For Your Consideration

This week on the podcast we take a trip back to 1962 and spend some time with the characters of George Lucas' 1973 coming of age story, American Graffiti. Check out Mike and Dustin's breakdown of the film and see whether they vote the film as one of cinema's great masterpieces or relegate it to museum piece status. Music: Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley and The Comets), Green Onion (Booker T and...

Gaspar Noé is in the spotlight on this week's episode of the podcast as Dustin and Mike discuss the highly controversial 2002 thriller, Irréversible. It's another great roundtable with a deep dive on a film with a lot to unpack. Will the FYC crew deem Irréversible to be a masterpiece or a museum piece? You'll have to check out the show to find out. Music: Night Beats, Paris By Night ( Thomas Banga...

This week on the podcast sees Billy Wilder's 1970 classic, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, getting the roundtable treatment. Check out Dustin and Mike's take on this little discussed entry into the Sherlock Holmes expanded universe and see whether they determine it to be a clear masterpiece of the genre or relegate it to museum piece status. Also on this episode, we talk about our #fyc100 con...

It's another all-new episode of All Things Considered! In this week's double-dip podcast we premiere our new Double-Feature format with Dustin and Mike each recommending a film to each other, then watching and reacting to it on the show. In this episode we have Ben Wheatley's 2016, Free Fire, and 2005's, The Call of Cthulhu, courtesy of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Music: The Phone Rings...

On this week's podcast we deliver another All Things Considered featuring the brand-new Lucasfilm release, Solo: A Star Wars Story. Give us a listen to hear Mike and Dustin's hot take on this second anthology film from the Star Wars saga. Also on this episode, we break down our Patreon campaign and outline the new format changes to the All Things Considered series of shows. Like us on Facebook Fol...

This week on FYC we have Alejandro Jodorowsky's surrealist fantasy film, The Holy Mountain, up for discussion at the roundtable. Join hosts Dustin Friesenhan and Mike Jozic as they unpack the philosophy and symbolism of the film and determine whether or not it should be considered a masterpiece or a museum piece of world cinema. Music: Pantheon Bar (Bees Make Honey), City of Freedom [ Alejandro Jo...

This week Mike and Dustin shift gears a bit and discuss Gus Van Sant's 1991 indie classic, My Own Private Idaho. Will the film rate as a masterpiece or a museum piece at the roundtable? You'll have to check the podcast to find out. Also in this episode, Mike reveals his own private Idaho and Dustin suffers from narcolepsy. Music: Cattle Call ( Eddy Arnold ), Deep Night ( Rudy Vallée ) Like us on F...

On this week's episode of FYC we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the theatrical release for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic mystery thriller, Vertigo. There's a lot to unpack and discuss with this film and Mike and Dustin take on the challenge of sorting through the artistry and sexual politics to one of Hitchcock's 'messiest' movies. Music: Vertigo Theme ( Bernard Herrmann ) * Carlotta Valdez (...

On this week's episode of FYC, hosts Mike and Dustin take on the 2010 reconstruction of Fritz Lang's 1927 dystopian sci-fi epic, Metropolis! Check out our discussion as we take a deep dive on the technical and artistic merits of the film and determine whether we think Metropolis is, indeed, a masterpiece or a museum piece.

FYC is back with another all-new episode of our open review show, All Things Considered! This week on the podcast, hosts Dustin and Mike are discussing the 2018 Broken Lizard comedy, Super Troopers 2, as well as the 2009 mystery/thriller, Triangle, and the 1984 sci-fi sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact. If you're looking for great film focused commentary, meow is the time and FYC is the place.

This week on the podcast we welcome Film Runners', Billy Seguire, who has selected the 2001 J-Horror classic, Kairo, for discussion on the show! Listen in as we struggle to remember character names, dissect the English subtitles, and give the film the ol' FYC roundtable treatment to determine whether the film should be regarded as a masterpiece or a museum piece. You can find more from Billy at: h...

