Make the Case
A podcast to help you fall in love with movies all over again. Each week, Conrad Rothbaum and his co-host ShwinnyPooh come on to "Make the Case" -- that is, to put forth a hot take, argument or simply a new perspective -- about a movie they love. For questions or comments please email us at makethecasepodcast@gmail.com and we might read your email on the air! You can also call us and leave us a voicemail at (818) 538-4966 -- we want to hear from you, and may play your voicemail on the podcast! Follow the show on Twitter at @makethecaseshow. Co-hosts Conrad and Shwin are also on Twitter as @csroth and @shwinnypooh respectively, but if you follow them, be prepared for many, many tweets about the New York Knicks on your feed.
Episodes
34 episodes
Episode 33: The Best Films of 2023 with Rebecca Goldstein, Dylan Visvikis and Simon Schiller
Join Conrad, Shwin and special guests Rebecca Goldstein, Simon Schiller and Dylan Visvikis as they break down their favorite films of the year. We laughed! We cried! We blew up a pipeline.Please note that while we try to avoid specific ...
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Episode 32: Kubrick Part III: Dr. Strangelove
...OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE POD!Today, we make this pod short and sweet, as we talk Stanley Kubrick's nuclear panic satire, DR. STRANGELOVE!Topics include: 1) What is the corollary today for fear of nuclear...
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Episode 31: Kubrick Part II: Spartacus and Lolita
THEY TRAINED THEM TO PODCAST FOR THEIR PLEASURE... BUT THEY TRAINED THEM A LITTLE TOO WELL!! // HOW DID THEY EVER MAKE A PODCAST OF LOLITA?In this episode, we continue our analysis of Kubrick's career with the "Least Kubrick" of K...
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Episode 30: Kubrick Part I: The Killing & Paths of Glory
IN ALL ITS FURY AND VIOLENCE… LIKE NO OTHER PODCAST SINCE “BLANK CHECK” AND “THE BIG PICTURE”!This week, we kick off our most ambitious series yet: a retrospective on the films of Stanley Kubrick, one by one, from the very beginning, IN...
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Episode 29: JFK
HE'S A PODCAST CO-HOST. HE WILL RISK HIS LIFE, THE LIVES OF HIS FAMILY, EVERYTHING HE HOLDS DEAR FOR THE ONE THING HE HOLDS SACRED... THE TRUTH.This week, we finish off our Oliver Stone trilogy with his operatic paranoiac JFK. Released ...
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Episode 28: Primer
WHAT HAPPENS IF IT ACTUALLY PODS?This week, we loop back to the 2004 cult classic time travel drama from Shane Carruth, PRIMER. Famously shot for $7000 (we have some thoughts about that) and supposedly containing enough information to a...
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Episode 27: Wall Street
EVERY POD HAS A PRICE.This week, we continue our Oliver Stone series (to Conrad's chagrin) with Stone's 1987 opus on greed, which takes place on a very well-known street in downtown Manhattan.Is greed good? Is Charlie Sheen okay...
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Episode 26: Atomic Blonde with Lester Lee
In this pod, we bring in special guest Lester Lee of Dead Seriousness dot com to help us tear down this wall: How is this movie an interesting intersection of Fury Road and John Wick? What makes Charlize Theron so compelling as an action star? ...
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Episode 25: You've Got Mail with Rebecca Goldstein
SOMEONE YOU PASS ON THE STREET MAY ALREADY BE THE GUEST OF YOUR POD.It's a special Valentine's Day episode of Make the Case, as special guest Rebecca Goldstein presents an argument for the Nora Ephron classic You've Got Mail!If ...
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Episode 24: Any Given Sunday
POD. OR BE PODDED.In this pod, we tackle the big questions about football, and life: Does this movie have the greatest sports monologue ever? Is Jamie Foxx underrated? Why does "Bubble Pacino" work as a burnt out, old school football co...
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Episode 23: Goodfellas
"AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER, I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A PODCASTER." - HENRY HILLHot off the heels of our Sopranos duology, we're talking its foundational predecessor: GOODFELLAS? Just what is the Martin Scorsese gangster epic r...
