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#286 – The Most Popular Movies We Have Not Seen

Zach and James reveal the most popular movies of every year since they were born (according to Letterboxd) that they have NOT seen. Blind spots are brought to light, arguments are had, films are added and bumped up the old watchlist. Did we blow by something we should definitely see? Hit us up at heyguys@cinereelists.com and make the case!

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#283 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank and discuss the last 10 movies they’ve seen regardless of genre, year of release, or any other conceivable grouping criteria…

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#281 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank and discuss the last 10 movies they’ve seen regardless of genre, year of release, or any other conceivable grouping criteria…

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#279 – Filmography of Steven Spielberg (Part 1)

Since we’ve seen all of Steven Spielberg’s impressive filmography, we decided to go through each of his films chronologically and discuss them.  And decide how Spielbergy each one is.  We split this into two parts because it’s already really long!

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#277 – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Last 10 Top 10 (w/ Evily)

While James is still in England, we had a special guest help co-host the show with me this week!  Evily, who was last on to talk about Dr. Strange, came back and discussed Marvel’s latest, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.  We begin the show with a spoiler-free discussion, then cut to a pre-recorded message from James about the film (again, without spoilers), and come back to have a spoiler-filled chat about the film.  Finally, we end with our own Last 10 Top 10 lists.

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#275 – Top 10 “So Bad They’re Good” Movies (w/ Victoria and Dan)

Victoria and Dan are long-time listeners visiting Florida on holiday from London, so we had them on the show to talk about their Top 10 Favorite “So Bad They’re Good” Movies.  Honestly, if you haven’t seen any of these movies, do yourself a favor and check them out.  They really are fun watches despite being terrible, terrible movies.

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#274 – Colossal, Anne Hathaway’s Filmography

We caught a screening at the Florida Film Festival for Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal this weekend, so we discuss this genre-twisting sci-fi comedy drama (spoilers saved til after the closing song).  Then we go through Anne Hathaway’s filmography. 

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#273 – Listener Email, Games

Back with a Friday Games episode.  We start off with Listener email, including a new mailbag jingle and a listener-suggested game to play.  Then we play a few rounds of Fantastic Four. Brian’s Top 50 Films of 2016 Can you solve these 10 Movie Puzzles?

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#272 – Bokeh, The Discovery

We talk about two new sci-fi movies on VOD today.  Bokeh tells the story of a young couple on vacation in Iceland who wake up to find everyone else has disappeared, and The Discovery has Jason Segel and Robert Redford coming to terms with discovering a proof of the afterlife.  We saved spoilers until the end so feel free to listen until the end music even if you haven’t seen them yet.

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#268 – Beauty and the Beast, Top 10 Princess Movies (w/ Hannah)

Disney has released it’s latest live-action remake of a beloved animated classic and this one is taking the box office by storm. Special guest Hannah joins us on the show to discuss the film and find out how it stacks against the original.  Then we each count down our Top 10 favorite movies with a princess in them.

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#261 – The Founder, Top 10 Biopics

We discuss The Founder, a movie about Ray Croc and the founding of McDonald’s, then count down each of our favorite biopics, all while playing a ridiculous game that we’re not even sure who won.  Enjoy!

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#259 – Havana, Oscar Nominations, Hidden Figures, Patriots Day

Zach and James are back from a short trip to Havana to bring you our Academy Award picks (hint: La La La La La Land), then discuss two current films, Hidden Figures and Patriots Day. If you want to see pictures from our trip, you can see them here. Have a film suggestion you think we’ve never seen and want us to discuss on the show? Send your pick to heyguys@cinereelists.com and one of us WILL watch it and discuss it on a future next show… or send a comment, suggestion or criticism and we’ll discuss that as well!

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#258 – The 2016 Movie Hangover

Zach and James go deep into the year that was 2016 with listener favorites, loads of alternative year-end lists from the guys, NEW New Year movie resolutions, and an overview of what to expect in cinemas in 2017. Warning: This episode holds the NEW world record for the most movie lists contained in a single podcast. Probably. Special thanks to our Patreon Supporters who helped us finally get new recording gear – Specifically thanks to Matt, Mindy, Scott, Ryan, Scotty, Roger, Botond, Adem, Justin, Micheal, Catarina, Miran, Mathew, Thomas, and Andrew!

