Exiting Through The 2010s

We continue on with the best international feature Oscar winners and welcome Conor O’Donnell (The B-Side podcast, The Film Stage) for Lazlo Nemes’ directorial debut in SON OF SAUL! Together we focus on the reputation surrounding the film’s perspective on the Holocaust, how it sneakily inspired films to use similar formal techniques, and the film ends up feeling like more MUNICH than SCHINDLERS LIS...

Rafa Sales Ross (Little White Lies, Variety, Letterboxd) returns as we continue the best International feature Oscar winners, this episode for Paolo Sorrentino’s meditative THE GREAT BEAUTY! Together we compare the film to The Fabelmans and its views on creativity, Clay starts a project going through Denzel Washington’s filmography and Italian cinema’s greatest strength as carrying pathos through...

Megan Brady (I’m Screaming podcast) returns for Pawel Pawlikowski’s understated meditation on grief and loneliness in 2014’s Ida. Together we get into the 2023 Oscar race, how Agata Trzebuchowska was cast in the film and how close Pawlikowski almost made it into the best director race

Jordan Raup (The Film Stage) joins us as we continue the Best International Features Oscar winners series with 2012’s Amour . Together we’ll discuss that THR writters roundtable with Michael Haneke discussing the moral dilemma of filming the holocaust with Judd Apatow and John Krasinski sitting next to him, the arresting performances from Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva and Best Interna...

Justin and Laura Khoo (Cows in the Field podcast) are back for Asghar Farhadi’s thriller from 2011 with A Separation. Together we touch on Farhadi’s recent controversy, divorce as a bureaucratic crisis, and God’s Not Dead

This episode we start out fourth miniseries on 2010s awards winners! This time, we begin to cover the Best International Feature Oscar winners and In a Better World (Denmark) from Susanne Bier to start us off. Alex Kittle joins us as we touch on the politics of each country having a film to represent them, the gripping performances and how much the film feels like awards bait in hindsight

Former interim cohost Tyler Harford returns for 2017’s dark comedy in Ingrid Goes West. We discussed the career of Aubry Plaza, how the film is ahead of its time in satirizing social media influencer culture, and Yellowstone

Leslye Headland's directorial debut still remains polarizing ten years later. A mix of the trappings found in many early 2010s studio comedies along with an adaptation from Headland's play of the same name, Kevin Tudor, Bryden Doyle and Charlie Nash (Almost Major podcast) brings us the film. Together we discuss Kirsten Dunst in the 2010s, comparisons to The Hangover and Bridesmaids and unconventio...

We welcome Jim Laczkowski (Director's Club podcast) for 2011's Take Shelter! Together we discuss the ending, Jeff Nichols' thoughtful portrayal of mental illness and dream sequences in film

Morgan Roberts joins us for the romantic comedy Ruby Sparks featuring real-life couple Paul Dano and written by Zoe Kazan and directed by real-life couple Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. Together we praise Kazan's breakdown of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl," the career of "Steady Eddy" Chris Messina and Sundance films' version of leading men

Cassidy Olsen returns for Joe Wright's overlooked coming-of-age thriller in Hanna. Together we examine Saoirse Ronan's 2010s once more, the score by The Chemical Brothers and that tv adaptation that doesn't exist 

Scout Tafoya (author of Cinemaphagy: On the Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper ) and Tucker Johnson return for Steven Spielberg's quiet historical drama in 2012's Lincoln. Together we'll go over the sprawling ensemble (aside from JGL), Tony Kushner's winning screenplay and overlooked aspects of Spilberg

We welcome Hit Factory podcast, who covers the films of the 90s and we cover the 2010s, our collab was only a matter of time! Today they bring us Ridley Scott's polarizing The Counselor with the episode including Kenan Thompson, The Rihanna Cut, Michael Fassbender's accent work and the loss of Tony Scott felt throughout the film and Ridley's films proceeding this one

We're podding with Kambole Campbell (Empire, Little White Lies)  through multiple universes as we talk Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse from 2018! Discussion includes this being the best superhero film of the 2010s, if this will be a foundational film for this generation filmmakers and the involvement the Sony leaks had in the production 

Valerie Ettenhofer (Slash film, Film School Rejects) joins us for Agnes Varda and JR's ode to art and memory in 2017's Faces Places. We get into the moments that made us cry, the legacy of Varda in the 2010s, and that one time Madonna wanted to remake Cleo From 5 to 7

We're joined by Leah Carlson-Downie (Fang Club, Oscar's Podcaast) for Joe Cornish's directorial debut in Attack The Block and the love for the film that's grown since. We'll get into John Boyega's career, if this qualifies as a cult classic and selling this with the Edgar Wright brand

Brett der Wiese (Brettriculture) returns for Shin Godzilla and what the reboot looks like after 2014's Godzilla. We get into the history of the franchise as well as how Godzilla evolved in the 2010s 

Marya Gates (The Playlist, Roger Ebert) joins us for Nic Winding Refn's iconic Drive. We dig into Albert Brooks' near oscar nomination, the sound design category at the Oscars, and movie theater audience reactions 

We welcome Oscar Goff (Boston Hassle) to the pod and talk about 2016's Hail, Caesar! and the Coen Brothers' interrogation of why they love making movies. Discussing the careers of Josh Brolin and Alden Ehrenreich, how we look at this post-Coen breakup and why this didn't work for audiences at the time

We welcome Vice Victus (Polygon) to the pod for the last episode of our month-long series on action films of the 2010s! We'll unpack 2010s wars films, how this became a box office success in South Korea and turning a historical naval commander into an action star 

Jordan Crucchiola (Disaster Girls, Vulture) is back to be the ambassador for the maligned legacy sequel, Terminator: Dark Fate. We'll discuss the career of Mackenzie Davis, the trouble production between creative differences with Tim Miller and Jim Cameron and how Dark Fate failed at the box office in the fall of 2019

Action month continues as we're joined by Alex Rallo (One Perfect Headshot) joins us for Peter Chan's 2011 thriller Dragon. We talk about the career of Donnie Yen, what makes the great modern action star and hard to track down/forgotten films 

WIlliam Goodman (Complex) joins us to chat about the most recent output from the Mission Impossibles and when we saw Chris McQuarrie become the overseer of the franchise. As well as getting into the career of Rebecca Ferguson, how the action sequences hold up so well since 2015 and 2018 and comparing Rogue Nation to other 2015 sequels we've covered like Mad Max: Fury Road or Magic Mike XXL

Jen Johans (Film Intuition, Watch with Jen podcast) returns to kick off our collection of episodes apart of action month! Very excited to bring a genre-themed month within these next five weeks; first up is Phillip Noyce's Salt! We talk about Angelina Jolie in the 2010s, cloak and dagger thrillers that exist exclusively on cable, and the film's needless alternate ending

Peyton Robinson (JumpCut, Roger Ebert) is back for the defense of the NYSM duology we've been waiting for and why they should be remembered as better action comedies than their reputation suggests. We'll also get into the career of Woody Harrelson in the 2010s, best versus favorite films, the perspective and tone in making a heist film