#260 – Moana, Moonlight
James and Zach discuss two recent Oscar-nominated film that begin with the letters “Mo”.
James and Zach discuss two recent Oscar-nominated film that begin with the letters “Mo”.
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!
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!
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.
It’s time for another Last 10 Top 10. This time our lists are filled almost entirely with 2016 movies!
On a very special episode of the podcast… Jason Pyles of Movie Podcast Weekly and the Horror Movie Podcast sits in with Zach and James to run down their 10 favorite films that happen to have just three letters in the title. What defines a letter? Let the debate begin!
Special-guest Kevin joins Zach and James to discuss the new Star Wars spin-off/prequel Rogue One, then play a quick game of Last Man Standing. Spoiler free chat at the beginning, spoiler-filled chat from minute 32 on!
For the 3rd year in a row, we take some time this holiday season to watch some Christmas movies. Although we weren’t able to go through 10 Christmas movies like we normally would, we both picked a movie that neither of us had seen and talk about them on the show.
We go back to our roots and work through the alphabet in Last Man Standing and also have a fairly tame round of My Kid Could Paint That.
It’s time for another Last 10 Top 10. This time our lists are filled almost entirely with 2016 movies!
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!
No agenda today, just chatting about movies!
We continue our series going through the forgotten films of 1997.
James and Zach read and discuss emails from listeners including several controversial topics such as audio books, marriage proposals and the emotional resonance of Arrival. Also, they play a movie game.
Zach and James discuss the new Mel Gibson directorial effort Hacksaw Ridge, then go deep on Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival in both non-spioiler and spoiler discussions.
Evily joins us again to play Last Man Standing with Marvel characters, then the Cinereelists’ original game Movie Bluff.
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.
Zach returns to the US and thus the podcast just in time to discuss the New Zealand charmer Hunt for the Wilderpeople, among other things.
Troy Carruthers returns to challenge James to two movie games, including the classic 28 Words Later and the poster description bonanza My Kid Could Paint That.
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.
Corey from the Soundtrack of Your Life podcast challenges James in the old-school CRL classic game 28 Words Later, then the guys test their memory of movies they rated in the past in a round of Me Myslef & iRate (aka the Letterboxd game).
Special guest co-host Corey from the Soundtrack of Your Life podcast joins James in discussing the new Christoper Guest mockumentary Mascots, then run down their favorite fictional movie bands.
James fills you in on the current going-ons with the podcast, his Fantast Movie League strategy, and future podcast plans etc – then Zach is joined by Superfan Mindy live from Europe with an update on his trip!
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!
James is joined by special-guest co-host Roger – who just happens to be James’ real-life Dad! Together they discuss the recent remake of the western classic The Magnificent Seven, discuss Roger’s affinity for old-west based films and TV, then run down James’ personal Top 10 Westerns.