The Film Majors

Black Cinema Month comes to a close once again with perhaps one of the greatest, most quotable comedies ever made. The Film Majors talk Zack and Mick's differing views on Osgood Perkins' The Monkey , Alexis' long standing offer to entomb Zack in a pyramid, and Scott Sanders' blaxploitation parody opus Black Dynamite . Participate in the April Audience Select Survey here ! LA Wildfi...

Black History Month continues, as does Alexis's intersectional quest to make sure queer films do not stay relegated to Queer Cinema Month. Your hosts talk Zack's thoughts on Venom: The Last Dance , Mick's disrespect of the great Charles Parnell, and Dee Rees' debut coming-of-age feature Pariah . LA Wildfire Donation Resources ⁠⁠⁠California Fire Foundation⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Los Angeles Regional...

Black Cinema Month stays contemporary with Mick's pick as the gang discusses Ava DuVernay's biopic essay feature Origin . Other topics include Zack's feelings on all of the 2025 Best Picture Nominees, Mick's tirade against Emilia Pérez , and Alexis's literal shitstorm that postponed the recording. LA Wildfire Donation Resources ⁠⁠⁠California Fire Foundation⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Los Angeles Re...

The Film Majors, along with acting director Elisabeth, return to face an impossible mission: discussing every film in their beloved Mission: Impossible franchise until the release of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning . Here, the team faces/off with perhaps the most contentious film in the series: John Woo's insane and operatic Mission: Impossible II . LA Wildfire Donation Resources ⁠⁠Calif...

February is here and with it is Black Cinema Month on The Film Majors Podcast! The gang returns to talk Alexis's emotional experience with the new animated children's film Dog Man , Zack's maddening experience with the 2024 Robert Zemeckis nightmare Here , and Boots Riley's magical realist anti-capitalist screed Sorry to Bother You . LA Wildfire Donation Resources ⁠⁠⁠Palisades Flow...

The balance must be respected as 2024 in Review comes to a bombastic conclusion. The gang discusses the 2025 Academy Award nominees, Alexis's viewing experience of Sing Sing , what constitutes an effective cinematic reference, and Coralie Fargeat's bombastic body horror box office smash The Substance . LA Wildfire Donation Resources ⁠California Fire Foundation⁠ ⁠Los Angeles Regional Food B...

Tis a black omen not to listen to a new episode of The Film Majors: 2024 in Review! The gang is back to talk the passing of the great David Lynch, what they like in a vampire movie, and Robert Eggers' latest gothic horror feature Nosferatu (2024). LA Wildfire Donation Resources ⁠California Fire Foundation⁠ ⁠Los Angeles Regional Food Bank⁠ ⁠Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation⁠ ⁠Altadena Girl...

The Film Majors, along with IMF Secretary Elisabeth, have accepted their most dangerous mission yet: discussing every film in their beloved Mission: Impossible franchise until the release of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Here, the team starts where it all began, discussing Brian de Palma's 1996 thriller Mission: Impossible. LA Wildfire Donation Resources ⁠California Fire Foundatio...

2025 is here, but 2024 in Review has just begun! The Film Majors kick off a brand new year of film discussion by talking the unprecedented wildfires that have gripped LA, Zack's sudden unemployment as a result, and Adam Elliot's stop-motion tragedy Memoir of a Snail . LA Wildfire Donation Resources California Fire Foundation Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Los Angeles Fire Department Founda...

Another year, another round of painstaking list making! The Film Majors are back from their sabbatical to discuss all things 2024, including but not limited to what they watched over the holidays, their favorite films of the year, Zack's Film Superlatives, if Bill Skarsgård's Count Orlok could "get it," and, of course, what's going on.

What even are movies? Cursed Christmas comes to a cataclysmic close with "The Reindeer Episode." Alexis is in LA, everybody's drunk, and The Film Majors are talking the films that have made them suffer the most for the show, Larry Roemer and Kizo Nagashima's stop motion special Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Steve Moore's hideous animated special Olive, the Other Reindeer , and their thoughts on...

The holly jolly hell of Cursed Christmas continues! Santa's cinematic elves are joined by independent journalist and filmmaker Séamus Malekafzali to discuss actors who make miscasting work for them, Brian Levant's Schwarzenegger Christmas classic Jingle All the Way , and how Séamus would go about swooping Rita Wilson away from Arnold. Subscribe to Séamus on Substack here ! Watch his latest short f...

