The Vertical Viewing Podcast

For November 20th, 2018, MikeG, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the late Gordon Downie's concept album/graphic novel SECRET PATH depicting the tragedy of Chanie Wenjack, Jeff Bridges' spectacular sagging gut in HELL OR HIGH WATER is a thing of beauty, THE DISASTER ARTIST is James Franco's hilarious and adorable love letter to THE ROOM and Tommy Wiseau, Scott jumps...

For November 27th, 2018, Michael, Rick, Dan and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss a massive slate of incredible goodies like the insane rap battle experience BODIED from Joseph Kahn, Denzel rocks a mean tooth gap as ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. from Dan Gilroy, we give some love to poor little GEOSTORM after getting totally barbecued by critics, Scott turns into nostalgic jelly for FIELD OF D...

For December 4th, 2018, Michael, Red & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss: the mind blowing real-time rendering of the ADAM short film series from Neill Blomkamp and Oats Studios, the luxurious narrative of MUDBOUND feels like an entire season of a TV series packed into a feature film, Myke has some COLOSSAL issues with Jason Sudeikis and basically the entire movie as a whole, and m...

For December 12th, 2018, Michael & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the unmitigated disaster of ZOOLANDER 2, Hugh Jackman's new musical THE GREATEST SHOWMAN waves some impressive song & dance numbers in your face hoping you'll forget P.T. Barnum was a total scumbag, one of us thinks STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS only works on the first viewing, the criminally underrated...

For December 18th, 2017, it's our 150th episode everybody!!! This week on a very Special Edition™ of the podcast, Red, Michael and Scott welcome Rick Chung back into the Nostromo Lounge to declare that the funniest comedy of 2017 can only be GIRLS TRIP, Netflix Original THE CROWN is apparently the most expensive show ever made, Rick proves that THE HOLIDAY is even more excruciating than LOVE A...

For December 25th, 2017, on a special Holiday Edition of the podcast, Rick & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss Margot Robbie's twisted and sympathetic portrayal of Tonya Harding in I, TONYA, Max Landis and David Ayer have created a monster with BRIGHT now streaming on Netflix, remnants of Kevin Spacey linger in ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD featuring a strong replacement performan...

For January 4th, 2018, Michael, Red & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss Season 4 of BLACK MIRROR featuring the Trekked-out crew of the USS Callister, we peek into the POTTERSVILLE universe where Michael Shannon is a horrendous actor forced to wear a bigfoot suit, Red decides to undergo the shrinking process for Alexander Payne's DOWNSIZING, the arctic tundra comes alive with re...

For January 9th, 2018, Michael, Red & Scott meet in the glitzy Nostromo Ballroom for the 3rd Annual Oscar Isaac Awards! Our deliberations include the Worst Film of the Year, Biggest Surprise, Biggest Disappointment, Best Old Film of the Year and a brand new category: Best Style. SHOW GUIDE 0:05:05 - Best Style 0:31:10 - Biggest Surprise 0:43:40 - Biggest Disappointment 1:05:15 - Worst Film of...

For January 16th, 2018, on a very special edition of the podcast, Red, Michael & Scott welcome Rick Chung back into the Nostromo Ballroom to review the very best films of 2017. Stay tuned as we count down our personal Top 10 Films of the year! Thank you to Rick Chung for joining us once again. Find more of him online at: http://www.rickchung.com/ http://yvarcade.com/ SHOW GUIDE 0:04:45 - Top 1...

For January 29th, 2018, Michael & Scott welcome Rick Chung back into the Nostromo lounge to discuss the extremely underrated and sorely underseen forest fire drama ONLY THE BRAVE starring Josh Brolin, Rick is over the moon with Robert De Niro's Bernie Madoff in THE WIZARD OF LIES from Barry Levinson (remember him?), nerd culture continues to thrive diverse and important ways with the docum...

