The Love of Cinema

This week on the pod, Dave gives a brief, spoiler-free recommendation of ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ before the boys take a trip back to 2018 to discuss David Robert Mitchell’s ‘Under the Silver Lake’. The random year generator spun 2018, and the boys didn’t want to discuss the big money-makers of the year. Screw them. We’ll give you some context of what was going on that year in film, culture, and...

This week, the boys head up the Cahulawassee River to discuss ‘Deliverance’: Films of 1972. Our random year generator spun a year we’ve previously crossed to discuss ‘The Godfather’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ and the three of us had never seen it before! Maybe it’s people's reaction when you say, “I’m going to watch ‘Deliverance,’ want to come over?” While we’re a joke-flinging, arrow-shooting, bee...

This week, the boys grab a beer and head back to 2010 to cover Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Incendies’, now streaming on Prime, and discuss what else was happening in that surprising year. From ‘The Social Network’ to ‘The King’s Speech’ to a whole lot of profitable animated films, led by the $1 Billion-grossing ‘Toy Story 3’, as well as some other big-budget films like ‘Inception’ and sequels to Harry Pot...

The boys grab a beer and head to Shinbone, the fictional town in a western US territory in the old West, to discuss ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’: Films of 1962. The newest edition to our “Random Year Generator” was tons of fun to discuss, making jabs at John Ford’s notoriously fiery antics, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewarts contrasting acting styles, Lee Marvin’s screen presence, and how there w...

John is back to discuss ‘Leviathan’, the fun underwater monster movie that attempted to kick ‘The Abyss’ in the ass the way Germany kicked the Berlin Wall to the ground! We drink whiskey and beer, except for Dave, who has covid. We catch up, gripe, and then talk about films of 1989 as part of our “Random Year Generator” series. Grab a beer and join us! 
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This week, Jeff and Dave discuss the Denzel Washington cult neo-classic ‘Fallen’: Films of 1998 as part of our “Random Year Generator” series. I already hate myself for saying “neo-classic”. But it is… it’s been almost 30 years! And it’s a cult classic because it’s not “Se7en” or something, but it’s so fun. Dave says it’s a perfect movie. A perfect movie!! Wow, Dave. Since we are a drinking podcas...

This week, Jack Daniel of K 104.7 Charlotte and “Loungin’ with Kristen and Jack” returns to discuss ‘The Thing From Another World’: Films of 1951. Jack was on in 2020 to discuss John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: Films of 1982. In that episode, we made him watch and discuss ‘Grease 2’! Not this time. After some catching up and gripes, we discuss the 1951 OG while we drink and talk about movies!  Our ph...

This week, the boys are again joined by MATT of our brother pod, THE MATT AND MARK MOVIE SHOW, to drink and talk movies! After Matt, a horror and B-movie afficianado, pitches the horror platform SHUDDER, which ‘Baghead’ exclusively streams on, we have a ‘FURIOSA’ mini-review before gripes about allergies, AMC 42nd Street, and the human condition. For our featured conversation, we go through some 2...

This week, Jeff and Dave discuss ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’: Films of 1977 as part of our “Random Year Generator” series, chosen by our random year generator. Since we are a drinking podcast, we get the drinks flowing with a few gripes about dance teachers vs. stage managers, therapy commercials, and how to exist in society. After that, we discuss the film year 1977—the box office, award...

This week Jeff and Dave discuss ‘High Noon’ in our “Films of 1952” segment, part of our random year generator series! Having never seen this Stanley Kramer/Fred Zinnemann/Carl Foreman CLASSIC, we figured it was time to regain our credibility by watching one of American history’s most inspiring westerns- and films. Even though Dave is Australian. He’s from the Outback and waved at Queen Elizabeth I...

This week, our Queensland/Victoria bloke Dave says g’day, cracks open some tinnies and Tim Tams, and takes us to the Melbourne Bojangles as seen in ‘Chopper’, our featured conversation for our ‘Films of 2000’ segment. We’ll give you some context, we’ll talk about where Eric Bana rose in Australian television before Hollywood saw this film and begged him to get shredded and work on American and Bri...

Oh boy. Our artist in residence, Dasein, the “Mr. Gondo” of music making, showed up for Kurosawa and got some crazy banter about Hemorrhoids, automatic doors, our most intoxicated episodes, and finally High and Low’, Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 masterpiece. After a string of period pieces, almost all of which starred or co-starred Toshirô Mifune, Kurosawa adapts the 1963 American serial crime novel ‘Kin...

