The Playlist Podcast Network

Ryan Oliver and Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez dive head-first into Marvel's gargantuan team-up, "Avengers: Infinity War." 0:00-24:30: Spoiler-Free Thoughts, MCU Re-Watches, and Box Office Predictions. 24:31-End: ***SPOILER DISCUSSION***

Joe and Erik make this episode a documentary special, starting off with the new William Friedkin effort, The Devil and Father Amorth. More time is spent, though, on a few recent streaming TV nonfiction efforts, Wild Wild Country on Netflix and The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling on HBO.

Oktay and Andy dive into two underrated films from Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica: 1993's "Arizona Dream" and 1995's Palme d'Or winner "Underground."

Erik and Joe discuss MoviePass at the top of the show, then get into long reviews of Isle of Dogs and Ready Player One.

Oktay Ege Kozak and Andrew Crump put the coda on 2017's awards season with an in-depth look at two of the Oscar-nominees (and winners): "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and the animated feature "The Breadwinner."

Joe and Erik discuss a pair of tonally different but thematically similar absurdist anti-war films in Foxtrot and The Death Of Stalin

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Joe and Erik discuss Black Panther and bring back HOLD UP to discuss Brick and how the careers of both directors of each film line up.

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Joe and Erik are back on mic and discuss apocalypse with Black Mirror latest season on Netflix, plus another edition of HOLD UP where we shout out Miracle Mile.

Ryan Oliver and Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez meander through a myriad of topics after their hiatus from the mic, including the impromptu "The Cloverfield Paradox," the "Solo: A Star Wars Story" trailer, some box office stats, and some preliminary "Black Panther" thoughts.

With Oscar season in full swing, Oktay and Ryan revisit three Best Picture winners that deserved to be talked about more than they are: F.W. Murnau's 1927 "Sunrise," Billy Wilder's 1945 "The Lost Weekend," and Delbert Mann's 1955 "Marty."

Erik and Joe took this week off from recording, so in place of a new episode is a rereleased Hold Up special, where we discuss Pump Up The Volume and Slap Shot. We'll return with new content soon enough. Thanks!

Joe and Erik discuss two movies on different ends of the modern exploitation cinema spectrum: Mom and Dad + The Road Movie.

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Joe and Erik put the 2017 movie year to bed on this episode, in the first half discussing their respective top 10 favorite films and then shifting gracefully over to Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, Phantom Thread.

Joe and Erik are back on mic after the holiday break, and start the new year by catching up on more 2017 titles: World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden Of Other People's Thought, Bright and The Post.

Joe and Erik start off with brief thoughts on Stars Wars: The Last Jedi, then get into their main review for Guillermo Del Toro's latest The Shape Of Water.

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Ryan Oliver, Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez, and Playlist Managing Editor Kevin Jagernauth dive deep into Rian Johnson's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." 0:00 - 12:44: Non-Spoiler Initial Thoughts 12:45 - END: ***SPOILER DISCUSSION***

Joe and Erik talk two movies making waves in the awards conversation, Call Me By Your Name and I, Tonya.

Joe and Erik take a deep dive down rabbit hole of meta comedy, cult fandom, potentially insane people's artistic visions and so bad it's good cinema with a double feature chat on The Disaster Artist and Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond.

Joe and Erik dig into their archives and bring back two fun discussion from prior Hold Up segments: La Haine & Belly.

Joe and Erik talk about Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and bring back the HOLD UP segment, where we discuss David O. Russell's 2004 comedy I Heart Huckabees.

Ryan Oliver and Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez discuss and review one of the biggest and most-anticipated films of the fall movie season: "Justice League." 0:00-23:28: Regular Discussion 23:28-48:36: ***SPOILER DISCUSSION***