The Love of Cinema

This week on the pod John, Jeff & Dave discuss the newest installment of The Conjuring saga, currently in theaters and available on HBOMax through mid-July 2021. On Rotten Tomatoes this movie has a 56% critics score and 86% audience score, which makes us mad. We're a positive criticism podcast, so if you're tired of the critics always hunting for the negative, grab a beer, hang with us and let's h...

Despite having a BFA in Music Theatre, co-host Jeff had never seen 'Singin' In The Rain'! What a loon! We are once again joined by Amy Jo Jackson, co-host of the 'And Almost Starring' podcast which breaks down the casting of popular movies. Amy Jo previously joined us for our In The Heights episode, has recently written a musical and loves this classic film, so what a perfect guest! We discuss why...

This week on the pod we are incredibly honored to be joined by Amy Jo Jackson! Amy Jo co-hosts an incredible podcast with partner and former guest host Jeff Ronan called 'And Almost Starring', which breaks down a movie's casting and discusses who almost starred. Amy Jo has recently written a musical, so what a perfect guest for our 'In The Heights' discussion! As always, anytime we say a negative...

This mid-week episode features Parasite as our 'Should Have Seen That By Now' movie since Dave, Australian native and AMPAS skeptic, decided he couldn't skip his monthly viewing of Solo: A Star Wars Story to see Parasite... for the past 18 months. One thing Dave is really good at though is timeliness. Like, if an episode has to come out and his co-host hasn't posted it, he's on it! If there's a 4-...

This week Jeff, John and Dave went to the movies! It was good to be back. We saw A Quiet Place Part II, the sequel to 2018's A Quiet Place, written and directed by John Krasinski, starring Krasinski and Emily Blunt. On initial reactions, it would appear Krasinski has done it again! This film takes place after the events of the first film which forced the family to relocate while blind alien predat...

Was It Really That Bad returns with a vengeance (and new rules) in possibly our most chaotic show.  It's debate style and we have no idea who is on which team until we're already live on the episode.  For our first attempt, we went back to the 80's and picked Troma royalty The Toxic Avenger.  Joined again by our special guest Matt Gilbert from the Matt & Mark Movie Show (who was lucky enough to la...

For this episode we take a cruise down the strip that is American Graffiti.  Written and directed by George Lucas and nominated for 5 Oscars, our shameful secret is revealed that NONE of us had seen this.  Joined by our special guest host Matt from the Matt & Mark Movie Show we follow rising star Richard Dreyfuss and complete nobody Ronny Howard (kidding... he already had a million credits before...

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave & John discuss films from 1962. We had to cut out a segment of David Fincher talking smack about studios while praising Netflix and other streaming services, but that's available on our YouTube page. Just search "The Love of Cinema Podcast" and you'll see our ugly ass faces wearing masks in our picture. We also filmed our 'Baby Jane' segment. The first film in our d...

In our midweek episode we are once again joined by Jack Daniel (not the alcohol) of WK1047 Charlotte. We begin with a discussion of his 50 years in radio and witnessing the podcast boon before discussing his favorite movie, The Sting. John, Dave and Jeff had never seen the movie in full, and it's one we should have seen by now! The Sting stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman, one of the greatest on...

This week on the pod we are joined by longtime radio host Jack Daniel (not the alcohol) from Charlotte's k104.7 to discuss Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead, which just dropped on Netflix. It's about a zombie army. Well, they try to rob a casino in zombie-infested Las Vegas, so it's a heist film a la Ocean's 11, but re-routing the Game of Throne's season 7 penultimate episode with the plot of Aliens,...

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave and John premier their new segment: Should Have Seen That By Now. It's based on an idea from our friend and sometimes-co-host Ryan who watched well over 300 movies last year and took requests. Out of all those movies he said his favorite was 'Paddington 2' WHICH, segue, unseated 'Citizen Kane' as the #1 ranked movie on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to the uncovering of a C...

After taking a few weeks off, we're back! Hosts John, Dave & Jeff break down our new format before discussing the new film Mortal Kombat, which was released on HBOMax the same day it came out in theaters per WB's 2021 agenda. The film is fun, so we drank some beers and talked about it. Later in the week we will premier our new segment, Should Have Seen It By Now,  with Citizen Kane. In honor of Ma...

This week Jeff, Dave and John celebrate 15 weeks of watching 2021 awards season films with their Oscars Special! We were originally pairing an Oscar movie with a Razzie movie, but Glenn Close got us pissed. Actually that whole character. Kristen Wiig as Cheetah? A teenage? Get out of here. After praising Nicolas Cage in Jiu Jitsu, we go category by category talking about what we saw, who we want t...

