The Film Club

This week at The Film Club we’re kicking off our Guillermo Del Toro series with his first feature film, Cronos! The film follows an elderly antique dealer who comes across an ancient device that accidentally grants him eternal life by turning him into a vampire. Join us as we dive into the world of Cronos.

Welcome back Film Club! We’re starting off our 2026 season with a new release that’s dropping in theaters today, Wuthering Heights! Join us as we discuss this new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel and our red carpet experience at the world premiere for the film!

This week at The Film Club we’re talking about our Year in Review! Join us as we discuss our favorite episodes of the year, our wonderful guests that joined us, events we went to this year, and so much more. Thank you all for listening to us this year and we can’t wait to talk about movies with you all next year! Happy New Year!

This week at The Film Club we’re talking about our Christmas episode that you voted for on instagram, we’re talking about Mary Shelley! Join us as we deep dive into this biopic that shows the progression of time where a teenage Mary meets the love of her life and how she birthed one of the greatest stories ever told.

This week at The Film Club we’re concluding our Psycho Franchise series with the final installment, Psycho 4: The Beginning! Norman takes us back to the beginning to meet mother and shows us how he went mad. Join us as we dive into the world of Psycho 4!

This week at The Film Club we’re back talking about the Psycho franchise and today we’re talking Psycho 3! We’re also joined by friend of the podcast Alex! Join us as we dive into the world of Psycho 3.

This week at The Film Club we’re bringing back a special series, Film Club at the Movies! And in this episode we’re talking about Guillermo Del Torro’s latest film: Frankenstein! Join us as we dive into the world of Frankenstein (2025). If you want to see this film you can watch it exclusively on Netflix or in select theaters.

This week at The Film Club we’re back with the Psycho franchise and we’re talking about Psycho 2! We have a guest this week friend of the podcast Brandon and he helps us dissect potentially one of the best film sequels. Join us as we dive into the world of Psycho 2.

Welcome back Film Club! We’re back and we brought our friends with us Jack and Kelsie! We’re also back with a franchise, The Psycho Franchise. And we’re starting with the classic, the legendary, the groundbreaking, the goat: Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho (1960)! Join us as we dive into the world of Psycho………don’t worry we all go a little mad sometimes.

This week at The Film Club we conclude our Jawsome Summer with the film that closed the Jaws franchise, Jaws the Revenge! The film follows Ellen Brody who is dealing with the passing of her husband Chief Brody of the Amity Police Department. Ellen and Chief Brody’s youngest son Sean has followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the Amity Police Department. Not too long before Christmas Sean is called out to go into the water to help remove a piece of drift wood that has become stuck on a floating buoy and while Sean fights to free the piece of driftwood he’s attacked by a great white shark! With no one able to hear Sean he succumbs to the shark’s attack and Ellen must learn to now live without her husband and son as well as know that the shark has a vendetta and is out for her family. Join us as dive into the world of Jaws The Revenge. 🦈

This week at The Film Club we’re continuing our Jawsome Summer with the third installment of the Jaws Franchise, Jaws 3D! Just when you thought it was safe to go to newly opened SeaWorld hundreds of miles away from Amity Island, Bruce the third is back and is ready to torment the Brody Brothers in 3D! Join us and friend of the podcast Alex as we dive into the world of Jaws 3D! 🦈

This week at The Film Club we’re continuing our Jawsome Summer with the sequel to the original film, we’re talking about Jaws 2! Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water Bruce Jr is back and is ready for summer in Amity. This week we’re joined by friend of the podcast Brandon, who refuses to watch the original film and is ready to give his hot takes on the sequel! Join us as we dive into the world of Jaws 2. 🦈

This summer at The Film Club we’re gonna need a bigger podcast because we’re talking about the Jaws franchise! We’re kicking off our Jawsome Summer Series with the film that started the summer blockbuster, the film that kept people out of the water, the film that’s celebrating its 50th anniversary, and not to mention it’s one of the greatest films ever made….we’re talking about Jaws! We’ll also be joined with friends of the podcast Jack and Kelsie on this 50th anniversary episode! Join us as we dive into the masterpiece that is Jaws 🦈

This week at The Film Club we’re concluding our AniMay month with friend of the podcast Brandon and he brings our first OVA series on the podcast, Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal! The series follows a young boy named Shinta who’s with a traveling group that ends up being slaughtered by a bandit raid. Shinta is the sole survivor of this attack and after he buries all of the dead he is rescued and taken as an apprentice to swordsman Hiko Seiijuro (a legendary master of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu style). Hiko renames Shinta as “Kenshin” a name more fitting for a swordsman. Years of training later Kenshin leaves his master so he can join the revolution to protect the weak. Kenshin enlists with Kiheitai as an assassin. Kenshin gains notoriety as a ghost assassin and during a mission he gets a cut on his face from a man he kills and it begins a chain reaction that leads Kenshin to love and heartbreak. Join us as we dive into the world of Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal.

This week at The Film Club we’re talking about the latest Studio Ghibli film, The Boy and the Heron! The film follows a twelve year old boy named Mahito who has tragically lost his mother in a hospital fire. Mahito’s life abruptly changes again when his father remarries and is expecting a baby with his new wife, resulting in moving away from their home in Tokyo. Mahito and his father Shoichi travel to the rural estate of their new home to reunite with his new wife Natsuko, she is the sister of his late wife. Mahito is not happy about his new life but is greeted immediately by a peculiar Heron and soon this Heron begins to speak to Mahito about reuniting him with his late mother. Join us as we dive into the world of The Boy and the Heron.

