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Episode 163 – Our Top 10 Movies of 2015
This week we talk about our top 10 movies of last year! We also talk about movies we wish we had seen before making our lists, our honorable mentions, biggest disappointments, worst movies of the year, and more! Show Notes:…
Tagged with: a most violent year, alex, ant-man, avengers: age of ultron, beasts of no nation, bone tomahawk, chappie, cop car, creed, domnhal gleeson, dope, entourage, ex machina, focus, furious 7, goosebumps. spectre, inside out, jurassic world, mad max: fury road, magic mike xxl, nick, oscar isaac, san andreas, spotlight, spy, star wars: the force awakens, steve jobs, tangerine, the big short, the final girls, the gift, the hateful eight, the last witch hunter, the martian, tim, tomorrowland, top 10 of 2015, trainwreck, what we do in the shadows, willie
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Episode 162 – 2016 Oscar Predictions
This week we go on the record with our 2016 Academy Award Predictions! If you’d like to go on the record with yours, shoot us an email and we’ll add you to the scorekeeping list! We also briefly touch on What…
Tagged with: 45 years, a girl in the river: the price of forgiveness, academy awards, alan rickman, alex, alicia vikander, amy, anomalisa, ave maria, bear story, body team 12, boy and the world, bridge of spies, brie larson, brooklyn, bryan cranston, carol, cartel land, casual, cate blanchette, charlotte rampling, chau beyond the lines, christian bale, cinderella, claude lanzmann: spectres of the shoah, creed, day one, die hard, dreamcatcher, earned it, eddie redmayne, everything will be okay (alles wird gut), fifty shades of grey, galaxy quest, hans gruber, harry potter, hulu, inside out, jennifer jason leigh, jennifer lawrence, joy, kate winslet, last day of freedom, leonardo dicaprio, mad max: fury road, manta ray, mark ruffalo, mark rylance, matt damon, michael fassbender, oscar predictions, oscars 2016, parenthood, professor snape, prologue, rachel mcadams, racing extinction, room, rooney mara, sanjay's super team, saorise ronan, shaun the sheep, shok, sicario, simple song #3, spectre, spotlight, star wars: the force awakens, steve jobs, straight outta compton, stutterer, sylvester stallone, the 100-year-old manw ho climbed out the window and disappeared, the big short, the danish girl, the final girls, the hateful eight, the hunting ground, the look of silence, the martian, the revenant, til it happens to you, tim, tom hardy, trumbo, we can't live without cosmos, what happened miss simone?, what we do in the shadows, when marnie was there, willie, winter on fire: ukraine's fight for freedom, world of tomorrow, writing's on the wall, youth
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Episode 155 – Creed
This week the film nerds take on the champ! We discuss the entire Rocky franchise, concluding with a full review of Creed! Show Notes: Cold Open: On Tom Hanks and SuperHeroHype Intro (0:02:30) Rocky Series Retrospective: Rocky (1976) (0:06:25) Rocky II (1979) (0:10:54) Rocky…
Tagged with: adonis creed, alex, apollo creed, creed, michael b jordan, nick, rocky balboa, sylvester stallone, tim, willie
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Episode 142 – Cop Car
This week we go for a ride in Jon Watts and Kevin Bacon’s Cop Car! We also remember the movies of Wes Craven and draft teams against each other in our Fall Movie Draft! Show Notes: Introduction Film News: Horror luminary…
Tagged with: alex, black mass, bridge of spies, cop car, creed, crimson peak, fall movie draft, goosebumps, in the heart of the sea, jon watts, kevin bacon, mockingjay part 2, nick, shea wigham, spectre, star wars, star wars: the force awakens, steve jobs, the good dinosaur, the hateful eight, the martian, the peanuts movie, the revenant, tim, trumbo, wes craven, willie
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Episode 113 – A Most Violent Year
On this week’s episode we stand up for our principles as we review J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year. We also talk about the Mitten Movie Project, some recent trailer releases and movie news! Show Notes: Introduction Mitten Movie Project (0:01:32)…
Tagged with: a most violent year, creed, daredevil, fan4stic, fantastic four, fox, ghostbusters, j.c. chandor, magic mike xxl, mitten movie project, netflix, wet hot american summer, x-men: apocalypse
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Episode 110 – Inherent Vice
This week, the film nerds wonder whether or not they actually saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. We also talk about Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer series and more film news! Show Notes: Introduction Film News: Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer series has…
Tagged with: ant-man, creed, daredevil, inherent vice, joaquin phoenix, netflix, paul thomas anderson, rambo, rambo: last blood, wet hot american summer
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