This weekend we double featured the 2 most outstanding vampire movies.

Tonight we watched a horror film long overdue: Midsommar. 

Tonight we watched Anora. Yay best picture. 

Does The Social Network hold up 15 years later? Is the cinematic portrait of Mark Zuckerberg more or less damning? We sat down to watch this classic, and, spoiler, it does! 

Forgot to publish this summer watch: Milk! All about Harvey Milk. An M, I, L, and a K, we're talking about Milk!

We breezed through the two seasons of Arcane this week, admiring the art, the plot, and the style. Season 1 has a tighter story, but it's great to see the show returning, and we're looking forward to the next story with Fortiche and Riot. ...

Coming to you from Prague, we stepped into the theater to watch Waves, an awesome movie covering the radio broadcasting the end of the Prague Spring. A hell of a ride. 

Laura and Matt revisit the noir genre with a 90's take on 50's detective dramas.  Watch out Guy Pearce, that *is* Lana Turner!

After a weekend watching Challengers, we sat down to catch Luca's earlier work, Call Me Your Boyfriend. I mean By Your Name. 

Early Jackie Chan bursts onto the scene as one of the ensemble cast of My Lucky Stars. Full of jokes and great choreography and directed by Sammo Hung, a friend from the Beijing Opera, this movie is just delightful. 

Laura & Matt continue their trek with more Hong Kong cinema!  Tonight's movie is 'Internal Affairs' - an undercover cop cat-and-mouse thriller from the early 'aughts.

Stephen Chow's earlier film, The God of Cookery. Is it goodery?

Flying through Oscar nominations, we take a minute for 2 gems: Alexander Payne's Holdovers - a warming indie romp with an Oscar-worthy performance by Giamatti, and Robot Dreams, a shockingly charming indie animated film! Totally deserving of it...

A poignant indie film about what could have been. It's the Sunrise Trilogy meets Everything Everywhere All at Once.Four best picture nominations down, six to go, think we'll make it?

Adam Driver, an ex-marine, stars in a film that captures the events of gross misconduct by the CIA over the past decade. From torture to lying to Congress, we revisit the legacy of John Brennan and Diane Feinstein, who's actually quite competen...

Join Matt and Laura for a magical adventure through Japan!  Our titular heroine Suzume comes of age as she grapples with typical teenage things like getting a boyfriend, forging an identity independent of a parent figure, and releasing a g...

Matt and Laura talk the American car culture of the 1970s, the loneliness and vulnerability of the empty American West, and attempted vehicular homicide.

Laura and Matt watch Don Siegel's 1971 Civil War film. Equally interesting and off-putting ... Matt and Laura both thought the first had had potential, but we both struggled to suspend our disbelief in the later. Because 12 is old enough f...

Laura & Matt take a trip to Alamo Drafthouse to see the new Napoleon movie!  Laura has opinions on the awkward horse moments, Matt has opinions on the historical accuracy, but they both agree the Austerlitz sequence is crazy-well shot!...

Peak 80s, peak hair, peak grunge, peak Kiefer Sutherland. He bleeds charisma. And this movie is the most excellent horror film we've seen this year.

It's spooky season! Criterion suggested the cult classic, House. It's 50% actual horror and 50% early internet cutout lolz random humor. But done in the 1970s! How time-consuming. Definitely worth watching over and over again.

A few weeks ago we podcasted about Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in preparation for Priscilla, but alas, it was caught in my outbox for far too long!

The 1963 epic that supposedly takes place in 40 BC but feels a little anachronistic. It is the definitive epic, a scale to marvel all of cinema, and kind of makes you wonder if they had so much money for boats and goats, why didn't they write a...

Tonight we watched the epic, 3 hour biopic. It's bold, it's dramatic, it's delicious. 

As Matt wraps up his Ulysses S. Grant biography, Laura insisted on the movie about "you know, when Simba was leading the first black soldiers." The film holds up in some ways, but there are a few awkward "Pocahontas" moments. ...