discuss the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual celebration of the best movies in Hollywood! *airhorn sound*

This week, our hosts return to the distant past of 2018 to rewatch that year's Best Picture winner: Green Book!

On this episode, Pierre and Jeff travel back to 2010, the year that a movie about Mark Zuckerberg faced off against an LGBTQ psychological horror movie to be Best Picture at the Academy Awards! But which film won that year? None other than The King's Speech!

Now that we're firmly in 2021, and with less than 5 months to go until the Oscars, this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! begins our yearly Oscars coverage! First up, our hosts discuss a likely contender for several categories at this year's Academy Awards, including Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Picture: Minari!

Hot off the heels of Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu re-entered Awards Cinema in 2015 with The Revenant, a half-true story about trapper Hugh Glass. A larger-than-life personality even in reality, Glass is given an extra layer of hyperbole by Leo, here giving perhaps his most animated physical performance ever.

Soul is the second Pixar movie released in 2020, and one of the year's final films. Featuring Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey, Soul tells a story about a jazz pianist at the end of his life, and a soul who has yet to begin theirs. From Pete Docter, director of Inside Out and Up, Soul is another deep Pixar story with weighty themes. How does it stack up against the rest? Tune in this week to find out!

Starring Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and of course Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street is a hilarious and occasionally horrifying look at one man's pursuit of the American Dream at the expense of thousands of others.