In the 14th week of watching Oscar movies from 2020-ish, Jeff, Dave and John discuss that Vanessa Kirby/Shia LeBeouf Netflix movie you've passed over for months, waiting for the time to see it, and the surprise Best Director nominated film for Thomas Vinterberg where Mads Mikkelson tries to see if his life will improve by maintaining a BAC of .05%, available on Hulu. So, a pretty damn good week! 3...

Lucky week 13 of our Best of Film awards Series starts with Take 2 as our entire live stream had combusted 2 minutes earlier.  John might need a new computer and Dave gives Marvel and DC Toxic Fandom a well earned dressing down before we moved on to watching Tom Hanks battle pretty much all of Texas to return a lost girl home in News of the World.  We followed that up with a movie that is both hea...

In the 12th week of our Oscars/Razzies series "It Was the Best of Film, It Was the Worst of Film (of 2020)" we ditched the Razzies and doubled up on some Oscar films. With 11 nominations between the two, for a current rental price tag of $26, we got to support some great film makers and see some good movies! After a brief (very brief) discussion of the Snyder Cut, we open up a discussion of Minari...

In the 11th week of our Oscar/Razzie series, after Glenn Close's nomination got us riled up last week, we decided this would be the last for our Razzie's segment. Thanks, 'Music'. We start our featured segment with a conversation about the incredibly powerful 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'. Andra Day should probably just win that Oscar. We then discuss Sia's 'Music', which had critics, aud...

In week 10 of our "It Was the Best of Film, It Was the Worst of Film (of 2020)" Oscar/Razzie sries, we chose One Night in Miami as our Oscar movie and Hillbilly Elegy as our Razzie movie, even though it also received 2 Oscar noms. First of all, F the razzies to hell. Yes, we're doing segments on it, but Glenn Close? "I Will Not Be Ignored" is up for a Raz- are you out of your godDAMN mind, razzies...

After 8 weeks of perfect professionalism, it all falls apart in the opening as we launch into week 9 of our "It Was The Best of Film, It Was The Worst of Film (of 2020)" Oscar/Razzie episodes like a SpaceX rocket landing.   First up is the current heavy hitter on the awards circuit Nomadland, a film that moved us so much we can't even think of a joke about it.  Following that we dive into the reim...

Co-host Jeff had some audio issues at the beginning of the pod, but week 8 of our "It Was The Best of Film, It Was The Worst of Film (of 2020)" Oscar/Razzie series made it to print with a discussion of Golden Globe winner Judas and the Black Messiah and potential Razzie nominee Mulan. If you haven't seen Judas yet, just do it. Do it. It's on HBOmax. Kaluuya and Stanfield are legends who will be in...

Episode 50!! We're so excited to have passed 3,200 downloads as well as many more engagements on Facebook, YouTube and Twitch. Thanks for listening! This episode was week 7 of our "It Was The Best of Film, It Was The Worst of Film (of 2020)" series where we pair a presumed Oscar nominated film with a presumed Razzie nominated film to recap notable works from 2020. Our "Best of Film" entry is the G...

This week on the pod John, Dave & Jeff discuss how well Ma Rainey's Black Bottom translated from stage to screen with the ensemble performance of the year and two incredible leading performances by Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. We then shift to a discussion of Artemis Fowl, starring Dame Judy Dench, Josh Gad and Colin Ferrell, Directed by Kenneth Branagh, in which we try to figure out what the...

This week on the pod John, Dave and Jeff continue with their Oscars/Razzies segment "It Was The Best of Film, It Was The Worst of Film (of 2020)". Our awards season choice this wee is Sound of Metal starring Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke and Paul Raci. We had many positive things to say about this incredibly moving film. Our potential Razzie film is the apparently popular 365 Days, a Polish-Italian movi...

This week on the pod John, Dave & Jeff discuss David Fincher's brilliantly directed and acted Mank, streaming on Netflix starring Gary Oldman as the screenwriter of Citizen Kane. We then switch gears to try redeeming Capone, written and directed by Josh Trank, starring Tom Hardy as dementia-riddled Al Capone when he's nearing his final days on earth and neurosyphilis makes him poop the bed. That's...

In week 3 of our "It Was The Best of Film, It Was The Worst of Film" Oscars/Razzies series, co-host Jeff used his backup audio again because the guy just doesn't know how to use an audio interface. What the hell, man. Anyway, we discuss Aaron Sorkin's surprisingly grounded, balanced and captivating film The Trial of the Chicago 7, starring Sacha Baron Cohen and a whole bunch of Tony Award winners...