Forever Movie Boys

Forgotten the Oscars already? Well let the FMB and guest, Sean refresh your memories with their breakdown of the ceremony. Join them as they attempt to scry the results before watching and then have an alcohol-assisted post-ceremony debrief covering the triumphs and heartbreaks found in the proceedings.  Next week King Arthur: Legend of The Sword/Robin Hood (?)

The end is in sight friends. Our hosts catch a second wind in the Oscar race and manage to catch up on every film nominated for Best Picture this year (BlackkKlansman missed out on an ep though, sorry Spike). The boys try to give each film a fair shake, but truth be told they really hold their tongues and roll their sleeves up for lucky last, Vice (sorry Adam).  Next episode: The 91st Academy Awar...

Welcome back FMBuffs; the mad dash to Oscar night ramps up as the boys realise they are woefully behind and in a thematically apt move decide to cram the two most musically oriented Best Picture nominees in the one episode. Our hosts pit honest fiction against dishonest non-fiction and squeeze in some Team America quotes for good measure.  Next week we up the ante with 3 more Best picture noms. 

The boys kick off their rather late catch-up to the Oscar race with Peter Farrelly's Green Book.  While they may have some minor (and one major) gripes, the boys can't help but at least be charmed by the two central performances at the heart of the film. They also make time to pay tribute to the comedies of the Farrelly brothers, set up a challenge to rank the greatest Eating performances in cinem...

This week Maciej and Tobias transport themselves to the mid-90's when comedy superstar Jim Carrey was at the height of his powers.  The boys dissect and compare the first two Ace Ventura films and try figure out what does and doesn't work about them. They supplement the discussion with some talk about The Mask, Liar Liar and Ol'Rubberface's career trajectory in general.  ENJOY

Due to a spontaneous sickness, Tobias couldn't contribute this episode, so it was lucky that our intended guest, Saleem Abraham was on hand to help Maciej out and take on the mantle of co-host. Having watched M. Night Shymalan's "Glass", the boys spend almost 90 minutes attempting to make sense of the film and have a rambling conversation befitting of the film itself. Saleem weighs some heavy mora...

Carrying over from last weeks impromptu suggestion, the boys decided this week to pop their Cars franchise cherry and watch John Lasseter's 2006 Pixar original. The boys spend the entire episode overclocking the little brain matter they have attempting to decipher the autonomous automotive universe the film has tried to build, but come up short. Maybe you listeners can figure it out?

This week, the boys got around to watching Black Mirror's "groundbreaking" televisual event, Bandersnatch, directed by David Slade.  After a spirited opening discussion about Disney/Pixar the boys dive headfirst into Black Mirror's classic headfuckery and dole out their middling experiences watching(playing?) through it's latest offering. Features surprising tangents to Richard Kelly's filmography...

Welcome to 2019 FMBuffs! Miss 2018 already? Well we've got a fresh episode recorded in the dying days of that year for you to listen back to and reminisce. The movie in question is James Wan's Aquaman, and the boys, freshly energized from a recent viewing, are unabashed about their respect (and perhaps affection?) for this big, dumb, insane offering from the fledgling DCEU. Enjoy! Next week: Who t...

Merry Christmas FMBuffs! What's that in the sky? Is it the Star of Bethlehem? Why no! It's a 7 mile-wide comet hurtling toward earth! This Christmas, Maciej and Tobias reach out to their friend Anand for a film that reminded him of this special time of year and he came back with a 1998's other-space-related-disaster-film Deep Impact.  Confusion, merriment and dumb fan theories about Bong Joon Ho's...

This week Maciej encourages Tobias to finally tick Sam Raimi's 1995 western The Quick And The Dead off his list. Conversation flows when it comes to Raimi, but the levee breaks early and the boys take some wild tangents, covering topics like No More Heroes, Baz Luhrmann, Clint Eastwood's filmography, an extended assessment of Jeremy Saulnier's Hold The Dark, Any Given Sunday and Charles Bronson im...

This week listen to the boys slip on their brass knuckles, string up this pulpy Nazi-Horror yarn and give it a good do over.  Overlord may be a lot of things, but apparently in the eyes of our hosts it's just not very good. They don't pull any punches with this one, but hey, at least they manage to talk about it in an fairly linear fashion.  next week: The Quick and The Dead

The boys really tried this week to provide you a full-bodied episode on Mike Flanagan's Hush, but whether it's the film itself or the host's energy levels they don't even make it to the hour mark. Tune in for about 70 percent Hush and Flanagan talk and the rest is cinematic fluff about the Fargo TV show, Adam Wingard, Jeff Bridges and Korean actor, Steven Yeun.  Next week tune in for Overlord.  di...