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#257 – Top 20 of 2016

James and Zach count down their 20 favorite movies of 2016, as well as their greatest disappointments, films they regret not having seen before making their list, and more.

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#250 – Quarter K Celebration (w/ Luke, Mohsen & Josh C.)

Two Hundred and Fifty Episodes! To celebrate we invited some of our favorite frequent guests for a casual roundtable chat about what they’ve seen most recently, what they’ve seen that they the most passionate about (good or bad) and end it with a smorgasbord of theater experience stories before putting each other to the test in an extended series of increasingly intense movie games. Here’s to the next 250!

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#244 – Doctor Strange, Top 10 Favorite MCU Characters (w/ Evily)

Now the latest in the chain of Marvel juggernauts to take the box office by storm, we have a low-key discussion of Doctor Strange, a stark difference from the other, “more grounded” MCU movies that usually carry the banner.  We’re joined by special guest Evily, who was quick to profess her extreme love for Marvel.  We follow that up with a list of our favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe character performances.

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#241 – Top 10 Last 10 (w/ Troy)

James is joined by long-time by guest co-host and long-time listener Troy Carruthers to rundown their own personal Top 10 Last 10 lists, which is a ranking of the last 10 movies they’ve seen from worst to best.

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#238 – Last 10 Top 10 (w/ Paul)

James is joined by International guest co-host Paul from The Countdown Podcast as the guys discuss and rank the last 10 movies they watched, including a handful of docs, a horrendously boring 70’s boxing movie, and a South Korean zombie/train disaster thriller!

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#233 – Don’t Think Twice (w/ Luke)

Luke came on the show and filled James’ very large shoes to help co-host a discussion with Zach on Mike Birbiglia’s latest film, Don’t Think Twice.  Then we talk a little bit about improv and the desire to create, and run down our top five lists, Luke’s Top 5 Movies that have a fictional version of a clearly real thing, and my Top 5 Movies about Comedians.

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#231 – Top 10 Forgotten Films of 1996 (w/ Listener Megan)

We continue to work our way through the 1990s by listing off our Top 10 Forgotten Films of 1996.  We tried to pick movies that we think are definitely worth a watch, yet no one is really talking about them any more.  We are joined by longtime listener Megan who brings a top ten list of her own.  Fun fact: Megan and Zach actually used to do a podcast of their own 7 years ago!  It’s no longer available on iTunes, but you can hear the first three episodes of the Yes We Would podcast by becoming a Patreon subscriber.

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#230 – Last 10 Top 10

It’s time again for another Last 10 Top 10 list, and so James and Zach run through the last ten movies they have each seen and rank them against each other.

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#228 – Top 5 Litmus Test Films (w/ Andrew James)

We are happy to be joined this week by Andrew James, co-host of Row3’s Cinecast Podcast. We discuss our Top 5 Litmus Test films…these are movies that are not necessarily your absolute favorites, but movies that are so great to you that you simply cannot understand or relate to anyone that doesn’t enjoy/like this movie. It’s a fun episode and we think you’ll like it. Be sure to send us your Litmus Test films as well!

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#227 – Last 10 Top 10

Zach and James are back once again with yet another Last 10 Top 10 in which they rank and discuss the last ten movies each of them have seen including a listener-recommended anime classic, a modern Norwegian disaster movie, and a nazi punk siege film!

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#225 – Last 10 Top 10

James and Zach rank and discuss the last ten movies each of them have seen including a handful of documentaries, a french classic from the 90’s, and the second in the current TMNT series. Plus, there’s an entire additional Last 10 Top 10 episode available early to Patreon supporters! Click here to grab it and help support the show!

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#221 – Ghostbusters (w/ Zach)

Joining us for the show today is none other than James’ son Zach!  See if things get confusing figuring out who is Zach A and Zach B as we discuss the female-led Ghostbusters.