This week at The Film Club we’re kicking off the month of May with a returning theme, AniMAY! And to start the month we’re talking about the Satoshi Kon film, Millennium Actress! The film follows a documentary crew as they search for a renowned former actress named Chiyoko Fujiwara who has become a recluse after abruptly retiring many years ago. On the morning of a powerful earthquake the documentary crew stumbles upon the secluded home of the actress and she graciously allows them into her home to interview her while discussing her past. The interviewer Genya presents Chiyoko with a gift at the beginning of their interview, an old brass key on a string. Chiyoko is taken a back at the sight of this key, a key to life’s most important thing. And with this key Chiyoko takes the documentary crew on an adventure through the past weaving her life with the films she starred in. Join us as we dive into the world of Millennium Actress.

This week at The Film Club we’re concluding our Noir month with one of the greatest film noir films of all time, Chinatown! The film follows Private Investigator Jake “J.J.” Gittes who’s been hired to investigate Hollis Mulwray the Chief Engineer of the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles. Mulwray’s wife Evelyn seeks Jake’s services because she suspects her husband is having an affair and Jake agrees to help her. Jake begins to trail Mulwray and learns he in fact is having an affair, when Jake returns to his office he’s greeted by a woman he’s never seen before and is dumbfounded when he learns this is the real wife of Hollis Mulwray. Mrs Mulwray is furious that Jake has been trailing her husband and threatens to sue Jake. A confused Jake is trying to piece things together and when he does he realizes he’s being set up and goes to the Mulwray residence to try to explain what’s going on. Mrs Mulwray immediately drops the lawsuit against Jake after he explains that this is a setup, leaving him more confused he knows now that there is more to this story and there is when it’s later discovered that Hollis Mulwray has been found dead and it’s a homicide. Join us as we dive into the world of Chinatown.

This week at The Film Club we’re talking about, Hollywood Story! The film follows Larry O’Brien who is a New York City theatrical producer, his on stage success has gained him the opportunity to fly out to Hollywood to make his first motion picture. His college friend now talent agent Mitch Davis has rented Larry a new house and a movie studio for his upcoming film. When Larry and Mitch reunite at the airport Larry is eager to see the new studio that he will call home and Larry has no idea about the history that this studio holds. When the men arrive to the studio they’re greeted by an old security guard who gives them a brief history of the studio and at the end of the tour they end up in a Directors bungalow that has been preserved as a time capsule but not for the best of reasons. The director that owned that bungalow was murdered in it and decades later the case has not been solved. Larry is inspired by this story and wants to turn it into a film while solve the case at the same time. Join us as we dive into the world of Hollywood Story.

This week at The Film Club we’re kicking off April with a new theme: Film Noir! And this week we’re talking about one of the greatest film noir movies ever, The Maltese Falcon! The film follows private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer who have an investigating agency in San Francisco. One day the investigators are approached by a new client named Ruth Wonderly who is seeking their help to find her sister who ran away from her home in New York to go to San Francisco with a man named Floyd Thursby. Miles agrees to take on the case but unbeknownst to him later that evening he ends up murdered. The police call Sam to let him know his partner has been killed and immediately he’s a person of interest. Sam jumps into action to investigate Miles murder so that the police won’t falsely arrest him. Sam meets with Ruth to get her side of the story since Miles was helping her and that’s when she confesses her name isn’t Ruth it’s Brigid O’Shaughnessy and Floyd Thursby is her partner who she believes has taken advantage of her by stealing a bird like treasure and also she believes he killed Miles Archer. Join us as we dive into the world of The Maltese Falcon.

This week at The Film Club we are concluding our Musical March with one of the most iconic musicals of all time, The Phantom of the Opera! This is also a guest episode featuring Phantom phan and aficionado of everything phantom of the opera our sister in law Cielo and brother of the podcast Randy! The film takes place in 1870 Paris, France at an Opera house called Palais Garnier. As the opera house prepares for their new opera “Hannibal” the theater company is introduced to their new managers/ owners of the opera house Richard Firmin and Gilles Andre. While the new managers are being introduced to their new employees they in return announce their newest patron to the opera Viscount Raoul De Chagny, Raoul immediately catches the attention of a chorus girl named Christine Daae who was his childhood sweetheart and hadn’t seen him since they were both children. Raoul doesn’t notice Christine and leaves the opera house, it’s not long after that another man makes himself known it’s the “Opera Ghost”. This ghost lives in the catacombs beneath the opera house and wants the managers to know that they work for him and they must follow his demands. What people don’t know is the opera ghost is Christine’s music teacher and has been training her for years, this training pays off when leading soprano Carlotta Giudicelli abruptly quits because she’s grown tired of the ghosts antics. The new managers are scrambling to replace Carlotta hours before the opera is set to open when ballet mistress Madame Giry suggests Christine audition for the role, the managers are incredulous but are stunned when Christine begins to sing. Christine’s voice enchants the opera guests later that evening at the performance, sparks Raoul’s memory of his long lost sweetheart, and brings pride to her teacher the opera ghost. Thus beginning an epic love triangle. Join us as we dive into the world of The Phantom of the Opera.