Cut and Splice: Reviewing, discussing and analyzing movies

We follow up our last silent movie selection with a visit to these two masterpieces by Chaplin. We start with a 19 minute review before getting into spoilers. Towards the end we discuss cases where dramatic directors attempt to do comedy and bring up some directors that we would find interesting if they tried.

We give a 15 minute review for this romp of a silent movie before getting into the details. We later take a couple of detours towards the end and also tease our next release.

We give a 13 minute review before getting into spoilers on this Sci-Fi epic that has grown in popularity over the years and is slowly cementing itself as a classic.

In this bonus episode we briefly discuss some of the better examples of "landing the plane" properly in trilogies and other cases where third movies worked well or not.

We give a 29 minute review of this nebulous journey into the unknown before getting into spoilers. Somehow Inception's ending rears its head and we revisit that debate while trying to crack some of the meaning and themes explored in this piece.

We give a 31 minute review of these two sci-fi epics before getting into the details in comparing and contrasting their style, story and themes. There are some spoilers for 2001 in the review portion, but it's also a tough movie to spoil.

The tail end of our last episode took us in various directions worth sharing separately. We start by discussing a couple of other movies relating to death. Jason ranks Shawn Levy's movies. We give some thoughts about Ben Stiller, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Affleck. We also discuss other comedy directors and the trend of some of them moving into other genres. Lastly we touch on when politics gets mi...

We give a 19 minute review before getting into spoilers on this comedy with a blockbuster cast that dabbles in the Jewish grieving ritual of Shiva. Gil gets to share and contrast his own experience of the ritual while mourning his mother in Israel.

We give an 18 minute review before getting into spoilers on what is likely George Clooney's most substantial contribution to movies as a filmmaker. An underappreciated gem that still feels current to where we are. We get to discuss a little bit of what the media landscape has become and how it relates to the themes explored in the film.

Our friend Avihai joins us for this discussion about Snyder's big Sci-Fi swing which he was a crew member on. He shares some fun details about the production. We give a 30 minute review before getting into details and also spoil Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven along the way. We also bring up other topics such as the rise of the director/cinematographer and the popularity of the docuseries...

We have a second go at our directors cage match. This one was closer than the last. We get to delve into most of their movies as well as compare and contrast their careers and styles.

The camera steals the show in this propaganda movie which we've long been meaning to discuss. It's a tough movie to spoil but we're mostly spoiler free for the first 35 minutes before getting into more details. Gil also shares the experience he had showing the movie to his late mother in law Susy who was born in Cuba and spent her early years there. She passed away close to a year ago...

Our Dune episode devolved into an argument about whether it is Sci-Fi at all and what are the common differences between Sci-Fi and fantasy. Along the way we spoil movies such as Moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ender's Game.

We delve into the recent Dune movies along with our resident Dune expert, Jason. We start with a 20 minute review before getting into spoilers which involve some disagreements between us.

Probably our longest episode to date, it was too epic to fit in one recording session, mostly cause we lost Matt halfway through and had to pick it up on a second session. We do a quick review and rankings in the first 14 minutes before getting into spoilers. There was a lot of praising, but also noting the various ham sandwiches Nolan was serving.

We talk about all things trilogies using an old meme as a jumping off point. This will lead us into our next major episode which is related to the subject. Check out the meme on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=574474745173477&set=a.163729132914709

We start with a 21 minute review and bring up our favorite Dennis Quaid performances. From there we go into spoilers and get into a far ranging conversation about various conflicts around the world, the connection this movie has to "The Searchers", the cars and weapons used in the movie, and end with touching on how a version of the game "heads up, seven up" is played in Israel. We also foreshadow...

We take a few minutes to discuss the various Star Trek movies and veer in other directions along the way. Matt also tells us about the time he met Leonard Nimoy.

Different timeline, same franchise. We spend 27 minutes reviewing both movies before going into spoilers and continue the comparing of the older to the newer.

We take a few minutes to discuss Eric Bana and Matt brings up the infamous and defunct Genesis camera.

We compare these two prolific giants of American Cinema. Along the way we spoil Shutter Island, Minority Report and Munich.

We went on a little unplanned hiatus but after 100 or so episodes, we are looking forward to sharing the next 100. We give a 26 minute review before getting into spoilers and delving into the moral complexities of this John Grisham adaptation. Later on we also spoil Get Out, so beware if you haven't seen it.

Gil finally got around to seeing the first John Wick and was troubled by what he saw that he had to share and get some feedback from Jason and Matt.

Jason subjects Gil and Matt to this objectionable piece of...cinema? We start with a 23 minute review before getting into the gory details.

Amusingly in our last episode we couldn't get a good answer from Matt about his favorite childhood movies only to end up doing a full episode about one of his favorites as a kid. We start with a 31 minute review which involves a discussion about board games and we then get into the details of this who done it mystery.