Film School

Ya boys share their love of both reading books in audio form, and of the amazing writer Phillip K. Dick and his classic short novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep . Audio is a GREAT way to read, learn, be entertained, and we live in a time that's never been more possible!

Leopards, and loons, and lunatics, oh my! Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this truly, breathlessly fast "screwball" comedy. It's all pratfalls, bits, and vaudeville; an era and a style of comedy that we just don't have anymore, all in glorious black and white. Join us for the wild ride that is Bringing Up Baby !

If time travel is to ever be invented, at least the time travel we imagine in our stories...would we know about it? Ira shares an epiphany he had on the subject, and Josh talks about how he's always had Deja Vu, ever since he was a kid. We're glitching in the Matrix over here on the Cutting Room Floor. Come join us.

He sees dead people. ALL THE TIME! This week, the AFI Top 100 list brings us our first entry that could be classified as an out-and-out horror. It's M. Knight Shyamalan's classic "The Sixth Sense" starring Bruce Will and a mind-bendingly-good 11-year-old Haley Joel Osment. It also has one of the most shocking endings in flm history. It's all about the twist! Or...is it? Does the movie work beyond...

Old movies feel like Disneyland. This, and many, many epiphanies are brought to you by the black and white classic romance  Swing Time with the lanky, debonaire Fred Astaire and the drop dead gorgeous smokeshow Ginger Rogers. It's all about The Way You Look Tonight, Cinema with a capital C, and never gonna dance, never gonna dance, only gonna love, never gonna dance.

Journaling, blogging, a diary; however you want to classify it, both Josh and Ira have found sitting down at the end of every day and taking a few minutes to write down their thoughts and feelings for the day. Is it for you? It might be! The boys break it down so you can give it a noodle.

Meryl Streep is the eponymous Nazi death camp-survivor in Sophie's Choice. It's not a good choice; spoiler alert. It never is when Nazis are involved. If you want voice over, secrets, very young Kevin Kline's, and soaring muscial scores, this is the movie for you! Was it for US? Well...you'll have to listen to find out!

We're funny? FUNNY HOW?! Martin Scorsese is in the house, dropping what could arguably be considered the greatest mob/gangster movie ever made. Joe Pesci took home an Oscar for his role as Tommy, while Robert DeNiro, Lorraine Bracco and Ray Liotta round out an astonishingly good cast. Watch out for helicopters, and mind your step going into the Copacabana. It's time to watch Goodfellas!

New York Detective "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner (Roy Scheider) chase a French heroin smuggler. And believe us, it's *a lot* of chasing! Can the Hack-man and the Roy-boy get the baddies? DOES this movie have a badass car chase scene? ...well, we're not giving you spoilers, so listen and find out!

"Write every day!" We've all heard the advice. How many of us have tried it and failed? How many of us are feeling shame RIGHT NOW because we have (or are currently) neglected the project we're working on? Ira and Josh have. But, dear colleagues, ya boys have learned something about that advice and shame that nobody actually tells you, and it just might be the key to true, sustainable consistency…

BIG. KAHUNA. BURGER. Pulp Fiction is one of the most iconic, impactful, most-quotable movies ever made. Like few other films in history, it inspired a generation of filmmakers and screenwriters. The boys break down Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece. Zedd's dead, baby. This is your shot of adrenaline.

Our first Cutting Room Floor episode! This one from the recording of Toy Story covers the trials of moving (we always have 50% more sh*t than we thought we did), the pains and inspirations of a love affair that falls apart, and the effects of depression and anxiety on our bodies and creativity...which all lead to the genius of David Lynch. Of course!

The boys talk growing up as a small-town country bumpkin versus a city slicker, Sam the Lion, and about that empty feeling deep in the center of all of us. Why do we love it so much? And why is it that adults really actually have *nothing* figured out? This one has us going deep. Buckle up. Who's ready to drive to Mexico?!

Fight the Power! Film School smokes its first Spike Lee Joint, and it's jazzy, wacky, funny, and edgy AF. A very young Mr. Lee makes a statement with his masterpiece both behind the camera, and in front...and in the process, is cooler than we could ever hope to be. And that's the double truth, Ruth.

He's seen things us people wouldn't believe! Josh and Ira dive into one of the most influential SciFi films of all time and, amazingly enough, the first movie both of the boys have seen before. We've got opinions, oohhhh we've got opinions. Join us!

Music is in the air! Vaudeville! Romance! Franklin Delano Roosevelt! It's the 1942 classic  Yankee Doodle Dandy this time around, a movie neither Josh nor Ira had ever even HEARD of...so what put this movie on the map? Why is it on the list. Listen and find out :)

To Infinity, and beyond! Join Josh on his own personal journey to figure out if he's ever actually SEEN this movie, and Ira's dive into the Dark Night of the Soul. It's Toy Story time!

Chariots, Revenge and Jesus, oh my! Josh and Ira kick off Film School with the first movie on AFI's Top 100 Films of all time with the sword and sandal epic Ben-Hur. Let's get this journey through cinema history started!