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This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about this year's Oscars' Canadian connection! From Korean-Candian director Celine Song, Past Lives is an unconventional almost-romance about missed connections, messy relationships, and uncertain futures. Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro star in this widely-lauded debut which nabbed Song Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best...

Three episodes into our 2024 Best Picture marathon, and we're at the first non-English feature! Directed by Jonathan Glazer and based very loosely on both the book of the same name by Martin Amis and the real life of Rudolf and Hedwig Höss, The Zone of Interest is a terrifying and poignant holocaust film unlike anything else this year. Taking place directly next door to Auschwitz, Zone is just as...

Continuing our Best Picture marathon, our hosts are back to talk about Bradley Cooper's sophomore directing effort: Maestro ! Based on the life of legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and his wife Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), Maestro gives audiences a front-row seat for the triumphs and tribulations of the Great American Composer. Chronicling over 50 years of Bernstein's life, M...

Classic Movies Live! returns for a glorious fifth season, and just like every season, Pierre and Jeff have some excellent surprises in store for 2024! But first! A few years ago, our hosts made it their mission to talk about all the films nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars before the ceremony, and with 4 of the nominees having had dedicated episodes last season, we're starting today on the f...

As another year comes to an end, so too does another season of Classic Movies Live! This year, we've talked about some of the biggest box office events ever, and some of the worst in recent memory. We've discussed veteran directors' latest epics and exciting new features from indie up-and-comers. We've talked about awards, festivals, streamers, and verified classics! But even with all the movies w...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff discuss the first Yorgos Lanthimos movie on this show! Poor Things stars Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, a sheltered young woman who runs away from home to learn everything she can about the world. That description is technically correct, but the latest outing from the director of The Favourite is not only so much more than that, but such a strange,...

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff talk about Godzilla! Set in the aftermath of World War II, Godzilla Minus One stars Ryunosuke Kamiki as Kōichi Shikishima, a former pilot turned minesweeper. Still haunted by his experiences in the war, Shikishima soon finds himself at the centre of a much different, much bigger horror: the colossal amphibious force of nature Godzill...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts discuss the man of their dreams: Nicolas Cage! In the latest film from director Kristoffer Borgli, Cage plays Paul Matthews, an unremarkable university professor who begins appearing in people's dreams. Through no fault of his own, Matthews is suddenly world famous for just sort of standing around. Fame has its perks, of course, but it would have a lot...

Few directors working today are both as prestigious and prolific as Ridley Scott. And few historical figures are as infamous as Napoleon Bonaparte. Finally, the two figures meet in Scott's latest film, a biopic about the ruthless French emperor starring Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role! Covering Napoleon's entire life in a mere two and a half hours, Napoleon is nothing short of a true historica...

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about one of the most infamous behind-the-scenes misfires of all time: The Island of Dr. Moreau . Originally a passion project for British director Richard Stanley, Moreau would drop Stanley partway through filming in favour of veteran director John Frankenheimer, who then proceeded to clash with the enormous personalities of stars Ma...

Welcome to Director Showdown! In this new 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 25 years! In each episode, we'll examine thematically similar movies from two different directors, comparing how each tackles that week's themes, as well as the achievements each film...

On Classic Movies Live! , it's customary for our hosts to, occasionally, talk about a true, certified classic. On today's episode, Pierre and Jeff are joined by Bhavna Sharma, one half of the Bloody Broads to talk about just such a film: Mad Max: Fury Road ! Released in 2015, Fury Road took the world by storm. The first Mad Max film in 30 years, Fury Road featured a complete cast reset, with Tom H...

After almost a decade, the YouTube sensation from the one and only Scott Cawthon finally comes to the big screen! Five Nights at Freddy's is in theatres now, just in time for Halloween! Of course, our hosts were first in line to see the new film from Emma Tammi and Blumhouse, starring Josh Hutcherson and Matthew Lillard alongside a host of Jim Henson animatronics! Is Five Nights, like The Super Ma...

Losing It Over Leo is back with another Scorsese picture, and the first movie to feature both Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro since This Boy's Life ! Killers of the Flower Moon tells the story of the Osage Indian Murders, a series of murders perpetrated against the Osage tribe in Oklahoma during the early 20th century. While Killers features many indigenous people both in front of and behind t...

In this extra spooky episode of Classic Movies Live! our hosts dissect a true horror classic from one of the most influential voices in modern horror: James Wan's The Conjuring ! The "true story" of demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren's most haunting case, The Conjuring stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as expert ghost hunters who must perform an exorcism for the Perrons, a family of seven in...

It's the spookiest time of year, and nothing is spookier than..... Rogue One director Gareth Edwards! On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff talk about The Creator , an original sci-fi film from Edwards starring John David Washington, Gemma Chan, and Ken Watanabe. Releasing at the most topical of times, The Creator takes on human-AI relations while heavily integrating Eas...

It's that time of year again, and this October, our hosts have a whole host of horrific haunts on the horizon! In the first episode of the spookiest season, Pierre and Jeff talk about Scream ! All of them! 😱 From the series' origins with Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson to the requel series directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, we break down the themes and screams of all 6 movies. M...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts talk about the one, the only, the legend Kenny B! For his third Inspector Poirot film, Kenneth Branagh adapts the lesser-known Agatha Christie mystery Hallowe'en Party . Moving the action to Venice instead of rural England, A Haunting In Venice finds a retired Poirot reluctantly brought back to investigate a several-years-old murder alongside mystery w...

The 48th Toronto International Film Festival just ended, and we sent one of our hosts to go watch every movie he could! On today's episode of Classic Movies Live! Pierre interviews Jeff about his experience at #TIFF23. What were the best, worst, and most interesting movies to screen at the festival? We cover as many as we can in this hour-long wrap-up of Canada's biggest film festival! Tune in for...

It's another week of Spielberg here on Classic Movies Live! This week, we talk about one of the movies from the year Spielberg finally got his Best Directing Oscar! If you thought that means we're talking about Schindler's List , think again, we're actually talking about Jurassic Park ! A classic tale of hubris and the man who weaponized his to make an island full of dinosaurs, Jurassic Park would...

Despite their vast, ineffable knowledge of cinematic history, Pierre and Jeff do indeed have a few blindspots, so for the next couple episodes, our hosts are revisiting some old classics. First up, it's the movie that put Steven Spielberg on the map! Jaws was Spielberg's big break! His third film for Universal, second collaboration with John Williams, and first film in his long career of major suc...

This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts discuss the biggest shark in cinema! The Meg series of films stars Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor, a marine biologist/diver/eco-terrorist who repeatedly encounters Megalodons, a species of prehistoric giant shark. Based on a series of novels by Steve Alten, there's certainly more to it than that, but you really can't go wrong with "Statham vs. Shark"! Al...

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live !, we're letting our (g)hosts get spooky! Adapted from the Disney theme park ride of the same name, The Haunted Mansion features a family of colour moving into a secluded mansion only to discover that it's inhabited by 999 ghosts... but there's always room for one more. To avoid becoming the 1000th ghost, the family teams up with a wacky band of charac...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , we're talking about a Netflix Original! From first-time director Juel Taylor, They Cloned Tyrone stars John Boyega, Teyonah Paris, and Jamie Foxx as three friends who uncover a vast cloning conspiracy below their town. But if that sounds strange, buckle up because that's hardly the half of it! Reminiscent of blaxploitation films of the 70s and 80s, as well as we...

In this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts are once again talking about Turtles! Longtime listeners will remember that both Pierre and Jeff are lifelong fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, so it only makes sense that our hosts cover the latest reboot from Seth Rogen and Jeff Rowe! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem features the titular turtles as you've nev...