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#219 – Movie Obsession (w/ Scotty)

We’ve hijacked the show and hid from James in a shed somewhere in northern Florida. Scotty, a frequent guest on the show, chats about movies, movie obsession, and movie lists with Zach for about an hour or so.

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#218 – Games: Blank Man, Five Easy Pieces (w/ Kyle)

It’s games day and we bring back our guest Kyle and one of our newer games Blank Man, where we try to stump each other by knocking out all words in the plot description that aren’t in the 1000 most common English words.  You can play your own version by using this website.

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#214 – The Shallows, Listener Email

We skipped our normal games episode this Friday to talk about the new Blake Lively shark attack flick The Shallows, as well as read listener email. Along the way, we also checked-in on the state of the IMDb Top 250, and introduced the new Cinereelists Fantasy Movie League! If you want compete in the Cinereelists league, you can follow the link here and sign up to compete each week for box office glory.

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#210 – Last 10 Top 10

Zach and James rank and discuss the last ten movies each of them have seen including a comedy about a kidnapped cat, a riveting British war movie, lots of listener suggestions and more! Plus, there’s an entire additional Last 10 Top 10 episode available now to Patreon supporters! Click here to grab it and help support the show!

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#206 – Watchlist Top 10

With their ever-growing watchlists, Zach and James decided to pick 5 movies from each others list and force each other to stop putting it off and go and watch them. Then they take the five they both picked and made a Top 10 list!

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#205 – Games: Fantastic Four, Movie Bluff (w/ Josh C.)

James and Zach challenge Josh to a round of the IMDB-based game Fantastic Four, this time with a new genre-twist, then Josh attempts to deceive the guys in a quick round of Movie Bluff. Also, click here to read Zach’s dissertation on Carly Rae Jepsen’s pop classic Call Me Maybe.

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#204 – Jungle Book, Captain America: Civil War (w/ Josh C.)

Josh C. joins Zach and James to discuss the new Jungle Book live-action remake, then fight to the death over the details of Captain America: Civil War. Ok maybe that’s an exaggeration – but maybe it isn’t. Maybe someone died during the recording of this podcast. Silly rabbit, nobody dies in Marvel films! Oh yea, also – SPOILERS.

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#203 – Games: Me Myself iRate, Jacob’s Ladder (w/ Jim Laczkowski)

Special guest Jim Laczkowski, host of The Director’s Club Podcast, challenge James and Zach to a round of the the long-running movie games Me Myself iRate and Jacob’s Ladder, then attempts to complete an impromptu attempt at the long-defunct movie-memory game Total Recall! You can hear more of Jim on his podcast The Director’s Club Podcast. You can also hear him on his spin-off podcast called The Pop Culture Club Podcast. And he’s the creator of the Now Playing Podcast Network. Follow Jim on Letterboxd and Twitter too!

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#202 – Midnight Special, High-Rise (w/ Jim Laczkowski)

James and Zach discuss two movies today with the help of special guest Jim Laczkowski, host of The Director’s Club Podcast. First we praise the 2016 Sci-Fi drama Midnight Special, then we gripe about the surrealist thriller High-Rise. Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the films yet. We have split off any spoilers into sections of the show with clear warnings beforehand. You can hear more of Jim on his podcast The Director’s Club Podcast. You can also hear him on his spin-off podcast called The Pop Culture Club Podcast. And he’s the creator of the Now Playing Podcast Network….

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#201 – Games: Memento, Unknown

James and Zach flip the script with a game of Memento, the test their knowledge of IMDB’s “known-for” algorithym with the new game Unknown. Also, have you seen our awesome Patreon pitch video? No?! WTH.

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#200 – Our 200 Favorite Films of All Time – (Part 2)

We have finally reached our #200th episode, and it’s another doozy. James and Zach have added 100 more to their list of Favorite Films of All Time (hear them discuss the first 100 here and here). This episode covers #101-150. If you enjoy the show and want to support us (or just want a mug or t-shirt), here’s our Patreon page.

