Exiting Through The 2010s

Natalia Keogan (Paste, Slash film) joins us in this ep as we unpack Joanna Hogg's memoir to a struggling, young artist in The Souvenir! Getting into the career of Tilda Swinton, Instagram and how the film relates to its sequel  Friend of the show Tyler Harford fills in for cohost while Clay Williams is absent 

Satire is a weird state right now but in 2010, Four Lions is a breath of fresh air as Greg Hill-Turner picks the terrorist comedy as one of their favorite comedies of the 2010s! We talk about the careers of Benedict Cumberbatch and Chris Morris, 2010 in film and how this could only be made in 2010. Friend of the show Tyler Harford fills in for cohost while Clay Williams is absent 

With lots of good cameos and bad wigs to go around, Caro Ribeiro (tiktok) joins us this episode to revisit Adam McKay's celebrated dramedy into the 2008 financial crash. We chat about McKay making a career shift after Anchorman 2, The Big Short's relationship with other movies we've covered like Inside job or Wolf of Wall Street , Christian Bale in the 2010s, and the 2022 oscar season....

From the Cows in the Field podcast, we're joined by the Khoo's to reassess Whit Stillman's 2011 comeback Damsels in Distress. We discuss Stillman's career as a whole, how auteurs depict contemporary America during the 2010s and how well the movie has aged since its TIFF and Venice premieres. Friend of the show Tyler Harford fills in for cohost while Clay Williams is absent

It's happening! It happened. One of the best studio comedies of the 2010s in Paul Feig's brilliant Bridesmaids! Maia from Broey Deschanel joins us as we get into the career of Kristen Wiig, so many moments turning into widely used gifs and memes over the years and how much money it made for a comedy. Friend of the show Tyler Harford fills in for cohost while Clay Williams is absent

Gaby Iori returns as we revisit Leslye Headland's delightful comedy that has only grown stronger since its release within the extinction of romantic comedies. We get to talk about if this qualifies as the modern When Harry Met Sally, the whiteness of the romance genre, and how Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis broke away from TV. Friend of the show Tyler Harford fills in for cohost while Clay William...

We're going gambling. with Carrie Wittmer (The Ringer, Vulture) and talking about 2019's addictive thriller from the Safdie brothers. Topics included how the release was at the time, best performances by athletes in film and unconventional comfort movies. Friend of the show Tyler Harford fills in for cohost while Clay Williams is absent

Brett Wiesenaur (Brettroculture podcast) joins us as we talk Isao Takahata's masterful swan song. Together talking about our own relationship with Studio Ghibli, what makes this one of the genuine greatest animated films of the 2010s how Miyazaki is like Jay-Z in the world of animation. Friend of the show Tyler Harford fills in for cohost while Clay Williams is absent

Considered one of the undeniably great sports movies of the decade, Josh Bradley (Movies I Love and so can you) is back with us to pick the sublime Moneyball . With deep dives into Jonah Hill's career shift, inspiring more sports movies like High Flying Bird and Draft Day and our own personal history with baseball 

Michelle O'Connell (Roger Ebert, The Film Stage) brought us James Gray's haunting The Immigrant this week as his favorite film of the decade with all of us finding the film's greatness undeniable. We talk about The Weinstein's meddling with the release after its premiere at Cannes,  career of Jeremy Renner and that perfect final shot

The lovely Nicole Fegan joins us to talk about one of the very best films by Jim Jarmusch in the poetic Paterson. Once again admiring the talent of Adam Driver throughout the decade, how Paterson inspires us to be better people and the wu-tang clan

Zombie fatigue was very real in the early 2010s but in 2016, Yeon Sang-ho made a movie refreshing enough to have it stand out in the pantheon of great zombie portrayals. Actor Jared Gilman (Moonrise Kingdom, Paterson, Juvie) joins us for one of his favorite horror movies of the decade, we focus on the critique of the class divide in South Korea here and the abhorrent sequel, Peninsula 

