The Love of Cinema

This week on the episode we discuss The Outfit! What a movie. Incredible work by the greatest living English speaking actor, Mark Rylance, and his ridiculous supporting cast, let by Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Simon Russell Beale, and Dylan O'Brien. Graham Moore, amazing effort. Thanks to our Queensland, Australia listeners! And Hawaii!  Find all of our Socials at: https://linktr.ee/theloveofcinema...

Jeff is away, John is back so you know this episode is going to run a little long.  We go in depth on The Adam Project starring Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell (Ryan Reynolds 2.0), Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner & Zoe Saldana.  Directed by Shawn Levy who was responsible for Dave gushing like crazy about Free Guy on another podcast.  This one has a similar effect, as Dave gushes around John's attempts...

While John continues to find himself in college, Dave & Jeff discuss The Batman, Matt Reeve's new noir-inspired, comics-accurate take on the caped shadow dweller. Dave's from Australia- we love our Aussies! Shout-out to Queensland. Anyway, the shots, the cast, the DP, the score, the story, the look, the feel... this was incredible. Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Pete...

Dave and Jeff got drunk and watched CODA, now a front-runner for at least one Oscars category, and we really really liked it, so we got drunk to talk about it. If we knew how touched we'd be during the one movie we snuggled to watch together, we would have picked a different one. But we're happy we didn't pick a different one, because this was really really great. We discuss. Find all of our Socia...

This week on the pod Jeff, John and Dave get into what was going on with The King's Man, a prequel to the first two Kingsman films from 2014 and 2017, this time starring Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew Goode, Daniel Brühl, and Charles Dance. The movie is... trying to be both dark and fun at the same time, has it's moments, really great for goat actors and goat vengeance, but...

After Jeff goes on a 2-minute unnecessary Oscars rant, Dave & John save the show by pivoting to Uncharted, the new franchise starring Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, and Tati Gabrielle. Directed by Ruben Fleischer.  This movie was a little stupid and a lot of fun. Based on the video game franchise, this is also going to be a franchise, Tom Holland has a different American...

This week on the pod John, Jeff & Dave discuss Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley, starring and produced by Bradley Cooper, co-starring Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, David Strathairn, and Holt McCallany. The film is a noir, sort of, and a mystery thriller horror movie, we think, and it's nominated for Oscars! It's also currently stream...

This week Jeff, John & Dave talk about Antlers, now available on HBOMax, directed by Scott Cooper, who is a FORCE. Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace, Hostiles, Black Mass, now this. Actors love him (he was one of them), Guillermo del Toro loves him so much he essentially forced Cooper to make this film, stepping up as producer. Scary antler stuff, lore, an Oregon meth town in the woods, Kerri Russel...

After Jeff rants about the character Boba Fett getting overshadowed by some scene stealing co-stars in his own series, John, Dave, & Jeff discuss Moonfall (16:10), Roland Emmerich's latest disaster movie, starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley & Michael Peña. The moon is falling out of orbit... but is it the moon, or something else?? We're a drinking game trying to keep it positive, an...

This week on the pod, Aaron Sorkin lives in Jeff's head rent free. Even still, Dave & Jeff found lots they agree on with this new Amazon Prime original, starring Nicole Kidman & Javier Bardem as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, respectively. Aaron made some choices, for sure, but ultimately, this is a really watchable movie that is smart without being as smug as it could have been, funny without being...

This week on the pod, we discuss how Stanley Kubrick's autobiographical tale messes us up so much but we keep going back to Kubrick for more- more questions, more concerns for who he was as a person, more wondering if he ever paid his bills. One of our co-hosts, from Australia, had never seen the film. We discussed his initiation. That's what it feels like, right? Everyone who's seen this... we've...

This week on the pod we discuss The Power of the Dog, written and adapted by Jane Campion from the Thomas Savage novel of the same name. It's Benedict Cumberbath in a western, according to marketing. In the story line, they say stuff like: "Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling," and "He is a cowboy as raw as his hides." If you want to have a good watch of this film, keep...

This week on the pod we talk about Maggie Gyllenhaal's feature directorial debut The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Coleman, Jesse Buckley, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris. This movie is gripping! Lots of crying kids and lots of psychological tension. A co-host Dave put it, the more we discussed, the more we liked the film. Keep and eye on this come awards season. Find all of our Socials at: https://...