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#199 – Our 200 Favorite Films of All Time (Part 1)

In celebration of the upcoming episode #200, James and Zach have added 100 more to their list of Favorite Films of All Time (hear them discuss the first 100 here and here). This episode covers #151-200 and episode #200 will cover #101-150. Also, Patreon supporters have had access to this episode for weeks now! Weeks!

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#198 – Games: I Have a Film Festival, Unknown

At listener request, Zach annoys James with another swipe at the frustrating movie-association riddler I Have a Film Festival, then the guys take a stab at a new IMDB-based game that puts the “Know For” section of the site to the test. Also, Patreon supporters heard this ep days ago, just sayin!

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#197 – Sing Street, Listener Email

James and Zach discuss the new coming-of-age music-centric feel-good flick Sing Street by the director of Once, Zach’s 4th favorite film of all time. Also, Patreon supporters are already listening to the next two episodes, are you? 🙂

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#196 – Games: Blankman, My Kid Could Paint That

Zach and James try out a new game called Blankman, in which they read the IMDB plots of films using only the 1,000 most commonly used words of the English language – then describe movie posters for your amusement in a round of My Kid Could Paint That. Also, don’t forget to check out our Patreon pitch video!

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#194 – Listener Email

Zach and James read and discuss various listener emails they’ve received. Topics include the Rushmore poster, making list of other list’s #1 films, awesome movie tracking spreadsheets and much more. Also, don’t forget to check out our very new Patreon page to help support the show, starting at only $1 a month!

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#193 – Patreon, Last 10 Top 10

James and Zach rank and discuss the last ten movies each of them have seen ranging from westerns to horror, threats of nuclear holocaust to horse-racing. Also, we’d love if you’ll visit our new Patreon page to help support the show!

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#179 – Last 10 Top 10

James and Zach rank and discuss the last 10 movies they’ve seen regardless of relation, including the requisit handful of documentaries, 2015 films they’ve finally gotten to, and a high-ranking new release Micheal Bay film, amongst other surprises.

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#176 – The 2015 Movie Hangover

James and Zach dive deep into the year that was 2015 with listener year-end lists, loads of alternative year-end lists from the guys, their own New Year movie resolutions, and an overview of what to expect in cinemas in 2016. Warning: This episode holds the world record for the most movie lists contained in a single podcast.

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#175 – Top 20 of 2015

Zach and James count down their 20 favorite movies of 2015, as well as some other goodies like Greatest Disappointments, Movie Regrets, and more.

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#174 – Last 10 Top 10

James and Zach discuss and rank the last 10 movies they’ve seen including early word on 2016’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a handful of listener suggestions, many new releases, and a smattering of old classics. Also – Zach watched Rango!

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#168 – You Name It, We Watch It (w/ Superfan Mindy)

Zach and James rank 10 movies they’ve never seen that were recommended by special-guest Superfan Mindy who also watched and ranked 10 movies from each of the Cinereelist hosts. That’s right – we talk 40 movies in this episode – from mainstream crowd-pleasers, to critically-acclaimed masterpieces, to foreign arthouse flicks and a whole slew of romantic comedies – this episode is packed with something for everyone!

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#166 – Room, Top 10 Movies Set in One Room

Zach and James spend some time in a room discussing the excellent new drama Room, then rank their top films that are primarily set in one room. It’s a very room-centric episode, if you must know. Initial chat is spoiler-free, jump to 48:42 when prompted if you want to keep yourself clean for the film, which we recommend.

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#161 – Last 10 Top 10

Zach and James rank the last 10 movies they’ve seen including several listener recommendations, the latest and final Paranormal Activity film, a 90’s classic and a new release film with a 90’s throwback vibe, and much more.

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#157 – Listener Email Extravaganza

Zach and James read and discuss a boatload of listener emails including discussions on Letterboxd bell curve ratings, whether Kevin Smith’s Tusk is the worst Johnny Depp film ever made, some corrections, a statistically nerdy analysis of the never-ending Wiki-vs-IMDB debate, a bunch of listener Top 10 lists and movie recommendations and much more. Oh and click here to compare your ratings against ours and find out who you are more movie-compatible with!

