Measuring Flicks

Part II of our discussion of the mind-bending Dark City (1998). Jim either becomes enlightened or goes off the deep end. The fellas learn a lot about the nature of reality, and the genius of tons of cuts! Support the Show: Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm Talk to Us, Goose: MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Jeff Morgan returns to take over the podcast, warping our minds and our very concept of Reality with Dark City (1998). Where has this flick been all our lives? From the director of The Crow , it’s the granddaddy of The Matrix . Gnostic philosophy in a timeless Neo-noire sci-fi occult package. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Ryan Gosling appreciation month rolls on with one of the best dramas the boys have see yet: it’s Nicolas Winding Refn’s neo-noir masterpiece, Drive (2011). Star-studded cast, stunning cinematography, and one of the best scores we’ve heard all season—what’s not to love? If you’ve only ever seen the trailer, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Director John Scheibe talks his doc IRON TOWN, and what lies ahead for The Yonder Studio. You can watch the documentary at TheYonder. Studio . (While you’re there, you should definitely check out Perhaps We Wrong Them as well.) If you like the show, you can find out how to support it over on Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm . Or drop us a line at MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Max sits down with award-winning filmmaker and festival darling John Scheibe to talk about his latest short, the breathtaking PERHAPS WE WRONG THEM. You can find the film at TheYonder. Studio If you like what you hear, head on over to Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm to find out how you can help support the show, or drop us a line at MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The fellas duck and weave their way through Ryan Gosling’s intense and impressive performance as a Jewish Neo-Nazi in 2001’s The Believer . It’s a harrowing and powerful bit of art (that maybe gets a little too arthouse for its own good at times, but hey, it was 2001), and one hell of a delicate topic for discussion. Cue the comedic breaks! Patreon.com/QuillandFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Wrapping up our discussion of 2007’s brilliant Lars and the Real Girl . Truly a love story for the ages, and a perfect date night flick. (No, really.) Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

This is the podcast episode of Measuring Flicks which is about Bianca. Bianca stars in the moving picture Lars and the Real Girl , which is about a real girl and a lie named Lars, that is Ryan Gosling inside. The story is about how the Lie that is Ryan Gosling inside dies and is broken and is reborn, and is about Bianca. Buy now. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

More Nick Cage than you waggle a Flick at! The strapping young men get down to brass tacks and golden guns in the conclusion to their outpouring of love for THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

It’s the movie we all knew we wanted, in our secret hearts: Nicolas Cage playing himself in an action comedy movie about movies, with Pedro Pascal as his opposite number. Honestly, if you need more than that, I mean…who hurt you? Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Max and Karl wrap up their (surprisingly emotional) discussion of 2021’s Pig . This movie took both of us by surprise. Astoundingly good. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Pig is a hard movie to write a blurb about. It’s infinitely blurbable—the problem is catching the actual experience of watching this incredible film. I could write: It’s John Wick with a pig. Or: It’s the story of a truffle hunter’s love for his pig. But that misses it entirely (even if both are true). It’s one man’s journey into the underworld to reclaim some small fragment of his humanity, and h...

Nicolas Cage month (ha—more like quarter) continues, with Martin Scorsese’s surreal and frenetic drama, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999). Burned-out EMT has a terrible week, shot like a nightmare, and scored with U.S. Soul and UK punk. Nicolas Cage is brilliant. So is Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Patricia Arquette, Marc Anthony (yeah, the excellent singer with the awesome clothing line)…everybody. It’s...

Wrapping up our discussion of 1997’s Con Air . Sorry about our voiceover guy. He drinks. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Welcome back to the Cage. Come on in, the water’s fine. I mean, the swimming pool is empty except for a little girl having a tea party with a serial murderer, but it’s really more an expression, anyway. This is an audio medium, so there’s no water ever, really--just in your imagination, and if you're anything like us, you're imagining that imaginary water glistening in the sun on the golden brow o...

We’re getting our feet under us again and wrapping up our look at the black and white era with Buster Keaton’s most famous film, The General (1927). Is it a masterpiece? We’re not sure. The stunts are pretty incredible, but all the stuff in between the stunts…well, you’ll have to tune in and find out. The episode is a blast, at least. Stay tuned for the dubstep and the battlefield amputations, bec...

The fellas finally circle back to wrap up their discussion on one of the last great masterpieces of the Silent Era, and catch up after a couple hard months apart. Not to break the fourth wall or anything, but it was really good to hear Karl’s voice and see his face again (albeit back to being on the other side of a screen for a little while). Stay tuned—we’re back, wrapping up one more silent film...

Just a quick update about why the show’s been on hiatus, with some bangin’ jams at the end. Thanks to our listeners for their patience and support while Max finds his footing, and thanks to our Patrons for the new iMac, without which there could be no Jamz this Sweaty. (Apparently the youthz have some new slang. Let’s go.) MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

This week, the boys sit down to discuss Charlie Chaplin’s final silent film, Modern Times . Enduringly relevant, hilariously funny, and surprisingly powerful, even all these years later: if you haven’t seen it, watch it, and if you have seen it, then listen to us talk about it! This episode was a blast. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

PRIVATE EYES AND FUNNY GUYS The fellas wrap up their brandy-fueled discussion of The Maltese Falcon (1941). Part 2 of 2. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

PRIVATE EYES AND FUNNY GUYS We’re kicking off Season 5 with a memorial month for Max’s grandmother, a lifelong film fan with a fondness for classics, funnies, and film noir. What better way to begin our celebration of her memory (and her impeccable taste) than with John Huston’s brilliant adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s novel THE MALTESE FALCON. Bogart, Astor, Lorre, Greenstreet, Elisha Cook Jr…....

Max remembers his Grandma Linda, and takes a little time to heal before the boys spin up the next reel.

Sister Sara Hartley joins us in the studio to talk The Last Starfighter (1984), directed by Nick Castle. (Yes, that Nick Castle.) A fantastic sci-fi adventure, and a great talk down memory lane. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Part 2 of 2 of our discussion of Kathryn Bigelow’s harrowing and masterful K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm

THE GUNS OF AUGUST (in October) wraps up with K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), directed by Kathryn Bigelow. We were ready for a masterpiece. We just weren’t ready for all the…melting people. Wow. Measuringflickspodcast@gmail.com Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm