Classic Movies Live!

This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts discuss a movie about classic movies! Hollywood, the 1920s. Silent movies were all the rage, and the biggest names in pictures were the biggest names in America! Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Nellie LaRoy, James, Henry! All the stars are here! But when "talkies" came in, things changed. Not everyone who had flourished on the silver screen could handle...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts are back to the DC Universe for a new film about the Girl of Steel, Kara Zor-El! After her incredible minute-and-a-half after-credits scene in last year's Superman , Milly Alcock returns to the big screen as Supergirl, in an adaptation of Tom King's limited series Woman of Tomorrow . The King series is one of the highest-profile and most-acclaimed mode...

Thirty years after Pixar revolutionized the world of 3D animation with Toy Story , they're back to do it again with the fifth entry in a franchise that's been running longer than the age of both its human protagonists combined! In Toy Story 5 , a shipment of fifty Buzz Lightyears, stranded on an island, must learn what it means to be a toy. As the group seeks out a mythical entity they know only a...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , we're back to talking about Steven Spielberg! Disclosure Day is the 37th (!) film by Spielberg, and his first since Indiana Jones 4 to feature aliens! Of course, extra-terrestrials have always been something of a fixation for the E.T. director, with many speculating early on that Mr. Spielberg's latest was to be a stealth-sequel to Close Encounters of a Third Ki...

We're back for the first time in a week with yet another episode of Classic Movies Live! May was a big month for horror, featuring nott one, not two, but three (or more!) major horror titles debuting to an eager box office and excited critical response. In this episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about Hokum , Obsession , and Backrooms (and Mortal Kombat 2 ), with lots of thoughts on each! Which were go...

You've heard our hosts' thoughts on Raiders of the Lost Ark , this week, hear their thoughts on the pre-sequel! Released three years after the first movie, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom serves as a prequel to Raiders , but notably came out before prequels were popular enough to have a term in common parlance. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg wanted to do something as different from the fir...

This week on Classic Movies Live! our hosts have a pre-recorded conversation about a movie... that just came out. Based on the novel Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, The Sheep Detectives features an unlikely group of sleuths investigating a mystery in a small English village. Julie Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, and Chris O'Dowd star as three sheep pooling their collective knowledge of murder myst...

In this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , Jeff is joined by film critic Pedro Lima to talk about the Hot Docs film festival! Now in its 33rd year, Hot Docs celebrates the best in documentary filmmaking, featuring true stories from all around the world. In this episode, our hosts discuss four films from the festival, including American Doctor, Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great...

This week on Classic Movies Live! we're talking about one of the most iconic chick flicks ever made! Or, well, more accurately, the sequel to that movie. The Devil Wears Prada 2 sees the return of Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt in a movie about life at the heights of modern fashion journalism! Twenty years after the events of the first movie, Andy (Hathaway) is a succe...

2026 is the year we look back. A year for reflecting on classic movies... live! In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about one of Steven Spielberg's greatest hits, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ! 45 years after its release, Raiders remains one of the most acclaimed films of all time. A film so central to the careers of Spielberg, Harrison Ford, and George Lucas it's impossible...

In last weeks' episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talked about The Drama , and hinted at another movie it possibly drew inspiration from. This week, it's time to talk about that movie! The Celebration is the first film in the Dogme 95 movement, an artistic exercise by a group of filmmakers led by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg pushing back against what they saw as the excesses of 90...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about the movie that's been on everyone's minds: The Drama ! In the latest from Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, a relationship is rocked right before the wedding when the soon-to-be-spouses reveal to each other the worst thing they've ever done. One of those things is truly messed up. The other is also pretty bad! The Drama is seemingly tail...

In 1993, an enormous corporation gave a small group of creatives the opportunity to create their dream project based on one of the biggest media franchises of all time. Despite behind-the-scenes troubles, including a production schedule that ended up being significantly different than originally planned, the film finally released against all odds... only to be met with relative apathy from the mov...