It's another brand-new episode of FYC and this week we are putting the spotlight on Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, which celebrates its landmark 50th anniversary this month. Join hosts Dustin and Mike as they delve deep into one of the most revered and thought-provoking sci-fi films of all time.

On this week's edition of the podcast, hosts Mike and Dustin take to the open review format and talk about Ready Player One, the latest film from legendary director, Steven Spielberg. Also on the show, Kong: Skull Island and Vidocq!!

This week's episode of FYC features Jonathan Glazer's 2004 not-quite supernatural drama, Birth. Listen in as the discussion on the podcast gets heated with Mike and Dustin going toe-to-toe on a movie that is just as divisive now as it was upon its release fourteen years ago.

On another listener voted episode of FYC, Mike and Dustin tackle the film you asked for and that introduced the world to one of its biggest stars, Ishiro Honda's 1954 kaiju classic, Gojira!

This week's installment of FYC features another film picked by our loyal listeners, Stanley Kubrick's 1987 war epic, Full Metal Jacket. Join Mike and Dustin on the podcast as they square off against each other in order to determine whether or not the film is worthy to hold the title of masterpiece or if it belongs in a museum.

This week on FYC an old idea gets a bit of a reimagining! Once a month we will be taking our All Things Considered open review show and adding films that are in current theatrical release to our regular discussion of various and sundry movies that tickle our fancy. Our first ATC under the new direction features Alex Garland's 2018 sci-fi thriller, Annihilation, as well as Lucy (2014), Sunshine (20...

FYC returns with another episode of In Case You Were Considering..., the show where host Dustin Friesenhan watches the absolute worst in cinema so you don't have to. This week, Dustin endures the August Underground Trilogy for your listening pleasure. The series, touted as the sickest movies ever made, rate high on Dustin's sh*t list so be sure to check out the episode to find out why.

The results are in, the ballots counted, and the movie you guys wanted to see covered on this week's episode of FYC is Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 environmental cautionary tale, Princess Mononoke. Check out the episode to hear Mike and Dustin's discussion of the film and their determination as to whether or not this highly-regarded anime will be deemed a masterpiece or a museum piece.

This week's episode of FYC features the 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson dramatic tapestry of fate, forgiveness, and regret, Magnolia. The discussion on the podcast is especially lively as Dustin has been chomping at the bit to cover this film. Be sure to check it out to hear whether Magnolia passes muster and gets crowned a masterpiece or a museum piece. Peace!

It's all a charade on this week's episode of FYC as Mike and Dustin sit down to discuss the 1963 Stanley Donen directed Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn comedy thriller, Charade. It's a bit of an oddball film for an oddball show, and since it isn't even on any of the greatest films lists, it should be even more of a mystery as to whether or not the panel comes down on the side of masterpiece or museu...

It's our second anniversary this week and we're celebrating by going back into the vault and remastering one of our very first episodes featuring the 2002 Brazilian crime epic, City of God. If you've heard this episode before, you haven't heard it like this. If you've never heard it, you're in for a treat as this remains one of our favourite episodes of the podcast to date and we're excited to be...

On this week's FYC Dustin and Mike tackle what many see as a rather impactful movie and one of the most important films of the '90s. Under the hot lamps this time around we have David Cronenberg's 1996 psychosexual drama, Crash. Join nus as we take a deep dive on the film and determine if Crash is one of the greatest films of all time or if it's just a car crash of a film.

On this week's episode of FYC hosts Mike and Dustin assassinate the 2007 Xavier Gens video game adaptation, Hitman. On the Sight & Sound list because of philosopher and cultural commentator, Slavoj Žižek, and part of our podcast because it was voted on by you, Hitman gets the full-on masterpiece or museum piece treatment so be sure to check the episode out to hear whether or not the film survives...

It's our first official episode of FYC for 2018 and we're kicking off the proceedings with the kinetic 1971 William Friedkin crime classic, The French Connection. Hosts Mike and Dustin take their customary deep dive on the film, breaking down the pros and cons, and talking a little trivia, in order to determine whether it deserves its status as one of the greatest films of all time or whether it's...