The Vertical Viewing Podcast

For September 12th, 2016, Mike, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo hilltop silo and discuss the beautifully shot and surprisingly decent shark attack thriller THE SHALLOWS featuring Blake Lively doing some cringeworthy on-screen videochats, the recently cancelled ABC pirate musical comedy series GALAVANT lives on through the power of Netflix, Scott steps out on a limb to make a spirited and passio...

For September 19th, 2016, Mike, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss Steven Soderbergh's underrated and twisted drama SIDE EFFECTS as a takedown of the pharmaceutical industry / Hitchcock thriller, little orphan Ricky Baker is real bad egg in the wonderful comedy HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE from director Taika Waititi, we want to keep loving NO MAN'S SKY as the flurry of ref...

For September 26th, 2016, This week on the podcast, Mike, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the triumphant return of Clive Owen as The Driver in the BMW Short Films revival THE ESCAPE from Neill Blomkamp, Scott triggers a landslide of admiration for the fantastic Norwegian disaster film THE WAVE, shit hits the fan on the set of TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT as Michael Bay embla...

For October 2nd, 2016, Mike and Scott meet in the offshore Nostromo lounge and discuss the absolutely captivating animated documentary TOWER centering on the tragic 1966 sniper incident at the University of Texas, we hail the synthwave gods for the miracle that is and forever shall be TURBO KID 2 from RKSS Productions, Scott has fallen madly in gleeful love with the brilliant, hilarious and mindbl...

For October 10th, 2016, Michael, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the accidentally leaked trailer for THE DARK TOWER, Scott continues his VIFF odyssey with the gorgeous and delicate animated film THE RED TURTLE from Studio Ghibli, the irresistible allure of HBO's spectacular drama series WESTWORLD has completely taken over our cybernetic brains, Denis Villenueve officially...

For October 17th, 2016, Michael, Red, MikeG and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss Jim Jarmusch's poetic new film PATERSON starring Adam Driver as a bus driver named Paterson in the city of Paterson, the disappointing THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS does very little to advance the extremely well-worn zombie genre for us,  the excellent FRAGGLE ROCK is being remastered in HD for HBO and...

For October 24th, 2016, Michael and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss how director Tim Miller dropping out of DEADPOOL 2 leads to some potentially exciting replacement candidates, Louis Theroux's marvelous and eccentric documentary MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE is an insane look at severing ties with a cult of intimidation, the internet squeals with glee as Nintendo swings for the fences wi...

For November 8th, 2016, Michael, Red, Mike and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss Terry Gilliam's monumentally influential masterpiece BRAZIL setting the gold standard for bureaucratic dystopia, we take a skinny jean stroll down an Edinburgh back alley with the first official trailer for T2: TRAINSPOTTING featuring the entire OG smack gang, Mike tries on the THE CROWN from Netflix a...

For November 11th, 2016, Michael, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo Army Mess Hall for our blood soaked review of HACKSAW RIDGE from director Mel Gibson. MUSIC The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs" SHOW GUIDE 0:00:00 - Intro 0:07:45 - Review: Hacksaw Ridge (2016) CLIPS Hacksaw Ridge (2016) CREDITS You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonB...

For November 11th, 2016, Michael, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the steaming pile of trashy pseudo-scientific mayhem that is LUCY from director Luc Besson, Ted Chiang's absolutely gorgeous and heartbreaking short novella STORY OF YOUR LIFE vibrates with pure beauty, Scott finally rings the firehouse bell on Ron Howard's surprisingly gripping 1991 thriller BACKDRAFT,...

For November 21st, 2016, Michael, Red, Tim and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss Steven Spielberg's shaky adaptation of THE BFG from the immortally scrumtrillescent Roald Dahl, funny man Mike Birbiglia delivers a cute little improvised comedy with DON'T THINK TWICE starring Keegan Michael-Key & Gillian Jacobs, Scott dives deep into the trapdoor of the past in the spectacula...

For November 28th, 2016, Michael and Scott meet in Nostromo-by-the-Lounge and discuss developer Hello Games breaking their epic vow of silence with the long anticipated Foundation Update for NO MAN'S SKY, Jan de Bont's TWISTER remains a gold standard of extremely digestible 90's summer blockbuster fun, Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox overstay their Christmas welcome in BAD SANTA 2, the...

For December 12th, 2016, Michael and Scott meet in the Nostromo office lounge and discuss Louis CK's outstanding and hysterical live standup show in Vancouver, the powerful and emotional beauty of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS plays out across an epic dramatic canvas, heavy anime inspirations are shapeshifting all over the extremely fun and suprisingly brilliant Netflix Original film SPECTRAL starr...

