Fly By Films

Jamison and Blake experiment with excellence in podcasting by including as many hard pivots as possible in this episode. We talk about the Oscars and why we don't care about them, about Gavin Newsome and why we don't care about him, and lament some really great underground Christian music zines from the 90s and why we did care about them. Also, more dad stuff. Then we turn our attention to...

Blake & Jamison dig into the 2020 science fiction comedy Save Yourselves! and try to solve once and for all what a pouf actually is and if it can be decorative. We, on a strangely serious note, speak about the nature of saving ourselves through our obligations to others and how technology--we are looking at you social media--has a penchant for dehumanizing us all and making it easy to shirk th...

Jamison Bar-SO-tee and Blake Call-yer welcome Nate Pee-kwette onto the show this episode for a rousing conversation about a profound film by director Chloe Zhao, The Rider . We dig into why Nate picked the film, the fine line it walks between documentary and fiction, and the the numerous ways it addresses masculinity and "individualistic Manifest Destiny." It's a delightful conversation and we wer...

Blake and Jamison start off the new year telling the listeners what exactly it is that we do on this podcast. Then we waste about 45 minutes bantering about being dads, the doomsday clock/existential dread, and being wrong, before we jump into a discussion about the 2000 film Frequency with Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel aka Jesus Christ. Does it hold up? Not really. Do the mechanics of time travel...

Jamison and Blake are back just in time to ring in the NEW YEAR with our first annual podcast film ranking episode. We ranked our individual lists of the films we watched for season one of the podcast with points and conglomerated them into our starter list. From there Jamison treats Blake to a quiz about film rankings going back to the early 1900s and based on whether he gets the answers right or...

Jamison and Blake are broadcasting live from the ruins of the Hellmouth formerly known as Twitter as we try to raise the morale and liven the place up a bit with a delightful discussion of 2003's Peyton Reed-helmed Down With Love. We dig into why this film works both as a modern homage to the old Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedies of the 60s and simultaneously works as a smart and incisive critiqu...

Well, folks, it was just a matter of time before Leonardo DiCaprio came back home and brought his 23 year old soon-to-be ex-girlfriend with him. As if that wasn't spooky enough, Blake and Jamison attempt to cap off our exploration of the Bloody Mary/Candyman mythos with 2021's indie dramatic horror film, We're All Going to the World's Fair. We talk about technology, about awkward singing and danci...

We are coming upon the final weeks of spooky season with our penultimate episode of our Fly By Frights series where we are investigating FILM about Bloody Mary and Candyman urban legends. No discussion of this subject is complete, however, until an entry from the Urban Legends franchise has been talked about. People, Urban Legends: Bloody Mary is the [plateau] height of horror cinema. Jamison and...

Jamison and Blake move along into the third film of the Candyman franchise with Candyman 3: Day of the Dead, the straight-to-video continuation of the McKeever storyline. Somehow they imagined 2020, the setting of the film, as magically reminiscent of 1999 including a protagonist played by Baywatch alum Donna D'Errico. It's a dreadful film and we let you in on all the reasons why you should not wa...

Jamison and Blake dig into the first selection of their FBFocktober series with the 1995 sequel to Candyman, Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh. It's not great and we point out several of the reasons why including its complete waste of New Orleans as a setting unlike Cabrini Green which became its own character in the first film. We also discussed what scared us today (technically the other day, bu...

Welcome to the first episode in our Fly By Frights October series where Blake and Jamison dig into the urban legend of Bloody Mary and Candyman in preparation for a delicious assortment of lesser known horror films that present this urban legend in one form or another. Beside setting up the Candyman and Urban Legend film universes, we talk about why dogs are so scary, how films being "boring" is t...

Jamison and Blake celebrate their fifth record-breaking film podcast by talking about 2008's Be Kind Rewind by director Michel Gondry starring Yasin Bey (formerly Mos Def), Jack Black, and the cheerleader of the working class, Danny Glover! However, we don't just celebrate this milestone by ourselves. No! We have guests! Two of them! Our wives, Melissa Collier & Ciara Barsotti join us briefly...

On this episode of Fly By Films, we gush on the power and the glory of Jennifer Connelly  ̶(̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶W̶i̶l̶l̶i̶a̶m̶ ̶H̶u̶r̶t̶)̶ and how much Jamison despises—AND I MEAN DESPISES—the band Genesis. We do a little looking forward in the podcast's future to see what might become our Oasis moment. We spend a surprising amount of time talking about music and Blake's weird infatuation with hauntolog...

Jamison and Blake debut their alter-egos Blake and Jamison while both being very sick at the recording of this episode. It was a hair's edge on covering up coughs on both sides, but don't worry dear listener we left the sniffles in there free of charge. The boys introduce the official name of the podcast, talk about the podcast and social media artwork by the talented Ciara Barsotti , and play our...

Jamison and Blake talk about their world travels as well as getting as far away from each other as possible. They finally decide on their podcast name and then the sentient internet decides to give us technical difficulties before we jump into our discussion of Jamison's film pick from 2013 entitled Computer Chess by Andrew Bujalski. The film takes the conversation into far flung worlds of sentien...

Blake I. Collier and Jamison Barsotti talk about what they want to name their podcast and what they want the podcast to look like from here on out. Then they turn their attention to Blake's film selection, 2019's Cold Case Hammarskjöld, a documentary about the search to figure out who killed Secretary General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961 and what the documentary has to say about...