Measuring Flicks

ROADVEMBER IN DECEMBER rolls on (and on and on and on) with a long look at Stanley Kramer’s bafflingly popular near-three-hour bout of navel-gazing, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) . Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

ROADVEMBER IN DECEMBER kicks off, as the fellas of the FZK take a little holiday road trip with John Candy and Steve Martin in John Hughes’s Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

We wrap up October (in December) with the conclusion to the sprawling epic that is our pondering the masterwork that is… Midsommar . You should watch it. It’s so f*#%ing good. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

We’ve kept you waiting long enough (and if we’d waited any longer, we’d’ve started forgetting what our notes meant): it’s time to wrap up Midsommar . Drink your tea and buckle in. This flick is Buck. Wild. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The December October Wrap-Up rolls on, with a second whack at The Lighthouse . We wade through shark genitalia and something gluey, bold, and viscous by the end, but as we mount the sea-wet iron spiral toward the unendurable light above, we know that it was worth. And the world goes black and white. And we scream. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The biggest takeaway from this first crazed, wild look at the absolutely brilliant The Lighthouse (2019) , is this (and you’d do well to remember it, lad): It’s bad luck to kill a sea bird. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Let us join hands, all across the nation, and praise the genius of Jordan Peele once again. It’s time for 2019’s Us . Nothing like a mind-shattering horror flick when your teetering already on the edge of madness… Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Midsommar is the sort of movie whose central tragedy becomes, after you’ve seen it, that you can never see it for the first time again. Max’s assertion is that it’s the best film he’s ever seen, a title taken from its predecessor, Hereditary . Is it? How? Why? It’s a roundtable of film nerds and witchy freaks. Bound to be a good time. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

It’s an emotional roller coaster of phoned-in performances, out-of-place greatness, dramatic death, and recreational drug use. What else could it be but THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (1998). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The boys talk Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon . And boy howdy, is there a lot to talk about. Buckle up, meta-horror slasher fans: we’re going deep! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, and that guy whose chopper Bruce Willis rides off on in Pulp Fiction (which came out the same year as this movie): it’s time to talk about The Mask . Filled with nostalgia, violence, and the kind of physical comedy that (truly) belongs to Jim Carey alone, slosh your way through a wine-drunk look at a weird movie from our childhoods. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlick...

Part II of our discussion of The Dark Knight Rises , which is probably much, much, much better than you remember it being—trust us; the context is all squirreled around, now, and it becomes obvious that this flick was just a little ahead of the world. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Listener, it’s time to take another look at Christopher Nolan’s final entry in the Batman series. Seriously: The Dark Knight Rises is a freaking masterpiece, in the way that only eerily prescient films packed full of archetypal symbolism and profoundly powerful cinematic imagery conveying complex socio-political themes can be. Spoilers: Max probably cries somewhere in this episode. Patreon.com/Qui...

Max and Karl finally wrap up the last of the June episodes with 2013’s Fruitvale Station . Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Jordan Peele’s mind-blowing feature debut, Get Out (2017) , has the fellas clamoring to get in …to the nitty gritty of what makes this film so great—for us, and for everybody, for all time. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The Socially-Distanced Duo are back, diving headlong back into one of our favorite directors, with Steve McQueen’s foray into the heist film— Widows (2018). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm (Where, right now, everything is free!) MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Max and Bird kick off a month of black directors with Spike Lee’s intricate mosaic of 24 overheated hours in a neighborhood in Brooklyn….and examination of what happens when a community pushed far too far boils over. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com “New York, 1924” by Ross Budgen

Josh Hartnett and Danny Huston in a film adaptation of the brilliant comic 30 Days of Night , with a script written by Steve Niles (who also penned the comic), special vampire makeup effects by WETA, and Sam Raimi hiding in the producer credits? Yeah. Criminally underrated! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Not since Withnail and I has there been a movie more quoted around the house in its wake. Max and Bird laugh and love their way through What We Do In the Shadows . Precisely the horror comedy we needed. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Max and Bird’s nerd-frenzy for the occult barrels on as they wrap up their discussion of Constantine . Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Gorgeous cinematography, whip-sharp editing, a dark and witty script…and 46 percent on Rotten Tomatoes? Max and Bird dissect the rich tapestry of accurate occult undertones and masterful filmmaking of Constantine (2005). Seriously. It’s way better than you think it is. Check it out. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Max and Bird wrap up an in-depth, two-part discussion of Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece, The Shining . Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Rob Ager’s Essays

We’re starting to notice a theme: The Shining (1980) makes three a row about people trapped in houses, assailed by harrowing circumstances beyond their control. Wonder what that’s about. Come wander the halls: wonder at the slant of books and the cant of mirrors, at color schemes and architecture. It’s a little bit film school, a little bit auteur-awe, and a whole lot of fandom. Give it a listen....

Max and Bird dig their way up out of their Quarantine Tomb only to dig into one of the most iconic horror movies of all time: Night of the Living Dead (1968) . Patreon.com/QuillandFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

THE QUARANTINE TAPES! Max and Bird scratch around like raccoons in a pile of Wonder Bread, just looking for a flick to bring a little sanity into these long days of quarantine. Grey Gardens is not that movie. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com