Critique-Opolis
Jay & Louisa deliver a fiery, opinion fueled overview of movies, social movements, cultural behaviors and eating habits - dovetailed with a honey-based recipe and reviews of the most obnoxious movie/media news headlines we can get our eyeballs in front of. For our latest editions, we will be reviewing scripts from the infamous Hollywood 'Black List' (scripts with a ton of 'buzz' that have yet to secure a deal or go into production) - and adding our own casting and story development suggestions.
Episodes
95 episodes
We Follow A Studio Executive Until Everything Breaks
A studio executive gets buried under endless pitches, anonymous postcards, and one creeping fear that won’t go away: he’s about to be replaced. Then Robert Altman turns the pressure up until it becomes something much darker. We’re talking about...
What Happens When A Rom-Com Has No Tone
French Lover somehow became a Netflix hit, and we walked in expecting a charming French rom-com with Omar Sy and walked out asking how so many scenes made it past the final draft. We’re not doing a polite “maybe it’s just not for us” review, ei...
What The De Niro Papers Reveal About Great Acting
The moment we realized The Score is the only time Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando share the screen, we knew we had to dig in. What surprised us is how well this 2001 heist film still works: it’s tense without being gross, funny in small doses ...
What If The Villain’s Power Is Really Untreated Pain
A newborn talks from the womb, delivers himself, and immediately starts asking the one question most adults avoid: why. That’s the spark of Kirikou And The Sorceress, Michel Ocelot’s French animated folktale inspired by West African folklore, a...
If A Science Teacher Can Save Earth Then Why Can’t We
A space movie can look expensive and still feel hollow. Project Hail Mary does the opposite: it feels human, funny, tense, and oddly comforting, even when the premise is pure nightmare fuel. We just saw it in theaters and we’re still buzzing, s...
How A Watercolor Animated Short Portrays Pet Loss
A chained-up dog. A kid who stops and says “no,” then frees him. A glowing gold thread that refuses to break even after death. We talk through Run Totti Run, a Cambodian-set animated short with a watercolor sketch look that feels like a Monet p...
Snow Bear
Welcome back to you favorite straight from Michigan movie podcast! We are back after a brief hiatus because, well, life. For this latest episode of Critique-o-polis, Jay stumbled upon an animated short called Snow Bear. Being a life...
Raising Arizona
In today's episode of Critique-o-polis, Jay and Louisa discuss the 1987 cult classic Raising Arizona. Nicolas Cage plays a conflicted HI McDonnaugh torn between his primal criminal nature and the desire to be a loving, stable husband to Holly H...
Another Round
This week on your favorite movie podcast we chat about the Danish film, "Another Round," starring Mads Mikkelsen. Martin played by Mads Mikkelsen is the married father of two boys and also a history teacher. Martin joins three of his friends, a...
Night Hunter
This afternoon, Jay and I are discussing the movie Night Hunter. This is not a movie that was on my radar which is surprising to me, but also not. The casting is excellent. I love all of the names in this film. I'd say some of the subject matte...
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Hello friends. Welcome back to Critique-o-polis. Today, Jay and I discuss the third installment of The Knives Out series: Wake Up, Dead Man. As with the previous two movies, the location is remote, set aside from the busy city and f...
Allegro non Troppo
After our brief hiatus, Critique-o-Polis is back! Jay says that it is his fault that we were off for a few weeks, and while that might be true (it's not), he has a good "excuse," Jay was working elsewhere. I think that it is very fair that we t...
Cinema Paradiso
Happy New Year! Welcome back to another wonderful episode of Critique-o-polis. Today, we review the French-Italian film "Cinema Paradiso." Let me just start off by saying, if you haven't seen or heard of this movie, (ever), watch the trailer an...
Tokyo Godfathers
Guess what? Jay finally remembered to include a honey based recipe. He felt so bad about not remembering to deliver a recipe the last several episodes that he put this one at the front of the episode. Try not to be too hard on him, he's getting...
The Intouchables
We watched the 2011 French Film, the Intouchables, but before we get into that, Jay goes on an absolute, untethered tirade about a run in with a person at market who tried to steal a parking spot from a vendor. You should listen just for that. ...
Home for the Holidays
This is the week after Thanksgiving, not necessarily coincidentally we are reviewing a holiday movie: Home for the Holidays. This movie has an all star cast, featuring Holly Hunter, Claire Danes (briefly), Robert Downey Jr., Dylan McDermott and...
All of Me
Today we review "All of Me," a movie starring Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin and Victoria Tennant from 1984. This movie falls into the categories of Drama, Fantasy and Comedy. I think that I would agree with all of those choices.Steve Martin ...
Weapons Part 2
So ... Why Part 2 for the episode? Because Jay can't tell the difference between the pause and the stop button on the recorder. He graduated with honors from college (completely untrue) and he can't figure out the difference between 'pause' and...
Weapons Part 1
Brace yourselves. Jay made Louisa watch a horror movie! Well, okay, it's not like it was forced, but it did take a bit more convincing than usual. We got through the movie and Louisa doesn't need therapy. Weapons is Zach Cregger's s...
Ernest and Celestine
We're back! Today we are reviewing the French animated movie "Ernest and Celestine." Now mind you, we did not watch the original French version of this movie, but "instead," Jay and I watched the dubbed over version in English. "Ernest and Cele...
One Battle After Another
In today's latest episode of your favorite movie podcast, Louisa and Jay discuss one of Louisa's favorite actor's recent releases, "One Battle After Another." Louisa's favorite actor being the one and only Leonardo DiCaprio. She really does lov...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
We're back! Did you miss us?? On this week's episode of Critique-o-polis, not only does Jay have a yummy recipe to recommend, but we also watched an excellent feel good movie, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" directed by Ben Stiller. Sidenote:...
The Race That Eats Its Young
Strength is measured in a number of different ways. Some think it's a question of how much you think you can lift. Others think it's a question of how many times you can get up after being beaten. We tripped across a documentary about a quirky,...
Just Start and Stranger's Game Shorts
We did two shorts and as a result the description is going to be even shorter. Just Start is an exploration of a woman who overcomes trauma seen through the lens of a guy who could make New Balance commercials. Don't write it off, it might impr...