This week on Classic Movies Live! our hosts take a quick detour to talk about a verified, certified classic! This is the companion piece to our previous episode on No Country for Old Men , covering the other big player at the 80th Academy Awards: There Will Be Blood ! Considered by many to be director Paul Thomas Anderson's magnum opus, There Will Be Blood stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainvie...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , Ryan Gosling returns! Project Hail Mary is a new sci-fi film from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, directors of 21 Jump Street , 22 Jump Street , and The Lego Movie , but most recently best-known as the Oscar-winning producers of Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse ! Written by Drew Goddard -- screenwriter of Ridley Scott's The Martian -- and adapted from a novel...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts leave the Oscars behind to talk about what's sure to be a big player next year: Pixar's Hoppers ! From Daniel Chong, director of Cartoon Network's We Bare Bears , Hoppers stars Piper Curda as Mabel Tanaka, a teenage environmental activist who transports her mind into the body of a mechanical beaver in order to save a glade near her home that's schedule...

This week on Classic Movies Live! our hosts finish this year's Best Picture series! The Secret Agent is the second Brazilian movie in as many years to be nominated for Best Picture! A film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent stars Wagner Moura as Armando, a professor on the wrong side of the Brazilian dictatorship in 1977. Arguably as much a film about a man on the run as it is about life i...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Best Picture lineup to bring you a little of bit of Canadiana. Not just any Canadiana, though, today's movie is a verified Future Classic: Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie ! Spinning out of the beloved cult-classic 2017 Viceland show Nirvanna The Band The Show (itself based on a webseries of the same name from 2007), NTBTSTM follows Matt and Jay as they try...

This week we're talking about a story that was made into a movie, only to be re-made later! I'm not sure what you'd call an episode like that, but here we call it Classic Movies Live! Bugonia is the latest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, remaking the 2003 South Korean classic Save the Green Planet by Jang Joon-hwan. In both films, a powerful pharmaceutical CEO (Emma Stone/Ba...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , we begin our yearly series of going through all the Best Picture Nominees at this year's Oscars. As with every year, we've actually already done most of them. Check out our episodes for F1 , Frankenstein , Hamnet , Marty Supreme , One Battle After Another , Sentimental Value , and Sinners from throughout last year! And look forward to our remaining episodes on B...

We're back with some new films, a new guest, and a new episode of Director Showdown ! In this series, we pit 64 of the biggest directors to debut since 1998 against each other in a head-to-head tournament to determine the greatest director of the last 28 years! In the last episode , occasional Oscar rivals Bong Joon-ho and Adam McKay faced off with two films about classism and economic collapse. I...

It's our first episode of 2026! Kind of! More importantly, it's the season premiere of Classic Movies Live! and this week, our hosts are talking about the sister movie to last year's The Smashing Machine , directed by the Safdie that Venice forgot. In Marty Supreme , directed by Josh Safdie, Marty Mauser (Timothee Chalamet) needs cash now to get to Japan to prove he's the best table tennis player...

In the season finale of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about 6 movies they haven't had the chance to talk about yet! With help from many special guests! Join us as Pierre and Jeff discuss their favourite films of the year, including plenty that are just too strange for us to have devoted a full episode to. Additionally, our hosts discuss the current state of the film industry, and what it's...

Merry Christmas! To celebrate the holidays this year, we're taking things back to one of our favourite series on this show. In fact, long-time listeners may remember that our current cover art template was pioneered with an episode on the second movie in this series. The series I'm talking about, of course, is James Cameron's Avatar . And today, we're talking about the end of the current saga (but...

This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts talk about Shakespeare! Specifically, William Shakespeare, and even more specifically, the rendition of William Shakespeare played by Paul Mescal in Chloe Zhao's most recent film Hamnet . Hamnet is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Maggie O'Farrell, recounting the story of a tragedy in the life of The Bard that preceded the writing of his p...