The Postscript Podcast

After people went crazy for its "12 years in the making" premise a decade ago, the boys dive into 2014's Boyhood with their friend and Richard Linklater aficianado Brayden to determine how the film has aged. Did it earn its fabled 100 on metacritic? Is it really Linklater's magnum opus? Join us!

While being some of the most successful gimmick movies in recent memory, do the Quiet Place films hold up all these years later removed from the novelty of their theatrical experiences? The fellas discuss while also sharing their thoughts on the newest entry, Day One.

Mateo and Chris have returned from their travels and are BACK with their good friend Leo to revisit Pixar’s Inside Out and also share their thoughts on its recently released sequel. How does the new one stack up against its predecessor, and how does it reveal the first’s strengths and weaknesses? Should the original be considered one of Pixar’s best? Or have people rightfully cooled on it? All is...

Chris, Mateo and their friend Jacob become perhaps the first people to revisit Marvel's Eternals since 2021 to assess whether the vitriol directed towards this film was justified. Is this actually a bottom 3 MCU films? Or perhaps one of the few strokes of auteur filmmaking to ever grace the MCU?

It's Monke Week on the pod, so Mateo and Chris bring in double-feature specialist Owen Ward to revisit the most recent Apes trilogy and hone in on Matt Reeves' two entries. The boys discuss what makes these films so remarkable and why they should be regarded as some of the best blockbusters of the 2010s.

With the recent announcement of a fifth Matrix film to be directed by Drew Goddard, Chris and Mateo are joined by returning-guest Nick to go back to where it all started: back to Jonathan Groff's office. One of the more divisive releases in recent memory, the boys revisit the fourth Matrix movie to see how it has aged removed from all the expectations placed upon it in 2021. Pre-Watch Ends/Pos...

With the release David Leitch's newest blockbuster, the hugely marketed The Fall Guy, we are joined by our friend Nathaniel to revisit Leitch's first official directorial credit, Atomic Blonde . We talk about how it has held up as the sister movie to John Wick and how it provides a glimpse into what could have been Leitch's career since then. Pre-Watch ends/Post-Watch begins at (29:30)

Chris and Mateo are joined by their pal Adam to all dive into another hugely reclaimed film for the first time: Steven Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence . What was once considered to be an odd clashing and hodgepodge of two auteur’s visions is now considered to be one of the greatest works of the 21st Century. Is the film worthy of this level of reclamation? 

We are BACK with easily our longest episode title to date. In honor of Guy Ritchie's new spy action comedy period piece, we revisit another one of his spy action comedy period pieces that we believe to be one of the most criminally under-appreciated films this century and what the filmmaking of these two say about each other.

After his fourth film, The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer is widely considered an auteur and true master of the craft, but why was his second film, Birth, panned upon release? Chris and Mateo are joined by their friend Seb Griffin to discuss why this film has been so fiercely reclaimed and where people misunderstood it in 2004.

Sofia Coppola's magnum opus? Chris and Mateo kick off April by eating some cake at Versailles with their pal and noted Marie Antoinette champion, Emily. They talk about the underwhelming reception to the film upon release and the fierce reclamation it has since undergone before giving the film a watch themselves (24:02).

Oscars Month comes to an end with one of the most dominant films at the Academy Awards in the 21st Century, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. Chris and Mateo are joined by their pal Tommy to all watch this movie for the first time and try to get to the bottom of what made it such an enormous hit. How does this Oscar juggernaut fare in 2024? As always, first section is a spoiler-free pre-watch...

Oscars Month continues with the infamous 2011 Best Picture Winner (and noted victor over Moneyball ), the black-and-white silent film, The Artist . The boys become probably the first people since 2011 to watch this movie to determine whether it is worthy of the films it’s paying homage to, or if people fell for a hollow, gimmicky imitation of this era of filmmaking. 

The boys watch their step as they continue Oscars Month with The Hurt Locker . They talk about the grueling production of this film in the name of authenticity and its David vs. Goliath dynamic with Avatar in the 2009 Oscars before watching the film and assessing how it stacks up against its competition and other modern war films.

The boys kick off Oscars Month by travelling to the suburbs to reassess the film that dominated the 1999 Oscars, American Beauty . Did the film deserve all the accolades it received? Is it half as clever as it thinks it is? Could Wes Bentley have played The Riddler? Listen to find out.

In honor of Dune 2 releasing this week, the boys come face-to-face with themseleves and revisit Denis Villeneuve's least-discussed English language film, Enemy . They talk about its reputation as a bit of an outlier in the past decade of films from the director before rewatching and seeing how it fits in Villeneuve's filmography, both stylistically and in terms of quality.

The boys go off the deep end with their good friend Nicole Americano to revisit Bradley Cooper’s 2018 directorial debut, A Star is Born , to really hone in on what this movie brought to the table from a filmmaking standpoint, years removed from the hold it had on pop culture and tabloids. As always, the first section of the pod is the spoiler-free pre-watch, and the second section (31:45) is our f...

Perhaps the most dangerous banger covered to date on the pod, the boys revisit the global sensation that was  Spider-Man: No Way Home  to determine if the movie really was as good as they remember, or if all the anticipation and excitement surrounding its release covered up some of its potential flaws. 

We are no longer in control. In honor of the director's cut now being available worldwide, the boys are joined once again by Chance Freytag to discuss the misunderstood brilliance of Michael Mann's Blackhat, now in all of its properly edited glory.

The boys travel to The Green Chapel and hopefully learn something along the way as they revisit David Lowery's The Green Knight. While critically acclaimed, the trio felt this movie deserved further discourse after falling through the cracks over the past few years.

The trio takes a trip to see everyone's favorite negative asset manager by revisiting The Secret Life of Walter Mitty . They talk about Ben Stiller's quietly superb career as a director as well as the mixed critical response this film received upon release and the Walter Mitty Hive that has formed since before rewatching the film themselves to see where it truly stands.

The boys are here with their 1st Annual Tenet Rewatch! They talk about how this movie was the genesis for The Postscript Podcast and why this misunderstood masterpiece DESERVES a rewatch from everybody reading this. They then give the film another viewing and discuss what stood out to them most this time around, and how their feelings deepened or shifted about the film.

Happy New Year! The Postscript Boys are back and are here with a different type of ep to begin 2024. On this episode, the trio reflects upon the year in film in 2023 and discusses some selected films that they believe could be covered on the pod a few years from now, such as Barbie , The Killer , and Napoleon . This pod is also officially a safe space for Beau is Afraid -heads. 

It’s time for Star Wars Month…to end. After reivisiting the entire sequel trilogy, the boys, as fairly as they can, attempt to assess how successful these three movies were in retrospect and breakdown all the arguments held against these movies upon release. Have they become stronger over time? Were the haters right? Join us for what we’d like to believe to be one of the more level-headed, diploma...

The fellas prepare for the grand finale of Star Wars month by taking a look back at the era of the Sequel Trilogy (2012-2019) and how the discourse surrounding these three films evolved (or devolved) over time before rewatching all three films themselves for next week's post-game episode.