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Episode 110: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Featuring: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The Stepford Wives (1975); Boyz in da Hood (1991); The Stepford Wives (2004); Team America: World Police (2004); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)   WR&P talked about the American dream… but what about the American nightmare? Ryan and Kevin discuss what lurks on the opposite side of America’s greatest ideals, what...

Episode 109: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Featuring: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946); Rocky (1976); Top Gun (1986); Field of Dreams (1989); Minari (2020)   Can the American Dream be distilled into cinematic form? Ryan and Kevin discuss this and five movies that might come close. Happy 250th, America!

Episode 108: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Kevin and Ryan intro their brand new series for WR&P, America 25 for 250.

Episode 107: LESSONS IN FILM MOVEMENTS   Featuring: Farewells (1958); Ashes and Diamonds (1958); Mother Joan of the Angels (1961); Passenger (1963)   We go back to 1950’s / 60’s Poland to check out one of the legendary film movements, the Polish Film School. Poland was creating its new national identity after its brutalization during World War 2 and cinema played an important part in that national...

Episode 106: CINEMA SINGLES   Featuring: Capote (2005)   Ryan and Kevin talk biopics with Bennett Miller’s Capote (2005). Where is the line between fiction and non-fiction? And what is the filmmaker’s responsibility to telling an accurate and true “true story?” Ryan and Kevin hash it out!

Episode 105: WR&P WRITER’S ROOM   Ryan and Chris pitch new ideas for Disney (they are just out of frame) so they can make their next billion-dollar movie. And what better way to mine IP than to go straight to the source: Disneyland.

Episode 104: GUEST STARRING JOSH PARK   Featuring: A Trip to the Moon (1902); Daisies (1966); Medicine for Melancholy (2008); Poor Things (2023); Mary Kwon Mary Kwon (????)   Josh Park is back to once again dive deep into the form of cinema itself and look at why filmmakers choose black and white or color (or both). We also discuss Josh’s newest film, Mary Kwon Mary Kwon. Follow their instagram fo...

Episode 103: POLARIZING FILMS   Featuring: I Saw the TV Glow (2024)   Ryan and Kevin dive into the nostalgic horror extravaganza that is I Saw the TV Glow (2024). An unofficial part 2 to our previous polarizing film episode for Promising Young Woman (2020).

Episode 102: POLARIZING FILMS   Featuring: Promising Young Woman (2020)   Ryan and Kevin look at the good and the bad of Emerald Fennell’s take on the rape-revenge thriller.

Episode 101: DOUBLE FEATURE   Featuring: The Great Gatsby (1974); The Great Gatsby (2013)   The great American classic The Great Gatsby has been adapted into a slew of different films, and we chose the only two you probably have heard of… Both the ’74 and ’13 The Great Gatsby films bring unique takes to this story, and we are diving in to see what parts work, and don’t.

Episode 100: LETTERBOXD TOP 250 SHUFFLE   Featuring: Ikiru (1952); Witness for the Prosecution (1957); Cinema Paradiso (1988); The Hunt (2012)   Folks, it’s happened. The pod has made it to episode 100 and what a journey it has been.  We have watched hundreds of films, made thousands of connections, and even cried on occasion. The next 100 will be legendary! And with that, we also bring an end to...

Episode 099: WR&P WRITER’S ROOM   Happy (almost) Star Wars Day! Ryan and Chris go to the edge of the galaxy to bring you the next blockbuster Star Wars trilogy. Dave Filoni - the ball's in your court now.

Episode 098: CINEMA SINGLES   Featuring: WALL·E (2008)   Kevin and Ryan delve into their second Pixar film of the podcast to discuss where it sits in the grand scheme of Pixar’s filmography, what happens when a large studio consumes a smaller one, and how Charlie Chaplin and WALL·E aren’t too dissimilar. Let’s fly!

Episode 097: DOUBLE FEATURE   Featuring: Dream Scenario (2023); The Drama (2026)   Kristoffer Borgli has made a splash, not only with these two very intriguing films, but also with past comments in regard to age-gap relationships (in this case 27 and 16 in Norway, which is technically legal but socially taboo). Naturally the conversations in this episode revolve around what it means to, or whether...

Episode 096: LESSONS IN FILM GENRE   Featuring: The Terminator (1984); A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); I, Robot (2004); The AI Doc (2026)   What started as a viewing of The AI Doc (2026), and a couple of beers, quickly spun out into a larger conversation on artificial intelligence in movies. But not the tools! Instead we look into the material and ideas. How do these movies hold up to the rea...

Episode 095: CINEMA SINGLES   Featuring: Happy Together (1997)   Toxic relationships aren’t so bad when they look this good! Kevin and Ryan do their first dive into Wong Kar-wai’s filmography and experience the awesome power of Hong Kong cinema.

Episode 094: NEW RELEASES   Featuring: Project Hail Mary (2026)   What happens when both Kevin and Ryan see the same movie on opening weekend? We make an episode about it! This time it is the new space sci-fi film by Lord and Miller, brought to you by the greatest corporation - AMAZON. How does it hold up in the current sci-fi landscape and why did someone fall asleep in Kevin’s packed movie theat...

Episode 093: CINEMA SINGLES   Featuring: Closer (2004)   From play to screen, Mike Nichols is the king of the adaptation. But where does Closer (2004) land in his filmography? And we ask the dreaded question that has never been asked on this pod before: Which character would you date?

Episode 092: FILM MOVEMENTS   Featuring: Totally F***ed Up (1993); Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013); Cleaners (2019); Little Women (2019)   It’s time to get meta! WR&P finally gets into metarealism, one of Kevin’s favorite topics of all-time. What started as a conversation on atemporal cinema turns into a bigger conversation on what metarealism is and how each of these films fits into the m...

Episode 091: WRITER’S ROOM   Mmmm, that’s good! Ryan and Chris lock themselves in the grocery store to come up with FOUR brand-new food mascot movies. It’s time to gather up some new IP, and create the next major mouth-watering film.

Episode 090: DOUBLE FEATURE   Start your engines! WR&P is driving right into the mind of Stephen King to discuss the John Carpenter adaptation Christine (1983) and King’s directorial debut (and final?) film Maximum Overdrive (1986). GAS IT!

Episode 089: BAY AREA FLICKS   We dive deep into Bay Area B-movie horror and end up in the toxic sludge of Milpitas! And you won’t believe what we find! First-time filmmakers! Stop-motion! Day-for-night-for-day! It’s something that must be seen to be believed.

Episode 088: RYAN & FRIENDS   Ryan and his old friend Joe check out the new film climbing the charts, Iron Lung (2026)! Made by the YouTuber Markiplier, does it have the sauce to be an actual film? Or is it just another studio cash grab? The answer is actually quite simple, but you still gotta listen in!

Episode 087: CINEMA SINGLES   What is a podcast? Is it just a sequence of numbers, letters ,and glyphs scrolling infinitely through space and time only to be deciphered by the machine overlords of the distant future, after humanity’s grand enslavement? Or is it just Ryan and Kevin talking about The Matrix (1999)? Good question!

Episode 086: CINEMA SINGLES   Ryan and Kevin sit down to talk about A SINGLE MOVIE. This time they set their sites on a PTA classic, The Master (2012). Following a few years after There Will Be Blood (2007), PTA came out swinging once again with his take on post-war masculinity and the magnetism of desire. The desire to belong and the desire to dominate. This film is a doozy! Come and join us. But...