Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter Bible overtones, CGI babies, and Terrence Malick. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round! Today's guest is Senior Video Editor at BioWare and co-host of Beyond The Screenplay, Alex Calleros. Listen to our initial c…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter What does it mean for a movie to have integrity? It’s an interesting question because, before the conversation you are about to hear today, you likely have never heard that word used to describe a movie before. Maybe you've heard it used to describe characters in …

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter Acapella, documentaries, and Jaws: The Board Game. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round! Today's guest is storyteller and host of the Film Nuts Podcast, Taylor D. Adams. Listen to our initial conversation with Ta…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter How do we conquer our fear of the unknown? We’ve discussed a number of horror films on this show and, at the end of the day, almost all of their scariest elements come down to fear of the unknown. Cannibal families, demonic cults, seeing dead people, they’re all r…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter Mars Attacks!, Prometheus, and...Mouse Hunt?? All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round! Today's guest is podcaster and educator, Marlin Williford. Listen to our initial conversation with Marlin and gain brand new ins…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter It's the Fourth of July! And yet, it doesn't quite feel like a time to celebrate. Regardless of wherever you stand on whatever issue, our country is just in a really weird place, more divided and isolated than ever. So it might sound weird to suggest that an antid…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter The Village, The Babadook, and The Mummy. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round! Today's guest is director, actress, and screenwriter, Anna Chazelle. Listen to our initial conversation with Anna and gain brand new…

TW: Child Abuse, Child Neglect Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter Very few filmmakers can honestly, and accurately, portray the plight of very young children on screen. But one of those filmmakers has always been M. Night Shyamalan. Despite his divisive reputation, he has often featured young chara…

Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter Volunteering with the youth, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and acting with tennis balls. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round! Today's guest is screenwriter, author, podcaster, and Jura…

Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter Have you ever heard the phrase "they just don’t make ‘em like they used to?" I'm sure you have. Maybe you've even caught yourself saying it once or twice. There are certain creative mindsets that have been abandoned by studios in t…

Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter Purple lightsabers, R2D2 bleep-bloops, and finally realizing what "Binary Sunset" means. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round! Today's guest is host and creator of Lessons From Th…

Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter Star Wars. Just those two words evoke so much in so many of us: distant planets, unforgettable characters, and a battle of good versus evil spanning generations. But it's important to remember where it all began–with a young snarky…

Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter F*cked up families, No Children of Old Men, and the ending of Hereditary you didn't get to see. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round! Today's guest is illustrator and medical prof…

TW: Abuse, suicide, starvation Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter Any passionate movie fan will tell you that deciding your all-time favorite movie is a painstaking process. But what happens when somebody's favorite movie isn't their favorite by choice? When I invit…

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Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter Casablanca is considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time. There's very little that anybody could say that hasn't already been said. But what if I told you that I found the exception to that rule? Sean Capdeville…

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Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter Back To The Future Parts II and III often sit in the shadow of their predecessor. But there are plenty of fresh, new story ideas that only deepen and reaffirm the themes, characters, and relationships of its predecessor. They may just be two of the greatest sequel…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter What the heck is a Daisies? You may have never heard of this film from the Czech New Wave, but it was a monumental exploration of female friendships, paving the way for modern classics like Lady Bird and Booksmart! Actress and filmmaker Anna Dale Robinson joins La…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter Not really, but they're both reeeeeeeeally good! Best Summer Ever director Michael Parks Randa and star Shannon DeVido team up for our first ever "My Favorite Movie is..." double header! Michael covers Easy Rider, featuring his all-time favorite song in its killer…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter The beloved cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. The World seems to have a problematic reputation. After all, its characters...kinda suck. But that's what makes them great. Scott Niswander of the YouTube video essay channel "NerdSync" sits down with Larry to explain how…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter Happy Halloween! Despite being made in the 70s, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has as much to say about society today, all while utilizing every tool at its disposal to make an effective horror movie. Often imitated but never duplicated, Tobe Hooper's slasher film f…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter This October, we're dedicating episodes of "My Favorite Movie is..." to movies that scare us, and horror and surrealist photographer Alice Guzman is scared of Lou Bloom. He may not be your traditional horror movie monster, but his sunken eyes, lanky body, and cutt…

Join our Discord community Become a patron and support the show! Follow us on Twitter We broke the first rule of Fight Club. Unlikable protagonists are all the rage nowadays, but very few films understand the balance between condemning their actions while still presenting a compelling conflict. Tyler Durden shines a prime example of how to do it ri…

Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter There goes Tokyo!! As the Godzilla franchise has stepped back into the spotlight, some people have complained that there's too many humans and not enough monsters. But YouTube game reviewer and well of Tokusatsu knowledge Asai Nero…

Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter TikTok and YouTube comedian Katie Siegel rewatches her favorite movies constantly, none more than the 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley. Through Katie's o…

Listen to an UNCUT and AD-FREE version of this episode on our Patreon! Join our Discord community Follow us on Twitter Everybody loves Back To The Future, but there's more to Robert Zemeckis' iconic comedy than its stellar reputation. Video essayist and writer Max Marriner believes that this seminal time-travel story is all about blazing your own t…

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