Pivotal Film

Mario and Tom gather to drink some Pumpkin the Bear, a German Doppleboch with smoked malts and pumpkin, from Hanging Hills Brewing in Hartford (https://hanginghillsbrewery.com/) and talk about some recent flicks: "Vacation Friends" now streaming on Hulu (8:00), the new MCU entry, "Shang-Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings" (15:30), Paul Schrader's new masterpiece, "The Card Counter" starring Oscar Is...

Mario and Tom are back-ish! They return from a lengthy hiatus to talk about some of the movies that came out over the last month: David Lowry's new one, "The Green Knight" (8:00), James Gunn's version of "The Suicide Squad" (30:55), Nicholas Cage's new flick "Pig" (51:30), and the new film from Leos Carax, "Annette" (1:13:45)

Mario and Tom drink some Rolling Rocks and High Life and have a loose talk about Steven Soderberg's new flick "No Sudden Moves," and "Black Widow" and "Loki," from the MCU.

From episode 0 to episode 1, Mario and Tom have talked about every Paul Thomas Anderson movie...well, almost every one. This week they fill in the holes, and talk about "Hard Eight," and "Inherent Vice," with guest host JP.

Mario and Tom have a disagreement about "The Mitchells vs. The Machines," (11:00), now streaming on Netflix and "Luca" (28:00)now on Disney+.

Mario and Tom talk about "In the Heights" (8:00), Bo Burnham's "Inside" (30:00), and the newly excavated George Romero flick, "The Amusement Park" (49:00). Music Credits - "Her Eyes Play Tricks on the Camera" - Robert Pollard, "Ghost" - Neutral Milk Hotel

Mario and Tom talk about the new Zack Snyder zombie flick on Netflix "Army of the Dead" (16:00), and "Riders of Justice," the new movie starring Mads Mikkelsen (42:00). They even drink a new beer from East Rock Brewing, the Key Lime Kicker (1:00) -https://eastrockbeer.com/beers/key-lime-kicker/

Mario and Tom talk about "Supernova' starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci (8:00), and "Those Who Wish Me Dead," the new one from Taylor Sheridan, inexplicably starring Angelina Jolie, now streaming on HBOMax (28:00). Music Credits: "Her Eyes Play Tricks on the Camera" _ Robert Pollard, "Ghost" - Neutral Milk Hotel

Mario runs solo this week while Tom continues his pursuit of higher education. And what better way for Mario to talk for nearly forty minutes than a Saw film as he reviews Darren Lynn Bousman's return to the Saw series with Spiral: From the Book of Saw, starring and inspired by ideas (and script reworked) from Chris Rock, co-starring Marisol Nichols, Max Minghella, and Samuel L. Jackson. First, Ma...

Mario and Tom talk about their reactions to the Oscars and then "mortal Kombat," now in theaters and streaming on HBOMax (31:00).

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. This is the end of the list folks. I’m not even going to time stamp anything. We open the show by drinking some Logical Conclusion, an India Pale Ale, from Threes Brewing in Brooklyn, NY - https://shop.threesbrewing....

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. Well, we did it folks, we made it to number one. As we have been doing the last couple weeks, we are splitting up the number one conversation. This week we focus on Mario’s number one, most pivotal film, Celine Sciam...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. We finish up our top two’s this week, but first we need to stop and watch the monster fight that erupted on that aircraft carrier over there – its hard to miss since its “Godzilla vs. Kong” the new monsterverse flick...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. Oh man, oh man…we’re in the top two now folks. First Mario and Tom talk about the one film nominated for a best picture Oscar this year that they had yet to see, Florian Zeller’s adaptation of his own play, “The Fath...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. Alright, we’re rounding out the top 3 this week. But first we are obligated to talk about “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” now streaming and four hours long on HBOMax (6:30). Then Mario and Tom get privy to some new s...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. The Top Three! Holy smokes…it felt like we would never get here, but here we are. As always though, we have to delay, to talk about some new movies. First, the new Disney animated flick, “Raya and the Last Dragon,” (...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. We’re in the top four! Bu that doesn’t mean the new movies get better. First up the seriously disappointing sequel to “Coming to America,“ “Coming2America,” starring everyone who was in the first movie and now stream...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. We made it to the top five everyone! But first we have some work to do. First Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic “The United States of America vs. Billie Holiday” (11:30), and “Tom and Jerry” (32:20). Yeesh…this was...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. We are getting down to the nitty-gritty folks: the nitty-gritty (that’s such a weird phrase to type). Mario and Tom begin this weeks show by talking about the two big releases from 2020 that everyone wanted to see bu...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. It took a while but were back on the list. First Mario, Tom and their special guest JP, talk about “Barb and Start go to Vista del Mar,” starring Kristen Wiig (5:30), then the new HBOMax documentary “There’s No I in...

Mario and Tom talk about the pretty terrible, "The Little Things," now streaming on HBOMax, and the absolutely wonderful, "Nine Days," starring Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, and Bill Skarsgard.

Mario and Tom list their top 10 films of 2020.

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. Its that time of year folks! Fortunately, Mario and Tom like to talk so you get double the best-of episodes this year! Part one features the categories starting with their top 10 moments of the year (5:15), followed by The Bests... Supporting Actor (44:50), Supporting Actress (48:33), Hair and Makeup (51:49), Costume D...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com, www.twitter.com/filmpivotal, www.pivotalfilm.com. We hope everyone is staying healthy, and safe, and strong, and passionate, and as positive as they can. We’re back with a new list episode folks! Hurray! Mario and Tom open the show by looking into the future and talking about some of the films they are most looking forward to in this new year (10:35). Then they talk a...

Mario and Tom talk about "Pieces of a Woman," starring Vanessa Kirby, and Shia Labeouf (1:35), "Promising Young Woman," starring Carey Mulligan (22:30), and their picks for the worst films of the year (46:45).