Under the Wheels

Gabe and Matt discuss their favorite movies of 2022 and try to make predictions on the 2022 Oscars as well as hand out a few of their own awards. Recorded prior to the airing of the Academy Awards. Time Stamps: Top 10: 1:10 Oscar Predictions (done prior to the Academy Awards): 42:42 -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! S...

Matt and Gabe discuss the newest iteration of the Dark Knight, with Robert Pattinson helming the cowl and Matt Reeves behind the red, yellow, and black-soaked camera lens. Spoilers start at 00:40:00. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?...

  Gabe and Matt discuss some British actors faking American accents (to varying degrees of success) in two of Netflix's Oscar fare with tick, tick... BOOM and The Power of the Dog. Time Codes: 00:00:00 - tick, tick...BOOM! 00:56:00 - The Power of the Dog -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music...

  Gabe and Matt talk about modern video games and the crazy lore to connect them all together, spoil pretty much all of Nightmare Alley, and then ramble on about a few other movies they found interesting. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like ou...

  Gabe and Matt discuss Licorice Pizza and The Matrix Resurrections. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our website !

Gabe and Matt tread lightly and avoid the direct path while discussing Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece STALKER. Originally recorded February 2021. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our website !

  Gabe and Matt discuss the latest Sony/Marvel crossover event of the year: Spiderman: No Way Home, as well as the Sony Spiderman franchise in general. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our website !

  Gabe and Matt dissect the latest monologue-saturated miniseries from Mike Flanagan and we see where Gabe is on the Flanagan Fandom. #HoratioLives. #HamishLinklaterForYourConsideration. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  V...

  Gabe and Matt shoot the breeze about movies. Topics include the Cowboy Bebop Live Action Remake, Netflix and American Anime Live Action Adaptations; Frank Miller’s The Spirit ; Gabe’s epic struggle with and Matthew’s horrible plot synopsis of The Eternals ; the peculiarities of Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic style; The French Dispatch in greater detail; the strange discourse around Wes Anders...

  Matt works with Gabe to see if Dune is just fine or if it’s a Shiny and Chrome. Topics include adaptations of novels in novel forms; the history and failings of Dune adaptations; relating Kojima to Dune; a case for Dave Bautista as the best wrestler-turned-actor; how Dune takes science fiction and evolves it to Fantasy; why book-to-movie adaptations are not a binary good or bad thing but mo...

  Gabe and Matt talk about The Last Duel. Topics include The Limey; Hard Eight; the difficulty of rating The Last Duel; comparisons to Rashomon and why Rashomon is not one of Gabe and Matt’s favorites; how the Criterion Collection knows how to market to their targeted demographic really well (and has some of the best cover art); some divergence to Branded to Kill; the difficulty of talking ab...

Matt and Gabe talk about the latest James Bond epic No Time to Die . -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our website !

  Matt and Gabe try to keep the run time down as they discuss some movies they’ve watched lately. Again. Topics include language changes over time; Taste of Cherry; Roger Ebert’s strange reviewing style; blank-check filmmaking vs. limitation filmmaking; a brief tangent on Alita: Battle Angel ;   First Love by Miike; “Visionary” James Wan’s Malignant ; No More Heroes 3; Dr. Zhivago ; epic...

Matt and Gabe discuss the new David Lowery epic The Green Knight. Topics include The Piano and Holly Hunter; Sam Neill in the 90's; a few odd comparisons between The Green Knight and Promising Young Woman; how episodic storytelling should not be considered negative criticism; deconstruction of the chivalrous knight; respect for Sean Harris and how he tends to work in roles that he really shouldn't...

Gabe and Matthew discuss DC Comic's James Gunn's The Suicide Squad (redirect from Suicide Squad 2 or Suicide Squad Gaiden). They also talk a lot about media criticism controversies. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our w...

Matt and Gabe closely watch Steven Soderbergh's new HBO Max film No Sudden Move . Topics include Soviet-style pornography; Soderbergh’s strange and brilliant career; Soderbergh’s evolution regarding themes and style; where No Sudden Move falls in the canon of Soderbergh; his increased reliance on political environment and wealth inequality in his filmmaking; the only three movies you’ll ever need...

Gabe and Matt discuss the latest controversial Marvel movie weeks after it has already set COVID box office records. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our website !

  Gabe and Matt recount what they've been watching lately and divert from the main path even more than usual. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our website !

  Gabe and Matt discuss why or why not plays should be adapted into movies and how to do it badly and not as badly. Topics include  The Elephant Man , Star Wars as failed Dungeons and Dragons characters, what serves as the best introduction to David Lynch movies ( hint here ), what Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and One Night in Miami do similarly and differently, Matt's odd fascination with H...

  Gabe and Matt talk about the Academy Awards for the 2nd year in a row and discuss their top ten of the year. Gabe goes on quite a few rants that are well worth hearing, if just for the entertainment value. Notes: How does Oscar Voting Work -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.&nbs...

Matt, Gabe, and Austin assemble together in the Hall of Justice to discuss the latest Zack Snyder slow-motion-fest Zack Snyder's Justice League. -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast ,   Stitcher , or  Spotify ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Artwork by Heather Painton. Like our content?  Visit our website !

 Matthew and Gabe discuss Judas and the Black Messiah, its merits, the acting, and how it is so much more than just the equivalent to "A Very Special Episode". Later Matt gets flummoxed over the Golden Globe Nominees for 2021 and desperately shills again for HBO Max. Subjects: My Friend Dahmer The Rider Lost in Translation The Little Things The Good Liar F for Fake The 3D Musketeers Will Smit...

  Gabe and Matt discuss Disney/Pixar's Soul . -  -  -  -  -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our website !

Matt and Gabe try to find the meaning of The Midnight Sky. Other topics include a discussion on difficult videogames, the merits of drinking straight coffee, independent theaters, Neal Breen movies, Jack Kirby's writing abilities, why some Netflix projects look generic and others turn out unique, the bad filmmaking of Robert Rodriguez, George Cloony: The Last Old-School Movie Star (and his somewha...

Matt and Gabe discuss Wonder Woman 1984 and Invisible Man, both connected by a common thread - invisibility. References: Bronson Elf The Breadwinner The Song of Sparrows The Chef Show Soul Megamind - - - - -  Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Like our content?  Visit our website !