The Picture Show with Austin and Phil Rood

This week, the guys bring the cats into the studio and learn the hard lessons about show business animals that they should have taken from Jordan Peele's 2022 film Nope . The guys and cats break down the movie by discussing trauma, ethics of working with animals, monster design, brilliant cinematography, and the brilliance that is Keke Palmer. The Insider article Phil references can be found ⁠...

This week the guys hired stunt doubles to give their hot takes on the podcast then sat down to watch 2019's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood . Phil and Aus break down the movie by discussing dirty hippie cults, Tarantino self-indulgence, bad takes, racism in Hollywood, Spaghetti Westerns, historical context, and feet. Plus, a book recommendation from friend of the show and Achewillow voice-of-rea...

TRIGGER WARNING- this week's conversation contains discussion of suicide as depicted in the film Babylon This week Aus and Phil return from their hiatus to explore the wild world of early Hollywood by breaking down 2022's Babylon . The guys talk about changing industries, depravity and the subcultures that make room for it, art for the masses, and elephant shit. It's truly a wild conve...

This week, Aus and Phil steal wi-fi from the Man so they can get their podcast uploaded in the name of fighting fascists and censorship... also they watched The Book Thief. The guys talk about the power of art, being the best version of oneself, book adaptations, and how casting the right actors makes all the difference in conveying a film's meaning. Austin's Shout Out:  Anne Marie- Psycho...

This week, Austin and Phil fight fascism with art and brutality by calling out incels, trolls, and hatemongers as the petulant man babies that they are... but aside from what they do in their everyday lives, they also took time to review Quentin Tarantino's 2009 masterpiece Inglourious Basterds . The guys discuss the film's multiple points of view of Nazi occupation, art as a weapon agains...

Phil traded his car for a microphone so that he could record a podcast with Austin as soon as Aus was released from jail, so they got to work recording an episode whose monetization could save their local orphanage... naturally they landed on 1980's musical comedy The Blues Brothers as a subject. The guys discuss the movie as a musical gateway drug for Phil, Austin's confusion over the movie's ton...

This week Austin and Phil hit the airwaves with a podcast hosting bill they can't afford and a show doc they don't have and they're looking for adventure... to talk about. Luckily they have just the thing with Edgar Wright's 2017 action film Baby Driver . The guys briefly discuss the cancelled cast members of this production before getting into a conversation about choices and consequences, gross...

This week Austin and Phil do some serious day drinking and hatch a plot to pay their hosting fees by selling podcasts with forged signatures of their hosts, but run into a roadblock when they can't find a crayon to sign Joe Rogan's name with... They give up on their plan and watch Can You Ever Forgive Me as the second half of their double-feature with last week's I, Tonya . The guys talk about cho...

The guys try a sport above their station in life this week as they take on discussions of cycles of abuse, class, and figure skating when they break down the 2017 sports biopic/crime story I, Tonya . All these issues dealt with in the movie get even more complicated when Aus and Phil discuss the humanizing of terrible people and the complications brought on by unreliable narrators.  Austin's...

Aus and Phil try to work their way into a better class of podcasters by fighting their way to the top of the rankings and be among the podcasts full of greenhouses and sushi bars and raves... every time they've tried this before, they've failed because they couldn't take control of the search engine... this time will be different. Ok, now that that joke has been run into the ground, the guys watch...

Aus and Phil show their support for mass transit and high speed rail by hopping on 2022's Bullet Train . The guys talk about the value of a movie knowing what it is, stunt performers turned directors, and the lessons taught by Thomas the Tank Engine. All aboard for Season 6, our season of double features! Austin's Shout Out: Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman Phil's Shout Out: Flaked Email the show! a...

Aus and Phil check in with an update of what they've been up to and what they've been watching while on hiatus. Season 6 of the Picture Show kicks off its season of double features on Feb 6 with 2022's Bullet Train

Aus and Phil celebrate the holidays with the 2019 animated holiday film Klaus . The guys talk about Christmas movies in general, what makes them good or bad, and try to figure out how this gem is so overlooked.

