The Longlist

Another Wild Card episode. Happy New Year, everyone. Jack and Josh took last week off and are back at it with a bunch of fun lists, and an on mic strategy session that Jack was not allowed to prep for. And we finish off the episode with both brothers bringing a list that the other does not know about. It could be as long as they want and on anything they want. It was a lot of fun and we're all exc...

Hey everyone and welcome to The Longlist. This is our inaugural episode and our goal this first one is for you to get to know your hosts, brothers Josh and Jack, a little bit more. We give some take on the Oscars (at the time of recording) and have some more personally oriented top fives for you leading up to our rankings of the films in our respective birth years, 1985 and 1991. But we still cove...

Josh and Jack are joined by their good friend, Alex Ford in the episode. We all brought five movies to the table that we find to be interesting adaptations from their original source. We had a lot of fun with this one, it went all over the place, and it's certainly not a short pod, but we hope you have fun with it.   Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive),...

Happy Holidays, all. Jack and Josh run through a bunch of old stand-by lists, in the spirit of rewatching the same holiday movies every year. We hit the classics and also have some fun wrinkles to add. We love holiday movies here at the long list and try to do them justice with this episode. We hope everyone has a happy and fun loving holiday season. And stay safe!   Music credit: Happy and Fun Ki...

We have a bit of a different episode today on The Longlist. Jack and Josh try to make sense of all the different angles of the Warner Bros. sale. It's an impossible task, but they gave it the old college try. At the end of the episode they touch on a few minor news stories around the world of Hollywood. On a final note, a few hours after recording, the news of the deaths of both Rob Reiner and Mic...

In this episode, Jack and Josh are joined by their good friend, Austin Thompson to discuss one of the wildest and most endearing comedies of the 90s, Dumb and Dumber. Remember when studios use to make comedies? Like, all the time? It doesn't seem to happen as much anymore, but the mid 90s were ripe with comedies and this one is one of the best. And Jim Carrey hit the scene like a wildfire and took...

It's the ROMANTIC COMEDY DRAFT!!! For this episode, Josh and Jack are joined by their respective significant others, Jack's fiance, Alex and Josh's wife, Rebecca. For the draft, the goal is to create your ideal romantic comedy using other aspects of iconic rom coms. We had 9 categories to fill out and four drafters, so that totaled 36 movies drafted in all. We had a bunch of fun talking about all...

This week Josh's wife, Rebecca joins Jack and Josh to talk about one of the most beloved and endearing movies of all time, Casablanca. We ranked a bunch of lists pertaining to the movie but we also use the movie as inspiration for other lists to highlight some other movies. We love talking old Hollywood and this film is possibly the best representation of that time. It's a timeless classic and we...

We're getting into our feels this week as Jack and Josh discuss ten films that make them tear up. And they might not be all of the movies you would expect. It was fun to record and we hope that it's fun to listen to. Enjoy.   Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)

In this episode we are celebrating supporting actor performances. We're sticking to the performances pertaining to the Oscars, and highlight some of our favorite wins, as well as some of the nominees that we love that didn't bring home the hardware. We also give a little check in for the best picture race as it's just starting to heat up. Thanks so much for listening and enjoy.   Music credit: Hap...

In this week's episode The Longlist crew tackles movies that take place all in one day. Adam Murray is back on the pod, and each of us brought some interesting choices to represent what we thing is a cool mechanism for telling a story. And we all get some solid jabs in against each other as well. It was a lot of fun and we hope you have fun listening.   Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Ale...

It's spooky season so we had to break down a spooky movie. Jack's hosting today and we're talking about the Stanley Kubrick classic, The Shining, one of Jack's all time favorite movies. We're also joined by our good friend Tommy, who offers some great insight on the film and the horror genre writ large. Enjoy!   Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc b...

We're taking a stab at our first draft here at The Longlist. The topic of the draft is crime movies and or goal is to create our ideal crime movie by selecting other elements from films in the genre. The eight categories we selected were: Cop/detective, Criminal, Crew, Set Piece, MacGuffin, Love interest/Femme Fatale, Twist, and Setting/Vibe. Adam Murray joined Josh and Jack again. We had a blast...

