We have a Batman problem on this website and talk/write about it way too much. Obviously, we were going to do some stuff for this one.
Some highlights from previous writings on Batman flicks:
Ranking the Performances in the Nolan Batman Films
10 Hopes and Fears for The Batman (follow-up coming soon!)
Now, onto today’s feature.
Kenneth Lonergan has only directed THREE films, but they are all knockouts. Ranking them kinda feels silly since there are so few of them and they all rock, but here are some thoughts on each of them anyway. Please make another film, Kenneth Lonergan!!
The Wachowskis are absolutely geniuses. While that has occasionally caused them to fly too close to the sun, it has mostly led to some of the absolute very best modern films. Here is how I rank their films.
Over the course of three years, Jerome and Brian have put a number of movies into the Superhero Pantheon. This week, they focus on people as they induct a number of the most important people in.
Jerome and Brian also make some solo selections as well. It’s 90 minutes covering the very best superhero performers over the last half century of films.
Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon – Special Edition: Putting People into the Pantheon
It’s a special edition of Superhero Pantheon as Jerome and Brian run down their ten favorite superhero action scenes of all-time. No spoilers. You’ll have to listen to get the lists.
(Even the extremely canonical poster was made up by Matt!)
Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon: Top 10 Action Sequences
Jerome and Brian decided to discuss all of the superhero properties that came out in the second half of 2021 across a two part giant-sized annual to end one year and begin anew in 2022.
This is part two, the first podcast of 2022 as they discuss Venom: Let There Be Carnage, What If…?, The Eternals, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Hawkeye.
Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon: Giant-Sized Annual 2021 (Part 2)
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.
It took until our penultimate episode for us to finally dip our toes into World Cinema, but we figured we’d make up for it by closing the volume out with Claire Denis’ Beau Travail.
Obviously this sparks conversation about homosexuality, literature, foreign policy and what’s to come from your hosts in 2022.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 75: Beau Travail
Jerome and Brian decided to discuss all of the superhero properties that came out in the second half of 2021 across a two part giant-sized annual to end one year and begin anew in 2022.
This is part one, the last podcast of 2021 as they discuss Loki, Black Widow, The Suicide Squad, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon: Giant-Sized Annual 2021 (Part 1)Updated 12/26/21 to include Resurrections.
Everything about the world of The Matrix rules. Here is how I rank the five films.
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.
It took us 23 episodes to finally step into the world of 90s World Cinema, with Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother. Come for the discussion of gender and sexuality, stay for an in depth exploration of one of the host’s university degree.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 74: All About My Mother
