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If it's true that Love Lies Bleeding, then we're up on our feet in praise of Rose Glass' sophomore film! K Stew and Katie O Brien give Ed Harris a mulligan on Pain and Gain and remind us of The Coens early films. You can catch our episodes early and ad free over on Nebula! Sign up with the link below. It really helps out the pod so we thank you in …
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The Oscars may be the most coveted award in filmmaking, but the TOPAM Top 10 Year in Review of the Reviews of the Year is probably a close second. Listen in as we hand out imaginary gold stars to the best films of 2023! Award us gold stars via email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or on Twitter(X) and Instagram. We're happy just to be nominated! You …
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Welcome back to Arrakis where the sand is spicy and our crysknives chip and shatter. We talk without rhythm and are joined by Trace Dominiguez to help us burrow beneath the surface of Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part 2. Have your mentat send us an email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or use the spicing guild to find us on Twitter(X) or Instagram You can…
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Join us to feed animals in the zoo, then later, a movie too! Lucky for us Wim Wenders offers some relief with his toilet odyssey "Perfect Days" starring Cannes winner Kōji Yakusho. Can a film offer solace against modern life and will we sit in silence while contemplating Komerebi? Clean out your email and send a message to onlymoviepodcast@gmail.co…
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Patrick Willems and Matt were in the Amazon without Shahir when we were researching Madame Web before she took a sip of a cool refreshing Pepsi Cola TM! And if that doesn't encapsulate the near two hours these OG Madame Web-Heads talk comic book lore, Dakota Johnson's epic press tour, speculation of how this film got planned/made/changed, and the f…
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Are we truth tellers or pafological liars in our discussion of Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction? The last film in our round up of Best Picture nominees proves to be the slipperiest yet, melding a touching family drama with a searing satire on race in American literature. Write us an insightful essay on the best picture race at onlymoviepodcast@gma…
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It's Superbowl Sunday, but somehow we don't think Jonathan Glazer's adaptation of Martin Amis' "The Zone of Interest" makes any references to the end zone. Join us and special guest Will Tempfer as we reach peak virtual insanity discussing the horrifying details of complicity in the process of the holocaust. Please reach out to us via email at only…
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Shh... Statler (Shahir) and Waldorf (Matt) are about to spout some bad orchestra jokes while admitting they know very little about Leonard Bernstein. Ignorance has never stopped them before, so listen in as they discuss Bradley Cooper's Academy Award nominated "Maestro" You can conduct an email to us at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or compose your be…
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Join our legal autopsy of Justine Triet's Oscar nominated and Cannes Palm D'or winning "Anatomy of a Fall" Will Gravity emerge victorious or does marriage require extra aspirin? Serve us legal summons at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or cross examine us on Twitter (X) or Instagram As always, you can catch our episodes early and ad free over on Nebula.…
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Jamie Walsh returns to take over as our new TOPAM president and guides us down the Andes as we discuss J A Bayona's adaptation of Pablo Vierci's Society of the Snow. How does this new film stack up against Frank Marshall's 1993 rendition of the miracle in the Andes, and will we walk away giving each other permission to use our bodies for anthropoph…
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We’re leaping from the top rope into the depths of the Von Erich legacy and there’s nobody better than Andria Parides to help us go beyond the mat on Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw” This episode deals with the topic of suicide. If you are in crisis or know someone who is, please call 1-800-273-8255 or look for resources available to you at https://ww…
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We’re reanimating our Yargos Lanthimos debates with his new adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things! Listen in as our tiny brains grow and we discuss sex in cinema, perspective and agency. Carve up some time to email us at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com and watch us form new identities via instagram or Twitter (X) As always, you can catch our episode…
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We just watched Emereld Fennell’s “Saltburn” and we may need a bath! As far as social commentaries go, is this murder on the dancefloor or time to pretend? Say goodbye to 2023 by emailing us at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com and welcome us into 2024 via instagram or Twitter (X) As always, you can catch our episodes early and ad free over on Nebula. And…
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Zach Borden comes out of retirement to join us in the kingdoms of dreams and madness as we try to figure out how to decipher Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and The Heron. Happy holidays to you and yours! If you want to drop down our chimney send us advanced notice via email at onlymoviepofcast@gmail.com or send us Yuletide cheer via instagram or Twitter …
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If you multiplied all the 32 previous Japanese Toho Godzilla movies against the 5 Legendary American films, you’d still have to do some fancy math to come close to the surprise blockbuster event of the year, Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One. Playing as an unexpected double feature with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Yamazaki’s Godzilla retur…
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Who’s the boss in May December? Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman and Charles Melton all vie for the top spot in Todd Haynes sun soaked Netflix release streaming now. You can imitate our lisps us via email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or quietly judge us on Twitter and Instagram! As always, you can catch our episodes early and ad free over on Nebula…
