No need for an episode guide, because we’ve got you covered on how to understand a metaphor, what happened in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and how deeply broken our brains are when it comes to thinking about the logistics of television production.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 113: I Saw the TV Glow
A lizard this big demands special treatment so Matt hopped in a train to admire Ben’s premium Godzilla box-set in person. We’re talking kaijus. We’re talking Academy Awards. We’re talking Gokaiger. And we’re of course talking Science, B!tch.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 112: Godzilla Minus One
Need to Watch: Ride with the Devil, Lust/Caution, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,
Ang Lee is a pretty interesting filmmaker for a few reasons. He followed the classic late eighties/early nineties path of making small indie movies before increasingly being able to make bigger and bigger movies. On the surface, many of his films seem very different, but they are almost always very thematically connected. He has won multiple Best Director Oscars. And perhaps most importantly, his films show that he is one of the very few filmmakers in the world who can consistently make stories outside his comfort zone and manage to capture truth. Continue reading Ranking the Ang Lee Films
Noah Baumbach has evolved over the last three decades into one of the best modern writer/directors in the United States. He knows his voice. He knows his lane. He knows what he knows. And he does it all very well.
Matt once again tries a movie Ben has never seen before and it can’t really go much worse than ‘The Harder They Fall‘… right??? Tune your radios to Big Foot FM, cook the most unholy meal imaginable and let’s negotiate the terms of this encounter, shall we?
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 111: Strange Darling
In my head, I had seen a lot of Pedro Almodóvar films. When I actually went and tried to figure out which ones I had seen, I realized I had only watched 1-2 in college and then went to the theater a few years back to watch the very good Pain & Glory. The lasting impressions of my apparently brief dive into his work over the years were mostly that Carmen Maura was very good, Antonio Banderas was very good, and lots and lots of colors. Little did I know what I was getting myself into by diving deep into his work with the knowledge that HBOMax was removing all of his stuff after October 31, 2021. [This list will be updated as more films get watched over the years.]
Films to Watch Still: Labyrinth of Passion, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Law of Desire, High Heels, Kika, The Flower of My Secret, Live Flesh, Talk to Her, Julieta
Demonstrating why they don’t generally record at night, Ben & Matt have gone pretty insane in this episode as they give the world’s worst descriptions of Cannes and how to eat Ortolans. Whatever, man, I got hungry just writing the caption.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 110: The Taste of Things
Fire up your preferred Skype machine and join us for a discussion of in-yan, yearning and immigration questions. Is Matt projecting? Who won Benjis? Come find out!
Hey maybe you used to be the podcaster and WE were the listeners! Ignore the fact podcasting was invented in our lifetime.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 109: Past Lives
ONGOING FLUID PROJECT (ie: to be updated continuously yet sporadically)
Unwatched: It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, Blue Moon
For the first time in the history of the podcast Matt took zero notes and tried to match Ben’s ‘off the dome’ acumen… and he simply could not have picked a worse episode given the various twists and turns at play in this Korean detective tale.
Open up your translator apps, takes some voice notes on your smart watch and lets climb the expert route of podcasting together.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 108: Decision to Leave
The Reel World 