CML Classics

After a brief hiatus, we're back with another episode of Classic Movies Live! And with the entirety of June behind them, it's time to recap some of the biggest (and dud-iest) movies of the summer! In this episode, Pierre and Jeff run through the movies they each saw during June, including The Flash , Asteroid City , and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny . Were any of this year's most hotly-ant...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

Another week, another classic episode of Classic Movies Live! This week, our hosts excitedly got back to talking about new movies with Da 5 Bloods ! Spike Lee's collaboration with Netflix was highly anticipated at the time, and was making waves as an early Oscars contender. It wasn't to be, ultimately, but that didn't stop our hosts from breaking it down right when it came out!

On this week's classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts take a quick break from war to discuss a deeply psychological neo-western. Considered by some to be Joel and Ethan Coen's greatest movie, No Country For Old Men features Josh Brolin as a man who comes into possession of five million dollars, only to learn he's being hunted by the mysterious hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). Tun...

This week, we flash back to a very special episode of Classic Movies Live !, in which our hosts discussed one of the greatest movies of all time: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now! An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness set during the Vietnam War, Coppola's war epic tackles both the infamous war and the darkness of the human mind. Though it's since been eclipsed by a few episodes,...

Today's classic episode sees our hosts talking about Tony Leung Chiu-wai for the first time! On Classic Movies Live !, Pierre and Jeff discuss exclusively classic movies. But not all classics are made in California! Today, our hosts take on a movie from Hong Kong. But not just any Hong Kong movie: we're talking about 2002's Infernal Affairs , winner of the Best Film award at Hong Kong's 22nd Film...

The enduring classics of tomorrow, today!

In today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff take on their second Stanley Kubrick film, Eyes Wide Shut ! Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Kubrick's final movie is a tense, two-and-a-half-hour-long erotic thriller completed only days before the director's death. So how does it stack up against Kubrick's other films, particularly the subject of last week's episode, A Cl...

Welcome back, vecks and devotchkas, to Classic Movies Live! A dobby podcast where Jeff and Pierre discuss real horrorshow cine every week! In today's episode, our hosts talk about Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange . Give it a sloosh! Also in today's episode: what's going on with New Mutants ? Will it be featured on a future episode of the show? Which episode will that be? (Since yo...

On today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff talk about a true classic of modern cinema: the 2017 low-budget horror classic The Velocipastor . You may have heard us mention it in past (future?) episodes: this is quite frankly, one of the best movies we've ever reviewed on the show. From first-time director Brendan Steere, Velocipastor is a movie tackling themes of religion,...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: It's finally time. On this, the most anticipated episode of CML Classics , Pierre and Jeff discuss the greatest racing movie of all time, Need for Speed . This 2014 movie could be responsible for launching the careers of Rami Malek, Dakotah Johnson, and Imogen Poots, while revitalizing the career of Michael Keaton! So should the Aaron Paul-led blockbuster be c...

Shockingly, it would take almost 30 episodes and one global pandemic before Pierre and Jeff finally discussed a Pixar film, but when Tom Holland and Chris Pratt star in the last movie to release in theatres before the world shuts down, well, what better time could there be? Directed by the same guy who did Monsters University , is Onward the next Toy Story , or yet another forgettable entry in the...

In 2011, enemy of the people Steven Soderbergh made an oddly-prophetic movie about a global pandemic. In 2020, resident film experts Pierre and Jeff rewatched that movie to see how it compared to the real thing! In the second episode recorded from their home studios, our hosts discuss one of the best of the early 2010s' disaster movies and look at how well the world of Contagion mirrors the real w...

In yet another classic episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts discussed a movie which released just in time to be pulled from theatres! But what was this controversial movie, you may ask? What could be so bad that it was released to theatres only to be pulled before its time? Well, remember, dear listener, that we lived for a time in a world that pulled every movie from theatres, including Th...

Take a trip down memory lane to that first week of no movies in 2020! In this classic episode, Pierre and Jeff cope with the fact that they won't be talking about A Quiet Place Part 2 and Fast 9 for a bit. If you're a regular listener, you will have already heard those episodes, but if you're a really regular listener, you'll also remember the year or so where no one even knew when those episodes...