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Episode 22: The Sopranos Part II with David Futernick and Kris Pursiainen
HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE THE PODCAST!It's the final part of our Sopranos Call-In extravaganza. In this episode, we have special guests David Futernick (@davidfuternick) and Kris Pursiainen (@krispursiainen) call to make the ca...
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Episode 21: The Sopranos Part I featuring Jonathan Macri, Jody Kava, and Adam Feeney
IF ONE PODCAST DOESN'T KILL HIM... THE OTHER PODCAST WILL!It's Part 1 of our Sopranos Call-In extravaganza. In this episode, we have special guests Jonathan Macri, Adam Feeney, and Jody Kava each call in to discuss their personal favori...
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Episode 20: The Best Films of 2022 with Simon Schiller and Dylan Visvikis
Join Conrad, Shwin and special guests Simon Schiller and Dylan Visvikis as they break down their favorite films of the year. We laughed! We cried! We turned into rocks and bowed to the Everything Bagel.Leave us a message with your takes...
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Episode 19: Collateral
IT STARTED LIKE ANY OTHER PODCAST.In the conclusion of our Michael Mann triptych, we consider perhaps his most fun film (?!) -- the 2004 Tom Cruise vehicle COLLATERAL!Topics include: 1) How does this movie compare to other great...
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Episode 18: Heat
THE PODCAST IS THE JUICE!!!This week we continue our ongoing Michael Mann series, analyzing his LA bank robber masterpiece, HEAT! Hot off our examination of his first film, we talk about the ways Mann learned from the failures and succe...
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Episode 17: Thief with Patrick J. McKeown
TONIGHT OUR PODCAST PAY IS $410,000 ... TAX FREE!! Patrick McKeown joins the podcast again for the first part of our Michael Mann trilogy: this week, we're talking the 1981 crime thriller THIEF! Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, a...
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Episode 16: Enter the Dragon with Warren Lam
THEIR DEADLY MISSION: TO POD ABOUT THE FORBIDDEN ISLAND OF HAN! Be like water, everyone. In this pod, Conrad is joined by special guest Warren Lam, director of THE MASTER OF INFLUENCE WITH SI-FU BRUCE LEE, to celebrate Bruce Lee's legacy ...
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Episode 15: All Quiet On The Western Front (2022)
A PODCAST OF BLOOD, GUTS AND TEARS THAT WILL LEAVE AN INDELIBLE MARK ON YOUR SOUL! This week, Conrad and Shwin tackle the grisly 2022 German-language Netflix film, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, adapted by Edward Berger fr...
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Episode 14: The Matrix
FREE YOUR POD. It's time to talk about the 1999 action/sci fi classic, The Matrix, directed by the Wachowski sisters and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss! Conrad and Shwin begin by discussing the trans themes embed...
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Episode 13: Mad Max: Fury Road with Rebecca Goldstein
THE PODCAST BELONGS TO THE MAD. In this nearly 2 hour behemoth worthy of the War Rig itself, Conrad and special guest host Rebecca Goldstein tackle the contemporary action/sci fi classic, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. Just how did George Miller, a septua...
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Episode 12: Interstellar
This podcast was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here. To kick off November's theme, sci-fi action-adventure, Conrad and Shwin discuss one of Shwin's favorite films, Interstellar, the 2014 Christopher Nolan space-vehicle starring Matth...
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Episode 11: Rosemary's Baby
Pray for Rosemary's podcast!! It's a special Halloween spooktacular, as Conrad is joined by Shwin in revisiting the movie that traumatized him as a child: Roman Polanski's 1968 horror classic, Rosemary's Baby, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassa...
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Episode 10: In Bruges with Patrick J. McKeown
Shoot first. Podcast later. In honor of the release of the new film The Banshees of Inisherin, Conrad and special guest host Patrick McKeown discuss Martin McDonagh's masterpiece crime comedy released in 2008, In Bruges! Yes, we sai...
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Episode 9: Rings of Power Season 1 Finale Reaction with Dallas Amico
It's a special Sunday edition of the Make the Case podcast! First, at 01:09, reacting to a listener-submitted topic, Shwin and Conrad discuss why medium-budget thrillers like Se7en have disappeared from mainstream Hollywood (and also whe...
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