The Love of Cinema

**Please see disclaimer before listening** This week on the pod Dave, John and Jeff engage in a civil discussion about the polarizing new film Dear Evan Hansen, which was released theatrically 9/24/2021. We are a positive criticism podcast where each host has to drink anytime we say anything negative about a film. The critics said so many negative things and we hate those kind of critics. They wer...

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave and John discuss Malignant, the new James Wan film that's even scarier than Aquaman, currently available in theaters and on HBOMax. James Wan rounded up many of his pals to offer some genre-blending horror that's part ghost story, party monster movie, part comedy (intentional or not), and part fun. Hear what we thought! Find all of our Socials at: https://linktr.ee/...

This week Jeff finally watches The Karate Kid all the way through, and John and Dave join him to discuss re-watching this movie in 2021. Ralph Macchio, Academy Award nominee Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Johnny and the Droogs from A Clockwork Orange (essentially), the grandma from Happy Gilmore... Iconic. Anytime we knock anything about this movie we have to drink! Join us for a bit of nostalgia and...

Hurricane Ida couldn't keep us away from the theater this week! John, Dave and Jeff went to the cinema to catch Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which came out this Labor Day weekend earning a $90 million haul in 4 days. Our show is a drinking game where we must stay positive or else we have to drink. We ended up just drinking on our own because this movie is great! Simu Liu shines as Sh...

This week Jeff moderates John and Dave in a discussion about Sweet Girl, the surprise action vigilante movie starring Jason Momoa and Isabela Merced that critics have panned but our reviews are good! That's what we do on the pod. We say 'f you' to stuffy critics and drink beer while propping up movies that outperform the Chicago Sun Times' review. Also, the movie is an 'f you' to big pharma and th...

This week on the pod co-host Jeff returns to join John and Dave in a discussion about Annette, the new entry available on Amazon Prime that was the talk of Cannes. The film is directed by French director Leos Carax with an original screenplay (and about five dozen original songs) written by the Mael Brothers aka Sparks. Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard star as a Hollywood comedian and a famous ope...

John and Dave take a trip back to the 70's for Dario Argento's cult classic Suspiria.  We'd love to make some witty remarks about this, but we're still in therapy.  Find out who liked it, who didn't and who was insane enough to try watching the 2005 remake straight afterwards.  Dave get's technical on the filming process, and everyone is gushing over some impressive practical in-camera effects as...

John and Dave dive into the new Hugh Jackman film Reminiscence (This is a play on words you'll get after you've seen the movie).  They discuss the wonders of noir and neo noir cinema, botch the intro, totally forget the name of another famous Australian actor.... twice and finish it up with a discussion of whether or not this futuristic detective tale hits the mark. Find all of our Socials at: htt...

Frozen, the Disney smash hit that grossed over one billion dollars finally gets the positivity treatment as Dave, John and Mark Monstroski from The Matt & Mark Movie Show publicly admit that none of them have seen it.  This episode has more twists than an M. Night Shyamalan film as somewhere in the middle, an even more shocking confession brings a glorifying positive truth to the entire team. Musi...

Dave and John are joined by special guest Mark Monstroski from The Matt & Mark Movie Show.  This week we go old school sci-fi and talk about one of the most recognizable, most parodied and most ruined endings of all time.  It's also really creepy how many of this dystopian 2022 conditions it was right about.  It also happens to be one of Mark's favorite films which means we're never going to his h...

It's finally happened.  A listener suggestion (yes we take those find us on our socials) leads Dave and John to attempt the ultimate debate.  Was Halle Berry's Catwoman as bad as the legends say.  Dave finally gets a team role he's happy with, John makes some valiant attempts to keep it on track before succumbing to the dark side in this exercise in positivity that goes horribly wrong. Music: soun...

While Jeff's away, Dave and John will play... especially when one of Dave's most anticipated releases of 2021 finally hits cinemas.  What follows is a discussion between a film traditionalist and a DCEU superfan... it doesn't get ugly but there are some political level dismissals of opinion in this episode as two film makers who love to challenge each other's opinions (and that's the way they like...

This week Dave & Jeff discuss Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as part of our 'Should Have Seen That By Now' series. This movie has some of the greatest sword/action sequences of all time, which are all all incredibly well motivated! Also, this is not just about sword fights on tree tops. Somebody takes a circular blade to the forehead. It's wild. Kudos to NYU grad Ang Lee! Music: soundcloud.com/das...

