Cinema Joes

This week, the Joes sit down and preview all the summer movie season has in store for us this year. Alex, Justin, and Noah go through the release calendar month by month discussing the big budget tent poles and the potential hidden gems to be on the lookout this summer!

Time Codes provided with highlights from each month:

May (4:45)

On The Count of Three

The Innocents

Men

The Valet

Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Paris, 13th District

June (25:16)

Benediction

Crimes of the Future

Fire Island

Lightyear

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Press Play

Flux Gourmet

The Forgiven

Thor: Love & Thunder

The Sea Beast

Where The Crawdads Sing

Persuasion

Father of the Bride

NOPE

The Gray Man

Bullet Train

August (1:23:13)

Secret Headquarters

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Resurrection

Not Okay

Luck

Day Shift

13: The Musical

Beast

Samaritan

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Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU

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Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, the doctor is in, as we review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Directed by OG Spider-Man director Sam Raimi, written by Michael Waldron, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, and Xochitl Gomez. Multiverse of Madness continues the MCU’s Phase 4, which got started in earnest with DisneyPlus original series WandaVision, and also helps kick off our summer movie season.  To help us sort through all the multiversal shenanigans, we are happy to welcome back to the show Matt Farley of Marvel Guides. Together we tour the multiverse, consider the future of Phase 4, and give our hot takes on everything from Wanda to the Illuminati. 

Time Codes provided below:

MCU Phase 4 Heat Check - 1:30

Noah & Justin Check-In - 13:37

Featured Review - 21:31

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Hosts' Other Pods

Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Today we are very excited to welcome on to the show the founder of Daytime Confidential & Geek Confidential, Luke Kerr! Luke is joining us today to help kick off the summer movie season with one of his favorite blockbusters of all time, 1997’s SciFi Action Adventure film The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis, Mila Jovovich, Chris Tucker, and Ian Holm.

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Hosts' Other Pods

Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Welcome back to Cinema Joes! With Director Richard Linklater flashing back to the 1960's Apollo Space Program for his latest Netflix film Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood earlier this month, we decided to flashback to a film near and dear to our own coming of age story, 2014’s Boyhood, starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, & Ethan Hawke. To help us take a look at the film, which took over a decade to make (spanning almost our entire collective childhood), is special guest and resident Coming-of-Age Film Expert Jeremy Lesser, last heard on our 2017 review of Lady Bird.

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

It’s finally here! Turning Red, the latest from Pixar Studios, was released recently, and we are so excited to welcome Live, Laugh, & Lovey’s titular host Lovey McPherson onto the pod to help us review it. Before we get into all the giant pandas, boy bands, teen crushes, and bffs Turning Red has to offer, we check in on some things we’ve been watching recently including The Lost City, Bel-Air, The Gilded Age, & Attica. Plus, one of our host's gives a special shout out to their new favorite YouTube channel Two Set Violin.

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Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Welcome back to CinemaJoes! It’s hard to believe that summer movie season could be kicking off already…especially since it is March…but it certainly feels that way this week as Justin and Alex welcome a dynamic duo of an all together different sort, Marshall & Courtney Stevenson of the podcast Blerd Life with My Wife and Pop Break TV’s Blerd Watchers, onto the pod to review Matt Reeves’ three hour rain soaked epic The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson & Zoe Kravitz.

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Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, we are going to continue looking back at the past just a BIT longer as we take some time out of the late winter film festivities to celebrate our FIFTH anniversary! That’s right, we’ve taken five trips around the sun since we reviewed 2017’s Beauty & The Beast and the world and we have changed quite a bit since then. We get a bit self indulgent and nostalgic, talking about our podcaster origins, what we’ve learned along the way, and what we are looking forward to in the future.

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week we are joined by ThePopBreak.com’s Film Editor and all around Oscar expert Marisa Carpico to break down the highs and lows of the 2021 Oscar nominations. We discuss our pleasant surprises, our biggest disappointments, our bold predictions, and our Best Picture winners!

Follow Marisa on Twitter, Instagram, & Letterboxd, keep up with her film reviews at The Pop Break, and find her subscribe to her podcasts The Way Too Early Oscars Podcast & ...And The Winner Still Is.

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Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Podwork Angels

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Welcome back to the second half of our 2021 year in review! Last episode we gave the highs and lows of the films released in 2021. This time around, we are cracking those media diaries to talk about the films we watched in 2021 that were NOT released in 2021. Categories include our favorite classic films, our favorite recent films that should be classics, our favorite rewatches, and the actors and directors we fell in love with in 2021.

Make sure to check back in two weeks for our annual Oscar nomination special!

Favorite Classic Film

Noah - On The Waterfront (1954)

Alex - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)

Justin - Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Favorite Recent Film that should be a classic (10 years or less):

Noah - The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

Alex - Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Justin - Holy Motors (2012)

Actor/Director we fell in love with

Noah - Carrie-Anne Moss

Alex - Wong Kar Wai

Justin - Wes Anderson

Best Rewatch

Noah - The Matrix (1999); The Matrix: Reloaded (2003)

Alex - Election (1999)

Justin - Blue Ruin (2014)

Check out the Rundown below and don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places!

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Welcome back to another January edition of CinemaJoes! Last episode we reviewed the two big blockbusters that helped close out 2021. Now, we have compiled a list of all our highlights from the year, including the best blockbusters, small/mid-budget films, international releases, and world class performances. One of us even auditions for House of Gucci 2!

Favorite Big Budget Film

Justin: Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (DisneyPlus)

Alex: The Matrix: Resurrections (HBOMAX)

Noah: The Matrix: Resurrections (HBOMAX)

Favorite Small Budget Film

Justin: Licorice Pizza (Theaters)

Alex: The Lost Daughter (Netflix)

Noah: Bo Burnham’s Inside (Netflix)

Favorite International Film

Justin: Quo Vadis, Aida? (Hulu)

Noah: Ushiku (N/A)

Favorite Performance

Justin: Morfydd Clark (Saint Maud); Runners Up: Idris Elba (The Suicide Squad), Bucky Bakray (Rocks), Kosar Ali (Rocks), Jessica Henwick (The Matrix: Resurrections), Yaya Abdul Mateen II (The Matrix: Resurrections)

Alex: Olivia Coleman (The Lost Daughter); Runners Up: Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog), Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)

Noah: Kristen Stewart (Spencer); Runners Up: Ariana DeBois (West Side Story), Mike Faist (West Side Story), Keanu Reeves (The Matrix: Resurrections)

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak