James and Zach are joined by Mo for his 12th appearance on the podcast to discuss the last Star Wars film ever (aka Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), quick rank the nine “Skywalker Saga” films, and then challenge James to a round of choose-your-own trivia.
Zach and James rank and discuss the last 10 movies they watched, including a bunch of 2019 films, some animated classics, a handful of documentaries and much more.
Zach returns to the podcast to join James in discussing two new highly-acclaimed NetFlix Originals – Martin Scorsese’ The Irishman and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story.
James is joined by special-guest hosts Adam (of the podcast Dating Kinda Sucks) and Luke (of the stage play How to Eat A Bear) to inspect Knives Out, director Rian Johnson’s latest film – and then play some movie games.
James is joined by special-guest hosts Scotty and Alyson – both of whom have seen EVERY movie Paul Rudd has been in – to discuss the actor’s new NetFlix TV project Living With Yourself, list the ups and downs of watching all of one actors films, and close out the episode with a quick movie game.
James is joined by special-guest hosts Rico and Jessica of the Always the Critic Podcast to run down the last 10 films they’ve seen in order of preference, then play a quick movie game.
James is joined by special-guest hosts Corey Pierce and Andrew James to discuss the controversial new release films The Lighthouse by writer/director Robert Eggers (The Witch) and Jojo Rabbit by writer/director Taika Waititi (Boy, Thor:Ragnarok), then the guys play a musical movie game.
Zach and James rank and discuss the last 10 movies they watched.
James and Zach celebrate 400 episodes by adding 100 more to their list of Favorite Films of All Time. This episode covers 301-350 and last week’s episode rounds out the top 400. Full Letterboxd lists: Zach / James
In our continuing series of listing our favorite films, we prepare for our 400th episode by listing half of our top 300-400 favorite films.
James and Zach get campy on the new biographical film Judy which is centered around famed performer Judy Garland with a comeback performance from Renee Zellweger, then sing their way through their favorite moments of singing in films in which singing is not the main draw.
Zach and James toe-tap their way through a discussion on Joker by director Todd Phillips, then brood their way through their favorite 10 Joaquin Phoenix film performances.
James and Zach vocalize their internal monologue regarding the space-thinker Ad Astra by director James Grey, then moonwalk over their favorite 10 Brad Pitt film performances.
Special-guest Kyle fills in for Zach and joins James to rank and discuss the last 10 films they’ve seen.
James and Zach discuss their picks for the most forgotten films of the second year of the current millennium, or something.
James and Zach play some old-school CRL movie games!
Zach and James discuss their picks for the most forgotten films of the first year of the current millennium, or something.
Mo joins Zach and James for his eleventh appearance on the podcast, this time to discuss the Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw – and then challenge Zach to some Dwayne Johnson trivia.
James and Zach return with contentious discussions of the new live-action 3D-animated remake of Lion King and Quentin Tarantino’s celebration of late 60’s actor culture in Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood.
Zach and James ponder the new NetFlix sci-fi film I Am Mother, then run down their favorite characters clad in full makeup and body-suits.
James and Zach dissect Spider-Man: Far From Home (in both spoiler-free and spoiler-full forms), the latest and first post-Endgame MCU film, and also other stuff.
Zach and James take turns trying to identify the 100 greatest movie quotes of the 21st Century (according to Thrillist).
James and Zach discuss the fourth Toy Story films and how it fits within the the other three, then run down our favorite 4th films amongst the actors whose voices have brought the series’ characters to life.
Zach and James rank the last 10 movies they watched including a bunch of films still in theaters, and some long-recommended first-time watches.
James and Zach catch up with the the teen comedy Booksmart, then discuss their favorite movies that feature “friendship” as a key theme.
