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The World Cup of Movies gets decided, as the movies representing the 16 final countries in the real soccer tourney compete for world cup movie glory. Lee Jutton ( @leiladaisyj ), film critic and archivist, joins us to decide the winner! See the bracket here . 42 minutes in, we turn to 2026 movies, reviewing DISCLOSURE DAY, Toy Story 5, BACKROOMS, Voicemails for Isabelle, THE FURIOUS, Over Your Dea...

We rip through some May movies - Mortal Kombat 2, Swapped, The Sheep Detectives, Is God Is, Hokum, Obsession - and [17:41] kickoff Stage 1 of the World Cup Movie Tournament, debating and deciding the 48 movies, each representing the countries in the real World Cup. Next episode is Stage 2, with 16 movies advancing into a BRACKET to win the 2026 World Cup Movie Tournament! See here for a list of th...

With cohost Allix own wedding approaching, ⁠Laura Royden⁠ joins for THE DRAMA plus 30 minutes in we draft the best wedding movies. SPOILERS only for The Drama from 10:45 Outro is Elephant Love Medley from Moulin Rouge OST (2001) by Kidman, McGregor & Jaime Allen - EXCERPT used per right of cultural commentary, no rights violation!!

After the rousing success of our Apu Trilogy episode, our trilogist Prof. Chester (@ slyjester ) is back to discuss the romance, desire and anxieties of the two Oslo Trilogies by Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo August 31, The Worst Person in the World) and Dag Johan Haugerud (Sex, Dreams, Love). Plus Classics Corner! Outre: "Oslo in the Summertime" by of Montreal (2005) - NO LICENSE ISSUE A...

Project Hail Mary and The Bride! lead a March roundup, along with Hoppers, Heel, By Design, Undertone, Radu Jude's Dracula, Yes, Zach Cregger's Mars and Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Plus, Aaron Brooks ( @incubrooks ) of ⁠⁠⁠Why We Love Horror⁠⁠⁠⁠ returns (53:00) to share the movies that made him who he is in our latest MovieBio. Also, Blindspot Swap™ reviews Scott Pilgrim vs the World...

2026 has some of the best Dumpuary movies in years but before we get to Bone Temple, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die and Nirvanna: The Band The Show The Movie, we take a last look at 2025, interviewing the director ( Daniel Robbins ), producer ( Daniel Goldschmidt ) and star ( Zack Weiner ) of the political comedy CITIZEN WEINER + handing out our 2025 movie awards. Spoilers only for Citizen Weine...

The bracket to determine the best movie of 2025 is here - after releasing the bracket in separate episodes, here you can tackle the ENTIRE (3 hour!) bracket! Joined for each bracket section by guests including Zach Brooks , Laura Royden , Navi , Adam Cohen and Grace Leeder , as well as many clips ("I Dont Have A Reason!") from listeners naming their favorite of the year. SPOILERS only ne...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- and we have finally arrived at the finale, from the Elite 8 to the best movie of the year. Grace Leeder ( goforgrace ), movie critic and podcaster extraordinaire, joins us to finalize the bracket and debate the 8 finalists One Battle After Another, It Ends, Misericordia, Sentimental Value, If I Had Leg's I'd Kick You,...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week! On the FOURTH (and last!) bracket corner we are joined Down Under by Adam Cohen , to decide which movies will advance from No Other Choice, Ne Zha 2, KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners, 28 Years L...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week! On the THIRD bracket corner we are joined by Navi to decide which movies will advance from Marty Supreme, Magazine Dreams, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Kill the Jockey, Twinless, Wake Up...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week! On the SECOND bracket corner we are joined by Laura Royden to decide which movies will advance from Train Dreams, Sirat, Misericordia, The Phoenician Scheme, Sentimental Value, Hamnet, The...

Every year we host a bracket to determine the best movie of the year -- this year we are releasing the bracket in separate episodes for each 'corner' of the bracket, culminating in the finale next week! On the first bracket corner we are joined by Zach Brooks , cohost of ⁠The Movie Ladder Podcast⁠ , to decide which movies will advance from One Battle After Another, Eddington, Frankenstein,...

What are the most disappointing movies of 2025? We name our top 3s (1:45), and then (16:20) brainstorm the bracket, deciding what themes and movies should contend in the bracket on deck next month to decide the best movie of 2025. A special Classics Corner (38:00) highlights the best and worst classics watched in 2025. OUTRE: Our Love · Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan - The Ballad of Wallis Island OST...

