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Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: From 35mm to Every Premium Format Under the Sun - We lived through the transition from tried and true 35mm projection to the now standard DCP format in the late 2000s/early 2010s. There have since been a ton of Premium Large Format options to choose from in digital projection, but to many cinephiles analog...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: WBD (and Doug) Won the Summer Box Office - The key to victory this year in our box office pools has been to draft films released from the David Zaslav’s superteam of Michael De Luca, Pam Abdy, Peter Safran, and James Gunn. After A Minecraft Movie and Sinners led Murph to victory in the Winter/Spring Box Of...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: 2025’s Box Office Champion - It’s a near guarantee that Avatar: Fire and Ash, Wicked: For Good, or Zootopia 2 is topping the domestic box office for 2025. But which are we willing to bet on and which do we have the least faith in? To make matters even more interesting, not only will the biggest film of the...

Opening Credits: It’s been a year since the loss of Live Breathe Film’s co-founder/co-host, Corey. As we reach this milestone, Doug and Murph welcome Corey’s two other best friends, Ryan and Jon, to discuss the legacy of his favorite TV show, Twin Peaks, and its visionary co-creator, David Lynch... Feature Presentation: "Diane, 12:20pm, August Twenty-Fourth. Entering Town of Twin Peaks"...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: 2025 Film and Television Mid-Year Recommendations - While we have a lot of picks that correlated with our most anticipated movies and shows for the year, we also have a number of surprises that show why it’s important to check out smaller, less hyped movies and shows like Black Bag and Paradise, which are...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: There’s Nothing Like a List to Drum Up Some Debate - The New York Times decided to disrupt the lives of cinephiles with their 100 Best Films of the 21st Century poll this past week, and we’re here to run through the list with you, and share what we found both interesting and surprising from a mostly positi...

Feature Presentation: Was It Ever Possible for The Last of Us Season Two to Live Up to the Hype? - As two individuals who played The Last of Us Part II and had been patiently waiting for season 2 of The Last of Us to air 2+ years after the superb adaptation of the original video game, we have a lot of strong opinions on how this version of the second game has been presented so far on television. M...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: A Season to Forget - The Winter/Spring box office was abysmal until Warner Bros. unleashed their one-two punch of A Minecraft Movie and Sinners upon the world. Many wondered whether movie theaters should even live to see another day thanks to the shenanigans taking place by patrons of Minecraft’s younger a...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: 2025 Summer Box Office Draft - It’s time for our second one-on-one face off in our seasonal box office pools, and the potential box office heavy hitters to select from this summer include many familiar franchises. We’ve got reboots of Superman and The Fantastic Four, live action adaptations of Lilo & S...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: The Best Television Programs of 2024 - It’s impossible to watch every great program on TV in any given year, but we did our best to catch the shows that struck a chord with critics and audiences last year. We ultimately cover 21 shows in total (six of which are comic book adaptations) between our respectiv...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: The Best of 2024 in Film - It’s time for us to reveal our individual top 10 favorite films of 2024, while also sharing 20 films of 2024 that Corey saw and would vouch for. Note that there is a bit of overlap as all three of us loved Dune: Part Two, My Old Ass, and I Saw the TV Glow, while we’re confident h...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: Comic Book Characters and IP Cash Grabs Aren’t Bulletproof - Fall 2024 was the season of the musical. Ironically the one musical that didn’t work was based on a comic book character. Joker: Folie à Deux couldn’t strike a chord, alongside other formerly formidable franchises such as Transformers, The Lord o...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: Spreading the Oscar Love - While we do agree on who we’d vote for in a majority of categories at this year’s Academy Awards (step right up for another funny acceptance speech this season, Kieran Culkin), it was always going to be largely due to our mutual passion for Dune: Part Two and The Wild Robot once...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: What Will Doug and Murph Watch on TV in 2025? - It’s a big year for long-awaited returns and/or final seasons of some of our favorite television shows. The final episodes of Cobra Kai and the first half of Severance season 2 have not let us down, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. So much more must-se...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: Most Anticipated Films of 2025 - Our co-hosts have two very different lines of thinking for the types of films they are most looking forward to this year. While Doug has gone almost all in on franchise fare such as Jurassic World Rebirth and How to Train Your Dragon, Murph’s selections are more auteur driv...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: 2025 Winter/Spring Box Office Draft - In a season with only two films guaranteed to make money, it’s time to decide whether to play it safe with Disney or take some risks during our first ever one-on-one box office draft. End Credits: Please make sure to Like, Follow, and Subscribe to Live Breathe Film! 

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Doug and Murph... Feature Presentation: Disney Ruled the Summer (and Year) - Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine battled it out for the crown this past summer, and this Disney duel ended up determining the winner of the 2024 box office both domestically and worldwide, along with who would get first place in our Summer Box Office Pool. End...

Opening Credits: Doug and Murph are joined by returning Live Breathe Film co-founder, JP, to talk about a major loss to our podcast family. Feature Presentation: Corey’s Life in Film - While Corey will always remain a part of Live Breathe Film, today we’re taking the time to celebrate his love for film via the many experiences we shared together. End Credits: Donations can be made in Corey’s name...

In Loving Memory of Corey (6/16/1987 - 8/24/2024): We couldn’t have done Live Breathe Film without you for all these years, and your shoes will be impossible to fill. Thank you for being our wildcard. Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Corey, Doug, and Murph... Feature Presentation: Fall Box Office Draft - Unlike this time last year, Hollywood has a robust slate of films to offer...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Corey, Doug, and Murph... Feature Presentation: D23 Film and Television Recap - Whether it’s Walt Disney Animation Studios, Avatar, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Disney Live Action, or Marvel Studios, originality is no longer part of Bob Iger’s agenda as his tenure as CEO carries on. All of his various acquisitions over the years and the work of other studi...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Corey, Doug, and Murph... Feature Presentation: Did Deadpool & Wolverine Live Up to Our Lofty Expectations? - Before we get into the future of The Multiverse Saga and more importantly the introduction of Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, we have to talk all about the much anticipated arrival of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman to the MCU as De...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Corey, Doug, and Murph... Feature Presentation: 2024 Films and Television to Binge - Here are the films and TV shows from the first six months of the year that we each recommend to you. It includes obvious picks such as Dune: Part Two and The Bear, along with less discussed gems such as I Saw the TV Glow and Dark Matter.  End Credits: Please mak...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Corey, Doug, and Murph... Feature Presentation: Every Film That Has Held the Crown for the Largest Box Office Weekend Since Jaws - 29 films have held the crown since Jaws and we can guarantee some will surprise you. We have the usual suspects on this list such as a variety of adaptations from various mediums, along with plenty of sequels and pre...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Corey, Doug, and Murph... Feature Presentation: The Rich History of the 100 Million Dollar Box Office Weekend - What was once a breakthrough with Spider-Man in 2002 had become more than commonplace by the time Barbie was released in 2023. So why have we not seen one in the year since and how can Hollywood adapt to changing tastes and their previ...

Opening Credits: This week on Live Breathe Film with Corey, Doug, and Murph... Feature Presentation: Let’s Get Snooty and Talk About Cannes - During our program we discuss the films we’re looking forward to that premiered at Cannes, including Palme d’Or winner, Anora. We also discuss what films, filmmakers, and studios were helped or hurt by showing of their perceived goods at the festival, and wh...