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#147 – Top 10 Forgotten Films of 1993

The year is 1993. Bill Clinton just became president, “Got Milk?” became a cultural touchstone, and Michael Jackson was just accused of engaging in sexual activities with a teenage boy. Also, some movies were released -some more memorable than others. These are the others.

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#144 – Last 10 Top 10

James and Zach rank the last 10 movies they’ve seen including the new release N.W.A biopic, a Russian single take film, the requisite handful of documentaries, and much more.

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#141 – Top 10 Last 10

Zach and James rank and discuss the last 10 movies they’ve seen including a new release Beach Boys biopic, a recent Adam Sandler film you’ve probably never heard of, a handful of documentaries, and much more.

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#139 – Slow West, IMDb vs Wikipedia (Extended)

Zach returns to the podcast from his honeymoon for a chat about the new Wes Anderson-esque western Slow West followed by the IMDb vs Wikipedia debate nobody asked for. Seriously, if you think we can get nerdy about the minutia of movies as an art form, just wait until you hear us argue for over an hour about the websites that catalog them! All that plus James gives Zach the gift that eluded him for 32 years – permission to watch Bambi.

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#135 – Top 10 Last 10

Zach and James rank and discuss the last 10 movies they’ve seen including the movie that won both the Grand Jury Prize and the audience award at Sundance, several listener suggestions, a great music documentary and more!

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#130 – Goonies Pinball, Top 5 Movie Pinball Tables (w/ Mike Johnson)

Zach and James are joined by Mike Johnson, Goonies expert and pinballer extraordinaire, who created his very own custom Goonies pinball table. The guys chat about the classic kid film, hear all about Mike’s pinball project, then run down their top 5 movies that were eventually made into a pinball table. Plus don’t miss the quick video below we made about Mike’s project…

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#113 – Roger Ebert’s 46 Favorite Films (Part 2)

Roger Ebert released some variation of a “Top Films of the Year” list every year that he worked at The Chicago Sun Times. Join James and Zach in celebration of Ebert’s legacy as they run down each and every of his 46 top film picks from every year he worked as a film critic. This is part 2, check out part 1 for the first half of Ebert’s list!

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#112 – Roger Ebert’s 46 Favorite Films (Part 1)

Roger Ebert released some variation of a “Top Films of the Year” list every year that he worked at The Chicago Sun Times. Join James and Zach in celebration of Ebert’s legacy as they run down each and every of his 46 top film picks from every year he worked as a film critic. This is part 1, check out part 2 for the first half of Ebert’s list!

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#111 – Games: Last Man Standing, Outta Time

Zach and James return to discuss why there were no shows last week, tease some upcoming episode topics, play Last Man Standing with the assistance of the new Cinereelist Movie Games iPhone app, and then close out the festivities with a round of the speed trivia game Outta Time.

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#110 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank and discuss the last 10 movies they’ve seen, including the entire Pusher series, a handful of dashed Oscar-hopefuls, and a bunch of listener recommendations. All that plus Zach solidifies his hatred for Tim Burton and his love for horror films.

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#98 – Listener Email, Oscar Picks

Zach and James audibly respond to listener email, including a continuation of the debate on what constitutes a “natural disaster” film, then quickly make their picks for the upcoming Oscars.

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#96 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank the last 10 movies they’ve seen including a pair of documentaries, several listener recommendations, lots of Oscar nominees, and a recut of a classic, among others.

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#93 – The Great Star Wars Experiment, Caddyshack (w/ Dave C.)

Our good friend and Caddyshack expert Dave had never seen a Star Wars movie, despite having been about 14 years old when the original film was released in 1977. We asked him to chat with us about the film, watch the film for the very first time (non-special edition, of course), and then chat with us again. Also, we talk lots of Caddyshack.

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#84 – Top 10 Forgotten Films of 1992

The year is 1992. Tarantino has just directed his first feature Reservoir Dogs, the soundtrack to The Bodyguard is topping the music charts, and Unforgiven is up for major awards consideration. But forget about those classics as James and Zach dive deep into the year in an effort to bring to light a few gems amongst the many forgotten films from 1992.

