Category: Film

Top 10 Performances in Twin Peaks

I did the thing. I watched all of Twin Peaks. It was good. I have a handful of thoughts I am gonna share.

Self-explanatory article! The only part that needs clarification potentially is that this covers everything from the world including the film and the mini-series return. Also, like obviously someone could write this article and come up with ten different names, and it would be completely reasonable. A fourth and a fifth person probably could too. Don’t have a cow!

They are all boring and surface-level takes though!! Read Willow Maclay’s essay on Twin Peaks instead!!

10. Matthew Lillard Continue reading Top 10 Performances in Twin Peaks

Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: Fruitvale Station

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The Movie: Fruitvale Station (2013)

One Sentence Plot Summary: Oscar Grant goes through the last day of his life before being murdered by a police officer on New Year’s Eve 2008-2009

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Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: 25th Hour

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The Movie: 25th Hour (2002)

One Sentence Plot Summary: Monty Brogan celebrates his one last night of freedom before heading to jail and learns who his real friends are.

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Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: Malcolm X

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The Movie: Malcolm X (1992)

One Sentence Plot Summary: In one of the greatest biopics ever produced, Spike Lee presents the entire adult life of Malcolm X in an opus that still has a disturbing amount of relevance today. 

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Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: Do the Right Thing

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The Movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)

One Sentence Plot Summary: It’s a hot summer day in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and the rising temperatures serve as a metaphor for the rising racial tensions gripping the area.

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There Will Be Movies – Episode 38: Arrival

Ben Phillips & Matt Waters continue to present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, this time with 2010 – 2019.

Come one, come all and marvel at the degree to which Matt does not remember hosting a podcast that covered Arrival a few years ago and thus gets to experience this film for the first time!

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Top 10 Performances in the Christopher Nolan Batman Films

Matt and Mike have watched the Nolan Batman films too many times and have decided to rank their favorite performances from them! It was either this or we tried to trick people into listening us record another podcast about them!

10. Cillian Murphy – Jonathan Crane Continue reading Top 10 Performances in the Christopher Nolan Batman Films

Pantheon Plus – Road Trippin’: A Goofy Movie

Jerome and Brian get a little goofy this week as they continue their month of road trips. They review a Disney movie that’s a bit of a cult classic among people of a certain age. How much scrutiny does the movie actually hold up to? 

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There Will Be Movies – Episode 37: Creed

Ben Phillips & Matt Waters continue to present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, this time with 2010 – 2019.

Step into the ring as Ben and Matt talk about every conceivable tangent even loosely related to Creed imaginable and sing the praises of Ryan Coogler.

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