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Jason and his friends talk about old and new movies
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Paul and Shawn are back to continue our look at the movies in the Alien and Predator franchise. This week we're stuck looking at two of the most infamous movies of their era, Aliens vs Predator and Aliens vs Predator: Requiem.Can the guys who found goodness in the Twilight films find things to like in this one? You might be surprised to learn the answer is actually yes! Tune in and see if you agree.
Eric and Jason have been discussing some complicated and depressing movies, so they felt like it was time to take a mental break and talk about two classics from Woody Allen, Purple Rose of Cairo and Zelig. Coming in the middle of perhaps Allen's richest and finest era, both movies take on ideas of identity, fiction versus reality, and fame in ways completely unique to Allen.In other words, they make for great conversation!
Michelle is back, which means it's time to talk Billy Wilder again. This time the pair discuss the films Wilder made with the luminous Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon. As it turns out, these films have more in common than just their lead actress and they're a perfect contrast thematically and emotionally for each other.As always, Michelle and Jason dig deep and have some wonderful insights.
Eric is back with some more fascinating recommendations among Japanese directors. This week the guys start their look at the films of Keisuke Kinoshita with a shared look at Twenty Four Eyes and The River Fuefuki. Both are intriguing, deeply heartfelt looks at the ravages of war and time on small Japanese societies. Both are worthy of deep discussion. And both stirred up real passions for both of the guys.
Paul and Shawn are back! And we're continuing our discussion of the Predator series with two of the best movies of the series, Prey and Killer of Killers. Will the guys all agree on a movie for a change? Will they look forward to, or dread, Predator: Badlands? Tune in to this fun show and find out!
Michelle is back to continue our look at the films directed by the great Billy Wilder. This time, we look at the film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and the film which should have won the award: the slightly less classic "problem drama" The Lost Weekend and the truly classic prototypical film noir Double Indemnity.Michelle and Jason both did their research on both films, which resulted in a fun and fascinating approach to the conversation, a conversation we hope you really enjoy.
It's finally happened: after watching all 31 films in the long career of the movie master Masahiro Shinoda, Jason and Eric have finally had a chance to get together and compare notes on the man, his filmography and where he stands in the pantheon of great directors. And the answer, after all this work is: yes. Yes, indeed, Masahiro Shinoda is a director unlike any other and a man who deserves to be considered one of the true greats.
Paul and Shawn are back to continue our exploration of the Predator franchise. This time, the not very well loved Predators and The Predator. You might say Richard Rodriguez and Shane Black didn't deliver great Predator movies, but we make the counterarguments here - Shawn especially thinks The Predator is really not too bad... join us and see if Shawn makes his case well...
Jason's been fascinated all over again by a rewatch of the HBO Max series Irma Vep, So Keith proposed to Jason they watch several other great Olivier Assayas films, including Personal Shopper, Summer Hours and Clouds of Sils Maria, each a more stunning work of comic art than the one that came before it. Give a listen to the guys rhapodize about some of the finest films of the millennium.
Shawn and Paul are back to continue our discussion of the best of 1990s action films. This time the guys discuss Predator and Predator 2. One is a true classic, the other is a strange oddball 90s action flick, full of contradictory ideas but which is ultimately kind of fascinating. Join the guys as they try to untangle all the threads on these wild and often awesome films.
Paul Moyer joins Jason to discuss two paranoid thrillers of the 1970s. The Parallax View and All the President's Men are dark looks at America's secret, terrible underbelly. Both directed by the great Alan J. Pakula in the early '70s, these films are just as spooky and compelling today as the day they were first made. Join Jason and Paul for an intriguing 50-minute, SPOILER FILLED look at these classic movies.
Michele is back again as she and Jason continue their journey into the films of the great Billy Wilder. This time they look at one of his greatest, most popular and most profound films, Sunset Boulevard (1950), and plumb so much of its hidden depth. Along with that, Michele and Jason take a look at a much deeper cut in Wilder's catalog: Fedora (1978), the shaggy-dog, slightly misbegotten approach to similar territory as Sunset. Fedora is a fascinating film for very different reasons than Sunset Boulevard, and in many ways helps appreciate the unique alchemy that helped make the earlier movie a classic and this one a flawed work.
Sometimes the least watched movies reveal the most information about a director. Such is the case with two of the final films by the great Masahiro Shinoda, Spy Sorge and Moonlight Serenade. Eric and Jason watch both these films and find them to be tremendously watchable and kind of brilliantly made. Listen in and get the argument for you to add these to your exploration of Japanese cinema.
Paul and Shawn are back to talk about cinema's best loved aliens, well, the Alien franchise. Join the guys for two hours of chat about whether Prometheus is deep or pretentious, about whether Covenant is a good film, and especially abouy how amazing Michael Fassbender is onscreen.
Blaize is back one more time to talk Paul Schrader with Jason. This time the guys go deep into their top 11 favorite films Schrader directed. There are some major disagreements here, which of course makes for great listening. Please let us know how you enjoy, and share your lists with us!
Blaize and Jason worked our wat through all the films directed by Paul Schrader. So to sum the effort up, we had to rate his films from worst to best. This week: part one of that rating. There's a few surprises and disagreements in here and we'd love to hear your opinions on these films too!
Shawn and Paul are back again to continue out look at the Aliens series of films, this time to look at Aliens3 and Aliens: Resurrection. Knowing what a fan the guys are of the movies, it's no surprise they have a lot of praise for these two films. But do they stand up to rewatch? And what do we think of the alien baby in Resurrection anyway?
Michelle is back for yet another fantastic discussion of films directed by the great Billy Wilder. This time she and Jason discuss two woefully underrated films in Wilder's auspicious filmography, Five Graves to Cairo and A Foreign Affair. The friends discuss the excellent way Wilder portrays gender, the depiction of history as it happens, why sometimes it's better to cast relative unknowns, and much, much more.
Paul and Shawn are back to start a new series, this time examining the Aliens franchise. And what better films to start with than two of the greatest science fiction films ever, Alien and Aliens. As usual the guys dig deep into the films for a sometimes wild and always freewheeling chat about some brilliant moments on the screen.
Fans often sleep on the late films of Hiroshi Teshigahara, the man who directed Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another. But, as guest Eric reminds us, Teshigahara's late films are equally as powerful. Rikyu and Basara: The Princess Goh represent a magnificent and unexpected late career peak from the master filmmaker. They are the kinds of masterful films one would expect from a Kurosawa and are startling to watch as delivered by a formalist like Teshigahara. Jason also especially liked the pseudo-documentary Summer Soldiers, a morally ambiguous story about Americans stationed in Japan during the Vietnam War. This obscure film crystallizes everything likes about this director: a constant quest for innovation, a drive for deep moral truths, and an exploration of the transience of ego and identity.Great films and a great discussion -- as always.
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