Sibling Cinema

A spicy episode this week as we argue about the merits of the most recent Best Picture winner, Sian Heder's CODA. It's ranked number 59 on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners. For more information on the countdown we're using, check out our Description or give a listen to our Trailer. Segments by timestamp: 0:00 - Introduction 3:16 - The other nominees 35:36 - Discussion o...

We are going all the way back to 1935 for this week's podcast. Mutiny on the Bounty only won one Academy Award that year, but it was for Best Picture. This is #56 in our countdown of Best Picture list, based on our unscientific blind ranking. Check out our trailer or its description for further details on the list.  Directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Francois T...

This week's movie is the classic musical My Fair Lady , the Best Picture winner from 1964. Bonnie and Dennis dive into to this one as they continue their countdown of Best Picture winners. This is number 66th according to our non-authoritative list. Enjoy.

This week, we come in with some spicy takes, discussing the 53rd entry in our countdown* of Best Picture winners. The movie is American Beauty, the somewhat polarizing suburban satire starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning, and directed by Sam Mendes.  *What is this list? We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and its Description, but as a high-level answer: we aggregated several different...

This week, we tackle Hamlet, Laurence Olivier's 1948 adaptation of the William Shakespeare classic. It's ranked number 65 on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners. Segments by timestamp: 0:00 - Introduction 4:00 - 1948 and the Paramount cases 13:10 - The other nominees 29:05 - Discussion of Hamlet 1:09:51 - What's next and conclusion

This week we psychoanalyze Spellbound, Hitchcock's 1945 film noir mystery dominated by Freudian psychotherapy. Gregory Peck plays an amnesiac doctor and psychiatrist Ingrid Bergman races to unlock his past as z murder investigation threatens to derail his progress. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before lis...

For this week's podcast we set sail for Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 WWII parable, Lifeboat. Set entirely on a lifeboat occupied by several survivors of a U-boat attack in the Atlantic ocean, it's a morality tale set entirely at sea. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. A 20th C...

We cover Marnie this week. Hitchcock's controversial 1964 psychodrama about a thief and the man who loves her...err perhaps that should be desires her. Or covets het. We get into it. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: A Universal Picture, produced and directed by Alfred...

This week we take a look at the only Alfred Hitchcock movie that was based on fact. The Wrong Man stars Henry Fonda as a night club musician who gets mistakenly identified as an at-large armed thief. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: A Warner Brothers Picture, produced and...

This week, we talk about Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 mystery Suspicion . Joan Fontaine plays a woman who suspects her husband, played by Cary Grant, may be more sinister than she may have at first realized. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: An RKO Radio Picture, produced by...

***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: A General Film Distributors Picture released on December 2, 1936. Produced by Michael Balcon. Screenplay by Charles Bennett, based on the 1907 novel The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. Starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder, and D...

This week, we are back to Hitchcock’s silent era for the first time in months, with the long-awaited 1927 thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog . It’s the story of a mysterious tenant at a family-run inn, who may or may not be an at-large serial killer. The film launched Alfred Hitchcock’s career. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching...

We are taking a brief break from our Alfred Hitchcock series for our fourth Chaplin Checkpoint. We take a look at Charlie Chaplin's 1936 industrial comedy Modern Times. The tramp goes in and out of work and prison while falling in love and making ends meet during the Depression-era urban hustle and bustle.

Bonnie is out this week, but her daughter Juliana does an amazing job filling in for her. The subject is Saboteur , Alfred Hitchcock’s 1942 adventure spy movie. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: A Universal Picture released in England on December 9, 1934. Produced by Frank...

For this week’s episode we take a look at the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much , the story so nice that Hitchcock made it twice. The 1956 version with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day is now better known, but this was one of the key early hits that established Hitchcock’s career. It’s a kidnapping thriller about a British family who gets accidently mixed up in some international intrigue while...

This week we talk about the 1953 priestly thriller, I Confess . This is the first movie in our Hitchcock series that Bonnie had seen before, at least in part. It’s the story of a priest who is suspected of a murder. He knows who the real killer, but the seal of the confessional prevents him from clearing his name. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on w...

What better way to start off the new year than with a podcast? Join us this week as we discuss Alfred Hitchcock’s polarizing 1955 black comedy, The Trouble with Harry . Set in rural Vermont, an eclectic ensemble bonds over their dealings with a dead body that keeps popping up at the most inopportune times. Our hot takes with come at you when you least expect it, not unlike this film’s eponymous co...

Merry Christmas! Our stocking stuffer for you, our dear listeners, is this wildly entertaining podcast on Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot. And as an added bonus, we bring you an extra sibling! ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes. Details: A Universal Picture released April 9,...

This week, we cover a relatively early Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Young and Innocent (also known by The Girl was Young. A young man finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit, and in his efforts to clear his name, he finds an unlikely ally in the constable's daughter. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it befo...

We're returning to Hitchcock this week with a murder mystery set amidst the London theatre world. From 1950, it's Stage Fright. An aspiring actress tries to clear her boyfriend's name by inserting herself into a highly publicized murder investigation. Check out this film and come hear our take on it. ***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we...

We have another Chaplin checkpoint this week. This time it's none other than City Lights, arguably Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece. Bonnie saw it for the first time! Come hear our takes on this magnificent film. Next week, we will continue with our Hitchcock countdown with 1950's Stage Fright.

This week we take a look Hitchcock's 1966 Cold War thriller, Torn Curtain , starring two of the biggest stars of the Sixties, Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. : A Universal Picture released 7/14/1966. Produced by Hitchcock. Screenplay by Brian Moore. Starring Julie Andrews, Paul Newman, Hansjorg Felmy, Lila Kedrova, Wolfgang Kieling, Ludwig Donath, Carolyn Conwell, Mort Mills, Tamara Toumanova, and...

This week we return to Hitchcock's very early sound era. In fact, our focus this episode is on the very first British talkie: Blackmail. It's a terrific little picture--I don't want to spoil it for you here. Go watch it and come back and listen to our take on this surprisingly topical, nearly-century-old picture. Details: A British International Picture released 7/28/1929. Produced by John Maxwell...

Secret Agent is a 1936 espionage thriller set during World War I. We did into this little-seen spy movie from Hitch's British era in this week's podcast. Details: A British International Picture released 5/11/1936. Produced by Michael Balcon and Ivor Montagu. Screenplay by Charles Bennett, Alma Reville, Ian Hay and Jesse Lasky Jr., based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham and a play by Campbell Dix...

This week we jump ahead to 1969, one of Alfred Hitchcock's last movies, Topaz. Based on the Leon Uris novel that itself is loosely based on events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film features a French agent who tries to uncover Cold War developments in the US, Cuba, and France. Details: A Universal Picture released 12/19/1969. Produced and Directed by Hitchcock. Screenplay by Samuel T...