This week, the boys get busy with mini reviews of ‘Civil War’ and ‘Monkey Man’, John talks about running into a stressed-out Dev Patel editing his directorial debut, Jeff gripes about hemorrhoids and retail pharmacies, Dave gripes about April Fools Day and ‘Dogma’, before they discussed ‘Paris Texas’! Before our featured conversation about the Palme d’Or winning Wim Wenders film, we set the scene...

This week, the boys are joined by Matt of our brother pod, The Matt & Mark Movie Show, to drink and talk movies! After we gripe about restaurants and food prices, we set up the 1956 film year, which was a monster year for movies (Giant, The Searchers, The Ten Commandments, Forbidden Planet, to name a few). We then get into our featured conversation about the OG ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’...

This week the boys draw flies as we take on the original ‘Mad Max’ in our featured segment ’Films of 1979’. The boys start by griping about natural flavors and tell a great story that involves the boys filming with a drone that ends with a Gorilla Glue catastrophe and a ruined microwave. Then, we set the scene of what happened in 1979 by discussing other films released that year and calling out so...

This week, the schnooks talked about ‘Goodfellas’ in our featured segment ’Films of 1990’.  After Dave tells you whether or not he liked ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’, we gripe about AirBnB and autocorrect, rob a few trucks, pinch a few goons, then set the scene. We’ll give you some context, talk about other movies that came out in 1990, about Paul Sorvino cutting garlic, Scorcese’s parents’ perfe...

This week, Jeff gripes about AMC A-List reservations and what they can learn from bars and airlines before the boys discuss the incredible 1939 film year, leading to our featured conversation about the nostalgic British boarding school film ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’. Directed by staunch anti-commie Sam Wood, this movie stars Robert Donat in an Oscar-winning role, and Greer Garson in her first-ever film...

This week the boys discuss ‘Dune 2’ a week after digesting Denis Villeneuve's epic film, we offer a few brief Oscars thoughts, then head back to film school for ‘Adaptation’: Films of 2002. They discuss Charlie Kaufman writing himself into his script, Spike Jonze blessing the script during the filming of ‘Being John Malkovich’- How did he have time to read a script while directing a movie??-  John...

This week, the boys head to film school with 1969’s ‘Midnight Cowboy’. Directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt, starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight, this movie takes place largely in the part of New York City that the rats have since taken over. Before we get there, Dave talks about Nassar, John teases next week’s Dune 2 mini-review, and Jeff gripes about AppleTV and big tech, befo...

This week, the boys head to 2005 and re-watch the dystopian London of Alan Moore’s ‘V For Vendetta’, written by The Wachowskis and directed by James McTeigue. Before we get there, give you some SAG 2024 insights, gripe about Sora AI and the crappy onslaught of reality game shows in the wake of the 2023 strikes, and provide some context of what was happening in 2005 on film and around the world, in...

This week, the boys head to the 1980 London underground, big-business mob scene for a look at “The Long Good Friday”, directed by John Mackenzie, starring Bob Hoskins and Dame Helen Mirren. Watch out for a Pierce Brosnan cameo as well! Dave discusses the Sony-Marvel box office bomb ‘Madame Web’, Jeff gripes about white Teslas before introducing some context of what was happening in 1980 on-screen...

The boys bombed about a bit to cover the British Film Institute’s #1 Greatest British Film of All-Time, ‘The Third Man’! We didn’t know it when we picked it, but the random year generator spun 1949 and we picked this Orson Welles classic directed by Carole Reed (Oliver!) and written by Grahan Greene. Set in Vienna in 1949, so, do the math of how desolate things were there, this classic noir spins...

After some mini reviews, the boys got giddy talking about the film year 2013, which was a doozy- ‘Gravity’, ’12 Years a Slave’, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, to name a few. We chose to take a second look at Denis Villeneuve’s ‘PRISONERS’, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal as committed as they’ll ever be. We discussed how, with the help of Roger Deakins our podcast hero, this familiar genre lo...

The boys are back, ready for whiskey, beer and movies! After briefly discussing John and Elizabeth's wedding and catching up on some quick Oscar nominations highlights, John gives a mini review of THE IRON CLAW, Jeff and Dave gripe, then we head into our featured segment: 1997 + LA Confidential. We highlight the highs of the 1997 film year, world events, and then get into a deep discussion about C...

The boys kick off 2024 with a look at the film year 1965 with an in-depth discussion of Sergio Leone’s For A Few Dollars More. After a few mini reviews, we’ll discuss how this part II of the Leone/Clint Eastwood “Dollars” trilogy all came out in 1967 in the US, how these films stood out compared to the American westerns, and why Rawhide is a terrible contraceptive material. Mini reviews cover “Ame...