Mind Your Movies

It is time we finally talked about the movie taking everyone by storm, Marty Supreme! Josh Safdie's newest movie starring Timothée Chalamet as the titular Marty, who believes he is destined to be, well, Supreme. It is a movie with a lot of attention, a lot of discussion, and a lot of critical speculation right now, especially with the award season ready to kick off. What did you think of this...

Wrapping up the holiday season with a few recent holiday watches, we are then jumping into our "crossover franchise" episode! This week, we are taking a close look at Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster and The Monster Squad. Ghidorah is the fifth installment in the Ishirō Honda Godzilla and Kaiju film universe that lives on in spirit today with Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) and Godzilla Minus O...

Merry Christmas! It is our Christmas Day episode, where we are recommending our favorite Christmas movies from our childhoods and adult lives, which we hope can bring you some cheer at the end of the year. We each picked five of our favorites to recommend, but we couldn't help ourselves from adding on some honorable mentions. We've got everything from short films, animation, horror, comedy...

This week, we are excited to dive into two movies that eventually got remade. We aren't talking about the remakes much here, focusing instead on the quality and breakdown of the original movies. First, we talk about the cult favorite sci-fi anime, "Ghost in the Shell", then we look at the iconic action movie, "Point Break". Both came out in the 90s and got remakes in the 2010s,...

In this episode, we each have five found footage movies that we love to recommend to you! With a plethora of honorable mentions, this episode could fill your whole watch list! From the 1960s to the 2020s, found footage has evolved a lot, and we think that these recommendations are some of the best of the best for you to dive into! What are your favorite found footage movies? Find us elsewhere onli...

This week, we took a deep dive into two of the highest-grossing movies of all time! The list (not adjusted for inflation) is full of remakes, reboots, franchises, and mostly post-2000 movies, so we picked two that we felt fit the bill just right. Lilo and Stitch is the live-action/CGI hybrid remake of the 2002 classic, and it grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. It is part of a wider trend of...

It's Nic Cage November! So, we picked out twenty movies from Nic Cage's filmography to compare on a tier list. From Vampire's Kiss to Con Air, from Mandy to Adaptation, from Jiu-Jitsu to Kill Chain, we take on some of his most beloved, most watched, and least seen movies all in one fell swoop! Join us as we dive into his incredible career, and let us know down below what your favorite...

This week, we are exploring some of the most obscure movies on Letterboxd, only looking at movies with fewer than a thousand views. We each picked one that we had some high hopes for, and we get the chance here to break down our thoughts in full! This includes the campy Welsh horror movie from 1975, "Blood on the Stars", and the Gabe Kaplan starring basketball movie from later that decade,...

This week, we are excited to jump into Yorgos Lanthimos' new film, Bugonia, which just hit theaters! It is a wild ride, but we also visited the original story it's based on, Jang Joon-hwan's "Save the Green Planet!" from 2003. We spend a good amount of time discussing them without spoilers so that everyone can decide if they want to join us for our full spoiler discussion after...

This week, we watched two movies from Gaspar Noé's filmography! As always, we also mentioned a few movies that we watched this week, including the new Yorgos Lanthimos movie, "Bugonia," as well as "Save the Green Planet," which it was based on. Nic Cage's "Mandy," the new "Chainsaw Man" movie, and Harmony Korine's infrared "AGGRO DR1FT". After al...

This week, we talk about some of the best underseen horror films out there for you to watch at the end of our spooky season this year. We take a broad stab at suggesting some of the more obscure stuff that deserves more love, looking only at films that have less than 50,000 watches logged on Letterboxd -- way too low! We've got recommendations for everyone here: a film that is less than a minu...

This week, we watched two movies from Paul Verhoeven's filmography! While we were excited to jump into them, we also wanted to mention a few movies that we watched this week, including the new "Black Phone 2" slasher/thriller/horror movie sequel that takes a new spin on the original, the 1960s folk horror movie from Ukraine, "Viy", and Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drun...

This week, we are breaking down all of the best movies to watch this Halloween! Spooky, scary, funny, and gory! Whatever you are in the mood for, we hope our recommendations help you find the perfect movie for your Halloween party, handing out candy, or post-trick or treat binge! We each recommend five movies -- a horror, a thriller, a comedy, a sci-fi, and an animation movie. What are you watchin...

