The Love of Cinema

In our second episode of our Oscars/Razzies mashup, we prove how professional we are by using co-host Jeff's backup phone voice memo audio because his file got royally screwed during our recording. Deepest apologies to you, and may God have mercy on his soul. We begin with a discussion of indie darling Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti and JK Simmons, available now on Hulu, and...

In the first episode of our special series where we pair a presumed & stream-able Oscar nominee with a presumed & stream-able Razzie nominee, we look back at a pair of big budget films with very different tones. We first discuss Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, which was a much needed summer release on Netflix with the civil rights protests of 2020 still in full swing. We then discuss Dolittle, the $175 m...

This week on the pod Dave, John and Jeff discuss out Christmas Movies that may not be family friendly but deserve their conversation. We open with a debate about Bad Santa: the gimmick vs the satire, ultimately agreeing that it's a funny movie with lots to talk about. We then segue to The Ref starring Dennis Leary, Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis. This film is not family friendly since it's about a ro...

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave and John discuss family friendly Christmas movies. To be clear, we are not family friendly. Our show is a drinking game and we have an Aussie and a co-host from NJ, so we curse while talking about Miracle on 34th Street. It happens. As for the episode, after discussing the Disney slate of Star Wars and Marvel shows vs. the sht show that was AT&T & HBOMax coercing Wa...

This week on the pod, we discuss how 1991 was a surprisingly good year in film before diving into three standout features. We begin our discussion with JFK, the movie with the ridiculous cast and apparently a director's cut that's longer. We then move to the incredible Boyz n the Hood, an absolute knockout of a movie that everyone should see. Which is not necessarily something we'd say about our f...

This week on the pod, Dave shocks the fck out of John and Jeff and says he liked the movie Noah. A lot. He really dug the film, which is good since we're a positive pod, it just really caught us off guard! Before that shocker, we begin with a quick review of the movies that made noise in 2014 before getting into our deep dive. We start with a discussion of Ex Machina, which technically premiered i...

This week on the pod John, Dave and Jeff recorded and remixed our first live stream on Twitch! We discussed a few news stories, primarily Wonder Woman 1984 heading to HBO Max, then have an engaged conversation with some all time movies, two for their monumental achievement and one for its offensiveness. We begin with Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson, directed by Milos Forman. We then head ove...

This week on the podcast Jeff, Dave and John discuss three hit movies from the year 1995. We begin with a discussion of David Fincher's Se7en starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt. We then discuss the gripping Ron Howard film Apollo 13, including conversations about why it's so captivating, whether or not the nostalgia aged well, and what it's like watching this patriotic film with a culturally respo...

This week on the pod John, Dave and Jeff are joined LIVE (via Facebook Live) by horror film makers and fans Marcus Slabine and Ryan Wilson. Jeff was so excited he clipped his microphone almost every time he opened his mouth. Fortunately, Dave has dealt with his sh*t before and edited a clean version of the episode. Not 'clean' as in no cursing- there's a sh*t ton of cursing. On the pod, we discuss...

This week on the pod Jeff, John and Dave discuss some of our favorite parts of 1993 movies before diving into re-watches of three fantastic films. We begin with the Fugitive, or is it US Marshalls? Is it Harrison Ford or Wesley Snipes? Ohhh it's the Fugitive, you can tell from the famous dam sequence. This movie is awesome. Really holds up. We then discuss Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christm...

This week on the pod Dave, John & Jeff discuss the surprisingly strong and wide ranging movie year of 2012. After John humble-brags about being a poll worker and we tease our upcoming Halloween episode, we discuss three: Rian Johnson's Looper, Derek Chianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines, and Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Music: soundcloud.com/dasein-artist. Beer: @cbarrozobar2019. Edited and produ...

This week on the pod we get a heavy dose of teen angst, 1950's style, as James Dean tears us all apart in Rebel Without a Cause.  We then go international for one of the first films to publish a spoiler warning in the french thriller Diabolique.  Closing it out we wrap our elongated fingers around our beers and dive into Bride of the Monster in Bela Lugosi's final speaking role.  Was it really tha...

This week on the pod we talk about some movies! Two of these films are among the best films of all time. Stay Hungry, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's name I just copied and pasted from Google, Jeff Bridges and Sally Field, is not. Our co-host, Dave, who has seen Solo at least 5 times and Cats at least once, had never seen Taxi Driver or Network. We start with his take on Taxi Driver and how...

