Blockbuster Film School

Does Michael Jordan become as big with out that Nike commercial? Does Hollywood have any street cred, AT ALL, if Mookie doesn’t throw that trash can through that window? Does Reggie Miller even exist if he doesn’t drain those 3s and then yell at Spike to sit his ass down and you watch Spike’s soul leave his body? The answer is no. Spike Lee isn’t the best filmmaker in Hollywood. Sometimes he is. Sometimes he makes crap. But he might be its most important and most stylish. Two white guys discuss it here at the legendary Blockbuster Film School! Must be the shoes!

Cowboy. Soldier. Astronaut. Cowboy vampire. Space soldier cowboy. We got Bill Paxton bingo! Game over, man, game over. It didn’t matter if he was larger than life or playing someone so average it reminded you of a dude you met at party once, Bill Paxton made all his roles special and undeniably his own. His gift as character actor makes the audience point at the screen, say “hey”’ then forget it’s him the moment he starts speaking. Ultimately we lost him too soon, and here at Blockbuster Film School we will spend the rest of our days catching ourselves thinking, “I wonder when Bill Paxton’s next movie is coming out.”

Talent blooms in the dark then suddenly reveals itself, much like a mysterious goat speaking to you telepathically for the first time or learning Willem Dafoe can flatulate on command. In our new segment Office Hours Contemporaries we discuses filmmakers on the rise who have all our attention. We begin with Robert Eggars, director of modern horror classics The VVitch, and The Lighthouse. Listen to Nick and Alex gush & awe over his films until their infant child Super Producer Brian Tepps vanishes into thin air and they are forced to search for him in the Blockbuster Film School woods.

Oh, what a wild year 2006 was: Al Gore had just invented the internet, the Seattle SuperSonics completed their three-peat championship run, and Jennifer Lawrence was born. Does that sound completely preposterous to you?! Well wait until you listen to this episode of Office Hours when we remind you which movie won best picture at the Academy Awards. Spoiler alert: it was Crash, Scientology’s ham-fisted version of an And1 Mixtape about racism. Hop in the Blockbuster Film School DeLorean with us as we attempt to fix the past by choosing a proper winner for the Oscar. Once we upgrade our internet from 56Gore Dialup the time machine can be used for other things as well.

Do you have a diverse group of sassy frenemies? Do you like to steal implausible things like big diamonds that are actually gateways to other dimensions or some shit? Are you a aging handsome boy actor with salt and pepper? Well you might be be in a heist movie. This week Alex and Nick go into which movies know how to pull of the twistiest, zaniest heistyiest movies of all time. Die hard is not one.

Da na na na na na na na bat nipples! Every so often an artist’s missteps become their greatest hits catalog. Joel Schumacher is one of them. With the recent passing of this director we look back on his vampire mullets and rubber cod pieces along with some of the flashiest & campiest outfits, mafia and non wiseguy alike, ever put on film. Blockbuster Film School bids farewell to Joel Schumacher, the man who hired Kiefer Sutherland the most.

It’s not often an actor can carry a dark aura in the majority of their roles as they lead mainstream hits and stay a beloved star. But whether she is hanging with ghosts, killing her classmates, or using Christmas lights to communicate with her son in another dimension Winona Ryder has remained Winona while always changing. Four decades after her career began she is still as talented and captivating as ever. Blockbuster Film School and shoplifters of the world unite to gush over Winona Ryder.

Making the jump from small screen to big screen is difficult for actors but even harder for series. Turning the winning formula behind sixty hilarious sketches or ten successful television seasons could still result in CHiPs. Dax Sheppard, you were Frito; how could you? Here at Office Hours we examine the seamless transitions that gave us comedy classics, reboot gold, and Tom Cruise duct taped to an airplane. Coming soon: Blockbuster Film School: the podcast: the movie.

Axl Foley. Prince Akeem. Donkey. Let’s cut to the chase: Eddie Murphy is a comedy icon. His popularity as a stand up made red leather suits fashionable, his films grossed a combined six billion dollars at the box office, and his laugh is one of the most recognizable sounds in Earth. No one’s career is perfect but we’ll save that for the episode. Here at Pluto Blockbuster Nash Film Vampire in Brooklyn School we refuse to highlight a person’s failures in the description. We also lie and lack subtly.

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When it comes to large egos, flamboyant lifestyles, and spending habits worse than Nic Cage no one in Hollywood compares to producer Joel Silver. He is the man behind some of the most influential action films of the last thirty years. The only thing he does better than filmmaking is piss people off. So join Blockbuster Film School as we weave a story with so many highs and lows it sounds like a movie Joel Silver might produce. You might want your lawyer to look over the episode first before you sign anything.