Blockbuster Film School

There have been lines of genetic art. Actors mostly, because it’s not that hard. Eat that actors! But how many masterful directors have had master director kids. Pretty much just one. Sophia Coppola stood in the shadow of not just her dad but maybe the most Hollywood royalty of the families and made some of the most unique and wild pieces of film art ever made. Also, she opens a movie on Scarlet Johannson’s butt. And it works. Alex and Nick talk about one of the great Gen X film autuers this week. Buckle up, film school it’s about to get “rob crappy celebrities and high school epic suicide” weird.

Hello, "super producer" Brian Tepps here. When I was a child I had two dreams: be a vampire, and produce podcasts. Both of those dreams came true. The Daywalkers at Office Hours discuss some of their favorite vampire movies that you should check out while in seclusion. Now I must return to my coffin to edit future episodes of Blockbuster Film School. Actually it’s a studio apartment but same difference.

After wining their first Best Picture Oscar for Moonlight A24 made the jump from modest production house/distributors to arthouse behemoths. They dug in deeper to give promising and established filmmakers the platform to create movies that went to the edge of cinema. And in many cases that involved Robert Pattison making dumb faces either while robbing a bank, floating in space, or slow dancing with Willem DaFoe. Strap on your podcast ears as Blockbuster Film School guides you thru the second part of our A24 journey leading up to Adam Sandler in a career best performance. What is happening to the world?

This might come as a huge shock to people but voters in America sometimes get it wrong. (Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays) We here at Office Hours decided to look back at the Academy Awards best pictures nominees from 1999. The winner that year is a good film, it just faced incredible competition. We discuss how incredible. So hop in the ole Blockbuster Film School time machine, it’s a Geo Metro, as we have a staring contest with history.

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In a time of reboots, sequels, and super heroes an upstart production and distribution company decided to gift cinemas with James Franco fellating a gun, Jenny Slate getting an abortion, and Patrick Stewart as a Nazi. Despite being around for less than a decade A24 has carved a name for themselves in Hollywood by sharing original, intimate, bizarre films. It’s a rare moment where moviegoers can chart A24’s progress in real time. They’ve grown beyond the arthouse scene so Blockbuster Film School is here to catch you up to speed.

With a plentiful bounty such as HBO’s subscription service, it’s difficult to not end up scrolling through endlessly, overwhelmed, like the first time you ordered Chinese food from an app. Worry not! Blockbuster Film School Office Hours has narrowed it down for you to a couple hundred choices with our favorite streaming picks. Let’s be honest here, there are worse problems to have, like paying for Starz.

It was the weirdest of times, it was the bombest of times. Sometimes you make Poltergeist and sometimes you make Lifeforce. Sometimes you make Predator and sometimes you make Rollerball. Sometimes the bombs become a cult classic, and sometimes they destroy one hundred year old studios (WE’RE LOOKING AT YOU PLUTO NASH). Everyone secretly likes to watch dumpster fires and Alex and Nick are here this week to guide you on which film car wrecks to slow down and look at and which ones to speed past. In these times of great darkness, let’s all laugh at Hollywood’s biggest fails. It’s Box Office Bombs, and your at the Blockbuster Film School!

So, the Aliens tried to control us with a streaming service. They literally made a Super Bowl commercial about it where they used their main Alien human infiltrator, Alec Baldwin and it’s been, well, mixed results on their human take over. But, Blockbuster Film School is here to give you some HULU movie picks while we are trapped on prison planet! Office hours to the rescue!

When they froze Walt Disney’s head and then turned it back on in the 1980s, the first thing it said was “put a cigarette in my mouth and light it.” So, in that spirit we are giving you what you want after having your head frozen for weeks, DISNEY + streaming picks!!! It’s Blockbuster Film School Office Hours