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We’ve come to the end of Nolan Week, folks. The Academy Awards are nigh and we’re here to offer the last word on the soon-to-be-Oscar-annointed OPPENHEIMER. Join Matt and SPECIAL GUEST BRIAN BOARINI (!) for a three-hour tour of a quarter-century filmography. It’s time, folks. It’s Nolan time. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RS...

It’s TENET-talkdown time, team. We chat. We disagree. We rank. Sound good? Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS Donate: Thanks! Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Sound good? We chat. We disagree. We rank. It’s TENET-talkdown time, team.

It’s time to talk temporality, team. - INCEPTION (2010) - INTERSTELLAR (2014) - DUNKIRK (2017) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

With Nolan’s vision of Gotham City in our rearview, we’re now flashing back to the beginning of the auteur’s cinematic journey. We’ll scrutinize his dexterity with the daylight noir, his interest in self-victimizing sleuths, and his fascination with prestidigitation. - FOLLOWING (1998) - MEMENTO (2000) - INSOMNIA (2002) - THE PRESTIGE (2006) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: A...

You know them, you’ve seen them, and you certainly have opinions about them. Join us as we revisit three of the most successful, influential, and subversively political films of the 21st century- courtesy of a man who insisted that he had absolutely no political agenda in mind when he made them. We’ll [attempt to] get to the bottom of this thematic paradox… - BATMAN BEGINS (2005) - THE DARK KNIGHT...

As we traverse the last few miles in the marathon that will end at the 96th Academy Awards, it has become clear that “foregone conclusion” is the proper term to describe this year’s Best Director race. We here at WE LIKE MOVIES could not be happier with this inevitability as we look forward to no longer living in a world in which Christopher Nolan has zero Oscars. In honor of the occasion, we have...

It’s Bond time again. We’re podcasting about it. Need we say more?

On this week’s episode, we’re joined by special guest BRIAN BOARINI for a discussion about Steven Soderbergh’s undervalued and under-discussed 2000 masterpiece, TRAFFIC, on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

Greetings, WLM faithful! We return to you now, after an extended, fall hiatus, with a State-of-the-Cinematic-Union-style discussion pod, followed by a thorough review of David Fincher’s decades-in-the-making, pseudo-historical biopic Mank. We’re excited to be back, have a backlog of hot takes, and promise to never stay away so long again. If you’re playing the WLM drinking game, today’s buzzword i...

“Eureka! I’ve found it!” Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

Welcome to the inaugural episode of our new podcast series “The Quintessentials”! Here we will be identifying and excavating a sub canon of important films that, for whatever reason, have been lost to time or overshadowed by their more popular or successful counterparts in a a chosen filmmaker’s oeuvre. These are the b-sides, the rarities, the deep dive picks… And while they’re almost never the mo...

“Y'all take it easy now. This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville! They can't do this to us here in Nashville!” Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

“Calling all nations. This is Rufus T. Firefly coming to you through the courtesy of the enemy. We're in a mess folks, we're in a mess. Rush to Freedonia! Three men and one woman are trapped in a building! Send help at once! If you can't send help, send two more women!” Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

We’re wrapping up our series on the career of one, John McTiernan, with a bang. Even if you haven’t seen or don’t care about the man’s relatively inauspicious, forgotten, “late period” films, consider joining us for an episode in which we reckon with some unexpected revelations and speculate about the potential for McT’s third act… We’re referring to this third age as the “Spiral into Self-Inflict...

“There's always a girl in the picture. What's the matter, don't you go to the movies?”

At long last we return to continue our journey through the career of one, John McTiernan. We’re referring to this second age as his struggle from the “Jungle to the Upper East Side”. -MEDICINE MAN (1992) -LAST ACTION HERO (1993) -DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995) -THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) (special thanks to Mr. Beau Marks — a longtime friend and collaborator of John McTiernan — for consulting...

We’re going back to ‘99 ONE MORE TIME to organize our thoughts about the inaugural “retrospectating” series, the cosmic significance of the year in question, and whether or not decade-cappers consistently produce the best cinematic output. And now we play the waiting game… Let’s all agree to meet back here in 2029 to take another look at that red letter year on the occasion of its 30th birthday… T...

We’re back from the winter hiatus just in time to submit our official Oscar predictions and lock in the choices that will determine the winner of our yearly WLM wager. Join us as we break down all 24 categories, get foolishly optimistic about PARASITE’s chance to make history on Oscar night, and even outline a few additions and subtractions we’d love to see implemented with respect to the future s...

It’s our annual ode to opinions. We do it every year. We love it. What more do you need to know? Listen in and leave comments. We value YOUR opinion. We treasure your friendship! 2019, we hardly knew ye…. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify / Overcast / RSS

So here we are… We’ve finally come to the end of our year-long Retrospectating 1999 series and we’re bringing this thing in for a landing with the help of special guest Dan Kelly. He joins us for a bonus episode to celebrate Oliver Stone’s misunderstood masterpiece ANY GIVEN SUNDAY on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. It’s a fun one to end the series on, even if concluding this feature is quit...

As we near the end of our Retrospectating 1999 series we’ve come to a long-awaited double-header: Anthony Minghella’s THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and Paul Thomas Anderson’s MAGNOLIA. These films have very little in common besides the fact that they both feature the most important cinematic Phillips of 1999 (Seymour Hoffman and Baker Hall) and both premiered in late December of that year. But on this w...

What a long, strange trip it’s been. It took us nearly a decade to get there but we’re extremely excited to announce that we’ve officially made it to 300 episodes on the We Like Movies Podcast feed! In honor of the occasion we’ve invited back the ten beautiful individuals who have guested on the podcast over the years to share their thoughts on the greatest films of the last decade. Since we start...

20 years ago this month, director Michael Mann released his sixth theatrical feature to widespread critical acclaim in spite of the film’s relative inability to find an audience. Mann received his first (and thus far, only) best director Oscar nomination for the THE INSIDER and despite the fact that the film rarely gets mentioned with the same tone of reverence as HEAT or even the divisive but oft...

We’re a couple weeks past the official 20th anniversary of David Fincher’s seminal masterwork about displaced and misplaced Gen X machismo. But it’s only given us that much more time to further reflect on a film that has aged in wild, troubling, and unexpected ways that we could not have predicted back in October of 1999. Join us as we revisit and reflect-upon “Jack’s wasted life” in our long-awai...

We keep our recent streak of passionate but level-headed disagreement rolling with a spirited discussion about Todd Phillips’s JOKER- a film that is either a dangerous and controversial call to violent action or merely a dark and disposable comic book novelty. Or maybe it’s both. Or maybe it’s neither! Give it some thought, give us a listen, and don’t forget to sound off in the comments section. V...