Under the Wheels

  Matt, Austin, and Gabe discuss Brandon Cronenberg's new film Possessor, Jeff Bezos's film VFW, and video games. Lots of video games. And Best Damn Root Beer, if you would like to sponsor us please do. - - - - - 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, Gabe, and Austin try to dissect why the second season of The Mandalorean doesn't live up to the first season while also pondering what it means to "save Star Wars". - - - - - 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 !

Gabe and Matt go old school to talk about David Fincher's new "biographical" "drama" Mank, where Matt stumbles upon pronouncing everything and Gabe can't pronounce Amanda Seyfried. They also get depressed about the impending top 10 of the year. References: Wikipedia donate The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Ghost Dog Andrei Rublev The Crown Ludwig Goransson Orson Welles wine commercial Side by Side (...

  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 slice and dice through the good, the bad, and the ugly of Ghost of Tsushima and try not to get Sucker Punched along the way (apologies for the terrible pun). Mike's Youtube playlist of Ghost of Tsushima Refe...

Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . - - - Matt and Gabe attempt to unravel The Haunting of Bly Manor. References: My Week with Marilyn Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan The Exorcist Cruising Blue Velvet Henry James Who is the worst Chris Twin Peaks Twin Pe...

 Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . In the filler episode of Under the Wheels, Matt and Gabe discuss Quibi, how Matt can't say Cerebus correctly, the legacy of Cerebus, the actual draw of Batman: The Killing Joke, an observation on the works of the late Stuart Gordon, a sidebar into the unrealized H...

 Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Matt and Gabe discuss two films featuring Robert Pattinson as a supporting actor: Tenet and Devil All the Time.

 Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Gabe and Matt dive deep into the mind of Charlie Kaufman and attempt to make meaning of his latest film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, not sponsored by Dairy Queen. Along the way, they stumble their way through how Mulan the Movie is having a direct negative effec...

 Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Opus Overtones can be found here . Sponsored by Jif Peanut Butter (please?) - Matt and Gabe get back into movies made in 2020 with the "hit" Netflix movie "The Old Guard" starring Dudley Dursley from Harry Potter with some other somewhat famous international stars...

Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Matt and Gabe go into a thorough analysis of John Frankenheimer's Ronin. Discussed on the episode: Tombstone Snowman and the Art of Editing The Silence of the Lambs Ice Age Outrage Coda The Killers (1946) Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers" John Frankenheimer David Mamet M...

Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Matt and Gabe review a more recently released movie - Spike Lee's newest joint Da 5 Bloods. Topics including creative content generation theories, knowing what not to include, subtle science fiction elements, kitchen sink realism, the "Disney Business Model", confusing...

Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . The boys are back! Matt and Gabe are joined by Under the Wheels co-founder Austin where they discuss such topics as what they've been watching lately, authors who go on to direct motion pictures, Nicholas Winding Refn, The Snyder Cut, the perplexing reception of Star Wa...

Listen to us on  Apple Podcast  or  Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike.  Check out his Soundcloud . Matt and Gabe share the dream with special guest Mike and discuss Christopher Nolan's Inception. Topics include too much Star Wars in an episode that should not have any Star Wars, the tenants of a Christopher Nolan film, a Harrison Ford and Blade runner drop (what a su...

Listen to us on Apple Podcast or Stitcher ! Send us a message ! Music by Mike. Check out his Soundcloud . Gabe and Matt hope the years have fermented Lawless into some shiny and chrome moonshine. Topics include Lore (with a capital "L"), a thorough analysis of the business-side of textbook publishing, essay writing theory, the "cinematic stylings" of one Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, story struc...

Gabe and Matt throw Peter Jackson's first film Bad Taste under the wheels. Topics include Michael J. Fox's post-film career, super hero movies in the good old days, Michael Caine is an amazing actor, the good and bad of docuseries and documentary filmmaking, Maori slang, New Zealand Pride,  the mystique of low budget special effects, Peter Jackson's obsession with goofy gore, how bad Goldfing...

Matt and Gabe travel deep into Billy Wilder's Apartment. Topics include Tom Hardy once again being the greatest actor of a generation, a Michael Shannon drop, Gabe hates Masterpiece Theater, roaring Christmas parties of the 1950's, cameo-fest movies of the '90's, where the Golden Age of Hollywood ranks upon the pantheon of greatest movies, a Harrison Ford reference, Paul Thomas Anderson talk, Hitc...

Matt and Gabe throw Hideo Kojima's latest passion project Death Stranding under the wheels. Topics covered include a look into Steven Soderberg as a filmmaker, Genndy Tartakovsky's career, an alternate Under the Wheels perspective on the production side of Adam Sandler's movies, a Hideo Kojima semi-career overview, video game design philosophy, our respective issues with God of War, love for Borde...

Matt and Gabe discuss the relative merits of Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey - the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn (#harleyquinn). In the interim, we wonder why Ewan McGregor is in this movie, what a potentially good Obi Wan movie might look like (spoilers: it's definitely not the one that Disney wants to green light), why they would make Black Canary Black, how to balance tonal issues in a m...

Gabe and Matt attempt to talk about Danny Boyle's Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender et al (and not the Ashton Kutcher "Jobs" movie) while also digressing into talk of James Bond and budgets and looking ahead to an uncertain, nostalgia-infused future with a lack of futurists. Discussion also includes talk of the Academy Award and excitement over Alex Garland's new television ser...

In today's episode, Gabe and Matt go toe to toe in their predictions for the Academy Awards. Later, they revolutionize Top 10 Movies of the Decade by having two completely different list theories. Somehow Jean Luc Godard is mentioned in passing. Twice. Time Codes: #10: 1:30:25 #09: 1:37:55 #08: 1:47:42 #07: 2:03:18 #06: 2:12:58 #05: 2:22:22 #04: 2:36:15 #03: 2:44:30 #02: 2:47:52 #01: 2:55:47 Brows...

Gabe and Matt discuss their respective top-ten of 2019. Time markers for each place: 10: 0:32:39 09: 0:54:00 08: 1:10:21 07: 1:28:00 06: 1:31:43 05: 1:42:02 04: 1:44:51 03: 1:57:23 02: 2:07:44 Honorable Mention: 2:19:04 01: 2:26:26

Matt and Gabe discuss the relative merits of The Irishman and Knives Out. Topics include if Robert De Niro and Al Pachino are able to act like 20 year olds, how good the de-aging of the faces are (or are not), Scorsese and his obsession with long movies, Daniel Craig - Foghorn Legham, Rian Johnson - subverter of everything - kinda, cartoon characters in mystery movies, lots of Gangs of New York st...

Matt, Gabe, and special guest Mike discuss the new movie Le Mans 66 starring that one guy who is an asshole and that other guy who yells a lot and chews scenery. They follow this up with a discussion of the merits of James Mangold as a filmmaker. Special Thanks to Mike for the new music!

Matt and Gabe discuss the newest "Star Wars" "Film".

Gabe and Matt talk about one of the greatest movies ever made and rereleased in four different versions. They also talk about the creator of the movie and some other guy who did a movie that takes place in the 80's version of the future and finish by theorizing how the world of Blade Runner would look now (hint: a lot of fruit and mice).