We're doing something special for our 25th episode! Jack and I have always liked ranking movies, hence the structure of the podcast, and we decided to put it all out there and give our top 25 favorite movies of all time. It was a long and arduous journey, but we made it and we're happy with our lists. If you ask us next week, the list might change, but at some point we just need to make some decis...

This is part 2 of our Paul Thomas Anderson conversation. In honor of his new film, One Battle After Another, Jack and Josh invited their buddy Graham Patzner to talk all things PTA. In this episode, the three talk about his impact on their film appreciation and do lists on director flexes, acting performances, and and we rank PTA's filmography. We had a blast, hope you enjoy.   Music credit: Happy...

Another two part episode incoming. In honor of his new film, One Battle After Another, Jack and Josh invited their buddy Graham Patzner to talk all thinks PTA. In this episode, part one of two, the three talk about his impact on their film appreciation and do lists on dialogue, camera work, and which characters they'd least like to spend some time with. We had a blast, hope you enjoy.   Music cred...

In this episode, we are taking stock of the year so far. We do our first Oscar race check in, we cover some of the movies that are getting buzz from various film festivals and put our finger on the pulse that is the movie year of 2025, at least to this point. The bulk of the episode is us discussing our favorite five movies of 2025 to this point. We HIGHLY expect our end of the year list to look v...

Well, we've finally come to this. We mention Titanic, quite accidentally, in  a number of our episodes to this point. So we decided, for good and all, to dedicate an entire episode to James Cameron's epic Oscar winner, Titanic. Josh and Jack are joined by Jack's fiance, Alex Ball this week. We have a lot of fun, a lot of laughs and plenty of lists to break down this classic. Enjoy.   Music credit:...

Welcome to The Longlist. We're trying something new with this episode. Rather than break down a topic with a variety of lists throughout the episode, brothers Josh and Jack are discussing five underrated movies each, but discussing them in greater detail. Whether or not these movies are underrated is up to you. From goofy comedies, to spy thrillers, to science fiction and good old fashion revenge...

On this episode of The Longlist, brother's Josh and Jack are joined by Josh's wife, Rebecca to discuss one of our favorite classy dudes traversing the world of film these days, Wes Anderson. A true auteur in every sense of the word, his films have a unique look, sound and feel. We wanted to do his work justice and eventually recorded two pods worth of audio, loaded with lots of lists, lots of laug...

On this episode of The Longlist, brother's Josh and Jack are joined by Josh's wife, Rebecca to discuss one of our favorite classy dudes traversing the world of film these days, Wes Anderson. A true auteur in every sense of the word, his films have a unique look, sound and feel. We wanted to do his work justice and eventually recorded two pods worth of audio, loaded with lots of lists, lots of laug...

On this episode of The Longlist we are discussing history on films, or more accurately historic films. Josh and Jack were joined by their good friend, Kyle Jackson, who recently became a doctor in history, and we all had a blast. Kyle gave some welcome insight on the actual history discussed, and we covered as many historical eras as we reasonably could. Lots of laughs, lots of lists, lots of grea...

On this episode of The Longlist we are discussing history on films, or more accurately historic films. Josh and Jack were joined by their good friend, Kyle Jackson, who recently became a doctor in history, and we all had a blast. Kyle gave some welcome insight on the actual history discussed, and we covered as many historical eras as we reasonably could. Lots of laughs, lots of lists, lots of grea...

Josh and Jack are again joined by their good friend, Adam Murray, for a fun, free form episode. They had a bunch of random lists that they'd been floating around that they didn't feel warranted an entire episode. This one is a little lighter, a little looser but still so much fun. Hope you enjoy.     Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)

Our first guest!!! Josh and Jack are joined by their good friend Adam Murray to break down one of their collectively favorite movies, one of the most beloved movies of all time, Jurassic Park. With lists ranging from director flexes, to favorite dinosaurs, to Jeff Goldblum line readings, it was a lot of fun to make, and hopefully a fun listen. Grab your amber mosquitos and your DNA strains and joi...