For Episode 088 of Considering the Cinema, the 14th installment of The Weekly Watchlist, your hosts Jason Pyles, Mack Robins, and Dave Becker broke their own rules for this format in order to bring you a special about documentaries! Although Mack has a deep love and appreciation of all film genres, Dave and Jason took it upon themselves to recommend some excellent documentaries to Mack in hopes of enriching and enhancing Mack’s appreciation for documentary films! Will they succeed? Join us to find out! Thanks for listening!

Note: This episode was recorded on December 17, 2024, and it released on August 2, 2025!

THE WEEKLY WATCHLIST is the type of episode where we simply talk about whatever we’ve been watching lately from our own, personal watchlists. Here’s how it works: Jay, Mack and Dave have zero “movie-watching homework.” We are completely free each week to watch whatever we want from any era, year, genre, country, etc! We can finally go through our own personal watchlists and catch up with the films we’ve been meaning to see. So, every week will be vastly different. Let us know what you think of this format.

Jay of the Dead also hosts a WEEKLY HORROR MOVIE PODCAST with Mister Watson at Horror Movie Weekly.com. And of course, every Horror fan should check out Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies, The Gold Standard of Horror Movie Podcasts.

Thanks for listening to Considering the Cinema Podcast and Considering Horror Cinema, The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Movie Podcasting… Don’t forget: You can email Jay, Mack and even Dr. Shock at ConsideringTheCinema@gmail.com or post a comment in the show notes for this episode.

SHOW NOTES: Considering the Cinema Ep. 088: The Weekly Watchlist

[ 00:00:01 ] – Introduction

– The reason CTC is the Dr. Jekyll AND Mr. Hyde of Movie Podcasting

– Details about this special, documentary-themed episode and how it came to be

– Rest assured, Mack appreciates documentaries

– Discussion of the nature of documentaries

[ 00:12:18 ] – Mack’s Top 3 All-Time Favorite Documentaries:

Apollo 11 (2019)

Mack = 100 out of 100 ( Buy it! )

Special Witnesses of Christ (2000)

Mack = 100 out of 100 ( Buy it! )

– Mack’s 24-hour movies challenge

The White Stripes Under the Great White Northern Lights (2009)

Mack = 99 out of 100 ( Buy it! )

– The CTC hosts recommend the “Up” Documentary Series

[ 00:24:00 ] – Jason’s 3 Documentaries That Mack Might Not Have Seen (and Would Love):

American Movie (1999)

Jason = 8.5 ( Buy it! )

Burden of Dreams (1982)

Jason = 10 ( A Must-See / Buy it! )

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

Jason = 10 ( Buy it! )

BONUS Movie! – Doc and Jay recommend Lost in La Mancha (2002)

[ 00:40:19 ] – Dave’s 3 Documentaries That Mack Might Not Have Seen (and Would Love):

Grizzly Man (2005)

Dave = 10 ( Buy it! )

Jason = 10 ( Buy it! )

General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974)

Dave = 9 ( Buy it! )

Grey Gardens (1975)

Dave = 10 ( Buy it! )

BONUS Documentary Recommendations:

Jason’s Bonuses:

The Imposter (2012)

Touching the Void (2003)

Dave’s Bonuses:

Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)

Woodstock (1970)

Gates of Heaven (1978)

Wrap-Up

Links for this episode:

Catch up with Mack here:

– Horror podcast: Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies

— IMDb.com Page: Mack Robins

Catch up with Dr. Shock here:

– Horror podcast: Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies

— Blog: DVD Infatuation.com

— Podcast: The DVD Infatuation Podcast

— Horror podcast: Land of the Creeps

— Podcast: The Illustrated Fan

— Movie Podcast Weekly has returned for MONTHLY releases

— Listen to Jay of the Dead’s Horror Movie Weekly with Mister Watson every Sunday!

Jay recommends Nate Johnivan’s music:

— Spotify Playlist

— Quarantine Dream iii

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