For February 19th, 2018, Red & Scott welcome Rick Chung back into the Nostromo lounge to discuss Jack Black's eastern European accent in THE POLKA KING aka Bernie Madoff of the Polka universe, we still don't exactly know what MIAMI CONNECTION really is, decadent indulgence doesn't get any better than the 2006 MIAMI VICE featuring a bratty Jamie Foxx and an empty husk of Colin Farre...

For July 3rd, 2018, this Patreon-only episode has now been made available to all! Join Red & Scott as we navigate our way through swirling coffee cream and smoke rings in Darren Aronofsky's 1998 breakthrough hit π (Pi) MUSIC The AntiTheory - "Pop Quiz Hotshot" CREDITS You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC Send your thou...

For February 26th, 2018, Craig, Michael, Red & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss Fred Armisen's Netflix Special STANDUP FOR DRUMMERS aka for your drums only, Jennifer Lawrence basking in the 'F' Cinemascore period of her career with RED SPARROW, one of us is still licking his wounds after a punishing examination of Andrei Tarkovsky's impenetrable Double Black diamon...

For April 3rd, 2018, Rick & Scott sit down with Thor Diakow, national film critic for CityNews & Breakfast Television Vancouver to discuss the relentless maelstrom of nostalgia swirling inside Steven Spielberg's adaptation of READY PLAYER ONE, the MPAA continues to do what it do, we get into some obligatory discussions of cultural appropriation, and much, much more in our featured revi...

For April 9th, 2018, Red & Scott welcome Rick Chung back into the Nostromo VR lounge to discuss BLOCKERS and a refreshingly progressive take on the teen sex comedy, Andrew Niccol's brilliant LORD OF WAR is more relevant than it has ever been, the mindbending extended cinematic universe of RESOLUTION: CABIN OF DEATH, and much, much more before our featured review of READY PLAYER ONE from di...

For April 12th, 2018, Red & Scott welcome Rick Chung back into the soundproof Nostromo lounge to discuss Al Pacino's portrayal of beloved American icon PATERNO from Barry Levinson, Donald Glover's haunting and hilarious take on whiteface pushes his FX series ATLANTA to Twin Peaks territory, the late Garry Shandling gets the comprehensive 2-part documentary treatment from Judd Apatow, w...

For April 30th, 2018, Michael, Red, Dan & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss:  PHANTOM THREAD KEANU YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE BROOKLYN NINE-NINE THE TERROR SUPER TROOPERS 2 and much, much more before we jam a fistful of colored gemstones into our review of AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR from directors Joe & Anthony Russo. Thank you to Dan Nicholls for joining us once again. You can fin...

For May 15th, 2018, Rick, Dan & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss: TULLY BROOKLYN NINE-NINE MOST LIKELY TO MURDER BORNE THE DA VINCI CODE and much, much more before our featured review of DEADPOOL 2 from director David Leitch. Big shout out to Dan Nicholls - find more of him online @ twitter.com/dannicholls  Thank you to Rick Chung for joining us once again. Check him out: http://w...

For May 28th, 2018, Rick, Dan & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss: HEREDITARY COBRA KAI SENSE8 TOMB RAIDER THE VILLAGE XXX: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE and much, much more before our featured review of SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY from director Ron Howard. Thank you to Rick Chung for joining us once again. Check him out: http://www.rickchung.com/ http://yvarcade.com/ SHOW GUIDE 0:03:40 - ...

For July 9th, 2018, Michael, Red, Rick & Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss: HANNAH GADSBY: NANETTE POLYTECHNIQUE PAPER GIRLS TAG EIGHTH GRADE GLOW and much, much more before our featured review of ANT-MAN AND THE WASP from director Peyton Reed. Thank you to Rick Chung for joining us once again. Check him out: http://www.rickchung.com/ http://yvarcade.com/ SHOW GUIDE 0:04:05 - What...

For July 30th, 2018, Red, Rick & Scott recruit special agent Thor Diakow, national film critic for CityNews & Breakfast Television Vancouver, to discuss James Gunn losing his directing job on GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 before our featured review of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT from writer/director Christopher McQuarrie. Shoutout to Thor Diakow for joining us! You can find more of Rick...