Warren and Zach join us to unwrap the December 2025 movies we have all seen, like Sentimental Value, and those only some of us have seen, like Hamnet, No Other Choice, The Mastermind, Avatar 3, Marty Supreme, The Housemaid, Hedda and Steve. And then... ...Allix shares the best of the 20+ movies he saw for his Blanchett Blank-cheque and Sammy shares the best movies from the 2000s decade after watch...

Remakes and Netflix specials are the taste of November 2025 - we review Nouvelle Vague (5:00), The Running Man (5:40), BUGONIA (7:10) and the movie it is based on, 2003's Save The Green Planet!, TRAIN DREAMS (13:45), SIRAT (18:00), Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (22:22), Wicked For Good (25:10), Die My Love (26:10), Splitsville (28:53), Kill the Jockey (29:50), The Sea (30:30), Familia...

Before hosting director Daniel Robbins to discuss his new movies (Bad Shabbos, Citizen Weiner) and MovieBio ( 34:10 timestamp ), we are joined by Theo to chat up a feast of October movies: the new Frankenstein and Dracula and squint and call 'em horrors like Hallow Road, Blue Moon, Twinless, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, After the Hunt, Anemone, A Little Prayer, Honey Don't! and Bugonia....

To celebrate the 14th birthday of the hippest movie diary platform - and cohost Sammy finally joining earlier this year - we dive into how to best enjoy Letterboxd, the best accounts, challenges and lists to follow and how to write/rate what you watch + we host a Bracket featuring listener's contrarian movies. Join certified Hater (Sammy), Critic (Allix) and Enthusiast, our guest Zach Brooks,...

This month we zero in on arguably the biggest release of the year, PTA's latest One Battle After Another , and then reveal where it stacks up with with all his movies with Allix and Sam sharing how they rank the 10 movies of PTA. SPOILERS start at minute 13:30. Outre is "River of Hills" from the OBAA soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood

⁠Allix⁠⁠ joins the pod as cohost, to celebrate he shares his "MovieBio," the movies that tell the story of a life + he reveals how Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas and the others in the new movie Eden would do on the tv-show SURVIVOR. Also review recent 2025 releases: Weapons (21:20), Eden and the Survivor strategies (27:00), Ne Zha 2 (39:10), The Naked Gun (42:30), Highest 2 Lowest (44:30),...

WAY BACK in May 2022, then cohosts Sam & John invited Paco Uybarreta - an experimental test pilot and USAF pilot - to unpack aerial thrills and frills of Tom Cruise's blast from the past, Top Gun Maverick. FFW to 2025 and after the episode was mistakenly deleted, we've blasted this back from the past as a 2025 Matinee.

WAY BACK in 2020 June, then cohosts Sam & Av discussed Spike Lee's latest, Da 5 Bloods, before sharing their 5 most impactful movies on police racism from this list of 20+ on the subject. After the EP was mistakenly deleted, now republishing as a "Matinee." Outre is 1971's What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

WAY BACK in 2019 October, then hosts Will & Av invited on Zach Brooks to discuss the newest DC release, JOKER. Little did they know a bad sequel would follow OR that Spotify would mistakenly delete this original episode, prompting a republishing ("Matinee") now in August 2025.

The bracket to determine the best movie of 1975 - joined by Allix⁠ and special guest Justin Purwitsky , along with listener callouts naming their favorite of 1975. See the bracket featuring the 18 movies competing, see here . Mild SPOILERS for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Barry Lyndon, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Story of Adele H. and 3 Days of the Co...

Classics Corner takes over the podcast for a special episode devoted to the Apu trilogy, the three celebrated Indian movies directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu. Joining us from Asia is Prof. Shai Chester for a spirited debate on experience vs purpose and a competitive draft of best characters from across the ACU (Apu Cinematic Universe) . Outre is Ravi Shankar...

The new summer blockbuster F1 needs Brad Pitt and we need movie superfan Benji Gotfried - alongside The Movie Ladder Podcast cohost Zach Brooks and listener John to cover new releases from June 2025, headlined by the formula one flick as well as The Phoenician Scheme, The Life of Chuck, Materialists, and a bunch of murder movies: Echo Valley, 28 Years Later, Predator Killer of Killers and I Don&#3...