Movie Night Extravaganza

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Edward Berger's Conclave with Lauren Chouinard Based on Robert Harris's 2016 novel of the same name. Conclave is a political thriller that depicts the conclave to elect a new pope after the previous pope suddenly dies. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rosselini, John Lithgow, and Sergio Castellitto It is up for Best Picture, Best...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes are joined by Julia Linger to talk about Wicked Part One!! John M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) directs the film adaptation of the 2003 Stephen Schwartz Broadway musical Starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, and Jonathan Bailey. It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, Kt Baldassaro and Becky Rice talk about Jesse Eisenberg's second feature film A Real Pain. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkan, Jennifer Grey, Will Sharpe, Kurt Egylawan, Daniel Oreskes Jesse and Kieran star as cousins David and Benji who take a trip to Poland to see where their grandmother came from and went through the Holocaust. #arealpain #jesseeisen...

It's our first episode of Oscars Month!!! Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro talk to Eileen Jones of Jacobin and Filmsuck about Sean Baker's Anora! Starring Mikey Madison as Ani, a dancer and sex worker from Brighton Beach, who gets married to a Russian Oligarch's son Vanya she meets at the club. When Vanya's parents find out about the marriage, they send their security to f...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, Kt Baldassaro and Harry Marks of @lobbyintros talk about Alexander Mackendrick's 1957 satirical noir Sweet Smell of Success Starring Burt Lancester and Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner Telling the story of newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker, based on Walter Winchell, who uses his connections to destroy his sisters relationship because he finds...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, Kt Baldassaro, Marta Mcfly @mcflysmoviehouse and Rayyvana @RayyvanaPolitics discuss David Lynch's Lost Highway We planned this episode a couple months ago, before we obviously found out that David Lynch had passed. So, I'm sure we're going to talk about David Lynch in general during this episode, but it's not the reason we planned it!! Lost Highway is David...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro talk to Alexis Gentry of @trashwire about S.S. Rajamouli's 2022 action historical drama RRR. S.S. Rajamouli has been called India's biggest director of all time. RRR stars Ram Charan and NTR as two of India's Revolutionary Figures Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem. It also stars Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, and Olivia Morris as the Bri...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro talk about Robert Eggers NEW Nosferatu remake starring Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, Lily Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and Willem Dafoe That's right, Robert Eggers made Nosferatu "Count Orlok" again after Herzog's questionable choice to call Klaus Kinski's Vampyre "Count Dracula." Back in October, we talked about the original 1922 F. W. Murn...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kt Baldassaro, and Kristina Oakes talk about Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling. This is our last Dystopian December episode AND our last episode of 2024! Harry Styles and Florence Pugh star with Chris Pine and Olivia Wilde in one of the most controversial and polarizing films of 2022. Florence Pugh stars as Alice, a House Wife who begins to feel like her company town, run...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Zach Marsh talk about Blade Runner 2049 We have previously talked about Blade Runner, in December 2023, for Conan's birthday stream https://youtube.com/live/rLpLuIWnvwk Directed by Denis Villeneuve and filmed by Roger Deakins and starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, and Ana de Armas, it's safe to say this is right up our alley. So, right before Christmas...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kt Baldassaro, and Kristina Oakes discuss Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men Way back on Episode 45 we did an episode on Children of Men, but having a big cast of characters on that one made it harder to get a good discussion on a very bleak movie: https://youtu.be/O_N7BVq4I7s So, we're redoing it with just the crew, and more than ever with the situation in England and the Xe...

