The Love of Cinema

This week John, Dave & Jeff went with the teenagers to see M3GAN, the film that apparently makes young people in the theater want to watch Twitch, check their Snaps, record the screen, vape, and yell at each other for the duration. Lots of “bathroom” breaks, too. If only M3GAN would jump out of the screen and parent THESE kids by kicking their asses.  The movie is about Allison Williams not wantin...

After discussing the upcoming summer 2023 slate of big picture releases, the boys discuss Jeff’s #2 movie of 2022, Triangle of Sadness, written and directed by Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure, The Square). This Swedish film spoken primarily in English won Östlund his second Palme d’Or and is a social satire on wealth, classism, beauty obsession, and political ideology. Co-starring Woody Harrelson as...

The Love of Cinema made a collaborative Top 20 List of their favorite movies of 2022! We made our separate top 10 lists, which was very tough, co-host Jeff scored them 10 points to the number 1s, 1 point to the number 10s, and beginning at (15:00), we go backwards from 20 to 1. We drink whiskey and beer and have a great time reflecting back on an incredible year in movies.  Find all of our Socials...

After Jeff, John, and Dave rant about how critics are doing film-goers a great disservice (Owen Gleiberman, click-baiting Avatar haters), the boys discuss Avatar: The Way of Water. Despite this movie having pretty favorable reviews among critics and incredibly favorable reviews among audiences, it pains us to be haters since we love movies so much and people aren't supporting new films the way we...

Sam Mendes made a British nostalgia film starring Olivia Colman, so we decided to drink some beer and whiskey and talk about it! Co-starring breakout star Michael Ward, Colin Firth, and Tobey Jones, Empire of Light takes place on the English seaside in a small town with a beautifully elaborate cinema struggling for audiences. The cast works at the theater and yearns for connection in the turbulent...

This week Jeff, John, and Dave drink beer and discuss seeing The Whale in Dolby Cinema, with the aspect ration of a 1950s newscast, and how the film had a serious impact on us. We also discuss the blocking, the cinematography, the music, and the incredible depth written by Samuel D. Hunter, who adapted his 2012 off-Broadway play for the screenplay. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the film stars Bren...

Jeff is away on special assignment so John and Dave reach into their magic sacks and pull out tickets to the new Christmas movie Violent Night starring David Harbour, John Leguizamo and Beverly D'Angelo.  Is it good?  Is it gory?  Is it fun?  Are home alone style traps deadly?  Ok that last one is a hard yes. Find all of our Socials at: https://linktr.ee/theloveofcinema Hosts: Dave Green, John Say...

This week, after Jeff's audio dropouts chill the hell out, he & Dave cover for John's sorry ass to discuss Bones and All, the new Timothée Chalomet, Taylor Russell (Waves), and Luca Guadagnino film (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria (2018)) that will make you hungrier than The Menu, more nostalgic than The Fabelmans, feeling sweeter than The Banshees of Inisherin, and more discombobulated than Crimes...

This week, John is REPLACED by Matt from the Matt and Mark Movie Show to discuss The Menu (at 14:00), the new Mark Mylod (Succession, GoT) thriller starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicholas Hoult, oh and John Leguizamo and Judith Light (Who’s The Boss?), oh and Tony Winner Reed Birney and Oscar nominee Janet McTeer and movie-stealer Hong Chau (Downsizing, Watchmen), oh and Mark St. Cyr...

This week on the show the boys drink beer and gush about The Fabelmans, Stephen Spielberg's autobiographical take on how crazy it is he got rejected from USC film school. Honestly, I'm surprised they got so giddy. One of the co-hosts (John) was so touched by it he said "aww" a bunch of times the way someone does when they see a bunny. Not the Fatal Attraction bunny. The film is sweet and made bril...

We drink beers and talk about movies! After Jeff, John, and Dave get their gripes out discussing Disney+ with Ads, AMC's ridiculous lines that are costing them money, and people peeing during 9 AM screenings of 3 hour movies, they discuss Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. We discuss the usual things, whether Marvel should have let Ryan Coogler do his own thing and not set up any future anythings, an...

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave, & John discuss The Banshees of Inisherin, writer/director Martin McDonagh's first Irish-set feature film. The Irishman won an Oscar for the 2004 short film Six Shooter, which was set in Ireland, and he wrote lots of plays set in- and of the coast of- Ireland, but In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards... It was time to return to the land of the Eire. Brenda...

