Sanity at the Movies

Silent comedy rules. Especially when it's done by an artist of the caliber of Buster Keaton. And Steamboat Bill, Jr. is one of his best. It contains stunts that are still breathtaking, and comedy that still makes you laugh. And some heart, too. What else can you ask for? We also threw in Disney's Steamboat Willie just for the heck of it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

What is there to say about The Godfather ? It's beautiful, it's horrible, and most everybody considers it one of the greatest movies ever made. What is it about this simple story of a mob family passing the torch that makes it so powerful and so beloved? What do some people return to it again and again? What does it have to say about hierarchy and authority and generational sin? And is what it say...

Wanna understand just about everything that sucks in the world today? You should understand existentialism and Marxism and semiotics and structuralism and maybe even Jean-Luc Godard, the premier filmmaking of all this stuff, who died this week. Here's a primer. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In our classic, beloved segment "Jake's takes", Jake catches up on a movie that everybody is still talking about. Success! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

“This is a tribute to freshness that is so mechanically engineered and so shrewdly calculated that the background music rises, the already soft focus blurs and melts, and, upon the instant, you can hear all those noses blowing in the theatre. Whom could this operetta offend? Only those of us who, despite the fact that we may respond, loathe being manipulated in this way and are aware of how cheap...

Sanity at the Movies reviews 2001: A Space Odyssey. "So completely absorbed in its own problems – its use of colour and space, its fanatical devotion to science-fiction detail – that it’s somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring. The uncompromising slowness of the movie makes it hard to sit through without talking – and people on all sides when I saw it were talking almost throughout the fi...

Did we like this movie? Is Jordan Peele a great filmmaker? Are the ideas groundbreaking and thought-provoking? ......... (INSERT ANSWER HERE) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's a movie about Thor. It is entitled  Thor: Love and Thunder.  It features a storyline involving Thor and various characters. Thor interacts with these characters. These interactions are designed to entertain the audience of the movie. This is the main reason that the audience watches the movie. This is a podcast about that movie. It seeks to ascertain whether the movie successfully entertains...

The other big blockbuster movie that changed cinema forever. And it's almost 30 years old now. Yeesh. Our heroes discuss Michael Crichton, pop novels of the late twentieth century, dinosaurs, y'know, all kinds of stuff. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The movie that started everything. The reason your cinema is the way it is. And a pretty good little fish story, at that. It's Jaws . ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

VROOM! There goes an airplane! (Insert 80s nostalgia.)  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's a piece of terrible corporate schlock. Or an anti-woke masterpiece if you believe the Federalist (??????). ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our mini-reviews of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Secrets of Dumbledore . And The Northman . Yay. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

One of the great movies of the twenty-first century. One of the great children's films. Etc.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our heroes review a beloved children's film based in Irish mythology. Nathan finds it deeply troubling. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

What does a romantic comedy do? Why do people like them? Why did they attain such popularity in the 90s and very early 00s, and why did they drop off so severely after that? Our heroes are on the case as they discuss 2000's romantic-comedy-drama Return to Me ! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

All the SatM boys said this was the first movie in (maybe) years to do certain things. What are those things? Did they like them? LISTEN TO FIND OUT! Our epic The Batman review. The best on the internet. Guaranteed.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Want a movie from when men were men and women were women? Then you've come to the right place. Happy Valentine's Day Month (???). We're talking about one of the great romantic comedies (and, some would say, one of the great movies, period). And one with masculine and feminine energy that is just a teensy weensy bit different than today. That's right ... it's Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (19...

Ever wonder where everything cool came from, be it Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Mad Max, spaghetti westerns, anime, Clint Eastwood, graphic novels, The Matrix ... y'know, everything cool. One of the places is Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa. And one of his best and most accessible movies is Yojimbo. And we are talking about it in this episode.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In which our heroes review an inconceivably great movie with many great lines such as "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." And " Life is pain. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something." And "Mawage is what bwings us togever today." Yay!    ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's a classic of the silent cinema! The one where the guy dangles off the clock. A film that still works to this day.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Pray for us and give here.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our heroes weave a tangled web of expert criticism as they discuss the latest Marvel thing, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Dawn of Justice.   ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In which we review Jimmy Stewart's classic Christmas movie. No, the other one. The warm hearted, slightly bemused fable for adults that is The Shop Around the Corner. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★