For December 19th, 2016, Michael, Red, and Scott meet in the Nostromo Rebel Base and discuss Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard bringing the Casablanca-style glitz and glamour back to WWII in ALLIED from the waning Robert Zemeckis, the 2016 Golden Globe nominations plop a few pleasant surprises onto show favorites DEADPOOL and HELL OR HIGH WATER, Scott lets the wall around his heart crumble to the gro...

For December 23rd, 2016, Michael and Scott meet inside the Nostromo Animus and discuss the jaw dropping debut trailer for BLADE RUNNER 2049 from Denis Villenueve, world's hottest director Denis Villeneuve is now in serious in talks to direct a DUNE adaptation, the first full trailer for JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 looks like a first full trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2, everybody's favourite hip...

For December 28th, 2016, Michael, Red, and Scott meet in the Nostromo Anniversary Hall and discuss some of our all-time favourite Vertical Viewing moments from the first 100 episodes, we crack THE OA wide open for a convoluted and spoiler filled discussion of the entire eight episode run on Netflix, millions of voices cry out in terror as the heart wrenching passing of Carrie Fisher echoes across...

For January 3rd, 2017, Michael, Red, and Scott meet in the Nostromo Valley and discuss Adrien Brody and John Cusack phoning it in for the entirety of the so-bad-its-good historical action movie DRAGON BLADE, Red finally has his face melted clean off his head after a deep dive into the masterpiece INSIDE on PlayStation 4, Scott miraculously survives the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami in the poorly titled...

For January 9th, 2017, Rob, Michael, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo Lounge and discuss the sprawling and jaw droppingly comprehensive documentary O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA becoming high water mark for ESPN and the 30 for 30 series, Scott endures the disastrous WAR ON EVERYONE and walks away downright disgusted with a pathetic excuse for a buddy cop black comedy, the late Debbie Reynolds and Gene K...

For January 23rd, 2017, Michael, Red and Scott meet in the glitzy Nostromo Ballroom for the 2nd Annual Oscar Isaac Awards! Our deliberations include the Worst Film of the Year, Biggest Surprise, Biggest Disappointment, and Best Old Film of the Year before the main event: our personal Top 10 Favourite Films of 2016.  MUSIC The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"  SHOW GUIDE 0:12:10 - Biggest Surpris...

For January 25th, 2017, Michael, Red, and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the twisted sexual revenge thriller ELLE from none other than Paul Verhoeven, Red gets his OG Coen Brothers fix with their debut film BLOOD SIMPLE, Scott is home schooled amongst the redwood trees by CAPTAIN FANTASTIC aka Viggo Mortensen, heart pounding suspense and white knuckle tension can't fully redeem...

For February 7th, 2017, Michael, Red, and Scott meet inside the Nostromo wormhole and discuss news of Ben Affleck stepping down as director of the standalone BATMAN film (which is probably not long for this world), Scott endures BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK in 24 fps like a caveman and realizes there is absolutely nothing happening in this movie, found footage school shooting film THE DIRTI...

For February 13th, 2017, Michael, Red, and Scott meet at the Nostromo Continental Hotel and discuss the delightfully surprising X-Men series LEGION boasting shades of Wes Anderson and Terry Gilliam, Scott decrypts a secret Cold War message only to discover that COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT is completely ridiculous and juvenile, Michael Bay's original TRANSFORMERS remains a guilty pleasure desp...

For February 20th, 2017, Michael, Red, and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the baffling and somewhat alienating look at love and relationships in the twisted world of THE LOBSTER starring Colin Farrell, we shower even more bloody praise upon SANTA CLARITA DIET, documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson's extremely heartfelt memoir CAMERAPERSON is a spectacular portrait of the h...

For February 27th, 2017, Michael, Red, Graeme and Scott meet in the Nostromo Country Club lounge and discuss Ben Kingsley's unbelievable performance in SEXY BEAST as the quietly terrifying crime boss Don Logan, awards bait contender LION is a pretty fantastic advertisement for Google Maps, our heartfelt respects go out to the immortal Bill Paxton whose Game will never truly be Over, the racial...

For March 6th, 2017, Michael, Red, Graeme and Scott meet in the Nostromo water tower and discuss how PlayStation exclusive HORIZON: ZERO DAWN proves once and for all that robotic dinosaurs are always better than feathered ones, Scott walks into JACKIE expecting a generic and by-the-numbers biopic but came out of a haunting, eerie psychological thriller, the fantastic Netflix Original I DON'T F...