Trilogy in Theory

This is a movie podcast hosted by two dudes. So here's another Tarantino movie. The difference is that this time it's the lesser host Web's favorite QT flick. One could blame the better host (and author of these show notes) Mike for not seeing this coming... but the author of these show notes is far more comfortable blaming his partner on this podcast. In keeping with the theme of this month's tri...

One host has a new favorite movie... and it's no longer Guy Ritchie's SNATCH. Meanwhile the other host is hoping for a "sluttier" version of the classic 12 ANGRY MEN... and THANKFULLY there exists a cable tv version starring Jack Lemmon and James Gandolfini. Sexy. But that is for another episode of TRILOGY IN THEORY as this month's theme is kicked off by the Sidney Lumet "original&q...

We start with funny books, hate on true stories and in the end save all the compliments for ourselves. It's the ultimate team-up as your two hosts take on the likes of great artist such as Darwyn Cooke, Quentin Tarantino and then we throw in Guy Ritchie because even we make mistakes! But this matters not as we can rewrite our own reality with a historical fiction trilogy where Martian Manhunter, t...

Not since the hosts of this very podcast has there been a more handsome team-up. Slightly better hair on Leo and Brad, though. We should hate them. But we don't. Although it took one host a few rides out to the squatters known as the Manson family before it clicked. This Brad Pitt guy really IS incredibly handsome. And cool. We should just hang out with these guys in ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWO...

Your much beloved hosts team up to take down a cannibal... ... and also Guy Ritchie's film adaptation of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. which is just silly. Silly in that the sell by date for this particular IP is well past relevancy? Silly in that we find it more absurd than our previous selected film which features a shapeshifting martian saving the world? Silly in... OKAY, we can admit that Henry Cavi...

One host gets his way to take this podcast direct-to-video... ...and then keeps apologizing for it. Is it because he does not enjoy our selection of JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER? No. But he does admit that his reasoning is he bought a new toy to sit on his shelf and so here we are as we kick off a team-up trilogy with Darywn Cooke's all-hands-on-deck look at the DC Universe and the best comic...

We restrain ourselves... in a trilogy on film love excess. The three films selected not only are a celebration of three prior months/trilogies on this podcast... I'll wait as you go back and download every single episode. Ahem... THEY ARE ALSO doing a cover of sort of The Master of Suspense as we get callbacks to PSYCHO in Brian De Palma's DRESSED TO KILL. Some REAR WINDOW in Robert Zemeckis' WHAT...

We take a trip based solely on our love for pudding. And also Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO. And Woody Allen's BLUE JASMINE... or Cate Blanchett's BLUE JASMINE if you'd rather. But in a third act twist (and one host hates that it comes to this) you have our resident Criterion Collection hater who waits for our wrap-up show to finally warm to Paul Thomas Anderson's PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE. This marks a year o...

In which Cate Blanchett has more than a few financial problems but is still better off than people who spend their time podcasting. Anytime now, Spotify. Anyway... Ms. Blanchett is great here. As is Sally Hawkins. And we suppose the director (WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS) does some fine work as well. Casting Louis CK as The Other Man was a curious choice even in 2013. But Cate Blanchett is so good! J...

In which we wonder what Paul Thomas Anderson saw in BILLY MADISON and/or HAPPY GILMORE. And we don't stop questioning universally sanctioned arbiters of taste! One host continues to take the Criterion Collection to task for their choices while the other questions his co-host's mentioning of THE BIG BANG THEORY in relation to the modern classic that is PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE. This is episode 50 of TRILOG...

In which we wonder if there is anything left to say about PSYCHO... and then spend a half hour talking about PSYCHO. But mainly this episode is about one question... when is the right time to watch PSYCHO? And also... do spoilers matter for a film like this that has influenced so much that came after? And the answer is now. And spoilers don't matter... as longs you are listening to a TRILOGY IN TH...

In which one host still just wants to talk about ALIENS and refuses to honor mothers. As much as I love throwing my co-host under the bus in these show notes (as it truly is the only contribution I make to this podcast) I believe he will suffer no hardship this week. For neither of our mothers listen to this show. However YOU, dear listener, can fix that by highly recommending this very show to yo...