This week on the pod Dave and Jeff discuss The Green Knight, writer/director David Lowery's (A Ghost Story, Pete's Dragon, Ain't Them Bodies Saints) epic, fantastical retelling (and reinterpretation) of the 14th century chivalric romance poem about the half nephew of King Arthur- yes, THAT King Arthur- who is heir to the throne despite being an entitled f*boy. While stunning and intoxicating, this...

This week John, Dave and Jeff take an anonymous listener's suggestion and revisit the Village, M. Night Shyamalan's 4th theatrical release after The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000) and Signs (2002), each of which made boatloads of money. We know the twist/reveal/explanation soured the film's reception among most critics and nearly every Shyamafan, but it deserves another look. We're a beer...

M. Night Shyamalan is back at it! His latest entry into the Shyamaverse is OLD, a thriller set primarily on a private beach near an exclusive island resort where everyone on the beach, from ages 6 to 80ish, starts aging rapidly and must figure out how to escape or die. That would be a spoiler if the trailer didn't give away not only the premise, but the majority of the excitement and jumps that lu...

This week on the pod John, Dave and Jeff pour some beers, ready a drinking game and log on to Hulu for Willy's Wonderland, an 88 minute slasher/comedy/horror-ish genre flick starring Nicolas Cage. There have been many Cage films over the last 10 years. This one, with a budget of $5.5 million and a script that spent years on the Blood List- a list of highly anticipated genre films- was likely a bla...

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave and John due our best to redeem the new Space Jam movie from those pesky critics, who have been largely underwhelmed by the LeBron James reboot of the 1996 classic starring Michael Jordan. Here, the Looney Tunes are back to help the Bron win a game of basketball under the duress of humanoid-yet-not-real artificial intelligence Al G. Rhythm, played by Don Cheadle, us...

Continuing Family Week on the pod, everyone strapped themselves into those comfy recliner chairs at the movies for the roller coaster that is F9 The Fast Saga.  Dave and Jeff went to the same cinema for the first time in almost 2 years and it might have got awkward.  We  cover everything in this episode from the environment of space (or lack thereof), the adjustable laws of physics and the selecti...

This week on the pod John, Dave and Jeff discuss Marvel's newest movie... at least, the most recent MCU feature film, a standalone about Scarlett Johansson's character Black Widow. This film, set after the events of Captain America: Civil War and the infamous Sokovia Accords, takes a look at Natasha Richardson's- I mean Natasha Romanoff's- history with the Red Room, a fictional KGB espionage train...

We once again welcome our guest host Jeff Ronan from the And Almost Starring podcast to discuss the gratuitous oversight that neither he nor Dave (keep in mind both these people host MOVIE podcasts) have seen Dr Strangelove.  When asks the ultimate question, Jeff sugarcoats it, Dave does not and then we launch into the merits of why everyone should watch this absolute classic. Music: soundcloud.co...

A long standing suggestion for the Was It Really That Bad, we dive into Superman IV with our special return guest Ryan who ends up trying to moderate a debate he is not prepared for.  A random roll decides who is positive and negative and Dave, who can be quite brutal ends up on the positive side.  We don't want to say he bulls&*tted his way through this, but he totally bulls*&tted his way through...

This week on the pod Dave finally gets over his fear of Quentin Tarantino movies by watching Steve Buscemi play dress-up with his friends in Reservoir Dogs! Quentin once worked on a Dolph Lungren workout video and learned from it to make Reservoir Dogs, and Dave was not surprised by that. He liked the movie and John and Jeff enjoyed their re-watches. We also drank some beer! Please like and subscr...

This week on the pod we talk about The Social Network! Yes, Mark Zuckerberg's authoritarian grip on an online community with 3 billion users has been... polarizing, but does the film hold up? We love to talk about movies so we're rooting for it! Hear how we think it's aged since it's release in 2021 and where David Fincher's vision of Aaron Sorkin's script places this film on the HoF director's ac...

It was raining, we needed to hide our money, we got off the main rode and checked into the Bates Motel.... We're talking about Psycho! Somehow, one of our co-hosts had never seen the film. John Say, headed to one of the country's best film schools in the fall, opens up about what it was like applying to film school having never seen Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, one of the best movies of all time. He...