William Wyler's 'Ben-Hur' (1959) | Patreon #60
This is a free sample from our conversation on William Wyler's Ben-Hur (1959), the epic that helped shape George Lucas’s cinematic imagination and paved the way for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. We t...
17 Jun 20255min
Brian De Palma & Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible' (1996) | Patreon #59
FULL FREE EPISODE ON PATREON – In this special sample episode, we dive into Mission: Impossible (1996), the film that launched Tom Cruise’s iconic run as Ethan Hunt. We break down Brian De Palma’s sty...
16 Jun 202515min
We Wanted to Love Celine Song’s 'Materialists'
Today we dive into Celine Song’s Materialists, a glossy, thematically ambitious romcom that left us more intrigued than moved. Following the quiet power of Past Lives, Song pivots hard...playing with ...
11 Jun 20251h 11min
Alfred Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' (1959) | Patreon #58
Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is the sleek, stylish spy thriller that basically invented the modern action movie and laid the blueprint for the Mission: Impossible / James Bond franchises. We ...
10 Jun 20255min
Cameron Crowe's 'Jerry Maguire' (1996) + The Career of Tom Cruise | Patreon #57
In our episode on Jerry Maguire, we dive into Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe’s genre-blending masterpiece as both a rom-com and sports drama that dissects the emotional and professional crash out of a s...
9 Jun 202515min
The Five Eras of Wes Anderson + 'The Phoenician Scheme' Review
Kelsi and Trey review Wes Anderson's newest film The Phoenician Scheme and also trace the five distinct eras of Anderson’s career. Anderson’s latest pastel-laced genre experiment is part espionage cap...
5 Jun 20251h 11min
Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment' (1960) | Patreon #56
This is a 5-minute sample of our full podcast episode on Billy Wilder’s The Apartment — a film that somehow blends mid-century office politics, romantic dysfunction, and existential comedy into one pe...
4 Jun 20255min
Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible' Franchise Ranked + 'The Final Reckoning' Reaction
Kelsi and Trey react to Tom Cruise's final MI film in 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' plus we rank all eight Mission: Impossible films, from De Palma’s paranoid thriller to McQuarrie’s AI-...
26 Mai 20252h 12min