Lively. Kendrick. Mike. Web. But only one has a helium tank at the ready. We conclude our mothers trilogy the only way we know how. Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Twitter / Instagram / Facebook : @trilogyintheory Tweet at your hosts: @projectingfilm & @webistrying Letterboxd: @projectingfilm & @webistrying Artwork by: @nasketchs Find out more at https:/...

In which we talk about one man's continued hatred for films in The Criterion Collection. When faced with a film tackling the war on drugs... what do the hosts of TRILOGY IN THEORY focus on? A teenage addiction to SUNCOAST VIDEO. Being ashamed to take one's kid brother to Steven Soderbergh's slightly more enjoyable film OUT OF SIGHT. And of course nitpicking the poster of this box-office and Oscar...

In which we praise sequels... the few that are good. We kick off a new month of a TRILOGY IN THEORY by starting in the middle of the story, specifically with James Cameron's ALIENS. Taking over for Ridley Scott (something we decree to happen again! thank you, ALIEN: COVENANT box-office...) this time we find Ripley as the woman in the room who knows more than the men making decisions... and look wh...

Never before have you heard anyone repeat themselves on a podcast. Right? We never promised to break new ground on TRILOGY IN THEORY... which means we are very comfortable with a theme on directors repeating prior works in their filmography with a trilogy of CLERKS 2, DRAG ME TO HELL and BOYHOOD. Kevin Smith, Sam Raimi and Richard Linklater had no fear of proper critics taking them to task for run...

In which one host learns just what those crazy teenagers have been up to all these years. Never before has a Criterion Collection been more educational than when one host was appalled to learn about... underage drinking. More revelations would follow as we discussed Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD but also some accusations. Such as... Does the boy in BOYHOOD actually know how to read? Is he REALLY a f...

In which we judge an old lady for judging Alison Lohman. It's a tradition on TRILOGY IN THEORY (and in particular this month) to rewatch films that are decidedly unpleasant. Sam Raimi does not disappoint in that regard as he returned to his roots of gross-out gags and humorous horror and boy do we feel sorry for Alison Lohman for being the recipient of all those shenanigans in DRAG ME TO HELL. We...

In which we express concern for Rosario Dawson's love life. On this podcast there is one Dante and one Randal... and absolutely no Rosario Dawson around. Kevin Smith kicks off our trilogy of returns with his return to CLERKS 2 and we find that much like the film itself, coming back to these characters changes with age. But we still feel bad for Rosario Dawson. Really bad. Support what we do with b...

This Will Be A Pleasant Bit of Unpleasantness. Whenever a podcast opens with a Monty Python sketch... show notes must come in to apologize to our dear listeners. And also to assure them that it will end. It will all end. We celebrate another three months of trilogies in theory by going back to our opening to 2021 with End of the World Speeches... only this time Stanley Kubrick finally gets off the...

In which we want movies to stop fighting with each other. And so they do! For this is the wrap-up to our versus trilogy which includes so much hyper-masculinity that it this episodes has no choice but to be our most sexual. Woody Harrelson as a pornographer freedom fighter in THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT! Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck dismissing the pillow talk and getting down to man and alien grapp...

In which two film dorks DON'T talk cars. FORD v FERRARI was known as The Great Dad Movie of 2019. Well, one of your hosts is a father and he took offense. The other host finds kids offensive but bad movie takes on Twitter even worse. So we get our revenge! Taking on the world that apparently hated this 92% Rotten Tomatoes score, Academy Award Best Picture nominee... if by the world you mean tweets...

In which we release our Ultimate Edition Snyder Cut of something shorter. Much shorter. Don't @ us #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. But thanks for the download! In this episode we explore more ugliness in movies vs... reason and logic. Oh and also BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE... a film where having a conversation is mostly ignored for more glowering (and in the case of Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor that...

In which we discover that free speech is unpleasant. And also we have dirty minds. But the blame does not lie with us. Oh no, dear listeners! For the crafting of devious young thoughts we must give credit where credit is due. To one of the greatest Kentuckians who had the pleasure of being played by a man who likes getting arrested in the Bluegrass State. And if that's not enough... the better hos...

In which we conclude that GET SHORTY is the end of cinema. Woody Allen is a controversial figure in film... but also has had a professional life of much critical acclaim. Quentin Tarantino may have a bit of an ego in that massive head of his. And with good reason! He also has lived the life of a critical darling since arriving on the scene with RESERVOIR DOGS. So when you have a trilogy on a love...