Ask not for whom the sleigh bell tolls, it tolls for thee! It's a Cursed Christmas on The Film Majors Podcast once again and the gang kicks it off with a double feature. Along with artist extraordinaire Jakobi Holck-Luke, Alexis, Mick, and Zack discuss who is the best cinematic Santa Claus, John Pasquin's troubling holiday comedy The Santa Clause and Michael Lembeck's even more troubling sequel Th...

Period Piece Palooza bids the audience adieu as it is carted off in a carriage once again. The Film Majors discuss great first time English language films from international directors, Ang Lee's sumptuous chamber drama Sense and Sensibility , and who Zack would be if he existed in Jane Austin's day.

Alexis gets greedy, making Period Piece Palooza the first six movie month of the show with a double feature! Your hosts talk films from a child's POV, Alfonso Cuarón's sophomore feature A Little Princess and Colm Bairéad's debut The Quiet Girl , as well as how much Zack and Mick love The Lighthouse .

Period Piece Palooza marches on as the podcast travels to the American South in the 1960s! The Film Majors, along with returning guest MeaganzWorld talk cinematic psychics and premonitions, Kasi Lemmons' gothic directorial debut Eve's Bayou , and a whole lot about the Final Destination movies, for some reason. Meagan's Social Media: meaganzworld on TikTok meaganzworld on Instagram meaganzworld on...

Period Piece Palooza continues as Alexis takes the podcast back to the Industrial Revolution, leading the gang in a discussion of non-narrative films that they still find engaging, Terrence Mallick's meditative tone poem Days of Heaven, and definitely not the Richard Gere gerbil story.

The powdered wigs are going back on as Period Piece Palooza returns to the podcast! The Court of Film Discourse is reconvened with special guest Chris Francis to discuss films with two perfect lead performances, Miloš Forman's lively historic biopic Amadeus , and Chris's feelings on Guillermo del Toro's modern sci-fi classic Pacific Rim . Watch Chris's directorial work here !

The sun rises after a long night of horrors as Spooky Season comes to a close. The Film Majors, along with special guest Drew Paterson , director of the upcoming indie feature American Flake , send Halloween off with a bang, talking the most... appealing slashers, Wes Craven's high school horror classic Scream , and killing Harvey Weinstein with a samurai sword. Follow Zack and Drew's production c...

Boo! It's still a dark and stormy Spooky Season on The Film Majors Podcast! The gang braves the horror genre once again, discussing their favorite Scream Kings, John Carpenter's late career cosmic horror In the Mouth of Madness , and who among them loves tentacles the most.

Zack's Horror Mount Rushmore expands as the podcast returns to the Raimi Zone! With the help of filmmaker and writer Kristen Semedo , the gang talks PG-13 movies that get away with a lot, Sam Raimi's goofy return to horror Drag Me to Hell , and if Kristen and Zack exist on opposite ends of the horror spectrum. Follow Vermin , Kristen's upcoming horror short, here .

Spooky Season returns once again as a member of the podcast has gone mysteriously missing! Zack and Alexis are joined by The Bug Man, Edwin Harris , to talk the most troubling injuries in horror, David Cronenberg's body horror classic The Fly , and if Stathis could ever have been conceived of as charming.

Sci-Fi September concludes with returning guest musician and Polar Express aficionado ⁠Sloan Golden⁠ joining the crew of the Starship Film Majors to discuss great cinematic taglines, Ridley Scott's horror classic Alien , and if John Carpenter's Dark Star is the most influential genre film of the 20th century. Listen to Sloan's EP here ! Subscribe to her YouTube channel here !

Sci-Fi month stays out of this world with makeup artist Sam Tansey joining the podcast! The gang talks their favorite movies from directors who should probably be in jail, Luc Besson's gonzo space opera The Fifth Element , and Bruce Willis' ability to rock "sexy blood."

Sci-Fi September continues and becomes much more bleak with Alexis's contribution to the discussion of the genre. Your hosts talk great replications of famous works of art in film, Lars von Trier's apocalyptic psychodrama Melancholia , and Alexis's similarity to a certain Clown Prince of Crime.