Mary Beth McAndrews (Scarred for life, Dread Central) returns as we dive into James Wan's terrifying THE CONJURING and THE CONJURING 2 with a focus on differing from the real Ed and Lorraine Warren to their on-screen portrayal, why growing up catholic sucks and how Wan rejects the tired trend of jump scares in the early 2010s 

2010s horror month continues on in a gnarly debut from witter/director Julia Ducournau with Raw. Orla Smith (Seventh Row) joins us this episode as we talk about the various readings into the film's portrayal of cannibalism, the lively reaction Ducournau sparked at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the future of horror as a genre

Horror month continues as we look back at the underrated Cloverfield sequel in 2016! Guy Dolbey (Film Discussion) picked the movie and we talked mainly about the blossoming career of Mary Elizabeth Winstead and the divisive third act trying to connect it to the first one

Kevin Tudor joins us for his 2010s movie pick and starts out our month of horror movies from the decade with Adam Wingard's disaster of a sequel to the classic The Blair Witch Project. We touch on why the movie failed in 2016, the production secrecy and modernizing the look of the found footage style

The wonderful Rafa Sales Ross (Little White Lies, The Skinny) joins us with her pick of the best movie in the 2010s this episode in the oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown and its uniquely told love story . Together, we get around to talking about religion, the human condition, and Riverdale

We continue our discussion on the work in the prime years of Matthew McConaughey in the 2010s in what some maybe be a career-defining performance in the quietly powerful Mud. Bryden Doyle is here with his pick, together we talk about the treatment and or sideline of female characters in the movie and the underrated director/actor combo of Jeff Nichols and Michael Shannon 

Christina Tucker (Film Inquiry) is here with us to revisit 2016's "Christine", the true story of journalist Christine Chubbuck, who was the first person to commit suicide on national television by the time she was only thirty. We'll get around to talking about comparing "Kate Plays Christine" which premiered the same sundance, if Antonio Campos' portrayal is exploitative and how close Rebecca Hall...

With the comic book movie dominance surrounded by the MCU and DCU in the 2010s, Dredd achieves immediate cult status with its poor box office. Along with having Isaac Feldberg (Boston Globe, Roger Ebert) back with us, we chat about who really directed the majority of the movie between Alex Garland and Peter Travis and how 3D was implemented here to its best capability even when it ran its course b...

Remember Michael Fassbender in that big paper machete head a few years ago? Kinda? Cody Corrall (Paste) is here with a pick we forgot was as poignant as it is in Lenny Abrahamson's Frank. In the ep, we delve into the more pragmatic side of being a tortured artist with mental illness and the underrated career of Domhnall Gleeson

Let's think back to one of the decade's most unique genre pictures in Ana Lily Amirpour's directorial debut. The delightful Kayleigh Donaldson (IGN, Slash film, Screen Rant) is here to rattle off past and 2010s vampire movie knowledge, the film's fierce soundtrack, and short films being adapted into features 

Few years ago this month, The Meg was a movie that was dropped by a major studio and people liked then forgot about. On this ep, Sophia Karr and Kat/Dylan Shubert (Have You Heard The Good News Podcast) join Jack and Clay to give us why this is one of the blockbusters worth reexamining and the four of us talking about the oral history of shark movies and recreating B movies in the 2010s

It's the finale of our Oscar-winning documentaries series and closing us out is an investigation into late 2010s era capitalism in American Factory. Fiona Underhill (Jumpcut Online) joins us for the tenth doc to win the oscar in the decade and we talk about the issues with Obama's involvement with serving as producers here and our love for the editing, as it brings moments of unexpected comedy. Pl...

The amazing Jaimie Rebanal (Cinema from the spectrum) is here for all things rocking climbing and toxic boyfriends in Alex Honnold's achievement we witnessed with Free Solo. We dig into the academy awarding this the oscar on behalf on National Geographic docs and our fascination with an ahelettes obessions with perfection