This week on the pod Dave, Jeff & John discuss Don't Look Up, Adam McKay's Climate Change (and more) satire starring so many famous people I can only use one name/word per person: Leo, JLaw, Meryl, MarkyRy, Jonah, Ariana, Cudi, Timothée, Cate, Medea, Himesh, Perlman, Rob Morgan. This episode became a little bit of a debate with two co-hosts loving the movie and one who wished he loved it a little...

It's here, it's breaking records but is it any good?  There are 2 answers to this, one is who cares it's gonna make a billion dollars and the other is a resounding Yes.  Jeff, having tremendous difficulty with his lifestyle, takes the week off leaving John and Dave to discuss the biggest superhero movie release of the year.  As usual, first 15 minutes is spoiler free and you bet we let you know wh...

Today on the pod we discuss Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, adapted by the brilliant Tony Kushner, shot by legend Janusz Kaminski, and starring a whole bunch of awesome people. This movie is so so good, one of the best movie musicals in decades, perhaps an all-timer. We had fun! This movie was so good. We drank beer and talked about West Side. It's just so great, I don't have much else to say....

This week on the pod Jeff, Dave & John discuss our 70 MM screenings of Licorice Pizza, currently in limited release ahead of a nationwide release on Christmas, 2021. Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, which he wrote, directed and co-cinematographered, is an intimate look at a friendship/romance among two young people in LA's San Fernando Valley 1973. The film is cinema, people. It has life, it's...

This week on the pod we discuss Ghostbusters: Afterlife! Most of our hosts loved this movie so we had a fun conversation about the new entry in this strange, sporadic franchise that apparently will continue after this film! If you loved the original and have kids, just like director Jason Reitman (son of OG director, Ivan, or course), go see this movie! It's fun. The kids are the new busters, one...

This week Jeff, Dave & John head back to the 90s to stop by the mall, hit up CD World for the Matrix soundtrack, stop by Spencer gifts for some leather/vinyl jackets, hit up PacSun to buy some JNCO Jeans, blast our new Rob Zombie music in our Airwalks to prepare for our re-watch of the revolutionary 1999 film The Matrix, which is available on HBOMax with the rest of the trilogy. The 4th installmen...

This week on the pod, John decided to skip the 4th biggest movie opening of the year to enjoy some fun in the sun, so Dave and Jeff take us to the MCU in a discussion of Eternals. The film is directed by Chloe Zhao and stars Gemma Chan, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, a bunch of Game of Thrones dudes, a bunch of people we'll be seeing lots more of like Lauren Ridlo...

100 Episodes! We made it to 100. Very proud of everyone involved, especially Dave's liver since he pregames before the show and saves a "mix-down beer" for after. Cheers. This week, we discuss Edgar Wright's "I don't want to commute to work anymore" film Last Night in Soho, starring Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith. and Diana Rigg. The movie was both stunning and disturbing- but in a...

This week on the pod John, Dave and Jeff reflect on the news that Dune 2 is a GO, or is it Dune: Chapter 2? Did Denis already have the second movie title and poster finished before the first one was completed and a second was green-lit?? We discuss how the movie's been doing (pretty OK so far) before diving into our discussion. Dave is a sci fi nerd who's seen every sci fi movie multiple times (th...

This week on the pod Jeff & Dave discuss The Last Duel, the new Jodie Comer movie co-written by and co-starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, with Adam Driver, directed by Ridley Scott. This $100 mill movie has not been doing well at the box office but is sure to stay in the conversation this fall when it begs a streaming service for a deal. Based on a true story, this movie is very well made and ac...

After the longest wait ever comes the longest Bond film ever leading to our longest single film episode ever.  And that's a good thing cause there's so much packed into Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.  Episode is spoiler free for the beginning and we shout multiple warnings before touching on spoilers... if this movie is going to be ruined, it's not by us (Looking at you clickbait (spoi...

This week on the pod Dave, John and Jeff discuss Venom: Let There Be Carnage. And there was. There was Carnage. There was also a larger MCU connection revealed, so this surprise megahit (well, significantly outperforming expectations) really payed off! Sony is pleased. Also, Dave wanted to let everyone know Dolby Cinema is the way to see it! Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomi Har...