Austin and Phil look back at Season 5 and the highs and lows of this group of movies... they also sidetrack the conversation into discussions about the most Catholic movies, TENET , and The Blair Witch Project Thank you to all of our listeners. Whether you listen every week or this is your first and only episode, we appreciate the time and attention you give to us. We are grateful for you and glad...

This week, Austin and Phil climb out from under the wreckage of their Frankenstein review that they survived because of reasons that will never be explained. After randomly murdering some angry listeners, they sit down to watch the sequel The Bride of Frankenstein . The guys talk about the role of Mary Shelley in this movie, Frankenstein as an incel, The Bride and her role in the plot of this film...

This week, Austin and Phil go to their underground bunker/recording studio to talk about alien attacks and this week's movie 10 Cloverfield Lane . The guys talk about cycles of mental illness, the Cloverfield "franchise"(?), building tension, and Phil brings up the movie Hush ... again... Austin's Shout Out: Cloverfield 4 Phil's Shout Out: Happy Happy Joy Joy documentary

This week, Aus and Phil are very groggy after waking from long naps. They poured some coffee and tried to wake up while watching a movie, 2009's Pandorum . The guys talk about the visuals that plant this movie firmly in the '00s, the "Noah's Ark" trope, and the career of the great Ben Foster. Austin's Shout Out: The 1975 Phil's Shout Out: Cory Kerr videos

This week, Aus and Phil break out their best Jeff Goldblum impressions and brace themselves for some good old fashioned Cronenberg body horror... they also watched the 1986 sci fi horror movie The Fly . The guys talk about toxic self-improvement, the themes of women having agency (or not), Chekov's Vomit, and the incredible practical effects of this film Austin's Shout Out: Avenue 5 Phil's Shout O...

This week, Austin and Phil are coming to you from the new podcast studio they built in an old German windmill, where they watched the 1931 classic(?) Frankenstein . The guys talk about adapting plays, why the Universal Monsters are so iconic, and Boris Karloff's performance. Austin's Shout Out: Cooking With Lynja Phil's Shout Out: Paul Csomo Hurricane Relief

This week, Austin and Phil's party to celebrate their 78th episode was interrupted by a monster from space who hurled the head of the Big John statue (local reference, sorry/ not sorry) at them and began attacking the city. The guys grabbed their shaky microphone and set out to document the entire situation... but eventually they got sidetracked by a movie. They watched the modern kaiju classic &n...

This week Austin and Phil are on a suicide mission to reboot the energy source that keeps them going... they're just making a pot of coffee... In the meantime, they're also finding time to watch Danny Boyle's 2007 trip through space Sunshine . The guys talk about Alex Garland, non-duality, the stellar cast, nature and humanity, the trolley problem, and how every character matters... then the guys...

Austin and Phil spent most of this week chasing drones through cornfields in an effort to... get a free drone.  Anyway, when they were done with that, they sat down to watch this week's movie, 2014's Interstellar. Phil voices his complaints about Jonathan Nolan while Austin nitpicks the science, then they both talk about what this movie does well, and that's the long list. The guys break down...

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Austin and Phil discovered that they have space insomnia that makes them be awake while everyone else sleeps, so this week, they used that time to watch 2016's Passengers . The guys talk about moral ambiguity, The Shining in space, planetary colonies and the corporate wealth that owns them, and the themes that this movie never quite manages to explore... plus Bacon. Austin's Shout Out: The Goblin...

This week, Austin and Phil crashed their homemade spaceship in the woods and had to hijack the DNA of a neighborhood dead guy in order to watch their movie, which was 1984's Starman . The guys talk about Tron -era Jeff Bridges, John Carpenter, Jesus metaphors, and scrawny deer. Also, Austin gives a science history lesson about Voyager Austin's Shout Out: Heartstopper comic Phil's Shout Out: Genndy...