This week John, Dave, & Jeff discuss Armageddon Time, the mostly autobiographical account of writer/director James Gray about the first few months of his 6th grade school year in 1980 Queens, NYC. We drink beer and talk about how the film discusses privilege, capitalism, family values, friendship, adversity, Anthony Hopkins, and being a mensch. We were also going to discuss The Banshees of Inisher...

39% Rotten Tomatoes score, 90% Audience score. What?? I doubt the fans really gave this a 90... pollsters are in a tough place. But our job is to try to talk positively about films, so that's what we do! We drink beer when we don't. This movie was kind of three good movie ideas in one, so listen to see how we ultimately came out on this one. Additional Cast/Creatives: Dwayne Johnson, Sara Shahi, A...

This week Jeff, John, & Dave talk about TÁR, the new Cate Blanchett film bound for the awards season slog. Written & directed by Todd Field (In The Bedroom, Little Children), the movie follows fictional Lydia Tár (Blanchett), one of the greatest living conductors (and composers?), and the first female conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. The film touches on prescient thematic issues that will tes...

This week on the pod Jeff, John, and Dave discuss Amsterdam, the new David O. Russell movie with an incredible cast and an important, inspired-by-true-events story filmed with little to no tone, which is potentially sinking the expensive adult dramedy feature genre. We drink beers and discuss! But more about that, well, streamers will pick them up, but unless the movie is incredibly good and awe-i...

This week Jeff, Dave, and John discuss Blonde (2022), the new Andrew Dominik film starring Ana de Armas as Norma Jeane aka Marilyn Monroe, currently streaming on Netflix. Since the trailer was released and an NC-17 rating was revealed, skepticism arose. Press screenings led to reviewers writing scathing pieces through clenched teeth, many of which had valid points. We're a podcast that attempts to...

This week on the pod Jeff, John, & Dave drink beer to help us discuss Don't Worry Darling, the new film which has characters drinking like Don Draper and spitting like Mr. Ed. Oh, we kid. There's been a very strange marketing campaign, which we're not sure was intentional or not, but there are good ideas in the film, we think. We discuss! Cast/Creatives: Olivia Wilde, Florence Pugh, Harry Styles,...

John & Dave drink whiskey and beer to re-watch an American classic that Jeff hadn't seen before, The Great Escape! Directed by John Sturges, this Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner classic is long but mighty, with some incredible detail, and is grounded by a surprisingly lurid tone for a drama with serious subject matter that you never see anymore. We drink a whole lot of beer and w...

This marks the first episode of our new series, What Else Have They Done? For avid Bong Joon Ho (Parasite, Okja, Snowpiercer) fans, and followers of Quentin Tarantino's infamous movie lists, this film is a legendary exemplar of the murder mystery genre, and it's currently streaming on Hulu. John's cinematography teacher and fancy film school unknowingly inspired this selection. If you haven't seen...

This week John, Jeff, and Dave discuss Barbarian (2022), the new horror movie kicking Halloween season into gear! Written and directed by Zach Cregger, this movie gives you your favorite horror tropes in a unique hodgepodge way: rain, darkness, suspicious characters, hilarious comedy, slow burn, jump scares, unhelpful police department, and more. Please give us a listen and then like and subscribe...

This week on the pod John, Jeff & Dave discuss Breaking, the new film, based on a true story, starring John Boyega as a US Marine veteran who demands the VA pay him his disability checks, which have been held up by bureaucratic crap that the US military doesn't want to confront ever, ever. Therefore, Boyega's Brian Brown-Easley makes a bold decision to make his situation known at the risk of his o...

This week on the pod Dave, John, & Jeff try to keep it positive while we discuss Samaritan, now available to stream on Amazon Prime. This movie stars Sylvester Stallone and is a lukewarm take on the superhero comic book genre. Luckily, if you like Sly, he's pretty good in this. Apart from Sly, there's lots to discuss- some fun things, some not so fun. We break it down while we drink beer! Find all...

Today on the pod we drink beer and discuss George Miller's passion project, Three Thousand Years of Longing, a movie where an Australian filmmaker takes an Istanbul-set, pre-Islamic Arabic tale, and creates a piece of fiction for Western audience. Well, worldwide audiences, likely, and the Djinn (Idris Elba) is very romantic! Tilda Swinton is back at it, there are sweeping scenes of fantasy, stori...

This week Jeff, John, & Dave welcome Mark Monstroski of our sister podcast, The Matt And Mark Movie Podcast, which is now trending in Saudi Arabia and Portugal! Mark is a huge fan of Conan and all fun movies, really. This episode features lots of talk about practical effects vs. current CGI trends, how good story-telling on film in a sword-and-sandals romp like Conan makes any lack of realism tota...