This week, we are exploring the troubling behind-the-scenes of Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" (1982), shown through the iconic making of documentary "Burden of Dreams" (1982) in which director Les Blank followed the crew deep into the Amazon Rainforest. While that documentary uncovers the 'cursed' issues with Herzog's movie, another type of curse haunts the iconic 1...

We've got a special episode this week! We are talking about the newest Paul Thomas Anderson film, "One Battle After Another," right after seeing it in person on Vista Vision film at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Boston! We've got you covered with a spoiler-free discussion first for you to decide if it's worth watching, followed by a lengthy chat on the movie with spoilers. But...

This week, we are talking about Tubi Originals Movies... Admittedly, we were wary going into this, but Tubi is a mixed bag with some iconic, classic movies and some not-so-great things. This week, we picked out the Maori film "Muru" (also known as "The Raid") from 2022 and the drag queen vampire movie "Slay" from 2024. It is a pretty big tonal change between these two flick...

This week, we are breaking down upcoming movies for the Fall/Winter cycle. We discuss what we are most excited about, what theatrical releases we are determined to see, what Netflix movies might be worth watching, and so much more! We begin by picking our five most anticipated movies each, ranging in genre from pretty much anything you can think of, there is great stuff coming out for everyone! Bu...

This week, we are exploring the creepy side of stop motion. While we've talked about Fantastic Mr. Fox on the podcast before, stop motion can also be an avenue for artists and filmmakers to explore the creepier side of things. For example, Phil Tippet (the mastermind stop motion animator behind RoboCop, Star Wars, and Starship Troopers) worked for 30 years on his passion project, "Mad God&...

This week, we are talking about Darren Aronofsky's newest addition to his filmography, "Caught Stealing". For this episode, we had the chance to record in person immediately after seeing this in theaters. As is tradition for Aronofsky, "Caught Stealing" takes place in NYC, but this is a more crowd-pleasing movie than his previous films, which are great but dark movies. Here, he...

Despite our screens being bombarded with semi-human singing cats, poorly CGI'ed alien tripods, and a terrifying amount of Amazon product placement, we survived watching our picks for the lowest-rated movies on Letterboxd. Ice Cube's phoned-in performance and the poor decision to use motion-capture CGI for anthropomorphic cats are just the beginning of the issues with these two movies. Of c...

Zach Cregger's newest addition to what we consider the horror genre is an absolute blast! Weapons is full of tension, scares, themes, and laughs, and we wholeheartedly recommend it if you haven't seen it yet. We talk briefly about the movie as a whole without any spoilers for the first bit of this episode, and then transition to a spoiler-heavy conversation to dive deep into the film in al...

Good parody movies can be hard to find, but we've found some of the funniest ones to talk about on this week's episode! This week we are looking at a faithful return to form for David Zucker and Leslie Nielsen's "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad" (1988), with Akiva Schaffer's 2025 "The Naked Gun" starring Liam Neeson, and a cult classic parody on the bl...

From the French New Wave's great Agnes Varda to today's Coralie Fargeat, female directors have long been an under-highlighted and incredibly important piece of cinema. Even as far as 1895, Alice Guy-Blaché was a pioneer filmmaker and one of the, if not the, first narrative directors of all time. Today, Ryan and Shane each picked out five of their favorite female-directed movies to recommen...

New York City has long been an iconic location with its diverse neighborhoods and its fame as America's largest city. This week, we explore two iconic masterpieces made in the "Big Apple", watching Spike Lee deliver pizza on a scorching hot day in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and Griffin Dunne get lost in a nightmarish string of coincidences in SoHo, Manhattan. Join us this week for Spike Lee&#...

While we have talked about Masahiro Shinoda's "Demon Pond" (1979) and Erik Skjoldbjærg's "Insomnia" (1997) on the podcast recently, we wanted to highlight some more under-the-radar non-English movies. In this episode, we each picked a movie with fewer than 50k, 40k, 30k, 20k, and 10k views on Letterboxd. Our picks span across the globe from Iran to Argentina and across genr...