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#82 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank the last 10 film they’ve seen including a handful of classic gangster films, several on-demand genre flicks, a listener recommended comedy-horror movies from New Zealand and much more!

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#79 – Interstellar, Top 9 Christopher Nolan Films (w/ Mohsen)

James and Zach are joined by special-guest and Batman expert Mohsen as they discuss the intricacies of Christopher Nolan’s new space-epic Interstellar, rank the films of the famed director, and then play a surprise movie game. And don’t forget to stick around after the closing music for our Interstellar spoiler discussion!

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#77 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank the last 10 film they’ve seen including a handful of horror flicks both old and new, several films that are currently in theaters, a unique documentary trilogy and much more!

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#73 – The Rover, The One I Love, Coherence (w/ Josh & Valery)

Zach and James are joined by special-guests Josh & Valery as they play a round of “You Name It, We Watch It” in which three of us picked a movie, we all watched all three of them – and then we talked about them. Films discussed include post-collapse Australian film The Rover, the twisty romantic comedy The One I Love, and the equally twisty mumble-core sci-fi flick Coherence. Spoilers abound so tread lightly! Follow Josh: Twitter   Subscribe: iTunes / RSS

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#70 – Top 10 Last 10 (w/ Luke)

Special-guest Luke joins Zach and James as they rank the last 10 films they have seen in order of preference. Films mentioned include a gang of horror-comedies, six listener recommendations, and one of us watches ¡Three Amigos! for the first time. Plus, Zach makes a personal revelation related to Christina Aguilera’s hit song Genie In a Bottle!

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#68 – Don’t Look Back (w/ Director William Dickerson)

Zach and James welcome special-guest William Dickerson, director of the new suspense-thriller Don’t Look Back, to the show. The guys discuss the making of William’s new film, working with wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper, his first two films, a few of his favorite directors and much more!

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#65 – Games: Me Myself & iRate, The Hustler

James and Zach play for pride in our new rating/memory game Me Myself & iRate, we learn a little-know personal tidbit about Zach, have an epic argument over how to rate movies on Letterboxd, and then roll the dice on quick couple of rounds of The Hustler. This is a fun one, a great entry episode into our Friday movie games tradition! Follow us on Letterboxd: James / Zach

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#64 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank the last 10 movies they’ve seen – featuring a documentary on VHS collectors, a cheesy tell-all TV movie of a cheesy live-action 90’s TV show, Kevin Bacon’s renegade gymnastic dancing, an art-house film featuring an awkward alien seductress – and a whole lot more!

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#63 – Games: James Bond Trivia Special (w/ Scotty)

James Bond expert Scotty becomes the first-ever guest to take the Total Recall challenge, then he tests the series knowledge of Zach & James via a series of Bond-related trivia games – and then gets put to the test himself with a barrage of nearly impossible questions from Zach.

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#62 – James Bond Special (w/ Scotty)

James Bond connoisseur and special-guest Scotty walks through his experience watching every entry of the legendary spy-series as he and the guys drinks martinis and discuss the 6 seminal Bond films he hand-picked for them to watch.

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#57 – Games: Outta Time, The Hustler

Zach and James test the speed of their respective movie memories in a challenging round of Outta Time, then all bets are off in the inaugural round of their new game The Hustler (game title open for suggestions).

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#50 – Jarrett Heather (Director of “Word Crimes” by Weird Al Yankovic), Top 5 Computer Villains

Everybody shut up! … while Zach and James interview Jarret Heather, director of parody-legend Weird Al Yankovic’s music video “Word Crimes”. Discussion includes how Jarrett came to work with Mr. Yankovic, the process behind creating the kinetic-typography-based video, Jarrett’s love of Tron and direct connection to 2010’s Tron Legacy, and we round out the show with a quick list of the Top 5 Movie Computer Villains. Go buy Weird Al’s new album Mandatory Fun – it’s current #1 on the Top 200 Billboard chart! Follow Jarret Heather: Website – Twitter Subscribe: iTunes / RSS

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#48 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank the last 10 films they’ve seen including a bunch of documentaries, a film from the early 1900’s, more documentaries, a thriller that involves piano playing starring Elijah Wood, and an Australian genre classic from 1984…

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#47 – Games: Outta Time, Sophie’s Choice

Zach and James play two brand new games: Outta Time and Sophie’s Choice. In Outta Time the guys race against the clock to get as many trivia questions as they can in two 5 minute rounds – and in Sophie’s Choice they go head-to-head in a strictly binary competition!

