Exiting Through The 2010s

Zach Lamplugh (filmmaker, 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot) is with us to talk all things doping in sports with 2017's Icarus. Although we see shades of other docs we have covered here like Citizenfour and Inside Job, Icarus has enough going for it to stand out like Bryan Fogel's sly direction, how our first Trump-era oscar-winning doc affects this winning the oscar, and how Netflix pu...

Dan Mecca (The Film Stage, The B-Side) is back for the longest movie we've ever covered in 30 for 30's damning portrait of OJ Simpson in O.J.: Made In America. Does this even count as a movie or is this a tv show? Is this the strongest set of best documentary nominees in the decade? Is OJ still as famous and beloved as he was decades ago? All this and more on this episode with jack and clay!

We're joined by Sydney Urbanek (The Guardian) again while we revisit the tragedy of one of the 21st century's most iconic musicians with Amy Winehouse in Asif Kapadia's Amy. You'll hear us dig into the media's vicious attacks on Winehouse's behavior while she was with us, our different experiences with her music and the unique way the film was constructed with subtracting talking head interviews&n...

Bilge Ebiri (New York Magazine, Vulture) returns to revisit Citizenfour with us, the doc which gives us an intimate look at whistleblower Edward Snowden and which also happened to be one of the most celebrated Oscar-winning docs of the decade. With topics including how our public relationship with Glenn Greenwald has evolved over the years and Poitras' decision to put herself in the film, for bett...

We're welcomed by the great Valerie Faye (We Need To Talk About Kevin) to dissect "20 Feet From Stardom", the award-winning doc pulling back the curtain on the role of best backup singing in many decades of music. We'll touch on the career of Morgan Neville, mistakes Neville made in making the singers distinct from one another, and how different all our taste in music is 

Arlin Golden (Wiseman podcast, Video Project) joins us to reflect on the sensation of Rodigeuiz in "Searching for Sugar Man", a movie that reveals itself to be a love letter to a musician in a bygone era more than anything else. We all agreed in the ep this would make a perfect episode on "Documentary Now" and the specific stigma that comes with winning best doc feature 

We have Tyler Harford here with us to talk Undefeated, a pretty good documentary about high school football that just so happened to win the oscar. Even though there's not much to go into with the doc itself, topics include the toxic masculinity that football brings out of American men and the awkward absence of race found within Coach Courtney's relationship with the players 

It's the start of a new 2010s award winners miniseries this time with the oscar-winning documentaries, starting off in the year 2010, its Inside Job. The lovely Roxana Hadadi (Vulture, Roger Ebert) is back with us to talk about Charles Ferguson's take on current event issues rather than Aaron Sorkin or Adam McKay, the use of Matt Damon as narrator, and starting our ten episodes long conversation i...

Who is considered to be one of the most versatile actresses we currently have, Charlize Theron, continued to increase her stock in the 2010s and then helmed Atomic Blonde in 2017 with the co-director of the already popular John Wick series in David Leitch. With us is Emily Jacobson (Film Daze) to talk about the lack of conspiracy spy thrillers nowadays and poor needle-drop uses we see here 

We welcome Abby Monteil (Elite Daily, Insider) to an episode about a very important movie in the last year of the decade in Celine Sciamma's swooning romance. Examining the female gaze, NEON's dominant 2019 slate and Sciamma's process into the meticulous planning with all aspects of the film 

We have Peyton Robinson here to chat about 2014's moody thriller with Dan Gilroy's directorial debut. Leading us to talk more about our love of jake gyllenhaal and if this is his best performance of the decade or his entire career. Other portrayals of the newsroom in cinema and careers of the Gilroy brothers

We welcome the wonderful Jonah Koslofsky (The Spool) for his pick in The Master and its elusive nature nine years later. We gave a tribute to the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, how the oscar failed to celebrate the film and what could just be one of Jack's favorite first time viewing experiences 

Lucy May returns to chat about David Fincher's perfectly crafted thriller and all the right and wrong lessons we look from it after 2014. While also talking about Rosamund Pike's career post her nomination here and writer and novelist Gillian Flynn's rise to popularity in film

Jen Johans (Film Intuition, Watch With Jen) is here as we use James Mangold's globe-trotting thriller as an in to talk the action stars as an endangered brand in the 2010s. With looking at the careers of Cruise and Diaz and movies that are destined to play on FX

The delightful Carrie Courogen (Bright Wall Dark Room) brought Mistress America to us, which leads us to gush about Greta Gerwig even more than we already have before for two hours. As well as the more discussions on New York on film, Baumbach's homage to screwball comedies and how underrated is Lola Kirke

We welcome Brad Avery on to deconstruct the third collaboration between Pete Berg and Mark Wahlberg in the decade and the second in 2016, focusing on the tragedy at the Boston marathon. Taking a look at Wahlberg inserting himself into modern American true stories, how soon is too soon to tell a true story on film Jack and Brad's connection to Boston 

Cassidy Olsen (Little White Lies, Boston Globe) joins us to chat about the provocative world of Harmony Korine in the neon-drenched and Florida set Spring Breakers. Three of us get into Harmony's fascinating appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman in the late 90s, a sly commentary on cultural appropriation seen underneath all the drugs and guns as well as Franco being considered up there...

We put our whole chest into Abba tunes with the amazing Emmy Potter (Bright Wall Dark Room) in another sequel from the decade that nobody really asked for. Getting into the deceptive marketing with promising Meryl Streep's return, how the restrained sexiness hurts the movie overall, and what directors do we wanna see make a musical 

Joe Wright's 2010s work is uh, interesting! If you're an apologist of his work like guest Andrew Kendall (Stabroek News) or think he is just another banal, awards season friendly filmmaker, we're starting to talk about his career with his adaptation of Anna Karenina. We'll dissect the career of Kiera Knightly, bringing classic literature to screen and segues into the 2012 oscars and why it was snu...

In our first entry into the world of Kelly Reichardt, its the pacific northwest set acclaimed thriller in Night Moves. Jack, Clay and Saffron Maeve (Little White Lies) touch on the career of Jesse Eisenberg and Clay's own experience living in the Portland he recognizes in the movie

The delightful Carrie Wittmer (The Cut, GQ, The Ringer) joins us to celebrate what's now considered beacons of kindness and manners- that's just disguised as another "CGI animals interacting with human actors" in Paul King's Paddington series. We touch on Paddington 2's well-timed release regarding other world events, crying during movies and what Paul King did to make them as perfect as they are

Beloved playwright Kenny Lonergan has had an infamously troubled production history with his operatic tale of grief and post 9/11 NYC with failure at the box office and mixed critical reception and now it's the pick from Charlie Nash (Boson Reel, Cine Essential) as one of the 2010s very best. We get into the amount of HBO regular actors we've spotted throughout the movie, major differences between...

Its the end of high school with the decade's last great coming of age story in Olivia Wilde's directorial debut and Nia Tucker is here to breakdown the movie's relatability at its core. Diving deep into cinematic sincerity, the promising young careers of Feldstein and Dever and why the movie ultimately failed at the box office

Just delighted to have Liz Shannon Miller (Collider) with us as we unpack the Magic Mike movies, which were slightly misunderstood at the time. Along with looking at the first half of Channing Tatum's career, what makes XXL such an improvement from the first and Soderbergh's particular use of the male gaze

Talking 2016's underrated contained thriller in The Invitation this ep and Abby Olcese (Cinemaholics, The Pitch) joins us to get into all things Karyn Kusama's rough career so far and how this could have the best final shot of the decade