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“Some new Napoleon might arise” wrote Lord Byron in 1809. Over 200 years later, Sir Ridley Scott brings back Le Petit Tondu with an American accent. We’re joined by author, historian and head writer for the YouTube channel Extra History Robert Rath to discuss the great emperor and Scott’s historical accuracy. Command our legions by emailing onlymov…
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Let's stick to the plan and catch up with David Fincher's Smiths obsessed "The Killer" We anticipate all your burning questions and ponder the existential crisis of a man seeking perfection in their job. You can hire us for your next hit by emailing onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or aim for us on Twitter or Instagram. As al…
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It's a marvelous day for a(nother) conversation about Marvel's The Marvels. Charting the rise and apparent fall of the once powerful corporate behemoth, we ask the question, can Marvel return to telling emotionally resonant stories, or have we crossed the rubicon into irreversible superhero fatigue? Suit up with us via email at onlymoviepodcast@gma…
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Bunk up with us as we hunker down for the holidays with Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers" Are you cozy enough or do you need an extra warm blanket to get in the mood for some candlepin bowling and boarding school hijinks. Hold over your emails to onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or send us Yuletide greetings on Twitter or Instagram. You can catch our epi…
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There’s something spooky about Nobuhiko Ôbayashi 1977 House and it’s not the bananas everywhere! Join us, Gorgeous, Melody, Fantasy, Sweet, Mac, Kung Fu and Auntie as we try to find Blanche in what Chuck Stephens calls “a modern masterpiece of le cinéma du WTF?!” Knock on our doors via email or play us a tune on Twitter or Instagram You can catch o…
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It’s always a great day when a new Martin Scorsese film drops, but we’re especially excited by this one because we’re joined by 1st Assistant and VFX editor to Thelma Schoonmaker (and returning guest) Red Charyszyn! The Osage “Reign of Terror” is a shameful chapter in American history and one that gets a retelling by Scorsese and Apple TV, but how …
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Celebrate our 450th episode with us as we catch up with two cinematic blindspots, Michael Mann's "Heat" and Claire Denis' "Beau Travail" and allow us to discuss toxic masculinity, terrifying heists and who is the real assistant to the regional manager. Thank you to everyone that emailed in their blind spots and to everyone that listens to the show!…
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It felt thematically correct to ask ChatGPT to write us a humorous AI inspired podcast blurb for Gareth Edwards "The Creator". Enjoy! "Join us as we navigate this technologically tantalizing tale, where artificial intelligence meets artificial hilarity. You'll laugh until your circuits sizzle, and your algorithms ache with joy as we explore the hil…
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Keeping the spirit of spookie season alive, Matt has to scare up a Co-Host to chat about the ghost with the most! Luckily VFX editor to the stars Red Charyszyn was dying to talk about Tim Burton's sophomore feature length effort Beetlejuice! But does this film still kill? Or does it simply languish in the Neitherrelm's waiting room because Michael …
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Just because there's not a lot spoken in Brian Duffield's "No One Will Save You", doesn't mean we won't have a full conversation about trauma horror, the greys or whether Steve the Alien is too gullible. You can invade our inbox by sending us an email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or using a tractor beam to take over our Twitter or Instagram page A…
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J. Law is back and watch out boys, she'll chew you up! No Hard Feelings if you missed Gene Stupnitsky's latest film in theaters. We're cozying up on the couch to discuss sex comedies and the unique appeal of Oscar winning superstars. You can offer us a Buick via email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or solicit us on Twitter or Instagram. As always yo…
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We don't know “How To Blow Up A Pipeline” but we enjoyed talking about the movie! Based on Andreas Malm’s 2021 nonfiction book, Daniel Goldhaber’s fictional adaptation raises a lot of questions around the ethics of narrative cinema, and forced us to reevaluate who the real heroes are in Oceans Eleven. You can remove our names from any online watchl…
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Climb the exquisite peaks of Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's "The Eight Mountains" and join us in a conversation about friendship, house building and sky funerals! This week's episode is all about best friends, so write us in and tell us about yours at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or friend us on Twitter or Instagram! See Privacy P…
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Hail to the Joe Scott (of "Answers With Joe" fame) for Co-Hosting this episode and showing Matt that the 1993 film "Dave" is a banger! So come take a body-doubled trip down memory lane with us, as we talk its playfulness, politics and the death of our innocence... AKA: "The Long-gone commercially viable mid-budget comedy". As always you can catch o…
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With Shahir lost at sea, special guest Princess Weekes takes co-host command with Matt to talk all about the Demeter's final voyage, the wonderful imbalance it brought to the movie-going experience and also no nerdy tangents about Dracula, Doctor Who, The Dark Universe, Ninja Turtles, Castlevania the games, Castlevania the Netflix series, Deep Spac…
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Matt and Shahir join Leo, Mikey, Raph, Donnie, Splinter and April to skateboard through the sewers of NYC in Jeff Rowe's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" Are the turtles still relevant and can this latest adventure make them more popular than Spiderman? You can tell us the secret of the ooze via email, or on Twitter and Instagram https…
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Let us in so we can talk to you about Danny and Michael Philippou's debut feature "Talk to Me". The film is sure to cause a rackaracka so join us as we cross sides, haunt each other and deep dive into the rules of teenage exorcisms. You can talk to us via email, twitter and instagram! https://go.nebula.tv/theonlypodcastaboutmovies See Privacy Polic…
