Reel Roundtable with Erick, Dean, and Ethan

Reel Roundtable – Ep. 5: Reel Roundtable's First Guest We grill fellow film student and sound design expert Jacob on how audio shapes cinema across genres—probing blockbuster booms, indie silences, and everything in-between. From "sound mistakes in major releases" to "upgrading classics with Dolby Atmos," we hit targeted questions of deep conversational flow. Game: Pitch y...

Reel Roundtable – Ep. 4: Discussing our favorite Directors We pit three visionary directors against each other: Ridley Scott’s epic world-building, Edgar Wright’s kinetic pop-culture mashups, and Stanley Kubrick’s icy perfectionism. Lightning game: Name a director's filmography. Main Movies mentioned: Alien (1979) Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) Shaun of the Dead (2004) Last Night in Soho (2023...

Reel Roundtable – Ep. 3: Giving our Hot Takes We share our juicest film hot takes and determine which of us has the most baffling ones to share. Main movies mentioned: Rocky III (1982) Eternals (2021) Citizen Kane (1941) Halloween III (1982) Avatar (2009) Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Join the conversation: Tell us your all time juiciest hot takes. Next Episode In Episode 4, we each discuss a promine...

Reel Roundtable – Ep. 2: Dissecting our Favorite Movies  We reveal Oscar prediction scores (bragging rights winner + social penalty loser), share what hooked us into film, then deep-dive into some of our all-time favorite movies. Lightning game: Guess the movie from Letterboxd taglines. Main Movies mentioned: Back to the Future (1985) Garden State (2004) Whiplash (2014) Join the conversation: Tell...

Reel Roundtable – Ep. 1: Oscar Crystal Ball (2026 Awards Predictions) Welcome to the very first episode of Reel Roundtable, where three film-obsessed college students—a Film Theory major, and two Film Production majors—sit down to argue about the movies that everyone’s talking about (and a few they aren’t). In this debut episode, we crack open the 2026 Oscars race, walk through our ballots, and ma...

Reel Roundtable is a show where we explore cinema. We'll look at different movies, genres, and topics in our own respective lenses and experiences. It's a show that will give movie-lovers something new to think about. You can follow the podcast on Instagram and TikTok @reelroundtablepodcast and follow our individual Instagrams @erickmarshmallow, @deanvais3000, and @ethan_stafford4321. Su...