This week on the pod John, Dave and Jeff discuss leaving the apartment they shared for over two years. Thanks a lot, Covid-19. We hate you. We then dive into the Spiderverse to discuss our favourite films from 2018, several of which were not in English. We THEN take a deep dive on a rewatch of 3 of the year's popular films: Hereditary, starring the incomparable Toni Collette, The Favourite, starri...

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave and John discuss three films from the year 1960. We begin with a discussion about The Magnificent Seven aka Seven Texas Samurai on Horseback head to Mexico. We then discuss the incomparable Billy Wilder's The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. We finish with an attempt to redeem horror/comedy 13 Ghosts: was it really that bad? Music: soundcloud.co...

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave & John discuss the film year 1997. Lots of boats in 1997. The Lost World? Boat. Speed 2? Boat. Tomorrow Never Dies? Let's just say the Royal Navy is involved. Titanic? Iceberg. We then pivot to discussing film by two master directors, perhaps the greatest of their generation: Quentin Tarantino's oft-overlooked Jackie Brown, and Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece Boo...

This week on the pod Dave, John and Jeff discuss movies from the film year 1968. We begin with Stanley Kubrick's seminal masterpiece (or is it??) 2001: A Space Odyssey. Our second film is Steve McQueen's Bullitt, which is a stylish mystery thriller that helps transition police films from studio noirs to the bloody, violent, post-Bonnie & Clyde indie flicks we see all over the 1970s. We wrap up wit...

This week on the pod we fire up the subtitles and get foreign.  French feel-good film Amélie (And yes we had to look up how to do that é the correct way), Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (originally titled El espinazo del diablo, which sounds way cooler) and finally we bring it back home as we discuss what went wrong, what went right and what went completely sideways off a bridge in Vani...

With Jeff away on special assignment, Dave, John and special guest host Jack Daniel discuss courtroom drama The Verdict, cult horror classic The Thing and try ever so hard to redeem the magic that is Grease 2.  Jack drops an F-bomb on the air for the first time in an almost 50 year radio career, Dave laments not having a time machine and gives film critics a little slap and John tries to hold it a...

On this week’s episode, Dave, John and Jeff discuss two monumental achievements in film from the year 2013, before redeeming a critical and commercial misfire from the same year. We begin by discussing whether The Wolf of Wall Street glorifies the destructive lifestyle of Leonardo DiCaprio’s real life antihero Jordan Belfort. We then discuss Spike Jonze’s Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix, to see how...

This week on the pod Dave, John and Jeff discuss the film year 1996, specifically taking a look at 3 star-studded features. We begin with breaking down the incredible Fargo, directed by the Coen Brothers starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy & Steve Buscemi. We then take another look at Baz Luhrmann's modernization of Romeo + Juliet, starring a pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes....

This week Dave, John and Jeff discuss films of 2016. We begin with a discussion of how Arrival holds up in the canon of great modern Sci-Fi before taking another look at Robert Eggers' The Witch: is it horror, thriller, folklore... how do you define this film? It's definitely spooky and thought provoking. We conclude our segment with a discussion of X-Men: Apocalypse and how it might be better tha...

This week on the episode Dave, Jeff and John discuss how quintessentially 80s the film year 1985 was before discussing three notable highlights: Witness, starring Harrison Ford attempting to look as "plain" as possible, Kiss of the Spider Woman starring William Hurt and Raul Julia as prison inmates and picnic buddies, and National Lampoon's European Vacation starring Chevy Chase. Music: soundcloud...

This week on the episode, Dave, John and Jeff discuss the film year of 1973 before discussing rewatching three. We begin with The Excorist's incredible filmmaking yet possibly aged slow build. Our second selection is Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee's final film and an international phenomenum with incredible martial arts and a gold record-certified musical score. We finish with our "Was it really that...

This week on the pod our co-host Dave opens with a glowing review of Hulu's Palm Springs, starring Andy Samburg and Cristin Milioti.  We then dive into the film year of 1989, discussing the incomparable, legendary masterpiece Do The Right Thing. We cannot recommend this Spike Lee film enough, especially given our current social climate. We follow that up with Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Wil...