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#44 – Top 10 Last 10

James and Zach rank the last 10 films they’ve seen, including a bunch of new-releases, several films from the 1930’s, a Joe Dante classic, and a Jean-Luc Godard rarity…

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#39 – Games: Plot Holes, 28 Words Later (w/ Keane)

It’s been too long since we’ve had a guest on the show to play some movie games, so we rectified that this week by bringing Keane back to play some games, including the new game, Plot Holes. A quick rundown on how the game works: someone thinks of a movie, the next person has to come up with another movie that shares some similar plot element. The person after that has to come up with another movie that shares a different plot element with the most recently-named film. And so on. See how we did in episode #39…

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#38 – Top 5 Coolest Movie Gadgets (w/ Keane)

Zach and James are joined by special guest Keane as the Cinereelists attempt to define what exactly a movie “gadget” is, then run through their Top 5 Coolest Movie Gadgets. Much arguing and more than a few surprises to be had in this one!

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#34 – Edge of Tomorrow

James & Zach discuss at length the upcoming sci-fi/time-travel’ish thriller mashup Edge of Tomorrow in both spoiler-free and spoiler flavors, then quickly rank the films (that we’ve seen) of ‘Tomorrow’ director Doug Liman.

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#32 – Last 10 Top 10

Join James & Zach as they rank the last 10 movies they’ve seen, including on listener suggested movie, a comedy duo from the early days of film, and a new genre import you may not have yet heard of – but will.

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#22 – Top 10 Forgotten Films of 1990

Join James and Zach as they sift through the first year of the 90’s search for one of the best Mel Gibson actioners, quirky Leslie Neilson parodies, rare animated mashup drug warnings, and other (generally) forgotten films from 1990!

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#20 – Transcendence

Zach and James take on the new Wally Pfister sci-fi flick Transcendence (Executive Produced by Christopher Nolan). Will it live up to expectations?

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#17 – Noah, Movie Trailers

Join James and Zach as they discuss the new Bible-actioner Noah, discuss the family of trailers that played before the film, and speed-rank the films of Darren Aronofsky.

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#13 – Top 10 March Movies

In this episode we discuss the Top 10 Movies that were released in March and argue the merits of the Tom Hanks/Shelly Long comedy Money Pit, among other things.

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#12 – Games: 28 Words Later

In this episode we rename our new Friday Fun show to Freaky Friday, Zach gives it the old Junior College try at memorizing the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and we play a middling game of 28 Words Later (formerly 30 Words).

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#9 – Oscar Aftermath

In this episode we discuss the 86th Annual Oscar telecast, review host Ellen’s performances, run down our show highlites and lowlights, and reveal who won our show Oscar pool. This on is *actually* under an hour!

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#8 – Oscar Predictions, Oscar Trivia

In this episode we reveal our predictions for each of the televised categories of the 86th Academy Awards nominees, then finish of the fun with a quick round of Oscar trivia. Oh, and this one is *actually* under an hour!

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#6 – Robocop, Top 6 Robot Movies

In this episode we reboot the discussion on the new Robocop remake, test Zach’s ability to remember the filmography of the Coen Bros, run down a list of our favorite films that feature at least one robot, and close out with another sobering game of 30 Words!

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#2 – Top 10 Movies That Blew Our Minds

Welcome to the very second episode of Cinereelists! We go a bit long as we dive deep into two top 10 lists consisting of movies that blew our minds as well as ranks the last 10 films we’ve seen. Plus we solidify the rules of our first game 30 Words!

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#1 – IMDB Top 250 & Her

Welcome to the very first episode of Cinereelists! If you love movies in unhealthy ways then this is the podcast for you! Join Zach and James and as many guests as they can schedule as they discuss movies, movie obsessiveness, and movie lists.