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We are death and the broodier other half of Barbenheimer! Welcoming back Happy Sad Confused's Josh Horowitz, we discuss Christopher Nolan's twisty filmography, Robert Oppenheimer's complicated politics and join the campaign to get Josh the infamous Tom Cruise coconut cake. You can send us cake via email, twitter(x?) and instagram Don't forget, you …
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Barbenheimer is here! Choose the heels or Birkenstocks as we get all dolled up for our post fourth wave feminist textual analysis of Greta Gerwig's Barbie! You can send us your designs for film critic Barbie at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or check out how much Kenergy we're bringing to Twitter and Instagram See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr…
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Your mission should you choose to accept it is to sprint against Tom Cruise (aka Ethan Hunt) in Christopher McQuarrie's Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 Has Cruise saved Hollywood again or are we in an arms race against AI and two part movies? As always, send us a self destructing email to onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or put on your best mas…
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Does Indiana Jones and Dial of Destiny stand The Test of Time? Well special guests Alan and James help us wind back the clock to figure out if an archeologists adventures can become a treatise on aging or whether he belongs in a museum. Send us an ancient email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or discover a chalice of our opinions on Twitter or Instag…
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We’re posting this using our AOL account and typed it up on our last functioning “crackberry” so we can wave the Canadian flag for Matthew Johnson’s “BlackBerry” Join us in Waterloo where the vampires hang out as we dissect fact from fiction and pine for the days when dial up internet hogged the phone lines. Use your 56k modem to send us an email t…
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How much Wes Anderson could a Wes Anderson Wes if a Wes Anderson could Wes Anderson? Jump aboard the last train to San Fernando with us as we investigate our emotional responses to the quirky auteurs quirkiest film to date. Please send us correspondence via mordecai or email to onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or communicate your intricately type written…
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Grab a cup of coffee and sit down for an existential job interview as we ponder the nature of existence and the joy of riding bikes in Edson Oda's "Nine Days" It's been a while since we've taken a listener request, but since the film had appeared on so many "Best of 2021" lists and our friend Jacob asked so nicely, we decided it was time to venture…
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Grab a seat with a perfectly curated cup of coffee (courtesy of Trade Coffee!) and let's do this one last time... His name is Miles Morales and he is the one and only Spiderman... except for the thousands of others in Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson's "Across the Spiderverse" Does sequel fatigue set in during our swing back t…
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Matt and Shahir get a little personal as they consider the 7999 previous encounters that lead them to this episode and whether this is their Past Lives for their future marriage! Make a connection with us via email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or declare us your mortal enemies via Twitter or Instagram See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac…
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We're signing a deal with Steven Roberts to discuss Ben Affleck's "Air" and change the course of history! Is this Nike propaganda or a touching footnote in the history of footwear? Or both!? Lace up and send us an email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or dunk on us over on Twitter or Instagram! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali…
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We're living life 0.4 kilometers at a time because Shahir can't let go of the metric system. Joined by returning family Steven Roberts we drive down the highway of the Fast and Furious franchise and try to figure out if they're closest to a Dungeon's and Dragons campaign or a series of WWE storylines! Hit the accelerator on your emails and send the…
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Join us on a tour of New York City through the eyes of Inez (Teyana Taylor) and her son Terry (Josiah Cross) in AV Rockwells Sundance Award winning debut film “A Thousand and One” You can send us a letter to the editor via email to onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or hit us up on Twitter or Instagram! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and C…
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It's time for our final dance off with the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3! Is this a victory lap for James Gunn or an emotional treatise on animal cruelty? Listen in to our MCU mixtapes as we discuss all this and more! You can send us an email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or hit us up on Twitter and Instagram See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com…
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We're spilling all the tea on Nida Manzoor's "Polite Society" with returning guest Princess Weekes ! Does this genre bending film about two South Asian sisters battling each other and everyone around them deserve a longer theatrical run before being ushered out to make room for the house of the mouse? Go head to head against us via email at onlymov…
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Quicker than you can shout "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto", returning guest Patrick Willems rises to discuss Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise Strap in because this is an expansive conversation which covers Sam Raimi, The Departed, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Mission Impossible! As always you can summon us on the internet by uttering our catchphra…
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What exactly is Beau afraid of? Is it Mommy issues, unrealism or Matt and Shahir discussing Ari Aster's new movie? Embark on an epic journey of anxiety, horrific teenagers, and the most divisive film of 2023. You can keep us informed of your progress via email at onlymoviepodcast@gmail.com or run for the bodega at www.twitter.com/onlymoviepod See P…
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