Measuring Flicks

Part II of our discussion of Twelve O’Clock High (1949). One of the best war films either of us has ever seen. Stunning, stark, and powerful. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

THE GUNS OF AUGUST begins with a bang, with Gregory Peck, a script by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr., and a powerful directorial vision in Henry King, Twelve O’Clock High (1949) could only have been a masterpiece. One of the finest, most honest films ever made about the cost of war . MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm

The fellas sit down, do some shots, and throw some movies into the ring in a cinematic duel to the death for the first time in nearly two years. It feels good to be back to the format again. On the card for today’s bout: Brokeback Mountain , Her , Portrait of a Lady On Fire , Secretary , The Jerk , Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid , The Man with Two Brains , Roxanne , The Love Bug , Two-Lane Blacktop , C...

The boys wrap up their exploration of PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR with the massively underrated 2000s classic, The Cell. Vincent D’Onofrio, J. Lo, and a baby-faced Vince Vaughn rampage around in a psychedelic mental hellscape for a couple hours, with great writing and absolutely stunning cinematography, set design, and costuming to play around in. What’s not to love? Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFli...

Our month of PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR continues with Part II of our long discussion on Jacob’s Ladder . Gnosticism, Eckhart Tolle, angels, demons, Vietnam, tentacle porn…this movie’s got it all. (Including, possibly, the hidden truths that will allow you to break free from the stifling confines of this fabricated hell-realm we assume to be reality because we lack any other metaphysical point of refere...

Our long look at CEREBRAL HORROR FILMS ascends to new heights this week, up Jacob’s Ladder (1990) . It’s an absolute brain-breaker, and sparked a pretty paradigm-shifting conversation on gnostic philosophy and the fundamental nature of our reality, too. What’s not to love? (Tentacle Porn Impalements aside and/or included. Dealer’s choice.) Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

We haven’t watched a Nicolas Winding Refn film since Season Zero—our very first episode was Bronson . Our conversation (featuring guest hosts Bird and Alicia of New Hampshire) on The Neon Demon was every bit as contentious and illuminating as the chat that began this show. We hope you like it. We hope you like us. Do you think we’re beautiful? Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail....

The boys cross the finish line on Two-Lane Blacktop …but who will come out the victor? Is there any such thing as winning in a world where dreams are stamped out in factories, and sold for the cost of a Wall Street Christmas bonus? Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

AUTOMAYBILE (in June) rumbles into the home stretch with Two-Lane Blacktop. Is it Americana at its finest? The best Road Movie ever made? A haunting elegy for a nostalgic time and place that never really existed? A masterpiece? This flick changed one of us forever, and put the other to sleep. Listen in as the boys try their best to settle the matter in the best way they know how: an all-out quarte...

Part II of our discussion of 1983’s Christine …just a short tag at the end, because Squarespace likes skinny episodes, and Karl and I needed some room in this one!

AUTOMAYBILE rolls right on into June as the boys finally get around to John Carpenter’s excellent adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine (1983) . Arnie Cunningham is just another loser, fading into the background at AARP High School, when one day he finds a crappy car that fixes itself and kills his enemies. And his friends. And, uh…some other people, just ‘cause. So ready yourself for some Detroi...

AUTOMAYBILE screeches off the line with everybody’s favorite little Volkswagen that could: it’s The Love Bug (1968)! This little throwback Disney classic has some of the best old-school stunt driving we’ve seen in four seasons, along with all the charm of Buddy Hackett’s whacky slapstick, and all the…well, there’s some other stuff in this one, too. THRILL! as we navigate the switchbacks. Will the...

APRIL FOOLS: STEVE MARTIN continues, as does our secret Carl Reiner appreciation month, with Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid . If you like crime noir, detectives, cigarettes, dames, goons, James Bond, Harrison Ford, coffee, hilarity, voiceover, fantastic leaps in deduction, bloody knees, dog dirt, cross-dressing, coin manipulation, or semi-erotic toothpaste tubes…boy howdy, have we got a picture for you...

APRIL FOOLS: STEVE MARTIN The boys head on down to the big city, where things are a little bit different than we’re used to: 5,000-horsepower sedans, sexually aggressive carny stuntwomen, can assassins…it’s Steve Martin month. You know: Steve Martin. The Jerk (1979). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Bird and the boys wrap up their discussion of 2019’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire . Part 2 of 2. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The FZK is steaming up, and it’s not just the steamy French flick we watched this week, exploring Connor Sweeney’s FORBIDDEN LOVE… Portrait of a Lady on Fire turned out to be a more contentious film than we anticipated! Find out why within! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The boys wrap up their discussion of Ang Lee’s absolutely brilliant Brokeback Mountain (2005) . Heartbreak and triumph and the quiet moments that make up a life—all this and more. What a way to kick off Season 4! If you’d like to support the show, head over to Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Measuring Flicks is back to its normal format, just in time for Season 4! This month’s theme is Forbidden Love: four films curated by earth angel Connor Sweeney! So saddle up and the join us as we take a long and thoughtful ride up Ang Lee’s 2005 masterpiece, Brokeback Mountain . Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

There’s no better way to wrap Season Three than by sitting down for an inspiring, enlightening, laugh-and-cry conversation with filmmaker Jeff “Jeffrey T.” Morgan, to discuss his very first feature film, the occult-revenge-fantasy-martial-arts epic Folklore , and to marvel at the bizarre series of events that brought us all together. (And which led to many of Bird’s childhood acquaintances being m...

Buckle the f*** up, and witness as we put the pedal to the floor with Mad Max down Fury Road (2015). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlickPodcast@gmail.com

Max and Karl are joined by Genius Auteur Filmmaker Legend (and all-around great guy) Jeff Morgan for a flatulent frolic through the absolutely brilliant Swiss Army Man (2016). If you haven’t seen it, watch it before you join us on our digitally-linked desert islands. If you’ve already seen it, then welcome…to Jurassic Park. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Special guest Bird joins the boys to celebrate the holidays with 1987’s Hellraiser . Here: we got you a present. It’s inside this box. Go ahead. Open it. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

A year after we first got together to talk about The Towering Inferno , Michelle Perez is back on mic, dragging the boys into the belly of the whale with The Poseidon Adventure (1972) . Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Lesley Tye takes the fellas on a motor scooter ride into the 80s to check out The Legend of Billie Jean . The Stranger Things kids were into this flick for sure. Bonus points for Pat Benatar jams! Rock and Roll Mashup Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

ROADVEMBER IN DECEMBER skids into a Steven Spielberg’s feature film, 1971’s Duel. Made for TV, PG rating, cast you can count comfortably on one hand…but Richard Matheson’s running the gears on the script, and Spielberg directs the wheels offa this bad boy. If you want to see the moment that Jaws was born, spin this, spin out, and crash into the hard white fence of fandom. Then grab a cheese sandwi...