On our third Movie Night Dystopia episode, Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro talk to filmmaker Jared Skolnick about Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet's the City of Lost Children. The City of Lost Children is a fairy tale like surrealist black comedy about a mad scientist who kidnaps orphans in order to steal their dreams. Two years ago, on Movie Night Apocalypse, we talked...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kt Baldassaro talk about Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 animated cyberpunk action film Akira! Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's manga series of the same name, Akira is an action packed and incredibly stylish cautionary tale about scientific experimentation and the mindset that led to the development of nuclear weapons. In a Post-World War 3 Neo-Tokyo.. rebuilt after a massive explosio...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro start off dystopian december with Terry Gilliam's 1985 Brazil Starring a truly impressive cast, Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. Terry Gilliam paints a bleak picture of a society where every day citizens are completely complacent and distracted by Hyper-Consumerist spec...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, Kt Baldassaro talk about Coralie Fargeat's The Substance with Renee Ruin of the Night Shift! Now that literally everyone has given their thoughts on The Substance, it's our turn. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley star as Elizabeth Sparkle/Sue, two halves of the same person created by a mysterious substance that is sold as a way to create a more beautiful, acti...

Episode 250!!! Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro.. just the crew on this one.. talk about JT Mollner's 2024 provocative and brutally violent thriller Strange Darling. This is a breakout performance for both leads Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner as a man and a woman whose bad date turns sharply into a deeply brutal cat and mouse game. Actor Giovanni Ribisi was behind the c...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, Kt Baldassaro talk to Marta Djordjevic AKA Marta McFly of McFly's Movie House about Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1973 science fiction serial World on a Wire. This was Marta's choice on our special bracket episode that we did back in October youtube.com/live/vy88wS5hEUg Originally made for West German Television, World on a Wire was little known, Until in 2010,...

This one is HUGE!!! Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro sit down with Director Adam McKay (Don't Look Up, Vice, the Big Short, Anchorman, Step Brothers) to talk about his filmmaking career. Adam is a writer/director who came out of Upright Citizens Brigade and then Saturday Night Live Before leaving with Will Ferrell in 2001 to start making movies, together they co-wrote Anch...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro talk about Ti West's 2022 horror film Pearl starring Mia Goth A prequel to Ti West's X which came out six months before, Pearl is the second of three Ti West horror films including also this year's Maxxxine all starring Mia Goth Pearl is a woman on the brink of insanity during the end of WW1 who lives on a Texas Farm with her German Immigrant parents as t...

In a rare MONDAY episode, so we aren't cross-streaming with Election Coverage Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro are joined by Harry Marks of Let's All Go To The Lobby @lobbyintros and @freemometu to talk about Nicholas Ray's 1950 Noir 'In A Lonely Place' starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. Harry Marks is an Author and Film Historian from New Jersey who created the...

Rounding out Vampire Month. Can you believe it's over so soon??? Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Kt Baldassaro talk with J.G. Michael about the 2024 horror comedy Abigail!! A group of criminals kidnap the 12 year old daughter (Alisha Weir) of an underworld figure/businessman. Starring: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Will Catlett, Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud, and Giancarlo Esposito as a g...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's 1996 vampire action movie From Dusk Till Dawn This is our second to last vampire month episode!!! Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez co-wrote a screenplay for one of the greatest genre switch ups of all time. George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as Richard and Seth Gecko (yeah, totally brothers)...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Kt Baldassaro talk to Bonnie Burton of The Night Shift about Taika Waititi's 2014 mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows. Before their FX show, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement directed their Vampire Mockumentary "What We Do in the Shadows" about vampire roommates trying to show a newly turned hipster the benefits of being undead. The vampires live toget...

Santa Carla is crawling with Vampires mom!!! Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kt Baldassaro are joined by friends of show Lauren Chouinard and Bonnie Burton of @thenightshift3871 to talk about Joel Schumacher's 1987 black comedy horror film the Lost Boys! The cast is an epic ensemble of 80s-90s pop culture Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz, Corey Haim, Edward Herrmann, Barnard Hughes, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherla...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, Kt Baldassaro and our good friend Bonnie Burton talk about Tony Scott's 1983 British erotic vampire film The Hunger!! This 1983 erotic horror film was Tony Scott's directorial debut starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Tony Scott would quickly go on to direct films like Top Gun, True Romance, Beverly Hills Cop II, and the Last Boy Scou...