Buried Cinema

We review Edgar Wright's 'Baby Driver' as well as other heist movies, Bill Murray's 1990 comedy 'Quick Change' (segment begins at 23:19) and David O. Russell's 1999 Gulf War film 'Three Kings' (38:28). After that we discuss David Mamet's 1988 Mafia buddy-comedy 'Things Change' (56:12). At the end we look forward to our 7-year anniversary podcast (1:14:52).

Steve has first pick and chooses Jordan Peele's sophomore effort US, starring Lupita Nyong'o. The theme is "impostors," and Brian once again goes classic and picks Billy Wilder's 1959 SOME LIKE IT HOT, starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe. At the end, we look forward to watching the James Gunn-produced BRIGHTBURN and a special screening of a new Spanish horror film, HOUSE OF SWEAT AND TEARS.

A little over seven years ago, in 2010, Nate, Steve, and Tom started this podcast. Along the way we picked up Brian, Kevin, and Patrick, and now we six have decided to honor our seven year anniversary by each choosing our favorite film of all time and letting the others pick it apart. (This goes better for some than for others.) We discuss The Great Escape, The Shawshank Redemption (segment begins at 17:17), City Lights (35:46), A History of Violence (53:33), Fight Club (1:15:39), and Chinatown (1:33:48). At the end we look forward to next month's podcast (1:55:22).

Kevin's all about fantastic finishes. Also, the MCU. So he picks AVENGERS: ENDGAME for us to review. Tom goes a slightly different direction with the pairing and chooses Nicolas Winding Refn's 2016 love letter to the fashion industry, THE NEON DEMON. Flickchart gives us Endgame vs. Citizen Kane, leading us into a surprising review of the nature of film criticism itself. Steve thinks Jena Malone is creepy, not just because she molests dead bodies. Nate destroys children's love of books. It all happens this week on Buried Cinema. (It's a long one, but hey, it's only half the length of one of the films we reviewed.)

Kevin had thematic control for the month of. . . September. . . so we watched. . . movies that came out when we were six years old. . . so we ended up with the 1979 (supposed) comedy 'Scavenger Hunt', 1979's 'The In-Laws', the 1988 remake of 'The Blob', and Jim Jarmusch's landscape-changing and divisive 1984 'Stranger Than Paradise.' There may be some name-calling.

Nate's theme this week is "giant monsters," and he's chosen Nacho Vigalondo's 2017 allegory COLOSSAL, starring Anne Hathaway as a giant monster destroying Seoul... sort of... which Brian dubs "the Freaky Friday of Godzilla movies." To pair, Tom chooses André Øvredal's 2010 found footage film TROLLHUNTER. This movie confuses Steve, who thinks all Norwegians look alike. (The Trollhunter discussion begins at 28:24.) At the end, we look forward to Kevin's "fantastic finishes," which is more PG than it sounds.

With Brian back from hiatus, we gave him control with first pick and theme, which he decided would be "Stage-to-Screen." He picked his nostalgic favorite, Frank Capra's ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944), starring Cary Grant. Bringing nostalgic favorites to the podcast altar never results in the knife being stayed. Sorry Brian, most of us kinda liked it! To pair with that classic, Kevin dug up a movie none of us had even heard of: the David Mamet-penned, Stuart Gordon-directed, William H. Macy-starring EDMOND (2005), which stirs up a lot of debate, even though none of us really liked it all that much.  (Our Edmond review begins at 20:40.) At the end we look forward to the next podcast and Nate's "Giant Monsters" theme.

Nate decided he wanted to watch "unexpected musicals," and picks Brian De Palma's 1974 PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE. Steve calls it his new personal low. Kevin picks John Cameron Mitchell's 2001 adaptation of his own play, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. We all struggle tripping over pronouns because of our wokeness. And Tom is on Nyquil for the entire podcast, so that's fun. At the end, we look forward to our returning podcastmate Brian's theme of stage-to-screen with ARSENIC AND OLD LACE.

We're just a bunch of straight white guys who'd like to say, "F U" to the MRA's, so we're discussing the MCU's newest hero, Carol Danvers in CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019). Yes, Tom's theme this week is "pissing off the Men's Rights Activists," and Steve's pairing is Niki Caro's WHALE RIDER (2002), a film that definitely does not feature Alaskan Inuits, but does feature a young Maori girl whose traditionalist grandfather refuses to recognize her ability to lead their people. We ask the tough questions, like why Thor can survive a neutron star but can't kill Thanos, and which character from Captain Marvel would look best with a mustache. Fair warning, this episode gets shamelessly nerdy. (Did we mention that MRA's can get bent?)

We have a tradition at Buried Cinema. Every first month of the year, we dig up the worst movies we can find, watch them, and record our "regret our life choices" episode. We call it Junk January. This January, we watched rip-offs. (Well, they were supposed to all be rip-offs... Nate.) Here we review the Soviet Avengers-style superhero flick GUARDIANS (2017); The Asylum's atrocious crime against humanity, NAZIS AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (2012); Spanish/Italian animated horror-fest TITANIC: THE LEGEND GOES ON (2000); NUKIE (1987), a South African production that is basically the worst possible version of E.T.; and finally Michael Mann's unfortunate trainwreck of a production, THE KEEP (which once again features Nazis). If you ever see a rapping dog, run, for disaster is close at hand!

We are joined once again by our regular Junk January guest, Baltimore-based stand-up comedian Dan Kapr. You can (and should) check out his own podcast "Dan Has Jokes," in which he interviews other comics and delves into the science of joke-writing.