Exiting Through The 2010s

Josh Polanski (The Boston Hassle) joins us for a retrospective on the finale of the PWSA films for the much-maligned Resident Evil franchise in 2012’s Retribution and 2016’s The Final Chapter. Together, we examine Michelle Rodriguez’s career, updating video games into films, viewing the franchise through a theological lens and what we watched on January 6th

Izzy from Be Kind Rewind joins us for Christian Petzold’s Transit ! We discuss the use of a period piece setting, the chemistry between Paula Bear and Franz Rogowski and oppression in Petzold’s filmography

Veronica Phillips (Filmdaze, The Daily Beast) joins us for Sarah Polley’s dissection into monogamy with Take This Waltz! Together we dive into the careers of Seth Rogan and Michelle Williams, this idiosyncratic vision of Toronto on film, marrying young and Barry Jenkins’ The Lion King 2

Author/critic Matt Pais (Talk 90s With Me, Zach Morris Lied 329 Times) joins us to cover Noah Baumbach’s crowning achievement of the 2010s in 2019’s MARRIAGE STORY! We dive into the economic screenplay, awards season, online discourse, divorce movies and much more

Phil Iscove (Podcast Like Its, Sleepy Hollow) returns for an instant cult classic that still holds a strong cultural footprint in Scott Pilgrim v the World ! Together we go through its sensational ensemble, misinterpreted nice guy protagonists of the early 2010s/late 00s, differences from the comics, where is Edgar Wright's career going and the real life Toronto shooting locations

Mitchell Beaupre (Paste, Letterboxd) is back and brought 2010’s and 2015’s HOT TUB TIME MACHINE and HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 to us to examine a surprisingly heartfelt studio comedy, an abhorrent one. Together we once again look at our favorite 2010s comedies, Marion Cotillard, how the film was labeled with comparisons to THE HANGOVER and what makes a comedy sequel so difficult to match with their fi...

Wes Muszynski (Filmdaze) returns for Pedro Almodovar’s personal melodrama in 2019’s Pain and Glory ! Together we rank the best foreign language Oscar winners of the 2010s, Antonio Banderas in the 2010s and Oscar clips

Andrew Kendall returns for 2018’s phenomenon in Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma ! Together we get into why it lost best picture, our favorite Netflix original films, and how it began a trend of auteur auto fiction in the years following

Valerie Keaton (The Odd Pod, We Need To Talk About Kevin) returns for Sebastián Lelio’s social realist drama in A Fantastic Woman ! We get memories from film classes, discovering our love of film in the age of the internet, and misdirections Lelio has that prevent the film to be truly great

Roxana Hadadi (Vulture, Crooked Marquee) returns for Asgar Farhadi’s tense thriller and second winner in the 2010s for Best International Feature Oscar winner with THE SALESMAN! Together we get into Farhadi’s central obsession with living with ambiguity, GLASS ONION corner and the movies Clay saw over Christmas vacation

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