Hey FMBuffs so our Suspiria ep ended up fizzling out die to that film's short release, but the boys are back this week with one they couldn't miss anyway and thats the Coen Bros' Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. After a brief word on Suspiria and an aside about the virtues of Special Features, the boys talk Scruggs. And in a possible first for the FMB, they manage to talk about the film in a relatively l...

Join Tobias and Maciej as they reminisce about their experiences watching Kevin Costner's much maligned post-apocalyptic epic The Postman.  The boys were visibly moved watching the film and their discussion touches on many of its saccharine moments, Will Pattons performance, the speed of civilizational collapse and whether or not Tom Petty is playing himself. we're on break next week but after tha...

In the second part of our Michael Myers-centred Halloween special. Our hosts, Nick and Tayla have just returned from watching David Gordon Green's contribution to the franchise.  After spending 90 mins hating on Rob Zombie in the previous ep, everyone manages to hold on for 60 mins and unpack their mixed feelings on the film before mentioning RZ, which is admirable. Season of The Witch also manage...

Tobias, Maciej and FMB regular, Nick went and watched as many films from the Halloween franchise they could muster and spend 90 mins shooting the shit before they go and see David Gordon Green's Halloween 2018. The boys try to give Halloween, Halloween II, Season of The Witch and H20 their due, but it's Rob Zombie's 2007 and 2009 remakes that suffer their wrath the most.  Somehow they still manage...

The FMBoys are back and to make up for lost time the boys decide to cram in every notable film they saw in the week(s) since their last episode.  There's something for everybody here; ranging from Maciej's bitter disappointment with Gareth Evan's Apostle (starts 5:10), Tobias' unforgiving scorn for Drew Goddard's Bad Times At The El Royale (starts 28:10), to both host's respectful ambivalence towa...

This week, to keep the Nic Cage train rolling, Tobias has picked Brian Taylor's "Mom And Dad" for himself and Maciej to guzzle down and discuss. The boys ping pong from Kevin Spacey to The Happening to Swiss Army Man while trying to stay on topic with the titular parents-killing-their-kids movie.  Next weeks it looks like we're having Bad Times At The El Royale.

Heyyoo FMBuffs, this week we continue our meandering discussion on the work of Panos Cosmatos by talking his and Nic Cage's cult-film-in-the-making, Mandy. This one's pretty even-handed, as the boys didn't love it or hate it, but they dole out points for performances and style before expanding the discussion to the cinema experience itself, the cult of Cage and kebabs.  Enjoy!

This week it's time to pick an-Other off the old pile and in anticipation of the upcoming Mandy episode, the boys polish off Panos Cosmatos' Beyond The Black Rainbow.  The intentionally vague nature of this arthouse flick has Maciej and Tobias wrestling with whether or not the film acheives it's nebulous goal and opens up the door to conversation defining pretentiousness and when and how to use th...

This week the FMB drop themselves in the meat grinder that is the now 30-year old Predator franchise. For the first half of the episode the boys struggle to find anything nice to say about Shane Black's latest stab at the franchise and instead use it as a jumping off point to talk about the other Predator films and pay John McTiernan his dues.  next week we do Panos Cosmatos' Beyond The Black Rain...

What's up FMBuffs. After a string of new releases it's finally time for another Other; it's Tobias' turn and he's picked a doozy for him and Maciej to watch this week.  The boys have been chomping at the bit to get their hands on S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99 and clearly relish the discussion. There's also room for some Ben Wheatley talk, potshots at Nic Pizzolatto and some closing word...

Hey FMBuffs, we're back again this week to discuss our boy Peter Berg's new flick, Mile-22. Results are...mixed. Tobias and Maciej seem to struggle to wrap their heads around every facet of this film, from it's editing to the message at it's core. Still the door opens up to brief aside's about all things Iko Uwais, David Leitch, and a strange intro covering Rango and the films of Jeff Nichols.  En...

Hey FMBuffs! After a brief hiatus where Tobias nursed his flu-addled body back to health, the boys are back. Having missed the opportunity to talk about the legitimately good BlacKkKlansman the previous week, the boys are left to dissect John Turtletaub's The Meg instead (sigh). The boys steer the conversation away from this wannaB-Movie frequently so there are plenty of asides here ranging from I...