Classic Movies Live!

Tom Cruise is back in his first auteur-driven project since Vanilla Sky (or maybe Tropic Thunder if you subscribe to Ben Stiller auteur theory). And this time, he's teamed up with two-time Best Director Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu! We last talked about Iñárritu on an episode of Director Showdown , where his film Babel was up against Steve McQueen's Widows . Today, Iñárritu's latest film Dig...

This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts dive deep into the world of 2006! As the War on Terror rages on, one man has the idea to tackle an ancient evil Stateside for Dateline NBC . Robert Pattinson stars as Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim's narrative feature debut Primetime ! Primetime takes on the newsman and his show To Catch A Predator , examining the cultural phenomenon as a skeleton key...

After a short break, we're back to talk about the Festival of Festivals! Toronto International Film Festival's TIFFty-First edition just wrapped up, and Jeff was on the scene! In this episode, Pierre and Jeff discuss some key selections from the TIFFty-odd films Jeff saw. What were the highlights? The lowlights? What will you hear more about on this season of Classic Movies Live ? Tune in as our h...

This week, for the first time in 5 years, Classic Movies Live! is recorded in person with a live studio audience! Our hosts met up in Toronto and went to the movies, and now they're here to tell you all the amazing story of the little film that could: Coyote vs. Acme ! Directed by Dave Green and adapted from an article by Ian Frazier, Coyote vs. Acme fuses classic Looney Tunes shenanigans with ear...

It's been 10 years since Warren Beatty stood on stage at the Dolby Theatre and watched in horror as Faye Dunaway announced La La Land to be the winner of the 89th Academy Award for Best Picture. Why in horror? Well, because, as it turned out, La La Land was not the winner of that year's award. However, 10 years on, the movie has remained a cultural touchstone of the 21st century. Not only did it g...

This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts become the last people on Earth to talk about the only thing on anyone's mind: the return of Spider-Man to the silver screen! Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the fourth Spider-Man movie in the MCU, the 9th live-action Spider-Man movie since 2000, and the 10th overall. It's the 8th movie to feature Tom Holland as Marvel's premiere webhead (although one of t...

Almost 20 years after The Last Crusade putt a nice bow on Indiana Jones' adventures, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas decided to get the gang back together for one last ride. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sees an aging Indiana Jones fighting communists in a post-WWII world, now joined by a kid named Mutt (Shia Labeouf) who may as well be his son. It also sees the triumphant r...

This week on Classic Movies Live! our hosts continue the Indiana Jones series! Last time, Pierre and Jeff talked Temple of Doom , the strange middle child of the series. On this episode, Spielberg and Lucas return to form with The Last Crusade . But, if The Last Crusade is a return to form... is that a good thing? Tune in as our hosts examine the next chapter in the careers of Spielberg, Lucas, an...

Anytime Chris Nolan has a new movie out, it's guaranteed to be the blockbuster event of the summer, and 2026 is no different! When last our hosts took on a Nolan movie, it was 2023's Oppenheimer. Now it's time for something of a spiritual sequel, a thematic twin, if you will: The Odyssey! Based on one of the greatest stories ever told, the epic poem by Homer, The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseu...

This week on Classic Movies Live , our hosts talk about a Sundance darling that recently exploded into the mainstream. From hit director Olivia Wilde comes the movie everyone is talking about: The Invite ! Adapted by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones from the 2020 film The People Upstairs by Cesc Gay, The Invite stars Wilde and Seth Rogen as a couple with marital problems who over invite their upst...

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...