All Episodes
Displaying episodes 31 - 60 of 64 in total
31 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 11, with Sarah Black (Group 10, Part 3)
#Mother! vs #LifeAsAHouse. Mentioned: the Bechdel Test, the Mako Mori Test, female subservience, and separate spheres.
32 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 12, With Sarah Black (Group 10, Part 4)
#Mother! vs #LifeAsAHouse. Mentioned: creation, art, the male ego, the domestic goddess, destruction, forgiveness, symbolism, Tree of Life, Cube, and Midsommar.
33 - An Interlude Regarding My Favorite Film in 6 Parts, Part 2
As Tristram sits upside down in the womb, a full-grown man, I explain why-- --Ex Machina-- --Eternal Sunhine of the Spotless Mind-- --S.F.W.-- --Ruby Sparks-- --Life a...
34 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 13, With Alice Lauren (Group 9, Part 1)
#SayAnything vs #SingStreet. Mentioned: romance, trust, honesty, virginity, tax evasion, and The Fuck It List.
35 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 14, With Alice Lauren (Group 9, Part 2)
#SayAnything vs #SingStreet. Mentioned: love letters and love songs, why Alice hated Once and why she is wrong about that, the stage version of Sing Street, and being ...
36 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 15, With Alice Lauren (Group 9, Part 3)
#SingStreet vs #SayAnything. Mentioned: abusive priests, character ages, having no plot and being okay with it, and being happy sad.
37 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 16, With Luke Allen (Group 3, Part 1)
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: About Time, bottle episodes, Les Miserables, Simon Fisher-Becker, Judi Dench, IMDb, John Paul Kelly, Lemming Drops Studio T...
38 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 17, With Luke Allen (Group 3, Part 2)
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: ostriches, geese, peacocks, Unstable, Mamma Mia!, Les Miserables, Love Actually, profanity, blasphemy, The Ricky Gervais Sh...
39 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 18, With Luke Allen (Group 3, Part 3)
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: American horror films, ratings, partial nudity, Page 3, Peter Kay's Car Share, Chicago Hope, This Morning, Karen, Crocs, an...
40 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Brackett, Part 19, With Luke Allen (Group 3, Part 4)
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: Tree's mom's killer, angel Rowan Atkinson... then there's a Two Minutes About Time cohost meeting or a bit... 80s sex comed...
41 - The Bracket Is Dead, Long Live the Bracket, Part 20, With Luke Allen (Group 3, Part 5)
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: Groundhog Minute, Kevin Smith, Phil's motivation, paranoid writing, Richard Curtis, sequels, Stork Day, and When We First Met.
42 - The Bracket Is. Part 21, With Sarah Black (Group 6--#Birdman vs #SynecdocheNewYork--Part 1)
midlife crises, death of a salesman, raymond carver, symbolic interactionism, what is said of a thing, what we think of our self, what we talk about when we talk about...
43 - The Bracket Is. Part 22, With Sarah Black (Group 6 - #Birdman vs #SynecdocheNewYork--Part 2)
Self concept, manic pixie dream girls, raging men, and the problematic portrayal of women.
44 - The Bracket Is. Part 23, With Sarah Black (Group 6 - #Birdman vs #SynecdocheNewYork - Part 3)
Apologies, ego, daughters, Virgo to Libra, summer to fall, memory versus reality, Charlie Kaufman, Cotard delusions, character names, and bodily functions.
45 - The Bracket Is. Part 24, With Sarah Black (Group 6 - #Birdman vs #SynecdocheNewYork - Part 4)
Death of a Salesman, the American Dream, toxic productivity, chronemics, mortality, making choices and living with them, and I'm Thinking of Ending Things.
46 - The Bracket Is. Part 25, With Sarah Black (Group 6 - #Birdman vs #SynecdocheNewYork - Part 5)
Theater, Olive's diary, Olive's tattoos, Adele's tiny paintings, immediacy, solipsism, simulacra, and the meaning of names.
47 - An Interlude Regarding My Favorite Film in 6 Parts, Part 3
In which I explain why-- --Sing Street-- --Say Anything-- --Groundhog Day-- --Happy Death Day-- --Birdman-- --Synecdoche, New York-- --is my favorite film.
Minute 48 - "It's actually like a metaphor for life"
Jennie talks about a film, the men don't listen, and Ingoldsby has his first bad idea. Plus, a look at the novel's Jenny, and our film within a film of the week: Coed ...
49 - The Bracket Is. Part 26, With David Forsythe (Group 17 - #PunchDrunkLove vs #Halloween - Part 1)
Long shots, sisters, Uncut Gems, Kubrick's fake moon landing, The Master, the romance of Halloween, and The Room.
50 - The Bracket Is. Part 27, With David Forsythe (Group 17 - #PunchDrunkLove vs #Halloween - Part 2)
Raggedy Ann, Amish clothing, James Ensor, Halloween comics, sequels, and the novelization, Friday the 13th, and camp.
51 - The Bracket Is. Part 28, With David Forsythe (Group 17 - #PunchDrunkLove vs #Halloween - Part 3)
All You Need Is Kill, identifying with awful characters, gen x rom coms, Popeye, rewatchability, Dark Star, and confident filmmaking.
52 - The Bracket Dies a Strange, Slow Death. Part 29. (Group 8 - #TheWar vs #TheSpitfireGrill - Part 1)
Roger Ebert, empathy, small towns, deep wounds, and musical adaptations.
53 - The Bracket Dies a Strange, Slow Death. Part 30. (Group 8 - #TheWar vs #TheSpitfireGrill - Part 2)
Christian reviews, empathy, religion, the Jedi code, nuclear holocaust, and award season.
54 - The Bracket Dies a Strange, Slow Death. Part 31. (Group 8 - #TheWar vs #TheSpitfireGrill - Part 3)
Movie narration, Elijah Wood's early film career, Roger Ebert's review, and showing versus telling.
55 - The Bracket Dies a Strange, Slow Death. Part 32. (Group 8 - #TheWar vs #TheSpitfireGrill - Part 4)
Silliness, pacifism, being too Christian, and obscure movies.
56 - A Distraction Involving My Favorite Films of 2020
narrowed down to 23-ish.
57 - A Distraction Involving a Black Page
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy; Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey; Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Familiar; Stephen King, The Dark Tow...
58 - The Bracket Dies a Strange, Slow Death. Part 33. Group 16. #StandByMe vs #ExtremelyLoudandIncrediblyClose. Part 1.
Groundhog Day Project Day 1382, Castle Rock, childhood, Worldwide Church of God, sneaking around, jumping off rooftops, and the end of the world.
59 - The Bracket Dies A Strange, Slow Death. Part 34. Group 16. #StandByMe. Part 2.
Groundhog Day Project Day 1383, Groundhog Minute, Movies by Minutes, Ex Machina, Jurassic Park, Top Gun, Great Balls of Fire, making connections, and making peace.
60 - The Bracket Dies a Strange, Slow Death. Part 35. Group 16. #StandByMe. Part 3.
Groundhog Day Project Day 1384, Veteran fathers, dead brothers, Stephen King's childhood, and clinging to friends to survive.