Burritos And Other Less Important Things

Longtime on-and-off-pod friend Kapil Easwar joins BAOLIT to talk movies with alternate endings, his new youtube channel, evolving newsroom ethics, their coastal elitism, and Nate's William Hurt obsession.

Featured Films:
-Clue
-Broadcast News
-Election

A BAOLIT double feature of one of 2023's best new movies and an 80s Art-House classic.

Featured Films:
-Past Lives
-Paris, Texas

Zach and Nate talk summer movies in all their endless, sweltering glory, and hand out their new summer-movie-specific awards, The SWEATIES.

Featured Films:
-Stand By Me
-Adventureland
-Mystic Pizza 

BAOLIT takes on the summer movie event of the summer, Barbenheimer! And also a few other summer movies!! Summer!!!

Featured Films:
-Barbie (feat. Lauren Marchioni)
-Oppenheimer
-Mission Impossible: Dead Reckonning (feat. Ivy Olcott) 
-Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Ever find yourself wondering what early 1940s rural Austria and early aughts seedy and sex-crazed New York City have in common? Then this is the episode for you! Zach and Nate exchange two of their respective favorites, Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life and Jane Campion's In The Cut , and the results are totally normal, thanks for asking! 

...In which a multiversal collection of BAOLIT hosts come together to celebrate the release of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and chat about a few other films featuring multiple actors portraying the same character.

Featured Films:
-Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
-Freaky Friday
-I'm Not There
-Synecdoche, NY

Inspired by the most recent Ari Aster release, the BAOLIT buds stretch the limits of their linguistic capabilities by constructing an episode theme entirely based on other movie titles they can mash up with Beau Is Afraid.  and the results are predictably unhinged.

Featured films:
-Beau Is Afraid (2023)
-Beau Travail  (1999)
-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
-Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

In celebration of the release of John Wick 4, Zach and Nate are joined by celebrated Keanu-ficionados Ivy Olcott and Gabe Hayes to discuss the life and career of one of modern cinemas brightest shining stars, The Babayaga himself, Keanu Reeves. The four hosts talk through their personal histories with Reaves, the qualities that make him so exceptional, the grandeur of his most recent release, and finally, in quintessential BAOLIT style, compete to draft their perfect composite Keanu Reeves movie.

Films Discussed:
-John Wick 4
-Every Other Keanu Reeves Movie Ever. 

In the 4th episode of BAOLIT season 6, Zach and Nate hop on the pod to chat about a few of our favorite coke-filled crucifixes wearing, jazz whitesplaining, bad-hair-dye-job having, unrepentant child-murdering villain turns from historically heroic actors. 

Featured films:
-Collateral (2004)
-Once Upon A Time In The West  (1968)
-One Hour Photo (2002)
-Cruel Intentions (1999)

Zach, Nate, and perennial guest Gabe return to settle their outstanding Oscar bets,  debrief on this year's ceremony, and hand out their own set of awards to their personal favorites from the year 2022 in movies.