Measuring Flicks

Live from the Nunnery, it’s the 2020 Quill and Filmies!

The Ides of March Part III: Léon: The Professional (1994) . Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The Ides of March roll on as the FZK is introduced to the brilliance of Jean-Pierre Melville. Le Samouraï is absolutely amazing—artful, complex, gorgeous, atmospheric…cinema, French or otherwise, at its best. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

It’s Season Three! The fellas are going back to film school with back-to-back Criterion flicks to start the new season off right, starting with the blood-drenched assassin flick that inspired Tarantino’s vengeful Bride: it’s Lady Snowblood (1973). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

It’s the final shootout of Quarter Four, followed by the final shootout for Flick of the Year! Grab your measuring tapes! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Karl, Max, and Bird wrap up their discussion of the last film of Season Two: Princess Mononoke . Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Bird closes out the season with one of the most gorgeous, richest movies we’ve yet had the pleasure of watching: Princess Mononoke , directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Bird’s first pick of the month was so amazing, Kasey and John Scheibe flew all the way from New York City to talk about it with us! Some technical difficulties cost us a little chunk off the tail end, but the episode stands as some of the most fun we’ve had in studio in ages. And no wonder, with this laugh riot of a flick: join the FZK family as we laugh our way through… Hostel II. Patreon.com/Qui...

Nostalgia city and the Childhood Paradox are playing all night long as the FZK family chats Hook (1991). Dustin Hoffman. Robin Williams. ‘Nuff said. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The fellas take a little detour out of Ladies’ Choice month to talk with Michigan Radio icon Michelle Perez about The Towering Inferno in the first of a two-part exploration of her favorite subgenre: Disaster Flicks! Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire…what more could you ask for? Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

After all the heavy British film of January, and an accompanying trudge through four of the “50 Most Disturbing Films of All Time” (which we did over on the Patreon ), our wives decided to take over the podcast for a month, and who are we to argue with two smart gals of such obvious good taste? First up, one of Danielle Hartley’s childhood favorites: True Lies (1994)! MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail....

Attack the Block is an utter delight. Maybe it’s the heavy movies about social unrest and political upheaval in periods of strife throughout the last six decades of England’s history, but for whatever reason, a streetwise stoner horror comedy about an alien invasion was just the palate cleanser we needed. (And it even manages a little bit of social commentary on the sly.) Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm...

Part II of our discussion of This is England . Strange how history seems to keep repeating itself: luckily, we have movies to remind us how it was. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

David Rowney keeps the Anarchy in the UK coming with a coming-of-age flick like you've never seen before! It’s The Littlest Skinhead! No, just kidding: it’s 2006’s This is England , and it is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Part II! Featuring special guest host (and Patron!) David Rowney! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Karl ducks out to go to work, but luckily David Rowney had a couple hours to kill chatting Sid and Nancy , so he jumped in the co-host’s chair. Max and David take a long, bleak look at a movement falling apart in a country being taken to pieces by politics, and the high cost of punk rock. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Special guest host David Rowney takes the boys through the beautiful, booze-soaked tragicomedy Withnail and I . Truly one of the most exceptional films we’ve had the pleasure to press our brains against. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

We were all set to do obscure sci-fi drive-in classics this month, and then Patron David Rowney had to go and show us Withnail and I . So we scrapped “Attack of the Killer B’s.” Welcome to…ANARCHY IN THE U.K. All the films this month were selected by David, and he’ll be guest-hosting on each. Which is good. He’s got a British accent and everything. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@g...

Leaving Las Vegas is…kind of a bummer. Thank f**k we had the ever-hilarious Connor Sweeney to commiserate with! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Connor Sweeney hosts the show at the FZK East. Leaving Las Vegas brings the nominations and all the yuks of a suicidal alcoholic. The boys dive deep into the neon. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

The boys love all over Moonstruck (1987) for a couple hours. You get it. We get it. Nicolas Cage gets it. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Our month-long ode to one of our favorite actors continues with VAMPIRE’S KISS, easily one of the most insane movies we’ve ever seen. But what is it? A hysterically funny comedy, or a harrowing story of one man’s haunting descent into intense mental illness? Or both? Either way, it started one of the best discussions we’ve had all season. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

A little-known gem from the early 90s, full of well-earned twists and turns, with a great cast, a great script, and one of the wildest train stunts we’ve seen so far. Welcome to our second annual celebration of Saint Nicolas (Cage). Welcome to RED ROCK WEST. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

Bad Italian Horror, Universal Monsters, and Musclebound Barbarians, oh my! Patreon.com/QuillAndFim MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com

It’s Jason Mamoa playing Conan the freaking Barbarian! What more could you want? What’s that? Different casting for Marique? Yeah. Yeah, us too, actually. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com